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Things that frustrate us all

Well, I managed to go back down to Walmart tonight and carried back a 35-pack of bottled spring water and quite a few groceries besides. Quite a heavy load up this big hill and had no problems. I am very thankful for that.

My wife is still struggling with persistent deep cough and low-grade fever that will not go away yet. Picked up a Vicks vapo stick for her, some Ricola cough drops, and a bottle of multivitamin gummies.

We just learned, yesterday, that one of our neighbors in the apartment complex passed away on February 20th up at the local hospital. She was only in her 40s, but had heart problems for a long time. She leaves behind a husband, 11-year-old son, and 10-year-old daughter. It is really heartbreaking....
 
Today sucked. I had to be at the hospital by 7:00am today for my next procedure, which is getting a nephrostomy tube put in, for a 8:30am appointment. We got there got settled, and then right about the time I was go in they let us know that the room I was supposed to have it done in was not available because water was leaking into the room from the one above it, so my appointment was not for noon. Which really sucked because I hadn't eaten anything since 8 the night before, and had anything to drink since 10pm. And so not only did I miss breakfast I also missed "lunch" which I usually eat around 9 or 10. I finally got in and got it done some time after 1, but at least it went well. Not thrilled about having to get the procedure done at all since a nephrostomy tube is when they inset a tube into your kideny and it drains in a bag instead of your bladder, so now I have to deal with a pee bag for over a month since my procedure to get the stone blasted with sonic waves is in March, and the tube won't be removed until after that.
 
Well, nothing like dealing with car insurance companies post accident to make you feel stupid. I hate feeling this way, like a kid who didn't know better but now I'm an adult who might be in the hook for money in medical bills related to a car accident not my fault.
 
fireproof78 said:
Well, nothing like dealing with car insurance companies post accident to make you feel stupid. I hate feeling this way, like a kid who didn't know better but now I'm an adult who might be in the hook for money in medical bills related to a car accident not my fault.
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Totally understand this one. My wife was in an accident about a year ago and our vehicle was totalled. The idiot who caused the accident jumped out of the vehicle and started yelling and jumping around like an orangutan, then lied to insurance claiming injuries.
 
fireproof78 said:
Well, nothing like dealing with car insurance companies post accident to make you feel stupid. I hate feeling this way, like a kid who didn't know better but now I'm an adult who might be in the hook for money in medical bills related to a car accident not my fault.
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Artoo Atari said:
Totally understand this one. My wife was in an accident about a year ago and our vehicle was totalled. The idiot who caused the accident jumped out of the vehicle and started yelling and jumping around like an orangutan, then lied to insurance claiming injuries.
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I was in an accident in November 2023 and my ass was saved by a high definition dash cam, with built-in GPS showing my vehicle speed on the video. I wasn't ruled at fault by the Highway Patrol. My car had over $10k in damage and was drivable, her car was totaled. Her insurance paid my insurance company in full. My insurance company sent me a check for my deductible of $2500 before the bill to the credit card company I used to pay the body shop was due. I even got 1% cash back on the credit card.
 
Dealing with this damn nephrostomy/pee bag is a pain in the ass. I have a pelvic kidney, so it's right on the front side of my hip, which means it's painful and hard to bend over or step up higher than hip level. It look forever to find a way to get it to not slide down my leg where I have it strapped, and my first attempt to shower this morning was a complete disaster. I have to wrap myself in Ceran wrap to keep where the tube comes out of my body dry, and then I'm also trying to keep the bag itself from getting totally soaked. I've also already had 2 or 3 accidents and made a mess emptying it. I have to deal with this for at least a month, and I'm a little confused as to why it was even necessary, I really wish they could have just blasted the damn stone with the sonic waves and be done with all of this. Apparently, they can't yet because there's swelling in my kidney they need to get down. This has become a situation where the treatment is worse than the condition, because all that was going on with this is that I was having to go the pee once an hour or two, I wasn't in any kind of pain or anything.
I guess I can at least be grateful I only have to deal with this crap for a month, and not for the rest of my life.
 
carcinoGeneticist said:
Amazon showed up yesterday. Guess what they delivered? NOT MY CD! This is getting ridiculous! The site won't even tell us when it's expected to show up!
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This is getting absurd! There are only four days until the window for it to arrive closes and after that I will assume they sent it to Saskatchewan.
 
Well, today went a little better than yesterday with my bag, although this time when I showered the bandage around where my tube comes out got wet, so my mom and I had to try to figure out how to change it. That brings up the one problem I had with the hospital where I had the nephrostomy and my last procedure done, they didn't actually show us how to take care of the area around my tube or any of that, they just handed us extra supplies and a paper with only very basic instructions.
If weren't for the fact that the kidney this is all over is only one I have that functions properly, I almost wish I could tell them that it it's such a problem they should just take the damn thing out.
So now, I just keep telling it could be worse, but that doesn't help with the frustration at times I'm having issues with it.
 
I have posted a few times about my application for a cohabitation project, yesterday I got an email and my application got rejected. I'm not surprised because I feel life is handing me nothing but lemons, and I'm tired of making lemon juice.

I'm tired of trying to improve my life, I'm tired of trying different things only to blow in my face, I'm tired of fighting. I can't deal with another disappointment, I don't know how much I can take, I feel like I'm hanging on by thread that's dangerously close to snapping. I need good news, and fast.
 
My mom and I are getting a little concerned with my bag and stuff, I had the procedure on Tuesday, and my bag had still been filling with quite a bit of blood, and today I've been in more pain. But now since the last time I emptied it there is less blood, so it might actually be getting better. I have been take it easier and doing less today, so that might be why. But even before this the amount hadn't stayed consistent, so I'm still keeping an eye on it.
 
Random_Spock said:
People who don't know how to drive. Ala: slowing down, speeding up, not letting people pass, passively aggressively passing. :brickwall:
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Also, the ones who play road games.

In October of 2012, I was on the interstate in Nebraska and there was a stretch where several drivers were passing and re-passing each other, slowing down, speeding up, and in general acting like a bunch of little kids.

When there was a brief pause, I seized the opportunity. I had a civvy Crown Vic at the time that looked like an unmarked. I punched it and blew past the whole string. When I looked down at the speedo, it was at 107. :techman:
 
I'm going to talk to my therapist tomorrow, she had an offer to talk with me, my mom and herself. I'm going to accept it, my mom is getting on my nerves again: she's skipping steps in the healing process of my mental health, she's already talking about what after my stay in the psychiatry and trying to find a way to preoccupy myself and I appreciate that. But we're not there yet, we didn't even had that conversation with my mom, my social assistant, and my work about my future at my work.


Like I said a few weeks ago, I'm trying to be declared unfit for work and she immediately said what if it doesn't work? But now it's worse than a reality check, now she's blaming myself that I don't have it because I was "too blunt" THEY said I was getting notified last Friday, *I* simply called them at 6 pm asking for updates because I thought it would be a "we'll decide on Friday to notify you on Monday" situation. And I finally received an email that my application was rejected at TEN PM!!!
 
Why does life have to change so much haha?

I'm just in a flat patch at the moment for whatever reason I went back onto instagram in December thinking I would get my photography hobby back and get into that groove of doing shoots and collaborations but it really hasn't panned out the way I wanted. I think things peaked for me around 2009 - 2011 and I had heaps of contacts that I could email, send a few pictures of outfit ideas and then collaborate on a shoot but now I have 2 just 2 but that's good because they are people I know personally that I have built a friendship with who are reliable.

I just wish people today were more able to or open to communicate as it feels like pulling blood from a stone sometimes just to get a confirmation about something either in the positive or negative. There are photog groups online but they just seem like places for people to post their latest pictures, almost nobody actually talks on there.

Anyway this year 2025 I feel like it's going to be the last year I feel motivated enough to do anything and find a new hobby. I'm too bloody old, at least that's how I feel.

Sorry for the vent ....... I feel better now . 58 I never thought I'd be this old considering all the stuff that has happened to me over the years.
 
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Gingerbread Demon said:
Why does life have to change so much haha?

I'm just in a flat patch at the moment for whatever reason I went back onto instagram in December thinking I would get my photography hobby back and get into that groove of doing shoots and collaborations but it really hasn't panned out the way I wanted. I think things peaked for me around 2009 - 2011 and I had heaps of contacts that I could email, send a few pictures of outfit ideas and then collaborate on a shoot but now I have 2 just 2 but that's good because they are people I know personally that I have built a friendship with who are reliable.

I just people today were more able to or open to communicate as it feels like pulling blood from a stone sometimes just to get a confirmation about something either in the positive or negative. There are photog groups online but they just seem like places for people to post their latest pictures, almost nobody actually talks on there.

Anyway this year 2025 I feel like it's going to be the last year I feel motivated enough to do anything and find a new hobby. I'm too bloody old, at least that's how I feel.

Sorry for the vent ....... I feel better now . 58 I never thought I'd be this old considering all the stuff that has happened to me over the years.
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I hear you on that. I turn 58 next month and I have had a very strange and problem-plagued life, myself.

I am a collector of vintage lawn mowers, which is a small niche hobby to begin with and then complicated by so many who go the same route as too many of the classic car fans....bragging about how many they have, how much they are worth, how they are restored to the perfection of every tiny detail, blah, blah, blah. I quit going to classic car shows, because of all the snobbery....only to find it among collectors of lawn mowers! Ridiculous. I see it as nostalgia, not competing with the Jones family. Oh well.

Good Luck....hope you can find a better group.
 
TrickyDickie said:
I hear you on that. I turn 58 next month and I have had a very strange and problem-plagued life, myself.

I am a collector of vintage lawn mowers, which is a small niche hobby to begin with and then complicated by so many who go the same route as too many of the classic car fans....bragging about how many they have, how much they are worth, how they are restored to the perfection of every tiny detail, blah, blah, blah. I quit going to classic car shows, because of all the snobbery....only to find it among collectors of lawn mowers! Ridiculous. I see it as nostalgia, not competing with the Jones family. Oh well.

Good Luck....hope you can find a better group.
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I honestly don't know if I want to anymore.

I have two brilliant models who I shoot with every now and then, and they are reliable and always willing to discuss ideas. Im sticking with them for now.
 
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