I'm 42 and I still have my appendix. Nearly everyone in my family still have it.

Appendicitis is usually due to infection. I know a kid who had to have his out at age 7. It can be very serious if left untreated, so it's good she got it taken care of, but otherwise, you shouldn't worry too much.

It's not JUST the appendicitis...

When I started my freshman year of college she was diagnosed with diabetes... no big surprise as it runs in my family.

Then she went to the doctor and they found that she had a cyst the size of an avocado in her ovary... she decided to have it removed and they gave her a hysterectomy for good measure as well.

The diabetes was unable to be controlled by eating healthy and taking medication no matter how much tweaking was done to her routine or process and she was looking at dialysis for her kidneys within three to five years... so she started the path to gastric bypass surgery.

Once in the program they find out she has a malfunctioning gallbladder, so during the surgery they yank that sucker out too for good measure.

She gets the gastric bypass and recovers from that which helps with her blood pressure problems (oh I didn't mention those, well she has blood pressure problems too) and helps with the diabetes so she is down to one shot a day instead of three shots and two pills.

A year or so later they tell her that the diabetes isn't going to go away as it sometimes does with gastric patients and they will have to up her meds a bit.

Then her appendix burst while she's on vacation.

All of these things individually don't mean much, and no, not all of them have to do with age... but she's running out of nonessential body parts to get rid of.

tonsils.....

teeth...

Aw, hon, I know its hard right now to feel like things will get better for her, but trust me they can! My mom had quite a few issues when I was in middle school. An endocrine condition that led to her having her thyroid and parathyroids removed, a tumor on her pituitary gland, gall bladders stones (more than 1 round of 'em), fibroid muscle tumors that led to a hysterectomy and blood pressure problems. I stayed up many nights feeling like I was going to lose her. Our family actually looks back on that time and refer to it as "the crazy years." She's still crazy, don't get me wrong, but she is a lot healthier than she was and can out energize my sis and I. Its hard watching a family member go through all of that, especially a parent (which I think a lot of the older dwellers know too much about as well), but in reality, your mom is not all that old and with today's medical technology, she can improve. I doubt your mother would want you to be so overwhelmed with worry also.

Stupid fucking idiot boyfriend decided we should break up. He couldn't even come up with a decent reason. His complaints are: I don't like to party every weekend, I'm always sick (yeah like I can help that), I don't clean enough (neither does he), and I don't want to have children even though I'm willing to adopt and he's YEARS away from actually wanting them, so what does that even matter now?!
Oh and the really really shitty thing? This came up about 1 month ago, so I did take a hard look at my attitude and tried be more forgiving, less bitchy, more positive ect ect. I have made improvements. Then yesterday, without him having mentioned any complaints in the past month, he tells me I'm still too bitchy ect ect. If he had an issue, why the fuck didn't he talk to me about it? You want to know why? Because he's a shallow, hypocritical asshole. I have done everything to try and help him with his job and school situation, and this is my reward? He doesn't even recognize my improvements and claims that my trying to help him is in my own selfish interest!

Another door will open MTP. Be glad that he is giving you this opportunity!

I had opportunities I passed up for him.

sorry, mortie. remember that you ARE more than just pretty. darker days will pass on, the sun will shine again, all that shit.

suffer hard, suffer well, and then bloom again. we love ya.

Weren't you going to kick his ass to the curb anyway? You're well shot.

MoreThanLucky

You'll be better without him. He seems immature. You have always impressed me with your wise-beyond-your-years mind. Wait for the guy who gets that.

I had changed my mind about that. I was trying to be more outgoing and open minded.

The situation in Japan is upsetting me today.

This CNN slideshow: well some of them just break my heart. Such horrible devastation. :(

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2011/...ex.html?hpt=T1

i am simply irritable.


grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

She's so cross there's no telling where her temper went...

another CPS contact at work, major teacher layoffs in our contracted district and across the region, and the Head Start teachers in my organization are fighting about whether to unionize with heavy paranoia on both sides and threatening letters from our Executive Director, and it is time to write annual reviews...

yes, way more than lucky

Just found out my mentally retarded cousin is going to be a victim of the PA budget cuts. Details setchy since it's a secret unofficial source, but it looks like her assisted independent living is being cut.

Over the weekend we had a rally at the capitol to protest the extensive education/Medicaid budget cuts. 11,000 people showed up. Governor Rick Perry relented and said they would dip into the "rainy day fund" to cover... about 20% of the education budget shortfall. Gee, thanks.

We'll see what happens to Special Ed here, I haven't heard anything yet. The Republicans at the Fed level want to end Head Start, the Dem Governor is axing district funding (well not in the richest districts but the rest of the state) so we'll see about UPK. That might just end integrated programs. Interesting times.

Do you teach in New York?

Yeah.

Colorado education and programs to help low income disabled are taking deep hits. At this rate, the disabled will all die and Colorado's children will attain maturity with only the skills to work the jobs the illegals take now.

So maybe there's a method in the madness. No nasty disabled people cluttering up Colorado's image as a ski and vacation paradise and no illegal aliens that the authorities have to track down. :rolleyes:

1) asshole OCD PTO memory-deficient treasurer who constantly needs to recheck details/forgets what we've agreed.... and is patronising like I'm the one who needs reminding....

2) stupid fucking internet service

3) CNN who think expatriate is pronounced ex-patriot.

and still this.

And This:

0254: Updated casualty figures for the quake just in: 5,178 people dead and 8,606 missing, AFP quote police as saying.

(BBC)

and the FuckYoushima thing.

Unbelievable and getting worse.

As above.

Agreed. :(

The nuke crisis is horrible, but what makes it feel worse is that it's so drawn out. Even on Sunday at breakfast I was wondering if they had repaired it yet or if it had melted down yet. Just resolve the damn thing already.

Even the newspapers are running out of headlines for the thing. How many days in a row can you run a headline saying that things are getting worse?

no matter how bad things get, they can always get worse

Sure, but it presents challenges to the headline writers to come up with good and new headlines.

THINGS GET EVEN MORE WORSER AS THEY CONTINUE TO WORSEN
Story on p. 3

THE WORST IT'S EVER, EVER BEEN
THINGS EVEN WORSE THAN LAST TIME

Film at 11

remember how when it got really worse used to like to go up on the roof and hang out? Well, when it got really worse went up on the roof today and got a little too close to the edge and...

Do you have any worser-ster sauce?

it went bad

it went from worse to bad?

It's getting better

FTR, I am not making fun of the victims, just the news whores

I'm sick of the bad news, and your joke headlines are funny. I smiled out loud at them. thanks!

It's a whole newt day.

I don't know witch of you two is worser

I like pretty much all of 3Foot's posts.

:blush:

Charlie Brooker did a brilliant piece about the news coverage of the earthquake and the possible nuclear meltdown.

Wish it'd hurry up and get posted on youtube :p

Douche bags.

douche bags masquerading as human.

Now I'm just conflicted. Boyfriend decided he did in fact want to work things out, promised he was 100% sincere. Mom and sis think I should give him another chance. I just don't know if I can feel confident in him again.

MTP - past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

Listen to your OWN intuition.

certainly he should be made to endure some trials and perform some herculean tasks.

get a copy of european fairy tales, the older the collection, the better. Stuff published in the 1800s to the early 1900s is best--before everything got sugar-coated with pc. Read about the guys who had to travel to the 30th kingdom and find the tears of lizard in order to free their princesses from the evil witch. Then compare that to some schlump who comes whinging "wahh take me back, the bartender wouldn't sleep with me..."

don't sell yourself short.

ymmv

How long have you guys been together, MTP? If you've invested years in the guy, I'd let him back on a strictly probationary basis. If he shapes up, fine. If not, there's lot of other fish in the aquarium.

If you haven't been together that long, cut your losses and show him to the door.

Aren't these the same people who think you must marry anyone you have had sex with, regardless of any other qualities they may or may not possess? :eyebrow:

Here's what it really boils down to: this guy is not permanent. You know (or at least you should by now) that you will not be spending the rest of your life with him. So if keeping him around for now is fun, and is easier and causes you less stress, then do that. If getting him out of your life makes it easier to focus on your impending surgery and college plans, then do that. But whatever you decide, do it based only on what's best for you, not your mom or your sister or your (ex)boyfriend.

Where's the like button?

"Trust is a one time only offer."
-- Wolf

These are the same people, and although I love them, I do fundamentally disagree with their relationship strategies. They think they only excuse to leave someone is abuse and that love is a choice. 1) It is not the only excuse, 2) sometimes it is, sometimes it is not the basics still have to be there. Sadly, I would already be gone if I felt like I could afford living on my own. I'm trying to get a budget together to figure out how likely that is and I am trying to find roomies I just don't want to live with a complete stranger and don't have a large pool of friends to choose from. I cannot move back in with my parents, that would be worse.
I do truly think he's a good guy, just not the one for me. We are different on an intellectual scale and maturity.

We have a winner!