Aug 15, 2017, 2:57 AM
Sending hugs, so sorry to hear that. Pets are wonderful and fabulous and losing a beloved one is always hard.
RL Anger
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@Arkandel I am so sorry.
It is sometimes just so quick (both the final moment and the decline to such), and it can feel far too fast. Give yourself the time you need to say goodbye, and don't feel you need to stop cherishing her memory.
It's one of those times when it really is OK to not be OK.
All the hugs.
Oh fucking well.
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In a way it was a relief that she got worse suddenly. I feel shitty for admitting it but one of my main dilemmas was that the line wasn't clear; she'd been having some trouble breathing but it was occasional, a coughing/heaving fit that'd last for 30-40 seconds and then she seemed okay. I could see massive changes in her behavior though, she never had energy for anything since she never had enough air any more; she'd always come to me whenever I was watching TV and never did any more, and when I petted her she'd give me her belly for rubs but she wouldn't purr - I suspect she physically couldn't any more.
But until things got to the state where she was open-mouth breathing on her own scratchpad it wasn't... obvious that she had to go.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Hugs.
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Sympathies, @Arkandel
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So sorry to hear this @Arkandel . It's that unconditional love that they give us, which makes it so hard when they go.
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Sending hugs, so sorry to hear that. Pets are wonderful and fabulous and losing a beloved one is always hard.
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Jerks. Whoever did it is a jerk.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Lincoln-Memorial-Vandalized-With-Red-Spray-Paint-440565873.html -
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Fuck online bookstore businesses for not, in 2017, enhancing their online bookstore to show data on a book such as:
- other books in the series and where this one falls into that series
- information on series books on chronology
Further, fuck technical/computer book publishers for not clearly and prominently including specific information about what version of whatever software that they are speaking to in the book. It matters more and more, nowadays, that you have the right information on the code that you are reading, and if I have to anecdotally pick that up from Chapter 3 commentary, then you are doing it wrong.
We already have something like 5 sections in the prologue section of the book, add some requirement data under 'Who this book is intended for', for instance!
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Almost 3 weeks ago I filed a change of address form with my school. To make sure any textbooks they send (they send my textbooks; costs are folded into tuition) go to the new address. Yesterday I got a tracking number... that they were being shipped to the old one. So I contacted the department shipping them to let them know hey, you shipped them to the wrong place.
Got this back today:
'I see where you were in contact with Advising regarding your change of address form. If you completed the form, I am not sure why it was not updated on your student record. In any case I would recommend completing the form below. Please note that the form indicates a $15(added to your school balance) re-direct fee and/or GPS point reduction. In this case, it seems like you did already attempt to change your address ahead of time so I would recommend reaching out to Advising to get more details.'GPS points tie into our GPA. It's basically 'student conduct.'
So I may be able to counteract this. But not guaranteed. So I did everything right, but my GPA might still take a hit.
Awesome.
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I left my previous job over a month ago. I am trying to rollover and manipulate the 401K, old job hasn't bothered to inform Fidelity that I KNOW LONGER WORK FOR THEM.
It's like, fuck you, let me do what I want with my money people who I don't even work for anymore!
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Having a mild allergy to penicillin. Holy shit is this a pain in my ass.
...Bactrim doesn't work, GP-Doc. Stop giving it to me, please. No, really, really Bactrim doesn't work -- you've given it to me for everything for so long it's useless now; all it does is hyper-inflame everything in its rush to push the infection out of my system to the extent that I break out everywhere and my skin starts abrading if I do so much as dare to wear clothes other than a night shirt, just in time for the antibiotic to run out and I'm covered in peak-level awful in places where there was never a problem in the first place, which then becomes a bigger problem than whatever I started off with.
^ The long-standing problem exposition.This has been my life for over a month now:
GP-Doc: "Sorry, I know that sounds really bad, but we can't see you until next Friday at the earliest. I'll set that up for you now."
(By that weekend it was ER time again.)
ER-Doc, no, please don't give me Bactrim. It hasn't ever worked for me properly and makes things worse rather than better, and damn it does a number on my stomach in the process. Oh, they've just been not having me take enough of it to get rid of the problem? OK... I guess I'll give it a try... 5 pills instead of 2, ok, you're the one with the degrees and that you insist that the problem before was because they weren't giving me enough of it, that makes enough sense that it's worth trying.
(Cue the problems just being 5x worse and it still not doing the necessary job; the moment the Bactrim runs out, it goes back to being worse than what it started out as that sent me to the ER in under 2 days.)
Surgeon, seriously, don't prescribe Bactrim for me. It makes everything so over the top inflamed that when I remove the surgical tape it pulls my skin off with it in patches. Oh... which antibiotic it is doesn't matter really because you did the surgery and that's what'll ultimately resolve it? OK, I guess I'll give it a try...
...did he seriously just give me 2/day again when 5/day didn't fucking work? FML.
(The same day... ) GP-Doc, I have a problem. Yeah, we called you and the surgeon to get appointments and he was actually able to have me come in immediately, which was handy. But here's the problem... <places empty pill bottle on counter, places full bottle on the counter> 5/day didn't do the trick on this. 2/day is not going to do jack and we both know that. While I'm going to try it, can you please get me an alternative so when this inevitably goes sideways I don't have to have that seriously emotionally rattling surgery again? (I am not saying what it is or giving the details about it here because it is definitely the sort of thing that'd put everybody off their lunch, fuck knows it redefined 'body horror' for me for years to come, no doubt. It's not embarrassing or anything, it's just horrifyingly gross.) Thanks, man. I have a feeling I'm going to need this.
(Cue the week trying Bactrim 2/day leaving a veritable ring of scars around the incision from dressing changes -- with the sensitive tape and everything. Incision? So inflamed the skin around it is showing the initial signs of going necrotic. FUCK. Switch to the alternative; in under a day and a half I stop shedding patches of skin like a snake and the incision returns to the appearance of healthy tissue.)
Followup with surgeon: "This is doing very well!" "I dunno, doc... it was gone before and I can feel it swelling again, but the incision is closed, so I'm really concerned about this... " "Oh, that's just a thing that happens. You're doing really well! It will take about 2 months for the incision to fully heal, but in a week or so you should just be able to cover it with a band-aid." BTW please don't give me Bactrim? It is really messing me up, look at this, my skin looks like a map of a string of islands made of scabs here! Nurse: "Let me write that one down, that should not be happening!" ...at which point I watch her write down: NO BACTRIM.
Three days later... : WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THAT?!
Two days later, surgeon: "Oh, that really is a problem. I'm going to have to repeat the procedure, we can take care of this quickly... " Worse, because I know what's coming, and I have now seen what this looks like in demo vids. WORSE worse because the local didn't hit the right nerves in all areas.
"I'll give you another two weeks of antibiotics, and come back in about 10 days so I can take a closer look at that."
...and the motherfucker seriously went with 2/day Bactrim again.
Bonus irony: I never knew why I was allergic to penicillin. My folks had just told me I was since I was tiny, so I repeated it. Apparently, my 'horrible allergy to penicillin' was... I got a minor reddish splotch-rash on my legs that went away after a day and a half, sort of like a very mild case of hives. Which my folks weren't sure even then weren't just my normal allergies. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
Seriously, FML right now.
Oh fucking well.
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My sister pocket-dialled me from overseas... at 5 am. Since there's basically never something good anyone would call at that hour for I freaked out, and by the time it was clear it was an accident ("hey, what's up?" "uh, you called me." "no I didn't." "...") it was too late to get back to sleep.
Meh!
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@surreality said in RL Anger:
Bonus irony: I never knew why I was allergic to penicillin. My folks had just told me I was since I was tiny, so I repeated it. Apparently, my 'horrible allergy to penicillin' was... I got a minor reddish splotch-rash on my legs that went away after a day and a half, sort of like a very mild case of hives. Which my folks weren't sure even then weren't just my normal allergies. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
Allergies tend to worsen with each occurrence. Trust me; I know.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede Oh, believe me... that one I know. I've had all kinds of weird allergies over the years. Some were effectively treated, some I grew out of or developed a resistance to. (Cats, for instance -- I was allergic as a kid, but I can snorgle the dickens out of the fluffbomb with my nose now without so much as a hint of red eye.)
They basically wrote down a 'meh' side effect as a major allergy, though, and it's been repeated so long through my medical history that there's no going back on it now. They did use some penicillin derivatives on me while I was in the hospital, though, and there were no adverse effects from it. Partly why this is so frustrating now.
That side effect, even if it recurred with more temporary itchy blotches, wouldn't be as bad as the constant nausea, my skin sloughing off in patches, and the inflammation level. What they keep insisting on giving me does a good job on the 'pushing out any hint of anything that could be infected', but it does it in an extreme enough manner that it turns everything into a disaster. Tiny ingrown invisible hair on my arm that would never cause any problem and go away on its own with no harm done? Suddenly may as well be a nasty spider bite. And so on.
Oh fucking well.
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Just lie and tell them you're allergic to bactrim so they stop giving it to you. It will limit the choices available to you in the future as they'll probably avoid the whole family of drugs, but at it will force them to give you something different.
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Had a SNES Classic in my cart on both Walmart and Target's websites, but was like 30s late to the party.
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@surreality You need to learn how to say no. Followed by NO. And not give in. Insist on an alternative and stick to it. You know you better than they do and if you keep putting those pills in your mouth, whose fault is it really?