Horrid Updates

Okay, found out the Protonix, (which sounds less like a medication and more like some weird ex-soviet space rocket), is what my mom and another friend with GERD, (or GORD for the Brits reading this), took. And it's job is to heal the damage caused by the fact that the stomach, merry bastard that it is, has been having fun squirting drano as far up my esophagus as it possibly can. I can see it with a little score card going "Yes! I got it all the up to the sinuses! Double points!)

However, it's not allowed to do this anymore. So now my throat has that raspy just after a cold feeling. Which is horrid but is better than the alternative,

The problem being, of course, is that my lungs, since they no longer have to keep producing mucus to protect them from the acid, are hard at work trying to get rid of all this glop they produced. And the only way it can do this is coughing. Hard, violent, hacking coughs. Coughs that bruise the diaphram and make one believe that maybe the feeling of drowning in my own glop isn't such a bad feeling anymore.

It would have to be less painful just to pour a batch of drano into my lungs and get done with it. Oh, sure, it would burn though the diaphram and lungs and be at least fairly lethal, but it would have to hurt less,

Oh well, I should have this junk out of my lungs by friday or so,

Still having something playing merry hell with my bank account. I'm not only missing about $475, but my account is actually -$158. I'm getting a new debt card and the old one is getting closed, but I still have to wait with $47 to my name until my next payday, which is the 30th......

Growl.

Horrid Updates

Okay, found out the Protonix, (which sounds less like a medication and more like some weird ex-soviet space rocket), is what my mom and another friend with GERD, (or GORD for the Brits reading this), took. And it's job is to heal the damage caused by the fact that the stomach, merry bastard that it is, has been having fun squirting drano as far up my esophagus as it possibly can. I can see it with a little score card going "Yes! I got it all the up to the sinuses! Double points!)

However, it's not allowed to do this anymore. So now my throat has that raspy just after a cold feeling. Which is horrid but is better than the alternative,

The problem being, of course, is that my lungs, since they no longer have to keep producing mucus to protect them from the acid, are hard at work trying to get rid of all this glop they produced. And the only way it can do this is coughing. Hard, violent, hacking coughs. Coughs that bruise the diaphram and make one believe that maybe the feeling of drowning in my own glop isn't such a bad feeling anymore.

It would have to be less painful just to pour a batch of drano into my lungs and get done with it. Oh, sure, it would burn though the diaphram and lungs and be at least fairly lethal, but it would have to hurt less,

Oh well, I should have this junk out of my lungs by friday or so,

Still having something playing merry hell with my bank account. I'm not only missing about $475, but my account is actually -$158. I'm getting a new debt card and the old one is getting closed, but I still have to wait with $47 to my name until my next payday, which is the 30th......

Growl.

Amusing Comment

"Millennia of evolution have left babies with tongues trained to ppush unwelcome objects (in other words, spoons) out of the mouth instantly. How we could survive as a species with infants who eagerly accept into their mouths moldy, lint-dusted stuffed animals but reject spoonfuls of food is, quite frankly, beyond me." From Irony Central's The Story About the Baby

Amusing Comment

"Millennia of evolution have left babies with tongues trained to ppush unwelcome objects (in other words, spoons) out of the mouth instantly. How we could survive as a species with infants who eagerly accept into their mouths moldy, lint-dusted stuffed animals but reject spoonfuls of food is, quite frankly, beyond me." From Irony Central's The Story About the Baby

And another comment

One More Thought About Babies "R" Us.

"They are very selective about what they sell. A product must reach a certain high level of price and shoddiness before it has any chance of being considered for their shelves."

and another from Irony Central

And another comment

One More Thought About Babies "R" Us.

"They are very selective about what they sell. A product must reach a certain high level of price and shoddiness before it has any chance of being considered for their shelves."

and another from Irony Central

Problem child problems

Let's see. In the last 13 months, one of my biggest problem children in the lab has
* Managed to blow the power supply on a "WallStreet" Powerbook G3. (And of course, she doesn't know how she did.) Could not be repaired in a cost-effective way.
* Managed to blow the logic board of a Rev C slot loading iMac, (again, doesn't know how she did it.) Could not be repaired in a cost-effective way.
* Just managed to break the screen of a blueberry iBook. According to the lab manager, she accidently kneed it. According to her, she fell down a flight of stairs while it was in her backpack.
According to the repair centre, there's no way in hell the blow that broke the screen happened on the outside of the case, but rather had to have been struck while the screen was open. May not be worth repairing.
And, of course, she still doesn't believe her shit stinks.......

Problem child problems

Let's see. In the last 13 months, one of my biggest problem children in the lab has
* Managed to blow the power supply on a "WallStreet" Powerbook G3. (And of course, she doesn't know how she did.) Could not be repaired in a cost-effective way.
* Managed to blow the logic board of a Rev C slot loading iMac, (again, doesn't know how she did it.) Could not be repaired in a cost-effective way.
* Just managed to break the screen of a blueberry iBook. According to the lab manager, she accidently kneed it. According to her, she fell down a flight of stairs while it was in her backpack.
According to the repair centre, there's no way in hell the blow that broke the screen happened on the outside of the case, but rather had to have been struck while the screen was open. May not be worth repairing.
And, of course, she still doesn't believe her shit stinks.......