Final major quest item obtained this morning: Swedish bank accounts in my name! (Now that I am equipped with the national ID card and everything.)

Like when I moved to the UK, I ended up with a joint account with Mr. C and AFAICT a second sole account. He actually did most of the talking (in Swedish), which was just as well since I also couldn't hear jack shit over the background noise.

Since my unemployed foreign disabled ass is piggybacking off his existing relationship with the bank, it is set up with a limited debit card for at least a while until they have established that money is indeed going into the account regularly. I'll have to double check the restrictions, but it'll be great to have any usable local cards at all.

I was half-afraid going in that they were just going to nope out of giving me any account whatsoever, but that turned out not to be an issue. It was more an appointment to finish up paperwork and get things set up.

I've basically been avoiding using the British accounts as far as possible, even before the pound tanked so hard recently. The extra fees are bad enough, and it's apparently a rather expensive PITA to try to keep those topped up now just for extra fun. Being able to do basic dailystuff like order groceries on my own again will be super welcome.

I can't do much with the new account(s) until I do get and activate the actual debit card, which should apparently be going out sometime this week. But, it's a huge relief to eventually get set up with a bank on this end at all.

Plus, there's this! 🥳

BankID is finally enabled, and duly activated/logged in on my phone by the SEB person with her magic QR code!

(Yeah, the app wouldn't let me even screenshot the main screen utterly devoid of sensitive info, because security.)

Which, in turn, finally unlocked one more sadly important bonus item!

Yep, I finally have access to the health system portal! 😎

You need a 1177 account (which of course relied on BankID for verification 🙄) in order to interact with medical services online, like, at all.

Which means I shouldn't have to rely on Mr. C nearly as much to generally run interference and make a bunch of phone calls to handle things that the vast majority of people just take care of online, to the point that they're always surprised when that's not an option.

I can now actually see my prescriptions (plus how many refills are left, which is oddly not printed on the labels!), and put in requests. Test results should be accessible too, besides being able to book my own appointments and various other online requests and communication with doctors' offices. It should now also be set up to notify me of appointments through both SMS and e-mail, because I'm semi-paranoid.

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