Eww, why’d you want to pollute your creamy sugarwater like that?!
I left my 2 days a week job to get this 5 day a week food one.
I worked 1 day last week.
Today I asked what my schedule is this week. Thurs and Fri 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Had my first phone interview. The topic of why I left my previous job came up. I said that I was let go because my project didn’t go well. We will see how well this goes for me.
I’m over it. I’m buying a new dishwasher. I’ve bought two parts, several tools, sweat my butt off (I wish), and it still isn’t working. The hinges were broken anyway which is how the latch got broken, and I’m not trying to fix those. I’m done trying to fix it AT ALL. I’ll see if the restore wants it. If not maybe someone handier than me would take it?
I found one at best buy on sale and it has a couple of functions that I’d like to have. I can’t really afford it, but I can’t keep up with dishes. I’m a bit lazy and I don’t like hand washing. It’s just ridiculous that installing the thing is easier than fixing it. Grrr! Ranty, ranty, rant, rant rrrrant!
What the hell. I’m on a roll.
My daughter has many faults of which I’ve waxed on about here before. BUT, she has a lot of health issues surrounding her urinary tract. This has been going on since she was in 1st. grade.
She has a medical issue that is unrelated to (according to both of the urologists she’s seen) her ongoing uti etc. issues. No one has been able to explain to us why it happens, but she wets at night, virtually every night. She used to have medication, DDAVP that gave her relief, but it quit working after many years. This has gone on since toilet training. She’d be dry during the day but wet every night.
This leads to the rant. She is now 32, married with 3 biological children and raising her step son. She has extreme anxiety about a lot of stuff. Doctors and medical professionals being just some. So, she woke up Sunday…dry. She thought of cool. It does happen very infrequently. What was shocking is that late that afternoon during the two younger kids’ wrestling matches, she realized she hadn’t gone at all. So, being somewhat familiar with the drill she tried to go. Nothing but burning pain, and brown discharge. Not something either of us remember from our shared journey with her health issues.
To the ER her hub takes her. It took him 10 min. to talk her into going it. The triage nurses were concerned that her heart rate was increased and put a heart monitor on her. Then the “care” nurses come in, tell her she needs to pee in a cup, clean catch, we’ve/she has done them hundreds of times. It was painful and she didn’t get it done perfectly, and the nurse told her she had to do it again, my daughter said ugh and it hurt to which the nurse remarked dismissively that if she’d done a clean catch the first time she wouldn’t have to do it over. And so the fun continued.
They never hooked her back up to the monitor, they never asked her about her pain, medications, safety at home, all the stuff they always ask. The doctor pressed on her lower abdomen, my kid winced, and the doctor snapped at her, did it really hurt that bad? Then left for 3 hours, came back and told her that she had a uti. My daughter ask why she couldn’t pee. The doctor informed her that she was peeing but was confuse because of the burning. She then asked why the brown stuff and the doctor blew it off as part of the infection. She also informed my daughter that she did not have chronic uti’s because she wasn’t on antibiotics all the time. This doctor was rude, uncaring, and treated them like they were interrupting important stuff with their petty concerns. She was prescribed an antibiotic and she asked the nurse is she needed to eat to take it. The nurse seem surprised that she hadn’t eaten. They’d been there 4 hours plus by that time. Then my daughter asked if she was getting pyridium, a med that makes you pee orange and mitigates the pain. The nurse said no like she was stupid. She told the nurse she is usually give 5 or 6 of them to her at an er visit. The nurse informed her than no they didn’t. I can assure you they always have before. So this woman takes a pyridium, cuts it in half and throws the other half away. By the way pyridium does not have any gettin’ high stuff going on that may explain the thoughtless behavior of these “professionals.” Meanwhile my daughter has not had a normal void. She has tried and gets a few drops along with some severe pain. Because of her anxiety getting her to see someone else may take me knocking her out and dragging her unconscious body into the office. Probably unworkable.
I’m very pissed. I wish I’d gone with them, but I had hubster and the kids to watch. I would have had some salient comments to make to that doctor and those nurses. This sort of condition is serious and is considered an emergency. My daughter came out feeling like an idiot. I just can’t imagine how this doctor can tell her “Oh, you’re mistaken you have been peeing and just didn’t realize it” Did doc think it’s magic urine that evaporates before it hits fabric? What the fucking hell?
OMG! That was really long. Sorry. And paragraphing and editing really could have helped. 
In between juggling tradespersons to fix a diabolical water leak in my water system and a persistent problem with my stove, I had my puppy neutered on the 1st.
On the 5th, puppy tore his incision open by engaging in an unscheduled Zoomie-and-jumping session (he slipped from my grasp). He had to have it stapled after a special race to his wonderful vet. This time, they gave me tranquilizers (for him, not me, dammit) and I bought a bulky Cone of Shame to keep him from fussing with the staples.
We made it to the 8th. He somehow defeated the bulky Cone of Shame and reopened the incision while I slept. Another unscheduled dash to the vet for more staples and stronger tranquilizers. I also purchased an inflatable collar to pair with the bulky Cone of Shame. He now wears both.
Today I spent the day with hopefully the last of the tradespeople who were needed to fix my water issues. Tomorrow the handyman who is fixing a fiendish problem with the electric igniters on my stove returns to hopefully get this problem figured out once and for all. I do hope so.
My pockets are turned inside out.
In all the chaos of people coming and going and running back and forth from the vet and just keeping up with day-to-day stuff, I’m exhausted and scatterbrained.
The dog barely responds to the tranquilizers. The vet gave me 3 different meds. The first never made a dent. The second barely made a dent. The vet suggested twinning those meds, so I did. Ollie barely yawned.
So tonight I decided to use the big guns. The strongest tranquilizer. And accidentally double-dosed him. What is the matter with me??!!
I’ll be up till 2:30 a.m. to make sure he’s okay.
What, it wasn’t enough to watch people tear up the gravel driveway and cut out a huge piece of cement to fix the frikkin’ water leak today??
I just want to say that what your daughter is going through is so much worse than my by-comparison-trivial complaints about dog, plumbing and stove, and I’m sorry you’re all going through this. I hope she finds an empathetic and effective urologist soon. She must be miserable, and you’re right – this is serious stuff! My best to you all.
Ah, thanks. It is all rather complicated and she is her own worst enemy. However, this trip to the ER didn’t help and the already crap mess she’s making of her physical well being. Thank you so much. It feels good to get this stuff aired out. No matter how ungrammatical. 
We got a memo from the lawyers saying not to badmouth a former employee for fear of being sued by them when they didn’t get a particular job.
So, the very next week…
A coworker motioned us over as he was on the phone. We all gathered round and heard him say:
“On advice of our in-house counsel, all I’ll say is that Joseph Schlobotnik did indeed work here for six months. I will NOT say that that was five months too long, NOR will I editorialize that it took us another month to fix all the problems he created. So, on the record, Joseph Schlobotnik, 2/19/2016 to 8/22/2016.”
I live in the middle of the UK. It’s cheaper for me to fly to Amsterdam to see AC/DC than seeing them in London, and a hotel right by the stadium is £300 cheaper than a similar one here. Frankly, the costs are ridiculous so I’d definitely opt for Europe instead of London.
As some of you know, I had to have my furnace replaced unexpectedly, and during a cold snap (like -35C or so). Thankfully, the technician could come out and make makeshift repairs until a new furnace could be installed. All went well, and the new one was installed, and is working, though we’re through that cold snap. (Now, we’re only at -8C or so in daytime, colder at night.)
Anyway, it turns out that I may have an insurance policy that covers the cost of the replacement. Hooray! Only I’m wondering if the insurance company isn’t playing fair. They want to know more about the tech’s diagnostics, but apparently, when they called my HVAC company, it refused to speak with the insurer until I gave permission. And that they had called the HVAC company, who allegedly said they would call me to get permission.
I never heard from the HVAC company, so I called it to give permission. “Huh?” asked my contact there, who had shepherded the furnace replacement. “We never heard from XYZ Insurance. We would have noted it on your file, and looking at your file, I see no phone call from XYZ Insurance.”
Anyway, I wrote to the insurer, gave them the HVAC company’s name, the name of my contact there, and her phone number. And told them to call; the HVAC company had my permission to speak with the insurer.
In the back of my mind, I think somebody’s zoomin’ somebody here, and I don’t think it’s the HVAC company.
As you all know, I lost my job a week ago. The job hunt sucks but I have had one interview, which I think went well, so I have that going for me.
And then my husband called to tell me that there was something wrong with his truck. He’s a mechanic. So when he tells me something is wrong, I listen. And then he told me he’d have to pull the head off the engine to fix it. And all I am seeing is dollar signs.
Just what we fuckin needed right now.
just to send you good vibes … 1 interview in the first week is pretty good … there are many who havent had one in a month or so …
(keeps fingers crossed)
I’m in the same boat there, 2 weeks ago Mrs. D’s 2019 Mustang overheated on the way to work. Took time off to get coolant to her location & put in the car, everything good, got her the rest of the way to work, and back home that evening. Next morning it would start, barely, but only run for a few seconds before dying.
Got it to my normal mechanic, they called yesterday, “this car needs to go to hospital” - has no compression, and my mechanic doesn’t work on anything inside the engine. Checked with a couple other recommended mechanics yesterday, both are 2 weeks out. Had the car towed home until a slot becomes available.
Hoping for warped head/blown head gasket. If motor needs replacing, we’re looking at $8,000 or so.
I feel for ya!
I’m so sorry. That is terrible timing.
I don’t know. Your issues sound like a thread of their own. I hope your very active puppy recovers soon so he can zoom to his heart’s content. Daughter seems to be recovering; she went to work today. Just going forward, I don’t know if we’ll get the stuborn lunkhead to go to a doctor again.
Oh, I bought my new dishwasher and an install kit. I can’t pick it up until a week from today. On the plus side this model is a bit better than the one I’m taking out. I probably ought to buy the warrenty, but what could really happen. Am I right?
Given your recent experience, I’d seriously consider springing for the warranty if the cost is at all sane or within your budget.
Yeah, I know. That’s kinda what I was implying, I can still get it before I pick the machine up, and I might if I can swing it. It’s just I’m getting low on funds, and I spent close to 1/3 rd the price of the new machine trying to fix the old one. I’m aware that makes the warrenty more attractive rather than less, but I have to wait for some more $. Catch 22
We didn’t buy a warranty for our last dishwasher before it was installed and got many offers of buying one for almost a month after installation. Maybe you could check your owners manual online to see if buying the warranty later is an option?