I'm bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.

Thanks Traci, it DOES suck.  Who would have ever guessed that the hiccups would hurt?  I sure hope I don't have to sneeze!   Just the thought makes my eyes water!

Just for fun, I typed "sucks" into thethesaurus and came up with:

alarming, astounding, awful, bad, bummer, daunting, dire, disheartening, dismaying, downer, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, grody, gross, harrowing, heavy, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, intimidating, mean, petrifying, scaring, shocking, terrible, terrifying, unnerving, abominable, amiss, atrociousl, bad news, beastly, blah, bottom out, crappy, cruddy, crummy, dissatisfactory, downer, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, god-awful, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, junky, lousy, not good, off, poor, raunchy, rough, sad, scuzzy, sleazeball, sleazy, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory

Just for laughs....

Deb C

OMG!  This thread came JUST IN TIME for a major barfing!

BF Mark and I have been together for 2 1/2 years.  It's been like a fantasy from the beginning.  Wining, dining, flowers, jewelry, trips, yada, yada, yada....

I finished cancer tx the end of May 05 and we met early Aug 05.  He immediately swept me off my feet.  After 20 years in a thankless, sexless marriage it was a dream come true for me.

So last week we're on vacation in Key Largo, on the boat when we're going out to scuba, we start butting heads.  What he perceives as constructive comments, I take as bossy and controlling.  This activity continues for three days.

Then I put in the straw that broke the camel's back.  We went to Key West on Wed. and I got a tattoo.  It's horriby offensive.  A palm tree at sunset.  

Apparently, a tattoo is a deal breaker with Mark.  Who knew?  I had mentioned maybe getting one before, and he never expressed his disgust.

Well dammit!  I'm 45 years old, and if I want a tat of a palm tree on my upper right shoulder, by God, I'm gonna get it!   

Okay, thanks for listening sisters.  Just needed to vent.

Donna 

Donna - how perfectly beastly* of him! And what an atrocious* way to discover that your desire for bodily adornment was a dealbreaker!

In other words, THAT SUCKS!!!

Lisa

*credit to Deb

Yes!  This has become one of my favorite threads.  I must check here everyday.  And despite all of our trials and tribulations - I tend to smile, giggle, and sometimes laugh at some of the comments.

My bitching is minor compared to others.  Here I am whining about having the flu!  Yes it was influenza B, then giving it to my husband.  The house is a mess I tell you.  Dishes everywhere, floor hasnt been swept, I mean I even had to wash my coffee pot this morning so I could make more.

I hate the fact that chemo has reduced my immune system to putty.  What I hate more is that this time, my DH is sick.  Darn - he usually does all the cleaning and stuff and he is stuck in bed.  That means now that Im feeling better, I will have to come home from work and CLEAN?  OMG!  I dont even know where the broom is.

Donna:  I say power to the woman.  How in the world can a tatoo be a deal breaker.  Im gonna come over there and punch this guy in the nose.  I know it would make me feel better. 

DebC:  OMG!  Im laughing my arse off this morning. Very descriptive terms for sucks.

I had fractured ribs twice - from guess what?  Coughing from a cold.  So Deb, I do understand the pain.  Cant move without it hurting.  I never had hiccups, but can imagine what that felt like - not!

Vickster:  So good to see you here.  It feels good doesnt it.  Now Im thinking about your 7 months pregnant looking belly.  I just looked at mine side ways in the mirror.  Im at about 9 months.  Cants suck it in and see my feet!!  Or anything else for that matter!

Traci:  I loved your summary of what is happening with us so far.  What a book we could write.

Off to work. 

Nickster

I think we have an early winner today!  Cat puke...hard to beat! 

Otter...read your PM...Artsee

Casinogirl, that is pretty. Wish I was there! On the beach, not your shoulder! Good thing you found out he was dip. I was told to keep anitbiotic cream and saran wrap on mine for about 10 days. Then the out skin peels off and you have a little piece of skin with a tatoo on it. Keep sunscreen on it, because the sun makes them fade.

Carlin, I never get out of my pj's. I take a shower and put on a clean pair. Today it's pink jammys with cats on them.

Debbie 

Nice tat Casino Girl!!  I love mine!!  Was a gift from my BF. 

Was your BF there when you got it, since you were vacationing together?  Seems like he just all of a sudden invented a deal breaker.  He SUCKS.

POWER TO THE WOMEN!!

Traci, that SUCKS!  I'm with the pj girls.  It's been over a week since I said I had to go shopping for clothes and I'm still sitting here in my comfy pj's!!!  Enjoy your well deserved drinks with the girls.  Don't invite me cuz I have nothing to wear!

Donna, told you elsewhere but your tattoo rocks!

Traci - sorry you had such a SUCKY experience today. Did you say "Shcmuck, you SUCK!"  Good for you for getting the shmuck's boss involved.  Hopefully, she will provide some badly needed education. 

Vickie - I hear ya on the weight thing girl.  And that's a good idea Traci about the athletic band thing for the GUT.  WTF?  I've always had a little bit of one even when I was thin, but now, it's taking over, getting bigger and bigger and out of control.  I'm going to check out the athletic band idea!

Amy - thanks! great to see you here!

I have been home all day today, having declard a Mental Health day for myself.  Speaking of jammies, I'm still in mine and it's almost 5:00 here.  I do have "glass class" tonight so guess I'll shower in a few and get dressed.

I've been doing research all day trying to figure out the man.  He called this morning and he's all "sweetie, honey" and back to normal now, or as normal as he can be.  I told him I was taking a Mental Health day today, but he doesn't know that I have decided to move on .  He called again at lunch to "check on me".  He is probably getting suspicious that he's getting kicked to the curb. Seriously, I've been reading all day (probably too much) and I wonder if I haven't been dating a psychotic person for the last 2 1/2 years.  Who, other than a controlling narcissist would get so pissed about a tattoo, then completely turn off emotionally for a few days?  I feel like a fool for having bought into the whole "you're the love of my life" bs.  Hey, now that I won't be getting wined and dined on a regular basis, maybe I'll lose a couple of pounds!  HA!  Unlikely, as the GUT has a very strong will not only to survive, but to THRIVE.

Okay girls, guess my SUCKfest is over for today!

Who's next? 

Traci- I loved this: "Boss apologized and said you can't blame him for being a man"

Why, yes, yes you can!

My gripe. it took 3 days for a coworker to fess up to using my special Nespresso coffee machine & 5 coffee capsules. If someone asks first, that's fine, but to just avail yourself....I have to mail order these things & they were samples I hadn't tried. 

Excuse me? Gut wrap?  I need me one of those. One of the lovely SEs of adenomyosis is looking like one is a few months pregnant. Not a look I want to cultivate.

Bitchily yours.

Hey, sorry everybody....I can't complain today.

After my major explosion over the Oncotype mess-up on Monday, I spent Tuesday rearranging body parts on a number of employees at my onco's office (speaking metaphorically of course--I was working via telephone).  AFAIK, the newly cut tissue samples are at Genomic Health by now, although my onco's nurse admitted she forgot to call them (like she'd promised) to ask if the samples had arrived.

I did learn a couple of things:

  1) Unlike everyone else in the medical community, pathologists actually answer their telephones.  This is probably because they don't expect to be talking directly to patients; and

  2) it never hurts to call the hospital's "patient advocate" (a.k.a. "patient ombudsman").  Those folks are almost certainly affiliated with the Risk Management office, whose duty is to keep hospital employees out of court.

So, for the purposes of this thread, I'm terribly sorry to announce that I'm feeling better today.  The only thing I can complain about is that I still haven't been able to arrange a consult/2nd opinion/transfer to a new oncologist.  I'm still working on that (while I wait some more for the Oncotype results).

I'll go to the back of the line now.

otter