So I have cancer. I have a CT Scan tomorrow and then have to gear up for radiation. I think that it will take 6 weeks, depending on my test results. I have to drink a tub of barium sulfate. Blah.
The other day my computer randomly switched to battery. I wiggled the cable and it came back, but slowly through saturday and sunday the battery would randomly come on, until eventually I couldn't get A/C power. I thought it was my cable. So I ordered a new one and tried it but it didn't work. So my computer is broken.
I called HP to send it in. Some indian guy said I had to fax my proof of purchase. I told him I don't have a fax machine. He was unsympathetic. So I made a photocopy at school and then went to Meijer to fax it. It cost $2. Why would a fax to an 800 number cost anything? Maybe $.10 but that should be it. So I come back to the school to check my email b/c I'm sans computer. I get an email saying that the date of purchase was illegible. At least the email was quite timely. But they said I could email an image. Why didn't they say that? I have a scanner and could have emailed it more easily!!!!
I can't handle this. I think if one more thing goes wrong, I'll go crazy. Certifiably crazy. Then I'll have to go to some asylum and live with Kate Jackson who is a nurse that tried to impregnate me, but I won't let her.
So now I have to handwrite all my notes and everything. I have my computer at home still, but it's very awkward. I wish I had WinXP on my home PC.
I am talking to a counsellor. Her name is Sherry. She's very nice. She keeps asking me questions though and sometimes I don't have answers. It's weird. I have a problems with counsellors because I think they are more enablers. I know people who talk to counsellors and they want to do something, and I don't think it's the best idea, and the counsellor just tells them that if it makes them happy they should do it. Well, I don't really agree with that. Sometimes, what we think will make us happy won't, and what seems to make us happy in the short term, makes us miserable in the long time. I think people these days need people to tell them when they're making poor choices. Now I try not to judge people, but I think you can be a good person and make bad decisions. If I do something wrong. I want to know. Not rationalize my problem. That doesn't help anything. I like Sherry though. Sometimes it's nice to talk to people who are paid to listen, so the listening is almost guaranteed.
I'm going to vegas a week from monday. I can't wait.
I think that Meredith Baxter just came in and told me that she's my biological mother. Gotta go....
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Meredith Baxter is hot! Well, she was, I have no idea what she looks like now.
As for counselling, I started to see one as well. Maybe TNOF should have an offshoot support group. Not for anything serious, maybe for bad hair or something. "My name is Bob D. and I have bad hair." Actually, that's more like Hair Anonymous. I'm babbling.
I hope everything goes well with the CT Scan and stuff. I had a brother and mom who both went through some bad cancer stuff, so I know how hard it can be.
I'm sending good karma your way.
Good luck with the CT scan! I hope the barium sulfate is suprisingly scrumdillicious! It would suck for you if it tasted like chai. I know how you dislike drinking pumpkin pie.
Viva Las Vegas!!!
My power cord for my laptop is doing that exact thing - switching from battery to outlet power. It's very annoying. I was going to buy a new cord but now I just don't know.
Jessica had to drink barium once for an upper-GI. You guys should share barium stories.
Counselors can be enablers - but if you find a good one, even if you think you're okay, everyone should have counseling at some point.
I think so, I anyway.
Beckie
Ryan, here's a little ditty I like to sing when I'm feeling down:
When I'm stuck with a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Saaaaaaaay,
Oooooh!
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!
Just a comment on power cords for laptops. My iBook's power connector gave out, er... when I was still living in Ferndale, but it was already out of warranty by this point, so I ended reading up on power problems on the internet and such and bought the part off of eBay. I just recently finally installed it, and it's working again. The installation was a pain in the butt, but instead of costing ~$300 from Apple repair, it cost me $50 for the part. I don't know what the point of all of this is, suffice to say that computer problems suck. Oh, I once had to have that barium stuff for the lower GI... except I didn't have to swallow it if you know what I mean. Horrible. Ew. OK. That is enough disturbingness for today.
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