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[168135]

I'm supposed to be on my "spring break" (or as we call it, reading week). All it's done is push my stress levels into overdrive. I don't have the motivation to do those two lab reports next week... or study for Monday's organic test... and do enough on my thesis to impress my supervisor... all I want to do is chill with the boyfriend who I haven't seen since New Years, and I CANT because I DONT HAVE A CAR. &*#&$^@*&!#

Finally got in to see a counselor. Work faster darn it 😡 Whatever the heck is wrong with me isn't going away.

Tired of getting up and going into school for 9:30... and getting picked at if I decide to take an hour or two to run errands...

Also, I just realized that I called Apple like a month ago and they were supposed to send me a box so I can get my iPod fixed. They haven't sent the box yet. Grrrrrr. I'm going on a roadtrip in two weeks time... I NEED my iPod. I'm barely surviving without it. Walking to the bus seems to take twice as long when you're not bobbing your head along to an old Spice Girl's song.

 

[kaydubs]

Had to attempt to appeal to the gods of the parking tickets at my school. How could I have moved my car from being a snow plow obstruction if a) I was in the ER & b) never received notice of movement of cars until after I left said ER 12 hours of needing to move the car? (Note: I brought my car to campus only cause of a dr appt for Monday which got rescheduled to yesterday and, in the process of going to retrieve my non snow covered vehicle to drive to the appt, I found a vibrant colored ticket😛)

It's only $20.....but it's still $20!!! Bah! And they claimed to have plowed these lots (FALSE!) so I wish I would have never moved my car in the 1st place. F parking....

Even better: Monday night at 10:30PM, I was told to move my car out of the safety of my parking garage & the univ. police person said I should "chance it" by moving my car almost 1 mile away from where I live (are people running around outside at 10:30PM? No.... I'm paranoid of assaults etc cause I get a frequent advisory warning me of this happening to others on campus)

My dr. appt was not fun either. Need to have a followup exam next Wed for a test to ensure everything is what they thought. 🤣 *sigh*

 

[BlacKAT33]

I'm supposed to be on my "spring break" (or as we call it, reading week). All it's done is push my stress levels into overdrive. I don't have the motivation to do those two lab reports next week... or study for Monday's organic test... and do enough on my thesis to impress my supervisor... all I want to do is chill with the boyfriend who I haven't seen since New Years, and I CANT because I DONT HAVE A CAR. &*#&$^@*&!#

Finally got in to see a counselor. Work faster darn it 😡 Whatever the heck is wrong with me isn't going away.

Tired of getting up and going into school for 9:30... and getting picked at if I decide to take an hour or two to run errands...

Also, I just realized that I called Apple like a month ago and they were supposed to send me a box so I can get my iPod fixed. They haven't sent the box yet. Grrrrrr. I'm going on a roadtrip in two weeks time... I NEED my iPod. I'm barely surviving without it. Walking to the bus seems to take twice as long when you're not bobbing your head along to an old Spice Girl's song.

did you get back with the same boyfriend that you broke up with? i must have missed this

 

[bunnity]

Spent 9PM to 1AM cleaning up dog vomit every 20 minutes. Spent 2AM to 6AM in the Penn ER with my dog. He has a foreign body in his stomach... top suspects are rawhide and a tennis ball.

Anatomy written final in 45 minutes. Then back to the hospital to see if we need to do a $1000 endoscope.

🙁 I hope my baby feels better soon.

 

[BlacKAT33]

Spent 9PM to 1AM cleaning up dog vomit every 20 minutes. Spent 2AM to 6AM in the Penn ER with my dog. He has a foreign body in his stomach... top suspects are rawhide and a tennis ball.

Anatomy written final in 45 minutes. Then back to the hospital to see if we need to do a $1000 endoscope.

🙁 I hope my baby feels better soon.

oh noooooooooooooooo!!! im really worried about him (but not worried about ur grades!! i'm sure ull still ace it 😀 ) keep me updated about him!

 

[RatherBEventing]

yessss a rant thread, thank god!!!
so i dont know if someone has already posted something like this, but im sure that this might be something other people in this forum can relate to..

I am SO sick of people who think its been pre-destined for them to get into vet school. they come to class, act obnoxious and start diagnosing everything (when we arent even asked to diagnose!) and on top of that, act disrespectfully towards our vet tech classmates, saying how vet techs are only good for getting coffee and such. Im sorry, these people are going to be your future coworkers?!!? they act like they know everything. and they also wear the vet school hoodies and tshirts as if they already go there. the MOST frustrating part though, is that these people actually got accepted to vet school. its really sad that interviews cant pull these people out of the crowd. thank god though, one of them actually didnt get into purdue (thank god one vet school has common sense and doesnt look at only grades!!!). its just really frustrating. im really sorry for those of you who will have to be classmates with these people next year..

 

[Whyevernot55]

Spent 9PM to 1AM cleaning up dog vomit every 20 minutes. Spent 2AM to 6AM in the Penn ER with my dog. He has a foreign body in his stomach... top suspects are rawhide and a tennis ball.

Anatomy written final in 45 minutes. Then back to the hospital to see if we need to do a $1000 endoscope.

🙁 I hope my baby feels better soon.

Keeping my fingers crossed for your puppy!

 

[Vet Med]

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[168135]

did you get back with the same boyfriend that you broke up with? i must have missed this

Yeah... a sudden change in his attitude made me re-think everything. That's one of the reasons why I was seeking the advice of a counselor about a month ago... and a month later, I get one, and I donno, saw a HUGE change like three weeks ago that is still making me go "Buh?"

Here's another rant... hearing about amymutt's missing dog again... I feel sooo aweful 🙁

 

[RatherBEventing]

From what my vet school friends say vet school = high school drama. People fight like crazy and... well its pretty much like going back to high school. I am not excited for this because I HATE DRAMA. You are in class with around 100 people day in and day out so I guess thats expected. I am sure these people you mention will just fuel the fire. If I get into vet school I am going to steer clear away from any of that stuff.

ugh great, i absolutely hate drama too. my major has been all girls since freshman year, and i go to a pretty small college. its like drama central.

 

[kaydubs]

Spent 9PM to 1AM cleaning up dog vomit every 20 minutes. Spent 2AM to 6AM in the Penn ER with my dog. He has a foreign body in his stomach... top suspects are rawhide and a tennis ball.

🙁 I hope my baby feels better soon.

Awwww......good luck, bunnity! What kind of baby do you have?? Sick pets are so different for us (vet peoples...) than the "normal" individual.


If you are naive about these sad realities, feel free to skip what's in parentheses.(Those individuals that would run their cat in a microwave rather than take it to a shelter make me ill. But it happens. Bah!!)

 

[Whyevernot55]

So...someone ran their truck into our building yesterday at the vet clinic I work at. 😱

No, seriously. Total accident, their dog was doing something in the back, and the person must have hit the gas instead of the brake. And was driving a truck. We and the business that shares the building both have some pretty awesome structural damage.

 

[Vet Med]

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[roughleggedhawk]

It wasn't even on the exam!

But I have it in my brain now, and there it will stay. That's how it works. I like memorizing random crap. Weeeeird.

Hah, reminds me of when I was studying for my first ever university exam in first-year biology. The prof had spent about fifteen minutes talking about glycolysis and the Krebs cycle in one lecture, and there was a nice diagram of all the steps and enzymes in our textbook. At the time, I still thought university was a big scary place where they ask only ridiculously detailed questions on exams, and I thought I was going to have to work reallllly hard for that A. So I memorized all of glycolysis and the entire Krebs cycle from the book. Enzymes, products, all of it. Of course, the only exam question on the subject was something like "what is the Krebs cycle?", and I felt pretty silly.

But it's coming in really handy now in Biochem II! I don't remember all of it from that memorization, but the names are all familiar and I kinda-sorta know what things do. It's a lot more interesting now too, because I have a better understanding of the chemistry that's going on.

 

[nyanko]

I feel like everyone in undergrad is so competitive, always looking at your grades, judging you, and comparing- I feel like this part will be different in vet school. Some girls in my undergrad pretend to be your friend so they can use you pretty much 🙁 I can only hope that in vet school people are more mature to not do those things.

Heh, unfortunately even though this should different, it really seems like old habits die hard, at least for the first few years. To their credit, in our program the instructors really DO try to drive the point home that we don't need to compete with each other anymore (to the point of one even telling the class to "grow up" after somebody complaining about other people getting added points to normalize lab quizzes).

It really does seem to be only a few bad apples, and honestly I dpn't even know who in my class does things like this. It's something to be aware of though - there will always be those types.

 

[clairbear]

I have guys and girls in my biology major, but I go to a small school too, so theres still plenty of drama.

I'm with a bunch of pre-meds that range from nice to pretty intense (lately more of the latter) and a few pre-vets that I get along with for the most part (with one exception), and most of their drama is school related because they're all so competitive. For example, we had research projects last semester for cell bio and the professor had a list of particular books, and when a project was assigned you or your friends pretty much had to go to the library that day and copy the section you need because they will take it out so no one else can use it (and I heard them admit to it.) I honestly don't think I've ever heard some of them talk about anything except classes, how smart they are, or how they stayed up all week studying. When they do turn their attention to something else, its still a major brag fest.

I talk about my grades and classes too sometimes, but its mainly to my friends or on SDN, and I don't spend most of my time talking about/obsessing over them especially to people I wouldn't talk to otherwise.

Also, I feel bad for you guys if you end up with the one pre-vet from my school. She's pretty much just like the more intense pre-meds and literally has announced her thoughts on specific tests to the whole class before. Also, I had to hear a 20 minute brag session in lab one day about how she knows how to give animals shots because apparently thats a big deal. Most of us also avoid working with her in lab because she constantly tries to boss and direct everyone else, and if you don't do something that is up to her standards, she'll take it and do it over. I'm honestly so glad I don't have to work with her except for when we combine into larger groups. If I would happen to get into the same school as her, it may be a slightly factor into if I go to that school or not if I have a choice.

It wasn't so bad last year competitive wise, but after meeting some of these people first semester I avoided hanging out with biology majors because I thought everyone was like that. I have a few biology major friends now, and some of the people that I don't really talk to seem nice, but the crazy pre-med group seems to be getting larger.

 

[Vet Med]

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[withoutane]

Man people are crazy! I feel like pre-dental girls are even more competitive than the pre-med people. I have had the most trouble with them at my school. In fact, one of them sabotaged me in lab just so she could get ahead of me to use the ONE electrophoresis machine. I couldn't fix my gel in time so I had to come in over the weekend to make it up. GRRRRR.

 

[futurevet3000]

good god, where do you guys go to school?! That is terrible!

 

[Coquette22]

Um, wow. 😱 I've never been to a school like the ones you guys talk about. Aside from a few friendly rivalries between me and a classmate, I've never seen that kind of competition. People at my school are more than willing to lend notes, help with experiments, give advice, etc. (I was once accused of trying to sabotage a friend. She was absent for a lab class and was reliant on my data. I gave it to her, but the night before the report was due, I remembered some little minute thing that I needed to put into my methods section. As it happened, I was sick the next day, and she took both our reports in. She read my report, saw that I had this extra piece of minutiae, and tore a strip off me for trying to sabotage her. I'm human. I forget things. Shut up and get over yourself. And why were you reading my report anyway?! Yeah, we're not friends anymore...)

 

[bunnity]

Aww thanks everyone for your concern!
My dog is doing much better. They were able to get a radiologist to review the radiographs and she determined that the FB was rawhide and would be able to pass on its own. So no endoscope for now, thank goodness. He is home with me now and sleeping. He kept his first dose of meds down so I am hopeful that he is on his way to recovery.

I have to say the Penn ER doctors and nurses were amazing and super nice. They were slammed all night (and all day today - I spent another couple hours with my friend and her bunny there this afternoon) but they took really good care of him.

 

[168135]

Um, wow. 😱 I've never been to a school like the ones you guys talk about. Aside from a few friendly rivalries between me and a classmate, I've never seen that kind of competition. People at my school are more than willing to lend notes, help with experiments, give advice, etc. (I was once accused of trying to sabotage a friend. She was absent for a lab class and was reliant on my data. I gave it to her, but the night before the report was due, I remembered some little minute thing that I needed to put into my methods section. As it happened, I was sick the next day, and she took both our reports in. She read my report, saw that I had this extra piece of minutiae, and tore a strip off me for trying to sabotage her. I'm human. I forget things. Shut up and get over yourself. And why were you reading my report anyway?! Yeah, we're not friends anymore...)

My old roomate used to "ask me for help" over MSN. "I don't know how to do #4..." When I'd try to explain it to her, she'd ask to see my answer. So I'd show her and thinking she'd help me out, I'd ask her for help when I needed it. She always had an excuse: "I don't know how to do that one" or "I didn't get to that one yet, but I'll message you when I do!". She'd never message me. A few weeks later, I find out that whenever she asks me for an answer, she's also asking two of my friends.

She got all 90s that semester and is now in pharmacy school.

Hated her guts.

Before that semester, we would study together for animal behavior. I got a 92 on the midterm... she got an 87. She was too ashamed of her 87 to tell me. Wth? 87 is an awesome grade. As always, she ended up with a 90-something in the class and me an 85. Probably because she went around stealing everyone else's lab write-ups. We used to exchange them with each other... I'd find a trillion things wrong with hers and mine was always "fine". I'd always find a ton of spelling mistakes after the fact. So I recruited someone else to help me with stuff like that.

I don't mind helping people. In fact, I rather enjoy it. It really sucks to take time our of your day to help someone and they don't even have the mind to return the favor.

 

[HotTamale]

yessss a rant thread, thank god!!!
so i dont know if someone has already posted something like this, but im sure that this might be something other people in this forum can relate to..

I am SO sick of people who think its been pre-destined for them to get into vet school. they come to class, act obnoxious and start diagnosing everything (when we arent even asked to diagnose!) and on top of that, act disrespectfully towards our vet tech classmates, saying how vet techs are only good for getting coffee and such. Im sorry, these people are going to be your future coworkers?!!? they act like they know everything. and they also wear the vet school hoodies and tshirts as if they already go there. the MOST frustrating part though, is that these people actually got accepted to vet school. its really sad that interviews cant pull these people out of the crowd. thank god though, one of them actually didnt get into purdue (thank god one vet school has common sense and doesnt look at only grades!!!). its just really frustrating. im really sorry for those of you who will have to be classmates with these people next year..

hahahahahah

Okay I know this is supposed to be PURELY Ranting (which I may do eventually) but this thread is officially my favorite
Why??

Hear-ye, Hear-ye

" start diagnosing everything (when we arent even asked to diagnose!) and on top of that, act disrespectfully towards our vet tech classmates, saying how vet techs are only good for getting coffee and such. "

-YES that absolutely sounds atrocious......but the sheer humor of that situation is the social ineptitude that person has to live with
I wouldn't be able to control my laughter....or my mouth for that matter if some one "started diagnosing" things


hahahahah I cant get over that......jeeez louise, love it/hate it

 

[Ricegrad]

Confession: I've never grasped the Krebs cycle well enough to effectively teach it to someone else. I mean, I get the gist of it, but memorizing all the different steps and enzymes? 😴

I memorized it last semester by drawing the complete cycle over and over and over again, complete with names, structures, enzymes, cofactors, etc. Same thing with glycolysis, the urea cycle, etc. It's the only way I've found to get it to stick in my brain. Unfortunately, there were too many pathways for amino acid and nucleotide synthesis. My test was very, very bad 🙁 Oh, well. Spring break starts tomorrow! I get to grade 45 midterms that consist of 2 essays each. Eeek.

 

[Coquette22]

My older sister (who is a total girly-girl primadonna) is dragging me with her and her fiance to go look at wedding dresses tomorrow. Tomorrow could be a very very long day.

 

[scb44f]

I officially hate February.

My interview was okay, but I really really don't like interviewing with a panel. I seriously think they were pulling a good cop bad cop routine at some points.

My vice-president, who ran the pre-health meeting and allowed someone who was ineligible to be elected is placing the blame on the constitution. I don't give a flying **** how you feel about the constitution. We do what it says because it's what the members want (the body elected to add that specific part he disagreed with a few months ago, meaning he could've expressed his feelings against it then, but he didn't).

I hate the cheme department, and I'm really tired of hearing how hard everyone has it. Get over yourselves! Oh, and they're trying to make it a department-wide policy to give extra credit to students who attend the professional society (AIChE) meetings. Nice for those of us who have no interest in being engineers. I even tried talking to my professor about counting the pre-health organization meetings but never got a definitive answer.

I hate my physiology class. We have a quiz tomorrow (as usual... if not a quiz, it's a test). The professor knew last week that I'd be gone yesterday for an interview. Has he posted the lecture notes, aka a page of information, yet? Nope. So I get to read the book and pick out the very specific details he's going to quiz everyone on when he said he'd have the ****ing one-page outline up already. Thanks, man 👎

Best part: one of my interviewers asked what I liked about that^ class when it's my least favorite class in the biology department ever (not for information, just the professor).

Things will get better... I just need March to get here already!

 

[teatime]

I am experiencing this post-application "blah" feeling leading to a bunch of laying around and feeling weird and bored because I have nothing to do. Illinois was my last interview, and now I like don't know what to do with myself. I think I need a second job.

don't worry, you're not alone. I will be in the same position as of 1:30 Tuesday afternoon. at least I know I have to start and finish this damn genetics class by June 15th, need to get my butt in gear! I really hate the Mendelian stuff, let's get on to molecular already. sigh...

 

[EllieGirl89]

I had a big project due today in my equine science class worth 1/6 of my total grade in the class. I procrastinated, and pulled an all-nighter to get it done. Just as I was finishing typing up my 10-page business plan, I heard the little "ding ding" that signals a new email in my inbox.

My prof's county is under a level 2 snow emergency and she cancelled class. The project now is due Monday. And I take the fact that she wrote "Use the extra time wisely" in the email quite ominously. How much you want to bet it's going to be graded harder now that we have a few extra days? HAAAAATEE!

 

[pennyonthefloor]

Typical morning: leave house 7:45 to get to work by 8:30 (max speed: 70 mph)

Snowpocalypse 2011: leave house at 7:00 to get to work by 9:30 (max speed: 30 mph)

Distance traveled: about 40 miles

😡

Once I am done with vet school I will be headed somewhere that doesn't have 50 degree weather one day and a foot of snow the next. Ohio and I have a love/hate relationship.

 

[rosyreef]

Typical morning: leave house 7:45 to get to work by 8:30 (max speed: 70 mph)

Snowpocalypse 2011: leave house at 7:00 to get to work by 9:30 (max speed: 30 mph)

Distance traveled: about 40 miles

😡

Once I am done with vet school I will be headed somewhere that doesn't have 50 degree weather one day and a foot of snow the next. Ohio and I have a love/hate relationship.

😱 Where in Ohio are you? I'm maybe 10 minutes from OSU campus and we got only a few inches, 2-3 max. I am used to living in areas with worse weather, but Columbus is really bad at preparing for winter it seems..

 

[Whyevernot55]

😱 Where in Ohio are you? I'm maybe 10 minutes from OSU campus and we got only a few inches, 2-3 max. I am used to living in areas with worse weather, but Columbus is really bad at preparing for winter it seems..

I'm up in Cleveland - we got a TON overnight and this morning. It's slowed down now, but the roads are a disaster. 🙄

 

[NStarz]

My doctor's appointment went really badly yesterday. Basically told me that stress was to blame for my ailments. Considering the fact that I want to go to veterinary school, this is not a good thing. Am I supposed to take another four years to get rid of this stupid thing? Should I just become a hermit and live in my parents' basement for the rest of my life?? I don't know what to do anymore :cry::cry::cry:

 

[pennyonthefloor]

😱 Where in Ohio are you? I'm maybe 10 minutes from OSU campus and we got only a few inches, 2-3 max. I am used to living in areas with worse weather, but Columbus is really bad at preparing for winter it seems..

Northwest Ohio. Extreme Northwest Ohio (I work about 5 miles away from the OH/MI border....)

 

[withoutane]

I'm just having one of those days/weeks. I got a rejection letter yesterday and was waitlisted at my IS on Tuesday. Today, everything conspired to make me late to school...which has happened a few other times this week so now my profs are starting to judge me. To top it all off, I literally almost careened off of a cliff this morning when my car lost traction on some gravel AND I have a really bad feeling that another rejection letter will be waiting for me in the mail.

I just want to go home and cry but I still have a few hours of responsible student time left today. 🙁

 

[kaydubs]

So, my headache is still here. I've gone to 3 health people (P.A., D.O., M.D., Nurse practitioner....(sorry I dunno the letters 😀)) and every single one of them said the person who preceded him/her was incorrect. After stating their own/different diagnoses, they gave me another prescription I talked to a pharmacist last night who told me to indeed take 800mg of Mortrin 3-4 times daily. Currently, my stomach is rolling & doing acrobatic flips. If I didn't yet develop an ulcer, I'm well on my way.

Best parts: people either: a)tell me I am too stressed and that's what's causing my headache (although I hit my head off my front door...) or b)it's not a headache and I'm lying/hallucinating. 🤣

My family just tells me to be happy with vet school. But, if that not-so-indestructible black box aka my brain stops working, won't vet school be kinda out?? *sigh* My brain has been out to lunch for too long & now I'm dropping things as well as having short term memory loss. 👎 My parents are ones who think illness is basically always self-inflicted & never seek medical treatment (I'm realizing that choice is probably with good reason....)

Side note (& additional rant) - I can't get rid of my ex. I still love him and he keeps trying to force me into some semblance of a relationship. Out of love (or stupidity?) I keep allowing it.

Advice, friends of SDN? I feel like I should sign this with : Disgusted in PA
P.S. My only option for sight is my pair of glasses. They broke this morning. Do I go blind (as in without any visual aide??)😱

 

[l2vet]

So, my headache is still here. I've gone to 3 health people (P.A., D.O., M.D., Nurse practitioner....(sorry I dunno the letters 😀)) and every single one of them said the person who preceded him/her was incorrect. After stating their own/different diagnoses, they gave me another prescription I talked to a pharmacist last night who told me to indeed take 800mg of Mortrin 3-4 times daily. Currently, my stomach is rolling & doing acrobatic flips. If I didn't yet develop an ulcer, I'm well on my way.

Best parts: people either: a)tell me I am too stressed and that's what's causing my headache (although I hit my head off my front door...) or b)it's not a headache and I'm lying/hallucinating. 🤣

My family just tells me to be happy with vet school. But, if that not-so-indestructible black box aka my brain stops working, won't vet school be kinda out?? *sigh* My brain has been out to lunch for too long & now I'm dropping things as well as having short term memory loss. 👎 My parents are ones who think illness is basically always self-inflicted & never seek medical treatment (I'm realizing that choice is probably with good reason....)

I'm sorry 🙁 I wish I had something better to say other than make sure you stay hydrated, and get lots of rest.

Side note (& additional rant) - I can't get rid of my ex. I still love him and he keeps trying to force me into some semblance of a relationship. Out of love (or stupidity?) I keep allowing it.

Advice, friends of SDN? I feel like I should sign this with : Disgusted in PA
P.S. My only option for sight is my pair of glasses. They broke this morning. Do I go blind (as in without any visual aide??)😱

You could always go with the Harry Potter look--scotch tape. Other than that, check your inbox :3

 

[Goatherdess14]

Ugh. I am dog sitting for this lady who has gone PSYCHO.

When I agreed to sit for the dogs, I asked if I could take them home with me one day. She agreed and even told me that if I wanted, I could take them for the whole weekend. Yay!

Flash forward to last night. I told her that I was planning on leaving earlier this morning because my mom and sister were ill and that I would be leaving directions for the cleaning lady on the kitchen table.

SHE. FLIPPED. OUT.

She wrote me back and said basically that she doesn't understand how no one holds up their end of the deal, that she paid me to take care of the dogs and the cleaning lady to clean and now none of us are going to do what she paid us for and oh well that's fine just go ahead leave the dogs locked in the kitchen and she will find something to do with them.

WTF??? So I write her back and say, no, I'm taking them WITH me, like we agreed on... but if it's that big of a deal, I just won't go.

She writes me back and says "I've called Colleen, Sam, Taylar, June, Ericka, Joe, and someone will take them tomorrow to the boarding kennel. Just go don't worry about anything I've taken care of it all. Wow. How terrible for me to be thousands of miles away and be put in this position."

So Colleen calls me and I tell her that I am NOT LEAVING, that I was supposed to be able to take the dogs with me but now that I'm apparently not supposed to, I am NOT LEAVING because the dogs are MY RESPONSIBILITY and I am finishing what this lady asked me to do. And I must have said the same thing to the lady 25790234572975 times.

So now the lady I am working for has PAID this Colleen lady to come stay for the next two nights WITH HER HUSBAND here, because I am "irresponsible" and "just take the money but never finish the job."

I AM NOT LEAVING. I am staying here with the dogs that I was hired to take care of. And it's going to be pretty awkward with me, Colleen, and her husband all staying in the guest room.

But I'm not leaving because a.) the dogs are my responsibility, and b.) I don't know WHERE this lady gets her pyschotic behavior, because we agreed WELL in advance that I could take the dogs home with me. Plus she is mad because I took the money but "aren't going to finish the job" and I already spent the money on hay and livestock feed. So I can't pay her back, and there is no way in hell I am leaving this situation owing her anything.

Whew. This has been on my mind all night, because not only is this lady freaking out, she's worked herself into a tizzy and ruined her vacation (which of course will be my fault), my mom is now sick and out my help for the day, this Colleen lady has re-worked her whole weekend to be able to stay here when I'm already going to be here, and where the heck am I supposed to sleep for the next two nights???

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I hate psycotic people.

 

[168135]

Boyfriend just left for another 2 months without saying good-bye.

Also made the decision to drop organic II. Apparently the pain I've been having is caused by stress! I have a test tomorrow and haven't been able to study the material... I just end up staring blankly at my notebook for a half an hour :/ And my thesis supervisor has been breathing down my neck about getting stuff done. His other thesis student has gotten a lot more work done than me, but is also only taking three courses, two of them being super easy. I'm sick and tired of being compared to him.

I also haven't been physically able to work on my two assignments due on Tuesday and Wednesday...

*sigh*

My week off has been super stressful.

 

[that redhead]

So, my headache is still here. I've gone to 3 health people (P.A., D.O., M.D., Nurse practitioner....(sorry I dunno the letters 😀)) and every single one of them said the person who preceded him/her was incorrect. After stating their own/different diagnoses, they gave me another prescription I talked to a pharmacist last night who told me to indeed take 800mg of Mortrin 3-4 times daily. Currently, my stomach is rolling & doing acrobatic flips. If I didn't yet develop an ulcer, I'm well on my way.

Best parts: people either: a)tell me I am too stressed and that's what's causing my headache (although I hit my head off my front door...) or b)it's not a headache and I'm lying/hallucinating. 🤣

My family just tells me to be happy with vet school. But, if that not-so-indestructible black box aka my brain stops working, won't vet school be kinda out?? *sigh* My brain has been out to lunch for too long & now I'm dropping things as well as having short term memory loss. 👎 My parents are ones who think illness is basically always self-inflicted & never seek medical treatment (I'm realizing that choice is probably with good reason....)

Side note (& additional rant) - I can't get rid of my ex. I still love him and he keeps trying to force me into some semblance of a relationship. Out of love (or stupidity?) I keep allowing it.

Advice, friends of SDN? I feel like I should sign this with : Disgusted in PA

Regarding the headaches: has no one asked that you have an MRI done?! Not to be worst-case scenario but I've had two MRIs in my life when my hearing started getting wonky and I had ridiculous vertigo. They wanted to rule out a brain tumor. Good friend of mine actually ended up HAVING a brain tumor after chronic headaches. Obviously hoping it isn't that but seriously, that would be one of the first things to rule out I'd think?

Regarding your boyfriend: cut contact if you don't want him in your life. Like, 100% no phone/FB/etc.

Good luck with everything!

 

[NStarz]

Regarding the headaches: has no one asked that you have an MRI done?! Not to be worst-case scenario but I've had two MRIs in my life when my hearing started getting wonky and I had ridiculous vertigo. They wanted to rule out a brain tumor. Good friend of mine actually ended up HAVING a brain tumor after chronic headaches. Obviously hoping it isn't that but seriously, that would be one of the first things to rule out I'd think?

Regarding your boyfriend: cut contact if you don't want him in your life. Like, 100% no phone/FB/etc.

Good luck with everything!

Sometimes chronic headaches are just chronic headaches as well. I've had an MRI, spinal tap, and a host of other things and I'm still technically undiagnosed. But you definitely want to rule everything out 👍

 

[Evie1923]

Side note (& additional rant) - I can't get rid of my ex. I still love him and he keeps trying to force me into some semblance of a relationship. Out of love (or stupidity?) I keep allowing it

I agree completely with that redhead. An ex is usually an ex for a very legitimate reason. I just finished dealing with a very messy breakup because I didn't completely cut off contact and he used my feelings for him to try to manipulate me into getting back together. It might seem unbearable at first but completely cutting off any type of contact will protect you from getting hurt any further.

 

[twelvetigers]

You told us once that you were dumping this boy, and we all cheered.

So... you didn't actually dump him them, apparently. Lol. Girl, you know what we think about that guy!

 

[breenie]

Being 21 and having to call your dad to pick you up in the middle of the night because your friends ditched you really far away from home. I'm really good at this whole adulthood thing.

 

[gone2dogs]

Eh, you could afford mine... it's a 2000 and it has roughly 90,000 miles on it (the majority of which I've put on since acquiring it in 2007). If the thing survives vet school, I will be pleasantly surprised. Very pleasantly.

Oh dear... my 2000 subaru has 180,000 miles on it and I was COUNTING on it making it through vet school (and residency!). It is currently in the driveway, awaiting a tow to the shop tomorrow (or waiting for me to work up the nerve to try driving it again to get it there). I suspect it needs a new clutch, although the last drive it made the check engine light came on (flashing! I've never seen it flash... more scary that way I decided), so who the heck knows. It probably needs a new clutch AND some other crazy expensive repair. After dropping some serious $$$ this month getting my house on the market (repairs, painting, etc), an expensive car repair is pretty low on my wants list.

 

[twelvetigers]

The clutch wouldn't make the check engine light flash... and when that light flashes, it's srs bznss and you shouldn't try to drive it any more. At least that's my understanding.

The repair shop will use a scanner to see what code it's throwing and you should know form there if it's serious. Could be something silly like a loose spark plug, or it could be something much worse. Either way, I wouldn't drive it.

 

[gone2dogs]

The clutch wouldn't make the check engine light flash... and when that light flashes, it's srs bznss and you shouldn't try to drive it any more. At least that's my understanding.

The repair shop will use a scanner to see what code it's throwing and you should know form there if it's serious. Could be something silly like a loose spark plug, or it could be something much worse. Either way, I wouldn't drive it.

Well, the suspected clutch thing started last week (hard to get second to engage smoothly, all gears feeling like they were slipping or something on hills), without the check engine light... The light was new today, and it only flashed for a little bit before coming on solid. But yeah, given what I just read online (thanks, yahoo answers) it seems like maybe I shouldn't drive it and should just get it towed. I've never had to have a car towed before, but since I'm COUNTING on this car to last 8 more years I better not destroy it this week! Luckily I have a ride to work tomorrow already lined up...

 

[twelvetigers]

As a side note, I know that my insurance covers towing within 10 miles of the home or something. And since it's in your driveway, I think that would count. Just something to check on.

 

[gone2dogs]

As a side note, I know that my insurance covers towing within 10 miles of the home or something. And since it's in your driveway, I think that would count. Just something to check on.

Good point. I've got AAA plus, which I think is 100 miles of towing which is good, because by "my driveway" I meant the driveway of my friends house where I am temporarily living (messy me plus 3 large shedding dogs were going to be terrible for selling my house) which is probably 20 miles from my usual repair place. I'm going to call them first thing in the morning to see if they agree that it should be towed. Fun times!

 

[Coquette22]

I have yet another stupid biochem lab report due. Normally, this is at worst a minor irritation, but my head just isn't in it. I spent my entire break sick with bronchitis, and still have it. Plus I cannot seem to regulate my temperature at all. If I'm in a t-shirt, I'm too cold. I put on a light sweater, I'm instantly too hot. I feel light headed and dizzy. I feel like my entire head is in a fog, and I can't focus, let alone actually think.