Kate Aaron 🏳️‍🌈

Kate Aaron 🏳️‍🌈

@kateaaron.bsky.social

Wordsmith ✍️ She/her 👩‍💻 Mrs AJ Rose 🥀 Queer as in FU 🖕 Transatlantic transplant 🇬🇧>🇺🇸 kateaaron.com

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In the ongoing saga of “no, paying $$$$ for medical care doesn’t make it better”: - the “not medically necessary” back mri showed that it was, in fact, medically necessary - the ortho could see me in six weeks - when I got there, their systems hadn’t shared any records - so I needed more X-rays

- which showed that he wasn’t the right ortho for my treatment - “but good news! I can get you into the right guy within a week!” - the right guy’s next availability was 4 weeks later - in the meantime, I need to go to the hospital and get my records on a disc bc apparently we live in 1990

- the medical records office was closed 1.5hrs early - apparently they’re always closed 1.5 hrs early - their posted hours are squarely in my work hours, so ig I need time off to go track them down - oh and the ortho made me cancel pain mgmt bc “it’s them or us who can treat you, pick one” 🤬

My favourite bit of hypocrisy in the seized at the border copaganda show is when they find a Mexican trying to get a gun you can buy over the counter in the US and start wringing their hands over the kind of bad people that would want such a terrible instrument with zero self-awareness at all

Tell me why it took more than 3 weeks to get the mri results and I’m still waiting for my otho referral to go through so I can get a damn appointment to talk about the surgery the scan shows I need. But “in aMeRicA YoU dONt hAvE tO waIt” 🙄 but yay the pain management clinic will see me in October.

Kate Aaron 🏳️‍🌈@kateaaron.bsky.social

Finallly got my long-awaited MRI today. It only took 10mo of conservative treatments that didn’t work, a fight with insurance, 6 week wait bc the hospital accidentally cancelled it, and being sent to three different locations today before I was finally directed to the right place 🙃

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Replying to @laurajedeed.bsky.social

The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point

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the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss

Baby boy spent another night at the vet bc he was once again full of 💩 in the literal sense, so now of course his lil sis doesn’t recognize him and is spending the day growling while he is high af and 100% oblivious.

it bugs the shit out of me that draft2digital will show me a pretty graphic of number of books sold last month with no way to see the data until weeks later, and then lo and behold when it finally appears none of those numbers add up 😒

Finallly got my long-awaited MRI today. It only took 10mo of conservative treatments that didn’t work, a fight with insurance, 6 week wait bc the hospital accidentally cancelled it, and being sent to three different locations today before I was finally directed to the right place 🙃