8 Sleeps to Departure - 25.09.14 in Your Face

I had a better day today. It was raining this morning and I wasn’t looking forward to standing at the bus stop. It’s crap enough that I’m on a busy highway and I feel like people are staring at me. An earlier bus came, so I just jumped on that and rode it into the CBD, where I got my next bus to my job.

I literally did nothing at all today. It was excruciating. I spent the morning reading judgments from the criminal division of the supreme court, but I couldn’t handle it again for the afternoon. I am pretty desensitized to it, but there’s only so much I can read about people killing their parents, siblings and children. I usually start off by looking up something high profile (Australians: think Kelli Lane, Kiesha Weippart, little Ebony) and then it just links from there.

I had plenty of errands to run in the afternoon, and my mother picked me up after work. We had dinner with my neighbour at the club, and I have now been dropped home.

I am feeling as though I haven’t had any down time since, well, I’m not sure, but it has been at least a week. I am looking forward to Friday night so I can relax and punch out some more job applications.

My neighbour’s mother’s funeral is on Tuesday, so I am going to have to cancel that day at work. Being without a car, I have to arrange my mother to come and get me, she’s also ferrying my brother to a physio appointment, and it’s not worth going to work. I would be there for one hour in the morning, and then gone from 9:30am to at least 2pm. I can shave my lunch hours down tomorrow and Monday and make up a couple of hours’ pay, so I can make the money work. I will feel a lot better being able to be there for my neighbour, and to help him out with the wake, which is being held at his house.

I ran into my house tonight and grabbed a few cans of soup I had left behind, and my stack of prescriptions. Thyroid medication, contraceptive pill and B12. It’s going to cost me a bomb at the pharmacy tomorrow, but I can check that off the list and rest easy that I’m covered for basically a year. I still need to see an endocrinologist pretty soon, and a GP every few months for the injections, but I’ll cross that bridge as I come to it.

I guess I will start the thyroid medication on Wednesday. Apparently some people have allergic reactions to it, so I want to find out if I fall into that category while I’m still in Australia and can manage my medical costs. I have no idea what it would cost me to front up at a doctor or hospital in the US with no coverage, but I’m assuming it would be astronomical. At least here I know it costs me $77 to see my GP and free to visit emergency. I’m sure nothing will happen, as I have no allergies other than seasonal, but I want to be on the safe side. I don’t want to start it before Wednesday, because I’m either working, or running off my ass trying to get shit done. I am just thankful that I haven’t been struck with a migraine, although I have had a few symptoms last week and again this week.

Okay, pyjama time.