Surgery--Again

Hey Boida...

mmmmmmmm.... tomorrow a? Day 1.

k - hugging you. Brit choc is winging on over ... hopefully to sweeten the bitter taste.

love to you girl xox x

Roberta, maybe you need a new social worker.

Miller, I checked out some Jewish charities on my own a while back. Bupkis. I know my social worker has checked out a few. I'll mention it to her.

Izzie, Thanks for the chocolates, kid. Don't know if I'll be able to eat them, though. I might have to wait a while. Worth the wait, I'm sure.

Just back from my allergy/asthma doctor. Infection. Antibiotics (free samples) and a host of other free samples for the stuff I take regularly. Thanks, Dr. B.

Gearing up for tomorrow. Not looking forward to the stop off for the fluoride tray. Then the radiation elsewhere. Tired already, but I was tired without any of this.

Got an e-mail from the person I'm doing a freelance editing job for. Can we cut two weeks out of the schedule? No, we can't. I suggested she get someone else. So now I've got two freelance jobs instead of three. I'll miss the money, but the easing up of the deadline pressure is a relief. BTW, I asked if the people who took the time out the schedule had been in publishing for more than a week. You can't edit a five hundred page book with about 50 footnotes per chapter in less than two weeks. Meshuginas.

Oh one other avenue to pursue. I don't know anything about New York State but I have had some success in Kansas and Texas in getting help for folks who fall between the cracks by contacting your state senator or representative--preferably by letter--and explaining your dilemma. These folks can sometimes lean on the regulatory agency and bend a rule or two to get somebody some help.

I knew my assembly people and state senators in California personally so I know their offices try to help, or at least those I knew did, if only via referral to a possible useful number. Especially the local assembly people try to troubleshoot, or did. I also know that they're often inundated and have people to read input for them - the ones I knew were already working a zillion hours. They dealt sometimes with near continuous rat a tat tat of info.

I'm thinking perhaps some smaller agencies, maybe jewish, maybe not. I'm not so sure about 'firing' your social worker, Robbie, more that I wish we could think of something.

OK, I have it. A genius grant from the MacArthur foundation. Only half kidding.
How about publishing a smallish ebonics thread type book.. (in your spare time).

Or some sort of Grammar Screw Up Warning book for writers. Sort of like the early one by White and whomever, small paperback, but spicier.
The trick would be to get an advance.

I suppose you've thought of all that, Roberta.

Why not? At one time, she did produce a style manual for someone or other. Still, it's a long term solution to a short term problem.

I just love doctors who pass out free samples of stuff you already have prescribed.

Right.
Actually the deal would be to get someone to flag it 'yes', or 'proceed', possibly via someone you know who knows someone, and to proceed with some 'advance'.

I've been working on a proposal for a book. But you guys seem to be forgetting one little thing.

I HAVE NO ENERGY. I'm tired and depressed. I have to work myself up to making a simple phone call. I'm going to be zapped by radiation five days a week for the next seven weeks. My doing much of anything is really not an option.

I'll see what I can do about charities.

And, Roger. Love dem free samples. Saving me hundreds of bucks I don't got.

Whatever happened to the Roberta fund at A2K?

I don't forget that, actually - she says ungrammatically.

Roberta, did the social worker hook you up with Gilda's Club?

No we haven't, Roberta. It's just that you sound so lively & darned entertaining in many of your posts, that's all ....

Hugs to you & hang in there.

Did you get my email, Little k?

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Many of you have been kind and generous. But I live in Manhattan. Although my rent is low by NY standards, it's high by everybody else's standards.

Please hang onto your money.

I'm truly grateful for the thought.

No, what is that. A cancer group?

http://www.gildasclub.org/ourorganization.asp

named for Gilda Radner. I posted earlier in the thread about the organization, and not realizing that the first location was in Manhattan.

good resources

http://www.gildasclub.org/resources.asp

http://www.gildasclub.org/res_patient.asp

such as links to

http://www.patientadvocate.org/

which leads to

http://www.patientadvocate.org/report.php?p=42

which is

really good resources and a really good group of people (at least the ones I've dealt with here in Toronto)