Friday morning meant another trip to Rotherham for another light therapy session. Because it seems to be working, I wanted to find out what would happen if we stopped at the end of 8 weeks (24 sessions) and it wasn’t completely cleared. Friday’s nurse said I should have been booked in for 10 weeks (30 sessions) which is, I think, the most they’re allowed to arrange in one go. And she said to call in to see her on my way out and she’d check the sessions left.
It’s a good job I raised the topic because she found that they only had me booked in until this Wednesday and it was going to be difficult fitting me in for the rest of the treatment. It seems that when I postponed the treatment by 2 weeks in November, they cancelled those first 6 sessions but didn’t add them onto the end.
We agreed that she’d book me in for my remaining sessions, knowing what times I can’t really get there and times I probably can, and when I go today I’m to pick the appointment card up and we can look at it and I can change any we can’t make.
The treatment is working, there’s no doubt about that. And if the skin condition returns, then I’ll have another programme of sessions. If it wasn’t having any affect, or if it was having a detrimental affect, then we’d have to cancel and have another think.
It’s going to wreck my carefully planned diary going forward, and even the poet has started to book things in for after the sessions were due to end. Now we’ll have to wait and see again and just fit it all in as best we can.
That took my appointment over a longer time than it usually takes and on the way home we had to call in for petrol and to pick something up he’d ordered from a tool shop. By the time we got back, it was time for our midday breakfast! And, poof! There was another half-day gone.
I changed this Friday’s appointment from my usual time to an earlier time, as the nurse had already told me that one would be an hour and 20 minutes earlier. I think the next one will be around 4pm. I also think my 3 sessions per week might go down to 2 sessions per week, which will mean the week will be more easily managed but the treatment will just drag on a bit longer.
I started today’s blog post, then I moved on to the premium Patreon content I hadn’t done yet. That was a ‘something for the weekend’ short story, which may go back to ‘fiction Friday’ but stay as ‘something for the weekend’ when it appears on the blog 4 weeks later, and a ‘Wednesday writing’ article, which will be the introduction to my series on writing prompts first, followed by prompts for the month and then Take One Idea for the month.
I needed to look at how to get things like the bookazine uploaded to there for paying subscribers, such as something like Book Funnel for those. But then I discovered I can attach a file. I started with Words Worth Reading: Issue ZERO before testing it as a non-paying member (to make sure non-paying members can’t just download the link anyway). (They can’t.)
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There’s also a shop on there for non-paying members to buy anything they like the look of. And if you’re reading this on Patreon, you’re already a free member at least.
Once all of the bookazines to date are on Patreon, I’ll start serialising the Project Management for Writers books and the old (and new) freelance writer diaries with weekly exercises.
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I did get a bit carried away with uploading the bookazine, and completely forgot I had another job to start at the top of the hour. So I stopped at loading the first 3 issues of Words Worth Reading as well as the weekend’s short story, and dragged myself away.
The next job on the list was one of the client edits. I’d had the author’s responses to my queries and needed to send a clean file to the client for setting. So I worked through the author’s replies, cleaned it all up, and sent it off. And then I sent the invoice off after it too. (Yay!)
Next job was the week’s backup, and the next job after that was the week’s finances, both of which were about 3 weeks overdue. It was so nice to tick everything on the day’s list for a change. But I was very tired at the end of it all.
Oh yes, and that blizzard Thursday night? It didn’t happen…
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