Santa Claus is coming to couch 68!!!!!

unaluna · Dec 24, 2013, 03:10 PM

O. M. G. I can see the headlines now. Florida woman dies from overdose of wacking and neglect in the ER.

They would have sent you to the ER if you needed it. The ARNP would have taken a quick blood glucose level reading. I assume your coochi is already feeling better? I think youre handling this great. Youre taking how you handle C's and K's stuff, and the schoolkids' stuff, and applying it to taking care of yourself. Very practically. I need to take a lesson.

Daeva · Dec 24, 2013, 03:56 PM

My dearest couchlettes, how've you been?

Squirrel1983 · Dec 24, 2013, 04:01 PM

WTH?

I just looked at the group site, for the PCP urgent care referred me to and they list his as "sports medicine" not "family practice". I would assume that the website that lists all the drs in the group would be correct. They are already closed for the day since they closed early for Christmas Eve (I tried calling to ask). Guess, I will have to call on Thursday and ask his office which he is (maybe he is both). If he is only sports medicine then I will probably need to find someone else, as a PCP.

Stupid urgent care referring to people who are not really PCPs.

neutrino · 05:05 PM

So, here's an update for those who are interested:

It is now 10:44pm on Christmas Eve, the day us Swedes (and some other people in Europe) celebrate Christmas. I'm spending Christmas with my boyfriend's family this year and they celebrate on the 25th. Tomorrow. So, today's been a bit weird for me. It hasn't felt like Christmas at all, except for the fact that I got a couple of Christmas presents my boyfriend had bought me (two books: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and a Swedish book called Ett öga rött by Jonas Hassen Khemiri). I've missed my family quite a bit.

I'm a bit worried about tomorrow. Tomorrow my boyfriend's family will be here and his family is pretty big (my boyfriend's got six siblings and most of them are married and some of them have children as well). They're great people but as an introverted person with social anxiety disorder and someone who's also hypersensitive to stimuli (especially sounds) a social situation like the one I will experience tomorrow is really scary. I've met with all of the immediate family members two or three times before and it's the same every time: I get quiet (sometimes I "go mute"), very anxious, exhausted, lonely (not because of lack of social interaction, obviously, but because of not being able to connect with people properly and because I feel like I'm so different in comparison to them), depressed and I just generally don't know how to interact with people. I'm not useless at it but I find it really difficult and it never comes naturally to me. I'm not great at small talk for example and I find it exhausting. I usually wait for people to talk to me and if they ask me questions the conversation's a bit easier. I find it very difficult to initiate conversations myself though, or rather initiate and then be able to hold that conversation. I like my boyfriend's family but I can't help but feeling very isolated when around them. Here's a quote (which touches on this a little) from a book I recently finished reading that I can really relate to:

"Bobby [Fischer] told no one, not even his closest friends, about Kuna Thai, since, although he was lonely, he often preferred to dine alone; like Thomas Jefferson in the White House, he enjoyed his own company, the opportunity to read or to contemplate ideas, and memories. Paradoxically, it was when he was with others that he felt an uncomfortable solitude."
- Frank Brady, Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

So, I'd like to apologise in advance for probably (not completely sure though) retreating to the couch and venting a bit tomorrow.

Wish me luck.

CantExplain · Dec 24, 2013, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squirrel1983

Bad sales clerk!

So I realized that I never bought my brother's dip for the rest of his Christmas present (he has been in Alaska this past year and up there is is sold in plastic and he swears it tastes different than the cardboard tins down here...I have no clue, I don't use the stuff). I went to Walmart first, the line at the tobacco register had about 30 people in it, so I said screw it and decided I would just pay a little more at a gas station.

I go to a gas station, ask for what my brother likes (if felt so weird buying something that I have no clue what the hell it is). I was not IDed. He could get in a lot of trouble for that...his work could actually face heafty fines, if I wanted to report it. I am old enough to buy it though, so I could care less. I just can't believe he never asked for it.

ETA: Where I live there are signs in stores that say "We Card Under 40"...I am only 30 and look nowhere near 40, so I am kind of laughing about his carelessness.

What is in this dip that makes it a controlled substance?

Squirrel1983 · Dec 24, 2013, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CantExplain

What is in this dip that makes it a controlled substance?

Dip is a "slang" name for smokeless tobacco that you place between your lip and gum.

CantExplain · Dec 24, 2013, 05:14 PM

There's many a dip
twixt teeth and lip.

BonnieJean · Dec 24, 2013, 06:44 PM

I had been trying to figure out what "onion dip" would be sold in caardboard! That explains why you'd have been in the tabacco line at Walmart

Squirrel1983 · Dec 24, 2013, 06:56 PM

Well, I was bored and looked at the medical group site of the ob-gyn I am seeing Monday. They have profiles about each dr...where they were educated, where they did their residency, if they are board certified or not, if they are chairs of any committees, etc. It also has pictures of the dr.

I had to laugh at the one for the guy I am seeing...his hair is sticking out like the scientist in back to the future, only his hair is brown instead of gray. Maybe it is just a bad picture (or he was having a bad hair day when it was taken). If his hair is really that "wild" I'm going to have to bite my lip to keep from cracking up.

Squirrel1983 · Dec 24, 2013, 08:51 PM

Well...I must have no life...

It's Christmas Eve and I am sitting on the computer bored to death.

Dropping presents by my mom's in the morning before she, my brother, and my grandma head to my cousin's. Then to come back home and wait a little bit. Then to head to my dad's for early dinner at 3pm. I pray to God it is not "experimental" food.

Daeva · Dec 24, 2013, 08:58 PM

Don't worry squirrel, I'm in the same boat. I'm celebrating my victory of hacking wifi on xmas eve. Honestly I know they are here to help me but I feel like I just stuck it to the man! LOL

LolaCabanna · Dec 24, 2013, 09:03 PM

what are your plans after the holiday Daeva? Moving to another apartment?

Daeva · Dec 24, 2013, 09:05 PM

Nah, I won't be moving for a while. I'm in a residential facility. I'll be in this place for a while. It's basically a psych ward you can leave in during the day so long as staff comes with you. Everything else is the same as the ward. I'll be here for the shortest stay is 5 months.

LolaCabanna · Dec 24, 2013, 09:10 PM

can you go to school while there?

Daeva · Dec 24, 2013, 09:12 PM

Yep, my T said I could and they said so too. All the staff here are my T's personal friends. Which is a comfort on one hand and also a horror story on the other.

healed84 · Dec 24, 2013, 09:39 PM

Happy Christmas Eve and Merry Christmas to my couch friends who celebrate..

Squirrel1983 · Dec 24, 2013, 09:41 PM

Thanks, Merrry Christmas, healed.

LolaCabanna · Dec 24, 2013, 09:46 PM

Merry Christmas too you too Healed , Squirrel and Daeva...along with all those who lurk or post here or rarely post and those who no longer hang here. Wishing all a peaceful night and day.