Goddamned diabetic foot pain! Goddamn it to hell! It feels like someone’s cutting into my foot with a knife. Every two or three minutes it feels like my foot’s being tased. It’s been going on for about three hours. It hurt me last night, too. Sitting still with my feet up isn’t helping, either. It has me gasping and moaning in pain. My dog keeps coming up to my side and looking concerned. I keep telling him, “It’s OK, boy,” but he doesn’t look too convinced. Fuck diabetes!
Don’t think they’re a thing this side of the pond- I’ve been getting them from these guys for years, but the last few I’ve bought just haven’t lasted at all, the wires have been poking out in a few months. Never met a non-underwired bra I got on with though.
Get a prescription for gabapentin. It’s no cure, but it helps a lot. I take 300mg capsules, 3x/day.
Check out if you have intimissimi nearby. I went to them at my weight peak, plan on returning time and again; every other store I’d gone to either tried to get me into something which was evidently not the right size, directly said “nope, nothing on that size” or had things that my grandmother would have considered “way too dowdy, when did I die?”. They measure you, recommend one or more models depending on what they happen to have available for that size, you try them on and once you’ve chosen model you pick colors.
They only appear to be in London, which is some wasy, sadly it doesn’t look like they have anything even close to my size either, which is somewhat extreme, unfortunately. I’ve literally been laughed at in bra shops for asking if they stock anything in my size.
I could probably fill a whole rant thread with bra ranting, to be honest.
I’ll second this. I take one pill a day before bed and it really helps.
I’ve found that Elomi’s underwire bras are surprisingly comfortable. The wire is really secured in place very well – I haven’t had issues with any of them sliding out of place and poking. The straps are thin enough that they don’t show under most tops, but not so thin that they’re digging in after a few hours. The cups do have seams though, which is great for support but not so hot if you’re wearing the bra with a thin or form-fitting material. They made a seamless cup bra at one point that was awesome, but that one seems to be out of production now.
When you tell me, “Actually, I’m planning on doing alternative medicine.” for your diagnosed HERNIA, you might as well tell me to not listen to anything else you ever say. I’m sorry, co-worker, you idiot. I realize you don’t want to have surgery but you’re going to have to have surgery. As I’m sure your doctor explained, THERE IS A HOLE IN YOUR BODY. It’s a mechanical problem. Eye of newt is not going to fix it. You’re going to have surgery whether you want to or not. I hope you think back to me saying, “Yeah, that’s not going to work.” on the day you discover your own intestines in your scrotum.
We turned on the TV Friday morning and had no service, just a generic error message on every channel. I waited till Friday afternoon and called to report it, and they told me they could not send out a technician until Sunday afternoon. Of course. This is Comcast we’re talking about.
He took one look at our equipment, and as I had already diagnosed (since the same error was occurring on both TVs, and each has its own cable box), it was not our equipment. He went outside and traced the line running from our house to the house of the neighbors behind us. Back in May, there had been major street repaving being done in our mobile home park, and they had apparently had to jury-rig a cable line that just sort of dangled across the street to the central cable box on the other side of the backyard neighbor’s house. For some reason, somebody had just come along and cut that line. So we have no service. He told me he could not repair it, and would have to send out repair technicians today.
So, still no service. I called to check on the status of our repair and was told that they had no record that anybody was supposed to be coming out. So I exploded at the customer service person. She said she would check on when somebody would come out, but she didn’t know if it would be today or not. I replied that it WILL be today, I don’t care if they’re here at 10 PM, we WILL have service today.
So somebody is supposed to come between 2 and 4 this afternoon. I predict they will take one look, say, “Yep, it’s cut,” and leave.
Followup. I went to Comcast’s web page and it shows “our” appointment is for this afternoon, 2-4 (it’s 2 and nobody has called to confirm yet). And when I click on “See more details about your appointment”, it says the appointment is for between 5 and 7 PM. No idea why. And I just got an email saying our appointment is for 8-10 tomorrow morning.
I feel your pain. Comcast is like the suckiest company there is.
Time Warner is no better. Last time I had an appointment, nobody showed up or called. When I called about it, I got “What appointment?”
Fuck October. In the past month life has thrown the following at me:
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[li]The completely sudden death of a beloved aunt.[/li][li]An uncle (the aforementioned aunt’s, and my mother’s, brother) announcing that at the age of 61 he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.[/li][li]A client of mine at work, who suffers from multiple serious, chronic diseases and is the sweetest man you could imagine, being admitted to the hospital for almost certainly the last time. He has end-stage renal disease and multi-resistant HIV and COPD and the odds that he ever leaves the hospital are minimal at best. [/li][li]Another client of mine is relapsing into opioid use and while I know that that’s not my fault I can’t help but think of things I maybe could have done. [/li][li]My father tripped while running and broke his collarbone, and now I’m filled with low-level dread about how well a 66-year-old man can heal from that. [/li][li]An old friend from high school, who I’ve grown more or less distant from as you do after high school, texted me out of the blue and asked if I could meet her to talk, and when we met she asked I would go with her next week, because she needs someone to escort her home after her abortion. I’m 100% respectful of her choice, but being emotional support for someone in this situation feels way out of my league. [/li][li]I’ve realized that I absolutely need to finish this program with a 4.0 GPA but almost certainly will not, so I may as well just quit after this semester and cut my losses and embrace the fact that I am an uneducated failure. [/li][/ol]
I’m not having nightmares but waking up every hour or so thinking about work (when I can get to sleep), instead of having a weekend when I can finally hunker down and study I need to go down to my parents’ this weekend due to my dad’s injury, and all I want to do is curl up in bed, cut off from the world, and stay there forever.
Sorry things are so sucky NinjaChick. I hope you are able to stop thinking about work and get some sleep. I also hope you are able to go with your old friend so she can have someone to lean on and so you can feel good about doing this for her. Might help both of you. At any rate I hope things improve for you soon.
Latest update. Some local guy called and said they are TRYING to get a construction crew to come out SOMETIME THIS WEEK to fix our line.
That could go just fine; the problems with old people and bones are highly linked to osteoporosis and men are at a much lower risk than women.
This doesn’t surprise me. They have to re-string the whole line from the supply to your house. It’s not just some joe in a van showing up. Depends on how much of that service needs to be done regularly in your area, whether they have the crews available within a couple days or a week. The only thing I know you can have them do is reduce your bill by the number of days you lost service, once it’s up again. Cable service issues are so aggravating!
I took the minimal “risk” of trying service from one of the little guys (RCN, only in a few larger cities) back in 2010. Boy am I glad I did. If it goes out in the middle of the night (that’s between 2 and 5am for me), I can call the service line and get a live human being who speaks American English as their first language, who can tell me if it’s planned (which I usually get an email about every couple years maybe) or can test a few things remotely if it’s another issue. I had Comcast for several years in another neighborhood and they were awful, I’m so happy (and know I’m lucky to have a choice) I switched.
Mini rants- am I in the right place? Songs that fade out at the end. That’s a bunch of bullshit. What if a book you were reading faded out at the end? That’s no good. Why are we expected to accept this crap with songs?
I remember my grade school music teacher (yes, such things existed in those days) had the same complaint. This was about 57 years ago…
I hate DJs (in those declining few radio stations that actually still have real DJs) who talk over the ends of the songs.
Comcast update. The local guy called this morning and said a construction crew will be coming today. I just looked around the corner and they’re not there, but somebody came and painted numbers on the street.