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Baby has a stuffy nose, so she won't sleep flat. Which means here I am at 2:30AM, with her in the car seat for some head elevation. I guess I will be camping out in the living room tonight.
And the in-laws will be here sometime this afternoon. They have the worst timing.
In-laws always do... :)
I have a new coworker, born in Djibouti, and thanks to According to Jim's low threshold for humor, I'm having serious trouble taking this guy seriously.
Plus he sounds and looks like the annowing Indians from the MetroPCS commericals (the sweater vest one). So thanks to years of conditioning from horrible tech support calls, I have to fight the urge to rage everytime we chat.
I'm surprised to see how weak my psyche is. Today's story is about two friends of mine, who alongside me practice table tennis twice a week. They are each other's childhood friends, whereas I entered the relationship only last year. During last week's practice, they attended one session each. I managed to accumulate myself some confidence in my own skills, as I did not get any witty remarks and as a result thereof (I wish to believe) played quite well. Yet today they both came, and almost as a collected meter of malevolent, one started bickering quite harshly at my play - rendering me clumsy, predictable and a sure loser. It would've been alright to call it off as that he was being mean and just ignore it, but that task becomes indefinitely harder when they grouped together in their laughs. This practice became my worst one in a long time, and I feel like I broke up my entire technique and turned for the worse in terms of actual level.
I feel quite bad at putting my foot down when whoever insults me, and hence in the aftermath I just wonder what exactly might be the purpose of such intended cruelty. It lights my fire to improve, but table tennis is a two person sport, so practicing by myself is hard.
You might try finding a different partner or two to practice with. Good luck!
Why do people in the medical field (both receptionist and treatment) refuse to listen to anything someone says? :( I called the clinic yesterday to ask the doctor for a recommendation for my horribly dry skin. I told the receptionist I needed to have the doctor call me back, at his convenience. She flat out (rudely) informed me I had to speak to the nurse! I told her there was absolutely nothing that woman could do to help me at all. (Meanwhile, I am trying to convince myself not to puke in this stupid woman's ear, since talking seems to aggravate my "gag-reflex.) About 15 minutes later, this silly nurse calls me instead. After I told her there was NOTHING she could do to help me, she said she would have the doctor call me. About 15 minutes after that, the doctor finally calls and agrees to see what he can to to help me keep from scraping all the skin off my elbows. About 15 minutes later, that stupid nurse calls me again and tells me to come over and pick up a prescription for a cream. She also told me I had to sign a release form so they can get medical records they do NOT need. I told her I was on foot, it's at least a 30 minute walk to the clinic, and that by the time I got there, they would be closed! I also told her to just fax it to the drug store and I would come sign this stupid release today! She had the audacity to argue with me for 10 minutes as to whether they would accept a faxed prescription. :mad:
Fast forward to today. While trying my damnest not to puke in the middle of the clinic floor, this silly nurse asked me, "What release form? Who did you talk to about that?" Then, I committed the most cardinal of sins...I questioned just exactly WHY they thought they needed records for something they can't treat! FFS, that just sends out MORE personal information about me, most of which is NOT secure. :mad:
For future reference, try Aveeno Baby Eczema Cream...it's a little expensive, but it really worked wonders on mine and hubby's skin.
In-laws are gone, and my sister is flying back home. :( Also, I've been stuck in the house since Sunday because of icy roads. I need to get the hell out of here!
Thanks Cat! :heart: I think I have a tube, bottle, and/or jug of almost every dry-skin lotion/ointment I can buy in this town! :( This stuff the doctor gave me seems to be working. At least I am not drawing blood every few minutes from scratching! *whew*
Poor MommyCat! :( Remember, this too shall pass. Maybe your husband or a close friend could come stay with the baby for an hour so you could go get a cup of coffee in relative peace and quiet?
Gah, I can't believe you wrote that rant about doctors and nurses, because you have dry elbows, munchie. Seriously, that messes with my groove. :down:
So sorry! Of course, it is ME who is literally scraping the skin/scales from my butt, legs, elbows, and back! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
From the tone of your post, I gather you think I am totally in the wrong. Wrong for expecting someone who works for me to actually take their fingers out of their ears and listen. (Yes, we DO pay their wages here, either through office calls or an automatic tax yearly.) I was all set to apologize yesterday...right up until the moment that woman couldn't remember what she told me the day before. Yes, I know she thinks she has a lot to remember, but c'mon folks, she had my chart out when she was talking to me on the phone...all she had to do was put a little reminder to herself in it.
The tone of my post sounds like this: medicine isn't practiced well over the phone. People who expect or demand that their skin be diagnosed over the phone, and expect or demand to talk to a physician, then expect or demand a prescription,, should really get a grip.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldmunchkin
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1.) It's not exactly a state secret around town that I walk everywhere I go!Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
2.) It's not a exactly a secret that the clinic is almost a mile away from my home!
3.) It was a whopping 22 degrees outside at the time I called!
4.) It's also damned well known around town that I have been so sick I can't hardly hold my head up, let alone walk a mile!
I did NOT demand anything. I merely started out by asking, NICELY, if the doctor, and not his ding-bat nurse, (no I did NOT say this out loud to the brain-dead receptionist) call me back! It was only after two separate people decided it was impossible to be polite to the consumer (me) that I started to get upset.
As I said, I was prepared to grovel at this stupid woman's feet...right up until she couldn't remember talking to me. Then, all bets were off.
You should re-read your initial post, then. It's filled with angry bile, expectations and demands. For your skin condition. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by oldmunchkin
Your attitude toward the receptionist and nurse are quite clear, and it's not good. You probably told the physician what you expected him to prescribe, as if you'd already done the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment....and just needed his official signature on a prescription pad. That's not how modern medicine works.
If I'd been that "ding-bat" nurse, it would be fairly easy to say "The doctor is busy seeing patients and dealing with emergencies. He doesn't diagnose over the phone. If this is an emergency, if you're having trouble breathing or having chest pains I can call 911 for you. Should I call 911 for you and have the ambulance pick you up?"
[QUOTE=GGT;62809]You should re-read your initial post, then. It's filled with angry bile, expectations and demands. For your skin condition. :rolleyes: [/QUOT
Hell yes I was angry...still am for that matter. It's a fucking skin condition not a fucking heart attach!
No, I simply asked for something to help me from being scraped raw! I didn't diagnosis or demand anything except a timely response, but the proper person, to a problem I was having! How damned hard it that to understand?Quote:
Your attitude toward the receptionist and nurse are quite clear, and it's not good. You probably told the physician what you expected him to prescribe, as if you'd already done the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment....and just needed his official signature on a prescription pad. That's not how modern medicine works.
Talk about overkill!Quote:
If I'd been that "ding-bat" nurse, it would be fairly easy to say "The doctor is busy seeing patients and dealing with emergencies. He doesn't diagnose over the phone. If this is an emergency, if you're having trouble breathing or having chest pains I can call 911 for you. Should I call 911 for you and have the ambulance pick you up?"
By your definition, NO medical professional should EVER be questioned! We should all just be led around by our noses, like good little sheepies! :mad: Personally, I think everyone who works for "us", from the garbage man to the doctor, should be held accountable for any and all needs. I don't understand why people seem to think that, just because you managed to get through medical/nursing school, you should be allowed to treat the customer (patient) like they have no brain.
[QUOTE=oldmunchkin;62810]Your tags are messed up.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
And your anger is severely displaced. Skin conditions (short of anaphylactic shock) are not emergencies. Nurses can give good temporary advice for that sort of thing over the phone, much like what you got here......until your appointment with the doctor.
Sounds hysterical and over-reactionary. That type of skin condition doesn't just happen suddenly, unless it's related to a severe allergic reaction or drug withdrawal. Neither should be diagnosed sight unseen or over the phone.Quote:
No, I simply asked for something to help me from being scraped raw! I didn't diagnosis or demand anything except a timely response, but the proper person, to a problem I was having! How damned hard it that to understand?
Now you're being irrational. For some reason you refused to accept a nurse as a medical professional. Even when they could provide some temporary relief solutions for your skin condition until you can see the physician. Contrary to what you think, doctors aren't waiting around at your beck and call, and they're not responsible for any and all of your needs. That's preposterous.Quote:
Talk about overkill!
By your definition, NO medical professional should EVER be questioned! We should all just be led around by our noses, like good little sheepies! :mad: Personally, I think everyone who works for "us", from the garbage man to the doctor, should be held accountable for any and all needs. I don't understand why people seem to think that, just because you managed to get through medical/nursing school, you should be allowed to treat the customer (patient) like they have no brain.
No wonder you don't understand, or take it as a personal affront when the doctor isn't immediately on the phone just for you.
Really, get a grip.
Have to have a talk with the girlfriend sometime after New Years that I've been putting off having for a few months now due to being busy with getting my website up, trying to find a job, and the holidays. Not looking forward to it, but have to resolve some problems we've been having (or at least get her to understand that there are problems). :sour:
Was going to sign up the little one and I for swim lessons; just a chance to do something out of the house. It's almost $100 at the YMCA! That's insane amount to pay just to have her splash around. I think I will have to wait until she is a bit older so we can get our money's worth. Maybe after she turns 1 and is more mobile then it will be a better idea. :(
cat, you can just take her to Open Family Swim time to splash around. That's usually free.
If you are a member it is. I'm not paying the $86 a month for that either.
Sigh. I realize how cheap I sound. That messes with my groove too.
I know what you mean.....the Y is a United Way recipient, too. Go figure. If there's a YWCA near you, their membership is much cheaper, and so are the classes.
I don't give to United Way anymore. Their overhead is ridiculous. I decided it was better for me to give directly to the charity I want the money to go to (in my case, the local foodbank since no one should ever go hungry).
Ah well. I guess I could just fill our bathtub and go from there. ;)
The UW fund raising drives used to bug me that way, as a new grad unable to afford their membership. But they'd put these 'donation' slips in our paychecks, and 'lobby' everyone really hard.
Bathtubs are fun. Come summertime it'll be sprinkler/hose/baby pool. Now that's a blast. :D
I visited a friend who's working on a 77m yacht and got a little bit of a tour. At first I was just impressed at how big the thing was. Then during the tour so many serious problems were pointed out to me that I found it hard to believe that anybody would spend so much money on something functioning so bad (plumbing causing bad smells, breakers blowing out almost standard and generally an electric system so bad that TV's and computers lived significant shorter than you'd usually expect them, airconditioning insufficient to keep the temperature in the staterooms pleasant).
They're showing the rest of Caprica tonight, and I saw in the Facebook comments that SyFy has cancelled SG-U, too.
Now, I admit that it's not the greatest show ever, and it's rather low on my list of programs to catch up on. But it's still better than the majority of the garbage they are now showing on SyFy. Unless, of course, you happen to be a fan of Ghost Hunters or wrestling.
No, wait - they show Twilight Zone reruns.
Assholes.
ugh, my inlaws watch Ghost Hunters or one of those similar shows. One time I had to watch a two hour run at their house and wanted to shoot someone.
I only tune in to Syfy if they happen to have an episode of Star Trek TNG that I haven't seen before.
er, they show wrestling on there? Why?
FUCK...I actually like SG-U.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Funny you mention Ghost Hunters and wrestling...Better Half and I were just joking about them. He mentioned...who watchs that? And I replied the same people that watch wrestling, and he said: Exactly!
Facebook reference! :facepalm:
Girl, 16, dies after being hit by cars
Fuller story in the link but a 16 year old girl has died after being hit by "a series of cars", snippet from the article::(Quote:
Tayside Police said several drivers had come forward to say they may have hit the girl as she lay in the road.
The A9 is still closed in both directions to allow a crash investigation to take place.
Supt Tony Beveridge said: "We have already had a number of drivers come forward reporting that they may have hit the girl as she lay on the carriageway.
"It would have been dark at the time of the incident and it's possible that some drivers may even have thought that they have hit an animal.
Just finished watching the last of Caprica. It was great. At least the show ended at its peak, I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Minor Spoiler:
I'm so happy Ghost Hunters got another season instead of Caprica.
Floods, floods are fucking destroying my business. :(
Was wondering if you were in the affected areas.
Quite unbelievable scenes.
Your house affected too at all?
I am not directly affected but my business is, ironically I am in a severely drought affected area while a considerable portion of my customers are in flooded regions.
Well, my former business "partner" is trying to extort me. We both agreed when we split months ago that he'd get the company and I'd keep the game. Now he's trying to renege and claim 50% when I release it. Like fucking hell. Anyone know a good lawyer?
Did you make the agreement in writing, notarized, with witnesses?
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Guess which one just got murdered...
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/...pt=T1&iref=BN1Quote:
(CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was critically wounded Saturday in a shooting at a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store in which at least 11 other people were injured, officials said.
Darci Slaten, a spokeswoman for University Medical Center in Tucson, said Giffords was undergoing surgery Saturday afternoon for a gunshot wound to the head.
A federal judge from Arizona was among the 11 others shot in the incident, a law enforcement source told CNN.
The shooting happened shortly after 10 a.m. MST, Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jason Ogan said.
Giffords, 40, was holding a constituent meeting at the Safeway grocery store when the shooting occurred, according to a schedule posted on her website.
Palin's use of "don't retreat, reload" and using gun scopes as targets is a really bad decision. It just encourages the crazies. :mad:
None of our agreements were in writing, notarized, with witnesses. It's all chat logs.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Eeeep, hope things work out right for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angel_Mapper
If he sues for half the profits, can't you countersue for half the company? Or ask the court why you'd willingly give up the entire company if you got nothing in return.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angel_Mapper
I've already started up another company in my name only, so I don't want half of that one. From what I'm reading online I should be fine, I'll know for sure once I talk to a lawyer after the weekend.
You might not want half the company, but the guy probably doesn't want to lose half of his company. Make it clear that there are clear consequences for doing what he's doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angel_Mapper