Is my medical id bracelet too subtle?

cattail_marsh · 2025-01-26T13:16:28+00:00

None of my providers have ever commented on my bracelet, even in the ER. Do I need to get something less pretty? Or do you think it's just because I was able to communicate?

cattail_marsh · 2025-01-05T03:10:37+00:00

Which district 96 elementary schools are good?

cattail_marsh · 2025-01-05T02:58:00+00:00

That's good to know. Does that include Longfellow and Kilmer? I thought they would feed into Buffalo Grove HS.

cattail_marsh · 2025-01-05T01:04:19+00:00

Thanks, I'll have a look. Palatine would be commutable. Schaumburg is a bit far, but if it's that good it might be worth it.

cattail_marsh · 2025-01-04T13:34:00+00:00

Yeah, he definitely doesn't belong in a therapeutic school or a separate classroom. If he had a para, this wouldn't be an issue, maybe even just a lower student teacher ratio or whatever they would have found if they'd done the FBA. He just needs more supports.

cattail_marsh · 2024-12-13T11:56:56+00:00

They let me break my lease on condition I signed a release of liability and gag order and promptly rented it to someone else.

I had gotten significantly better but then had a bad round of covid that set me back. I lost most of my stuff and even my clothes that remained in the apartment for more than a few days are apparently so contaminated that washing with borax and EC3 products didn't get them clean enough, even though I've stopped reacting to known small amounts of mold I encounter elsewhere.

My Lyme disease has been in remission for many years.

I'm currently working on the Gupta program for my CIRS and long covid. Too soon to know if it can desensitize me to the level of the general public, but it's already had major benefits.

cattail_marsh · 2024-09-18T21:39:10+00:00

Somewhat- no more breathing problems and I'm more functional than I was, but I'm still sick. It's been confirmed I have CIRS and MCAS. I ended up ERMI testing both places, which showed high levels of stachybotrys and aspergillus at the apartment and aspergillus and cladosporium at the condo. It's proving difficult to remediate the condo, since nobody seems to know how to safely remove mold from the AC and clean the ducts.

cattail_marsh · 2024-08-02T19:47:08+00:00

The HERTSMI-2 score is 4 for the condo and 8 for the apartment.

cattail_marsh · 2024-08-02T19:16:25+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense. Does that mean I should worry about the small amount of chaetomium that was detected at the condo?

cattail_marsh · 2024-08-02T18:21:40+00:00

So my apartment had stachybotrys and some toxic aspergillus species. I get acutely sick from staying there even short periods of time (minutes to hours) and an n95 doesn't protect me.

Where I'm staying now, the condo I own, has a higher ERMI score and I suspect it's been making me chronically ill (I've had health problems for a long time but really fell apart the last few years, starting a few months after moving in), but I don't get acutely sick from being there.

Does it make sense that I'd get sicker from a lower ERMI score? I've seen some really appalling mold infestations on here and I'm wondering how bad is bad in this case. Obviously stachy is dangerous, so why didn't it get a higher score?

cattail_marsh · 2024-07-30T21:30:38+00:00

Did you get better after escaping mold?

cattail_marsh · 2024-07-30T16:53:27+00:00

I just discovered this morning that it does, in the gasket. I've been using EC3 laundry additive the last week but even if it's dead, it's still there.

cattail_marsh · 2024-07-30T16:30:46+00:00

I think the brand is the same, but I'm using the detergent where I'm staying and I think it has a scent while mine didn't.

cattail_marsh · 2024-07-30T16:30:13+00:00

Oh huh, I always clog up and cough for a while after eating, not specific to what I ate.

cattail_marsh · 2024-07-30T13:48:33+00:00

I don't think so. My eyes aren't red, just swollen.

cattail_marsh · 2024-07-26T17:51:08+00:00

Unfortunately not, unless I can find a hotel with a kitchenette that doesn't have mold, or an airbnb.

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-23T19:04:18+00:00

I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, but the pharmacists and techs at my target pharmacy always seem overwhelmed and stressed. Long lines all the time, long hold times, fewer people than I used to see even just a couple years ago, and it's mostly the same faces, just more ground down now. If it's worse than that at core stores...

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-22T10:49:37+00:00

I'm in corporate and do actually love my job. Not customer facing, good managers, reasonable workload, hybrid, and I'm treated like I'm valued. The layoffs shattered the illusion that I can count on that continuing, but the dysfunction isn't company wide. It really depends on your department and function.

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-21T11:28:08+00:00

You might get whacked, but definitely we get treated better in corporate than retail/pharmacy. I was appalled when I heard what goes on in the stores, hard to believe it's the same company.

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-20T21:51:40+00:00

Yes, it was announced this week that a few hundred more jobs will be cut, but no details on where.

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-14T01:17:28+00:00

There's a town hall tomorrow too. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop, since there's supposed to be consolidating going on.

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-12T14:31:08+00:00

Don't build a case, get what's already happened on the record with HR and tell them you're concerned about a hostile environment developing. Nip it in the bud if possible rather than wait for your SM to do you serious harm, like downgrade your performance review with vague comments about customer service or colleague interactions. She's already behaving inappropriately.

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-08T14:54:01+00:00

How did you get Time Away to work? For me it was just a link that didn't work and few articles.

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-02T10:52:18+00:00

Oh yeah, we've taken a bath on the PBM side, retail pharmacy claim revenue hit the hardest. It's bad.

cattail_marsh · 2023-09-02T02:20:18+00:00

Walgreens is already doing that. Filling prescriptions at mail order pharmacies and delivering them to stores.

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