Red is Dead Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Cousin up in Glasgow (I'm near London) just text me to say she's away into hospital for treatment of anorexia. She's 18 and has to now take a gap year while she gets better. I've tried to make her feel better by telling her that we all love her and will be there for he if she needs us, even going so far as sending her a picture of an alpaca i took at a local zoo recently (motivation so that she can visit it in person when she gets out.) But I'm absolutely in shock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Getting really tired of getting near-zero sleep. I'm the type of person who has trouble turning off his brain, so there's a big difference between when I go to bed and when I go to sleep. Doesn't help that it's been really humid lately. I worked overnights at a previous job so that really messed with my sleep patterns; I'm a serious night owl who has trouble winding down at a reasonable hour, even when I have to go to work the next morning. I've tried sleep aid/Tylenol PM pills but they don't work as well as they used to. Tried Ambien a while back with mixed results. Any advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Xanax ended up helping me sleep as an intended side effect of treating my panic disorder. Downside is I still need it to sleep, and it took me months to get the dosage right. Outside of that, exercise, or something that you like to unwind ahead if time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Smarkie Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Count sheep. That really does work.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Allergies have been causing my respiratory system to close up shop around bed time, so Benadryl has helped a bit in recent days. There are times when I almost appreciate being sick since I have an excuse to take Nyquil, which wiped me out(in a good way) the last time I used it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 If you've got a book you're reading, I find a good thing to do is to read in bed. It relaxes your body, and quiets the mind a bit by giving it one thing to focus on. When I start slowing down, not reading so fast, I close the book, turn out the light, and I'm out in minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooks Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Having dated many of them myself, I can tell you that there is absolutely no reason to put up with some high maintenance headcase who likes to play games. There's lots of great cool girls out there you just need to be A) patient enough to wait until one comes along and B ) brave enough to make your move when one does come along. I say this from personal experience. My girlfriend now is one of the most easygoing people I know and I can honestly say my time with her has been the happiest period of my life. You can have it to, just need to be willing to wait for it. I had ended things a month or so back. I had reached my fill of being embarrassed and hurt (which is pretty impressive). So I cut her out of my life completely. Recently she got in some serious trouble and her family reached out to me about helping her. I did what I could because I do care about her and want her to do better. We talk a little bit and it just reverts back to the same pattern that made me cut her out of my life before. Sunday was just a new low. I can't really believe I wrote about it here, but I was a wreck and was reaching out to anyone. I'm pulling myself out of a similar situation, so I relate and feel for you. It's weird how you can KNOW something is going to end badly if you're honest with yourself, but somehow on the surface you convince yourself it might be OK and will be worth the effort. And I also understand how it can make you feel awful and in my case, I can get ashamed of myself. Then I have to remind myself.......I'm a pretty fucking good dude and a lot of people love me in different ways. Why am I obsessing over this one person who doesn't appreciate me? But yeah man, venting here is good. It;s good to get things off your chest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Allergies have been causing my respiratory system to close up shop around bed time, so Benadryl has helped a bit in recent days. There are times when I almost appreciate being sick since I have an excuse to take Nyquil, which wiped me out(in a good way) the last time I used it. I have bad allergies this time of year (ragweed) and it jacks with my sleep big time. Take a shower at night, as a ton of allergens collect on your person throughout the day. Your clothes, your hair, skin, so on and so on. I find it helps me sleep better when I do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Nevermind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EN090 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Having dated many of them myself, I can tell you that there is absolutely no reason to put up with some high maintenance headcase who likes to play games. There's lots of great cool girls out there you just need to be A) patient enough to wait until one comes along and B ) brave enough to make your move when one does come along. I say this from personal experience. My girlfriend now is one of the most easygoing people I know and I can honestly say my time with her has been the happiest period of my life. You can have it to, just need to be willing to wait for it. I had ended things a month or so back. I had reached my fill of being embarrassed and hurt (which is pretty impressive). So I cut her out of my life completely. Recently she got in some serious trouble and her family reached out to me about helping her. I did what I could because I do care about her and want her to do better. We talk a little bit and it just reverts back to the same pattern that made me cut her out of my life before. Sunday was just a new low. I can't really believe I wrote about it here, but I was a wreck and was reaching out to anyone. I'm pulling myself out of a similar situation, so I relate and feel for you. It's weird how you can KNOW something is going to end badly if you're honest with yourself, but somehow on the surface you convince yourself it might be OK and will be worth the effort. And I also understand how it can make you feel awful and in my case, I can get ashamed of myself. Then I have to remind myself.......I'm a pretty fucking good dude and a lot of people love me in different ways. Why am I obsessing over this one person who doesn't appreciate me? But yeah man, venting here is good. It;s good to get things off your chest. Very good point about "thinking it will be worth the effort" even though every logical way you look at the scenario tells you to run. Part of the issue with me was that I have a very certain personality type that I click with and want to date instead of just hook up with. So when you find that, it is hard to let go, despite the red flags. The thing that drove me nuts about her was she had this amazing way of spinning situations to make them look like I was the unreasonable one. And there definitely were things I could have handled in a more mature, confident way that would have probably bettered my situation with her. But damn, every time she would put her spin on things I would think "wow, it was me that fucked up". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Went to refill my meds today. For some reason, my insurance no longer covers it. They want me to pay $168 per month for my brain meds alone. Dear HealthNet, if I'm dead you stop receiving my money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Getting really tired of getting near-zero sleep. I'm the type of person who has trouble turning off his brain, so there's a big difference between when I go to bed and when I go to sleep. Doesn't help that it's been really humid lately. I worked overnights at a previous job so that really messed with my sleep patterns; I'm a serious night owl who has trouble winding down at a reasonable hour, even when I have to go to work the next morning. I've tried sleep aid/Tylenol PM pills but they don't work as well as they used to. Tried Ambien a while back with mixed results. Any advice? My doc got me on Guanfacine. Really fucked up first week (Especially the hallucinations), but it did the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offspring515 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Recieved a bill in the mail last week from the hospital wanting $3,600 from November when my son was born. My wife's insurance (that our son was on) is refusing to pay for a variety of standard costs that should be fully covered. We called, fought with the insurance company, blah blah blah an hour and two "supervisors" later they agree to pay for everything but one sixty dollar test. Good enough for me. In January we switched him onto my insurance plan because a cheaper option was available to us. His coverage began Jan first. January fifth he gets his two month shots. Three days ago I get an $1,100 dollar bill for these shots...shots that are, again, fully covered. Call my insurance company, half hour of explaining the situation and they ask me to call the Dr's office and ask them to resubmit the bill to be payed. Not sure why that falls to me but ok, fine if it gets paid. Open the mail today to find a 50 dollar bill from our dentist for my wife's exam...despite the fact that we have exams fully covered by our dental insurance. So tomorrow means another fun phone call. I hate to post this here because I've had good.results in fighting for correct coverage but it's annoying as hell to have to do this all the time. Is this just standard operating procedure now? For insurance companies to just say "fuck all that shit we said we'd cover...we aren't paying for shit!"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Getting really tired of getting near-zero sleep. I'm the type of person who has trouble turning off his brain, so there's a big difference between when I go to bed and when I go to sleep. Doesn't help that it's been really humid lately. I worked overnights at a previous job so that really messed with my sleep patterns; I'm a serious night owl who has trouble winding down at a reasonable hour, even when I have to go to work the next morning. I've tried sleep aid/Tylenol PM pills but they don't work as well as they used to. Tried Ambien a while back with mixed results. Any advice? It may seem silly, but listening to some of those ASMR videos on YouTube seem to calm me down before bed. You have to find the ones that 'trigger' your senses best. Personally, I like those with crinkly sounds--no talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Recieved a bill in the mail last week from the hospital wanting $3,600 from November when my son was born. My wife's insurance (that our son was on) is refusing to pay for a variety of standard costs that should be fully covered. We called, fought with the insurance company, blah blah blah an hour and two "supervisors" later they agree to pay for everything but one sixty dollar test. Good enough for me. In January we switched him onto my insurance plan because a cheaper option was available to us. His coverage began Jan first. January fifth he gets his two month shots. Three days ago I get an $1,100 dollar bill for these shots...shots that are, again, fully covered. Call my insurance company, half hour of explaining the situation and they ask me to call the Dr's office and ask them to resubmit the bill to be payed. Not sure why that falls to me but ok, fine if it gets paid. Open the mail today to find a 50 dollar bill from our dentist for my wife's exam...despite the fact that we have exams fully covered by our dental insurance. So tomorrow means another fun phone call. I hate to post this here because I've had good.results in fighting for correct coverage but it's annoying as hell to have to do this all the time. Is this just standard operating procedure now? For insurance companies to just say "fuck all that shit we said we'd cover...we aren't paying for shit!"? "Now"? Try that's been standard procedure forever. I've fought that stuff literally dozens of times. And multiple insurance companies have been busted for doing this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 A couple of years ago, I needed an IV treatment at my hematologist's office. I was told by the billing supervisor that my insurance wouldn't cover the drug they had in-house, but would cover another one that they'd need to get delivered from 30 miles away - despite that one being the name brand and the one at the office being generic. I also switched insurance plans at the beginning of the year, and was told my specialist copay was $75. OK cool, I expected that. I went to the specialist two months ago was told that my copay balance was...$5? Then I get a bill a couple of weeks ago for $13 to cover the rest of the copay. Needless to say, for as fantastic as my insurance coverage is given the cost, and as phenomenal as every last person at my hematologist's office is...it seems like everyone is on a different wavelength when it comes to billing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 In the grand scheme of life, this is such a minor gripe, but I have a lot more major, stressing things happening in my life that this is what I am going to direct my anger towards. I want to let out a big FUCK YOU to Ticketmaster. I promised my fiance a few years ago that if Garth Brooks ever went on tour I would get her tickets. Well, the announcement of dates is being handled kind of odd with him hitting the road this year. He is doing ten shows in Chicago over eight days (two two-a-days which sounds like a ripoff), and he's not entering the same method for Atlanta. The problem is that only one date gets announced and then the other times magically appear without any notice for people trying to get tickets. The other problem is that these shows are in basketball arenas that seat 15,000 people, which makes it a hunting ground for scalpers, bots, and ticket re-sellers. We also all are aware of ticketmaster's own corrupt past with being a part of that resale market. I hopped on the first public on sale the moment it went on sale and it said it was closed. I had to refresh for about two minutes before it finally opened and by then it was a 15+ minute wait which meant i was SOL. Ticketmaster has since released two more dates completely unannounced that I could have tried to pounce on instead of waiting in their stupid queue. This is something I get tired of running into for concerts, as I would think that going to 3-4 concerts a year despite living 3-4 hours from a decent concert venue would allow me better chances to avoid stupidity like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Stubhub, bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Stubhub, bro. Stubhub is what I avoid for concerts. Always overpriced by a large margin. I'm a big believer in face value for concerts. Stubhub is great for Baseball/Fooball/Wrestlemania. Not much else. Especially since some concerts go the paperless route and you have to guess which seats are open for resale and which are tied to a credit card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Had a kick-myself moment like that recently...Bill Cosby is doing a comedy show in the STL area this weekend and I didn't find out about it until about a week ago. Needless to say, it was already sold out at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Come to Champaign, he's doing 2 shows next April! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Update: I did score some tickets for his second Friday night show. They're not great seats, but thankfully it's hard to have too bad of a seat in a basketball arena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 ...and my softball team was eliminated from playoffs today. Blergh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EN090 Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Drunk dialed the girl in question last night. Whoops lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Well, St. Louis went nuts again. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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