Last week I ordered a new Road ID for my watch band. The elastic had become loose on the one I had, and I wanted to update the blood thinner information on it. When I first went on blood thinners in fall of 2022 I didn’t know which I would be on, but wanted that information on my ID, so I just put “ON BLOOD THINNERS.” Soon after that, I permanently switched over to Warfarin, so I’d been waiting for a reason to update it.

I made the change and placed my order in the morning. During my after work run, I was thinking about my new Road ID as the old one slid up and down my watch band. I thought about all the medical acronyms the Road ID system suggested as I made my new one and it hit me – I have an immune system disorder (Antiphospholipid syndrome) that has an acronym (APS)! I had completely forgotten about it as I made the new ID.

Similarly, I was having a conversation a few days earlier with someone about an immune system disorder they just found out they have and in my mind I was like, “Oh yeah! I have one too! Huh.”

So part of my brain was like “Good work, Kim! APS has become a backstage part of your life. You’re taking care of it but you’re not thinking about it, so much that you forgot you even have it!”

For real, that feels like a success. I was on the struggle bus in late 2022 and early 2023 with this.

The other part of my brain was like “YOU IDIOT! You should have put that you have APS on your Road ID too! DUHHHHHHHHH”

Gah. When I ordered it, the website was like “ArE yOu SuRe ThIs Is FiNaL?!!!” And I was like, “Yeah! I’ve had over a year to think about this change I want to make.”

Apparently I needed to go through the process and order it. Short version of the story,* I was able to change it!

And now it doesn’t slide up and down my watch band! Woo hoo! (And I ordered it in black – my last one was silver.)

*Long version of the story – I finished part 1 of my run and was waiting at my car for Steven to come for part 2 and tired to pull up the order confirmation email I KNEW was still in my yahoo inbox. It would NOT show up in the inbox or anywhere in my email and it was making me freaking IRATE, so much that it kind of soured my run. Awesome, right? I have another post this week that mentions I need to work on not letting nonworking technology make me so angry. Sigh. When I got home and could use my computer, it was right there, in my inbox, and there was a link where you could look at your order then make changes.