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Default May 03, 2021 at 02:46 PM
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Found the current guidelines (note: this would just be for Licensed Psychologists).

Includes the following (last update was March 11):

"As more individuals receive the COVID-19 vaccine, some private practitioners may wonder if it’s OK to stop practicing telehealth and provide more in-person services. If feasible, APA recommends that psychologists providing routine outpatient care continue using telehealth to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission, and new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supports this practice. While the CDC’s new guidance states that small groups of fully vaccinated family members and friends can gather indoors in a casual setting with or without masks, psychologists must follow the guidelines for health care personnel. Health care providers should continue to use telehealth; wear personal protective equipment and practice physical distancing when interacting with patients; and implement COVID-19 screening protocols."
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Default May 03, 2021 at 03:13 PM
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Got my second Covid shot yesterday. I feel achy today and I feel really tired and my arm is sore but that's it. I'm relieved to have gotten the second shot. Now I need to wait the two weeks for the immunity to kick in.

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Default May 03, 2021 at 03:42 PM
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Been having a few hallucinations (audio) and one visual. I think that means the psychosis is breaking through the medication. I see Dr. K on the 11th, he didn't have an earlier appointment but I think his stance is going to be talk to Pdoc. Just a feeling I got.

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Been having a few hallucinations (audio) and one visual. I think that means the psychosis is breaking through the medication. I see Dr. K on the 11th, he didn't have an earlier appointment but I think his stance is going to be talk to Pdoc. Just a feeling I got.

Hugs, Kit. I imagine he'll want you to contact pdoc as well. Could you reach out to pdoc now to set up an appointment?

And glad you got your second shot!
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Hugs, Kit. I imagine he'll want you to contact pdoc as well. Could you reach out to pdoc now to set up an appointment?

And glad you got your second shot!
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I'm debating. The voices are manageable, at least right now. Like I can ignore them. They freak me out at first but then like I just sort of realize it's a voice and then I settle down. I'm not scheduled to see Pdoc until July, so I might need to make an appointment before then. I'm prevaricating.


I'm achy from the shot so I am running my space heater which is making me hot but it is helping the aching in my muscles. When I go home I'll take some Ibuprofen and maybe a hot bath with Epsom salt.

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Default May 03, 2021 at 04:07 PM
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I'm mostly debating because of the cost. The cost to see Pdoc is $200. But then if I let it go untreated and I get worse and end up in the hospital, my out of pocket maximum is $2750, which I have met some of. I'm supposed to get that case manager soon so I was hoping they would tell me what to do.

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Default May 03, 2021 at 05:27 PM
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Got my last restitution check from the ex (via the state) today. I'm feeling very angry at the moment. I guess he's working now when he couldn't be bothered when he was with me.
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Default May 03, 2021 at 07:51 PM
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H is cooking dinner - hamburgers yum! He makes the best hamburgers. Yes I have given up on the vegetarian thing for now. I might try again in the future...
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Default May 03, 2021 at 08:35 PM
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Working on part of my therapy homework, looking for a place to swim (since they closed our pool here and I won't have one at the new house, unless I put an above-ground one in my backyard to swim circular laps in haha). Looking at a fitness club that has an indoor pool that's affordable enough if I skip one therapy session a month, that has an aqua-fit class twice a week plus lap swimming times, and a nicer resort kinda place but that one is probably out of my price range unless I go to every other week therapy sessions. Gotta contact them for rates as it's not clearly posted on the website, that I can find anyway. I will have to go check them out now after work one day.
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Artie - our community college has pretty good fitness memberships, as does the local ymca and also theres a county fitness center. Get your google on!
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H is cooking dinner - hamburgers yum! He makes the best hamburgers. Yes I have given up on the vegetarian thing for now. I might try again in the future...
I have meat as a standalone meal once in a while (once a week or so?), when nothing else seems to suit. We are called flexatarians - let the cheap shots begin!
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Weirdly, I was just looking up local options with indoor pools... We had belonged to this community organization that involved fitness centers with pools where he had a discount because H worked in the community. But now they're moving his office (he'll still be working from hoe for months), so we'll no longer have the discount. Our account had been on freeze for a year due to COVID (we had to pay $10/month to freeze it...). Just found some local options that are much cheaper, so we'll cancel that.

Artie, I say go with the place where you can still do 3 therapy sessions a month.
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Default May 03, 2021 at 09:00 PM
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I'm feeling extra sad today. I feel like precious time is slipping away. I'm scared that L is going to move and we will use telehealth indefinitely.

Also, a fb page I follow, Sheltie Planet, said:
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I have followed them for a long time now, so it feels like I know them. So sad for them. Just makes me feel sad that my dogs are getting older.

Time is just going by...

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Hugs, Scarlet. Has she said anything about moving lately? I'd talk to her about it.


It's hard reading on FB about pets dying. I have two guinea pigs and am in a couple guinea pig groups, and people frequently post about theirs dying or being sick/hurt. And it makes me worry about mine. But then people will post guinea pig babies, which are adorable (they come out covered in fur, eyes open, and ready to go, unlike, say, baby mice), so it balances out.
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Hugs, Scarlet. Has she said anything about moving lately? I'd talk to her about it.


It's hard reading on FB about pets dying. I have two guinea pigs and am in a couple guinea pig groups, and people frequently post about theirs dying or being sick/hurt. And it makes me worry about mine. But then people will post guinea pig babies, which are adorable (they come out covered in fur, eyes open, and ready to go, unlike, say, baby mice), so it balances out.
It's always looming. She said she'd know probably by the end of the year, and she'd move around the first quarter of next year. She and her partner are trying to stay here. They're doing everything they can to stay. I just feel it in me that she will move. I never get to keep special people in my life. They always leave for one reason or another. And she's extremely special. Plus, thanks to Covid, the transfer was put off for a year. I don't think lucky will be on my side for a second time.

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I have been laboring under a bad sinus infection. It was so bad that at one point, I thought about asking exhankster to send some leeches or moonshine or whatever the big valley and bonanza people used.

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That does sound frustrating. Some of the docs at my hospital still wear masks despite being vaccinated, but it's just guidance though right not the law in your specific area. If he's not breaking any rules I don't see why he can't not wear a mask if he doesn't want to and you're okay with that.
In my country, a fully vaccinated healthcare professional tested positive. The hospital is now a giant cluster, and all non urgent in-person appointments etc are being postponed. Other hospitals will be sending in staff to help.

I'd still wear masks even if vaccinated. But I'm not eligible for vaccination yet, and neither is my T.
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I have been laboring under a bad sinus infection. It was so bad that at one point, I thought about asking exhankster to send some leeches or moonshine or whatever the big valley and bonanza people used.
Nowadays i use sugarfree cough syrup with guafinesen to cure anything and everything above the diaphragm. Or if im just bored.
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never heard of it. I rinsed out the nasal passages, drank gallons of tea with honey, lemon, and cayenne pepper, and slept on a wedge so as not to choke. A good cupping might have helped

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Under normal circumstances, high standards come as naturally to me as breathing.
With everything that's happening currently, the idea of 'delivering to a high standard' frightens me.

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