I want to ask the Palo Alto Medical Foundation community how to get my hands on my original medical records. I have some at home, those from high school when I was going to a pediatric endocrinology clinic but the thing is, I want my birth records and my records from being diagnosed with diabetes while in the hospital at age 10. My body’s version of diabetes is very hard to manage actually, because I’m a brittle. I want to continue to perfect my diabetes control because I feel that I could do way better and I can. I’m trying to keep my head above water right now in more ways than one.
I talked to a free business advice lawyer. They said to figure out what roles are what. I have to be wary of the company I want to sell the idea to respecting my idea so that they could set it up with me as an equal partner. I have enough public speaking skills to pull this off even on Zoom. The company in question may have a programmer they would like to use within their own organization. My idea is a way to save metaphysical bookshops from going under during economic recessions. This is one idea I want to stay put with, I do not want to sell it and run, I want to be able to work together with the company so t hat we can come up with a meaningful social network product as an original idea.
Readers, there are 7 million coronavirus infections raging in the United States. Travel bans make it impossible to leave the country, or to come back in. For me at least that keeps my family stranded for a hot minute. I say to wear a mask because that is one way to keep oneself well. I’m saying it because Alyssa Milano shocked me in her video when she said to wear one. I got one early on during the pandemic. I want to get more masks, I’m going to buy some cloth ones sometime soon. I stay away from people because I want to stay well. A friend wanted to hang out but they are not the sort of person who wears a mask, I had to be wary of him and I wear a mask at all times when outdoors.
I have come to expect people to be mean to me, or not come through for me. Even though I do have a ride to my procedure that’s coming up in November, I’m trying to keep my head above water financially. There are other streams of income that are going to open up. When I make real money, it is up to me to buy insurance for myself that I can pay for with that money. I have had to deal with mean doctors on occasion. But then there comes in my ridiculous talent for intimidating other people. Yeah, you know who you are.
My medical directive is yet another side project I need to work on. This document is about keeping me alive until all resources have been exhausted. It is because I’ve already been near death on a ventilator at age 10 from type 1-diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a perfectly preventable illness, but hey. My medical decisions are my own since I get free medical care from the government. I’m on Santa Clara Family Plan insurance, which is the free sort. I plan on staying on this insurance for a while longer, only because I have to. Today is a fasting lab at the clinic out here, and I am working on it.
As a power of attorney, my power of attorney serves to help me make conscious decisions using sound judgment regarding my health care choices. This is because my family would like to take over my life, stripping me of my legal rights so that I’m meek, helpless, and unable to make concrete decisions. Long have I sought to prevent this by staying medication consistent? Yes, I comply with my treatment plans, 100%; they can’t institutionalize me, even though I know this is a plan since nobody reads this blog anyway. I so rarely get hits from Spain and Chile. But anyway, my power of attorney will have to give me rides to major medical procedures should there be more of them. As it is, the one this November, is terrifying enough.
The Power of Attorney ought to understand the dark underbelly of my family that wants to do this to me. They should be aware of how demeaning they get, but they shouldn’t freak out about it because I can protect myself, from them by being stable. I am not remotely unstable but gee, hmm, picking fights with me can get me to that point. Narcissists enjoy fight picking, btw, and my power of attorney need not be one.
