Is this it? I was thinking more spontaneous combustion of the patient, but reading that checklist my :smack: reflex kicked in. Oh yeah, alcohol, oxygen, and lasers equal fire! Du-hoy!
I had to swallow a large chunk of pride tonight. Hopefully things will pull together soon. They have to or I’m up the sewer runoff without a paddle in a leaking boat.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
uh oh. Sticky’s been in the punch, again.
::hands** Bobbio **a stiff drink: Hugs to you, sounds like you need 'em.
Such a Monday…
Continued best wishes for FCD and** DH.**
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Spaz,** I hope things work out.
Hugs as needed or wanted for the rest of you. I am wiped out and am too tired to think straight.
koff Ow! koff Ow! koff Ow!
oh, it’s going to be a fun night!
koff Ow! koff Ow! koff Ow!
Hello again… second week doing one of these! What does Blurf mean? Best wishes to those DHs in peril.
I’m glad today is almost over. My primary sleep medication is one we fill at the hospital’s employee pharmacy, and so my husband picks it up. Except he forgot to, so I was out last night. As a result, nary a peep did I sleep last night. Then it got worse… around 4am I started getting hives on my feet, then my legs, then my chest. I get chronic urticaria seemingly at random, though it’s more likely if I’m stressed (lack of sleep counts). The typical course is a shot of [something] followed by a tapering course of prednisone pills for about a week. Oh, and did I mention that all night for the last three nights I was also plagued with diarrhea? Because it matters for the story. I was up anyway, so I left for work early with the plan to stop at CVS and get some antidiarrheal meds (I had some going into the weekend but used them up), and a vague sense that maybe I’d be able to catch my doctor’s office between the house and work and get the Rx called in for the hives… slight chance I could even squeak in for the shot if I timed it right…
Anyway, I was at CVS and for the hell of it I asked the pharmacist “if my doctor’s office is closed, you do you have any way of getting ahold of my doctor, like if I needed a medication?” and they said no… and I said something along the lines of “darn, because I’m getting hives and I need prednisone” and the pharmacist said “well, you can go into the MinuteClinic…” which hadn’t even occurred to me. I mean I know they do flu shots and stuff but I didn’t know they could actually diagnose and treat, like, real stuff. So since I had time, and there was nobody waiting, I went for it.
They said that it wasn’t typically the kind of thing they would diagnose and prescribe for–it wasn’t even in their system–but she said she would call the doctor who oversees the clinic and ask if she would sign off on it, since I had a previous history and a specific treatment plan already in place. So she made the call, the doctor agreed to it, and they filled my prednisone prescription! I took the first dose in the car before leaving the parking lot.
By about noon I’d stopped noticing the itching, so I assume the hives had started to go down.
Anyway, after work I had an appointment with a neurologist to finally get a confirmed yes or no diagnosis on whether or not I have Tourette’s Syndrome. Every doctor I’ve ever been to since I was 3 years old, including my son’s neurologist just based on conversation and time spent with me during his sessions, has told me “you have Tourette’s Syndrome. But only a neurologist can officially diagnose it.” Well, it’s now official. I definitely have Tourette’s Syndrome, with a side of OCD tendencies. Which is pretty much what I already knew. He made some suggestions for adjustments to my medication to bring up with my psychiatrist, and I went down the hall to our PCP’s office (handily in the same building) to pick up my son’s ADHD prescriptions.
On the way home I stopped at our regular CVS to drop them off and they’re out of BOTH of them. So they call the next CVS down the road. They have some but not all of one of them, and none of the other. They called another CVS. They had neither. I went across the street to Rite Aid. Neither. They called another Rite Aid. Neither. I called a Walgreen’s. They had one. I went for it. By now it was like 6:30 pm. When I got home I got on the phone and called several more pharmacies until I found one that had the other prescription in stock and they put it on hold for me. My husband will pick it up tomorrow.
It’s been a long day.
The definition of that, and any other words/phrase that perplex you, may be found here.
Thanks! I’ll read through it!
Thought I would join in. My week has started well–got two people coming to give me estimates on my tile job. Wish me luck. The last estimate was outrageous.
Very important as there will be a quiz. 
Short answer is that “blurf” is what you say when you have not slept sufficiently, for example.
Glad to hear that both hubbies appear to have made it through surgeries well. Good thoughts headed out to both of them.
Am tired. Caught up on some e-mail stuff tonight and talked to a friend I hadn’t talked to in a couple of weeks. And all of a sudden it was 11.
So off to sleep I go.
Hugs.
GT
Survived the day. Downside: usual Monday conference call, with a side order of company. Upside: texting with my “just friend”
Hope DH and FCD are doing OK.
rosie, feel better soon.
swampy, the one advantage to being Booster Club Prez is that I make the meeting fly. That and I sign all my official correspondence “His Supreme Excellency, dogbutler”
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'Tis 44 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of <snerk> 69! <snerk> Some things just never get old.
Opal hope the prednisone is doin’ the trick. Sounds like it is. And Yikes of the ‘script stuff. That’s a whole lotta runnin’ around. I like CVS and also a little local pharmacy called U Save It. Weird name, but nice pharmacists. Of course it doesn’t hurt that YPs (that’s Young Priest, my Priest who is 33 years old and a child!) wife is a pharmacist there.
[del]HisSupremeExcellency[/del] doggio do you also sit upon a throne and proclaim “So Mote It Be!” You should. It’d be a ton o’ laughs!
Brynda home improvement stuff ICK! Good Luck!
:: Sprays room with Lysol [sup]TM[/sup] and sends healin’ vibes to Rosie ::
Sticky you’re supposed to share the good stuff. 
Hope things are better soon Spaz
Yays, boos, hugs, gropes, noogies, wedgies, trouts, chitlins, how you doin’s to everybody else as needed.
Continued prayers, healin’ vibes, good thoughts and appropriate/inappropriate appendage crossin’ for FCD and DH.
Now I shall seek more caffiene and feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. I must also remember to put a roast in the crock pot cause pot roast for dindin tonight. YUM!
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
Blurf.
Nobody died by my hand last night, but it was close. As far as today, the day’s still young. My insurance agent is gonna have to deal with a whole lotta ugly today.
Before anyone says anything, there’s only one side of my bed I can use.
Up, caffeinated, off to irk. Watching hockey at the Bistro tonight with the Booster club, and possibly my “just friend”
swampy, I prefer “Make it so.”, but I’m a geek that way. And I do sit on a throne, and make “pronouncements”(gotta cut back on the bean burritos.:eek:;))
I’m a movie geek, so I lean towards, “So let it be written, so let it be done.”
Strange dreams woke me up after only a couple of hours. One involved an impossibly petite little girl who got caught up in my dog’s leash. Then I found out my 300 dollar sweater was shredded (but I wasn’t topless, weird). The family took off and I was left fighting for the beaded shreds of my sweater and yelling that it cost 300 dollars.
The only sweater I have that cost that much I bought on sale and is black, not lavender like the one in the dream. At least it was early spring and I was wearing appropriate colors.:rolleyes:
I’m back at work today, the temperature is comfortable, and when I left the house we still had wifi internet. After the tech swapped out the modem it worked all day long. I actually thought it was fixed! Silly me.
Right about the time Mr Rebo came home, it cut out again. He got on the phone with them, which is usually a mistake, because he gets too pissed off. He exaggerates things, and isn’t very technically-minded. So he finally hands off to me (I had been cooking dinner), and we escalated it up the “knowledge chain.” It seems we are very special snowflakes and have a weird intermittent issue that nobody can resolve permanently. The latest guy (a supervisor) says he knows what the problem must be, and is sending out yet another service tech (an outside one) on Thursday. (It has to be Thursday because I need to be here at work today and tomorrow.)
And Thursday is the beginning of my vacation! I can’t wait.
I’ve only skimmed - so Rosie’s sig to all! (I have to go practice my big presentation. Yikes!)
Good Tuesday morning all - yes, I do remember that it is Tuesday today and not some other day of the week. Please don’t laugh, but sometimes, now that I’m retired, I do forget what day it is!
I was getting my Secret Santa present(s) yesterday, and we’re having seriously cold weather here, with some areas getting snow, but it’s just a chilly rain in Albuquerque. But present has been obtained and will be mailed out tomorrow. Wheee!
Get well wishes to all who are sick, and special get wells to those who’ve had surgeries. Keeping you all in my thoughts and prayers.
I am enjoying the holiday season so far, but it will be scaled back considerably this year. I will make some cookies, though, and we’ll have a good Christmas dinner. I’m hoping to find some black eyed peas (not the Fergie kind! LOL) to make hoppin’ john with for the New Year. Here’s something funny - I’ve been looking in the dollar stores for rolling pins, and not finding them. Does your store carry rolling pins, Doggio? 
Hope everyone has a good day today. Bobbbio, I’m just hoping that you won’t be a-killin’ anyone today, while hoping that you get the insurance issue fixed.
A[sup]2[/sup] fashion must rule even in our dreams.
Sic 'em BBBobbio! I have an urge to sic ‘em but TVCTPMO is leavin’ me alone right now. I have not been righteously indignant for a while now.
Rebo about three months back I switched internet providers thinkin’ I’d save money with a bundled phone/internet/cable package. WRONG!!! Phone and internet never did work right. Techs would come out and fiddle with stuff at least three times a week and I was given no less than three modems. Still didn’t work right half the time. Finally I decided to go back to my previous provider. Phone and internet works and I acheived special snowflake status as a returnin’ customer and got such a deal! It’s weird that they can make my cable work fine but couldn’t make phone/internet work. Hope they get your internets all straightened out. Can’t have an intartoobzless Feud Mistress now can we?
My blood pressure has just come down from the ozone layer. State Farm just said ‘oops’ and did a corporate :smack:.
My Renter’s insurance is still in full force. My Homeowner’s on NC is still in force. The problem was, way back when in May, when I transferred policies from the NC agent, somehow there was an accounting code error related to my renter’s policy, so I was charged for the year in one shot, AND I was billed monthly for it, too.
What was on the bill yesterday was an adjustment and credit. I blew my stack because the bill said ‘Policy Change’ and gave the gross amount as 3 months of premiums, leading me to believe I was cancelled for that policy. Oh, and despite it being renters, the entry says “Homeowners”.
The agent and the accounting people both admit the way the bill is generated is a headache for them. Duh…