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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2023 22:20:11 GMT -5
Mister’s Mom just called him and asked him about which medicines his Dad is supposed to take, when. He told her, I had him on schedule to take his meds at 8am and 8pm. I brought y’all all the medicine containers, like you wanted me to, the information is on the containers about which ones he takes once a day and which ones he takes twice a day. Look at the containers to see how he and when he is supposed to take them. Idk how long it will last, but for right now, Mister seems to be done, DONE. And I can’t say that I blame him. There's just been a crap ton of information and revelation for both of you to process in a relatively short period of time. I wouldn't blame Mister for just washing his hands of the mess. I still can't imagine the facility where Mister's mom is staying letting his dad stay there 24/7.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jan 9, 2023 22:27:53 GMT -5
Yeah, the next thing they will be asking the nurses and aids for help. You know, that might be a good thing. They can report to the doctors how dysfunctional they are. That may trigger them deciding they cannot go back home alone.
Sounds like with their diet and issues, that may be part of why they are ill. I know my MIL eating horribly had contributed to hers. She had a freezer full of what had been good meat and food. It was all so old, a neighbor tried to take some of it, it all had to be thrown out. We found when cleaning, she was living on dollar pizzas and ice cream, probably coffee too. Nothing with any food value, yet she managed to live a long time, just very little cognitive ability.
Same at my mom's house, cans of food that had even leaked. It's really sad what happens to hard working, good people in old age.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 9, 2023 22:31:28 GMT -5
My aunt straight up lied about the family vacation in Oct 2021 right in front of me and her son. My family is the height of passive aggressive and avoidance. In deferance to my father I didn't call her out on that bs. She told whoever she was talking to on the phone that we didn't take them to do anything and they just had to eat leftovers that no one brought them food. The problem was that those of us with cars didn't cater to her all day long. She was taken to do plenty of things. Everything she expressed interest in was covered by someone. But because we didn't wait on her all day long, we were wrong. Some might disagree but I paid for over half that vacation. I had to take time off work. I had to drive 5 hours to get them and drive 2 more hours to get them on a plane because they couldn't handle a 10 hour road trip anymore. I spent time with my family every day, we had dinner together most nights. I also spent time with just my husband or my husband and brother and I refuse to feel guilty. It was my vacation too. I didn't plan out a vacation just to wait on her all damn day long. Some old people are plain manipulative and will lie to get what they want. They just don't care. You have no reason to feel guilty about any of that! If anyone should feel guilty, it's your aunt, from the sounds of it. Like Pink said, I really don't want to be one of those people! And I don't want to be a cranky, manipulative old lady, that takes advantage of people. I want to be a nice little old lady, that people enjoy being around. Please let me be one of those! I want to be that little old lady who swears like a drunken sailor on shore leave and smokes dope like Willie Nelson. Oh wait.....I'm already there!
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jan 9, 2023 22:37:49 GMT -5
Yes! People that really knew my Mom knew there was probably more to the stories she was telling. And people that didn’t know her as well, quickly learned once she latched on to them and became more and more demanding of them. They would finally think wait a minute, something isn’t quite right with this. And that is why I know what she was telling people. And I would tell them, yep, I sure did move and take all my stuff with me, except the bed I’d given her to sleep on….. is that not what people do when they move, take their stuff with them? And I tell them that the agreement my Mom and I made when she first came to my house meant she should’ve moved out before I even moved, but she refused to do that. I didn’t just up and move out of the blue, I told her when we got serious about buying a house, I told her when we started looking at houses, and I told her when we found a house we wanted to buy. Which was all AFTER she was supposed to have moved out of my house. And most people sell their house when they move to another one, but I didn’t and that’s the only reason she still has a roof over her head, and if that makes me a bad person, I can live with it. So I don’t really GAF about what she’s telling you about how I abandoned her, because she and I both know the truth. So you can do whatever you like with the information you have. I don’t feel good at all about how things played out, because that’s still my Mom and I do love her, but my conscience is clear about the lengths I went to to try to help her, and I don’t feel bad about moving out of my house just like I’d told her I was planning to do before she even came there. If I hadn’t moved, I might have drove my car into the river by now, that’s just how miserable I was, trying to live with her and protect myself from her at the same time. In a recent disagreement with Mister, he let it slip that he accelerated our plans to buy a house to help me get out of that and “save” me. That knocked the wind out of me, because what?! I knew that he just suddenly decided we were going to buy a house NOW, and I was a little surprised that it suddenly became top priority, even though we’d been talking about it for a while. But it had never crossed my mind that it was because he was trying to get me out of my misery of living with my Mom ASAP.
I still don’t know how to feel about that, since he’s put it out there. I mean, I love him for trying to please me and make me happy, and I know he was adamant about trying to give me a “forever home”, but idk how I feel about a man rescuing me in that way, because in my mind, I’ve always been an independent woman that can take care of and rescue myself.All the stuff that’s all jumbled up and tumbling around in my head and confusing to me, and all the stuff I deal with and try to sort out regarding other people, it’s no wonder I often feel like I’m some kind of crazy. Try to feel good or neutral about it. He saw you suffering, did not enjoy watching it and wanted to do something to stop it ASAP. Yeah, he may want to call it saving you, but I'd look at it a little different. He loved you and wanted a happier you sooner than later. I like how you framed it. And I do appreciate him wanting to get me out of a situation that he knew was making me miserable. It just doesn’t really fit with my sense of independence and being able to take care of myself. I’m not upset with him about it, I just have to wrap my mind around his perspective, how it became more to him than just wanting us to have a home I would be happy to live with him in for the rest of my life, and also a matter of him trying to rescue me ASAP from a bad situation. I agree with you about how I should probably look at it, I know he did it because he loves me. It was just a blow to my wanna be independent self to hear that. I’ll get over all that though, I just have to sort it out in my mind that it didn’t mean I wasn’t capable of taking care of myself, because part of my hang ups being my Mother’s child, is that I’ve always tried to make sure I don’t need anyone for help, let alone rescue me. I understand that that is MY issue, and has nothing to do with people like Mister, that just like and love me for me, and not for what I can do for them, and are willing to do what they can just to try to help me be okay when they feel like I need it. Thank you.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 9, 2023 22:46:29 GMT -5
I'm watching 'Love After Lockup". OMG, some of these people are SO stupid! Older women send convicts money and all they have to do is say "I love you". When they're released, they're NOT going to build a life with you and you won't live happily ever after.
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Post by giramomma on Jan 9, 2023 22:59:50 GMT -5
Blergh. I have to get more things done. I don't want to.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jan 9, 2023 23:10:16 GMT -5
You have no reason to feel guilty about any of that! If anyone should feel guilty, it's your aunt, from the sounds of it. Like Pink said, I really don't want to be one of those people! And I don't want to be a cranky, manipulative old lady, that takes advantage of people. I want to be a nice little old lady, that people enjoy being around. Please let me be one of those! I want to be that little old lady who swears like a drunken sailor on shore leave and smokes dope like Willie Nelson. Oh wait.....I'm already there! Bwahaha 🤣
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Post by CCL on Jan 9, 2023 23:46:04 GMT -5
I don't know if my MIL realized she was lying or not, I don't think so as she had dementia than. But I found out from some of the caregivers how much she hated me. I brought her clothing, took care of finances, took care of all the paperwork. Hubs did her meds, but it was all my fault she was there. She told them she had told hubs to never marry me, I asked hubs, he said no she had never said anything like that. I still wonder. Her and her sister both I wanted her out, because I wanted her house ? The poor thing didn't even realize hubs and his brother owned it and had for I suppose 15 years or more, we didn't either. We initially thought we would have to sell it to help pay her bills till I got VA for her. We tried to get her to accept help, both of them, so we could keep them in their homes, no way in hell. One lived in the house in front, the other in a mobile behind. We left it empty after cleaning it out for a year or two, maybe more than that to see what would happen. And hubs bought the trailer so his cousin could use the money to help pay for his mom, he paid about double what it was worth to help. As hubs said no way could they ever move back, so he bought out his brothers half of it and his grandma's. He spent thousands fixing it up and did all the work so it could be rented. It had had nothing done inside since we had been married, the same old carpet even. Yep, and her story was I wanted it. This is the kind of stuff you will go through when their minds start to go. I hope it happens to noone on here or us. They always seem to think everyone is trying to take their house.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jan 10, 2023 0:01:46 GMT -5
I am about to head to bed.
I FINALLY get to see the GI Doctor for my follow up appointment tomorrow morning. This is the follow up from when I saw him in August, had all the tests done that he ordered for me within the next week, and then got ghosted until October, when they finally called and gave me an appointment for a follow up visit on January 17th. After I get what I need from him tomorrow, I am going to voice my displeasure about how I’ve been left hanging since I did all the tests he wanted me to do at the end of August, even though I kept calling trying to get appointments with him and asking about the results of the tests I’d had done, and asking to be notified if they had any cancellations so I could get back to see him, how I’ve explained to his nurse that my symptoms have started happening more often and interfered my ability to work, because my job is such that I can’t just work through this shit….. when his nurse could be be bothered to even call me back after I left messages, and how this whole ordeal has just been a fucking shitshow that has affected my quality of life and stressed me the fuck out and caused me to be in trouble with my job, to the point I got a nasty letter in the mail from my job, that said if I don’t have a good reason for my attendance issues and can’t provide medical documentation for why my attendance is so horrible, they might try to fire me, and I still don’t know how that’s going to turn out, which has added to my stress.
I am also pissed that when Mister got tired of me looking crazy (I stopped complaining a long time ago, because I was sick of my own self whining about my issues, but Mister was constantly asking me why I was always frowning and looking upset), he called them on my behalf, and they were much more helpful and had more conversation with HIM, than they’d ever tried to be with me, the damn patient. For HIM, they managed to move my appointment from the 17th of this month, to the 10th, tomorrow. AND when HE called, they could get the nurse on the line to talk to him, when all the hundreds of times I’ve called, I had to leave the nurse a message saying why I was calling, and she may or may not return my call. She told Mister I needed to have some more tests done, but when I called to see what I needed to do to have whatever tests she was talking about done, I had to leave messages for her, and the bitch still has not responded to those messages and called me back.
So my soul is on fire about all of this, but I’m going to play it cool tomorrow morning until I get some answers and hopefully some documentation for my job, but THEN, Imma have a talk with the Doctor. Because if he knows this is how his patients are treated and he is okay with that, Imma cuss his ass clean out, try not to punch him in his throat, and find another GI Doctor. I am so stressed out and upset and ANGRY about this whole ordeal, that I can’t even articulate how I feel about it without cussing.
I’m not being trifling. My attendance at work sucks because I have been having real life issues, and the symptoms haven’t gotten worse, but they got to where it was every fucking day, usually starting in the middle of the night, when I already have insomnia, and continuing throughout the day. I am exhausted and I just don’t feel good at all. I had to go do something for my Mom last week, and after I got dressed and ready to go, it was another hour before I felt like I could maybe make that long drive without having to pull over because my stomach was hurting so bad, and hopefully without having a sudden urge to shit and end up shitting on myself because I’m not near a restroom. My apologies for the TMI.
I went to my PCP a couple of weeks ago to see if she could recommend something to give me some relief until I could get to my appointment with the stupid GI Doctor. Nope, she’s stupid too.
Not knowing what the problem is and dealing with all of that has affected my mental state so bad that I reached out to a therapist for help. And the stress of dealing with it and worrying about my job has aggravated some of the other physical issues I have that are painful. But the 1 and only thing I do know from the tests the GI Doctor had me do, is that I was advised to not take NSAID’s because my stomach lining is irritated or something. So just FUCK ME.
My job is already in jeopardy because of this shit, and if I lose my job, I lose everything anyway, so what does it matter if I get arrested for laying hands on a Doctor? Somebody will bail me out.
I know I have been venting and ranting here a lot recently, so Imma try my best to just shut up now and stop talking about my crazy ass life. I think it’s easier to talk about the shit going on with Mister and his family, than it is to talk about the shit going on with me, for whatever reason that maybe the counseling I’ve been having might help me sort out eventually.
I don’t understand why my life has to be so crazy, and I don’t understand why shit doesn’t work when I reach out and try to get help from so called medical professionals. I have never given up to the point I’ve been suicidal, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to beat somebody’s ass sometimes if I feel like they deserve it. And all of that is before I can even get to how I feel about all this shit going on in our world and being a Black woman in this raggedy ass country, worrying about my loved ones, my children and grandchildren and all the hatred and biases toward all of us. And all of this shit is why I feel like a crazy person.
It’s too much.
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Post by giramomma on Jan 10, 2023 0:08:23 GMT -5
Procrastinating. Confirmed that some of my old students are nearing 30.
DD1 was like OMG. Mom. How can that be? Hell if I know, kid.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 10, 2023 0:56:51 GMT -5
I went to my PCP a couple of weeks ago to see if she could recommend something to give me some relief until I could get to my appointment with the stupid GI Doctor. Nope, she’s stupid too.
She can't give you anything until she knows what the problem is. What if she prescribes something like Naproxen for your pain, and makes things worse? That irritation in your stomach can turn into a hole in your stomach pretty quickly. I understand that you're frustrated, but that doesn't mean your doctor is stupid. I know this won't solve your issues, but don't you have a patient portal where you can look up all your test results yourself? Everything from MRIs to bloodwork to virtually any tests...it's all there. I KNOW you have that in the US as well.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jan 10, 2023 1:24:09 GMT -5
I went to my PCP a couple of weeks ago to see if she could recommend something to give me some relief until I could get to my appointment with the stupid GI Doctor. Nope, she’s stupid too.She can't give you anything until she knows what the problem is. What if she prescribes something like Naproxen for your pain, and makes things worse? I understand that you're frustrated, but that doesn't mean your doctor is stupid. I know this won't solve your issues, but don't you have a patient portal where you can look up all your test results yourself? Everything from MRIs to bloodwork to virtually any tests...it's all there. I KNOW you have that in the US as well. My doctor had all that stuff available online, at the last clinic where I saw her. She now works at a different clinic where I see her and the information is not available online. So IDK if Pink's is available, or not.
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Post by CCL on Jan 10, 2023 1:32:06 GMT -5
I'm sorry you're having a rough time lately Pink Cashmere Hopefully you can get some answers tomorrow. I agree. You've waited way far too long for your followup appointment.
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Post by CCL on Jan 10, 2023 1:34:55 GMT -5
I went to my PCP a couple of weeks ago to see if she could recommend something to give me some relief until I could get to my appointment with the stupid GI Doctor. Nope, she’s stupid too.She can't give you anything until she knows what the problem is. What if she prescribes something like Naproxen for your pain, and makes things worse? I understand that you're frustrated, but that doesn't mean your doctor is stupid. I know this won't solve your issues, but don't you have a patient portal where you can look up all your test results yourself? Everything from MRIs to bloodwork to virtually any tests...it's all there. I KNOW you have that in the US as well. Not every doctor and facility uses the portals. There are also some who won't release the results for viewing until they have seen and discussed the tests with the patient.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jan 10, 2023 1:56:59 GMT -5
I went to my PCP a couple of weeks ago to see if she could recommend something to give me some relief until I could get to my appointment with the stupid GI Doctor. Nope, she’s stupid too.She can't give you anything until she knows what the problem is. What if she prescribes something like Naproxen for your pain, and makes things worse? I understand that you're frustrated, but that doesn't mean your doctor is stupid. I know this won't solve your issues, but don't you have a patient portal where you can look up all your test results yourself? Everything from MRIs to bloodwork to virtually any tests...it's all there. I KNOW you have that in the US as well. The fact that she couldn’t help me with that is not why I said she’s stupid. She’s not been helpful with anything since I’ve been seeing her. When I went to her when I first kept having these issues, she said it was probably gas. I know that trapped gas can cause severe pain, but even though I’m not a doctor, I’ve never heard of gas causing extreme nausea that wakes you up in the middle of the night and keeps you awake until the cramping starts and then you have diarrhea too, and then you start constantly running to the bathroom and you don’t know whether to sit on the toilet or kneel in front of it, and making you jump up and run to the bathroom as fast as you can so you don’t shit on yourself. I’ve never heard of that just being gas, but what do I know? When I went to her a couple weeks ago, I signed papers for her to get all the info from the GI Doctor. For what? She still didn’t know what to tell me. And even if it is somehow just gas, how do you prevent that from happening and how do you make it stop when it is happening, so you can at least go to work and not be unable to standup straight because of the pain, and not worry about shitting on yourself because the closest bathroom is half a bock away from where you work in the building? And what do you do so that you don’t get in trouble because you are spending half your workday in the bathroom, because when you think it’s safe to come out, your stomach says NOPE, sit your ass back on the toilet, until I decide it might be okay to leave. *crickets*. Yep, I can see most of my test results online. But that doesn’t mean I understand what I need to do next. I think it’s the Doctor’s job to decipher that and guide me on what it all means and advise me. The test results I can see, say I have some kind of cyst on one of my kidneys, if that is a problem, is that not something the doctor should explain to me? I don’t think that’s causing my issues, but it is there, so what does that mean? The results of the biopsies are NOT on the results I can see. Just leave me hanging for 5 months, wondering if the bipopsies came back benign or cancerous? That’s okay? If I have to decipher the results of the tests all my own, even though I’ve never been to medical school, and try to figure out for myself what it all means and what I need to do next, what is the Doctor’s job?
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 10, 2023 2:04:35 GMT -5
And even if it is somehow just gas, how do you prevent that from happening
Diet. You can make dietary changes, to eat foods that don't produce a lot of gas. Did she not tell you that? Anyway, it doesn't sound like just gas to me.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 10, 2023 2:12:03 GMT -5
I went to my PCP a couple of weeks ago to see if she could recommend something to give me some relief until I could get to my appointment with the stupid GI Doctor. Nope, she’s stupid too.She can't give you anything until she knows what the problem is. What if she prescribes something like Naproxen for your pain, and makes things worse? I understand that you're frustrated, but that doesn't mean your doctor is stupid. I know this won't solve your issues, but don't you have a patient portal where you can look up all your test results yourself? Everything from MRIs to bloodwork to virtually any tests...it's all there. I KNOW you have that in the US as well. My doctor had all that stuff available online, at the last clinic where I saw her. She now works at a different clinic where I see her and the information is not available online. So IDK if Pink's is available, or not. I keep forgetting how different things are there. No such thing as 'different clinic" or 'different doctor' or 'different network' here. We all have a medicare number and that's what follows us around for the rest of our lives. All doctors share information. All tests and results go into a government database and the info is available to all physicians.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jan 10, 2023 2:46:39 GMT -5
My doctor had all that stuff available online, at the last clinic where I saw her. She now works at a different clinic where I see her and the information is not available online. So IDK if Pink's is available, or not. I keep forgetting how different things are there. No such thing as 'different clinic" or 'different doctor' or 'different network' here. We all have a medicare number and that's what follows us around for the rest of our lives. All doctors share information. All tests and results go into a government database and the info is available to all physicians. Oh, because you don't have different insurance companies there, do you? So can you see a different doctor every time you go to the doctor? Can you always go to the same doctor? I really don't know much about how things like that work there.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 10, 2023 3:59:34 GMT -5
I keep forgetting how different things are there. No such thing as 'different clinic" or 'different doctor' or 'different network' here. We all have a medicare number and that's what follows us around for the rest of our lives. All doctors share information. All tests and results go into a government database and the info is available to all physicians. Oh, because you don't have different insurance companies there, do you? So can you see a different doctor every time you go to the doctor? Can you always go to the same doctor? I really don't know much about how things like that work there. Yes, we're all insured by the government. I have my own GP, my own orthopaedic surgeon, my own gastroenterologist, etc. If we don't like our doctors, we can switch, although GPs are in short supply right now. If you don't have your own doctors, you can go to a clinic, and you would see a different doctor each time. However, if they send you to a specialist, you suddenly have your own specialist. Since we're all insured by the government, all our medical info goes into a database available to all physicians. Each province runs its own healthcare. They're all pretty similar, except they sometimes cover different things. For example, some will cover trans surgery, some will cover IVF. However, when it comes to lifesaving measures, surgeries, medical procedures we NEED, every Canadian citizen is covered, always, at no charge at the point of delivery. It's paid for by taxes. Vanity procedures are not covered, like boob jobs.
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Post by finnime on Jan 10, 2023 5:59:31 GMT -5
Good morning, you beautiful people of Y Ma'am. Welcome to Tuesday, the second one in 2023, and national bittersweet chocolate day for all who celebrate. I hope your day provides answers to questions you've been struggling with and relief for your pain, including painful people. I'm enjoying a mug of coffee and anticipating my dawn stroll with Franklin the Dog at the beach. Yesterday morning we had a bit of snow followed by the legendary wintery mix. Due to the weather I had a lot of gray pictures yesterday. To add a bit of cheer, I'm posting a picture that has gotten a lot of positive attention in the past 3 days elsewhere.
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Post by daisylu on Jan 10, 2023 6:10:33 GMT -5
At work. I really don't want to do overtime, but it is sort of necessary to get to a place of ease for me. At least it is winter. I have my sun lamp and oil diffuser running OT too. The $ will be helpful too.
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Post by finnime on Jan 10, 2023 6:20:35 GMT -5
Southwest Air has notified me that they are remitting the cost of the business class train ticket I bought for DD after Christmas when her flight home was cancelled. So that's good. It was a painless process to submit the claim.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jan 10, 2023 7:27:34 GMT -5
I picked the wrong day to forget my phone charger at home. My stupid laptop is taking forever and a day to boot up. The single sign on didn't work and I've had to put my pin number in twice. While I am supposed to be getting a new one, I'm not holding my breath on when that might be. It's warranty expired last month. We generally replace them when that happens. It is not taking updates including a big hefty Bios one that tech support said they weren't touching.
The new service desk contract was supposed to include on site support but they can't even get enough staff security clearances and training to address incoming requests. Once upon a time we did have local people then they decided to centralize it and then they hired contractors. It is a debacle every time there's a new contract.
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Post by giramomma on Jan 10, 2023 9:29:11 GMT -5
Good morning, you beautiful people of Y Ma'am. Welcome to Tuesday, the second one in 2023, and national bittersweet chocolate day for all who celebrate. I hope your day provides answers to questions you've been struggling with and relief for your pain, including painful people. I'm enjoying a mug of coffee and anticipating my dawn stroll with Franklin the Dog at the beach. Yesterday morning we had a bit of snow followed by the legendary wintery mix. Due to the weather I had a lot of gray pictures yesterday. To add a bit of cheer, I'm posting a picture that has gotten a lot of positive attention in the past 3 days elsewhere. That is one gorgeous picture. We get pink sunrises/sunsets, sometimes, as an extra treat from mother nature. Not like what you posted though.
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Post by chiver78 on Jan 10, 2023 9:47:47 GMT -5
are any of you following the story of the disappearance of Ana Walshe? idk if this has hit national news, but it's all over the Boston area news, and likely the DMV as well. she's a 39yo woman that was last seen on New Year's Day (*if* that witness can be believed, with some of the stuff that's come out since) when she was supposed to have caught a flight to DC. she works there during the week and comes back to MA for weekends with her family. updates during last night's evening news hour weren't encouraging, but what I woke up to today is heartbreaking. there's no way this woman is still alive, it's just a matter of when (if?) they find her body. she's got three small children, and now they are in state custody as her husband has been arrested. so far, only for "misleading a police investigation" but he's on video purchasing hundreds of $ of cleaning supplies and a huge tarp, and an iPad in the house has search history including "how to dismember a body"
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Post by daisylu on Jan 10, 2023 9:59:51 GMT -5
are any of you following the story of the disappearance of Ana Walshe? idk if this has hit national news, but it's all over the Boston area news, and likely the DMV as well. she's a 39yo woman that was last seen on New Year's Day (*if* that witness can be believed, with some of the stuff that's come out since) when she was supposed to have caught a flight to DC. she works there during the week and comes back to MA for weekends with her family. updates during last night's evening news hour weren't encouraging, but what I woke up to today is heartbreaking. there's no way this woman is still alive, it's just a matter of when (if?) they find her body. she's got three small children, and now they are in state custody as her husband has been arrested. so far, only for "misleading a police investigation" but he's on video purchasing hundreds of $ of cleaning supplies and a huge tarp, and an iPad in the house has search history including "how to dismember a body"
linkI saw a headline on the bottom of the screen when I had the news on yesterday afternoon, but turned it off before it got to the story. (My locals channels come from the DMV.) How sad for those kids. They will likely lose both parents, and the headlines will follow them forever. I wonder what the "unrelated federal court case" is that had him on house arrest.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jan 10, 2023 10:01:29 GMT -5
It has hit the national news. It's a very sad situation and my Law and Order skills tell me he killed her and she is dead. Her phone stopped pinging on either Jan 1 or 2.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jan 10, 2023 10:02:46 GMT -5
I see in my informed delivery that a check is supposed to be arriving for NIL today. They better deliver it. Post office just opened and I am going to make a pre-emptive call.
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Post by chiver78 on Jan 10, 2023 10:03:54 GMT -5
are any of you following the story of the disappearance of Ana Walshe? idk if this has hit national news, but it's all over the Boston area news, and likely the DMV as well. she's a 39yo woman that was last seen on New Year's Day (*if* that witness can be believed, with some of the stuff that's come out since) when she was supposed to have caught a flight to DC. she works there during the week and comes back to MA for weekends with her family. updates during last night's evening news hour weren't encouraging, but what I woke up to today is heartbreaking. there's no way this woman is still alive, it's just a matter of when (if?) they find her body. she's got three small children, and now they are in state custody as her husband has been arrested. so far, only for "misleading a police investigation" but he's on video purchasing hundreds of $ of cleaning supplies and a huge tarp, and an iPad in the house has search history including "how to dismember a body"
linkI saw a headline on the bottom of the screen when I had the news on yesterday afternoon, but turned it off before it got to the story. (My locals channels come from the DMV.) How sad for those kids. They will likely lose both parents, and the headlines will follow them forever. I wonder what the "unrelated federal court case" is that had him on house arrest. it was art fraud, he sold some fake Andy Warhols and got caught. link he's actually wearing a GPS monitor while he awaits sentencing. so he's really a dumbass, IMHO.
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