Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.
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Hanna,
That sucks that you feel like you have to sign off because you are starting to tear up--we want to be with the part of you that cries, too, not just the one who makes us laugh. Thanks for crying and laughing and sharing.
Hugs to all,
Sue
P.S. Getting my hair buzzed off tomorrow sucks!!!!
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Everything sucks! (hope that takes care of everyone whose posts I haven't yet read)...
I took the morning off to go to the dentist - and let me preface this by saying I HATE, HATE, HATE going to the dentist! Anyway, he xrays my wisdom teeth and says the roots look good and the pain is probably from my muffed up sinuses! If after I see the ENT doc next week and have the CT scan and still have no wisdom tooth relief, I have to contact an oral surgeon. Will this craziness ever end?
The Avelox that gave me the yeast infection won't be over until Friday. It is now giving me oral thrush as well. Oh joy...
I have to go in a few to get the CT scan of my sinuses. Doc originally said it would be no contrast, but when I made the appointment, they say it "probably would" be contrast. Can I scream now?
And did I mention it's oncology and bloodwork time again?!? The time we all love to hate is just around the corner for me. Ugh. I wish I could just go back to bed...
Love and Gentle Hugs,
The Walking Wounded (the writer formerly known as Felicia)
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MY DAY SUCKS.
I just about killed myself with my fancy new lawnmower. It's got that speed thing on it, so if you want, you can run behind the thing.
Believe me I wasn't running when this happened. I'm obsessed with this 25 lb wt. gain this year ... so mowing the back acre is good for me. I use the new hand mower ... I'm too scared of the riding mower.
Anyway, I'm going along, back up, step into a mole hole and go down. Twist ankle, bang knee, cut and scrape elbow, which has blood coming out a good pace. All on my "bad" side. Okay ... but what's really STUPID ... is I never let go of the freakin' mower, in fact ... I'm on the ground pulling it towards me to help me up.
Within seconds I realize that's the stupidest thing on this whole earth to do. It's still, thwack, thwack, thwacking away!!! I let go ... put it in the garage, got a bandaid ... said F' it. I need a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
Bitch on ladies ...
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Everything sets me off on certain days. Today I'm kinda pissed because somebody in a black escort rides by my house and looks in my mailbox everyday. Today I almost broke my neck running outside to get the tag number so I can report their a$$!!! We've only been in this house a little over a month and I know its not the former owners because we have already asked. So its got to be someone up to no damn good.
It really pisses me off that someone has the audacity to check my mailbox. That's how people become victims of identity theft. So here I am doing a damn James Bond trying to stop this idiot. I know its a federal offense or something right?
But anyway that's my bitch today. Thanks for listening.
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Yogi, a black Escort? Maybe it IS the feds. Don't they go around in black SUV's, doing exactly those kinds of things? FBI, CIA, ... hmmmm.... At least, that's what I saw on TV, so it must have been true.
Seriously, I would report 'em. At the very least, you should report this to the postal service. They keep track of stuff like that, and they take it pretty darn seriously. I live in a rural area on a county road. A few years ago, there was a utility crew laying underground lines near here, and they went past our driveway every day to get to their worksite. A couple of weeks later, we got our bank statement with that reduced-size photocopy of all our cancelled checks. My dh noticed that the amount debited from our checking account that month was wrong. Then he saw that one of our cancelled checks appeared to have the wrong amount written on it.My dh had written a check for a utility bill, but the cancelled check had the utility company's name erased (even though it had been written in pen) and "WalMart" written in. The amount of the check was originally around $17 and some odd cents; someone had erased/over-written the amount to change it to $19 and some odd cents. And then they had cashed it at a WalMart somewhere....and, in the "comments" space, had printed "smokes". WTF? That explained why we had received a "late payment" notice from the utility company a few days earlier.
We took the bank photocopy and our checkbook ledger to the sheriff's office to file a report, and then we went to the bank to retrieve the check and have its journey traced. Turned out, my dh had put that utility payment in our mailbox for the mail carrier to pick up that afternoon, and the envelope and check had been stolen from the mailbox. Whoever stole it, made some minor changes and then used the check to pay for cigarettes at a WalMart about 60 miles from here. Apparently, the WalMart clerk who accepted the check claimed he knew the person cashing it, so he didn't ask for I.D. (even though it was my husband's name on the signature line!!!). Very suspicious, right? The bank agreed, and said they would retrieve the cancelled check from their storage facility and get it back to us in a few days.
I also reported the theft to the local post office, and was told ours was the second household on that road to report a payment stolen from their mailbox in that same week! Both the post office and the sheriff took the matter very seriously, and began to work up a case. The WalMart clerk knew who had cashed the check, and the same person was suspected in the other mailbox theft. For real. Just like on TV.
Unfortunately, the bank did not take things so seriously. The sheriff called us a few days later and said he needed the original check for evidence, but the bank would not release it to him. We went immediately to the bank to find out what was going on, and discovered they had already incinerated the check during their monthly closet-cleaning. One week after we had filed the stolen check report, and while we were waiting for them to retrieve the check for us, they had incinerated it. Their response was, "oops". The sheriff was really pissed. No evidence = no case. End of story. I raised holy caine, and made the bank credit our account for the full amount of the stolen check (since we had to write a new one to the utility company). They didn't like it, because they said technically it wasn't "forged"... but they did it anyway.
Anyway, sorry--I'm in my story-telling mode today. Guess I need to get a life. Yogi, call the post office.
otter
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Otter, Something similar happened to my niece after she graduated from App State and started her first teaching job. She had put a payment to her gas card in her mailbox. The check was removed from the box by a druggie neighbor, they took the account number to the State Credit Union where the account was and said that they had run out of checks, the clerk gave them counter checks without checking any ID and they drained my nieces account. When she realized what happened, she got the police to investigate, the credit union helped her open a new account and refunded part of the money that was stolen and the principal of the school helped her with an emergency fund until everything got settled. After that she only paid her bills in the mail at the school because the mailman came into the building and picked up the mail in person. Because of that, I don't leave payments in my box at home, I bring it to work and it is put in the box right before the mailperson comes through.
Otter, I guess I am also in the story-telling mode also.
Yogi - I would call the police and the post office.
Sheila
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Linda- what great news!!!!! So happy for you!
Beastybabe- It is sooooo unfair you are so young to deal with this crap! Well even if you were 90 it would still be unfair! CANCER SUCKS!!!! We are all here to hear you vent or cry with you. Hang on girl!!!
flyrzfan- Hi, I sure hope you start getting better real soon! I am thinking of you!!!
Hi- to all the rest of you girls!
Daniella
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Bitch for the day.....I have a headache. I almost never get them, and when i do they make me SOOOO grumpy. I want to go to bed and pull the covers over my head until it goes away....Wahhhhhh
OK...I'm done
A hearty THAT SUCKS too all today....
Deb C
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Oh, man, Sheila, that SUCKS! It was bad enough to have to close out our checking account and open a new one because the jerk knew all our account info. We even wondered why he was so dumb as to only change the amount on the check by $2. (We were grateful, of course, that he was so dumb.) I never even thought about the possibility of losing all the money in our account. I hope that clerk at the Credit Union was fired on the spot.
OMG. Sorry. I feel another story coming on.
My mom worked in a bank all her adult life, and she used to come home griping every once in awhile about people who got nasty when she asked them for I.D. She said one time not too long before she retired, a guy she didn't recognize wanted to cash a big check, and she asked to see some I.D. He blew a gasket, and ranted and raved about having lived in that town for 10 years and being a bank customer and she should know him by now. She was really fed up (and nearing retirement). So, she grabbed her name plate that was at her window and hid it. Then she said to him, "OK. I've lived in this town all my life. Do you know who I am?" He sheepishly admitted that he did not; and he handed her his driver's license.
The End.
otter
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Otter, I am not sure what consequences the teller had to endure, but this was just after school started and Mary was living 4 hours away, all she wanted to do was come home to my sister. She only got paid monthly and that was her first paycheck. We talked her into going to the principal the next day and explain that she had no money for groceries or her rent because of the stolen check. I was glad that the principal was sympathetic to her plight and got the emergency money for her to use until the police and credit union got everything straightened out. Since then I have been very careful about what I put in my mailbox going out, my mail doesn't come till about 3:00 pm to the house. All this happened about 5 yrs ago, but she is also very careful what goes in her outgoing mail also.
Sheila
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I just feel bitchy today. Was supposed to have a breast MRI yesterday, but guess what? My insurance denied coverage on it. I got the message Friday evening at 7:15 after I got home from work, after the offices had closed, AFTER insurance gone home, when I could do absolutely nothing about it. The doc at the insurance talked to my surgeon and agreed with him, but the insurance "protocol" says "not necessary." I am not happy that my insurance company, not my doctor gets to choose my treatment plan.
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that is bitchy - I found out after I had my surgery (bilat with expander/implants) that the insurance company preferred tram flap surgery and wanted to deny the use of AlloDerm for the implant surgery. and I had 2 doctors tell me that I could not do the tram flap. My PS and I sent in letters of appeal for 6 months before they finally paid the final bill.
Sheila
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THAT ALL SUCKS!!
This story was is the Dallas paper today. No fooling.
This guy, 21 y/o, steals his girlfiend's mother's checkbook. He goes to the bank and writes a check for 360 billion dollars!!! They arrest him and the teller says she "thought he was acting suspiciously". I THINK THAT MAY BE THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!!
Yogi, fill the mailbox up with marbles.
Still snickering,
Sue
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Hi everyone, & a hardy THAT SUCKS!!
My bitch for the day - I started taking Femara a couple of weeks ago after ditching Arimidex (took it for 2 years) and quit Arimidex because of joint aches & pains. Maybe it's a coincidence, but I think the Femara is causing my insomnia to rear it's ugly head. I've been a part-time insomniac for years, but recently got it under control with Rozerem. (can I take anymore drugs, for God's sake?)
I am hoping the insomnia will work itself out and go away, but it has just started back up since the Femara. I was so sleepy yesterday after several nights of sleeping only a couple of hours, I almost fell asleep driving home from work! I actually drove off the road....nothing like that to jolt you awake quickly! Shit the bed Fred!
Donna
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Aw, Beastybabe, I couldn't read any further, nor respond to the posts because I first wanted to respond to you. You are the age of my oldest daughter. Sweetie, this is so unfair that you have to go through this. I wish I could give you a {{{{great big hug}}}}, and make the tears stop flowing. You are too young to have to go through this. And, it is very scary. However, even though you have so much to go through, there are good meds/chemo out there. Try not to focus on dying, but on living. Yes, I know. It's hard. And, if you need something for anxiety or an antidepressant please ask your oncologist to prescribe it to you.
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Shirley,
Hey there... I hope you had a really nice lunch today with your friend. Now will you answer the question we have been asking? What is the 'thing that your dd wore around her neck, the "you know what"?'
Please tell us, cause we are just dying to know!! I see you posted, but it must be invisible ink!! Or maybe you are posting the answer on the 'I can't get my act together thread'.... I'll go check!
HARLEY
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CANCER SUCKS but for today (at least for an hour or two) its okay
got my biopsy back on my thyroid nodule and it was B9 !!!!! yea
lets all have a martini on me!
xoxox
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YAY!!!!!!! Here's to you, Julia!!!!!
xoxox
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YEAH for BENIGN RESULTS!!!!!!!
hugs
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My bitch of the day is I almost had everyone answered and I don't know what frigging button I pushed on this frigging lap top but I lost all my stufff and I'm to damn tired to start again. DAMN this laptop
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omg.....I just got caught up. Gotta tell you....some of you guys are like comedians. 'I could watch a jockey be put down', 'you sit, I'll cook', 'too lazy to move up to changed the font', 'set off alarms', 'damnitol', '2 days to get ready'....I gotta stop...my stomach hurts. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man. Funny stuff.
For everybody currently in tx, about to go into tx, going bald, currently bald, in pain...that really sucks you guys. This disease sucks.
Hannah, I was just curious where you live? A girl was doing what under the street light?????????? You are freaking hilarious. I'm sorry you were sad. Who had the bird story? That was sooooo funny.
I'm with Dottie and still want to know...what the hell is a padded oosik????????
Sue....sorry about your hair girl. You too Deb. Everybody knows how much I think that sucks. That's awesome you live near Grand Prairie. We'll have to get together. Please!!!! Shirley, I was born in San Antonio!
Lisa, what did you name that cute little puppy?
Collector....for your friend with the suggestion you use bronzer....
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" Hugs everybody. I plan to try to keep up. My bitch today is "everything sucks".
Traci
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Hi everyone,
I agree with Traci - been LMAO reading all these posts!!!! And today I would like a little Sarcasma (for those of us with chronic sarcsam) to go with a dose of Damitol!!! And yes, CasinoGirl, we could all be on more drugs!
Reading these have been the best part of my day because insurance sucks (even though I'm out of "insurance limbo" finally), work sucks, kids suck (not really and I love 'em to death, but sometimes they do!). The only thing that doesn't suck is Pickle the bird - except when he tries to bite me.
Tonight my dh says that he wants to put off buying the laptop (which was supposed to be for my birthday next week) that I was going to take with me to chemo to watch DVD's or do whatever, starting next week probably (Happy Freakin' Birthday!). He wants to put it off because he bought an online educational program that's going to be put on our credit card this month. But he's paying for that with his overtime so...WTF?! I'm not really that mad, but everything's getting on my nerves tonight. I guess it might be the fact that I may start chemo on the day my dd has open house at school and two days before her last gymnastics meet. So I can't even do something as simple as order pizza before the open house, because I might be to sick to eat it - but I won't know that until it's too late to order!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
BC SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! A big "That Sucks" to all and I'm going to bed.
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So, here's my gripe for today. I went for my PS consult for reconstruction...the consult with the PS I had originally seen for my boob job, the one to which i was eternally grateful for sending me for the mammogram that resulted in my diagnosis. The one that told me to come and see him when I was ready for reconstruction.
The consult went something like this...
"So, it's been a while since we've seen you..." Yes, sir
"Now, I don't normally take TriCare, so why didn't pursue reconstruction elsewhere?" Well, last year you'd said....
"There are a few other surgeons in the area that I believe take TriCare. Didn't your PCM give you a list of network surgeons?" Um, no. There aren't any listed...but when I called your office--
"Any Chemo?" No
"Radiation?" No-
"Any more children, or still just the three?" Um, no
"Still smoking 1/2 pack a day?" No
"When did you quit? Which time?
"I don't have time to play games. WHEN DID YOU QUIT?" Well, for good...six weeks ago
"I'm very selective about the reconstructions I perform, and I never take TriCare. I'm doing this as a favor to you since you have a history here, but if you can't take your health seriously, that's a big demerit on your part. " Yes, I know. I didn't smoke the whole time...
"Well, what did you do? Did you start back right after the diagnosis? Or did you wait until after the mastectomy?" No, it's just been a rough year
"There's always an excuse, isn't there? I'm surprised you didn't have any real problems with your surgery... don't you know the risks? Don't you know there is a real chance of necrosis and.." Yes, sir
(me, crying and half naked at this point)
"I don't like to take TriCare, and I will not operate on someone who isn't taking their condition seriously. You would think the cancer would have been a wake-up call"
It was.
"It certainly doesn't seem that way, And if you have something else going on, some emotional distress, you know surgery isn't going to fix that" But...
"I want you to come back in a couple of months. No smoking. Not even one. At that time, we'll decide if you're ready, and if I'm willing to take the risk that you'll smoke again"
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I'm sorry for how lengthy that was. Half of this lecture, he was performing the exam, measuring and pulling...I know I'm still very emotional and overly sensitive, but I can't describe how uncomfortable that was. And I don't need anyone making me feel guilty for being a smoker, whether I quit at an appropriate time or not. I do enough of that myself. I've been dealing with that guilt for over a year.
It's just that this was supposed to be my light at the end of a very long tunnel.
My main concern is that this ethical tirade was more of a power trip than a pedestal. And that he doesn't want to take my insurance, and is using his 'ethics' as a way of getting out of it. He didn't have an issue when I went in as a cash-pay for the boob-job.
If I'm being irrational. PLEASE, someone, set me straight.
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I cry and leave, and throw up in the car during the hour long drive home.
Damn, that really really sucks!
Little story: Before Taxotere fried the nerves in my fingertips, I was a dental hygienist for about 20 years. Sometimes patients would come in and right off the bat start saying "You know, I just haven't been flossing like I know I should have. I start off really good and then something gets in the way and I just don't get to it every day and I just don't know what happens I always mean to..." And I'd stop them and say "You know, I haven't yet achieved perfection in my own life, so I really don't demand it of my patients." And then they'd relax, And we'd get on just fine.
You doctor needs to try some of that. Sum'bitch.
Lisa
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Loki - Doctors with no beside manners SUCK!!! You're right, he was clearly blowing you off because of your insurance. Sorry - what a crappy day.
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Oh, Loki, that is the WORST!!!
I'm sorry, if it were me, I wouldn't let that asshole NEAR me! Much less take a knife to me!
Is that too harsh to say? I imagine you're feeling the same thing! That is WAY uncalled for, what he said, IMO.
I mean, if you're having flap surgery, it may be his judgment that you're not a good candidate for it, given your smoking history -- but that can be conveyed in a way that's not being such a judgmental, nasty (rhymes with brick).
I had unilateral mastectomy with immediate tissue expander placement -- and up until 3 weeks before that I had smoked a pack a day for 5 years. My PS was very kind and supportive, which I'm sure helped me make the quitting permanent -- probably BECAUSE he said "It would be great if you could abstain from smoking for 3 weeks before and 3 weeks after, and you might even find that then you can quit." Your guy sounds like he's just getting his sadistic rocks off by scolding you, with no regard for whether he's actually EFFECTIVE in helping a patient make an important but difficult behavioral change.
How awful for you to be met with such nastiness from someone you'd been holding in your heart and mind as a lifesaver. I'm so sorry you didn't get the kindness you were expecting (and DESERVED). Maybe TriCare CAN refer you to someone better. I hope so.
P.S. FWIW, after my mastectomy and tissue expander recon, everything healed beautifully and rapidly, even with my smoking history.
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Loki - what a jerk. Now that he's not going to make as much money off you he's looking for an out and is using smoking to do it. I'm not sure I could go back to him for anything. I really hated people dogging me over smoking after my dx. None of us need to be told it's not good for us, we know that. I did finally quit May 1 last year and it ended up being a blessing as I had to have flap surgery this year. But I still miss them. It definitely sucks to have to give up something you enjoy.
Shirley -- I'm cracking up over the thing around your dds neck at the shower. . .it's now a topic on 2 threads. . .you've got everyone wondering.
Yay to those getting good test results!
My bitch today is finding out that I will not get my lift until August or September and now must figure out how I'm going to get through swimsuit season with dramatically different sized boobs. I know, it's minor compared to what some of you are going through, but damn it sucks anyway. OK, where can I get my script for Damnitol???
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Loki......that really sucks, it made me want to throw up just reading it........how unbelievably cruel......makes me mad!
I hate dentists too.......missed my appointment this week
I hate mammos more......I am due......already!!! Now I have to do both .........I don't want to and I'm not ready!
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Hi Loki,
Well, my response was overlong, too! And I hadn't seen your second post, or Lisa or Cristine's replies... but I see we're all on the same page. Totally a power trip on his part! And, you're right, it must be about the $$$ -- seeing as he was perfectly willing to perform cosmetic surgery on a smoker!
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