I'm just venting, kids; do right by your mom and dad.
My mom's an angel. It's......others.....
~winces and grimaces~ I feel for ya! There are times when family is a blessing... and there are times when they are a curse! Good luck my friend and I hope that you get through this!
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I'm just venting, kids; do right by your mom and dad.
My mom's an angel. It's......others.....
It's ok Heathansson my mom would probably run more along the Fallen Angel side. Still Lawful but an evil witch most of the time. I love the woman but she is evil.
The rest of my family tends to be more Chaotic Idiot.
I'm just venting, kids; do right by your mom and dad.
My mom's an angel. It's......others.....
It's ok Heathansson my mom would probably run more along the Fallen Angel side. Still Lawful but an evil witch most of the time. I love the woman but she is evil.
The rest of my family tends to be more Chaotic Idiot.
~laughter~ I am betting there are some juicy stories in that comment!
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I'm just venting, kids; do right by your mom and dad.
My mom's an angel. It's......others.....
It's ok Heathansson my mom would probably run more along the Fallen Angel side. Still Lawful but an evil witch most of the time. I love the woman but she is evil.
The rest of my family tends to be more Chaotic Idiot.
You know Robert the Bruce's dad in Braveheart? Yep. Me too.
Thanks dudes; I will; I'm not taking any more s!@# no more.
f*@* it, I'd rather die.
Just remember, this too shall pass. Liken them to a bad case of going to the bathroom. You jsut have to live with it for a while, no matter how crappy it is!
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Just remember, this too shall pass. Liken them to a bad case of going to the bathroom. You jsut have to live with it for a while, no matter how crappy it is!Thanks dudes; I will; I'm not taking any more s!@# no more.
f*@* it, I'd rather die.
Yeah; my mom told me that. It's my mantra.
Only, one of the problems, like herpes, wants to return again and again.
Sharoth you have no idea. Let's see my cousin once decided that since his car wouldn't start he would warm the engine up by starting a fire under it! Needless to say there was a "small" fire. The firemen could hardly try to spray the remaining husk because they were laughing too hard.
~laughter~ Well now. ~grins~ Of course, I was REALLY refering to your mom being LE, but that is VERY funny about your cousin!
Just remember, this too shall pass. Liken them to a bad case of going to the bathroom. You jsut have to live with it for a while, no matter how crappy it is!Thanks dudes; I will; I'm not taking any more s!@# no more.
f*@* it, I'd rather die.Yeah; my mom told me that. It's my mantra.
Only, one of the problems, like herpes, wants to return again and again.
~laughter~
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I'm in the process of having my medical records transferred to a new doctor, because my current healthcare provider is a brainless, drooling idiot. I called the office this morning, and the woman at the desk said she would have the release forms all filled out, and I could just sign them and get my records.
I then drove the thirty minutes it takes to get to the office, and ask for the release form. When I got there, they said that I had never called them, and gave me a form to take home (for some reason, I wasn't allowed to fill it out there). So I drive all the way home, get my contact information, fill out the f!*%ing form, then drive a half hour back to the doctor's office.
There was a different person at the desk. I told them that they told me to come back with the form. They told me that they had done no such thing and had never seen me before. I give them the form, they looked at me funny, and finally gave me the f@*&ing records. I drove home pissed.
Expected time: 1 hour travel, 10 minutes inside
Actual time: 2 hours travel time, 1 hour inside
Incompetence? They've got it.
I'm still at work. That sucks...
Same here. However, I will be taking my last half a day of the year in less than an hour. ~shrugs~ such is life.
I'm in the process of having my medical records transferred to a new doctor, because my current healthcare provider is a brainless, drooling idiot.
Sounds exactly like our former "revolving door" Doctor's office that managed to miss my cancer for years. Took me over six months to straighten out the outstanding billing (the sad part was they owed me, not vice versa).
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I'm in the process of having my medical records transferred to a new doctor, because my current healthcare provider is a brainless, drooling idiot.Sounds exactly like our former "revolving door" Doctor's office that managed to miss my cancer for years. Took me over six months to straighten out the outstanding billing (the sad part was they owed me, not vice versa).
Just like my FORMER shrink. F#$*ing moron decided to dope me to the gills when I was twelve over a couple of minor problems. Now, all I have to show for it is a mild/moderate chemical dependency and an empty bank account. The part that's similar to your story is that the office kept billing us for *imaginary* visits to the clinic. Something tells me that if there was an appointment that wasn't scheduled, that I didn't attend, and that they didn't call me for, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.
And though my folks paid for the s!!@ treatments until I was eighteen, the money for the meds is now coming out of MY pocket.
I just found out that the 16 year old son of a couple that my wife and I have been friends with for over a decade died on Christmas eve. I wasn’t there for them, or their son who was a great teen. I’ve spent the last 10 days sucking down oxycodone and vicodin and learning how to swallow without using my tongue, which had two large chunks removed from it because my doctor and the surgeon both suspect the sores I’ve had for the last four months are oral cancer. I know that it’s a darn good reason to be out of the loop, but I feel terrible anyway. I just wish I could have been there with them, at the hospital, even if there wasn’t anything I could have done.
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I hate for my entry to follow something like that even though it's been over a week, but....
...some people are just douchebags.
I wish I could copy and paste your post.
I walked into a public restroom the other day to view its only other occupant pissing into the sink. "What the f&&&?" I asked him. "What the f*@$ yourself," he replied. I left to go empty myself somewhere else.
Well, the lab report is in and I have cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, on my tongue. I’ve never smoked anything in my life, and I don’t chew - even gum. I’m 34. The odds of me having this cancer are astronomical – I literally had a better chance of winning the lottery. I’ll be having more tests in the upcoming weeks to verify the biopsy, and check to see if I have cancer anywhere else.
The most likely treatment is that they will remove one third to one half of my tongue, as well as the lymph nodes in my throat and neck. Assuming it hasn’t spread.
I’m still trying to get my head around all of this. My family is very supportive, and a lot of people are praying for me, and that gives me hope.
I hate for my entry to follow something like that even though it's been over a week, but....
Don’t worry – it’s not about how much something sucks, it’s just that some things do suck, and this is a good place to vent about it. I don’t want to kill the thread.
Well, the lab report is in and I have cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, on my tongue. I’ve never smoked anything in my life, and I don’t chew - even gum. I’m 34. The odds of me having this cancer are astronomical – I literally had a better chance of winning the lottery. I’ll be having more tests in the upcoming weeks to verify the biopsy, and check to see if I have cancer anywhere else.
The most likely treatment is that they will remove one third to one half of my tongue, as well as the lymph nodes in my throat and neck. Assuming it hasn’t spread.
I’m still trying to get my head around all of this. My family is very supportive, and a lot of people are praying for me, and that gives me hope.
~WINCES~ Damn! I am sorry to hear that. All I can say is follow what the docs say and stay on the chemo. Also, ask them if it is possible that this cancer came from another region of your body. Take care of yourself and I will keep you in my prayers.
Well, the lab report is in and I have cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, on my tongue. I’ve never smoked anything in my life, and I don’t chew - even gum. I’m 34. The odds of me having this cancer are astronomical – I literally had a better chance of winning the lottery. I’ll be having more tests in the upcoming weeks to verify the biopsy, and check to see if I have cancer anywhere else.
The most likely treatment is that they will remove one third to one half of my tongue, as well as the lymph nodes in my throat and neck. Assuming it hasn’t spread.
I’m still trying to get my head around all of this. My family is very supportive, and a lot of people are praying for me, and that gives me hope.
Damn. That is well and truly awful. I will most certainly keep you and your loved ones in my prayers.
~WINCES~ Damn! I am sorry to hear that. All I can say is follow what the docs say and stay on the chemo. Also, ask them if it is possible that this cancer came from another region of your body. Take care of yourself and I will keep you in my prayers.
Thanks Sharoth and Freehold DM, I really do appreciate the prayers.
Yeah, that’s the big question right now - whether the cancer in my tongue metastasized to there from somewhere else, started there, or started there and has already spread. I’m going to be going through a lot of tests over the next couple weeks so we can find that out. If the cancer hasn’t spread beyond my tongue, then surgery will take care of it – no chemo needed (which is probably the only good thing that can be said about having up to half of your tongue removed).
And if it has spread . . . . .
Well, we’ll deal with that if the tests come back with bad news.
You know what’s really funny about this? It was found because I went to see my doctor about a mole on my back that was about the size of a dime, irregular in shape, and multicolor (red flag alert! red flag alert!). As he removed it and a few other moles for testing, I mentioned, as an aside, that I had a sore spot on my tongue for a few months and that it wouldn’t go away. He takes a look at it, and refers me to see an oral surgeon ASAP. The moles turned out to be fine.
Anyway, the oral surgeon takes a look at it, doesn’t really think it’s likely to be bad because of my age and history (non-tobacco user, etc.), but decides to take the biopsy just to be safe. We then discover that in order to reach the sore spot on my tongue, he needs to clip my fremula (sp?) – the little membrane under your tongue that, if it’s too long, prevents you from being able to stick your tongue out past your lips (tongue-tied). I HAD a surgery for being tongue-tied when I was 5 or 6, it just didn’t work well (obviously). We try with nitrous oxide, but I was too frightened (I VIVIDLY remember the first surgery) so there is enough adrenaline in my body that nitrous oxide is completely useless. We reschedule, they put me under and perform the surgeries, and they discover a second lesion on my tongue and remove it to. Both were cancerous, so here we are.
I'm getting to almost the one year mark on being cancer free, so I feel for you. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other, is my best advice. Show it who's boss!
Oh, and it's fraenulum (though fraenum / frenulum are interchangeable). I have a short one under my tongue (frenulum linguae); it's a bummer for language and love, but you take what you're given.
Okay, obviously way more petty stuff than what Spellcrafter is dealing with, but I'm going to vent anyways cause that's what this thread is for.
This has been a not-so-great week capped off by a sucktastic weekend. I fell on the ice and sprained my thumb on Monday, and then started coming down with a cold on Thursday. The landlord, who very kindly put in a new kitchen floor for us at his expense (maybe other people have landlords like this, but this is my first experience with a non-cheapskate landlord), decided to put it in this weekend. While I am feeling like crap and my husband is in Pittsburgh for the week to do inventory. And the smell from the glue is really bad. So I make plans to spend the weekend out and then it snows and snows on Saturday, so we couldn't go anywhere, and then Saturday afternoon my dad calls to tell me that my great-aunt Ada died on Friday and the viewing is Sunday and the funeral on Monday. Well, I can't go to the funeral because of when my son gets out of school, so I had to bring him with me to the viewing. And he is pretty sensitive about this kind of thing since my mom died. He spent the first little while hiding behind the extra chairs at the funeral home. After I finally coaxed him out he relaxed a bit, and overall it ended up being okay. Then I had to try to pin my dad down to a single course of action because he wants help moving and won't make specific plans. (Grrr.) So we finally get to drive the hour plus home from Flint, and in the couple of hours we spent there 23 had turned into a sheet of ice. Not a fun drive. I think my muscles might relax sometime next week. Not this one. I already had to shovel the driveway once, early this morning, and it looks like the weather is making sure I'll have to repeat that experience tomorrow. And the snowplow always leaves extra snow at the end of our driveway so even though I shoveled I still have extra to move tomorrow. I checked this time. He does not do this to our neighbors. Just us. So, we finally make it back and knowing the kitchen was a stinky mess I decided we were going out. We went to pizza hut where we had the longest wait ever. Really full restaurant, one waitress. Luckily, she knows us well enough, and she gave us extra breadsticks to make up for the wait. So the kid got to bed an hour late which means he'll be an absolute darling tomorrow.</sarcasm> And I have to help out in the classroom tomorrow, so I can't even get any extra sleep while he's at school. And I really feel like crap. I'm not even sure at this point what I'm going to wear since the whole having my house ripped up and running around everywhichwhere means that I didn't have a chance to do my laundry. Everyone else's, but not mine.
Like I said, petty, but annoying. Maybe I should have put this in the rant thread. Once I started typing I really got going there.
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Spellcrafter, really sorry to hear that man. I hope it works out and they get it all. Hang in there man.
I was reading an article in the newspaper on the weekend that suggested drinking alcohol is a big risk factor for oral cancer. I don’t know if you drink, but if you do, that’s a possibility. This article also claimed that several studies have linked oral cancer to mouthwash products that contain alcohol.
Not that any of that really helps you, but its always good to be armed with as much information as possible.
Lynora, I hope this next week is a better one for you.
Yikes... I'm sorry to hear that Spellcrafter...and Lynora... I think I really had nothing "important" to say after hearing that. Best wishes!
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Good luck dude. Your in my prayers. I'm a opportunistic polytheist so pick your deity!
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Spellcrafter, really sorry to hear that man. I hope it works out and they get it all. Hang in there man.
I was reading an article in the newspaper on the weekend that suggested drinking alcohol is a big risk factor for oral cancer. I don’t know if you drink, but if you do, that’s a possibility. This article also claimed that several studies have linked oral cancer to mouthwash products that contain alcohol.
Not that any of that really helps you, but its always good to be armed with as much information as possible.
Man, I'm sorry to hear about that Spellcrafter. I'm 33, so that scares the sh!t out of me.
I read that massive article in the Telegraph too Moth. Luckily I don't use mouthwash, but when I was younger I drank an absolute truckload of alcohol, so that's not comforting news.
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This weekend sucked for me. I'm not much of a sports fan. In fact, I pull for exactly two (2) teams.
I pull for the Carolina Panthers, and have since the franchise began. They were favored to win this weekend, and instead got smacked down in their home stadium.
My only other sport of interest is College Basketball, specifically, my alma mater, the UNC Tar Heels. The Heels dropped their second game in a week and a half after winning their first 13 games by double-digits.
It's times like this that I'm glad that I have my gamer-geek side to fall back on.
Thanks for the support everyone – I really do appreciate it.
Lynora, that really was a sucktastic weekend! I hope things have improved since!
On the alcohol issue – I drink maybe one glass of wine a month, and that’s an increase from what I drank as a teen / young adult. My vice has always been food – I weighed almost 250 lbs there for a while (6 ft tall), although I’ve managed to work it down to just over 200 over the last year and a half. However, I have used mouthwash for years so it’s interesting to hear that it might be a risk factor.
Oh, and while we’re here, insurance (or better yet, dealing with insurance companies) sucks. I have very good insurance, and I still just can’t stand dealing with them.
So we finally get to drive the hour plus home from Flint, and in the couple of hours we spent there 23 had turned into a sheet of ice.
Sorry about the death in the family. How odd, we were in Flint on Sunday as well. My wife's family met at BD's Mongolian Barbeque for her mother's birthday. Nasty driving, but awesome experience at the restaurant.
Add me to the list of people who are getting their hours cut...however, I still have a job, so that's a good thing. :)
Well, for those of you who’ve followed my posts these last few weeks, my test results are in. As a side note, PET scans aren’t that bad, upper GI scopes could be far worse, but colonoscopies truly suck. If you don’t know what a colonoscopy is, don’t ask. Don’t google it, just be very very thankful that you don’t know.
So after being scanned and scoped from one end to the other, the only cancer in my body that could be found is the tumor in my tongue. And it’s actually smaller than expected. So instead of going postal on my tongue and removing one third to one half of it along with the lymph nodes in my neck in an 8 hour operation followed by a week in the hospital, on Feb 5th I’ll have a one hour outpatient procedure to remove the cancerous areas plus a safety margin (approximately the size of the first two digits on your pinky finger) from my tongue. After I recover from that they are tentatively planning on using radiation on my neck / lymph nodes, and a non-chemo drug to help make sure that there aren’t any stray cancer cells that they missed floating around in my body.
I’m very pleased by this, and very thankful. It is an answer to our prayers. Praise Jesus!
Spellcrafter, that's awesome. I'm so glad that it is relatively contained and that you won't have to spend lots of time in the hospital. I hope that everything goes well with the procedures and that you have a swift recovery.
I’m very pleased by this, and very thankful. It is an answer to our prayers. Praise Jesus!
Spellcrafter, I've followed along without commenting. As a person who's been bereft by cancer, I'm thrilled for you. Mazel Tov!
Quite glad to hear that Spellcrafter!
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Spooky the Mighty Hunter is gone.
I'm very sorry. It's so hard to lose a beloved pet.
Very sorry to hear of your loss, Gary. Spooky is a great name for a cat.
Spooky the Mighty Hunter is gone.
Sorry to hear that... sigh....
I think you did the right thing. I've buried too many pets and loved ones, it's the toughest thing you can ever do. Hang in there Gary.
I take my hat off to him. May he pounce wildly in the feline everafter.