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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1960 on: March 01, 2011, 02:04:41 PM »

It's a symptom I've only had by exacerbating a flu by being really stupid. e.g. Forgetting to eat or forgetting that drugs have even weirder side-effects if taken in too high a dose or mixed without care.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1961 on: March 03, 2011, 01:29:21 PM »

So for the last few weeks I've been getting dizzy for no reason once a day or so. I assumed it was heart related so I ignored it. It only happened at work or something so it never was a real bother. HOWEVER. Today it happened while driving. I was fine and my driving didn't suffer but it still worrisome.
So today I called my doctor and got an appointment.
HOWEVER: My chest started to hurt and I couldn't sleep so I decided to go for a jog (because extra heart beats plus increased heart rate actually spaces out my extra heart beats to an acceptable level) buuuut I kind of got dizzy and fell.
So later on I went jogging just for exercise and got dizzy and now my chest hurts again, Now I only have to wait a week for my doctor's appointment when they can tell me all these horrible things. Hoooooraaaay.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1962 on: March 03, 2011, 02:22:13 PM »

... Please keep us posted as you're able... OK?
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1963 on: March 04, 2011, 02:56:20 AM »

Seriously, when you get to the 'can't get my heart rate up without losing oxygen to the brain' point of being sick, I think a visit to the hospital might be in order, appointment or not.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1964 on: March 04, 2011, 03:26:36 AM »

Blah blah blah. I have an appointment. I'll be fine. Chances are the symptoms will go away on their own and I'll have a halter monitor on for a few days anyway.
Everything will be back to normal and I'll have freaked everyone out for no reason. Just like always.

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1965 on: March 04, 2011, 03:30:38 AM »

Did I ever tell you about that one time I rolled seven fumbles in a row? That was a rough game night.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1966 on: March 04, 2011, 02:33:29 PM »

Well fuck. So today is "unofficial" AKA super drunk day. So I had plans to hang out with some lady friends and DD. Sounds nice but it's a tricky situation as several of these ladies are slightly more than interested and while drunk they get... a bit belligerent. But whatever. Would still be fun.
I get to work and immediately see a stack of wine glasses. I took them to their proper place when I kinda... fell down. Super dizzy couldn't stand blah blah blah. Broke all the glass and cut myself. Then we proceeded to have the worst night ever. Slammed and no one in the kitchen or on phones. People just walking in and sitting where ever they want. So, like R^2 encounters, I had no idea people where not being waited on while sitting at a dirty table. Then the oven kind of quit on us. And we had water leak on a bare wire, apparently because something happened with the electricity.
Oh. And I fell a few more times. Lolwhoops. With pain this time.
And then everyone canceled on me. All for various reasons. Soooo tonight's beat-video-games-in-your-backlog while drunk night instead of party-with-pretty-girls night!
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1967 on: March 10, 2011, 02:48:02 AM »

Update!
Doctor's appointment was today. I showed up 10 minutes early, had to wait 35 minutes. Get there and they didn't have my medical records or anything. Just my name. Two doctors show up. One tells me it's serious and I might need to consider surgery. They other says he has no idea why I'm dizzy all the time and it has nothing to do with my heart. So they compromised. I'll put a event monitor on. And in 30 days I'll turn it in. 15 days after that, I'll get a reply and need to set up an appointment. So. In approximately two months, I'll have my answer: They don't know what the fuck is going on and why my god damn heart hurts all the time and why I am constantly falling down from being dizzy.

Haha. At least my doctor was an Indian guy wearing cowboy boots. And his moustache was fantastic.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1968 on: March 10, 2011, 05:37:50 AM »

So I gave notice at my job to get ready to move. They just told me not to worry about two weeks' notice and just not come back. So that's a couple hundred bucks I was counting on that isn't coming.

I got my tax return last month, and paid the entirety of our rent out of it. (It's due on the 15th, my roommate gets paid on the 17th-18th, late fees suck, it seemed like a good idea at the time.) My roommate said she'd pay me back her half of the rent, which of course never happened.

My phone bricked. Repairs cost me over $100, and didn't work.

Moving truck rental from Atlanta to Nashville will be $250, on top of the other crap I have to pay this month like usual, like phone and insurance.

So all told, I need about $500 I don't have in order to settle everything here and get the fuck out. I already have two or three job leads and a better support network in Nashville, so I sincerely hope this is the last time I have to rattle my tin cup at you guys. Paypal is tuvai@hotmail.com if you feel like giving me a hand.

And next month? My roommate can pay the rent by herself, because I don't have the money to carry her ass anymore.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1969 on: March 19, 2011, 09:27:11 AM »

Well, a (scheduled) $300 vet visit turned into a $1000. Older cats have a way of doing that I suppose.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1970 on: March 19, 2011, 09:48:39 AM »

I hope they're okay.  :;_;:
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« Reply #1971 on: March 19, 2011, 10:18:12 AM »

They're just getting older and creakier. Most of that is tests, some is for ongoing prescriptions and vaccines, and a goodly chunk will be for dental cleanings (that last was the biggest unexpected hit). They cost around $150 - $200 a month to keep as it is.

The real problem isn't the costs of cat ownership. It's that we can't seem to get ahead financially. Rent is not cheap but it's below average, food costs are pretty low, and it's not like we get out or do much of anything. Don't own a car (nor could we afford one) and even transit passes would be a nasty strain. I could out toss every bit of discretionary spending we do and it really wouldn't make much of a difference. Save a few hundred, maybe a grand over the course of an entire year.

That's not enough. Not even remotely. If we want to get out of this slowly spiralling fiscal deathtrap, I need to earn more - a LOT more (at the new job, the salary is $37k, after my deductions - I used to make $45k, but that was an unlikely stroke of luck), but that's not happening without school... which takes money!

On paper, we have enough money coming in to just barely cover all fixed expenses each month, but in practice what family household goes a full month without some minor cost or crisis  coming up to eat a few dollars here and there? Meanwhile, my existing student loan payments are set to resume next month (suspended while I was out of work), as is my bike insurance (I pay the bike insurance six months out of the year... I'm hoping it's down to $100 per month this year, thank to all the certifications I completed last year).

I though this would be a good month since it was a "three paycheque month", but pretty much all of it going to the vet. Well, at least we did have that, rather than using my line of credit (which is quite low, at only $2300, but we just can't make any headway on it). I just thought I'd get a bit ahead for the first time in six months or more, but no such luck.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1972 on: March 19, 2011, 01:49:31 PM »

Mongrel, yours is the life that motivates me to work for a better world.  I'm sorry that sucks, man. I'm living a lot more frugally than I used to now that I have my own apartment, and it's hard to make just enough to survive. Hope things turn around for you.

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1973 on: March 19, 2011, 02:38:36 PM »

That's just the way it goes when you make poor decisions.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1974 on: March 19, 2011, 03:03:10 PM »

Welcome to my world.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1975 on: March 19, 2011, 03:20:12 PM »

Doesn't sound like "Unable to find a job" counts as a poor decision on your part.

Don't let the concept of "Your poor because you're a loser" enter your brains. You're both capable people, you're poor because the system doesn't need you.

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1976 on: March 19, 2011, 03:44:27 PM »

W-was that meant to be encouraging?
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1977 on: March 19, 2011, 03:44:54 PM »

It's meant to make you hate the system.

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1978 on: March 19, 2011, 03:50:02 PM »

The system does need you (us), it's just too dumb to realize it.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1979 on: March 19, 2011, 04:37:45 PM »

That made me feel better, but also didn't make me hate the system.

I have a method for hating systems though, but it'll have to queue up behind the other things I'm hating at the moment.

Top of the list: Haters. 'Cuz they hate.
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