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Gut Don’t Lie

25
July

Before I make any kind of posting, I’m going to plug Urban Sunrise again. I know that some folks who read this are under 18, so they can’t post on it yet, but if you like boards, please check it out.

On Friday, my throat started hurting and my gut instinct was that this was some kind of infection. It felt kind of like the beginning of strep. It’s been worse every day and I’ve noticed other signs of an infection of some sort. It’s still not as bad as full-on strep can be, but it’s hurting constantly and I’m trying to find ways of dealing with it. Mainly I’ve tried to eat things that coat my throat in mucus…sugars, dairy products, etc. I’m basically using anything that a choir director would’ve banned the week of a competition.

I would schedule an appointment with a family practice doctor for Monday, but I have to do the test to determine if I can work (so my rheumatologist will fill out loan discharge papers on my student loan) at the therapy center. He, my mom, and I are fairly certain of what the results are going to be. I’m not really looking forward to the test, though. I hate being in pain, and I know it will only worsen it.

My mom is going to try to explain to my dad that he gets to keep the printer that he had prior to Friday, but I get to have the one that my mom and I got at Target. My mom and I both needed one that is accessible to us. Though my dad has the printer on a desk that is, literally, right next to my chair, we have to get up, go through the kitchen, and into the old dining room to actually use the printer. It was kind of stupid to put it in such an inaccessible place, but my dad has been really irritating lately.

I’m starting to worry about my vertigo test results. I know that the blood work might have to go to a specific lab, like how some goes to the Mayo Clinic and takes 2 weeks, but the vertigo test was done in the neurologist’s office and should’ve been analyzed that day or (at least) that week.

Okay, I’m going to talk about the message board again. It’s been a while since I’ve had to plug a message board, so I was wondering if anyone had any tips. If you know of some exchanges or listings that I can join to promote it, that would be cool. There are a few things I don’t want to do, i.e. going on someone else’s board and posting an ad. I know that I’ve done that in the past, but it typically can end up causing some sort of issues. (I know that most board owners don’t like it when other boards are posted.)

BTW – Blah Blah Biddy Blah is going to be moving from the .us address to a .com later this week. This is due to .us being way too expensive to renew. Rants and opinions will probably be on a different domain that I have. I’ll announce all this again later.

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Sleeping Sickness

1
July

Well, I don’t think my sleep study later this month (happy July, btw) is going to be very accurate. Now that I’m on the Lyrica, I sleep at least 14 hours a day. I’ll go to bed for seven or eight hours, then wake up and stay awake for a few hours, then go back to bed for six hours, and then wake up for a few more hours. It’s absolutely crazy making. (Like I need anything else to drive me crazy.)

Well, according to the results from the lovely MRI, I do not have anything wrong with my cervical spine. Actually, the exact words were “within normal limits”. I’m sure the nurse considered this to be comforting news when she wrote it on the card and sent it through the mail, but when dealing with potential spinal cord injury, it is not comforting to read “within normal limits”. You would rather know that things are just NORMAL. Not within the limits of being normal. What does within normal limits even tell me? What if it’s on the bad end of normal? I mean, what if there is something that’s almost a problem but it just needs to be a fraction worse? I don’t want to sound like I’m freaking out, but in a way, I kind of am. This is kind of an important body part to me. I like being able to feel things south of my head…even if I do mostly feel pain from those areas.

I must announce a sad, sad death in the family. My printer, a beloved HP Deskjet 880C, which was given to me by my cousin Eric when he upgraded to a new printer about 6 or 7 years ago has gone to the great printing room in the sky. I noticed yesterday when I was trying to print something that it wouldn’t print, so I actually looked at it and saw the light wasn’t on. After testing various cords, I find that the printer, which has survived so many horrifyingly long papers (an almost 20 page one for Social Work once) and printouts, has passed on. Let’s all take a moment of silence to remember this great machine.

Columbia House has supposedly canceled my two accounts with them. Of course, I’m still getting mail from one of the clubs. :/ This is not good. They caused me to overdraft one account by $85 ($44 of that was for the product and $41 was the fee) because I logged in to say no to a Director’s Selection 1 day too late. I apparently logged in too late by 2 days on the other account and overdrew by $50. I wrote them a curt email explaining this and they said I could return the DVDs (how nice), but I would not be getting my overdraft fees back. Personally, I think that’s wrong. They shouldn’t just send you things that you don’t order. Maybe instead of automatically sending Director’s Selections, they should automatically understand that you might have a life and don’t want the damn DVDs. Of course, that would require a brain, and I seriously doubt that whoever thought of the whole Director’s Selection BS at CH has a brain.

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