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I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the group on weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone who needs them. Can someone tell me if Smudge got home? Unfortunately, I have more bad news here. I think I posted about a migraine I had Monday - I had to take off Tuesday to go to the doctor's office since it wouldn't go away (this is the first migraine I've had in years, so I didn't have any medication for it at home). At the doctor's office my blood pressure was 150 over 90 ("normal" for me is 90 over 70)!!! The doctor gave me Relpax, but told me it could raise my blood pressure. While I was there I mentioned a pain in my stomach I've been having (and a weird swelling just on one side of my stomach after I eat - I just wrote it off as a weird side effect of my gastric bypass surgery from two years ago). The doctor sent me back to the surgeon who did the surgery (I figured, what the heck, I better get all medical issues over with before I lose this job and don't have any insurance). First off, on Wednesday when I saw the surgeon my blood pressure was 160 over 101!!! Then the surgeon felt my stomach and said something is definitely amiss. He said it either a hernia, a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly adhesions). Whatever it is it, is probable that I'll need surgery. I have to go have a CT scan tomorrow and a "barium swallow" on Wednesday. My boss won't let me take just a few hours off each day - he's making me use up my "Paid Time Off" (PTO) hours which means that's that many fewer hours I'll be able to take off for job hunting. Then I'll have to use up any time I may have left if I have surgery done. Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours!  SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ (((((((((((CatNipped))))))))))))) > I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the group on > weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone who needs them. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Many purrs for your CT scan. I hope it turns out to be something simple. Hugs and purrs, SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the > group on weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > time I may have left if I have surgery done. > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! CatNipped wrote: > Can someone tell me if Smudge got home? No sign of her as yet. :( > While I was > there I mentioned a pain in my stomach I've been having (and a weird > swelling just on one side of my stomach after I eat - I just wrote it > off as a weird side effect of my gastric bypass surgery from two > years ago). I can understand that this is really scary, but since you did have this surgery, the pain and swelling is probably related to that, rather than being a tumor. I'm really sorry that your doc believes you will need surgery again. I hope he's wrong!! The blood pressure thing sounds scary too, but might be due to the high amount of stress you're under at the moment. > I have to go have a CT scan > tomorrow and a "barium swallow" on Wednesday. My boss won't let me > take just a few hours off each day - he's making me use up my "Paid > Time Off" (PTO) hours which means that's that many fewer hours I'll > be able to take off for job hunting. Your boss is a class-A pr*ck, if I may say so. Either he has it out for you, or that's just the kind of jerk he is, but I'm sorry you're working for him in either case. :( I hope that in between all this medical stuff, you can find another job. Purrs, Joyce > > I have to go have a CT scan > > tomorrow and a "barium swallow" on Wednesday. My boss won't let me > > take just a few hours off each day - he's making me use up my "Paid > > Time Off" (PTO) hours which means that's that many fewer hours I'll > > be able to take off for job hunting. Purrs for your health. Ew, barium is so nasty. Chug, chug! Your boss sounds like an a.s. The sooner you are rid of him, the better. Has he always been like that or has he done a Mr. Hyde in just the past little while? --Fil >> > I have to go have a CT scan >> > tomorrow and a "barium swallow" on Wednesday. My boss won't let me [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > --Fil He may have always been this way, but when I first went to work for him he didn't have an office - and then he bought out another firm, but the office was still too small to fit me in among the employees that he needed there. But now he's leased *HUGE* new office space and all of a sudden he decides that the job I've been doing perfectly well from home can only be done there so he can "communicate" with me easier!!! SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ >>Your boss sounds like an a.s. The sooner you are rid of him, the >>better. Has he always been like that or has he done a Mr. Hyde in just [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > that the job I've been doing perfectly well from home can only be done there > so he can "communicate" with me easier!!! Looks like good advice for the future is to have a signed, written "understanding" of your duties and where you will perform them! Obviously you can't depend upon this guy's unsupported word (which might be reason enough to look for another job, in any case). Why are some employers such s**ts? Mine, on the other hand.... Although I hadn't really planned to completely retire, quite yet, they warned me about a year ago that they didn't expect after this year's tax season, to have enough work for me to continue with my three days a week part-time salary plus partial benefits arrangement. I assumed they meant I'd have to cut down my hours and switch to "per diem" (meaning "as needed" and no benefits). To some extent that may be true (I'll be around for most of July, anyway), but they decided to officially retire me, as of yesterday. Because the nature of the practice has changed, they will spread my remaining clients among the rest of the staff, and hire another CPA (I'm only a "staff accountant" - with a degree in music, not business or accounting, and no certificate). I can't really complain, though. First of all, they DID warn me more than a year in advance. (And I've known for two months that this was going to happen before the end of the summer.) So yesterday they took me for a two-and-a-half hour lunch at a nice French restaurant, The staff gave me a couple pieces of Lennox jewelry - a pendant of a sleeping cat curled into a heart shape, and a wristwatch with bracelet-links that are a string of sleeping cats. (Really neat, and I'd never buy such expensive stuff for myself.) In addition to paying me all my accumulated "banked" overtime and vacation, the firm gave me about three months severance pay and a Best Buy gift certificate for $1,000! (I'm thinking lap-top?) True, I'd been there over thirty years, but I've never felt an employer "owed" me more than the agreed upon salary and benefits. The fact I've liked most of the people, and they've treated me well over the years, I always considered a "plus", not a "given". I have pretty well decided to move to Arizona in the fall (after my brother is in residence in his winter home there, so I have a place to stay while I apartment hunt). From what I've seen listed by the various sources on "move.com", apartments in the area around Scottsdale/Northeast Phoenix seem to offer at least as much as I have here, for roughly $200 a month LESS than I now pay in rent. (That should make living on my retirement income much easier.) Sorry, didn't mean to wander so far off topic! Purrs to CatNipped that her health problems are quickly resolved, and she finds a job that is everything she wants. > I can't really complain, though. First of all, they DID warn me more > than a year in advance. (And I've known for two months that this was [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > about three months severance pay and a Best Buy gift certificate for > $1,000! (I'm thinking lap-top?) Wow, they really gave you a nice send-off! It sounds to me like you were a very valued employee. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > I can't really complain, though. First of all, they DID warn me > more than a year in advance. (And I've known for two months that [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > True, I'd been there over thirty years, but I've never felt an > employer "owed" me more than the agreed upon salary and benefits. It sounds like they wouldn't have laid you off if they didn't have to, and they certainly did do a lot to make the next few months easier on you! Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca >True, I'd been there over thirty years, but I've never felt >an employer "owed" me more than the agreed upon salary and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >his winter home there, so I have a place to stay while I >apartment hunt). Good luck on finding a nice place to retire or semi-retire. Good luck in retirement one thing to remember keep busy some how; there are plenty of rescue shelters out there that could use your experience both in cats and money. < These words brought to you for one in retirement and loving it> >>>Your boss sounds like an a.s. The sooner you are rid of him, the >>>better. Has he always been like that or has he done a Mr. Hyde in just [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] > her health problems are quickly resolved, and she finds a job that is > everything she wants. <snip> I have pretty well decided > to move to Arizona in the fall (after my brother is in residence in his > winter home there, so I have a place to stay while I apartment hunt). [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > her health problems are quickly resolved, and she finds a job that is > everything she wants. Lots of purrs and best wishes that you find a great apartment, Polonca and Soncek > CatNipped wrote: > > > Can someone tell me if Smudge got home? > > No sign of her as yet. :( I'm so sorry! Still purring that she is just on a walk-about and will turn up soon! > > While I was > > there I mentioned a pain in my stomach I've been having (and a weird [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > being a tumor. I'm really sorry that your doc believes you will need > surgery again. I hope he's wrong!! Well, the original surgery was over 2 years ago, so it's anything to do with that I would think it would be adhesions - I don't think any serious surgical screw-up would just now be turning up (but with any gastric surgery there is always the possibility of adhesions forming later). > The blood pressure thing sounds scary too, but might be due to the > high amount of stress you're under at the moment. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > for him in either case. :( I hope that in between all this medical stuff, > you can find another job. He may have always been this way, but when I first went to work for him he didn't have an office - and then he bought out another firm, but the office was still too small to fit me in among the employees that he needed there. But now he's leased *HUGE* new office space and all of a sudden he decides that the job I've been doing perfectly well from home can only be done there so he can "communicate" with me easier!!! SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ > Purrs, > Joyce > He may have always been this way, but when I first went to work for > him he didn't have an office - and then he bought out another firm, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > perfectly well from home can only be done there so he can > "communicate" with me easier!!! Oooh, so tempting to tell him that he's communicating perfectly well. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > > He may have always been this way, but when I first went to work for > > him he didn't have an office - and then he bought out another firm, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > perfectly well from home can only be done there so he can > > "communicate" with me easier!!! > Oooh, so tempting to tell him that he's communicating perfectly well. LOL. "Hey boss, communicate THIS!!" > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Purrs! Let us know what the tests show. Victor, hoping it's nothing serious. SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Anti-surgery purrs on the way! SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the group on >weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone who needs them. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > I'll be able to take off for job hunting. Then I'll have to use up any > time I may have left if I have surgery done. It is awful that you are having to deal with this. At least you still do have a job and insurance. Purrs that it isn't hugely serious. Surgery is such a trial even when it is something fairly simple. It may be a blessing in the long run that you aren't trying to deal with part day work and part day medical. It really does add up to all day stress. Jo > The doctor sent me back to the surgeon who did the surgery (I > figured, what the heck, I better get all medical issues over with [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I'll be able to take off for job hunting. Then I'll have to use up > any time I may have left if I have surgery done. Purrs, Lori. I'm so sorry. What a bastard of a boss, too. That should be sick leave. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the group on > weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone who needs them. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Yikes! Hope it all turns out to be something minor. FWIW, adhesions usually cause a "pulling" sensation or pain when you move certain ways. Good luck and chin up! -L. <snip> > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Purrs for the sun to come out. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! ((((((((((((((((((((((CatNipped)))))))))))))))))))))))))))) (Not sure if I used the right symbol but you get the picture) Your boss is a p***k, a w***er and several other words that I'd wear our the * key typing!!!! Hope it's nothing serious. It could be adhesions from surgery a friend of mine had abdominal surgery and he has adhesions, which didn't become a problem until some years later when he needed an operation, which was pretty straightforward (((((((())))))))))))))))))))) from me and purrs from the Fabulous Furballs Lesley >I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the group on >weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone who needs them. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > >Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Hope they don't find anything serious. Still sending purrs and keeping fingers and toes crossed for a sucessful job hunt. {{{{{{{{{{Huggs}}}}}}}}}} Randy http://picasaweb.google.com/crmartin1 http://kittenwar.com/kittens/74045/ [...] >First off, on Wednesday when I saw the surgeon my blood pressure was 160 >over 101!!! This is not good. My blood pressure rises high if I have to see an unfamiliar doctor or go into hospital for tests or operations. They call it "white coat syndrome" here. It's a fright response apparently. Did you feel scared - even a little - at the time? >Then the surgeon felt my > stomach and said something is definitely amiss. He said it either a > hernia, a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly > adhesions). Don't panic yet. There are a number of possibilities, most of which can be put right. > Whatever it is it, is probable that I'll need surgery. I'm sorry about that. I hate surgery as much as anyone and I guess you do too! > I have to go have a CT scan tomorrow and a "barium swallow" on > >Wednesday. My CT scan was not stressful at all. As for the barium swallow, they seemed to have forgotten that I had nothing to eat or drink in the 3 days I'd been in there. I had a canula in and a drip up but nothing had passed my lips. This large glass of gunk appeared on my bedside table. "Do try and get as much of it down as you can" said the nurse. I almost snatched it up. Glug, glug, glug. They had flavoured it a bit with a fruit taste. Not very much but enough. The nurse was so surprised when she came back a bit later to find it all gone. She said "Oh, *well done*" LOL. I wanted to tell her to bring me another one <g> I was so hungry. They had totally forgotten to feed me. I had a big notice above my bed "NIL BY MOUTH." This was because when I was first admitted they were expecting to have to operate on me immediately. When they couldn't fit me in to the surgeon's schedule straight away they didn't take that notice off. I watched for 3 days while the other patients in beds nearby got their breakfasts, lunches and dinners. If I'd been well enough at the time I would have risen from my bed and snatched it off them. In the end I said to a nurse "do you realise I haven't had anything to eat for three days?" To which she replied "OMG, are you hungry?" !! > My boss won't let me > take just a few hours off each day - he's making me use up my "Paid Time > Off" (PTO) hours which means that's that many fewer hours I'll be able to > take off for job hunting. Then I'll have to use up any time I may have > left if I have surgery done. I wish him bad karma. I don't know if it would be legal here. We are allowed sick leave up to a certain amount and for the first 6 months we are paid in full. After that we are paid half pay and after that, nothing. This is just my local government employer though. Do you have anything in the USA like our Disability Discrimination Act, which has kicked in recently? My employers had to provide certain equipment for me to cope with my work after I had my eye ops and they had help with this from Central Government. I have several thousand pounds worth of stuff and it does really help. It does slow me down a bit to have to read things via this, but that is something my employers have to cope with. They are not allowed to terminate my employment because I have become disabled in service. Meaning I was ok when I first worked there but now I'm not. > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Yep, that's how it works. You'll be fine. Suck up to your nasty boss until you can find something else. And when you do tell him to **************** insert your preference. Many purrs for a good resolution. Tweed > Do you have anything in the USA like our Disability Discrimination Act, > which has kicked in recently? Yes, we have the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires reasonable accomodation. The "reasonable" part can be difficult to interpret and implement. http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/EMPLOYERRESP.html http://www.jan.wvu.edu/links/adalinks.htm MaryL <snip> > The doctor sent me back to the surgeon who did the surgery (I figured, what > the heck, I better get all medical issues over with before I lose this job [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Lots and lots of health purrs that it is not serious and lots and lots of best wishes for you to get a great new job, Polonca and Soncek > I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the > group on weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > was 150 over 90 > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Purrs that you don't need surgery! Jill > I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the group on > weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone who needs them. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Sigh, I guess it never rains but it pours! Purrs for your wellbeing. MLB >I know I'll never get caught up again just being able to read the group on >weekends (around doing my chores) - so purrs for everyone who needs them. >Can someone tell me if Smudge got home? > > Unfortunately, I have more bad news here. I feel terrible for you Lori. We're purring up a storm for good medical news and job news for you. Susan M Otis and Chester >He said it either a hernia, >a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly adhesions). >Whatever it is it, is probable that I'll need surgery. I have to go have a >CT scan tomorrow and a "barium swallow" on Wednesday. Purrs for your medical appointments to go well. It's probably hard to stay caught up, but I hope that you'll be able to check in long enough to let us know how the procedures went. >>He said it either a hernia, >>a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > stay caught up, but I hope that you'll be able to check in long enough > to let us know how the procedures went. Thanks, Tak. My doctor is out all next week, so I won't hear any test results until the following week at the earliest. I had the CT scan done Friday and I'll have the barium swallow done Wednesday. The CT scan was awful because, being allergic to iodine (and the doctor not having notified the radiologist of this before-hand so I could pre-medicate with an allergy medicine) I had to swallow two huge cups of contrast gunk and it made me awfully sick. My mom just told me that my niece, who also had gastric bypass surgery about two years before I had mine, is going back into surgery for the second time after her surgery. The first time she had a huge hernia that was constricting her intestines and had to have an "open" (as opposed to laproscopic) surgery, and this time has an "incisional hernia" from the last surgery and will have to have a second "open" surgery!!! What I have sounds to me like her latest diagnosis - and incisional hernia. Hopefully they'll be able to fix it laproscopically so I won't be out of commission for more than a day or two. The hernia sounds to be the mildest of the possible things wrong, so this is what I'm hoping for. I'll let you guys know as soon as I know something. SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ >>>He said it either a hernia, >>>a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > I'll let you guys know as soon as I know something. I won't get into gory detail on gastric surgery, but wish carefully. Be specific in wishing for just incisional hernia. My second was for hernia but it was in the diaghpram. You don't want that one. Jo >>>>He said it either a hernia, >>>>a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > Jo That was the last surgery my niece had. Sorry to be so graphic, but she had her intestines intruding into her diaphragm and the hernia constricted them to the point where they were about to burst. She was lucky that a gastric surgeon happened to be in the ER when she was there - the ER doctors were going to send her home (where she would have died!). I am hoping that mine is a very small incisional hernia, easily fixed. It's just under my rib cage - about two inches above my waist - on the right-hand side of my stomach. I think it probably happened at the time of my surgery when I tried to rise up from a laying-down position and pulled something inside (probably pulled loose one of the staples. It has hurt off and on since then - but only lately has it been an obvious, lop-sided bump after I eat. SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ >>> He said it either a hernia, >>> a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > I'll let you guys know as soon as I know something. Purrs that, if surgery is needed, it can be done laparoscopically. As to your boss, doesn't TX still have the "he needed killin'" defense? SignatureSam, closely supervised by Mistletoe >>>> He said it either a hernia, >>>> a tumor, or something that went wrong with the surgery (possibly [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Purrs that, if surgery is needed, it can be done laparoscopically. As to > your boss, doesn't TX still have the "he needed killin'" defense? ROTFLMAOWTIME! Oh, how I wish! ;> SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ <snip> > What I have sounds to me like her latest diagnosis - and incisional hernia. > Hopefully they'll be able to fix it laproscopically so I won't be out of > commission for more than a day or two. The hernia sounds to be the mildest > of the possible things wrong, so this is what I'm hoping for. > > I'll let you guys know as soon as I know something. Lots of purrs and best wishes for everything to go really well and that it can be fixed easily, Polonca and Soncek |
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