Who Else Feels Crappy?

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My brother-in-law is about to marry the biggest b**ch in the galaxy. Our whole family hates her, and he can't see how bad she treats him. My husband is the best man, and neither of us can talk him out of it :bang: . We're trying to be supportive (read: mind our own business), but it's so hard! As the date approaches, I feel more and more like crap.:(

Best advice I can give here is make sure he knows how you feel (and if you're been trying to talk him out of it, he does) but then let it go. All you're going to manage to do at this point is drive a wedge into your relationship with him. Be there to support him if/when things get ugly but otherwise accept that he's an adult and made his own choice. My parents didn't approve of my sister's first husband or my ex-wife, not in a huge way, but you could tell they weren't as happy as they could be. Their feelings and opinions caused a lot of stress on our marriages and, while they were far from the only reason for our divorces, they were definitely a contributing factor. I still sort of hate them a little for it, and we'll have been divorced nine years in September. Be happy that he found someone that makes him happy, whatever the definition of happy is for him and even if you disagree with it.

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Best advice I can give here is make sure he knows how you feel (and if you're been trying to talk him out of it, he does) but then let it go. All you're going to manage to do at this point is drive a wedge into your relationship with him. Be there to support him if/when things get ugly but otherwise accept that he's an adult and made his own choice. My parents didn't approve of my sister's first husband or my ex-wife, not in a huge way, but you could tell they weren't as happy as they could be. Their feelings and opinions caused a lot of stress on our marriages and, while they were far from the only reason for our divorces, they were definitely a contributing factor. I still sort of hate them a little for it, and we'll have been divorced nine years in September. Be happy that he found someone that makes him happy, whatever the definition of happy is for him and even if you disagree with it.

That is good advice. Thank you! I certainly don't want to cause problems with my husband and his brother; they're like best friends. That's why I keep my mouth shut. The problem is, my brother-in-law is a bit developmentally challenged (picture a grown man around 22 being taught by his dad to count money using fake currency) and socially awkward. Most importantly, he's one of the sweetest people on the face of the planet. I've seen him angry once, and my husband and I have been together 10 years. I just worry he's being taken advantage of. I know, I know. I need to let him figure it out on his own...:eyebrow:
 
That is good advice. Thank you! I certainly don't want to cause problems with my husband and his brother; they're like best friends. That's why I keep my mouth shut. The problem is, my brother-in-law is a bit developmentally challenged (picture a grown man around 22 being taught by his dad to count money using fake currency) and socially awkward. Most importantly, he's one of the sweetest people on the face of the planet. I've seen him angry once, and my husband and I have been together 10 years. I just worry he's being taken advantage of. I know, I know. I need to let him figure it out on his own...:eyebrow:

Consider it good training for when you have children of your own. After a certain point, you've done everything you can and you have to let them fail and just be there to help them pick up the pieces. That's personally been the hardest part of raising my kids, I'd venture to say it is for anyone who loves their children.
 
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My need for a brain vacation and just general procrastination has caused me to apply now (end of June) instead of earlier like I had planned. I've had my MCAT scores since the middle of the month and have essentially had my personal statement done for months now, so I don't have much of an excuse as to why it's taken me so long to submit.

I'm just mad at myself, is all.
 
And the fact that I'm bummed over this and posting on a Saturday night instead of enjoying the evening with friends doesn't help.
 
I just got audited from 2010. Miscalculated my payments for tuition and owe the IRS $2,569...
 
I did horribly on my practice MCAT. I really hope this wasn't all for nothing.
 
Currently buried in secondaries right now. Plus I've been having trouble getting my old dean to agree to submit a letter regarding academic probation my freshman year of undergrad. If I can't get him to submit it, I can't submit my secondary to Temple and MCW and maybe even more schools.
 
My need for a brain vacation and just general procrastination has caused me to apply now (end of June) instead of earlier like I had planned. I've had my MCAT scores since the middle of the month and have essentially had my personal statement done for months now, so I don't have much of an excuse as to why it's taken me so long to submit.

I'm just mad at myself, is all.

Hey, I'm right there with ya. Wanted everything done two weeks ago and submitted today. I just feel like I never meet my internal deadlines and it makes me wonder if I'm cut out at all for medicine. Ugh.
 
I just found out im pregnant. Starting Junior year of college in the Fall. As well as only 2 courses into my pre req's.
 
Hey, I'm right there with ya. Wanted everything done two weeks ago and submitted today. I just feel like I never meet my internal deadlines and it makes me wonder if I'm cut out at all for medicine. Ugh.

I haven't met a single internal deadline this semester. I postponed my MCAT 5 times at last count (only actually moved if once, thankfully) and didn't submit a single report for work when I planned to. It all got in on time and without any anger from my boss, but I like to think I can get things done a lot earlier than I really will do them. And then there's this pesky AMCAS...

So I totally understand.
 
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I just ate mustard that expired the same year I graduated from high school :/

I don't even like mustard.
 
I have to email the dean of my undergrad to get a letter/form from him regarding my academic probation freshman year. How embarrassing.
 
I should start a new thread entitled, "Who else feels aggravated and irritable?" Some of the things are minor nuisances, like getting into an argument with a cafeteria checkout lady who didn't want to accept my meal card. This turned into a whole brouhaha where I wound up having to talk to the cafeteria manager to get it straightened out. (To add insult to injury, I also had to calculate how much change she owed me and help her count it out because she couldn't figure it out. :rolleyes:) Some of the things are major life inconveniences, like being turned out of my apartment for a week because the idiot who lives upstairs from me hired an unlicensed plumber who did something to the pipes that he shouldn't have done. This resulted in a veritable waterfall in my unit, which is now full of mold and requiring the ceiling, floors, and carpets of my bathroom, bedroom, and hallway to be ripped out and replaced. While I do appreciate that I will wind up with a newly refurbished apartment, the inconvenience of it all is just....ugh.
 
Q, that sucks.

I'm currently waiting for the HVAC guy to get here to check out my air conditioner. I'm really grateful to have one, but it sucks going to bed during the daytime only to wake up drenched and have it be over 80 in the house.

Then I pulled in to the parking lot for my dogs doggy daycare and my shifter locked in drive. Some lights went on and stayed on too. Couldn't figure it out. Finally managed to get it in park. Dropped the dog off then had to fight to get the car in drive. It's a 2011 vehicle. Googled my car and found out this is a common problem with this car apparently (even brand new ones with just a few thousand miles on them) and also that most people haven't had much luck getting it fixed successfully despite the fact that a lot of people have been having issues with it.:( I'm on the edge of the warranty phase too. I'm supposed to be driving across two states in about 2.5 weeks to help my family with some stuff....

I'm just waiting for my neighbor to start in with the harassment about the car again...
 
I'm on a "light" rotation... where I am working 12 hours a day. Couple this with my next three weekends on call and I'm tired and grumpy. And just out of sorts. Majorly.

Just nothing seems right. I hate that feeling.

Q, I'm sorry about your place. If you lived closer to me, you could stay here. I'd even feed you.
 
Found out that the damage to my apt is much more extensive than the workmen first thought and involves the apt next door as well. There is all kinds of mold in the walls there, which is a health hazard. So now instead of taking a week to complete, the clean up job is turning into a pretty significant bldg remodeling job that is going to take a few weeks and involve government inspectors instead of just insurance inspectors and claims adjusters. Need to call my landlord tomorrow about alternative living arrangements, because there's only so long that I can camp out in my friend's living room. :hungover:
 
I'd offer you the extra bedroom and bath downstairs, but that'd be one hell of a commute...:p

(Plus, I have a sneaking suspicion I can't cook anywhere near as well as ShyRem can)

They should have to provide you with something huh? Or renter's insurance should cover something I'd think?



Found out that the damage to my apt is much more extensive than the workmen first thought and involves the apt next door as well. There is all kinds of mold in the walls there, which is a health hazard. So now instead of taking a week to complete, the clean up job is turning into a pretty significant bldg remodeling job that is going to take a few weeks and involve government inspectors instead of just insurance inspectors and claims adjusters. Need to call my landlord tomorrow about alternative living arrangements, because there's only so long that I can camp out in my friend's living room. :hungover:
 
Welp, my brother-in-law married the witch. I knew he'd go through with it. Now I just feel bad for my husband. He told his brother on the way to the church that he knew he wasn't going to see him again because of her and her manipulation. Broke my heart. My hubby and his bro are (were) like best friends. :(

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Welp, my brother-in-law married the witch. I knew he'd go through with it. Now I just feel bad for my husband. He told his brother on the way to the church that he knew he wasn't going to see him again because of her and her manipulation. Broke my heart. My hubby and his bro are (were) like best friends. :(

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This might not make you feel better, but my cousin married a scumbag. It was weird at the wedding, she looked happy, but not "i'm in love happy." They wound up getting divorced after two years. No kids involved even though she really wanted them. We had some long talks about it. While divorce sucks no doubt, she wound up finding a great guy, getting married to him, and having two beautiful twins. Moral of the story. Sometimes people figure things out a little later than we'd like them too, but at least figure them out.
 
I'd offer you the extra bedroom and bath downstairs, but that'd be one hell of a commute...:p
Ha, I know I've arrived when perfect strangers are offering to let me move into their houses. :laugh:

(Plus, I have a sneaking suspicion I can't cook anywhere near as well as ShyRem can)
I don't think anyone can cook like Shy can.

They should have to provide you with something huh? Or renter's insurance should cover something I'd think?
I spoke to my landlord today, so hopefully we'll get something worked out. TBD....

I'm on nights tonight. That is all.
Likewise getting ready to go on nights. I'll be the senior in the ICU with only a freshly graduated from medical school intern on with me. We do have the option of contacting the virtual ICU attending, who I think is in a war room in China or India or somewhere. (Just kidding....sort of.)

I am on 24 hour call covering two hospitals for inpatient academic medicine. Welcome to third year.
Yeah, those 24 hour calls ain't all that. :hungover:
 
Well. I got sign out for one hospital, and immediately got paged. For a patient I didn't get sign out on... Patient had been discharged and was now causing issues about his discharge stuff. I, of course, had no idea what was going on because he had been discharged. Ok. Off to the hospital I go to review a week of inpatient care and figure out wtf is going on. While I am on the way to that hospital, I get paged to the second hospital that I haven't gotten sign out for yet, but apparently I am getting paged. lovely. My pager continues to go nonstop for the next five hours, culminating in admitting someone with Von Gierke's disease with persistent hypoglycemia refractory to glucose administration and leukocytosis. Yeah. How often do you see Von Gierke's syndrome. Silly clinic patients are calling with problems like "I get dizzy when I stand up. What is wrong with me?". Well, gee, hold the phone up to your arm and let me take telephonic orthostatic vital signs, listen magically to your heart and lungs and imagine what you look like for an examination. I am sorry, you dont want to go to the er for evaluation? Gosh.... Well why did you call me then????????? Four more clinic calls just like that continue. I have been running back and forth all over town between the two hospitals all day long. This one crashing, that one being obstreperous, this one unresponsive, that one had an admission, that one has an ICU transfer.... Calgon take me away!! Wouldn't be quite as bad if it was all at one hospital.

My pager is full and I have just now gotten to sit down for the first time all day. I would rather take ICU call with a brand new intern than academic call covering both hospitals.
 
Wanted to take some clinical lab classes at my CC, but the head of the department is a teacher I already had.. This teacher knows that I'm applying to medical school and am not planning on actually completing the clinical lab program, so they won't let me take any classes in it. Lame.
 
:(

Sometimes I'm ashamed to be human. I was reading light "news" on Yahoo just putzing around while eating and I came across an article on an Ebola outbreak in Uganda. Normally I avoid reading article comments because the hate and vitriol just depresses the hell out of me. I figured with a deadly disease outbreak it couldn't be so bad, maybe some mass hysteria and misinformation right? Wrong.

Comments ranged from the following "Why doesn't the Uganda president just exterminate his worthless country" "haven't those animals learned how to use soap yet?" and "go Ebola" "Darwin wins"


I just, don't even...... :(

http://news.yahoo.com/uganda-bans-physical-contact-ebola-reaches-capital-112905767.html
 
Wanted to take some clinical lab classes at my CC, but the head of the department is a teacher I already had.. This teacher knows that I'm applying to medical school and am not planning on actually completing the clinical lab program, so they won't let me take any classes in it. Lame.

Sorry to hear that, they can be neat classes. If there's limited space I understand, but if not you could try and make the argument that physicians tend to be lacking good teaching or a good understanding of the laboratory and diagnostic side of things and that it will benefit patients for you strengthen your background more. Plus it's always advantageous for lab staff to work with a doctor who has a solid understanding of the role of the lab and clinical lab staff and their capabilities, instead of docs who just assume we throw samples on instruments and push buttons and are otherwise clueless. Given the reliance on lab results I think having more background would be highly beneficial. You could be an ambassador of sorts ;)
 
oh no q i am sorry to hear about your apartment :( i hope you have living arrangements arranged by now.

my dad works in home inspection and general contracting and from what he told me it is really important when you have mold to make sure you have someone who is a mold remediation specialist to remove it based now hat type of mold it is.


and shy - sounds like you had a hectic first night. hopefully things have gotten smoother??
 
I'm always a little anxious when I drive past the signs that say, "deer crossing, next 40 miles." If a deer was standing in the middle of the road waving its front hoofs frantically at me, I wouldn't even be able to see him until after we both wound up trapped in my back seat.

I saw this and it reminded me of your post.

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I'm 14 weeks pregnant and my baby has not gotten the message that it's supposed to stop making me vomit now. :barf:

That sucks. So bad. I know how you feel, though. With my 1 year-old, I vomited until around week 23. Hopefully it'll get better for you soon. :)

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I saw this and it reminded me of your post.

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This is why if you're damn certain you're going to whack the little guy, you floor it. Quicker death for the deer and you are more likely just to toss the bugger aside or over your car as you hit it. Duck at the last second to avoid shards of safety glass and stray hooves just in case.

-cj8
 
Ugh. I was in the ER on Sunday because I was having lower right abdominal pain, a fever and nausea. The doc was pretty certain it was my appendix and they were even withholding food/water from me because they were concerned they would have to operate soon.

After I had a CT Scan (and Zofran...and Dilaudid...), they discovered I had enlarged lymph nodes in my gut (which press on organs/etc and mimic appendicitis pain) and had viral mesenteric adenitis. I'm still nauseated, still on zofran, still have a sore right lower gut. But I gotta go to work today, ugh.
 
Yea feeling pretty crappy. I thought I could take August off just some vacation time but all this boredom is eating me alive. Hopefully it will get better when I go travel somewhere with close ones later in the month.

I think the feeling is more due to feeling guilty of not being productive.
 
I hate to resurrect this thread, but I need a harmless arena to vent.

Husband and I went on a weeks vacation for the first time in almost 4 years (yay) - it was much needed as I was at the burnout/breaking point and about to go mildly insane between my full time job, almost full-time school, and family health problems. Less than 2 days after we get back our home is forcibly broken into and most of our paltry belongings of value are stolen. Because we're so rich (snort), the items stolen and damages done don't add up to the $1,000 deductible in our insurance (even with the back door having to be completely replaced). So, combined with the previous theft earlier this year of my husband's tools (all of which were gifts, and again didn't add up to the deductible) we have almost nothing worthwhile left to steal (which I suppose is a good thing?) and no funds with which to replace them (which I realize is petty, since nothing stolen was a "necessity," but almost every single thing taken was a gift and therefore had a different kind of value). Now trying to figure out how we can pay for a security system to have some semblance of safe-feeling in our home moving forward.

I've also started studying for the MCAT to take early 2013, and given that I'm a nontrad and working full time its a huge time sink. The scores I've gotten on the practice question sets are not what I am wanting/feeling I should get, and its a huge demotivator. I plug along nonetheless but now have a constant nagging doubtful voice in my head telling me I'm wasting my time.

I remind myself every morning that I'm grateful for the house I wake up in to keep me and mine out of the elements, the income to live in it and pay for food, and that we are fairly healthy. But all this crap adds up sometimes, and a girl has gotta vent. Thanks for listening.
 
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Elewynne, that's an incredible good reason to resurrect this thread. That beyond sucks.

Security systems aren't cheap, but even living in a very safe neighborhood, I sleep better having one.


I'm just pushing burnout here. Everything is due and I've managed to catch some fun gi bug.
 
I just finished a string of seven days on in a row. We've been getting slammed, and it was just exhausting. The worst was a few days ago when I ran the code on a patient in their 20s, and after 1.5 hours, finally called the code because we'd thrown the kitchen sink at the patient and just nothing worked. There is such a sinking feeling about coming to the end of the ACLS algorithm and even trying the things with absolutely no evidence behind them because you figure, well, it can't hurt at this point. I opened the patient's eyes toward the end and saw the pupils were fixed and dilated, and I knew that was that. The patient left behind a young infant, now orphaned.

I spoke to the family twice, once right afterward and once about an hour later. Both times, it was like reliving the whole thing. They cried. I cried. A social worker I barely know gave me a hug in the hallway, and I cried some more. The patient's sister said to me, "I don't know how you do this." I said, "At the time, I was so busy thinking about what we could do to try to get the patient to breathe and their heart to beat that I didn't have time to think about it. But afterward, I think about it." I'm teary right now.

I've been a doctor for 1.5 years now. I have unfortunately broken bad news to many families just like this one. I have had multiple people tell me that it gets easier after a while. It hasn't, and I don't believe that it will. I don't think I want it to get easier. Some things are meant to be cried about.
 
Q, I have been telling families of loved ones that news for over 15 years. It never gets easier. And frankly I always thought if it got easy it was time to get out.

The young ones, the kids and young adults who just had crappy luck... They still walk with me. They rest a bit easier in my mind, but they still walk with me. I remember all the ones who died on me. Young and old.

Some things we just aren't meant to fix. Doesn't make it any less crappy.
 
Totally not as in the depth of Q's story :( ; that makes this sound silly, but I hate Physics. I've taken it in undergrad and had gotten a C in it. Now that I'm retaking it and not doing so well in it again, it's just bringing me down. I'm getting A's in both Intro Biology and Ecology (both previous C's), but I get depressed about Physics and think about literally dropping all my classes. It's like no matter how much I study for that class, I blank on each test...its really sad and depressing. I should have never have taken it so soon. Its going to ruin my redemption!!!
 
The nice thing about being a little ways out from applying is that it gives you time to do things, and in theory not necessarily stress so much.

But then that also means stuff can sneak up on you because you have the illusion of time, like that little old thing called the MCAT that I just realized I should probably start studying for this summer.... :eek:



(oh and as far as feeling crappy goes, we won't even mention how my first epi3 exam went last week...:cry: )
 
Got waitlisted, never made it off the waitlist. Immediately jumped into more post-bacc work upon learning that the committee just wants to see more. Moved to part-time work and was laid-off just before I had to pay tuition. Doing great in school, but still finishing apps and feel like it's too late. Found out the school I was waitlisted at passed me over for an interview, meaning I'll have to wait until 2013. Was told by state unemployment office that I'm not qualified to receive unemployment because I'm not available to work full-time. Kind caseworker is trying to see if my post-bacc work counts as a "training program", but odds of that are slim.

Feeling bummed, beaten down, and behind. I know I can do this. I don't just get As nowadays, I finish in the top 5 of the class. I'm sharper and more focused than ever, but I can't seem to get a school to see that. I've been optimistic and tunnel-visioned for so long and it started to crack in the last couple of weeks. I chose to risk my job, so it's no one's fault but mine that I lost it. Yet, I'm terrified that all I'm going to have after all of this is a depleted savings account, a brain stuffed with upper-division biology, and nothing else.
 
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