Psychotomy

OK. So.

Thursday (17 Nov) I leave my conference early, fevers chills headache.

Friday, headache diminishes some, fevers/chills are gone, but i have a scratchy throat and a cough.

Saturday, coughing a lot, generally feeling lousy.

Sunday, ditto

Monday, ditto. hit the doc’s for strep test. fast strep inconclusive, never heard back about culture

Tuesday, lousy. coughing. can’t really talk anymore, between the sick and the cough. drive to NC

Wednesday, lousy, coughing, silent. drive the rest of the way to atlanta.

thursday, lousy, coughing, mostly silent

friday, coughing, quiet

saturday, coughing, some voice

sunday, some coughing, mostly vocal.

still not “well”…
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welp. we went to atlanta tuesday afternoon. left from here at about 2 and stopped in NC at the red roof inn maybe 6ish. mind, i was completely tossed with only 4 hours of driving. Why? BECAUSE I WAS STILL SICK. yeah. felt lousy when we left, and it really didn’t get better driving :o

large quantities of meaty foods, huge crowds, then driving back. yay for holidays
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i think what i have has degenerated into strep.

of course, my doctor’s not in her office monday, or even tuesday morning. i can’t see her until tuesday afternoon. every now and then it occurs to me that the setup SUCKS.

Because, you see, we’re supposed to be driving to atlanta tuesday afternoon. and i really don’t see me being able to do it in this condition. swallowing hurts like hell. I keep taking couple hour naps out of the blue. Even driving to richmond where her grandparents are doing t-day is going to be pushing it unless i get something from the doc tuesday. *sigh*

and worse, I’d been mock-kvetching about going to her parents lakehouse “in the middle of nowhere, there’s nothing to do! why would i want to be at a lakehouse in november?? thats it, we’re not going!” … and then i get sick and it’s looking like we may actually be not going.

and may i say? i hate being this sick. ouch.

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so. slept a couple hours yesterday before going to my sewing class, yeah.

got home, ate dinner,went to bed at 9:30 or 10. got up this morning about 8:30. took k over to camp, came home, watched two eps of law and order, slept for another 2 hours. watched another ep, slept for an hour.

definitely sick :/

i did, however, drink 59oz of OJ today. 900% of my RDA on vit C :)

after dinner, i may go back to bed :o

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i appear to be coming down with something.

a sinus headache that threatens to split my skull wide open, and my throat is sore.

spent the morning in session freezing my ass off, shivering, and by afternoon i was cold, yet burning up. i left at 3 during hte afternoon break, rather than waiting for it to end at 5:30. i just didn’t think i was gonna make it that far :/ i was completely out of it, in pain, and feeling sick.

got home, took an hour or two nap and went out to my sewing session. learned about heirloom sewing and the wing needle, dual needles, various bonus feet and plates and stuff. basically, it was a big sell :o but soem of them are damned neat.

they gave us sheets for registering for gifts. i asked if there was any discount, or if this was just to identify. it’s just to identify bits :( too bad. not that i was reall gonna tell anyone “I’m registered for holiday gifts at the husqvarna/viking sewing center in columbia joanns” … b/c, really, who’s gonna be in this area anyway? :o

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OK. So.

In late june we put in the order for our kitchen. paid 33% of the price in advance. no problem.

Mid/late august they take out our old kitchen finally. OK there was some broken cabinets, fine, yeah.

It was late september/early october before we got the new counters. another week or two to put them in.

3 weeks (4?) to get the inspector out and to actually PASS the inspection.

November 4 the contractor finishes, finally, and the kitchen is done (it’s been usable since the counter went in, though, at least, otherwise JESUS). That’s … 6-11. between 4.5 and 5 months. FIVE MONTHS.

Afternoon of the 4th we have an answering machine message from HD. “Where’s our money”

Morning of the 5th I get a call “Where’s our money, bitch” I tell them I’ll try to hit the bank and get the check that week.

Evening of the 12th when we get home, there’s a message. “yo, bitch. cough up the money or your punk ass is dead” I go in on the 13th to return the bits the contractor had left over (one of which they couldn’t identify, so I’m stuck with. But they said it was probably worth 40 or 50$. 6 other pieces totalled to 120. yeah, you can’t identify it. uh huh. it’s just worth real money and you wanna rape my ass some more)

I talk to them, get them to put a note in that i’ll go today/tomorrow for hte check. apparently they usually call once and if you don’t give them the money by end of the business day after, they turn it over to collections and legal. So by the 7th i was supposed to have paid them. IT TAKES THEM FIVE MONTHS TO INSTALL THE FUCKER, AND I HAVE TO PAY WITHIN 24 HOURS???? WTF???

I happen to ask if the delivery fee has been credited. It hasn’t. WTF??? I had to carry and cart the fucking cabinets in myself b/c the delivery team decided to leave them outside (“we don’t take them in”) … outside, in my NEIGHBORS driveway. Not even mine. MY NEIGHBORS.

I’m told I have to talk to the “expediter” to resolve it (I DID, you stupid fucks. when it happened. I called and complained to a number of people, and i was assured that the delivery charge would be removed/credited since I HAD TO CARRY THE SHIT MYSELF)

run to the credit union this morning (it’s 30 minutes in the direction opposite of where i needed to go for my conference this morning, mind) and get a check for most of it, and try to call the “expediter” during one of the breaks, at like 3ish. She’s in a meeting for another 10 minutes, then she’s going home. WTF? she goes home at 3??? WTF!

So, I’m supposed to pay within 24 hours, but they take 5 months to do the job and then keep bankers hours when i want to talk to them? fuck.

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monday i went to the surgeon for consultation (prescrip was before then after this)

he looks at my ass, asks if i’m sure i had a cyst (no, you dumb fuck, i’m making this shit up b/c i like quacks poking at my ass) b/c he can’t see it. after carefully explaining tha that’s probably b/c she LANCED IT nearly 3 weeks back and it’s had time to heal up, he changes to “i don’t see any scarring or anything to even indicate where it was” in the pilonidal area maybe??? i mean, it’s not like i went in and told him “i have a booboo”. I have a freakin’ PILONIDAL CYST. These happen in a very particular area!! THE PILONIDAL!

then he said that since it was only a first instance (he seemed fairly willing to discount the incident a couple years ago that i’m fairly sure was this too) he wasn’t inclined to operate, since it could be months, or even years, before it happened again.

then he explained the procedure to me. There’s the bascom procedure (or bascom 1) which makes a small incision off the side, cuts back over and cleans out the cyst from the inside and seals it up so it won’t get infected anymore. outpatient, 90% of people go back to work next day.

then there’s bascom 2 for those patients where 1 is insufficient. it involves cleaning it out, still, but then “closing” the cleft … basically sewing the top inch of your ass closed so that it won’t get stuff there to infect it anymore. fun, eh?

then there’s barbarism. where they excise the cyst/abcess. this quack wanted to take out a 2″x3″x1.5″ chunk of my ass (and yes, one of those is DEPTH) as an outpatient procedure. he explained how a lot of things were outpatient, they could take out a gallbladder as an outpatient procedure. I CAN REMOVE A HEART OUTPATIENT, YOU DUMB FUCK, IT DOESNT MEAN THE PATIENT SURVIVES OR ITS SMART!!!

when i decide i need to get this fixed (if it happens again, or if i just decide i don’t want to deal with it happenning again) … I’m gonna find a surgeon who’ll do bascom. I mean, the paper I read on it was REVISED 10 years after publishing, already. Hell. THAT revision is nearly 10 years old !!! THIS IS NOT RADICAL UNTESTED SCIENCE! THIS IS MEDICAL SCIENCE!!!

fucking quacks. keep your butchers knives away from my ass.

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Well, it’s been pointed out that it’s been almost a month since i last said anything here. so, here goes something.

about a month ago, during the whole cyst thing, I asked the doc to up my dosage of lexapro, b/c i was still getting some fairly severe mood swings. particularly when i forgot it one night, the next day i was off the charts. but even sometimes when i DID take it i was left of center.

of course, then, in the way of things, I lost the prescription for a few weeks :o finalyl found it monday, dropped it off. went back a few hours later to pick it up, and they were needing to call the dr’s b/c the dosage had changed. I’d been on 20′s now doc had me on 40′s so they wanted to verify it. it’s a fucking prescription with a fucking dr’s signature. what fucking verification do they need that they’ll trust more than the sig????

forgot it a couple days, went to pick it up friday since i was getting fish at the store anyway. ask for it, and they tell me they couldn’t fill it b/c i should have some still and not up for refill until thanksgiving. so i talk to the pharmacist, and point out that yes, i have a prescrip for 20′s. but this is 40′s, and i don’ know what dimwitted fuck monkey put 20 on the computer, but it’s supposed to be a 40. so she pulls out the original prescrip, where it clearly says 40mg. and has been clearly crossed out and has clearly written next to it “20mg per dr” …

FUCK! And of course, I’ve been doubling my 20′s since i got the prescrip, b/c i’m supposed tob e on double dosage, so i’m fucking running out of them. but i can’t get a new one b/c somewhere between the pharmacy, the PPO and the doc’s, it’s gotten all fucked up. again.

but i’m much more mellow and tolerant on 40. it’s all gonna go straight to shit when i run out though and i become the old school monster. esp since i went on the meds b/c i couldn’t control it anymore and it’s just been getting worse (thus the raised dosage)

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so, when i went to take my shower this morning, i couldn’t get my hair tie out.

on and off during the day i tried, and it wouldn’t budge. when i got home,i finally cut it out. and my hair didn’t go anywhere. apparently i got it so matted, tangled, and knotted that the hair tie had become one with my hair, but wasn’t really DOING anything anymore.

i ended up spending 45 minutes washing my hair. pulling, tugging, tearing, rubbing in conditioner to help it losen up. oi. but as much as was involved, i was DAMNED if i was gonna cut it that short!

DAMNED!

i still need to go and get a couple inchesoff again, to deal with the frays and split ends and everything that this is usually a sign of :/

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makign a lot of general entries, ain’t i :o

thought I’d be talking moreabout the games, guess that shows what i know!

Anyway, I like SoBe Energy and LizFuel (and a few others, but they’re more an occasional break thing). I used to get them at the grocery or at target. then the grocery quit carrying them, but i noticed quiznos had them. then target quit. so now i’ve been buying them 2 or 3 at a time at quiznos or the gas station. For the lats 2 weeks, the gas station’s been out, too. Even quizno’s runs out half hte time.

If I have access, I’ll drink two a day, sometimes three.

This week, our grocery had them on sale, 10 for 10$. Except OUR grocery hasn’t had them in over a year now. my parents doesn’t carry it. the one by the office didn’t, a year ago. useless sale.

UNTIL!

today we went in for a couple things, and they had a bunch. Had, past tense. I bought three cases of Energy and 2 of LizFuel. I left 2 bottles of energy and most of a case of fuel (it was an open case and thus harder to transport). Poor cashierhad to ring the bottles up one at a time /bc the system wouldn’t let her say “24 scan” or something useful like that. 60 bottles. Saved 30$ on it, normal grocery price is 1.50$. Gas station is 1.99$. Quiznos is 1.79$. So I saved a lot.

Now I have to figure out how to bring them all in :o

PS : I plan to go back friday, in case they restocked. Maybe they’ll start stocking it regularly now, sicne I bought out half the stock that was out :)

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