Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.
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Some DH's are a real piece of work....I'm sorry yours gives you such a hard time. Life isn't easy, and it makes life so much more difficult than it needs to be.
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gsg,
I am lucky, because I live near Shirley, and we sometimes have lunch together, when I am up in Wilmington for all these dr. appts! She is REALLY such a nice person, and so very funny, too!
Shirley,
I really like that fuzzy guy with the friendship prayer!!! It is so cute!
Oh, my dh thinks that dh stands for D*CK head!!! (can I say that without being banned from this site?)
My bitch for today is ... I drove all the way to Wilmington again... and my ps REALLY DIDN'T NEED TO SEE ME!!! He stuck his head in the door, and then came in and hugged me a bunch of times... He admired his work, said I looked great..."LOOK AT YOU!" He kept saying!!! I guess that is what he meant...maybe he meant that I look horrible!!! lol
Well, now I have yet another dr. appt. tomorrow... My general surgeon, in Whiteville, which is also an hours drive away.... GRRR...
Hope everyone has a gripe free day!
Harley
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gsg , Yahhhhh-hooooo! Great news and that deserves a happy dance from one of the best-
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gsg , me too. I wish I lived near Shirley. Shirley , you always make me laugh and it is usually when I really need it. I really relate to your humor and thanks for sharing. I think if we all got together for lunch , it would be a lmao event!xx Melody
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Yes, I am very lucky to live near Shirley... I wish we could get together more often. She is so very nice, and so funny, too!!
Shirley, Hope to see you again soon!!
Love,
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DebC - sorry about your anemia and your bloody nose every fookin' day, sistah. Have you given a try to a humdifier? It might be a short term solution to a self-limiting problem [crossing fingers]. In the meantime, I, too stayed anemic throught my TAC - was borderline going in (one of my MDs thinks I'm Celiac and thus do not absorb the fresh, organic spinach I eat 5x/week) and it got worse with each infusion. I know that it is contributing to your sucky fatigue - it did for me, big time. My MD was also about to force the issue with some Procrit or transfusions. I added probiotics in the form of a good chug of kefir in the morning and made sure I never missed my daily V-8 (not the spicy kind - that is hella crazy on mouth sores!). It didn't cure the anemia, but at least brought the numbers up out of the critical zone so they didn't have to mess with me. I know others have found a kelp supplement was magick. Hang in there!
gsg - Just wanted to say Whoop-dee-doo!!! on you clear lung film! Sorry they made you wait so long for the god news.
Traci - that sugar in the gas tank is something you have to leave up to the cosmic balance. Whoever did that to you will have it coming - in spades. I'm thinking maybe a sewer main break under his house. Insurance won't pay because it has a water-hazard exclusion (dude bought on swapland, the dumbfuc#) and city won't pay because it is on private property. He has to wait to get anyone out there because of course, it happens on Memorial Day weekend,, early on Saturday. When the plumber does come, dude mouths off to him (and gets abusive because obviously that's the kind of guy he is) so the plumber tells him he needs to order the part and and goes to the kegger at the beach. Meanwhile Mr. Sugar-dumpee has 3" of sewer sludge in his "Florida Room" and twice that in his shower. The odor is permeating his kitchen, his closets, seeping into the padding and baseboards of every room of his house. He is irate 24/7 for buying the cheap-ass insurance. His live-in GF, who already knew he was an ass, figures this is a good time to get all of her stuff out of there before it, too, is contaminated. And she is sick and tired of him contaminating her life with his bad attitude and negative karma. He's got a tiny dick, anyway.
So he lies there horny, frustrated and pissed off on his stinky soggy bed, all alone, hearing an occasional foul burble from the bathroom - and s l o w l y he remembers some half-drunken escapade with a bag of sugar. Eat shit and die, my man!
Lisa
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Congrats to you gsg!
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Lisa, too funny!!!!
Patrice, did I forget to say CONGRATS on the lung thingy? Pardon me if I repeat myself. Can't remember jack. If I did, CONGRATS! I'll have to go over and read the other thread you started ions ago. There was ALWAYS funny stuff there. BTW, got another email from my daughter. She said something about coming back to the US. Not sure if she meant for good, or if they're going to Australia or New Zealand later. I figure they'd come back here to stay instead of traveling here and then spending bunches of money to fly far far away again.
Harley, sooooo, the PS flirted with you. I'm assuming dh didn't go along with you. I'm so happy he like the job he did on you.
Deb, didn't you say that when you had chemo the first time that you had nosebleeds? Is that a side effect from chemo?
Well, nj, I have to say that tonight I was pleasantly surprised. My dh cleaned the kitchen. But I still hate cooking. We're having frozen lasagna tomorrow.
Harley, it's always nice seeing you too and talking to you. I got my hair cut today.
My gripe...I HATE MY INSURANCE!
Shirley
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I forgot. Honeygirl, I love the "video." I may just have to steal it!
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Harley, that sucks that you had yet another unnecessary drive to Wilmington. Let's hope it was the last (of the unnecessary ones!).
Hanna - loved that tale of your mamma-bear rescue of your son. We can be so proud when they are brave and stoic - but there comes a point where we will take no more abuse of them. Good on ya!
Pearl - some relief ought to be coming your way soon for that damn headache. I just put in an order for you. And lawd, hon - I hope you get a decent burger from the grill this weekend!******************************
While I was in SF this week visiting my sister, on the freeway enroute to the Giant's game, a car came off an exit ramp to a freeway overpass above us and landed upside down in the lane about 100 yards ahead of us. Fortunately, my sister swerved safely around him and pulled over, started attempts at dialing 911. My fool brother-in-law jumped immediately out of the car and goes and tries to direct traffic away from the upturned vehicle - no flares, no flags - just him in front of several lanes of oncoming freeway traffic.
Well - I'm not an MD, not an EMT, but if I go, I have to stay, as a licensed healthcare provider in CA, with various safety, CPR, AED and emergency certifications. So, I grab a quilt from the trunk and pray I don't see dead babies. Fortunately, one young man in the car. Unfortunately, not wearing his seatbelt. This SUCKS. He is of course, trapped in the vehicle and rapidly going into shock. I cover him and start doing the 'squeeze my hand', 'move this foot routine' to assess intact spinal function while he periodically panics. I am thanking God with all I've got that I am not looking at brains on the pavement. I am reassuring him over and over that he's good, he's got a trapped elbow, a jammed leg, but all his vital parts are working - just breathe - people are on the way to get him out. I get a pulse point and a position to observe respiration. I keep talking. The blood on the pavement starts to clot which is good because it means it has stopped actively flowing. I keep telling him 'stay cool', telling him how lucky he is - his head is good, his chest is intact, his heart is beating - we just gotta wait - and they are coming (I'm not hearing a single siren). Trying to keep well-meaning morons from trying to lift the van (!). A single black-and-white finally approaches. No lights, no siren. Young woman gets out of the car. Tries to stay away from looking in the vehicle. "How many we got?", she asks. "There is one injured young adult male, needs transport", I said from my crouched position. She doesn't look inside, but talks into her collar radio. She puts on her gloves and leans down "Sir - how many people were in the vehicle?" Yeah, like I've been watching little gremlins run away for the last 30 minutes! I finally hear the fire trucks (and the useful EMTs) coming. "Miss, there has been one occupant since the vehicle landed. He has been in and out of consciousness. He has a weak, but steady pulse, shallow, but steady respirations. Has been responsive to commands. Has moved both upper and lower extremities when requested. Here is my card. Phone me if you need more information."
We got to the game on time. Giants lost.
But I was shaken. There's something about that sort of experience (when you don't do it every night as a profession) that makes you feel responsible. So I was grateful to read that it made the news, identifying him as being hospitalized "with non-life-threatening injuries" Phew. Hope he starts to wear his seat belt. Dude had a major miracle happen to him - to have gone over the side of one freeway, tumbled to land upside down in the middle of oncoming traffic on another and essentially be okay?!? Yeah - he needs to walk gently from now on.
We fight so hard for our lives - we go through so many indignities, so many painful pokes and proddings, so many godawful side effects of treatments, live with countless permanent restricitions to what had once been full and healthy lives, and try and try and keep on fighting.
And some people don't even wear their seatlbelts. And live.
Justice?
Sorry, weird rant.
love to you, my sisters
Lisa
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Gals,
I used to work with about 250 men and DH meant something else .. so when I came to these threads I was really confused. Where I was from it meant d#ckhead!!
The post by Hannah in the "can't get my act together thread" is so completely awesome. And I stumbled on it by accident.
Yippeee on the good news GSG!!!
Geez, just realized I'm posting in response to the page before this.
Damn .. that's my bitch .. no brain cells.
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Lisa, I felt like I was there with you when I read your story. I wear my seat belt but got bc anyway!
My little grandson gets so upset if his mommy does not put on her seat belt right away. Of course she always wears it, but one day (and I can't remember) she was slow at putting it on or forgot. He was crying, put your beep belt on, Mommy. I hope he remembers as he gets older to put his beep belt on.
Great story, Lisa. You were his angel that night.
Uh, it might be nice to carry along flares in the trunk of your car.Shirley
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honeygirl, love that video!
Shirley, I too hate cooking. Probably wouldn't hate it so much if dh didn't manage to find something wrong with every meal. He's been good about taking care of me these past 2 weeks since my surgery, but he hasn't cooked a single meal. I'm thinking maybe I won't cook anymore even when I'm better.
Lisa, Your sugar in the tank revenge story was too funny and the wreck story was touching. He was lucky to have you there for him. It's definitely unnerving to see someone escape serious injury/death like that. He had an angel watching over him, hopefully he'll put that seatbelt on from now on.
My gripe for the day. . .while we were walking into the PS office my dh told me I really looked thin (thanks to my recent tram). . .and then he couldn't just leave it alone. . .he said "now you just need to work on the backside". . .this coming from a man who has put on at least 20 pounds the past year. . .grrrrr
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Wow girls! What a great read tonight from you all!
Pearl honey, that is such a shame about your first BBQ of the season. You sound like you're like me. You know how to rescue a dinner. Take the mystery meat, add seasonings, then hide it in some kind of "cream of" soup and serve over rice or noodles. That's when my dh says "What's in this?" or his famous "What kind of meat is this?"
I used to scam him with that crumbly veggie burger stuff in spaghetti sauce just to 'get him'. Only problem - GAS! Pee-U!..he got his revenge. I should a noticed the potential for that when I saw how that veggie stuff puffed up in the spagetti sauce when I let it go too long. This happened one night when he got home 45 minutes late. He went upstairs to change so I lift the lid to the pot where the veggie spagetti sauce had been cooking for an extra 45 minutes and saw the whole thing had ballooned to 4 times it's original size! To the top of the pot! GAWD. My heart started pounding cause I just KNEW he would know this stuff was not true MEAT. So I had to think quick cause I hear the toilet flush and know he'll be down in 3 minutes! So I poked a hole in the middle of this ballooned up mess with the spoon and poof.!! out comes all this...gas I guess. Spaghetti sauce gas. At least it settled down again like a flopped souffle so I figured it was safe to serve. Ah...no. I mean the dh ate it shaking his head all the while and asking what brand sauce it was, but he did eat it all unfortunately because what it did in that pot it did in the bedroom all night till I moved onto the couch. OK. Enough of that. Never bought that stuff again. I do make veggie burgers, but not for him. Anyway Pearl, I know your next BBQ will be better. Anything is good cooked over charcoal!
OH Lisa, you had me on the edge of my bed here with that story! There you were "assessing intact brain function" and all that stuff. I laughed right out loud though at the part where your "fool brother-in-law" immediately jumps out and stands in front of the accident to direct all the oncoming freeway traffic with no flares or flags! Good Lord! You sound like the only one with presence of mind out there! I still can't get over you telling that cop rookie, "There is one injured young adult male - needs transport". Way cool Lisa. And the no brains on the pavement part - umm - you ought to be writing scripts for CSI.
Shirley you are hilarious. So your dh always wants his cubed steak or pork chops. Sounds like my house. You gonna sneak him lasagna tomorrow huh? Way to go girl! We've gotta get our kicks somehow! Stay away from that veggie stuff tho unless you want your dh dancing like that guy in Honeygirl's video that you stole you naughty thang! That guy even kinda looks like my dh cause mine has no fashion sense either. Mine wears WHITE SOCKS WITH HIS SANDALS!
Well, thank you all for your support and fierce anger over how my son was mishandled by that pitiful excuse for a lab tech. One thing I have truly learned is not to let people in medical scrubs intimidate me anymore. Before I had kids, I just never realized you could up and leave if you didn't like what was going on.
g - we're gonna have to go down to NC and sneak up on Shirley and Harley! Bren and Mel, MissShapen, Otter, and everybody else, we'll swing by and pick you up on the way down. We will find out what restaurant they go to and all jump out of the plants and shout Surprise!! We will know Harley by the nipple on her thigh and Mel by her little piglet. Course, I'll be the mystery meat but you will know me by my sunglasses...
Goooood nite ladies!
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Lisa
What a story (car wreck) and yes, I know EXACTLY what you mean as far as the "taking stupid risks with your life" stuff. Kind of relates to my gripe for the day...
I'm going through radiation right now for a skin cancer that has spread and invaded my nerve system. Back at the same rads place I did my bc rads in 2 1/2 years ago. Same tiny parking lot for cancer patients only, which is always full. Now, this time, I'm not exhausted from 3 surgeries and 4 months of chemo, and I'm not falling over every so often from the neuropathy, so I park in the hospital visitor's lot across the street anyway. As I'm walking across the street, I see a guy get out of his car in the CANCER care parking lot, and proceed to walk AWAY from the building (toward the regular hospital next door) and get this, he pauses to LIGHT UP A CIGARETTE! I literally just stopped in my tracks and stared at him, open-mouthed. I got such a surge of this is just so not fair (or in the vernacular of this thread - the fact that I got cancer, twice, sucks!)
Note added to the smokers: No offense intended. While I never smoked, my Dad did for years and years, and I know how hard it is to quit. It was just sort of the icing on the cake that he was so oblivious that he would light up at a medical facility at all, never mind at a cancer care center, while taking up a cancer patient's parking spot.
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Hanna,
Pick me up .. I'm not too far from Wilmington!!! Let's plan a get together!!
Colleen - that guy was tempting fate.
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Brenda - what a pretty picture of you!!
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lisa, you are hysterical! I hope that happens to whoever put sugar in my tank!!! LMAO! Man.....you guys are funny!!!
GSG - I'm so happy about your lungs! Did I already say that??
Bren - LMAO! I have done that sooooo many times!
CMB - They have complimentary valet at every hospital and cancer care place I've been to here. You should suggest that. They've got enough freaking money. I would suggest it in the form of a letter. If you want the name of an exec, PM me the name of the place and I'll let you know where to send it. : - )
Here's one for you though....I only used the valet once when I was feeling really bad after chemo, other than that, I would park but like yours, the lot is always full (sad) anyway, I ended up driving around the back of the building. There was a group of doctors out there smoking. That kind of freaked me out. I was a smoker for 20 years until I took the miracle drug Chantix. That drug worked for me instantly. Yea!
Hugs everybody! Thanks for starting my Friday off with laughing my a** off.
Traci
ps Harley, at first I though dh meant the other too! But then my mind is usually in the gutter!!!
pss I wanna go to Wilmington!!! I was there once. An ex's mom lives on the water there. The place reminded me of the town in the movie jaws. So cool!
psss Lisa, are you married? I met a super fox in Vegas named Will that lives in San Diego. Man, was he cute. I would have married him if he would have asked me!!!!
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Lisa, wow, what a story. You were really the hero! As for the seat belts, my aunt was in a terrible car accident about 25 years ago -- her fiance and the two people in the other car died, she only survived because she was wearing her seat belt. And then ten years later, SHE got bc. Just not fair. She is my role model for strength and resiliency -- after multiple surgeries and umpteen other health issues (and she kept working through all of it) she is now retired with a wonderful DH and a great step-family.
The cosmic balance scenario is perfect. I'll have to remember that next time someone does some random crappy thing.
Since it's just me and my 7-year-old son, and I'm dealing with nasty reflux from chemo right now, I've basically given up on cooking. Bad mom, I've been giving my kid chicken nuggets, mac-n-cheese or canned soup for dinner. Oh well, he can survive on that for a few months -- at least I don't have a DH to take care of.
Oh, and being bald still sucks.
Have a good day, everyone.
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Hanna.... love the expanding spaghetti sauce. LOL the image of you cooking mystery food and your husband asking what it is all the time cracked me up. My kids always ask(ed) me when I serve something new, "If this a real recipe or something you made up?" Too funny.
Lisa, you sure keep a cool head in an emergency! It's good to 'see' you again, too!
Wilmington, NC is my favorite place! Definitely stop off and get me on your way down. Wilmington has the best beaches!! My ex inlaws are there. :P
Happy Friday!
Miss S
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Let me give you all a heart-felt "THAT SUCKS!" first of all. Here's my bitch of the day (sheesh--I didn't used to have them EVERY day!)....
Oldest son (17 and junior in high school) decided to participate in a blood drive at his school yesterday. He was really so excited to be able to donate part of himself so it might help someone else. So, he goes in and they ask him a few questions, have him sign a form, and set him up. They are using a machine that separates platelets from the blood, then returns the blood back to the patient. Anyway, a few seconds after the machine is started up, he said every muscle in his body went totally rigid. He started having hallucinations and then finally passed out! He woke with several people standing over him, yelling. They told him he had a seizure and passed out.
So, what do they do? Do they CALL HIS PARENTS? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....they tell him to go back to class! HOLY CRAP! My kid has a frickin SEIZURE and nobody frickin CALLS ME?!?!?! Thankfully, ds decided to call his dad and we picked him up and brought him home. He was in lots of pain from the muscle contractions during the seizure and VERY freaked out. He was extremely disappointed that he wasn't able to complete the donation.
After consulting "Dr. Google", it sounds as though he is one of a small group of people that react to the anticoagulant used for this type of blood donation. This is not an unknown to the people who work in the industry every day----they could have at least explained to him that he didn't have a life-threatening event! I am MORE than pissed that my MINOR son (although eligible to donate blood in this state) went through this and NO ONE thought it was important to let us know!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRR Ya don't mess with this mama bear's babies, people...YOU JUST DON'T. They didn't even send him on his way with the little "call this number" if you have problems card that everyone else got. They DID give him a t-shirt, though. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That sucks.
)Diane
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Anybody else get shook out of bed around 5:30 this morning? I live just outside Louisville, KY and we were awakened this morning by the tremors of an earthquake that hit in Illinois.
As I was in a percacet induced sleep when it happened, my daughter got a good laugh at me because it took me a minute to figure out that someone wasn't just shaking my bed for the hell of it.
Hell of a way to start the day!
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Diane, that does suck. I thought they were legally obligated to contact parents when something happens to their child. Can't believe they just sent him back to class! And these are the people you're supposed to entrust your children to????
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diane, that's totally absurd...you did contact the school and bitch, bitch, bitch?
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Girls,
The sun is shining and although there is still plenty of suckiness going on, I'm going out to pick up my weekend box of donuts and taking a drive to my dd's school. Time to schlepp everything home for the summer. I am truly looking forward to this if you can believe that. What have things come to that schlepping home stinky college dorm stuff is a highlight? Well, my daughter is a ray of sunshine and I've missed her this year so so much. I've been living in a housefull of men and I've been missing our girl talk all year. That's one HUGE reason I love you all here so much and you never knew that! Wonderful women from this whole forum. You all have helped fill in the void left by my dd going off to school. O now I'm gonna cry
. Sniff...I need a kleenex. Anyway, thank you all so much for listening to my complaints. You are all beautiful babes with the biggest hearts.
Someday, I do hope to meet all you fellow moaners and groaners (we are not bitches however,...
...we do bitch). I am in limbo here about everything including treatment and more surgery plus recon to try to make my chest look like something other than roadkill if that's possible. But when every single one of us is ready from north in Alaska (DebC!) and Canada (Pearl!), to everyone down south in TX, 'Bama, FL and the Carolinas, on up East, and out West is spruced up, maybe Traci (since this is her party) can pull together a Moaner, Groaner, Boner ahhh....I meant to say bitcher conference in Las Vegas where that cute guy is who I hope will still be there for Lisa AND Traci! cmb35, can you give me a name to call you because I feel like you are a CB handle right now and I need something more... even Elmo would do! Hope you all have a really good weekend!
Hanna
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Internet cut out in the midst of my writing to Diane:
That's HORRIBLE! It's really scary that they just sent your son back to class. Thank God he called his father on his own. I agree that someone should complain to the school, BIG-time!
(sorry for the caps but I just want to post before computer blacks out again...)
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Hanna - cracking up at you, my name is Colleen (nice Irish girl that I am!)
I thought ths same thing about poor Diane's son. My friend has this crazy thing where he passes out about medical stuff/blood. It's not funny (but, well, it is kind of funny - you should hear his story about passing out during his eye exam when they did that air puff test to his eye, he knocked over all those little round lens things in the eye doc's office! Actually, the best one was when his wife was giving birth to their first child and the ob/gyn had to stand because he was sitting on her stool! LOL He's 6'4" and it would have been too hazardous for him to pass out in the delivery room. I was the back-up coach, although he did make it through the birth without fainting.)
Anyway! I digress! (what else is new?) Yes, I thought the same thing, he could have been having a reaction in general. In any event, sending him back to class was beyond stupid, and warrants a phone call to the school and the blood drive people.
Traci - good point! They have valet at the regular hospital (next door) but not the cancer care building. Probably because it has it's own little parking lot right there. I believe we've discussed this before, premium parking in one of the perks of having cancer. (Remember the woman who said, "lucky!", in that jealous Napolean Dynamite tone, when I told her that Dana Farber had a parking garage for patients? Yes, I'm SOOOOO lucky that when I get to drive into Boston for my chemo I have a place to park at a reasonable rate. Who wouldn't want to be me?!?!?)
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Actually, the ob/gyn was sort of crouched between Judy's legs catching that baby, and at one point between contractions looked around and said, "where is that stool?", I'm giggling to myself remembering it!
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What's ridiculous about this whole thing is that no one can tell me WHO was running the dang thing!!! WHO does one complain to when no one takes responsibility for it? GRRRRRRRRRR
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Diane - A principal is responsible for everything that happens in their building. If he or she can not get you a satisfactory answer I would call the superintendednt of schools. That is just WRONG! I would be beyond pissed off.....
Grrrrrr is right!
Deb C
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