Latest Update on Don

So, in short: very little has changed. He had a doctor's appointment on Friday morning that amounted to "Cheer up, little emo kid, you're young and people develop more treatments for pain all the time! So just wait! :D? :D?" As this was immediately following an argument on whether or not taxi drivers have the right to refuse service to people who use manual wheelchairs and immediately preceded some problems with the new wheelchair (we're buying a magnet for it)... well, yeah, Friday was terrible. (Although the nurse noted he's very under-medicated on his anti-depressants but of course the only way he can get that increased is to go to a psychiatrist, which involves another appointment way way far away from here and no they won't do it over the phone and no it doesn't matter that he's in pain, and no it doesn't matter that we don't have a vehicle to get him there.)
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