Can I just say what a scam Amazon free shipping is? I mean, I know this is obvious, but it was really sent home to me when I ordered two small things from the same company and then added something totally different to get to the free shipping level. They are being sent in two packages. Their actual shipping costs at least doubled! And yet they got me to buy more from them for the deal.
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 25, 2018 3:49:49 am PST #21470 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
WindSparrow - Jan 25, 2018 4:03:57 am PST #21471 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
JZ, all the best ~ma for your brother and your whole family.
-t - Jan 25, 2018 4:06:04 am PST #21472 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Only their variable costs doubled, contracts with UPS or FedEx or whoever may make the marginal increase in cost pretty slight.
Cat has kept me trapped in bed for an hour now. I will have to dislodge her soon, alas.
Gudanov - Jan 25, 2018 4:19:37 am PST #21473 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Cat has kept me trapped in bed for an hour now. I will have to dislodge her soon, alas.
Our Dog will do that too, but he weighs 100 lbs. Last weekend my son got trapped under him pretty literally.
lisah - Jan 25, 2018 5:25:30 am PST #21474 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
Keeping your brother and whole family in my thoughts,JZ
JZ - Jan 25, 2018 5:44:33 am PST #21475 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I think what they're going to do is an autologous stem cell/bone marrow transplant, so he doesn't need to find a donor.
It's still going to be miserable -- harvest the stem cells from his blood marrow, undergo a round of high-dose chemo that not only gets at the cancer but wipes out his blood marrow, then get the stem cells re-infused to grow all-new marrow, which will get to work growing and circulating all-new blood.
He'll have to be in the hospital for at least 3 weeks because until the stem cells are done settling in and regrowing he'll essentially have no immune system at all (especially now, on the downslope of a horrendous flu season).
My supervisor at work is undergoing the same process for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma right now; she's in the hospital for at least the next month and probably not back at work until fall (she's still working from the hospital, because she said that working out solutions to all of UC's usual bureaucratic nonsense will keep her from lying in her bed and stewing about worse things).
meara - Jan 25, 2018 5:45:42 am PST #21476 of 30002
Jesse the thing that gets me is I feel like lately even when I order something via Prime, it may come with two day shipping but it feels like how long it takes to ship is totally variable! I've ordered three things at the same time and got one Monday and one Wednesday!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2018 7:05:11 am PST #21477 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
JZ, at least the treatments available today may prolong survival until a time when there are more effective treatments available? Fingers all crossed for your little bro's chemo and procedures to work as well as possible.
-t - Jan 25, 2018 7:11:18 am PST #21478 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds pretty rough, JZ. I hope it helps.
-t - Jan 25, 2018 7:13:29 am PST #21479 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dammit, forgot to bring in my decaf coffee. Have a new cold brew set up to try but no coffee to brew.