8:31am August 25, 2014

Tumblr makes everything easier.

Including sending thank-you notes.  I am horrible at sending thank-you notes in snailmail or even email.  For some reason, however, I can send them on tumblr with very little problem.  And I really enjoy doing so, because I want people to know how good their gifts make me feel, how awed I am that they care enough to send them, etc.

Anyway:

I don’t know who sent the two large packages of vinyl gloves to my door.

But whoever you are, thank you, you have no idea, maybe, what you’ve done.

Those gloves are one of my most major ongoing medical costs.  It used to be that the agencies that provided the services, would provide their own gloves.  The VNA provides their own gloves still, and I hold them to that because when they steal mine, I have to pay for them.  But Howard Developmental Services no longer provides their own gloves, probably as a result of budget cuts.

And staff are required to wear gloves for anything that involves handling medication or bodily fluids.  Which around here, is nearly everything.  And I have to go through four a day just doing my butt pills alone.  Plus we cut fingers out of them to create safety overflow devices for the drainage bags.  So we’re always going through gloves, really fast, and it’s always a serious expense even when we buy them as cheaply as we can online.

So whoever bought the gloves – thank you so much, I really appreciate it, this makes my life a lot better during a hard financial month (which is most months, nowadays, really – I keep barely squeaking through without overdraft charges… WTF is with the practice of charging me money for being broke, anyway?).

I still can’t believe how many people are buying things from my wishlist. Especially people whose names I don’t know, but who leave little notes saying they cared, or that they liked my blog, or other sweet things like that.

And again, because I know some people will feel guilty:  You don’t have to show me you care.  And you definitely don’t have to do it by buying me things.  It just amazes me when people do choose to show their caring in this way.  I’m well aware that there are people who care a lot, who will not only never buy anything, but will never even write or click “like” on anything, and that’s just as good too.  I’ve been that person who can’t even click “like”.  I still am sometimes.  So don’t ever think I don’t appreciate people who care but can’t show it in any way at all.

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