Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

Rinel

@nyctophiliac said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I pull a lawn chair up to the wall and get my kid over, who's panicked and running up and down the length of the wall screaming.

He immediately gets, fully dressed, into the pool.

...what

Arkandel

@rinel In a parallel, even more imperfect universe he'd have done this after dropping a deuce and not before.

boneghazi

@rinel He was running, like pacing back and forth in a panic. I managed to get him over by pulling up a lawn chair from the inside and as soon as he was on top of the planter (about hip height) he wrapped his arms around my neck and I carried him down the other side.

My English wasn't good there, I was pretty exhausted. Sorry! Still probably not great.

Derp

@nyctophiliac said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@rinel He was running, like pacing back and forth in a panic. I managed to get him over by pulling up a lawn chair from the inside and as soon as he was on top of the planter (about hip height) he wrapped his arms around my neck and I carried him down the other side.

My English wasn't good there, I was pretty exhausted. Sorry! Still probably not great.

I think the 'what' from @Rinel was more directed at:

'And then he immediately got into the pool while fully dressed.'

Which I second. Lol, you had a day.

Cobalt

Woke up to a text from my roommate about how he went to a crowded night club for a party last night. But it's fine! He's got antibodies for c19 since he's already had it.

But if I'm worried, just keep my distance for a bit.

-_-

Ganymede

@cobaltasaurus

Unfortunately that really modernly-tasteless joke Eddie Murphy made about getting AIDS on their lips is sort of how COVID-19 gets around.

Cobalt

And now he's having movie night in our living room with a bunch of people from work. -_-

His Xmas party is how we caught covid.

Aria

@cobaltasaurus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

And now he's having movie night in our living room with a bunch of people from work. -_-

His Xmas party is how we caught covid.

....Have you considered setting his hair on fire and telling him not to worry about it because he can just put on a hat? Because I feel like that would be a reasonable response at this point.

Ominous

Have you considered sealing him in cellar behind a brick wall Cask of Amontillado style?

Cobalt

@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@cobaltasaurus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

And now he's having movie night in our living room with a bunch of people from work. -_-

His Xmas party is how we caught covid.

....Have you considered setting his hair on fire and telling him not to worry about it because he can just put on a hat? Because I feel like that would be a reasonable response at this point.

Ugh, might need to.

@Ominous unfortunately no cellars here to wall him into.

I only need to make it until June, and then the boyfriend and I are getting our own place. I'm so tired of living with these people. :x

Cobalt

Not sure whether to put this in real world peeves or health thread but:

Had an ultrasound on Monday, got told "your doctor will have the results by this afternoon". Doctor told me "if you don't hear back from us in 24hrs, call us". Didn't hear anything on Monday, so called Tuesday to find out what was up...

"Oh, <your doctor> isn't going to be in for the rest of the week."

explode

Ganymede

@cobaltasaurus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

"Oh, <your doctor> isn't going to be in for the rest of the week."

"You actually have a duty to inform a patient of their results upon request as well; please have someone call me back immediately or else the next one you will receive will be from my lawyer."

Cobalt

@ganymede They claim they don't have the results back, but the imaging place is going to give me a copy of the report they sent over. They can't go over it with me, but I can at least get it.

I am fucking tired of being in pain. The abdominal pain has mostly subsided but I feel like something is pushing a small orange into my fist constantly. 24/7. The only time the pain stops is when I soak in a hit bath.

Also constant nausea.

Ganymede

@cobaltasaurus

Sounds to me like they are lying to you.

Your doctor, presuming they are ethical and competent, should have someone covering them while they are out, in case of emergencies.

This sounds like one.

Cobalt

@ganymede They're idiots. It's an urgent care/family medicine combo that blue cross/blue shield assigned me to when I first got my insurance. I'm in the process t getting another doctor.

This doctor, didn't know how to do a BEG referral. Has failed to send referrals in a timely order, making me have to miss appointments with specialist. And has also decided I need to keep following a diabetic diet and recheck my blood sugar every three months when my levels aren't high enough to warrant it (and my a1c went DOWN this time) and my insurance keeps deeming the tests medically unnecessary so I have to pay out of pocket for them.

TNP

@cobaltasaurus You are allowed to tell your doctor 'No.'

il-volpe

@tnp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@cobaltasaurus You are allowed to tell your doctor 'No.'

While technically this is true, many of us have such limited health-care options that we kinda aren't, because if the doctor fires us, we can't get another before we die.

mietze

So far every work night this week has been me needing to come home and not be looked at/touched/spoken to for an hour or more so I can recuperate. At least tonight there wasn't crying involved on the way home.

I'd like to say that people who neglect an infant suck, but at least in this case they're sporadic being brought to a place they won't be so at least that is something. Doesn't make the heart hurt less though.

GreenFlashlight

@cobaltasaurus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Had an ultrasound on Monday, got told "your doctor will have the results by this afternoon". Doctor told me "if you don't hear back from us in 24hrs, call us". Didn't hear anything on Monday, so called Tuesday to find out what was up...

"Oh, <your doctor> isn't going to be in for the rest of the week."

Ugh, I know exactly what you're going through. I got injured at work a week and a half ago. I'm on light duty only, not cleared to do any tasks that can't be completed from a chair, until I've had a follow-up with a doctor clearing me for work. The orthopedic group has called me several times trying to schedule an appointment, but every time I call them back, they say because it's a work injury, they can't talk to me; they have to talk to my employer's insurance adjuster.

Which would be fine if my insurance adjuster would return my calls.

Oh well, I guess they can keep paying me to sit on my ass.

Cobalt

@il-volpe said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@tnp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@cobaltasaurus You are allowed to tell your doctor 'No.'

While technically this is true, many of us have such limited health-care options that we kinda aren't, because if the doctor fires us, we can't get another before we die.

Yeah, I'm pretty fucking pissed because the radiologist gave me my report. They couldn't go over it with me but the impression is pretty damned clear. And what's wrong could be something easily remedied with antibiotics OR it could be life threatening.

I've got an appointment with a new primary doctor and I can take the radiologist's report with me when I go. But that's assume I don't give them my insurance and they go: "You have to pay your entire deductible before you can be seen" like the last primary I tried to see.

If that happens again I have to go back to seeing this doctor that is letting me be in a situation which could either be a relative easy fix (but I am being stuck in pain until it is), or it could be life threatening.