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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: RichardMEL on April 24, 2009, 02:48:37 AM
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This is a bit of a vent so please feel free.
It's been one of those weeks... Seems like everything that could go wrong for me HAS gone wrong this week.
First it started with my foot cramping during dialysis.. not fun. OK, we upped the dry weight hopefully that will fix that. Bad nurse said I was getting "old and fat" - thanks, mate! :p
Then it got worse at work where I'd been asked to do one thing for an important project last week.. of course they put the request in on a Thursday afternoon and said "oh yeah it needs to be done by Monday" - thanks SOOOO much kids for that massive amount of notice (specially when I was at D on Thursday afternoon so didn't get that request till the Friday - uh hello??!! everyone knows when my D times are!).. so anyway I worked my butt off to fit to their schedule and get things happening.. well guess what? They come back and say "oh no actually that's not really what we want anymore.. we want something else!" omg I could have killed someone... so I wrote a less than flattering comment but busted my hump to make the changes... but wait.. this gets better...
I go home on Wednesday evening and turn on my laptop, sitting plugged in on the desk where I left it in the morning. I feed my cat and come back to the laptop and see a lovely message on the screen "HARD DISK (3F0)" yep you guessed it. The six month old laptop, or at least the hard drive, has FAILED TOTALLY!!! I lost all my data and I hadn't done a backup for like 4 weeks. oh crap! Well I finally was able to talk to the Indian call centre today (Friday) and hopefully they will organise with me sometime to pick the bloody thing up and repair/replace it. hmm.
Meantime back at work I have *SIX* new servers to install and varying deadlines because of older systems having to be decomissioned and sent back (end of lease) so I have to get these new ones up and running so I am busy working on those and getting confused between different ones because there's so many.
Meantime the project people are back with their request.. guess what they've changed it again!!! Oh and because they are idiots and have no clue what the hell they are doing they're behind the deadline and everything has to be up THIS WEEK OR ELSE!! Well guess who the pressure is on? Not them... noooo it's on *ME* because somehow it's all my fault (WHAT THE>!>>!!?!?!?)... but wait this gets better.. I'm making changes on the main webserver to get it all happening and there are these weird errors and stuff going on... so it doesn't make sense.. so I go and check their area where they've put all the files that are needed... THEY MOVED THE FILES!!!! WHAT THE HELL!? They moved all this stuff and didn't even tell me!!! I got SO ANGRY!! I was absolutely livid!!! Who operates like this???? How the crap did they expect me to get their bloody thing working when they just go and move stuff around in the middle of me working on it and then not tell me. But just wait it gets better... I made a comment asking why this was done and the guy comes back "uh oh we thought we would help you" and had a blank look and said he didn't understand why I was so angry. OH MY GOD!!! So I totally let them have it in an email (after I got things finally working - it turns out my stuff worked fine it was their code that was wrong... and it had to do with all the stupid moving around THEY did.. go figure!!) and copied their managers and told them how unacceptable it was and that I didn't apprieciate being screwed around CONSTANTLY specially having them coming and standing over my shoulder expecting me to do things instantly.
Oh my God I was ready to belt the living crap out of someone by that stage!!! My boss even had to drag me off to the pub to calm me down.
So then I went to cash in some lotto scratch tickets I had lying around at home.... oh no they couldn't do it for me.. their machine is down (gee, this sounds like a familiar situation for me doesn't it?).. and right after I walked out of there I got a call from a co-worker saying one of the new servers wouldn't respond (turned out he'd made an error in a file and it kind of screwed things up.. but we fixed it pretty quickly)...
Why do I have the feeling my dialyzer will pop off the machine or something tomorrow????
Oh yeah and my loser football team (4 games, 4 bad losses) plays tomorrow night too.. YAY!!
Can someone please just shoot me and put me out of my misery? thank you!!
thanks for letting me vent... not going home to my kitty and dead laptop! :rofl;
Moved to General Dialysis section-kitkatz,Moderator
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Richard, I had just finished writing you a private note on PM when I discovered this post. OMG boy, what a time you've had! All I can say, is hopefully you got ride of all the bad things for the next year or so. That was enough to last. The only thing I can say is OMG, but you will handle it.
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my loser football team (4 games, 4 bad losses) plays tomorrow night too.. YAY!!
I was feeling for you Richy until....... you had to go and mention Richmond.......... :rofl; :rofl;
Now I'm laughing.... :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; all the way to the G tomorrow to watch Collingwood WIN!! :-* :-*
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oh the typical friendly sympathy of a Collingwood supporter. I should have expected no less!!! :p
I'll just add it to my bad week list and move on ! :rofl;
Dan: thanks for your comment (and PM) :) I'll live but just VERY frustrating when it seems like everything was going wrong! I am being Dialysis naughty and sipping on a vodka and coke.. well they can bite me!!! :beer1;
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well they can bite me!!! :beer1;
:-* :-* Enjoy it Rich you deserve it.
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You certainly deserve that vodka and Coke, Richard. I am sorry for the difficulties at work, and I am glad you let them know about it so maybe it can be avoided in the future.
On the bright side, you can always come here and vent. We are always here to listen and lend some sympathy.
Next week has got to be better for you! :bow;
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So glad you could vent.
going home to my kitty and dead laptop!
At least it isn't the other way around! ;D (dead kitty and laptop)
I think I'll back up my hard drive tonight.....
Aleta
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Vodka and coke sounds absolutely awful. But what can you expect from an Aussie???
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Dan you should know it was ACTUALLY vanilla coke I used!!! :rofl;
In the good old days before kidney failure and when I was much younger and stupid I used to drink triple vodka shots straight... but these days I need a bit of sweetness in my life... and since I had no women from IHD I had to go the bad bad phosphorous route!! lol
And yes I am so glad my kitty seems very well and happy... I'd be totally lost if something happened to her.. and if it happened this week well... I'd wonder which deity I'd offended somehow.
Hey did I mention my Indian Premier League (IPL) team lost a game it was sooo set to win!!
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
And yes, back it all up!!!! At least I have some stiuff backe dup like my itunes library and financial stuff.... oh and some photos... so it's mostly irritating as much as anything else (plus right now I'm using a 9 year old desktop PC that is clunking along slowly but so far hasn't totally died)
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WoW Richard that has been a week to forget huh.
Sounds like you walked through a Murphy's law dust storm.
And i was thinking the same as Dan Vodka and coke? thats a first.
may the new week be much less stressful.
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hehe... I was thinking it was, in truth, probably straight vodka shots. I have a friend from Scotland who drinks Scotch and Coke. The only thing a Texan is allow to drink with coke i Jack Daniels.
I hope you are feeling a little better.
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Ahh, Richard. :cuddle; You did have a bad week. I am sending AlohaBeth on a plane right now. She'll be there tomorrow to make your weekend better :2thumbsup; :rofl; She was looking at airfares, etc the other day. She thinks Australia may be her next adventure. I hope the weekend is better. We love you, does that help? :cuddle; :cuddle;
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even though your fellow employees probably can't really be classed as "users" i'm sure you know the saying "they got just what they asked for, but not what they wanted"
and as for the cola, i say, just take a binder and screw the phosphorous.
i'm sure you'll have a better week next week.
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Yeah, you had a shitty week! Hope it goes up from here!
:beer1;
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Sorry Richard, I hope things have smoothed out :thumbup;
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Crap weeks are the ones that make everything else better. And it dose good to get really mad every once in a while. Then again that is comming from a very moody woman who needs an excuse to be a little B****y from time to time. haha I hope this week gets better for you. *REALLY BIG HUG* :grouphug;
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I'll come and share a vodka & coke with you, or a Bacardi & coke ............only out of the kindness of my heart and to make you feel better you understand :rofl;
Hope this coming week is better for you, of all people you didn't deserve all that cr*p and specially not all in one week .......................never mind Alohabeth may be on her way to you soon :thumbup;
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in comparison , my weeks sounds pretty good :waiting;
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Yes twirl..I just had that thought too....RM...it will be better....however please take a sip for me.
:beer1;
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Well crap weeks suck rocks. I have no words except hope it goes better for you!
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:grouphug; Best of Luck for a Good Week Next Week!
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Save some Vodka for tonight :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; GO PIES :cheer:
(Melbourne football joke.... all the Aussies will understand.... ;D )
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Ahh, Richard. :cuddle; You did have a bad week. I am sending AlohaBeth on a plane right now. She'll be there tomorrow to make your weekend better :2thumbsup; :rofl; She was looking at airfares, etc the other day. She thinks Australia may be her next adventure. I hope the weekend is better. We love you, does that help? :cuddle; :cuddle;
lol well I have hundreds of thousands of frequent flyer points that need using... hmm maybe we can do adeal!! :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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oooh I so hope Wattle i sfeeling a bit contrite tonight after the unexpected loss of her team. FOOTBALL JUSTICE WAS SERVED!!! Essendon deserved to win and when it looked like they wouldn't the Gods smiled on them and they got over the line. What an awesome game.. I was almost jumping out of my seat by the end!! Pity I was stuck on the machine at the time.. uh oh.
Well my week continues to go well - my ipod totally crashed out today when I got to dialysis!!!!
I mean I am just NOT making this stuff up??!?!?!
Well my tiggers are about to start playing.. can't wait for this night of fun to be over!!!
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Three words.......
Pass the Vodka :stressed; :stressed;
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Well well bugger me... the tigers actually WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
could my week be turning around??? I won't hold my breath... I might stay up and watch Chennai tackle another game of cricket :p
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What a terrible week you had! It can only get better, there is no doubt about it! At least you've had all the mishaps of one year (if not more) sorted out within a week and now you can get on with the rest of the year!
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Hope this week is going better RM. Last week pretty much sucked for me too, but so far this one is shaping up quite nicely and I wish you the same.
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Richard, AlohaBeth got stuck in customs---something to do with green leafy stuff :rofl; I do hope this week gets much better than last week. :cuddle; :cuddle;
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Richard, AlohaBeth got stuck in customs---something to do with green leafy stuff :rofl;
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
She just wanted to make sure Richard was well taken care of... ;)
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thanks all :)
this week is marginally better.. let me see...
- they took my laptop away on Monday - still no word on that (hmm)
- I stayed home on Monday for some building works to happen on my balcony. They're waterproofing the balconies. OK that is fine.. except we just finished 6 months of summer with no rain.. why do they pick now when it's autumn coming to winter to start this? Oh yeah, it rained on the weekend.... So nobody shows up by 12:30 so I called up "uh yeah well we're not coming to do the work today because it rained..." GEE THANKS! I took a valuable day off work to sit around and wait for.. nothing?!! NOT HAPPY.
not that I minded having the day off work so much after last week's crap, but I have so much to do I really needed that full day (because dialysis ruins my other days pretty much) so not happy.
Still everything else has gone OK. I had a good session of D yesterday and they confirmed I'm pretty much not carrying excess fluid which is good. Didn't cramp. didn't crash. gotta be happy with that.
Now I just need AB to get through customs to keep me warm.. it's bloody freezing!!!
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Well..
my week got better but now it's gotten worse again. It seems like everything around me is going to hell in a handbasket. Let me try and count off the last couple of days:
Well, it started with yet another loss to my Tigers... yeah, well that's to be expected (shut up, Wattle!! :) ) but it got worse when our champion player tore his hamstring and is out for 10-12 weeks, and possibly career over. A sad day for "Richo"
But then it gets better.. starting with the workers on my balcony who decided to do their work but NOT leave a note expressing the fact that it was wet and had not set. I get home and look at oh there's new stuff out there. I open my balcony door to have a look (I do not walk on there) but before I can close my door my cat who loves her outside time and clearly missed it zoomed out onto it... and discovered it was.. mushy! So not only did kitty get this sandy crap on her paws, but now there's nicely set paw prints on my balcony!! :rofl; lovely! So then I had to try and get this sticky crap off my cats paws because I was worried about her eating/ingesting it and it going solid in her tummy or something and causing problems... so in the act of picking her up and trying to gently rub this stuff off her paws (she was NOT amused) it was difficult and one of her claws managed to swipe across my fistula (!) luckily it did not draw blood but one of the nurses saw it and totally flipped out at me saying I could have died if it had sprung a leak and all this... :(
So I still have NO word from HP about my dead laptop. Why they couldn't just replace it (only six months old) under warranty is beyond me, but anyway... so I am functioning on a 9 year old desktop at home that barely works, and an emergency backup (old) laptop that I took with me to dialysis to watch downloaded stuff on.
Of course I kept my downloaded stuff on a memory stick which I could then take from the old PC where I downloaded to, and then use it on the laptop at dialysis.
Yes that's right, the memory stick failed when I got into dialysis. No matter what I did it would not recognise it!! So I had 5 hours with NO entertainment!!!! gaaa! And since then I have put the stick into 3 different PC's and it just refuses to work. fantastic !! (NOT!)
Oh yeah I did have some entertainment at dialysis yesterday when there was a hospital wide power outage. WOOT! We had 30 minutes battery on the machines and they were starting to sort out who to take off if the batteries failed and all that. Luckily we got power back in 20 minutes *phew*... that was different.
Oh the power outage also affected my work and some of the servers there refused to come back properly.. so that caused issues for my boss (and because I was not there it was more difficult for them).
Then I had a date last night with a nice lady but I honestly don't think she finds me very interesting so that was a bit of a non event :rofl;
This morning I found out my brother lost his job and they just told him to clear out and he's very depressed.
So... just waiting to see what will go wrong next... I'm sure there's more to come :(
this is just not a good week at all :(
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oh I forgot to add I got a text from a dialysis friend saying her fistula stopped last night so she's stuck in hospital for it... yeah I might see her tomorrow at my unit which is nice (she's pretty good looking ;) ) but geez, that sucks!
I think it's something about me :(
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Sweet Richard, I am so very sorry. It seems to be raining trouble over you. My mother's favorite expression was "going to hell in a handbasket', so I feel how frustrated you are right now. You do seem to be having a long streak of bad luck. It isn't you :cuddle; It is just stupid things happening in a long string. Including Beth being stuck in customs!! I think now she is just trying to avoid her brothers wedding :rofl; I do hope things improve as the week goes on. And I hope your dialysis friend is doing ok. Sending you lots of love, :cuddle; :cuddle; :cuddle;
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thank you :thx;
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now there's nicely set paw prints on my balcony!!
Celeste was just marking her territory! I think the paw prints would be cute. Didn't you ever write in wet cement as a kid??
I hope your week gets better Richy. I wont mention the Tigers :rofl; :rofl; ;D
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Richard, sounds like you need a laugh,
We just had a little party in the office for a colleague who turned 50. I put together a top-10 list of "Ways To Know When You're Turning 50" for the occassion:
10. Your therapist starts calling you for advice.
9. "Performance anxiety" now refers to golf.
8. Your main form of aerobic exercise is getting up to change the channel.
7. You think a mosh pit is something found at the center of an exotic fruit.
6. You wish the old ticker had quartz movement (the guy is a watch buyer.)
5. You read obituaries not to see who died but how long they lived.
4. Unless you've been knighted you want to smack anyone who calls you "sir."
3. You're shocked to discover that "chemical peel" isn't the name of a stripper.
2. Your underwear starts creeping up on you...and you enjoy it.
1. Twice in one night refers to bathroom visits.
Hope this helps.
Hang in there bro.
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I don't know if those helped Richard but they made me laugh. Thanks Bob. Laughing is always a good thing and over 50 there are so very many opportunities.
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Richard, tell me about your Chef.
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Sorry to hear about all the difficulties, Richard.
Look at it this way: Maybe you are having all your bad luck for the year all crammed into one period, and then the rest of the year will be just peachy! ;)
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lol thanks guys(n gals) :rofl;
Yeah I hope I am paying off karma at a massive rate so that when things turn around they will be awesome!!! Well, I can dream! :)
Now Dan a man doesn't kiss and tell... unfortunately there was no kissing - so I guess that means I can tell?? lol. The chef is a lovely lady and we had a hungarian dinner (hmm, ya think my phos levels will be through the roof after I indulged in chicken schnitzel stuffed with cheese and shaved turkey????? >:D hey but it was SOOO worth it!). Anyway yeah we had a lovely dinner and chatted, and she even gave me some fresh cookies she baked (under instructions to share with the nurses at Dialysis today) which was extra kind of her but you know when you're with someone and you just get that vibe that they're "just not that into you"? Like she was perfectly nice and polite and all that, but just a few things she said really gave me the impression that that was it for us on anything more than a friendly level. You know when you end a conversation/date and they say "Yeah we'll catch up soon" or "I'll be in touch" and you know it's just lip service... it was sort of like that. I'm not angry or anything.. I mean that's the way life is.. if she didn't feel anything click there or whatever... well that's the way it is but yeah, a little disappointing I guess.
However I did get awesome levels of phos into my system so I got something out of the night!!!
:rofl;
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Well this picture from yesterday's game seems to sum up my last few weeks. Yep, sitll things going crappy!!
Seems like I won't get my laptop back for at least another week... what crappy service!!!
BLAH!
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Oh Richard, Get your life straightened out. My job is to complain. Yours is to be positive.
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Oh Richard, Get your life straightened out. My job is to complain. Yours is to be positive.
lol.. yes I am trying Dan (you do not complain, by the way! Trust me.. I've seen complainers!!!). I think this is just a reall rough patch for me, my family and people around me.
I had my primary nurse going off at me yesterday saying I need to list at another hospital because hospital X had 6 transplants last week or something and ours hardly do any. But I remind her "It's a naitonal list. It doesn't matter what hospital I am at" - hmmmm.... I think she is just frustrated because she wants so badly for me to get a kidney - which is very sweet of her.
My brother wants to donate, but he's just had several massive blows personally losing his job, and some other stuff. I am not sure this is a time to put anything like that on him further, though I am seeing my neph later this week and will discuss it wioth him and see about a referral. Gee, I don't know anymore.
I want a drink!!! :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :urcrazy;
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I don't know if I would want a kidney or not... I'm supposed to think about registering but haven done that at all. I'm still trying to process this.
Let's go hit the bars!
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I'll join you!
Richard, things will surely start to look up soon.
Aleta
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I want a drink!!! :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :urcrazy;
I will take one too!
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My friend Javier just left. He sat right here and drank 3 beers right in front of me....
Oh well, he did bring my lunch.
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Well here is a bit of an update on me. The reason I am still not here as much as usual is because...
Back on May 7th or so HP, who had my laptop since April 27th(it died on April 23rd) informed me they were waiting for a part to fix my laptop (hello the hard drive failed.. is it THAT hard to find one?? puhlease!) and that it was due on May 14th. I was annoyed - not just because of the delay but because *I* had to chase them up - NOBODY bothered to call me!!! GRR SO anyway I waited till May 21 (A week after) to *AGAIN* call them, because guess what - no contact!! Well, they happily inform me that the part somehow is now due on June 3rd. OMG!!!! What kind of a shoddy operation. Hello Hewlett Packard!! Guess who will never get me as a customer again? So I informed the nice young lady whose misfortune it was to answer the call that I was not trying to shoot the messenger (her) but I was very disappointed - as much in the continued delay but yet again nobody bothered to inform me - the customer and could she please note it with her supervisor(s) because I was not very impressed. I made it clear I was not angry with her - she's just the phone bunny and she was OK about it but I was really not happy and well this results in me not being able to access IHD easily for a number of reasons.
Added to that my beloved football team is imploding from within (7 games, 1 win) and a scandal involving the players supposedly wanting the coach to be sacked is just a disgrace if true. It has not been a fun week.. something which Wattle and other opposition supporters must find wildly amusing.. sadly I don't even get jibed anymore.. just a look of intense pity!
It is perhaps a blessing that I won't see them play tomorrow night in a big game that is an annual game put on to celebrate indigenous culture in this culture, and is a really great initiative. (more info on 'Dreamtime at the 'G: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime_at_the_%27G). Instead I will be heading off for my Brother's birthday evening to a concert of, ironitcally, indigenous music.
Dialysis at least is going OK.....
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Hello, Richard. I understand your frustration with the customer service issue. Don't these people understand that good customer service can mean the difference between a return customer and a customer who will go out of his way to avoid their product in the future? I guess they think that all companies are the same, so why should they bother because the customer is going to get the same lousy service at the next place, too. I hope this isn't the case. . . >:(
On a lighter note, I hope you have a great time at your brother' s birthday bash!
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Oh sweet Richard! May has not been a good month for you. And we MISS you here! Customer service does not exist anymore. It seems like no one cares. And when you do ask for a supervisor, you are told they are the highest person in the chain. Really? There is no one higher than you to talk to me? It must be great to be that important! Frustrating. :banghead; I hope you get your laptop up and running and are back with us full time. :cuddle;
Happy Birthday to your brother :birthday;
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I hope you get it back soon! I miss chatting with you!
How are things going with work?
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Richard, You'd better get your buns :sir ken; back in here, laptop or no. Else some of us guys might have to try to take your please with your women...
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Richard see that Danny Boy is gonna take your woman.
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sooo my fun continues (I guess I should have changed the topic to a month to forget, or a season, or something)... HP called today about my laptop with NO CLUE what operating system to put on it. Uh hello dude, you have the model number and the serial number and you have no record what it was supposed to have? And you're asking me?? What if I was clueless about such things? Sheesh... so yeah they are only just STARTING to repair my laptop. Go figure!
Today at dialysis was a bit of a nightmare! I was going along nicely minding my own business watching my laptop when WHAM! massive cramp in my foot... now normally I get a warning of sorts... I tend to get clammy/hot and feel pretty yuck so I can tell and take some action (have a drink, get UF turned off, whatever).. this just hit me like a bang and it was really painful!! And WHAM just like that I was hot and sweaty (and not in a good way >:D) and in a lot of pain. Alas our unit was short staffed and I picked the time to go all crampy when a few patients were coming off, so they ran to look at me, but had to finish the other guys and it was all a bit of a drama. So they took my BP and it was like 143/91.. I am *never* that high and I said as much... "oh don't worry it's OK" - I said to the nurse through gritted teeth "No, for me this is not OK I am telling you" - they took BP again a few minutes later (162/97!) and then I started freaking out a bit and that's when they said you have to calm down it's in your head (!).. but they did at least give me some saline and stopped my UF (which wasn't much anyway) and my cramp eventually went away.. but just when I thought it was all good BANG! it came back! so kept the UF off for another 10 mins, and I lay flat feeling very icky and it gradually went good again. ugh. So I am thinking I might up my dry weight a bit, even though my BP's have all been normal coming on and going off so this one hit me out of the blue and it was not good.
I said to the newbie next to me (3rd session) "I'm so sorry it's not normally this exciting around here.. it's usually full on boredom" (I don't think they believed me).
So, I wonder what will happen tomorrow....
(oh and of course my football team lost AGAIN on the weekend - after winning for 2/3rds of the game - typical!!)
hey, I am still positive... honest!! Really!!!
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it is football season where you live?
so sorry about your dialysis day -
you could post some of the comments made to you in ignorant things people have said to you -
some of those cramps can be right up there on the "pain scale" of labor pains -
hope it gets better for you -
twirl
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Well another update.
The good news is... my laptop is aparently fixed (no comment about the missing part that was supposedly due in June) and I should get it tomorrow. Now how much you wanna bet there's something wrong???
The not so good news is: I woke up today feeling sniffly with a runny nose. I get into work to find my co-worker who sits next to me is out because his kid's grade and school are under quarantine for swine flu.
oh, joy!
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That is bad news (worse than the busted laptop). Can you stay home for a few days until they determine if their was swime flu in the school? We don't need you on the sick list too.
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Hang in there Richard. It HAS to start looking up.
Aleta
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not sure but I will ask the opinion of the powers that be at dialysis tomorrow... maybe they will want to test me just to be sure. i think I only have a cold but who knows.. given the weakened condition my system is in due to dialysis/kidney failure it is a concern. They said here tonight they think 1 in 5 people will wind up getting it at some point so that is a worry.
Will just wait and see I guess... all I can do for now.
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Hi Rich
Sorry you are having such a bad time. You should be tested just in case....the swine flu is getting a little out of control here. Definitely up your dry weight. NOTHNG worse than the cramping and all things associated with being too dry.
Good to hear your computer is fixed. If you are clear of the swine flu I will come and visit in a couple of weeks. My mag is finally in the final stages of being built - the nine weeks of training really put we behind schedule but it will definitely be on line by July 1 if not sooner. I need to be in Melbourne to see a couple of advertisers in a couple of weeks so I will definitely catch up with you.
Hope everything looks up for you real soon. Hey, give it another month or so and you can come to my place and I can do your dialysis for you if you want to stay more than a couple of days. How COOL would that be!!! xx (And you thought you had problems before) !!
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lol ty lucinda :) :rofl;
I am going to talk to the powers that be this afternoon about my porky pig situation so we'll see... and yes, going to up my dry weight for sure... better to be safe than sorry!!!
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Here's an update on me.
Well first of all I am swine flu-less - at least for now.
I went into the unit yesterday, explained the situation and my concerns and they were really good and understanding(and didn't make me feel like a total idiot!) and stuck me in isolation and had the doc come in full gown, gloves, mask etc to check me out. In the end they decided it was just a nasty cold and I could be "released back into the general population" lol... but then nurses kept yelling at me "Get well soon!" which seemed off because we all suffer from kidney failure....
anyway so that was good, even though I still feel rotten with my cold.... but I am soldiering on!
My laptop on the other hand is giving me more fun. The repair is fine that all works like a charm, but my new source of frustration and pain came about when I wanted to restore the full backup i did of my system before it died. Simple, right? WRONG!!!
(WARNING: Technical geekery ahead!) - the problem essentially is that HP sold me a laptop (and most vendors do this these days) without installation media for the operating system(in this case, Vista Ultimate 64 bit). You get a "recovery" partition on the internal hard drive, and you can burn (one) set of DVD's to recover your system from - but it's only recover in the sense of "return to the HP factory setup" rather than allow you to access the various repair tools or backup restore tools that I needed. But wait, I could boot into the repair tools from vista's boot menu (f8 at startup) right? Yeah, sure.. it even found my external drive and the backup images I had.. cool.. BUT when I clicked to restore, the system whinged that because I was running that restore from the hard drive and it was going to format the hard drive I couldn't possibly do that. BZZT!! So thanks for NOTHING HP!! Well I spent the night surfing the net and trying various options including downloadable recovery iso's and the like - none of which worked because even a hacked vista install DVD I used failed because it needs some sort of HP specific driver which of course wasn't on there.
However I *think* I have a solution.. maybe.. I found a HP vista business OS DVD at work (we have a lot of HP equipment) and it boots fine on my laptop (YAY!) and I can finally, after a bit of tweaking, get to the complete pc recovery application... fingers crossed when I take all this home tonight I can actually get this to work with my backups.. I hope so it would really make life so much easier.
However big thumbs DOWN to HP for this crappy situation since it should work as advertised and not create nightmares when you're just trying to recover your system!!!
So, the fun continues in my world!!
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You poor thing! You have been through hell and back and headed back for a secound go round. *frown* Well you can get online right? That is a pluse. *smile* :cuddle;
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Well I have some good things to report for a change!!!!
1. MY LAPTOP IS BACK
2. after around 20 hours of problems I actually managed to restore my backed up files so I have everything back (mostly) to the way it was before the laptop died. Hooray!! It feels so good to be "back home" lol
3. My tiggers ACTUALLY WON a game of football!!! I thought I would have a heart attack near the end of the game when we squandered a 33 point lead to be down by 5 but managed to scrape through and win by 3 points. Woohoo!!!
4. At Dialysis today I was visited by a group of stormtroppers.. As in Star Wars! LOL. One of the nurses in the unit is a big fan and has a whole uniform and all that. So a group got together and were visiting one of their other friends in the hospital so they dropped in on me in all their gear. I'm going to get a pic from him so I'll upload it for a laugh... unless it's horrible.
5. I am mostly over my cold!!!
6. It's the weekend!!
So I'm being positive!! :rofl;
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Yea Rich....
I'm going to bitch this coming week.
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:bandance; :bandance;
I wanna see the pic of you and some store troopers. Haha. My son would love that. He loves Star Wars. He gets mad at me when he asked what color of lightsaber who ever had and I get it wrong. haha. Thats great.
Happy your week is off to a good start ;)
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Oh, if only I wasn't married...........that technical geekery stuff is kind of sexy! :o
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Well I have some good things to report for a change!!!!
1. MY LAPTOP IS BACK
2. after around 20 hours of problems I actually managed to restore my backed up files so I have everything back (mostly) to the way it was before the laptop died. Hooray!! It feels so good to be "back home" lol
3. My tiggers ACTUALLY WON a game of football!!! I thought I would have a heart attack near the end of the game when we squandered a 33 point lead to be down by 5 but managed to scrape through and win by 3 points. Woohoo!!!
4. At Dialysis today I was visited by a group of stormtroppers.. As in Star Wars! LOL. One of the nurses in the unit is a big fan and has a whole uniform and all that. So a group got together and were visiting one of their other friends in the hospital so they dropped in on me in all their gear. I'm going to get a pic from him so I'll upload it for a laugh... unless it's horrible.
5. I am mostly over my cold!!!
6. It's the weekend!!
So I'm being positive!! :rofl;
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7. You have the love of a good woman (Celeste) not to mention a line steadily growing longer and longer 8)
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I was going to respond some quick quip about "did ya kill em?"
But then Coke???????
Hey Scotch, 18 year or older that is the only prescription.
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:bandance; :bandance;
I wanna see the pic of you and some store troopers. Haha. My son would love that. He loves Star Wars. He gets mad at me when he asked what color of lightsaber who ever had and I get it wrong. haha. Thats great.
Happy your week is off to a good start ;)
Yes, I will post when I can get it. Should be a couple of days.
Aparently the group caused a few scenes around the hospital (like walking out of elevators and surprising people) .. aparently kids loved seeing them and it was a lot of fun for everyone :)
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:bandance; :bandance;
I wanna see the pic of you and some store troopers. Haha. My son would love that. He loves Star Wars. He gets mad at me when he asked what color of lightsaber who ever had and I get it wrong. haha. Thats great.
Happy your week is off to a good start ;)
I bet I can't wait to see. :clap;
Yes, I will post when I can get it. Should be a couple of days.
Aparently the group caused a few scenes around the hospital (like walking out of elevators and surprising people) .. aparently kids loved seeing them and it was a lot of fun for everyone :)