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Today is my day off from work. I have already been called twice. There really hasn't been a single day that NOBODY has gotten in touch with me from work. I just want my days off to actually be free from work.
 
My final grandparent died late last night (grandma, paternal side). So, after white coat ceremony this Friday, I'm getting in a car and driving for 6 hours. To go to a funeral. Bloo.
 
So sorry to hear that, TT. Wish this week wouldn't be so bittersweet!
 
I'm sorry TT. My grandma only has a few days left so I have been a wreck the past couple of days. I totally feel you on the unfortunate timing. :,(
 
twelvetigers said:
My final grandparent died late last night (grandma, paternal side). So, after white coat ceremony this Friday, I'm getting in a car and driving for 6 hours. To go to a funeral. Bloo.
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TT, my deepest sympathies to you and your family for your loss.
 
Wow you don't have any grandparents either? Same here. Maternal grandfather died 14 years before I was born. Paternal grandfather a week before I was born. Paternal grandmother when I was 8. Then my maternal grandmother made it until I was 20 actually but I only saw her two or three times in my life (she lived across the country).

I symphasize with having no grandparents 🙁

I also symphasize with long drives....oh my gosh I hate driving for longer than an hour 0_0
 
I feel like absolute crap. My stomach and back are beyond painful. I want to go to the ER but can't get up because it hurts way too much. UGH.🙁:scared:
 
Is there someone you can call to drive you to the ER? Did you fall and hurt yourself or are you sick? Don't be brave...go and get checked out. Your health is the most important thing!
 
Also, please let us know what the doctor says so we know you're alright.
 
go to the hospital!
I learned that lesson the hard way - thought I was toughing out some horrendous heartburn/gas pain....ya...right before finals I ended up in the ER for a week lost my gallbladder, liver biopsy, some complications...you get the drift. Point is the problem only escalated while I thought I was being tough and culminated at the worst time ever - ended up having to take 1 incomplete and unfortunately my application was not even sent to the review board at some vet schools b/c I had to have 3 courses in progress in the spring instead of 2 b/c of the incomplete....point is your health is important, don't wait and let it get worse - your body is telling you something is wrong- take care of yourself and feel better!
 
Westboro Baptist "church" will be in Stillwater tomorrow to protest a soldier's funeral. These people make me sick. There are a few counter-protests planned to try and keep the family shielded from these crazies.
 
Lissarae06 said:
Westboro Baptist "church" will be in Stillwater tomorrow to protest a soldier's funeral. These people make me sick. There are a few counter-protests planned to try and keep the family shielded from these crazies.
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Key word there. I was especially disgusted when they said that people who died in a local tornado (not in Joplin) were being punished by God, so they were going to protest their funerals too. Fortunately they didn't, but seriously... Why is that okay??
 
psilovethomas-Are you back from the doctor's yet? Are you alright? Let us know. Thanks.
 
Thanks, guys. Yeah, I went to ER. Told the nurse that my pain was an 8 out of 10. Waited 3 hours to finally get morphine, fluids, antacids, and some nasty pink stuff (which made me feel worse and the PA said that "that's impossible"). Had xrays and bloodwork- gastritis. Well, the morphine has worn off and I feel like crap again. Ugh. I HATE human medicine. I wish my veterinarian could treat me! Her partner is awesome and went with me to the ER (we have a very close relationship) and she made me feel a lot better through all of the craziness.
 
scb44f said:
Key word there. I was especially disgusted when they said that people who died in a local tornado (not in Joplin) were being punished by God, so they were going to protest their funerals too. Fortunately they didn't, but seriously... Why is that okay??
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Think of it like when pets or children do things they know they aren't supposed to do because they learn that it gets attention and are not (yet in the case of children) mentally capable of distinguishing good vs. bad attention.
 
nyanko said:
Think of it like when pets or children do things they know they aren't supposed to do because they learn that it gets attention and are not (yet in the case of children) mentally capable of distinguishing good vs. bad attention.
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Thanks for that perspective. Totally using that now. 👍
 
Glad you went to the doctor and have a friend by your side. Rest up this weekend and feel better!
 
scb44f said:
I was especially disgusted when they said that people who died in a local tornado (not in Joplin) were being punished by God, so they were going to protest their funerals too. Fortunately they didn't, but seriously... Why is that okay??
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Kind of reminds me of that guy who said that the Haitians were being punished by God for making a pact with the devil way back then, and that the devastating earthquake there was a blessing in disguise...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5TE99sAbwM[/YOUTUBE]
 
nyanko said:
Think of it like when pets or children do things they know they aren't supposed to do because they learn that it gets attention and are not (yet in the case of children) mentally capable of distinguishing good vs. bad attention.
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👍 i like it. reminds me of stupid dumbf***s that pretty much bring a whole preschool class's worth of 4-7 year olds to protest in front of planned parenthood. the kids get just as excited by all the honking and yelling, both affirmative and negative.
 
Minnerbelle said:
👍 i like it. reminds me of stupid dumbf***s that pretty much bring a whole preschool class's worth of 4-7 year olds to protest in front of planned parenthood. the kids get just as excited by all the honking and yelling, both affirmative and negative.
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Ugh. Planned Parenthood protests really get to me anyway and then they throw kids in there, making me all the more irritated. I haven't seen kids at the protests here, but there were definitely some at the protests in the last town I lived in.
 
Minnerbelle said:
👍 i like it. reminds me of stupid dumbf***s that pretty much bring a whole preschool class's worth of 4-7 year olds to protest in front of planned parenthood. the kids get just as excited by all the honking and yelling, both affirmative and negative.
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scb44f said:
Ugh. Planned Parenthood protests really get to me anyway and then they throw kids in there, making me all the more irritated. I haven't seen kids at the protests here, but there were definitely some at the protests in the last town I lived in.
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wow. i never heard of people bringing kids to those sorts of protests. thats not right.
 
GellaBella said:
wow. i never heard of people bringing kids to those sorts of protests. thats not right.
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i know right? it's incredibly sad. but it explained to me so much how these crazies became who they were. being encouraged by parents even more when random obscenities are thrown at them from strangers that they're doing a good job standing up for their "beliefs" (what are those beliefs for a 4 year old anyway?). what made me almost spit out the smoothie i was drinking was like some tween boy all smug holding a sign that read "real men protect babies!" my beliefs on abortion aside, the inner feminist in me kind of raged at that one. seriously, so much for making the building inaccessible for the tens of thousands of college kids across the street who might want protection and/or std screening. way to prevent kids from doing the right thing... so that they can avoid making hard decisions that these crazies are so against.

there was a morbid side of me that got kind of excited to see what creative signs would be present every morning as I passed them to go to school. what was really funny though was when there would be a random guy standing there with a "save the whales" sign just to join in the fun.
 
Lissarae06 said:
Westboro Baptist "church" will be in Stillwater tomorrow to protest a soldier's funeral. These people make me sick. There are a few counter-protests planned to try and keep the family shielded from these crazies.
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http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/04/21/mississippi-shows-how-you-handle-westboro-freaks

semi-silent, yet oh-so-effective way of dealing with these people. I love this story! Watch the video too, it's amazing how their community stood up for their own.

Westboro was here about a year ago to protest one of our own that had fallen, and the funeral was held at the church right beside my neighborhood. Mostly, our community just ignored them & except for a little blurb in the local paper, you would have never even known they were here.
 
Not really a rant, more just a slight frustration.

I thought I had the wedding guest list finished, and then I remembered someone else who, ironically, called me that same day for my address (possibly for his own wedding, though he didn't say). Then there's the list I got from my SO's mom that included people my SO doesn't even know/recognize. Good times. At least our save-the-dates are printed, so we just need to print address labels, stick them, and mail them.
 
****ing CNN...clicked on some video title "rodeo horse gets loose in crowd"....NO. that wasn't what it was. It should have been title "Rodeo horse falls into pipe panel, begins panicking, gets legs stuck further, begins slamming head on ground repeatedly"

yeah. thanks for the mental picture of the ONE part of my horse's accident that I didn't see.

**** **** ****. So much for sleeping. Ever.

5 weeks ago from this very minute, I was running down to the barn to find her dying, tangled in a fence. I miss her. More than anything.
 
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StartingoverVet said:
I can't sleep well in the same room as my dogs... they walk all over me, change positions, twitch, push me off the bed, etc, but somehow that doesn't stop me from allowing them in bed anyway!
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Amazingly, with Bailey, it was the other way around. She wouldn't sleep in bed with me, because I kept her awake. :laugh: After about a half hour of me tossing and changing positions, she'd get fed up, sigh and leave and go sleep in the living room.

The Bulldog doesn't move, however. She just puts herself in the most inconvenient place on the bed possible and stays there until morning.

My rant: It's so damn humid! I barely got a couple hours sleep last night because it was just too warm and sticky in my apartment to sleep.
 
My rant of the day: other rehabbers drive me nuts! I have spent the last two hours picking maggots out of 3 baby grey squirrel's ears and rectums. Fun times :barf:. I can understand when these type babies come from finders because they don't know anything and often don't notice, but these babies have been with a rehabber for the last two days and she said they had a couple fleas and were OK otherwise. I don't call hundreds of maggots coming out of the ears OK!

Then before I even finished getting those three settled in, someone else brings 3 baby fox squirrels that she found yesterday morning and called the wildlife center I volunteer at about. They told her to call me if the mom didn't come back. So, she waited all day yesterday (they are tiny pinkies!) and then took them in for the night and kept them in the car and fed human baby formula 🙁. There were 4 and one died overnight. She brings the others and they are little ice cubes and the lady tells me they were warm, just cooled off in the 10 minute car ride. She says they were on a heating pad, but if they were in the car before and were on a heating pad, why would they cool down on the way to me, they came in the car so if the heating pad was on in there, why not leave it on for the ride? I am guessing these babies have been cold all night 🙁. People make me so mad sometimes!


Also, was planning to finish up my PS and submit my VMCAS application today, but now I have 6 critical baby squirrels plus my other 17 babies. So much for a nice relaxing day off. Oh well.

Done with my rant now.
 
Really was hoping that the surgery I had was going to solve everything, but I am still experiencing persistent nausea that none of the doctors can figure out what is causing it. Because of the nausea, I am not eating a whole lot and I have started losing weight (again). I have been nausea everyday, all day since around mid-March. It is absolutely disgusting. I am really, really hoping that I will wake up one day and it will magically go away. It is really putting a damper on getting things done because I really don't feel like doing much. Ok, end rant, back to putting courswork in VMCAS.

Oh and for those who sent me PS's to read. I swear I am getting to them it is just taking me much longer than I expected. Look for them to show up later tonight or tomorrow morning.
 
So, I asked Mother Nature for sufficient rain to drown the Dismal Swamp wild fires we're experiencing. What am I getting in return? A cat 3 hurricane, and of course I have to work in it.

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This is nothing life-changing, and I'm certainly not the only person going through this as school starts, but...

I'm friendsick. Sort of like homesick, but I'm not missing home, just my friends. I spent a ridiculous amount of time at their house (4 guys, all lived together this past year) to the point that people younger than us who knew us believed I lived there. This summer was hard, but all the traveling was just distracting enough to keep my mind off it. Now that I have some downtime and my SO is on a float trip, I can't help but think how much I miss those guys... I'm not exaggerating when I say I would have considered involving them in the wedding party but I realized that I couldn't be the only girl standing up there AND my SO's family would probably start rumors lol.
 
my house mates dog came into my room this am and took a crap on my floor. i was down stairs making/eating breakfast. when i came back upstairs i kept getting whiffs of dog poop, i suspected that someone had had n upset stomach and had an accident downstairs, but no when i went down there was no more stink. i went and investigated and i found a large solid pile in the middle of my floor, it would be one thing if the dog had been sick or pooped by the door. I dont have a dog at school, and i dont appreciate other peoples dogs pooping in my room its one thing when its your own dog...😡
 
dear SGU internet. please go back to your original level of crapiness. this new and worse level is not appreciated at all. i can deal with mostly working, but mostly not working and not working at all are kind of starting to irritate me. thank you.
 
First day back at school=5 hours of sleep last night, 5 classes in a row and a car accident. Ugh, can today just be over?🙁
 
Holy effing crap. I took my car in to get an oil change at the dealers. They tell me something needs to be repaired. The parts cost < $100, but with labor, the quote went up to $440 😱. This is for something that should only take 30 min - 1 hr to do, says boyfriend's dad. Crap!
 
Minnerbelle said:
Holy effing crap. I took my car in to get an oil change at the dealers. They tell me something needs to be repaired. The parts cost < $100, but with labor, the quote went up to $440 😱. This is for something that should only take 30 min - 1 hr to do, says boyfriend's dad. Crap!
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I have never gone to get my oil changed and there not be something that needs to be fixed on the car. I always say no and my car has been pretty reliable. I think they are full of crap.
 
I haaaate being far away from my two senior pups. 🙁 The 12-year-old has just been acting weird for a while (getting lost in the house, more incontinence, deafness, etc.), and it's been accelerating rapidly - I have a feeling it's classic "doggy Alzheimers". Yesterday she snuck off and peed on two beds in the house, which is a first. Bloodwork and appointment on Friday to rule out anything medical and then my parents will have to think about how to handle behavioral control and when it's going to be "time". *sigh* Sucks.
 
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