I'm glad the bug was short-lived, Epic!

Epic, people didn't claim to be gay because the prejudice and repercussions were devastating. Young men who were even thought to be gay (usually called something much less polite) were subject to social shunning and being beaten up with little or no provocation. They could be denied jobs (at a previous - terrible - job, one young man was fired for being insufficiently closeted), housing ... the whole range of things you need to survive.

Hello people! I am over a week done with radiation & have random itchy, peely, dry skin on the treated area. I slather the area with a number of different medicated goos three times a day & I hope it’s not going to take too long to heal. I’m picking up my anti- hormone pills on Thursday (payday) - I’m hoping to get some help with the cost because even with my insurance it’s expensive (for me). Luckily there is a program the the social worker from the hospital believes I qualify for. Fingers crossed.

My next thing is getting the shingles vaccine & after that a tetanus shot.

ION, I saw this interview over in the BBC’s Instagram & thought of Jilli: [link]

Thanks, Todd. I suppose I was only thinking of the microcosm of the "Hair" world, where everybody was fine with Wolf's crushes on both Claude and Mick Jagger, not so much the world at large - much less open-minded.

Yay for no more radiation! Fingers crossed for healing and affordable meds!

Fingers crossed for $$ help for the pills, sumi! And continuing healing~ma - yay for being done with radiation!

I get my shingles vaccine and a mammogram tomorrow. I'm not due for tetanus until next year, I think.

The 4F stuff reminded me that my mom recently told me that my grandpa found out he was deaf in one ear through being rejected for service for WWII and only figured out afterwards that they were testing him to see if he was faking because he didn't even know he was reacting any differently than anyone would. So he ended up working in the shipyards in Oakland, and one thing he did was refit the General Miegs from being a ocean liner for leisure travel to being troop transit, and that turned out to be the ship (right after the war but not yet refitted to be a regular liner) that brought my dad (and his family) to the US

done with radiation

Yay!

slather the area with a number of different medicated goos

Non-medicated, but "O'Keeffe's Working Hands" has worked very well for me.

anti- hormone pills...I’m hoping to get some help with the cost

If you haven't already, check goodrx.com
PAN foundation: [link] was recommended to me, but I haven't checked them out yet.

it’s expensive

Yes. Yes it is. My anti-hormone prescription is abiraterone acetate. If I hadn't already reached my annual out-of-pocket maximum, that med. would cost me $240 per day.

Thanks, dcp, I will check that out if the social worker doesn’t come through for me.

O'Keeffe's is also awesome for donating 1,000 lip balms for care packages going overseas for an org I work for. We requested a discount; they just donated the full amount. Awesome.

Timelies all!

Just got a call from my dad. He's now in the rehab center with my mom. And they have a charged up cell phone.(Hopefully they will keep it charged up because when I tried to call my mom there yesterday I was told the phone in her room was broken. Sheesh.)

Just got a meeting invite for 3:30 (in person). I'm working from home today & the other guy in my group leaves at 3:00 every day. But as the only non-engineers in the Engineering Dept, who cares whether we're included?

(I sent back a "Tentative" and asked for a webex link, but honestly, why wasn't that already included? Sheesh!)