OMG, how is that so hilarious??

So I'm home from work. I had a three and a half hour commute for nothing, because we forgot that this week was testing, and we aren't teaching. D'oh. And furthermore, we doubled it, because the SO is expecting a package this afternoon, so we both drove so that I could come home early to sign for it.

Argh.

But on the other hand, off today and tomorrow. Guess I should count my blessings.

Isn't it? I can't stop laughing!

Which is good, because I hate email. It has taken 25 emails to arrange to have costumes brought to storage, and most of it was because of a mis-communication that would have been evident in person. But also because people don't understand costumes and are slightly stupid.

I cannot see the cute video. My workplace hates video.

Also one of the lunches I had to set-up today was not until 1!! No one does lunch at 1 here. The workday starts at 8. Lunch is at 12! Ugh, I was starving by the time it got delivered - then I had to set up and wait until the whole meeting got themselves served, then I snarfed down. Because at that point I was not leaving the office to get food. too late and I was too hungry.

I just baked a dozen banana muffins, two loaves of banana bread and three loaves of pumpkin bread. I had to stop because I ran out of sugar.

My workplace hates video

Mine, too.

Cashmere: I had to run out and buy emergency sugar yesterday, as well. Wacky.

I broke into the back up flour. I was planning on making Pioneer Woman's Texas Sheet Cake because I haven't made it in over a year. Going to have to make a sugar run when I return the video rentals.

I baked a loaf of pumpkin bread Friday and there's maybe 2 slices left. Tim has been eating it with pumpkin ice cream and whipped cream on top.

The man still has a 28-inch waist and he turns 46 in less than a month. I hate him sometimes.

My doctor has a number of things on his to do list today--not least of all to make nice with the ER, because apparently he pissed them off yesterday to the point where the denying doctor (Dr. Morocco, if you're scoring at home) hung up on him. So he wants to make sure I don't get treated badly because of that.

He's also trying to get face time with the woman that runs the place (with whom I used to get along, when I worked for the damned hospital) to discuss this.

He read me some of the notes from the doctor that dealt with me when I was admitted last week. This is the doctor who said tales of my bad reaction were "dubious". Said cool doc actually wrote a bit about this claim--he said he couldn't track down any record of it, just a handwritten, unsigned, undated scrap of paper in my file saying I'd had a bad reaction at some point previous. And apparently it's been crossed out with an annotation to disregard by the mystery social worker I've never met.

So this is the bullshit that the doctors who don't want to treat me have been using as a crutch. THERE IS NO MEDICAL RECORD OF ME HAVING HAD A NEGATIVE REACTION. And, oddly, there is more than one record of me having had absolutely healthy reactions to said requested regimen--and these are both signed and dated.

So a doctor can say to me "We don't think that you need IV painkillers" and when I ask them what I do need, they suggest oral painkillers. When I tell them I've run through all the FDA approved oral narcotics, and ask what else they'd suggest, the reply is "I don't know--I'm not a pain doctor, and I don't know your full records." At which point I say "Hey! I happen to have some recommendations from a doctor who does specialise in pain, and has been paying attention to my case for a few years now--do you think he might have an expert opinion?" "Look, we're just not going to give you these medications."

Why do they prevaricate? Why do they lie outright?

It's like they're playing chicken with my specialists, and I'm standing in the middle of the road.

And no, I can't get infusions from oncology, because they won't administer narcotics there, and the normal meds they'd infuse for migraines don't work for me.

And no, my neuro didn't have anything to give me that worked, but he did administer most to his samples to me.