2026 Life Logs, Day 196: Roller Coaster Ride
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, Steady Breeze; High Temp 82, Low 66 degrees F
Location: At Home with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
No matter where I turned today, I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride … my sister’s issues, Indivisible, even the World Cup semi-final. I spent the day trying to finalize plans for changing my sister’s health insurance, preparing for an Indivisible Falmouth monthly meeting, watching a little soccer, tracking my sister’s glucose numbers for the first full day, and everything seemed to have highs, then lows, then highs again. And the bigger problem seems to be my inability to balance all of this. I literally don’t feel like I can think straight anymore. Handling my own life has been a little crazy this past year, but now adding my sister’s life to mine is a lot. Yesterday my sister’s Power of Attorney asked for a monthly budget, but I don’t have numbers for him. I have to switch her from North Carolina Medicare Advantage to straight Medicare with a Massachusetts supplement. But since she is no longer walking, at least for now, I am having to go with doctors and dentists, who come to Bridges. And the ones who come there are not all covered by Medicare. If I were to pay for dental insurance, it would be useless, unless I take her out to a dentist. I had to choose between 3 healthcare management teams, but I am struggling with the one I chose to get physical therapy for her. So, I was on the phone today, not just with Blue Cross Blue Shield, but with dental offices, physical therapy offices, Bridges, the RN who has been dealing with her diabetes, in order to find the answers to this and to that. Just when it seemed like something was going to work, then it didn’t. Plus this being the first day of me tracking her glucose numbers put me over the top. Her numbers go up and down and my phone dings with high and low warnings all day. She goes from numbers in the 100’s up to the 300’s and then back and forth all day long. With Indivisible, just when we think we have thought of everything we need to share with members, new things keep popping up by the hour. I want to ride on a swan boat on a placid lake, not on a roller coaster. But the roller coaster seems my fate right now.
