So tomorrow evening at 9 pm local time I am living in Berlin for exactly a year. And I think I am going deeper and deeper in the German sysytem. It started a day after my arrival with calling in at the “Bürgeramt” (the office for citizen) and a day later calling in at the jobcenter.
Then finally in June I managed to arrange my healthcare insurance, that was quite difficult, because I don’t have a job here so that means I needed to get some kind of private healthcare insurance. But since I got operated on my knee October 2005 they won’t accept me as a customer. Since I receive some kind of small early pension from Holland I actually have the right on a healthcare insurance in Germany, paid with the money i received from Holland. At the time I left Holland nothing was known about this because the dutch government changed the healthcare insurance system at january 1st 2006. No- one was able to tell me what to do at that time.
Then somewhere in July I received a letter from the city of Berlin, they told me I was allowed to vote for the city council.  Unfortunately we were in Holland when the city council elections took place and we forgot to request to send our votes by mail .
And last and worst thing; last week i received a letter from the “Deutsche Rentenversicherung” (the german pension insurance). I need to call in there for a total health checkup because I requested a pension there??? I don’t get it… The only thing I could think about it’s an order to the german insurancecompany from the dutch insurance company wich provides me the very small early pension. I think they want to re-approve my healthcondition in order to take away my early pension.

Written by Liekie @ 03:57:44 pm
Tags: Berlin, Germany, health, insurance

These past days I haven’t feeling too welll. I guess the change of the weather is bothering, as well of the short days. Right now days are getting shorter and it’s starting to get dark early.. Lack of sleep is being a part as well I think.
My entire body hurts, my neck, shoulders, arms and back are hurting terribly. Last night I wasn’t able to fall asleep because I couldn’t realx my body; it was too painfull. I hope the coming days it will get better, else I need to go see a doctor on Monday…

Written by Liekie @ 11:09:20 pm
Tags: health, sleep

This morning when I woke up it looked like Bugs is looking more interested and he jumped around when it was treat-time for the Shanny and Pugsley. But it lasted only short. Bugs is still lying in a corner, not reacting and sleeping a lot.. He is very weak and only eats when I dip my finger in babynutrtion and hold it in front of him… But the amount he’s eating is not much.. I hope by the end of the day it will get better, because otherwise we need to force him to eat and drink…
To keep him warm we have covered Bugs up with towels.

Written by Liekie @ 01:55:30 pm
Tags: health, rabbit

Last night before going to bed I gave Bugs his meal and noticed he was down. Normally he goes mad as soon as he notices me with his food, now he didn’t do a thing. He didn’t want to eat and as I was recalling the day I found him a bit down all day…
When I picked him up I found out his behind was wet from pee and there were pieces of shit around his anus. It didn’t look like diarrhoea. My b/f and I tried to clean it with water and we found out that area is hurting him…
So today we will go see a vet and we hope the vet can help him…
The stupid thing is, the day before yesterday Robert washere for a visit. He asked how Bugs is doing and we were kind of bugging him by saying Bugs is already pretty old and life could be ending for him any day.

Update:
Just came back from the vet. Indeed it is a problem with his teeth again.It is not directly his teeth right now, but it has something to do with it. Due to the teethproblem in the past Bugs has a nasty and agressive bacteria in his body wich cannot go away anymore. This bacteria causes him to sneeze and produce lots of snot. Recently he has been very stabile on the sneezing and the snot-producing, but instead the bacteria caused an inflamtion in his mouth near the throat. Also this bacteria has spread in his whole body now. He’s got on his back feet left and right 2 injuries with puss in it, but these injuries are hard to see. That’s probably why he was having pain as we tried to clean his behind from poop and urine the other night. The vet gave him an antibiotic shot and a vitamin shot. I need to give Bugs antibiotics for 5 days, starting tomorrow and next Monday I need Bugs to check in again at the vet. Because the inflamation covered the teeth the vet couldn’t see too well if the teehth are troubleshooting. As far as he was able to see things the teeth are ok. But next time he will be able to see more. Bugs is still very inactive and doesn’t want to eat wich makes me feel strange. Normally the vitaminshots give a lot of energy within 30 minutes already. But I think because the bacteria has spread in his entire body now he has lost too much energy…

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Written by Liekie @ 12:52:53 pm
Tags: health, rabbit, vet

Well, it finally happened. Rico and I have been defeated by a cold. Last Tuesday the Chief came in sick from a terrible cold again and this time he passed the cold on to us. On Thursday it got hold on Rico first. He didn’t feel well all Friday long, but yesterday he felt better again. And last night it got hold on me. it started when I went to bed. My nose got filled with snot and my throat started feeling raw. And now I start feeling crappy… Everything is starting to get filled with snot, I am sneezing all the time and feeling more crappier… Thanks a lot Chief!!!

Written by Liekie @ 07:30:49 pm
Tags: chief, health, Work