This. Are you seeing a nephrologist?
Norwegian Blue
Sorry, Nettie
Kidneys haven’t even come up. This has only been going on since July (when I got my first bad CBC), so I just saw a hematologist for the first time. I’ve been flipping out about possible leukemia. Hm. My B-12 numbers came back today, and they’re good, at least. More research. 
Unnnnggggh*… well played.
*This is what it sounds like, when doves cry.
just got a call from Social Security to let me know that there has been fraudulent activity with my number… they couldn’t even bother to use a real person to rip me off, it was a robocall. this is the new way to rip off old folks I guess, between the “IRS” threatening to “call the cops” on me and people who want to buy my house it is really tiresome. I try to block all of the calss but apparently blocking calls only means my phone doesn’t ring, the messages still get through. 
I’ve gotten that same call except I got a live person. I fucked with him for about 10 minutes, asking what the fraudulent charges were (oh, we can’t tell you that for privacy reasons!), where it happened (Texas), give me your number cuzI need my lawyer and I’ll call you back. Asshat finally hung up. It was a ploy to get my SSN. Do people really fall for these phony calls?
It’s one of my biggest fears about getting older. Will I one day fall for some scam because I quit keeping up with technology and didn’t hear about the latest?
“That ‘IRS agent’ who pinged your sub-cutaneous neural net? The call is coming from within your head! Get out NOW!”
An older friend got one of these, and actually responded but when they asked for her SSN she balked saying you should have it if you are from SS. Then she said she’d forgotten it and would have to ask her kids.
It escalated from there to them telling her NOT to return to her home because officers were waiting there to pick her up for failure to comply.
Dear Nest thermostat,
I was serious when I set the HVAC unit to off. It’s because I wanted it fucking off while I was changing the filter. I don’t give a shit if I was sidetracked and didn’t get around to it for two hours, your job is to keep the system off. Fuck you for thinking that I wasn’t serious and turn the system back on. Next time I’ll flip the breaker, but fuck Nest all the same.
heard the newest Halloween stupidity … Instead of needles and other such things now you’re supposed to be watching for pot “edibles” in your kid’s candy bags… i mean know they make lookalikes of real stuff but yeesh …
I’m so tired of the “blue pumpkins for autism” myth.
No worries, I found that amusing. Yes, I have a strange sense of humor.
At least it inspired a Something*Positive strip.
Yeah, like any stoner is going to hand out his (expensive !) stash.
And even if it were true… omg, Kevin got dosed with some of The Pot ! He was happy and stoned for a couple hours and is absolutely fine ! The horror, the horror.
Yeah, but he’d eat all of his candy, leaving none for his parents to poach.
Blue pumpkins? I haven’t heard this one. The only pumpkin color thing I’ve heard of is teal pumpkins for allergy-free treats.
Teal pumpkins are a real and useful custom, for allergies.
Blue pumpkins are a thing invented once, for one person. Well-meaning but ignorant people keep sharing posts about “blue pumpkins for autism.” Autistic people themselves worry that it could single out autistic people for bullying.
Snopes article on the issue: Does Carrying a Blue Halloween Bucket Signify That a Trick-or-Treater Has Autism?
A viral Facebook post created the misleading impression that carrying blue pumpkin buckets on Halloween is a recognized signifier for autism.
The current POTUS - indeed, Republicans in general - winning another term in the W.H. Nothing in my life is scarier than that right now.
So a supposed government official is telling her not to return home because the government is supposedly there to arrest her? :dubious:
Isn’t the caller not only obstructing justice but defeating the purpose of bringing her in for her supposed ‘crimes’ by telling her to run & hide? :smack: