Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Then don't resist.
One of my clients found me on Facebook and Instagram. :/
FB and Instagram are how I get my "clients".
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Ah, prostitution.
Well, if you do go on a rampage, be sure to wear a mask.
Have you tried breathing exercises? I think they'll calm you down to the point where you'll realize the advice is exactly what you need.
Hey now, settle down, take a deep breath and you'll see I'm right.
I can't process that tomorrow is Friday. I know the fact of Friday's existence, but it feels like two weeks have gone by since Monday morning started.
Math and good knives are my friends today. Recipe seems to have expanded just fine. 15lbs of roasted potatoes later, everything looks and tastes about right.
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Holy crap, the 25% pay cut hit today at work. I did the math and all, but it's still a shock. Because we paid out for a fancy house, we are now paycheck-to-paycheck again. Oh well. I am only putting this in whine because a) I still have a job. b) I had a cushion for a few years. c) Objectively, the pay is still good, it's just completely tied up in a mortgage that was obtained under a different budget.
Now I'm in that situation where people ask, "well why don't you just sell the expensive house?" Because I'm only one year into the mortgage, and after dropping huge closing costs, it would cost me more to sell it and lose out than it would just to keep it and eat peanut butter until I find a better paying job.
Now I'm in that situation where people ask, "well why don't you just sell the expensive house?" Because I'm only one year into the mortgage, and after dropping huge closing costs, it would cost me more to sell it and lose out than it would just to keep it and eat peanut butter until I find a better paying job.
They gave me my new biologic in those god awful gun-pens rather than the pre-filled needles. The automatic pens are like little machine guns. They hurt! I told my new drug rep at least ten times yesterday that I wanted real needles and that I had in fact been trained in their use and have been using them at home over an extended period. My specialist wrote my prescription for needles, I asked for them yesterday many times and I open my box today and I have a month's worth of nasty little automatic gun-pens 
I must be the only person that doesn't like the automatic ones or something?
The upside is that I am finally on a biologic again.
I must be the only person that doesn't like the automatic ones or something?
The upside is that I am finally on a biologic again.
I had to make my first CWS (Child Welfare Services) report today. The cherry on top of a trying week.
I took my new meds last night and I could feel myself getting more and more tired.
I slept all day!!
Excessive sleep is better than puke, but omg - the whole day?
I slept all day!!
Excessive sleep is better than puke, but omg - the whole day?
So what can you do with leftover potato salad?
Fling it at unsuspecting passersby.
Zappit
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Biologic? RA?They gave me my new biologic in those god awful gun-pens rather than the pre-filled needles. The automatic pens are like little machine guns. They hurt! I told my new drug rep at least ten times yesterday that I wanted real needles and that I had in fact been trained in their use and have been using them at home over an extended period. My specialist wrote my prescription for needles, I asked for them yesterday many times and I open my box today and I have a month's worth of nasty little automatic gun-pens
I must be the only person that doesn't like the automatic ones or something?
The upside is that I am finally on a biologic again.
So the family dog got stung by a bee yesterday, and we discovered she's allergic. It happened about a half-hour after the last vet's office in the area closed for the day. Sigh...
It was terrifying. She puffed up, and we were afraid that her throat would close up. Some frantic internet research and a run to the drugstore later, we gave her Benedryl. She threw it up less than an hour later. At that point, though, we realized her throat was not going to close. Thank God. The poor thing couldn't sleep at all overnight, in between severe skin irritation and vomiting.
We got her to the vet this morning - the swelling had gone down a bit by this point. Got her antibiotics and a steroid. She's doing much better now.
But damn, why does every dog crisis happen when the vet is closed?
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Isn't there an emergency vet in your area?
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Yeah, but it's notoriously expensive to the point of extortion. Can't afford them.
Not RA. I've had AS since about 15. I rejected my last biologic and had some really nasty side effects both related to the rejection and just in general when taking it. I'm sure that this sounds super vain, but I was really upset about what it was doing to my hair
The super weird part is that when it came back, it came in really wavy/almost curly. I really hope that this new biologic leaves it alone because it's just started to get back to normal. I'm so sorry to hear about your dog
I had no idea that dogs could have such severe allergic reactions! That must have been terrifying.
I've been on it a few times. We went to supper with friends once at The Keg while I was on it and they still tease me about it, 15 years later. I was a beast. I ate more in one sitting that I usually do in days. Then by the time we got home, I was panicking while I waited for @HCGLNS to unlock the door because I was starving again and worried that I wasn't going to eat again soon enough. It was disturbing.The dog's okay. Swelling is gone, and her appetite came back with a vengeance. Prednisone will do that. I know that one from experience.
Are you not to the point where you can make your own?
Has the primitive technology guy even tackled that one yet?
--Patrick
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My sunburn itches!