Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

The "h" on my phone autofills halforums. So I usually type h + enter to go here. The h is right next to j. "J" autofills to my favorite pizza place's website where you can order online. That makes resisting temptation ...difficult.
 
My husband just went to bed saying he felt like he was starting to get sick. Last night I tossed and turned until 4am because I couldn't get comfortable and just felt like crap. Tonight I have that weird out of body feeling that comes right before getting sick. Huzzah. -_-
 
Ever get so much free advice you want to go on a rampage?
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.
 

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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.
 
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.
 
Oh my god, the temperature today went from being 80s/90s for the last two weeks to being 54. I am freezing. It's always amusing how 54 in spring is warm, but 54 in the fall might as well be below freezing.
 
Oh my god, the temperature today went from being 80s/90s for the last two weeks to being 54. I am freezing. It's always amusing how 54 in spring is warm, but 54 in the fall might as well be below freezing.
I'll trade you. It's been 60-ish all last week but now we have a week or more of 80's to swelter through. Ugh.

--Patrick
 
Oh my god, the temperature today went from being 80s/90s for the last two weeks to being 54. I am freezing. It's always amusing how 54 in spring is warm, but 54 in the fall might as well be below freezing.
I know exactly what that's like, well if I throw in a decimal point: 5.4 in spring is heavenly warm.
 
Oh my god, the temperature today went from being 80s/90s for the last two weeks to being 54. I am freezing. It's always amusing how 54 in spring is warm, but 54 in the fall might as well be below freezing.
That's how I feel in winter here. It only gets down to the 60s at night, but you'd think it was cold enough to snow.
 
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?
 

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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.
Biologic? RA?

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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Biologic? RA?

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?
Isn't there an emergency vet in your area?
 
Biologic? RA?

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?
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.
 
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. :D
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.
 
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