Sounds like it’s time for some escape proof kitty harnesses…
Born and raised in the northern Midwest so I’m used to cold and snow. Also lived in Boston 13 years (loved it) but the cold winds that come in off the ocean give cold a whole new definition because they are damp and relentless. So keep bundling up, it’s not your imagination.
Had stitches countless time. Had staples only once. Thought I’d tear them out bare-handed they hurt so much. Told myself never again. Doctors will be told stitches or nuttin’.
I understand. The finances of the year are tricky for me too, so I checked the box in signing up for the exchange that I couldn’t ship internationally. I bet the organizer would consider pairing you up with someone in your home country if that made it possible for you to join us. S/he’s really eager to have more Dopers join in. Consider trying a PM to her/him. Nothing to lose.
There’s an insomnia thread that we folks hangout in. It’s nice to have the fellowship . It starts with “Non Sleeper Cell” if you’d like to thread search it. There are at least four Mumpers who chime in there regularly, maybe more.
The only other person on the same continent as me who’s signed up is the person I was matched with last year. While she’s very nice, it would take some of the ‘secret’ out of the whole thing
Well, dang. I wondered about that. Wish the Mumpers could put on a Christmas card shower for the two of you then. Letter stamps I could afford and at least you’d have things from friends to open on Christmas.
I’d be happy to send cards to you two if you PM me your real names & addresses. Consider it payback for the two crazy weeks I spent in the U.K. in 2015!
I did the thing. Results were … disheartening. (I keep applying for underemployment. I keep getting messages that I’m approved for some small pittance each week, but I still have yet to see a dime, and I don’t understand why. There’s nobody to ask, and I feel like a complete failure. An impoverished failure, at that.)
Earlier today, I had a whole five-dollar rat sale AND I had to deliver. Whatever.
But on the way back, I saw a guy who was wearing something that reminded me so strongly of my Other Shoe, that I got home in tears.
So I’m all kinds of variously upset, and I lost all momentum on getting shit done around here, and I’m bored with Netflix & with my Plants vs Zombies game.
It’s too late in the day for my fun tie-dye project (it has to set for 6-8 hours, then rinse, and I can’t guarantee I’ll still be up) plus I lost all interest anyway.
Today started okay, but it’s really been downhill all afternoon, and I’m UPSET AND SAD and I don’t know what to do about it.
{{{shoe}}} it’s ok to be upset and sad sometimes. Especially now, I’d say. Keep after the UI folks. Persistence will pay off. Right now, however, a hot cuppa tea and your big ol’ chair sounds like a good thing for you to do.
Supper was shrimp with tomatoes and spinach served over angel hair pasta. It was pretty good. Dishes are done and I’m about to order daughter and SIL’s present - we’re giving them a fire pit/grill so they can either sit around the fired or use charcoal and do burgers and dogs! Once that’s done, chillage shall ensue.
{{{Hugs}}} to all who need them or want them. We’re all dealing with crap of one sort or another so we deserved hugs, dammit! And chocolate. We always deserve chocolate!
I’m making an effort to woman up. I’m just so frustrated. I got a surprise call from the neuro ophthalmologist. She asked me some of the same questions she’d asked me at the appointment. (?) Went over my medications list again. (??) She’d already Rx’d the medication for the Visual Snow Syndrome. I haven’t started on it yet. She went into the possible life-threatening rash. It’s called Stevens Johnson Syndrome. Don’t look it up: it’s icky and horrific, and you’re hospitalized weeks or months, if you survive. Supposedly starting on a low dose prevents this, but yikes, I’m scared now.
When I was there a month ago, she concurred with the Portland specialist who said the basic cause of my vision issues is that too many surgeries = no straight path for light to get through my eyes. Now she says she doubts that and that there’s no reason why I’m not seeing better. Great. I do a pretty good job of keeping myself positive and not dwelling on how frickin’ frustrating it is not to see well or to drive, but that broke through, and I’ve spent the day so far alternately crying and trying not to throw things through windows. I tried writing her a message, but the program ate it.
shoe, so sorry about the unemployment frustration. Can you call your local office to find out where to get help? Also, about the blonde hair, I think you have to bleach your own hair first: just applying blonde dye to darker hair won’t do it. It sounds like you got some beautiful highlights, though! And chocolate is good for you. I call it Vitamin C.
Everyone else, I read all but this is so long already, so will just send big, grateful hugs. {{{{{ }}}}}}
Hey, You two please PM me your addresses too. It would be a nice piece of Christmas fun for me.
After all, you all across the pond gave me Boxing Day, which is now my favorite day of the season because my daughter has latched onto it and invites me over to spend the whole day with my granddaughter, instead of me fitting in a few hours on the chaos of Christmas Day, so I owe yah. We luxuriate in each other, in our relaxed clothes, playing with new toys in front of the fireplace. Hot chocolates and easy going leftover Christmas food eaten relaxed and carefree just us nuclear family (and me, Grandma).
Yeah. I get that doctors are human. Sometimes they don’t know. Sometimes they get it wrong. Sometimes all they can do is give you bad news. But a good doctor should always be very careful how they talk to their patients. What’s matter-of-fact and off the cuff to the doc might be absolutely terrifying to the patient. I wish they all understood that better.
Me too. Finished what NCIS was available on my Netflix today and got all blue because now I don’t have any thing to veg/binge with. Done with Longmire too. NCIS New Orleans isn’t on Netflix (boo! hiss! CBS) I have Hulu too if anybody has ideas. My elder son is a dear and shares his Netflix and Hulu accounts with me since I can’t afford cable nor have a TV. But I have run out of ideas of what to watch. Maybe I’ll watch Outlander again. There is scads of stuff I’d like to watch on BBC but again $$. I could watch Call the Midwife again I suppose. Loved those too-and then wait for the new seasons to be posted.
And entice a kitty into your lap too. I’m gonna go Keurig myself a cup of tea to sip in solidarity with you. I’m short of chocolate at the moment (a rare occurrence) but have lots of tea. Sip yours and think of me lifting a cuppa to you.
Ooo~that sounds marvelous. @fairychatmom, you have a gift for gifting! May it come back to you twice over.
And Mumper friends. We all always deserve Mumper friends in fair or foul weather. We can call it Vitamin M.
That is a scary one all right! In my nursey (and personal med taking) experience though, it is exceeding rare, but doctors, to CYA, scare us to death about it. A pharmacist might be worth asking about it and especially the incidence of it in people taking it in your situation and at your dosage. RpH’s often are better at that kind of patient education. This is not me poo-pooing your concern-I’m in the same boat and that’s what I did about it.
If I had a penny for every time this has happened to me…seems to always happen in perverse proportion to the importance of the message. For me, that’s when I’m messaging my doc in their damn patient portal. Once it has eaten my laboriously typed in message I say “f*** it!” and give up, at least til another day. I hear yah.
Now we know why nurses so often want to slap many doctors. They dump that on people and then walk away, leaving it to the patients and nurses to sort out. My fingers itch to slap them sometimes. Like this time.
Heh, we Mumpers can make this card shower happen! That is going to be so much fun and feel all:christmas_tree: Christmas cheery. I’m down for that!
Evening all. Am finishing the second of 2 cheeseburgers for dinner, Wal-Mart sells them as half-pound patties but I divide them into 2 quarter-pounders.
Nellie, they are trying their best, but Drs. are human and will, as Wheelie says, sometimes say things that hit the patient much harder than they think (or haven’t thought). Take care and keep on keepin’ on.
BBBoo, enjoy your Boxing Day; I’ll be driving home from Brother’s (they’ll be going to spend time with nephew in Iowa who had to work the holiday).
FCM, hope daughter doesn’t read the MMP. But it sounds like a nice gift.
shoe, used to have a little plaque that said “don’t let the bastards wear you down”. Hang in there.
MG, take care and {{{ }}}
Thel, do they make male versions of those?
Bumba, just consider it free fertilizer…
OK, burgers have been assimilated. Need to collect garbage and take the can out to the curb. If I don’t they’ll show up at 7am, based on previous history.
Great suggestion! I mutter that to myself several times a day. And now you made me want a hamburger and me with no ground beef defrosted. Sigh . Do have though. That shall have to suffice.
So the Smalls truck was in the lot last night ,but they wouldn’t move the box truck that wasn’t going to be unloaded for…reasons. So I’ve spent 5 anna half out of 7 hour being paid to stand around. So if you start complaining about the cost of shipping via Brown, note that I can’t hear you over the sound of the 12 year old Scotch I’m drinking with the proceeds.
Yay for Higgs and Hippie being unstapled!
{{{{shoe}}} it’s OK to be sad and upset.
{{{{nellie}}}} that is frustrating for you. but talk to your Pharmacist about the drugs, they know more than docs.
nellie, you did nothing wrong on the train. You were correct about me being a ginger. I was a ginger most of my life, but when the white staged a hostile takeover, I went blonde. Most gingers can pull blonde off and it looks so much better than faded red.
nettie, do they use this tactic to avoid an outright layoff? I’ve irked at places that did that and it’s a pretty crappy thing to do to an employee.
ace, IIRC, you’re in southern Indiana. Your weather isn’t too much different than mine here in middle Tennessee or metal mouse’s in northern Alibammy. Is your spousal unit a team driver? If so, you may want to provide his teammate beans too so’s they can have fartin’ contests.
Yay for the staples coming out and progressing on mending hippie!
Mooooooooom, I have kind of missed sari this week too. I wonder if she’s in the armpit.
Should we sing you a lullaby emily?
Irked late today and still didn’t get everything accomplished that I wanted to. The new system doesn’t allow one to edit just part of a report. Noooooooo! One must go through and reenter the reconciled quantity for every location on that !@#$ing thing.
Poor Nelson. I hadn’t planned on irking over today, so he didn’t go to the sitter. He was really ready to go out when I arrived home.
Christmas 
cheery. I’m down for that!
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