What's upsetting you today?

[fargon]

Sorry, and FUCK cancer.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Fuck cancer, and fuck fookbase the bearer of bad news.

[Griff]

Damn sorry. fc

[infinite monkey]

I'm so sorry limey. Jebus it ain't fair by any stretch of imagination.

[orthodoc]

Sorry, Limey.

[limey]

Thanks everyone. I'm glad to have got to know her again, just sad that it was for a short while (no news yet, but that's not good ...)

[orthodoc]

I've had pain in my low back for several weeks; radiates to my left leg below the knee, which means spinal nerve impingement. Never had it before, no trauma to cause it. It could be due to degenerative processes, but coming on over a short period of time makes that less likely. Steroids have improved things somewhat today but otherwise it's crippling. I know I need to contact my onco but don't want to get bad news.

There's enough bad news with my practice that has no patients, and endless debt. People call and then don't show. We had a call today for 15 physicals next week but I'll believe it when they walk through the door. And pay. Getting paid in the US for WC is ridiculous - so many middle-man companies that take chunks out of insurance payments, and no choice about it. I sink deeper in debt every day. But if I have mets, I suppose it won't matter.

[monster]

Limey, i'm so sorry.

[Sundae]

First, heard Mum's friends' son has died.
The couple where the husband has leukemia.
He (the son) was taken into hospital with acute pancreatitis and subsequently suffered a cardiac arrest and then brain damage from that.

Died yesterday afternoon surrounded by family, although it's not likely he'd have known that.
It was inevitable at that point. The damage was done. He was in general poor health physically, as well as being schizophrenic. His Mum described him as "a gentle giant".
He was only 6-8 years older than me from what I can work out. Hard to reckon when you knew someone when you were young. Those few years mean a lot in middle school, and nothing on a deathbed.
Made me cry.

And then today, my mobile phone was stolen from the library.
Properly stolen.
I can only assume I put it down when I talked to the librarian (I am so much more careful when I am in Leeds!) and walked off without it (careful, but absent-minded).
Checked a book back in, went to take a photo, couldn't find phone. Retraced my steps. Searched and re-searched my bags. Was then asked by another library user, "Did you get your phone back?" in a worried tone of voice.

Apparently, the man using the nearest computer had said he knew me, I'd just gone out for a cigarette, and he'd take it to me.
Lying, thieving scrote.

No phone, no landline, no internet access apart from the library.
The best my service provider can offer is that I ask for a duplicate SIM card and buy another phone.

Got a crime number, and there is CCTV/ user records in the library.
Am not holding my breath.
But that made me cry too.

I can't compare death to losing a mobile phone. But I don't think I've ever had anything deliberately stolen before. He had at TOP a five minute window of opportunity.
Arsehole.

[glatt]

I'm sorry Sundae. That's horrible that the thief took your phone.

[Carruthers]

It's an unfortunate fact of life that anything which isn't nailed down will disappear at the hands of some opportunist thief.

Despicable 'illegitimate'.

[DanaC]

Oh no! Hon, that's awful bad luck. When it's your main link tothe world, that really sucks.

And, I was just about to text you my new mobile number (early birthday pressie from the two Js) so we could text again, finally, after a year and a half of me not having a mobile

[Gravdigr]

I just can not abide a thief.

My buddy keeps getting shit taken from his house. He has a plan for the thief if he ever catches him in his house...

It involves dude's hands and a 32 oz claw-hammer.

[Sundae]

Well at least my Mum is being sympathetic...

I wouldn’t expect anything else in a big city. You have got away with it being in Otley, but why must it leave your pocket? Do phones have to be right beside everyone all the time? It’s the same in pubs and McD’s. Phones on tables everywhere.
They are asking to be stolen.

I am so old that I do not understand it at all. I suppose because I do not feel it is “my life”, as younger people do, I always have mine in a pocket or bag, which is why I miss calls (which are not important in the first place in the grand scheme of life).
I wish the bloody things had never been invented. My Crime Desk job consisted of dozens of calls a day about stolen phones and made my life a misery so I see it from a different point of view. At least I did get CCTV checked in those sort of locations and made a lot of work for myself. I shouldn’t think city police would bother.

Oh well. she won't be bothered by any calls from me in the near future. Because they are not important.

Try and stay calm. I expect you will rant and rave at my email but it’s how I feel. Yours is not the only life that is shit.

Yes I know.
That's why I vented on here and didn't try to hurt you, mother.

Heh. The last line is always the killer.

[glatt]

Wow.