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No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/25/2006 7:33:49 PM

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WARNING: This is a rant....just something i need to get out...i'm sure i will be fine.......i just need to type!

Sooooooooooooooooooooo..
Friday: get home from work, slip and throw my back out, noting new, done it before, probably will do it again. Later that night, feel like shit, start getting a fever. Relize that i am out of smokes, decide...ehhhh, i don't need them that bad right now, i just need to get rid of this fever and go lay down.

Saturday: sleep almost 17 hours (this is from someone that gets no more than 2-5 hours of sleep a night, normal for me)...get up........still have fever, back hurts so bad it's hard to breath. Call Doc (Chiropractor) He's not in, make appt. for Monday. Fall back asleep and am in and out of a daze the rest of the evening.

Sunday: Best Friend calls to invite me to lunch.....don't remember talking with her. Sleeping on and off again all day and night. Still have fever....motrin is not taking it away.

Monday: FINALLY! go see Doc. He adjusts the two ribs poking me in my lungs and put's them back where they belong. AH HA! that's the problem, no wonder i can't breathe. WRONG!
Go to walk-in clinic.....see doctor........have a lung infection...bordering on pleurisy. I have had pleurisy before, i don't ever want it again. Get meds, go home, take meds, lay down and am in and out of it once more for the rest of the day and night. (oh yeah, to top all this shit off...i started my cycle...fucking wonderfull)

Tuesday: Still have fever, stayed home once more from work, got more rest. It seems that is all i could do anyway.

Wednesday: No fever, decide i am going back to work. Kind of wobbly, but am thankfull i can breathe better and get out of this house. Ohhhhhhhh, half-way through the day.......get called into the office. They are cutting back on not only pay raises but on people. The one person that i have always been able to go to, rely on, my boss, my best friend. THEY ARE LETTING HER GO.......or retire, as they say.
I lost it.....right there in the office, i lost it. I took my hand, cleared my bosses desk, had a breathing fit, crying fit.........said i just fucking got back to work after being sicker than i have been in over 20 years, i am missing The Man terribly, my kid is flying out of town on Thursday, they changed my hours because of this, and now THIS!?!. Luckily, i had a bottle of water, drank some, sat back down and re-gained my composure. What was left of it.

Ohhhhhhhhh, on the bright side. I have not touched a smoke. After listening to a friend tell me a few thoughts and put some things into perspective.........i'm done with those.

Sooooooo, how was your day? *laughs* gawwwwdddd what week.

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/25/2006 7:42:06 PM

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Congrats on the not smoking thing, if there is a silver lining, there it is....

I am sorry, when it rains sometimes it just fucking pours!

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/25/2006 7:53:01 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: smilezz

WARNING: This is a rant....just something i need to get out...i'm sure i will be fine.......i just need to type!

So how was your week?

Wednesday: Work driving a tractor in the harbor while fighting a head cold. Sneezing. Spitting out lung butter all over the rail yard. Happily, in my tractor I am in my own little world and dont have to deal with humans. The Shrek part of my consciousness is satisfied that my swamp/sign thing is being respected.

Thursday: Pick up a job driving a heavy lift against a cruise ship. Wanted to porter, but suspect the end of my head cold and headache might have made me snarl at passengers, which is bad, because then they dont tip as well and I want the hundreds of dollars which being nice to them will let me go home with. Nothing like buying 200 dollars in groceries with sweaty $1 bills. I hope they know I am not a stripper who earned that money by tea-bagging businessmen. Those guys get larger denominations in their banana hammocks. Momentary worry that perhaps the cashier thinks I am some sort of weird rough trade person.

Friday: Get kicked in the head by high schoolers I was mean to. It was their first day to do simulated rape scenarios. For some reason, I get the post-adrenalin crash hard this time, exacerbated by my headache. Decide to stay home and sip tequila and fall asleep.

Saturday: Drive a forklift against another cruise ship. Go to Oktoberfest. Stupid polka band plays 3 polkas (AGAIN) as well as a bunch of nauseating '70s songs like ABBA's "Fernando" and the Village People's YMCA. Luckily, they sing the words is in German and this time I ate before I got here. Able to keep lunch down. Barely.

Sunday: Wake up early, get a job driving another forklift against another cruise ship. Sinus headache intrudes on my consciousness. I watch scantily clad women climb down the ramp and wonder, in my sinus headache fog, why the hell I didnt stand in the line to get a porter job.

Monday: Another shocking cruise ship. Sinus headache has lessened in intensity, leaving me with the desire to fall asleep at 8pm.

Tuesday: Get kicked in the head by high schoolers. Go to the main office to wait for class at night. Lie on the couch for 6 hours, napping, yakking, etc. Class is cancelled and I drive home. Spray salt water into my nose hoping to make my sinuses and brain dissolve and stop hurting. This doesnt work and I spend the night waking up every 2 hours in sinus pain.

Today: Drove a 26 ton Forklift stacking 40 foot chassis all day. Happier than a porcine animal in fecal matter. Forget about headache, but remember it when Im taking a shower after work. Considering going to the doctor, but remember that my next day off is Friday and I have something I have to do so the earliest appointment I could go to would be next week.

Hope you are feeling better, smilezz, and my regards to your Significant Other.

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/25/2006 7:54:46 PM

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Congrats on quitting smoking, though I think it would have been easier to just use the patch.

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/25/2006 7:56:35 PM

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Ohhhhhhhhh, on the bright side. I have not touched a smoke. After listening to a friend tell me a few thoughts and put some things into perspective.........i'm done with those.

Best wishes on that -- it is possible to quit, cold turkey, with no looking back.

Also, I hope you are on the mend with your ribs and lungs.

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/25/2006 8:04:10 PM

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Sinergy - thank you, i am feeling a wee bit better. Sounds like you had a week too. Hope you are better also. I will pass on your regards to Thorns. I know He misses being able to post here from time to time also.

happypervert - LOL! i think at this point you are right, the patch may have been easier, but no looking back now! thank you!

KatyLied - thank you very much.......i do know it's possible to quit cold turkey, this is my second time doing it. This time is the last time. It's to hard to quit smoking, i don't want to go through it again.

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/25/2006 8:45:56 PM

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juliaoceania - you certainly are right! when it rains it fucking pours! i do agree, there is that silver lining, and if i am meant to go through this to get to a better place.......who am i to argue. thank you!

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/25/2006 8:55:37 PM

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Look, smilezz and Sinergy. ANTIBIOTICS. You're living in the 21st Century. Use it.

Get better, both of you.

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/26/2006 1:00:33 AM

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ORIGINAL: smilezz

Sooooooo, how was your day? *laughs* gawwwwdddd what week.

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Damn lady. You get the official Screwed Up Week award *smiles*........ hang in there and take care of yourself.

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/26/2006 4:13:46 AM

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Even i did not fight the Doctor when he gave me meds. I hate taking antibiotics........welllllllll, i hate taking an aspirin too, but this time, i thought about the last time i had to take an antibiotic vs. the pain i was in.
I really do dislike antibiotics................arrghhhhh...i'm not going into this rant. I took the damn things, i am feeling better, hopefully i won't have to have them again for another 5+ years.........or ever! lol

Happy Thursday!

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/26/2006 4:16:05 AM

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I'm hangin' in there Level. I have to, i have to much to do for this to keep me down for long. Thank you!

Happy Thursday!

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RE: No Title......rant bordering on humor... - 10/26/2006 4:07:07 PM

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