News......

[mdehners]

My brother dropped by this am to ask me to cat-sit for the weekend. He and his wife will be in Tennessee looking at houses. Apparently, the joy of living near the Cheeto Messiah doesn't balance out the cost of housing there. Just when I'd made myself comfortable with DC.
The (plus?) is he said I should stay here till Chuck Passes then move. He figures it'll only be a couple months. This is the same guy who thought Chuck would forget about me if he didn't see me for 3 days. Personally? I'd guess more likely next Spring unless things change radically. At least we've been given the ok to remain here till he Passes. Hopefully, it'll be a while.....
Cheers,
Pat

Comments

[weofodthignen]

Yes, I hope Chuck lives many more years, in comfortable health, spiting your brother and SIL and everybody else. Very good news about staying put, but I hope you can manage without them for getting places.

[mdehners]

I should be able to. Truth is, the location wouldn't matter to Chuck. Just getting him to go out to the doctor's is like getting a cat in a carrier to go to the vet. At least Chuck's nails don't scratch;>!
Again, the truth is that the change in move hits me harder. At least in DC Metro there's a large GLBT and Pagan community. Bumfuc Tennessee? Somehow doubt it. DC would have both given me communities to reach out to and proper hiv medical care. Heck, Tennessee is one of those states filled with Opiate Abusers which means it's going to be a PAIN to get my pain meds....if at all. And Chris and company don't get it. Upper middle class folks don't have a CLUE what working(or Disabled) poor have to go with to get a fraction of what they take for granted....
Cheers,
Pat

[arlie]

Aargh! You'd think with you right there all these years, he might have noticed.

Once again, "There's none so blind as those who will not see."

*sigh*

And a virtual hug for each of you, from my ritzy middle class CV-19 lockdown, complete with paycheque, private outdoor space, and enough room that we aren't driving each other crazy.

In local news, the PTB want to shut down a doctor who's doing yeomen service to the poor and uninsured, including some who turn out to have CV-19, because he prescribed opiates to some people who didn't have all the appropriate paperwork. Hopefully the sympathetic piece in the SF Chronicle yesterday will cause enough pushback to put a stop to this, but I wouldn't count on it.

Frankly, I'd give all the druggies all the opiates they want, if that's what it takes to get pain patients what they need. But I don't worship a deity who values suffering. And unfortunately I also don't run the medical establishment.

[mdehners]

I really don't care what folks do as long as it doesn't impinge on my life. Then I get"bitchy";>!
Adding to this "adventure, They got back from a trip Memorial Weekend to the Smokey Mountains and said they've decided that they're going to build their own house to get everything they want....so it'll be a yr or more before we move. All this BS for NOTHING....
Cheers,
Pat
Who's not going to buy it until the moving van arrives and I find out where they're dropping off to.....

[arlie]

Hopefully they'll spend the next decade checking out places and deciding not to move to them.

Also hopefully they won't pick up CV-19 in these explorations.

Glad they've changed their mind about forcing you to move with them.

[mdehners]

Well, technically, I get to stay as long as Chuck's alive. Then they move me into a "Mother-In-Law's unit" on their new property. Last time she looked at places in Tennessee my brother wasn't playing because none were within an hr commute to an airport. Now, he figures most of his work will be remote and that's no longer the big issue. The "Florida Room" is still mandatory since he gets tested for security reasons and he won't let her smoke her "medical Marijuana" around him. Also, he doesn't want to "deal" with a neighbor "narcing" on her and him having to cope with THAT mess with his clearances....
Cheers,
Pat