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Things that frustrate us all

I sent a PM to someone last night that without a lengthy and extremely personal explanation may have seemed creepy. Unfortunately, I cannot explain right now why it's not, but without that explanation, it really does seem so. I haven't received a reply, so I have no idea how the recipient took it.
 
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Refuge said:
It's really hard being a carer for a loved one. Even hard not to get a form of depression yourself. I spent a good year - make that a bad year in support mode for a loved one in suicidal depression. To be honest the only way I knew to support him was to take it. And it was probably the most self-esteem degrading and soul destroying year of my life.

What helped was a really decent doctor, he managed the medical aspects of helping *us*. I'm grateful my loved one allowed to give the meds a chance. They helped him sleep more than anything. Another really deal-breaking difference came from having a project. My guy restored a car but even something small helps. It's having control and being constructive.

You are going to need to at some stage look after yourself too. Find someone to unload and talk to and value your worth. (It took me ages to accept people saying kind things to me after that year).
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Thanks for your thoughts and wishes Butters and Refuge.

I am currently in counselling myself to handle my own stresses and issues (I have a few).

We are currently investigating possible physical contributors to her condition (i.e. lesions on the brain, inflammation of some sort, etc.). I have also suggested that she may want to talk to her doctor about the medications she's taking. We have both been worried for a while that they haven't been working nearly as effectively as they did in the past. The thing is, she's scared to death of the reactions she might have to other medications (she's worried about being medicated into someone she isn't), so she never really brings it up when she sees her doctor.

Some days are easier than others, but this is going to be a long haul and I'm in the early stages of prepping for it.

It's also frustrating, to stay on topic here, trying to take care of yourself when you don't really want to. But time will repair that, I'm sure.
 
An increasing frustration right now. A tooth pain so bad that it feels like a smack to the jaw by Tyson Fury might make it better.

Maybe I’ll go block his drive if it gets any worse. That should do the trick.
 
Dangerous drivers frustrate me. In this case, an unaware driver was dangerous. Driver merged into a freeway that will shortly merge into another freeway. Driver moves over one lane left by forcing his or her way into an extremely tight squeeze, yet still takes the right merger ramp. The lane he or she was initially in goes onto the same ramp and then both lanes merge together, so nothing changed.
 
People at work who can't follow simple directions and do what they are supposed to do, because they are "special" and need to do it the way they do it--only to watch them fail, waste ridiculous amounts of time and get hardly anything done. They then email me, shocked and amazed that their way of doing things didn't work out.

Golly. If only someone could have told them that before. :vulcan:
 
Twitter has been a pain in the butt all day. :brickwall: (and plenty of other people are running into the same problem)

So I'm wondering which numbskulls there and at AT&T... screwed it up.
 
Hate those people too. Gotten my share of spam emails and some spam calls.

Twitter seems to be working on my end now. Thankfully.

Well scratch that, it's back to being slow. Dammit. :brickwall:
 
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So I have a test, then appointment with a Pulmonary specialist tomorrow, but I’m not supposed to, because I called in to cancel on Monday, because having a test done while one has a respiratory infection is SURE to throw off the results, and what’s the point of having the appointment with no test result?

So they postponed the test till next week... but not the appointment, because the doctor won’t be available again until JUNE. But they forgot to tell me this... and that they weren’t postponing the appointment... until JUST now.

So now it’s a mad dash to get the referral from my PCP because of course my insurance demands it even though I’m an established patient because they suck that way. Also I have to re-take off work because I had cancelled that leave because I wasn’t going ARRGH MUFFLERFLUFFER!
 
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So I have a test, then appointment with a Pulmonary specialist tomorrow, but I’m not supposed to, because I called in to cancel on Monday, because having a test done while one has a respiratory infection is SURE to throw off the results, and what’s the point of having the appointment with no test result?

So they postponed the test till next week... but not the appointment, because the doctor won’t be available again until JUNE. But they forgot to tell me this... and that they weren’t postponing the appointment... until JUST now.

So now it’s a mad dash to get the referral from my PCP because of course my insurance demands it even though I’m an established patient because they suck that way. Also I have to re-take off work because I had cancelled that leave because I wasn’t going ARRGH MUFFLERFLUFFER!
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Ugh. :(
 
^^ Murph's law at its best.

For three days I've been working on a compilition of all insect, fish and algae sampling results of the last 12 years into one table and halfway through my colleague told me she had to shift a few sampling sites so that those in the list weren't correct anymore. Argh! Back to square one. Almost finished again when the ministery called to tell us that they re-calculated the old insect-results with a new software because they found that the old one had a bug (at least that fits the target species..).
Back again to square one. :brickwall:
 
Junk mail and calls in general are obnoxious. The amount of time you have to take filtering through all the mails. I've stopped picking up calls from numbers I don't recognize, the only people who actually legitimately call me instead of texting me are my parents or friends I'm trying to finalize meeting plans with that occur in the next hour.

And half of them are blatantly trying to manipulate you either to buy something ridiculous and possibly dangerous or to get your personal identification information. The salesman who are actually trying to sell you a legitimate product actually look good compared to the average.
 
So I've just left the house and am driving to my appointment with the pulmonary specialist, when my heart starts HAMMERING in my chest. Like, I can FEEL it in my neck. And it seems off, like WHUD-WHUD-WHUD...WHUDWHUD...WHUD-WHUD-WHUD...WHUDWHUD.

SO I'm like "Shit, this isn't good. But at least I'm already driving to the hospital anyway, the pulmonary guy is literally one room over from the ER, and anyway I'm sure he can check me out."

And as I'm thinking this...

I DRIVE THROUGH A SCHOOL ZONE. I had panic-tunnel-vision or something, I never even saw the lights were on. And of COURSE there's a police car behind me. And of course he saw me doing 27 in a 15.

Double-shit. He pulls me over, blah-blah-blah, I even tell him I'm heading to the hospital, but not like it MATTERS if I'm having some kind of attack, NO. Now what's odd is, he didn't give me a ticket. He says I'm going to be mailed one. That's new. Still sucks.

Oh, and the specialist didn't find anything wrong with me. Pulse and pressure were "textbook" he said. If it happens again, contact my regular doc for an EKG, but the whole area's probably just extra-sensitive due to my chest cold.

Can I just... get the Time Lords to erase this week from existence, or something?
 
Doom Shepherd said:
So I've just left the house and am driving to my appointment with the pulmonary specialist, when my heart starts HAMMERING in my chest. Like, I can FEEL it in my neck. And it seems off, like WHUD-WHUD-WHUD...WHUDWHUD...WHUD-WHUD-WHUD...WHUDWHUD.

SO I'm like "Shit, this isn't good. But at least I'm already driving to the hospital anyway, the pulmonary guy is literally one room over from the ER, and anyway I'm sure he can check me out."

And as I'm thinking this...

I DRIVE THROUGH A SCHOOL ZONE. I had panic-tunnel-vision or something, I never even saw the lights were on. And of COURSE there's a police car behind me. And of course he saw me doing 27 in a 15.

Double-shit. He pulls me over, blah-blah-blah, I even tell him I'm heading to the hospital, but not like it MATTERS if I'm having some kind of attack, NO. Now what's odd is, he didn't give me a ticket. He says I'm going to be mailed one. That's new. Still sucks.

Oh, and the specialist didn't find anything wrong with me. Pulse and pressure were "textbook" he said. If it happens again, contact my regular doc for an EKG, but the whole area's probably just extra-sensitive due to my chest cold.

Can I just... get the Time Lords to erase this week from existence, or something?
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Fat chance. The Time Lords make Q look pleasant and amenable.

Hope you feel better though.
 
I thought I had enough mustard left in a jar for a sandwich... Turns out it was an illusion the glass was covered with a thin layer of it, making it look like plenty were left!
 
I Don’t feel complete if I don’t have whole grain, English, French and New York style mustards in the larder (I don’t really have a larder, it’s a cupboard), better to be prepared.

Today’s gripe, On top of the anxiety, the agonising tooth sensitivity, and the back pain, I’ve now got an upset stomach and a bloody cold.
 
Butters said:
I Don’t feel complete if I don’t have whole grain, English, French and New York style mustards in the larder (I don’t really have a larder, it’s a cupboard), better to be prepared.

Today’s gripe, On top of the anxiety, the agonising tooth sensitivity, and the back pain, I’ve now got an upset stomach and a bloody cold.
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Sorry. I'm trying to get over a cold myself but it feels like it's taking forever.
 
Doom Shepherd said:
So I've just left the house and am driving to my appointment with the pulmonary specialist, when my heart starts HAMMERING in my chest. Like, I can FEEL it in my neck. And it seems off, like WHUD-WHUD-WHUD...WHUDWHUD...WHUD-WHUD-WHUD...WHUDWHUD.

SO I'm like "Shit, this isn't good. But at least I'm already driving to the hospital anyway, the pulmonary guy is literally one room over from the ER, and anyway I'm sure he can check me out."

And as I'm thinking this...

I DRIVE THROUGH A SCHOOL ZONE. I had panic-tunnel-vision or something, I never even saw the lights were on. And of COURSE there's a police car behind me. And of course he saw me doing 27 in a 15.

Double-shit. He pulls me over, blah-blah-blah, I even tell him I'm heading to the hospital, but not like it MATTERS if I'm having some kind of attack, NO. Now what's odd is, he didn't give me a ticket. He says I'm going to be mailed one. That's new. Still sucks.

Oh, and the specialist didn't find anything wrong with me. Pulse and pressure were "textbook" he said. If it happens again, contact my regular doc for an EKG, but the whole area's probably just extra-sensitive due to my chest cold.

Can I just... get the Time Lords to erase this week from existence, or something?
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:( I'm so sorry this happened to you!

@Butters and @Gary Mitchell, I hope you both start feeling better soon. Butters, I completely understand tooth pain. There is almost no worse pain I've ever experienced. No. I take that back. It's the worst pain I've ever experienced, even more so than my appendicitis.
 
Doom Shepherd said:
So I've just left the house and am driving to my appointment with the pulmonary specialist, when my heart starts HAMMERING in my chest. Like, I can FEEL it in my neck. And it seems off, like WHUD-WHUD-WHUD...WHUDWHUD...WHUD-WHUD-WHUD...WHUDWHUD.

SO I'm like "Shit, this isn't good. But at least I'm already driving to the hospital anyway, the pulmonary guy is literally one room over from the ER, and anyway I'm sure he can check me out."

And as I'm thinking this...

I DRIVE THROUGH A SCHOOL ZONE. I had panic-tunnel-vision or something, I never even saw the lights were on. And of COURSE there's a police car behind me. And of course he saw me doing 27 in a 15.

Double-shit. He pulls me over, blah-blah-blah, I even tell him I'm heading to the hospital, but not like it MATTERS if I'm having some kind of attack, NO. Now what's odd is, he didn't give me a ticket. He says I'm going to be mailed one. That's new. Still sucks.

Oh, and the specialist didn't find anything wrong with me. Pulse and pressure were "textbook" he said. If it happens again, contact my regular doc for an EKG, but the whole area's probably just extra-sensitive due to my chest cold.

Can I just... get the Time Lords to erase this week from existence, or something?
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Sounds like tachycardia. Most of the time you’re fine, but then your heart just goes crazy. It wasn’t until I was having a stint in hospital with the heart monitor on and I had an attack that they figured out what the problem was. I ended up getting a defibrillator implanted. There hasn’t really been a problem since.
 
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