My International Support

Today I began making calls. I don't know why A. now wants to marry me so badly. I am happy with my decision. There was a kind of build-up to it and then it felt anti-climatic. Back to same-old, same-old, and square one.

I didn't have a chance to get the number of my bank account, but I'm getting it tomorrow, to post online.

I called a Pakistani friend and I hope to have lunch with him tomorrow or soon. I just want to chat and I have to give him back his key too, from when I was a houseguest (nothing romantic at all--just hospitable).

I also called my English friend/acquaintance and he'd been traveling in Pakistan and Afghanistan and around, but I reached him in London. I had no idea. I said, "Wow. This is a good connection." I would have thought he was just down the road. I hope to meet up with him next week. I'm really fascinated with his type of work and might ask him if he knows of anything I could do in that line.

My ex and the other Colombian woman we're staying with said I could stay with them at least until next Wednesday because this is when I have an appointment with a specialist for my back.

I don't know what she really thinks of me when she asks me if the doctor thinks my back is from anxiety or actual pain. ? Mabye because I brought up Valium. And my ex acted weird when I told him I was back on Percocet. I had told them, the doctors agree now, at least, I have a herniated disc problem that needs attention.

So no, herniated discs are not a condition of "anxiety". It causes severe pain and other problems. I am told though, that I SHOULD be able to work, at either an office type of job or waitressing, if I have a prescription of Percocet and cortisone shots. I am seriously looking forward to cortisone or something new. The doctors said if I do NOT take care of this, this way, I would need surgery, and they think this can be prevented.

Then I met this wonderful and lively East Indian woman who was telling me she had herniated discs and she did yoga. The second time in the last few days I've been advised to take up yoga. Third time, actually.

I DID go to the state offices for services but had such a bad feeling about it. I didn't want food stamps or housing or any assistance other than medical and then I found out the specialist I've been referred to doesn't even take state insurance. A typcial problem, and I don't trust a state paid doctor is going to do me justice, after all I went through with that sort of thing in Washington state. So I did get an appointment, but it will be faster and easier to just go to the specialist I was referred to with the Adventist hospital.

I am going to write a motion for an extension of time based on all my medical problems here, and file it with Washington state. I would like to have enough money for a P.O. box too, for safekeeping my mail so I can obtain state discovery, but I actually don't even have money for that. My ex agreed to pay for my appointment with the doctor on Wednesday, for my back. Other than that, I need to get a P.O. box.

I don't know what I'll do after Wednesday of next week, but I want to make as much money as possible, as quickly as I can, and be able to at least visit my son in a trip to Wenatchee. I still need money for independent evals and for filing things too.

But one thing at a time, and right now, it's to file for an extension and "out of time" motion for appeal of the state case, and to make sure my back is finally taken care of. I am going to ask this specialist to maybe refer me to someone for an MRI of my pelvis and tailbone too, because I still have problems with this. If I can get everything sorted out with the bone doctors, and probably, for prolapse as well, I should be in good shape.

What is too bad, is that Wenatchee doctors are responsible for my damages and they should be paying for all these costs, and they knew they did this, and since they complained about me, they tried to prevent me from getting diagnostics, by claiming I was delusional and drug seeking. Now, I am getting evidence, but I have no recourse for getting them to pay for what they did.

I am happy I was able to reach my Pakistani and English friend. I have a lot of work to do, and have to work fast.