Who Else Feels Crappy?

[Gauss44]

Previously (poisonous vapors): My apartment of 10 years has had strong oil vapor and other sweet burnt plastic smelling dizzying/sickening fumes since February. I've been sleeping on friends' couches (sparingly) and subletting rooms (a lot) per my doctor's advice to stop sleeping there to protect my health. It's been very difficult to find a place to move to. I finally found a place that opens up on May 1st, but I have a difficult lease negotiation ahead of me tomorrow. All seemed to be on track until...

Now (an outdated unprofessional, albeit harmless, odor - nag champa incense): I just woke up in a new room I'm subletting from college students and it's become permeated in nag champa incense smell overnight. So much for smelling professional or non-ridiculous. Now if I get called into work (due to a Boston Marathon incident or something), I'll have to address this smell too. And I cannot negotiate a new lease smelling like this. Landlords don't like to rent to foul smelling tenants AT ALL. There's no where open today either to dry clean my clothes I set aside. And I'm exhausted due to the bus incident above and loud party music tonight. Sometimes it seems as though I just can't win.

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[QofQuimica]

Coming off another nights to days transition after a night of getting absolutely killed. Lots of really sick patients and the pager didn't stop going off all f***ing night. I feel hungover without having had any fun the night before. And I have like eight zillion charts to do. Speaking of which, I really should stop procrastinating on SDN....

 

[Darth Doc]

Two months until the planned move to start medical school. Our house has been on the market a couple months but at the price range we are in plus the market in our area there aren't a whole lot of buyers. No contract yet, but there has been interest and our house "shows well". Just found out that our new neighbor who moved in next door a couple days ago is a registered sex offender and his address of record is next door to me. Now how am I supposed to sell the house? We may have to do bankruptcy to get rid of the house just to get into school.


Feeling super stressed and depressed.

 

[ResetButton]

Two months until the planned move to start medical school. Our house has been on the market a couple months but at the price range we are in plus the market in our area there aren't a whole lot of buyers. No contract yet, but there has been interest and our house "shows well". Just found out that our new neighbor who moved in next door a couple days ago is a registered sex offender and his address of record is next door to me. Now how am I supposed to sell the house? We may have to do bankruptcy to get rid of the house just to get into school.


Feeling super stressed and depressed.

Is finding a renter a possibility? Depending on your location and finances this could end up being a good investment strategy if you can. (Just thinking out loud..)

 

[Darth Doc]

Is finding a renter a possibility? Depending on your location and finances this could end up being a good investment strategy if you can. (Just thinking out loud..)

Houses in my area are renting for $1000 a month less than my mortgage. Unless we get a sorority/fraternity to use it as their "house" (and I'm not sure what kind of shape the house will be in after 6-10 college kids live in it for a year or so), renting won't work. Looking for renters at the local university is our next option, though.

 

[Elewynne]

I feel your pain @Darth Doc; the two months is really looming over me. Also trying to fix up our house and find a renter that can cover our mortgage. I'm hoping in the next couple weeks we can finish up most major things and really work the craigslist. Crossing my fingers for both of us.

 

[theseeker4]

My brother in law is in the hospital, has been for the past 12 days and will be for the foreseeable future, due to acute-on-chronic liver failure. It is rough on everyone, especially for my wife's sister who has to deal with him being comatose in the hospital, the paperwork, and trying to explain to their young children what is happening to their father. Everyone including her just wants to know what will happen, good or bad, but the doctors are still saying he has a 50-50 chance, and it will be weeks or months, not days, before any real recovery will be achieved (if ever). Nothing I am personally going through compares to her suffering, but I have my final exam of the year on Friday, and then I need to get ready for Step I, which is difficult to do with everything going on right now.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Another frickin pipe with a hole in it. This is getting pretty old. That's number 4 I've had to deal with in the 5 years I've owned this place. The plumber said the other spot in my bathroom ceiling in the basement isn't water. Could be related to my rodent problem....

 

[futureboy]

I feel crappy. Since May 2013, a 4.0 in gen chem 1 & 2, bio 1 & 2, and physics 1 & 2, all seemingly for nothing...long story...

 

[Elizabethx89]

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[QofQuimica]

Elizabeth, going to medical school is not a now-or-never proposition. From your posts, it seems fairly evident to all of us (including yourself) that now is not a good time for you to try to go to medical school. But that doesn't mean you can't revisit things in a year or two or three when the rest of your life is in better order. Right now, you should focus on doing what you need to do to get your finances and health situation under better control. If you still want to go to medical school once you accomplish this, well, no reason why you can't take up where you left off. But take care of yourself first. Best of luck to you.

 

[Elewynne]

1) Because of my father-in-law's heart attack and related issues, we had to put off viewing homes at our new city for a couple months. When we finally did to go view homes a couple weeks ago we found the perfect one for us - only to find out they accepted an offer the day before and didn't bother to tell us until we tried to submit our offer. Repeat this scenario the following week on our second choice house as well.
2) Because it's now so late and that time of year, none of the houses left in our budget meet our criteria and we're having to compromise with a less desirable one that will need some work right off the bat which we really wanted to avoid.
3) Found out this morning my husband was attempting to commit mortgage fraud by refinancing our current home as a primary residence despite us knowing we will be moving out in a month - terms require we live there for a year after we close on the refi. His excuse was "no one really cares about that" WTF??!!
4) Still haven't any place to live once we move and I have to start driving in 34 days. Really hoping our offer will be accepted today and we can move on in this process.
5) Current house is being fixed up still, have to move out for a few days for floor refinishing and take both my dogs to work with me because no one else can watch them for us until the weekend. One is fine, two is chaos.

Just want to say eff it all right now and go live as a hermit. Gah.

 

[NCOldie]

I have no money and no food. I am so hungry... Oh, and I am taking 16 credit hours this semester. It's hard to focus with a growling stomach.

 

[Amygdarya]

1) Because of my father-in-law's heart attack and related issues, we had to put off viewing homes at our new city for a couple months. When we finally did to go view homes a couple weeks ago we found the perfect one for us - only to find out they accepted an offer the day before and didn't bother to tell us until we tried to submit our offer. Repeat this scenario the following week on our second choice house as well.
2) Because it's now so late and that time of year, none of the houses left in our budget meet our criteria and we're having to compromise with a less desirable one that will need some work right off the bat which we really wanted to avoid.
3) Found out this morning my husband was attempting to commit mortgage fraud by refinancing our current home as a primary residence despite us knowing we will be moving out in a month - terms require we live there for a year after we close on the refi. His excuse was "no one really cares about that" WTF??!!
4) Still haven't any place to live once we move and I have to start driving in 34 days. Really hoping our offer will be accepted today and we can move on in this process.
5) Current house is being fixed up still, have to move out for a few days for floor refinishing and take both my dogs to work with me because no one else can watch them for us until the weekend. One is fine, two is chaos.

Just want to say eff it all right now and go live as a hermit. Gah.

Ugh. This sucks. Hope your housing situation resolves ASAP and in the best way possible.

 

[EMDO2018]

I have no money and no food. I am so hungry... Oh, and I am taking 16 credit hours this semester. It's hard to focus with a growling stomach.

how did this happen?

 

[mommy2three]

I am itching to get out of orientation and into something more - seems trivial I know but I swear I am slowly going crazy


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[MetalloBetalactamase]

I stepped on a Lego!

 

[MetalloBetalactamase]

Forgot to write a prescription for my fellow postees....hope this helps.

 

[kraskadva]

(rant)
So classes started back this week- Monday was fine, some mild annoyances, but nothing awful.
1st lab today (cell bio) & was really looking forward to this- Great prof, shiny new science building with shiny new lab toys, mostly good people in the lab, already arranged 1 solid, dependable lab partner and had a couple good options for a 3rd if necessary, but was told there would be a couple groups of 2...
Well I walk into class, and people are mostly settled already, but my pre-arranged lab partner isn't there yet. I grab an empty bench and start talking with some of the others. Start teasing one of the other kids a bit (he's a known lab klutz, but a nice guy) and he teases back and goes to sit with another group. Just as my partner comes in, the prof announces that 1 person dropped, so it's all groups of 3.
And who's left to join my group, but one of the most obnoxious idiots I've run across so far. A ***** with a sense of entitlement & superiority complex who laughs/brays at a lot at things that only she finds funny and talks not quite under her breath all through lectures-that kind of obnoxious idiot. I've had other classes with her and usually try to just walk away, but now I'm stuck with her for the semester...

Wish I hadn't teased the lab klutz, he would have been 1000x better to work with

 

[QofQuimica]

I diagnosed a middle aged man with cancer today and had to break the bad news to him. At least my sweet little old lady with the neck mass that I thought was going to turn out to be cancer, turned out not to be. :-/

 

[wholeheartedly]

This is such a first world problem, especially after the above, but my autocorrect is killing me on my ipad. I get that it's a funny problem and I don't mind it correcting my spelling or suggesting words, but I feel like it's learned to do other dumb stuff. Like it keeps randomly adding the word "a" in front of other words where I wasn't putting anything and where it doesn't make sense.

It changes correctly spelled words to other words that don't fit and for no apparent reason. Like where I typed learned above and spelled it right it changed the word to lessened.

Is there a way to check my autocorrect and straighten some of this stuff out?

 

[AspiringERMD]

I feel crappy too. Primarily, I'm just having a hard time dealing with the emotional roller coaster induced by the application cycle. But I also just moved in with my SO and am starting to think maybe I'm not as happy in the relationship as I try to convince myself I am. :-/ I know cognitively that he loves me, but he really couldn't be worse at showing it. I think I need someone warmer. But I've got to stick through at least another 10-11 months with him until I go to med school. If I still feel the same way, that's a good time to end things.

Sigh, at least if I get in this cycle, a year from now I can just bury myself in studying medicine and ignore all the external problems

 

[mommy2three]

i am officially torn in two
my little guy broke his leg and is in a cast and while it does not need surgery i want to be home but i am here two states away
at least i get to go home friday but still this whole thing kind of sucks - it is harder than i thought not being able to be there for these little things and i know it it is just that a little thing but still

 

[Polkadotfan]

I feel crappy.
Baby is teething. Never sleeping.
Husband and I have been arguing more.
I just want to go to a 4-year uni and get started with my life, but for now I have to be happy being a stay at home mom while volunteering even though I would love to contribute to finances (since I'll be draining them in a few years...)
Plus we have no idea where we're moving in a few months and all of the options don't seem...that...great.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Since I'm new to our management team, this is my first weekend as the resource person on call if the regular staff has any trouble. Usually you don't get called, or it's something you can provide guidance over the phone for.

Of course I couldn't be that lucky. I had to go in, along with the technical specialist for one of our diagnostic areas, and then we proceded to spend the entire day troubleshooting that assay, along with another analyzer, and some other issues that flared up. Fun day.

Good news is when my boss found out I was still there should told me I could take a day off during the week next week.

 

[Drogo]

For pretty much the last decade my little sister and I have had a non-existent relationship with our father due to many family problems (bad divorce, alcoholism) and him just never reaching out to us. He has fought lung cancer for about the last 4 years. My sister and I had planned to fly out and see him in early September because the doctor and my two younger brothers said he did not have long to live.

Our intention was to go make our peace with him. To also forgive him and to just let him know how much we still love him even though he never called us around holidays or our birthdays to just tell us he still loves us.

On August 16th he passed away with my youngest brother at his side.

In May I broke up with a girl who loved me with everything she had and I let her down.

Due to financial reasons I might not be able to go back to school this year which means me missing out on close to $23,000 in grant/scholarship money. So you ask 'Who else feels crappy?', well I'm the damn epitome of 'feeling crappy' at this time in my life.

 

[jl lin]

As a vent, I just want to say, I've had three summer colds so far, and now this last one has moved into a secondary bacterial sinus infection and is in my bronchioles. So, yes. I feel crappy, and I'm pushing it anyway. Darn, it can be hard being patient when you feel like crap.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Itching, itching everywhere. Gah!

Despite meds

No idea what I'm reacting to, but I hope I never encounter it again....

 

[jl lin]

Wow. Sorry you feel so itchy.

Meanwhile, I feel like I have Ebola. . .OK. . .a little over the top; but I am tired of this now. Enough is enough.

 

[Helen Wheels]

Last night I believe I passed my first kidney stone ever. I didn't have any hematuria and never saw a stone but I had the classic back pain moving into the flank and groin. Pretty darn painful but the pain stopped after 3 hours so I guess it made it to the bladder. Officially old now.

 

[jl lin]

Old now? Shoot, I've seen teens struggle with kidney stones. It's a pretty sucky experience. So sorry you are dealing with this, especially now. As much as I hate this infection I have now, I wouldn't trade positions with you. I mean, my respiratory situation is mostly annoying, and I keep hearing my grandfather in my head, who used to say, after every cough, "Damn consumption!" LOL. He never had TB, but he always said that.

 

[AspiringERMD]

Now I feel crappy because I've read more of this thread and realized how much worse other people have it than I do...

 

[wholeheartedly]

Still itching all over, it's definitely spreading from where it started. Wondering if the dogs rolled it some toxic plant and then got me when snuggling

Hope I can actually sleep some tonight.

@Helen Wheels sorry about the stones.

 

[ejw5075]

Still itching all over, it's definitely spreading from where it started. Wondering if the dogs rolled it some toxic plant and then got me when snuggling

Hope I can actually sleep some tonight.

@Helen Wheels sorry about the stones.

Are your dogs protected from fleas? If not, you can get pretty severe itching/sometimes a rash reacting to those- without having fleas yourself, lol

 

[wholeheartedly]

Are your dogs protected from fleas? If not, you can get pretty severe itching/sometimes a rash reacting to those- without having fleas yourself, lol

We have the flea and tick stuff going. I'll admit to not always being as timely remembering to apply it, but one was just at the vet for annual check up and vaccines and they checked her with the flea comb and didn't see anything. Neither of them seem to be itching at all. Just me.

I also got paranoid and checked for bedbugs too, even though it's not really consistent with that either.

I've had issues with hand soap, earrings, foam eye pieces on goggles, and laundry detergent before. Just years ago and never like this.

I apparently have the self control of a small child when it comes to not scratching

 

[QofQuimica]

Today has been one of those days where anything that could go wrong, went wrong. I also snapped at a colleague, which I regret. Not because he didn't deserve it; he was totally being a butt at a rather inopportune time. Just more disappointed with myself for losing my cool and for not having done as good of a job with taking care of my sickest patients today as I feel like I should have. Though the unit secretary, who overheard my end of the conversation on the phone, laughed afterward and said if that was me losing my temper, it was nothing. :-/

 

[BlastedHeath]

We have the flea and tick stuff going. I'll admit to not always being as timely remembering to apply it, but one was just at the vet for annual check up and vaccines and they checked her with the flea comb and didn't see anything. Neither of them seem to be itching at all. Just me.

I also got paranoid and checked for bedbugs too, even though it's not really consistent with that either.

I've had issues with hand soap, earrings, foam eye pieces on goggles, and laundry detergent before. Just years ago and never like this.

I apparently have the self control of a small child when it comes to not scratching

I feel your pain, I've been crazy itchy the last few weeks too. It's maddening. Currently going through different soaps and everything I touch to figure out what it is, but no success yet. What's worse is we did have bedbugs a few months ago and I can never get that out of my mind, but I'm 99.99% sure this isn't them.

 

[QuantumJ]

Had to defer med school for a year. I made friends with a lot people from my class over facebook and seeing everyone post about school has been really really hard. In the meantime I am looking for a job for this year but haven't been able to find one yet and of course for anyone who hasn't been in the job market likes to tell me how easy it should be to find something. It's really not and 150+ applications in one month just makes you feel like giving up.

 

[QofQuimica]

Finding *a* job is very easy. Finding a professional-type job you like and that pays you what you want to be paid, that's what's not so easy. If finances are tight, maybe consider being a bit less picky for now while you keep looking?

 

[jl lin]

Just want to say I am sorry for those having a bad day, who are itchy, out of work and delaying MS, and who feel crappy for any other reason.
I now wonder if I have adenovirus-14. Being sick to this degree SUCKS. Albuterol nebs are making me tachy and twitchy, and prednisone is keeping me awake. Plus, who the heck has junk like this for three weeks? Apparently whatever this is taking down healthy kids and adults. Of course, like an idiot I worked for the first two weeks of having it--totally non-stop. Probably not so smart on my part. Unfortunately, no one seems to care anymore if a you are sick. It's "Suck it up!" until you are in the ED or dead. LOL

 

[soundofserenity]

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[QofQuimica]

I have hiccups. Doesn't really make me feel crappy, but it sure is annoying. I'm also charting, which makes me mildly irritable, but again, not really crappy per se.

 

[HesyRa]

When I first started studying for the MCAT I was scoring ~11 in the verbal section. Now, after three months + of studying I am scoring 10's most of the time. How is it possible to get worse? Perhaps I should drop this stupid mapping technique from Kaplan.

 

[speeddemon]

So many fat girls everywhere aghhhhh

 

[jl lin]

So many fat girls everywhere aghhhhh

Wait, what? I am not a fat girl. lol Where did that come form.

I am now with this itchiness of which others have spoken. Darn Helen. I have to wonder if it is all the meds I am on for this God-forsaken plague.

Hiccups that won't stop are just plain annoying as all heck. At the very least, they are quite distracting. Q, maybe your CNS is retaliating against you for making it do all the endless paperwork. I love how computers were supposed to help limit this excessive paperwork. I was told this 20 years ago in nursing, and the paperwork has only grown into more extremes--and tomes of papers are still being wasted--trees or merely recycled. Goofy software systems don't help and make life a pain as well. Ah well. . .Q your body is saying, "Give me a break from this paperwork already." Time for a vaca!

 

[ymmit]

First world, overeducated problems... I'm defending my PhD thesis early next year but have not broken the news to my advisor about my medicine plans. She and my committee will be surprised and probably dismayed that I'm not trying to become a professor like them. I wasn't going to tell her until I aced my upcoming MCAT in about a month. I need to ace my MCAT because my uGPA is very, very low. The pressure of this necessity is extremely paralyzing. I cannot find time or energy to study for the MCAT because of preparing to defend my thesis. I feel extremely guilty and panicked about not being able to put forth 100%+100%=200% everyday, and my mind flips everyday about whether I should just give up and pursue a postdoc. I have been "trying to study" for a year now. Studying is driving me so crazy and guilty that upon my continued failure to study well last night I thought about stabbing my thigh with a pair of scissors to wake up. This scared me so I went to bed instead. I cannot push my test date back anymore because I think that will cause me to go further insane...

Edit: Also, it's 102 deg during the day and I leave the AC off to try to save money on utilities. So of course I am also itching.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Studying is driving me so crazy and guilty that upon my continued failure to study well last night I thought about stabbing my thigh with a pair of scissors to wake up.

I don't recommend that. I kept poking myself in the leg to stay awake during lecture and it kinda hurts. One of the residents I saw as patient seemed to have a better strategy.

I noticed she had a hair band around her wrist and kept snapping it (didn't make any noise). At first I thought it was just an unconscious, fidgety type thing, but then realized she looked post call/completely exhausted and seemed to be doing to stay awake. Seems like a better plan than poking. Less infection risk

 

[QofQuimica]

Wait, what? I am not a fat girl. lol Where did that come form.

I am now with this itchiness of which others have spoken. Darn Helen. I have to wonder if it is all the meds I am on for this God-forsaken plague.

Hiccups that won't stop are just plain annoying as all heck. At the very least, they are quite distracting. Q, maybe your CNS is retaliating against you for making it do all the endless paperwork. I love how computers were supposed to help limit this excessive paperwork. I was told this 20 years ago in nursing, and the paperwork has only grown into more extremes--and tomes of papers are still being wasted--trees or merely recycled. Goofy software systems don't help and make life a pain as well. Ah well. . .Q your body is saying, "Give me a break from this paperwork already." Time for a vaca!

I like how you think. Wish I had a scribe....

I'm itchy from the elastic in my compression stockings, but I'd rather be itchy than orthostatic.

 

[Nasrudin]

Whoops.

 

[jl lin]

This thread has become quite amusing. Sick and gallows humor is the saving coping mechanism of healthcare. When I get semi-comatose, all I can do is get up--or bounce my leg up and down, which is terribly annoying to those next to me. It's hard to keep hyper people contained--especially when people like me are tired and feel like they are swirling the bowl. I truly feel badly for those next to me; but a rubber band on my wrist isn't gonna cut it--no pun intended. I had one person yell at me to "stop that infernal leg bouncing." lol Of course I had to comply and apologize. God forgive me, I just wanted to smack her; since she seemed all about her agenda anyway--dominating the lectures and making sure she was always visible. But fair is fair--and really ultimately, Karma is Karma. People are suckers for BSers that push their own agenda--only to get bitten in the butt by them later. Anyway, I try to hear sonnets. lyrics, or orchestrated classical pieces in my head in between the highlights of lectures. It annoys less people, but I am someone that likes to keep moving one way or another.