It is becoming common knowledge around the world that United States’ health insurance and medical payment system is completely fucked. Here is my story about how lucky I am, and also how messed up this is. Health Insurance plans are required to continue coverage until the end of the month in which you had a…
10-16 More Grief (aka Writing Angsty Shit on the Internet like I’m 18 again)
Either Jason wasn’t real, or his death isn’t real. Even at seventeen and a half months, I can’t reconcile both of these things. There is no way I had this and that I don’t have it now. The lifetime that I shared with him can’t be the same lifetime I am living now. Maybe it’s…
10-5 All is Not Doom and Gloom
I got a new job. It is a career type job. Like, an actual job with a salary and 40 hours a week and benefits and paid parking. I have business cards to prove it. (Please don’t call or email that contact information. I may have business cards, but I can’t seem to get into…
9-28 Victim’s Impact Statement – Haynes
Ten months ago, I stood before the court a read a statement. Then, my goal was to use words to reach across the chasm and explain how the actions of Rahim Meekins have impacted me. I hoped to reach the core of human compassion in him and maybe give him a starting point to become…
9-27 Sentencing
My friends, it is done. The sentencing of Chelsea Haynes on Wednesday closed the last of the legal cases around Jason’s death. I’m pretty sure I have feelings. I’m not sure where they are. I think I had so many feelings I’ve walked out the other side of feelings into cheerful non-feeling-ness. I’m going to…
9-20 Legal Summary: Part 3, Entirely Feelings
I was ready for a fight. It is just shy of a year since her first court hearing. It has been eleven and a half months since I first saw the person who killed Jason. Eleven and a half months of knowing that she doesn’t care that she killed him. There is weight to each…