Time to start acting like it's October

[flexagon]

I overstretched my right hamstring this morning while straddling (grrr!), and realized it's time to start taking it easy: there's just a week until Divine Play, which I really don't want to be injured for. Usually an overstretch will calm down well enough before that, especially if I'm good about ultrasounding and foam-rolling it. So... here comes a relatively easy week for me. I'm grateful that my hurt wrist mended in time for this.

Forgot to mention that, as of Tuesday, heisenbug and I finally have legal wills -- and HIPAA releases, health care proxies, and durable powers of attorney for each other. We feel so adult now.

Lastly, I like how I've been feeling lately: unafraid, about a lot of things. I could get used to this.

Comments

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

Ah...I need to do these adult things. Learned something about living wills though recently. Even if you write one, if your family members show up at the hospital and say they want you kept alive, the hospital will most likely do it for fear of lawsuit EVEN if you have a living will.

Was listening to a head Doctor talk about this while discussing contract law. Shitty thing is families seem to win even though their beloved who wrote the will dictated what they wanted.

[flexagon]

I don't think we exactly have "living wills". What we signed basically are health proxies that say "If I am incapacitated, this person can make all my decisions for me." There are lots of clauses about what I want, but most of it is totally boilerplate. We made the lawyer take out one weird sentence about "While I believe in the sanctity of life..." but otherwise, these things seem standardized.

It was easy enough to get the papers done once we went to an estate planning specialist. Before that, no lawyer would finish the process with us. It was really weird.

[elbren]

Yea, my family is all on-board with my wishes, and my mom (who's had some legal training) is all "you need to have a living will!" and i'm all "why bother, they're just going to ignore it and do what you all say anyway. a living will can't sue them. you can."