dumb citrus bitch

So I have had...several medical procedures this year. Two colonoscopies...the first as a checkup for management of Crohn's disease, and the second three months later because the first found inflammation in my large intestine and the doc adjusted my meds. Second showed improvement so that's great!

I have also this year, after a Lot Of Shit, been diagnosed with endometriosis. My left ovary, in fact, is completely encysted in a 9.2 cm endometrioma. In one month and two days I am having surgery to completely remove the cyst, which will involve completely removing my left ovary. (Righty is hanging on and being a model citizen so far, no cysts at all currently.) After going back and forth with my care team and considering options, I'm going to follow their reccomendations and also undergo a hysterectomy at the same time. Right ovary can stay for now.

This, since American healthcare is a hellscape, costs money. I've done the regular measures to reduce the bills, but they're still adding up. I've maxed out my FSA already for the year and still have about $4,500 to go before I hit out of pocket maximum for my insurance for the year.

So. Any help to defray medical costs...the ones already incurred and the ones I'm about to...would be wildly appriciated.

First doodles for my Psych Trek AU :]

maybe a little “I think about you when I’m with him” to spice things up

But people are just over it all. I think what made Trek 2009 lightning in a bottle is the long fallow period. There was no built in antipathy from the reflexively skeptical, the authentically disappointed by previous media, and of course the professional rage baiter class.

It stripped away everything that wasn't a meme and went heavy on the slapstick and irony.

I suspect Paramount / Skydance will try to do that again and audiences know that trick already.

Now, paramount is mostly hiding trek behind their paywall instead of making it available to every streaming service. Disney hides star wars stuff behind their paywall. And all the marvel shows and movies. Marvel and DC stuff no longer has built in audiences (ex: I Infinity war sold millions of issues, more recent comics are lucky to be 1/10th that).

Franchises are built on ubiquity. Inescapablility. Audiences narrow from the widest point, but the geniuses in charge start narrow now. Marvel had the outline of the right idea back in their 'flood the market' days, but made too much forgettable crap, and didn't make shows widely available.

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