Rant Thread II

[ape descendant]

Miss Absinthe, you made me laugh out loud before I had my coffee.

Also TIL what a Family Readiness Group is and what an asshole MissCheyenne's neighbor is, wtf is up with that guy? You'd think it would be a crime to actively try to prevent the medical care of others.

Why is it the earlier I go to bed, the more I want to sleep in? Stupid scumbag brain I will be sending you a reprimand.

[Jaye Jang]

A friend just sent me this. This makes my heart hurt so bad it's hard to get through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDshQ...ature=youtu.be

[ape descendant]

Gotta love when some one posts a private conversation up until the point where you asked them to stop, but conveniently leaves out the ones sent after that request. BTW thanks again guys, that ignore function is a sanity saver.

Bleh, enough of that, moving on. Today is my last day smoking... again, hopefully this time for good. I'm not looking forward to it, but it is for the greater good. The greater good.

[Jaye Jang]

Shower pipes froze. What's so weird is that it isn't any other pipe in the house, just the shower and only the hot water pipe. Fortunately, it didn't burst. Unfortunately, until the landlord can get someone over here, I'm stuck taking ice cold showers in sub-zero weather. Yay.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by BourbonBoy

The problem though Fruitbat is ape descendant wants positive temps and I want negative temps as do you. I think our best bet would be for us to donate +20F each, bringing me to +20F and you to +80F during the day.

People in this world can be truly disgusting.

A great friend of mine is barely scrounging by on $400 a month, but her schmuck of a boyfriend that she lives with who makes about four times as much as she does is so terrible with his finances that he steals out of her purse when he thinks she's sleeping. He can't keep gas in his car, can't pick up after himself and doesn't even have the proper decency to take down naked pictures off of his walls when her ten year old daughter is over for visitations.

This guy is a waste of oxygen.

The temperature sharing sounds great BB!

Sorry to hear about your friend. I'd be getting rid of him. What a PITA!

Ape - darling. Super big squishy hugs. I've decided on my occupation - I want to be YOUR garden gnome! BUT you have to bring me inside for winter, because I'm allergic to snow.

My rant: getting the house ready to sell. Man, I've got to clean and tidy. UGH! I friggin' hate cleaning.

[ape descendant]

JJ, Frozen shower pipes suck so much ass! When mine froze a couple years ago, I skipped showering, but that's because both pipes froze. We ended up doing a couple of sponge baths out of the sink.

Batty!! I've missed you!! Of course you can be my garden gnome, you do have to wear the tall conical hat, but I would take you in in the winter and set you in the living room, in the winter we could hang candy canes in your hair. In the summer we'd have to bring you in at night so you don't get stolen... or hypothermia.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by ape descendant

JJ, Frozen shower pipes suck so much ass! When mine froze a couple years ago, I skipped showering, but that's because both pipes froze. We ended up doing a couple of sponge baths out of the sink.

Batty!! I've missed you!! Of course you can be my garden gnome, you do have to wear the tall conical hat, but I would take you in in the winter and set you in the living room, in the winter we could hang candy canes in your hair. In the summer we'd have to bring you in at night so you don't get stolen... or hypothermia.

I'm one of the few people who can get away wearing conical hats. They look quite good on me, even in red.

Because I've only sold a handful of books, some people think it's a waste of time me writing, or spending time on writing - self indulgent. So I'm going to have to say goodbye to writing as a career and 'get a real job'. So mad right now, I'm procrastinating about everything.

Fuck I've got a bucket of painting to do *tears*

Anyway, I'll just ignore reality and dream about being Ape's garden gnome. Oh the pleasure I'll get out of watching Ape garden in spring/summertime. It will be wonderful.

[Fruitbat]

Looks like we will be moving onto Ape's front lawn. Mr Bat's job ends in April, and unless we can sell the house soon, we are screwed!

[ape descendant]

Now I wish I had a lawn.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by ape descendant

Now I wish I had a lawn.

I don't care - you can tie me to the roof of your house/apartment, as long as I can keep my conical hat on, I'll be right.


So it looks like in 3mths we will be homeless. So be warned, we may just bring our conical hats to part of the world near you! (Ape, you know I mean Colorado, I just didn't want to obviously stalk you or anything)

Plant a lawn Ape! While I can live on a roof, I prefer grass under my toes, and a tree to sleep upside down in at night.

Finding something positive out of every shitty situation.

[Fruitbat]

Don't be my friend. it seems like I'm the curse on people losing their jobs at the moment.

[BourbonBoy]

Don'tcha just love it when you can't sleep for shit the night before you have a bunch of crap to do the next day?

[MissCheyenne]

Slipped on the ice the other day and bashed up my leg. Doctor says it's bruised badly inside and I can expect to be limping for around the next two weeks. The busiest two weeks I have in my diary so far >.< On a side note, the doctor also informed me that not only am I allergic to asprin, I am also allergic to amytriptillne, the very drug I was prescribed two months ago by another GP at the practice. No wonder I was so bloody ill with what I thought were side effects from it.

[the-nihilist]

Sheesh, do you people ever stop complaining?

[ape descendant]

Nope.

Even when I was much younger than I am now, I couldn't really pass muster for this gothy nonsense. I couldn't even keep a boyfriend in hs because I wasn't goth enough for him. I suppose this is just some of the unsaid business from a previous conversation.

This doesn't belong here, because the fact that I couldn't give a shit less about it makes me very happy. But fuck it. I like this section.

[BourbonBoy]

Originally Posted by the-nihilist

Sheesh, do you people ever stop complaining?

You might as well ask, "Why does lightning strike?" It's a law of nature. People complain because it's easier than beating the ever loving life out of the person they despise the most; not to mention complaining on occasion is a great stress reliever be it in writing, vocal or to a crowd of unknowns.

[Miss Absynthe]

Originally Posted by the-nihilist

Sheesh, do you people ever stop complaining?

Is that a complaint?

[Miss Absynthe]

Dearest Amanda,

I can't be with you anymore.

I listen to your earlier work and it makes me so sad. Your casual racism, transphobic tones, the slut-shaming, whorephobia and victim-blaming makes my heart weep.

I understand that you were young when you wrote those songs and said these things. I was young once too, and even now that I'm not quite young I am still clumsy and I say harmful things at times. But on the whole I try to get it right - I put effort into not hurting people.

Amanda, you don't seem to be trying.. other than to make comments a little more sneaky so that your refusal to acknowledge your own privilege isn't as noticeable to the wider public. For example, your "I'll drive this Cherokee right off this trail of tears" from The Jeep Song, became "...you're a lilly-livered giver, Indie" in Want It Back. I admit that these are clever word plays, but just because something is clever it doesn't mean that it isn't racist. And these comments are racist.

I want to love you, Amanda, but I have to go.

I am breaking up with you. I won't be coming to your concerts. I can't buy your albums anymore, and I can't listen to your music.

I'd feel compelled to tell you that it's not you - it's me. But if I'm honest about it, I have to say that isn't true - it is you.

Please don't call me.

It's over.

~ Aby

[MissCheyenne]

Further to being given medication that I am actually allergic to, I have been informed that the doctor who prescribed said medication has now been suspended pending further investigation into the matter. I'm not sure how I feel about it to be honest. I hate confrontation and would never want anyone to get in trouble because of me but on the other hand, I am very angry that my life was put at risk because the doctor didn't check my allergies list before writing a prescription. I seriously could have died. I mean, that's huge, massive. I COULD HAVE DIED.

[Saya]

Oh Miss C, that's frightening. Once Mom had to be rushed to the clinic after fainting (she has blood pressure problems and was suffering from low potassium levels as well), and she was pretty out of it, but a friend who went with her told the paramedics that she was allergic to penicillin, she's been to the clinic lots of times before, the nurses all know her, its on her file...And what does the doctor try to give her? The friend just had a feeling to ask what he was about to give her, and sure enough.

I'm not the type to swear of "western" medicine or anything, but it made me side eye doctors since, and we got Mom a nice medical alert bracelet last year.

[Miss Absynthe]

I can't count the number of times that I pointed out to doctors that they were prescribing meds that the patient had allergies to... we do get lax about asking, especially with particular drugs because there's a feeling that no one is every allergic to [drug here]!

Rule of thumb as a patient is to ask what you're being given and then tell the person giving it to you what you're allergic to.. even if they're the same person you told 20 minutes ago.

-connects syringe to cannula-
"So, I'm just giving you this frusimide to help clear some of that fluid. It will make you wee a lot so we're going to put in a catheter to help us record the amount of fluid you're loosing, but it's going to help you to breathe easier once we get the excess fluid off board.. are you allergic to anything?"

"I'm not allergic to frusimide."

-thumb on syringe plunger, about to inject meds directly into vein-
"Is there anything that you are allergic to?"

"Hmm.. no. Well, only lasix."

-stops dead because lasix is the brand name for frusimide-
"Let me just go and have a chat to the doctor..."

[Saya]

Good lord, I have a study music playlist on youtube, and an ad came up about how psychiatric drugs will kill you. I have a looksy, and yup, the website it directs you to is for an organization that while claims to be non-religious, seems to have been founded by The Church Of Scientology.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by MissCheyenne

Further to being given medication that I am actually allergic to, I have been informed that the doctor who prescribed said medication has now been suspended pending further investigation into the matter. I'm not sure how I feel about it to be honest. I hate confrontation and would never want anyone to get in trouble because of me but on the other hand, I am very angry that my life was put at risk because the doctor didn't check my allergies list before writing a prescription. I seriously could have died. I mean, that's huge, massive. I COULD HAVE DIED.

You have every right to be angry about this.

My dad was prescribed medication for 10 years, that he was only supposed to take for 6mths. The side effects, caused him to have an auto immune disease. Two different doctors did the prescribing - they never asked why he was on that med or did anything about it, then he had a series of other issues, all were caused by the blood pressure meds, and the doctors were at a loss to find out why. He went into hospital and was 3 weeks away from dying, when a specialist came bouncing into the ward at 2am and said "I know what it is, it's xyz drug and you've now got Lupus because of the drug." Forever grateful to the specialist, but made me realise that doctors are like everyone other profession on the planet - you get those who dedicate their lives to it, the really good ones, and then you get the slacker ones who are in it for the prestige or money or whatnot and don't give a fuck about the patients.

I'm clinging onto my last piece of resiliance at the moment. Just had our driveway washed away, can't afford to get it fixed, was going to sell the house but now have to put thousands into fixing up the slackness of the previous owners, and all I can think about is being Ape's garden gnomie.

[Miss Absynthe]

Originally Posted by Fruitbat

...but made me realise that doctors are like everyone other profession on the planet - you get those who dedicate their lives to it, the really good ones, and then you get the slacker ones who are in it for the prestige or money or whatnot and don't give a fuck about the patients.

It's not quite that cut and dried..

If someone in IT fucks up then a piece of code doesn't work and things get delayed until they're fixed. If I fuck up at the book shop then someone doesn't get their text book on time because it's been posted to the wrong address.

If a doctor fucks up then someone gets sick, or dead.

They are humans and they make the same amount of mistakes that we do. They are also often working under ridiculous amounts of pressure and in difficult circumstances, which increase the likelihood of mistakes.

They are also working with people who are under the impression that they are gods and therefore don't ask questions or query their thought processes, because of course a doctor would be telling them the right thing.

Basically - whatever a doctor tells you, ask them why. Ask them to explain the thinking behind their decisions. Ask them to tell you what medications are, why you should take them, what they will do, what the side-effects and interactions are.. and importantly - ask them for the things you should look for that will mean there is something going wrong, and the things that you should look for that will mean the medication is working. Always ask them when you should go back for follow up.

It's also helpful to go to the doctor with a list of questions written down so that you can ensure that each of them get answered to your satisfaction.

It's your body, remind them of that.. especially when they are trying to rush you out the door or fob you off without explaining things to you - "I understand that you are in a hurry, doctor.. but this is MY body that you are treating, and I have the right to know what is happening and to know what you are doing because this is MY body. I have agency over MY body, and I am paying you to help ME the same way that I pay a mechanic to fix my car... so kindly answer my questions now."

[BourbonBoy]

Excellent advice MissA, I'm going to print that out and hand it to my sis. She's on so many meds right now for various things it's made her sick on occasion. I've actually contemplated typing a list of her meds up for her because she's constantly seeing the doc about one thing or another. Kinda drives me nuts to be honest.