{"id":717,"date":"2021-05-06T02:18:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelledevon.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2021-05-06T02:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:19:15","slug":"poetry-contest-falls-suck-what-else-is-new-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelledevon.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/06\/poetry-contest-falls-suck-what-else-is-new-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Contest, Falls Suck, What else is new\/s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I took the plunge and entered a $2000 prize poetry contest. I am waiting on my post to be reviewed. It cost me a buck to enter the contest. I missed that the first time around an even posted this as a free entry contest. By the time I realized it had cost me a buck, I&#8217;d spent several hours working on it and didn&#8217;t want to let that be wasted time, so I finished working on it and posted it. Now it&#8217;s pending review. We&#8217;ll see what they say. I&#8217;ve read some really bad poetry on there but there was some really good stuff too. So my fingers are crossed when I&#8217;m not typing.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see the link to the poem, <a href=\"https:\/\/vocal.media\/poets\/an-explosion-3n5e9q0iff?fbclid=IwAR0i76Ts0ogKAzjZ-gjiPoFPhTUZg91kWg5yAPE6CCyR0zEfMFsgfBMdri8\">you can see it here.<\/a> If you can go there and view it, I think that helps me, but I&#8217;m not sure. Can&#8217;t hurt anyway. It seems I get something like $6 per 1000 views, from one source and $3.80 per 1000 views from another source, but I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s true yet. I&#8217;ll update as soon as I know they pay or know HOW they pay. It sounds interesting if you know how to pull in page views. If it indexes in Google, it could be a real money maker for the right writer. If it doesn&#8217;t index in Google and only depends on promotion and internal reads, it&#8217;s still not horrible but when it costs 10 bucks per money to be a member, you&#8217;re spending\u00a0 more than you&#8217;re making. So I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m going to run it through some paces with this contest and see we I can learn. I&#8217;ll report back to you as I learn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T FALL ON ME!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On another\u00a0 note completely, I fell last week. Scared the crap out of me as I came down&#8230;. it was slow, like slow motion, and I was thinking in my head, &#8220;Don&#8217;t land on anything, don&#8217;t hit anything, don&#8217;t fall on yourself\u00a0 like last time&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last time I fell, I shattered my ankle so badly I required surgery to fix it and that was the surgery where they\u00a0 kept me on the ventilator for two days before finally extubating me. It was horrible. I wasn&#8217;t going to have to go through that again. So slow descent it was.<\/p>\n<p>But I hit my side under my arm against the wheelchair as I came down. I think I broke a rib, fractured it. It hurts. And of course, I&#8217;m out of pain pills. I have requested ones from the doctor&#8217;s office, but haven&#8217;t hear anything. I requested them before I fell even, because I take pain pills regularly for other pain. But now the aid in the office won&#8217;t give my messages to Dr. Scruggs until I send the fall report from Dispatch Health. But I&#8217;m not asking for pain meds for the fall. I&#8217;m asking for my normal pain medication that I always get. I&#8217;ll worry about the fall&#8211;I won&#8217;t take more than prescribed, but it&#8217;s up to me to manage that. Give me my pills!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m out of hydroxizine too, which is an anti-itch medication for my psoriasis and I&#8217;ve been asking for it for a week as well. This is a bad habit from this doctor&#8217;s office. I love the doctor so much but this is a real pain in the ass to deal with the prescription issues. I&#8217;ve gone without medication more than once now. My daughter went a week without anti-depressants, same doctor. She was mortified that this had happened, but it seems nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>I know you can say, &#8220;Well, just ask for them earlier!&#8221; but then what happens is they tell me I asked for them too soon and need to call back when the prescription is closer to empty. I feel like I can&#8217;t win and it feels almost intentional, like the front desk nurse just doesn&#8217;t like me and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m going to have this problem. It feels personal. That really sucks to feel like that, but I complained about her once and I feel like this is throwback from that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on with me. I&#8217;m just hanging out trying to hang in there.<\/p>\n<p>I love and need you all.<\/p>\n<p>Love and stuff,<\/p>\n<p>Michelle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I took the plunge and entered a $2000 prize poetry contest. I am waiting on my post to be reviewed. It cost me a buck to enter the contest. I missed that the first time around an even posted this as a free entry contest. 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