Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.

'Objects In Space'


Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Connie Neil - Apr 04, 2014 6:12:22 pm PDT #10218 of 30002
brillig

Hubby's home. They're thinking it was a reaction to the chemo as the heart attack markers are not present. We got the definite impression that they didn't think his cardiac history was a colorful as it is. The ER people don't have access to the drug list that he presented to the oncology people yesterday morning, and the oncology department is 7 floors up from the ER. I don't know if its HIPAA stupidity or interdepartmental noncommunication.


Liese S. - Apr 04, 2014 6:28:39 pm PDT #10219 of 30002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Well that's good news though, right? Not the paperwork bit.


erin_obscure - Apr 04, 2014 7:59:39 pm PDT #10220 of 30002
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

My money would be on non communication. Which is a problem, esp for someone on complicated chemical cocktails!

Heh, speaking of non communication, i've been playing phone tag with this GI/liver specialist for more than 3 wks trying to get the results after my latest MRI. Not really a huge concern, it isn't getting bigger...but it also isn't getting smaller and all the reading i've done strongly reccomends surgical removal due to the possibility of spontaneous rupture/bleeding out internally. I'm cool with reducing the likelihood of an er surgery with a planned, routine situation. Anyhoo....phone tag since the office doesn't seem to understand "don't call me during x time, i'll be at work and i can't answer my phone." Like, it's not just inconvenient, i'm tethered to my station with a headset constantly taking 911 and non emer phone calls, i really can't answer my cell phone. In fact, I could be fired for taking a personal phone call while on the floor. Latest msg from dr was sort of an "oops", apparently the nurse who called to talk to be about the ERCP had me mixed up with a diff pt. So no ERCP for me. There will be a different kind of unpleasant biopsy, which IIRC from earlier consultation will involve a CT-guided very large needle. I was prepared for that far more than for something going down my throat. Makes more sense. Will be discussed on Monday when i am Not At Work and can thus Answer My Phone.

eta: I'm very relieved.


Trudy Booth - Apr 04, 2014 8:13:29 pm PDT #10221 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Here's a story with a happy ending: I remember my MiL getting hit by the costs of chemo in a similar way. One month it was $300, the next it was $3000. My husband and I had to absorb the extra cost as she couldn't afford it. With the social worker's help we kept looking for alternatives, and the third month the manufacturer not only charged us $3 for the medicine, they reimbursed us for the previous month's costs.

They should film that and show it every Christmas.


omnis_audis - Apr 04, 2014 11:34:58 pm PDT #10222 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Tons of health~ma and insurance~ma to Connie & Ginger.

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IOmeN - I've been looking online for a replacement car for a couple weeks now. Waiting for the right one to show up. Well, I think the right one has! And I just spent the past 3 hours trying to find my Scottrade checkbook. Where was it? One level down on my end table, right where I looked first... only one level up, and thus spent 3 hours digging in every box in my bedroom and closet. ::sigh:: Hey, at least I found it! Hopefully the car will be there tomorrow. I have a charity event in the morning. And as luck would have it, the dealership that has the car, is only a couple miles form the charity event!


omnis_audis - Apr 05, 2014 9:11:48 am PDT #10223 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Wow, slow day on the board. Hope that means everyone is having a fun Saturday.

Dealership called. Car I was looking at is no longer available. But they have another Prius. One year older with LESS miles. Like 20,000 less! But more money. But it's not available until Wednesday. Huh?


meara - Apr 05, 2014 9:25:12 am PDT #10224 of 30002

What's wrong with your current car, omnis? Or better about the one you want?

I was just talking with my BFF last night, both of us have perfectly functional 2001 cars (hers a diesel Jetta, mine a toyota RAV4) that are old and ugly by now, and neither of us feels like we can justify a new car, and a new car would mean caring if it got dinged, but....


Sean K - Apr 05, 2014 9:34:02 am PDT #10225 of 30002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

So the current roommate has turned into a raging, passive aggressive asshole in the last week. He just has no filter or hesitation on letting me know that he thinks all of what I find entertaining, and how I spend my time, is stupid shit and a complete waste of time (his exact words).

And he does it in a completely passive aggressive way, prefacing and buttressing his comments with "I'm sorry, BUT..." and "I don't mean to be an asshole, BUT..." and "I don't mean to rain on your parade, BUT..."

And he does it every time with a snide, snarky chuckle that almost sounds like Beavis.

He did it last night in the middle of a movie I was watching, and I had to turn it off and just go into my room for the rest of the night to not rip into his shit or just flat out deck him.

I just have no idea what to even say to him right now. Thankfully he is gone this morning, though who knows when he's coming back. He's out on a business trip starting Monday. He comes back toward the end of the week, then flies out to NY to pack up his stuff there, and he's effectively out.

Seriously, what is it with people?


Connie Neil - Apr 05, 2014 9:38:44 am PDT #10226 of 30002
brillig

Why not smile cheerfully at him and say "I'm so looking forward to you leaving"? Or "I'm dreadfully sorry that you've had to lower yourself to such demeaning surroundings when you would otherwise have been homeless."


Sean K - Apr 05, 2014 9:47:01 am PDT #10227 of 30002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I have become rather confrontation-averse of late.

To say nothing of the fact that between this asshole and Fuckhead the Lying Thief, I'm left wondering if the problem really is me, and that I'm horribly unpleasant to be around.

In particular, I have heard from at least one mutual friend of Fuckhead the Lying Thief that there is somehow another side to the story, beyond he just didn't pay his fucking rent.

Apparently I made him feel unwelcome or some fucking thing, which I was previously unaware was a legitimate excuse for not paying your fucking rent.

And since all this guy can snark about is how much the things I like suck, well I guess maybe the problem IS me, and I should just stay the fuck out of his way.

I really wish I could afford this place on my own.