The Vent Thread

[Dr. Derpface, J.D.]

Sunday night, go out to dinner w/ my mom and my brother. Halfway home, mom mentions that dinner isn't exactly agreeing with her. About an hour after we get home, she starts getting violently ill, so to the ER we go. ER is slammed because the weather sucks and they had multiple MVA's come in. Finally leave the ER about 6:30 Monday morning, and I take the day off work because I hadn't had any sleep.

Go to work Tuesday, all is well. Mom's feeling better, and my brother and I are fine. Tuesday night I start feeling a little woozy, but I shrug it off and go to bed. A couple hours later I start heaving pretty bad, and continue every 45 minutes to an hour for most of the night. About 4:00 Wednesday morning, my brother joins the chorus. I spend all of Wednesday and most of today passed out on the couch. I'm dehydrated and too weak to even sit up straight. I've stopped puking by this point, but I'm so weak I end up falling asleep before I can ever take in as much water as I've lost, so I'm pretty miserable. FINALLY this evening I'm able to get up and move around, and start trying to regain my strength. Good thing, too. I've got a TON of editing to catch up on at work, plus I have to direct tomorrow night.

tl;dr - fuck you, Fazoli's

[TEKnician]

Sunday night, go out to dinner w/ my mom and my brother. Halfway home, mom mentions that dinner isn't exactly agreeing with her. About an hour after we get home, she starts getting violently ill, so to the ER we go. ER is slammed because the weather sucks and they had multiple MVA's come in. Finally leave the ER about 6:30 Monday morning, and I take the day off work because I hadn't had any sleep.

Go to work Tuesday, all is well. Mom's feeling better, and my brother and I are fine. Tuesday night I start feeling a little woozy, but I shrug it off and go to bed. A couple hours later I start heaving pretty bad, and continue every 45 minutes to an hour for most of the night. About 4:00 Wednesday morning, my brother joins the chorus. I spend all of Wednesday and most of today passed out on the couch. I'm dehydrated and too weak to even sit up straight. I've stopped puking by this point, but I'm so weak I end up falling asleep before I can ever take in as much water as I've lost, so I'm pretty miserable. FINALLY this evening I'm able to get up and move around, and start trying to regain my strength. Good thing, too. I've got a TON of editing to catch up on at work, plus I have to direct tomorrow night.

tl;dr - fuck you, Fazoli's

[ngsilver]

3rd day running we are still dealing with a major outage at work. Thankfully we are finally in the process of fixing the issue, but it still isn't over. Nothing like watching as a major part of enterprise hardware fails, and not being able to do anything about it other then take calls and let customers know that it's down and being worked on. Joy

[ZephyrStar]

My dad is in the hospital.

Two moths or so ago we were all hiking, he was complaining of his heartburn acting up. He went to the doctor when he got home, to see about maybe changing prescription, but they found out that his coronary artery had blockage. At the time the doc felt that it was fairly minor, that there wouldn't be an issue with it, they'd just need to go in and take a look with a catheter, and if needed insert a stint.

Today he went in, and they discovered major blockage in that section of artery, insertion of a stint was impossible. He goes into surgery Monday morning for a bypass. He's exceedingly lucky, as he did not have a heart attack prior to this discovery, and he's also exceedingly lucky it was caught in time. The doc says a lot of it probably had to do with all the years he smoked.

tl:dr, if you smoke, fucking stop it. D:

[Magnus]

My dad is in the hospital.

Two moths or so ago we were all hiking, he was complaining of his heartburn acting up. He went to the doctor when he got home, to see about maybe changing prescription, but they found out that his coronary artery had blockage. At the time the doc felt that it was fairly minor, that there wouldn't be an issue with it, they'd just need to go in and take a look with a catheter, and if needed insert a stint.

Today he went in, and they discovered major blockage in that section of artery, insertion of a stint was impossible. He goes into surgery Monday morning for a bypass. He's exceedingly lucky, as he did not have a heart attack prior to this discovery, and he's also exceedingly lucky it was caught in time. The doc says a lot of it probably had to do with all the years he smoked.

tl:dr, if you smoke, fucking stop it. D:

Oh shit. I'm sorry, Chris Hope the surgery goes successfully without difficulty and that it'll settle down alright.
As on the tl:dr-note, I very much agree - for oh so many reasons. Cigarettes are not good for anyone...

[dreamawake]

My dad is in the hospital.

Two moths or so ago we were all hiking, he was complaining of his heartburn acting up. He went to the doctor when he got home, to see about maybe changing prescription, but they found out that his coronary artery had blockage. At the time the doc felt that it was fairly minor, that there wouldn't be an issue with it, they'd just need to go in and take a look with a catheter, and if needed insert a stint.

Today he went in, and they discovered major blockage in that section of artery, insertion of a stint was impossible. He goes into surgery Monday morning for a bypass. He's exceedingly lucky, as he did not have a heart attack prior to this discovery, and he's also exceedingly lucky it was caught in time. The doc says a lot of it probably had to do with all the years he smoked.

tl:dr, if you smoke, fucking stop it. D:

Oh shit. I'm sorry, Chris Hope the surgery goes successfully without difficulty and that it'll settle down alright.
As on the tl:dr-note, I very much agree - for oh so many reasons. Cigarettes are not good for anyone...

Sorry to hear that Chris, but glad it was caught in time. I'm sure your dad will be just fine, and despite my lack of religious belief, I'll say a prayer for him and whatnot.

....but I'm still totally gonna keep smoking <_<

[Pwolf]

Had a dream about my dad last night... uhg -_-

[gotegenks]

Had a dream about my dad last night... uhg -_-

we have another thread for that stuff now, thank you very much....

[Pwolf]

Had a dream about my dad last night... uhg -_-

we have another thread for that stuff now, thank you very much....

I don't feel like sharing it.

[Taite]

My best friend is dead, my sister is facing time in jail for violating her probation after having had killed her ex-boyfriend in self defense, for which she spent weeks in a mental health hospital trying to recover from the grief and guilt, and was again admitted to said hospital for trying to kill herself for the second time in her life two weeks ago, which she can't even remember trying to do. Doesn't even remember writing the suicide note. I'm constantly driving between my house and her's, which is six hours away, missing weeks of school and then stressing out trying to make up the homework so I don't fail all of my classes and flunk out, therefore ruining all opportunities of going to college and getting out of this god forsaken town. I live in fear every day because her ex-boyfriend's family refuses to believe the truth of what happened and now threaten us daily, even driving by our house on occasion. My mom has skin cancer for the second time, and the only mercy is that it "isn't as bad" as the first cancer she had, melanoma. But since she's had skin cancer before, it's more dangerous, and it's also more dangerous because it is 'aggressive.' I'm haunted by dreams filled with the dead, I have anxiety and insomnia, I'm paranoid by the house I live in because I don't share the same roof as all of my family anymore, and I have hundreds of dead neighbors. I worry constantly about the welfare of others until I run myself down. Every day, mentally and physically. Then I'll hide it because I know others have bigger problems then me. And occasionally I'll pity myself for not being good enough to get over an unrequited love...but then I'll laugh, because I should know by now, after all of this, that love doesn't truly exist.


Funny how anyone can believe in a god these days. Never have I ever believed in "him" less.
Sure feels good to vent though. (: