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Posted By Cassandra Disque on June 9, 2009

In February, we had just over $8,000 in our savings. We now have just under $500.

Mint.com is telling me, “In the past 30 days, you spent $444.49 on Health & Fitness. Usually you spend $196.” That doesn’t include our cash transactions for OTC medication in the first two weeks, nor does it include the refills I have to fill tomorrow or tomorrow’s doctor’s visit.

As of tomorrow, I haven’t worked in a month. We’re pretty much broke. And we had A Day today, including court and a disastrous trip to the motor vehicle administration. I’d write about it but it’s too hot to be on the laptop right now. We’re not using the air conditioning (window units) anymore, in an effort to cut back the electric bill.

Oh my god, what a mess. This is like 2000 all over again. I get seriously sick, my finances go out the window and everything goes to hell. Except this time I’m taking my husband with me.

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Cassandra Disque

Extemporaneous flibbertigibbet with bone lumps growing out of my coccyx. I was born in 1981. I was another case of "too much, too young," or at least I wanted to be. Now I'm leaning toward "too little, too late," as my body conks out on me, and I find I haven't done hardly any of the things I wanted. This is supposed to happen to people twice my age, so you might find my perspective on life to be a little unusual -- as in, I find just about everything to be hysterically funny, because there's little use in worrying when it's all going to go kaput.

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"The Drag of Gimp"

Since 1996, my life has been a long journey of visiting one doctor after another. I look more or less fine, but I'm not. My daily pill count is like playing the dozens with a hospice patient. One doctor will say I'm doomed, and send me to another for treatment, but the treating doctor will find nothing within his or her area of practice that can be treated.

My life is better than a comedy, better than a drama. Anyone who has done this knows what I mean when I say that you have to not only know the rules, but also play the part in order to be allowed in the game. Most people find what we go through in the medical merry-go-round to be unbelievable, which is why I call it "The Drag of Gimp."


About the author

Cassandra Disque

Extemporaneous flibbertigibbet with bone lumps growing out of my coccyx. I was born in 1981. I was another case of "too much, too young," or at least I wanted to be. Now I'm leaning toward "too little, too late," as my body conks out on me, and I find I haven't done hardly any of the things I wanted. This is supposed to happen to people twice my age, so you might find my perspective on life to be a little unusual -- as in, I find just about everything to be hysterically funny, because there's little use in worrying when it's all going to go kaput.