I'm so sorry to hear about all your troubles. We're sending lots of
purrs for things to sort out quickly and for your treatment to help you
improve soon.

Wow, that's one helluvatime!

Purrs that everything improves PDQ

Gordon & the TT

Oh man, that just bites!  I hope this filth doesn't have your Social
Security Number(s), too!  I know of a poster on another ng who is going
through something similar - someone bought a car in his name, wrecked it...
you know where this is going.  Same kinda crap you're dealing with.  Hope
they catch all these identity-theft scumbags soon.

Jill

No kidding!  I'm so sorry to hear about all that.  I have ADHD and dyslexia
along with a touch of OCD, so I know a bit about what you're going through.
I finally had to just look for the positive in all this - I'm a
perfectionist who has the energy to keep at it until I'm satisfied with the
outcome, and I'm a great multi-tasker (I *HAVE* to multi-task since I can't
keep focused on just one thing at a time).

I hope you get your credit cards straightened out in short order - living
without plastic is almost impossible now-a-days!

Mega purrs on the way!!!

Hugs,

CatNipped

Big Hugs Baha - you sure need them. {{{{HUGS}}}}

I've lost your email about what we discussed re.AP. Could you send it
to me again?

Purrs for good things to happen.
Helen M

<Big snip>

Dear Baha, big ol' purrs to clear away all the BS.  

Theresa
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It sure sounds like it did.  What a nasty time for you.

[snip stuff about identity theft]

God, I hate that crap!  I've had two incidents, one being an eight dollar
charge that the company returned when I called and said, "Yo, I didn't order
anything from you" (I suspect they have a list of CCs, charge every one of
them $8 and wait to see if anyone notices.)  The second time, I found a $3K
charge from Hong Kong and called my credit union immediately.  They locked
down the card.  Apparently the first charge was just a test; a few days later
the same organization tried to charge me $17K!

With all of this, I'm pretty paranoid about my finances.  I check my credit
card and bank balance online every few days.  (That's how I caught the $3K
charge before they tried the bigger one.)  My bank also issues Visa check
cards by default, and I traded mine in for a pure ATM card.  I figure even if
it's stolen, it can't be used as a debit or credit card this way.

I'm confused.  Is it even legal to fire someone or refuse them a promotion
based on an illness?  I guess you can't prove that it's for that reason.
Still, yuck!

Good kitties =)

SNIP>

Big hugs, Singh.  Any one of the things you describe would be enough to ruin
anybody's week all by themselves. But all of them at once...oy!  I hope
things look up, soon.   Thank goodness for cats, they're a great comfort.
I'm convinced they do pick up on human emotions, even if they understand the
reasons for those feelings.  They just know that Mama needs some comfort and
companionship and apply themselves to the task.

Melissa

I go around with my bank on this one every so often.  I have an ATM card.  I
do not have and do not want a debit card.  I do not need some schmuck
screwing around in my checking account.  Even innocent (maybe) mistakes can
be a royal PITA.  Such as when my daughter and a friend went out and rather
than swiping each of their cards, they ran Tara's twice.  Its easier to
close a credit card account that gets fouled up and open a different one.
So sorry you are getting run through this particular mill and hope it
settles down soon.

Wonderful news about Joyce.  Give her an extra hug from me OK?

Jo

Why is it that even blessings are sometimes delivered with so much excess
baggage?  It sounds like being away from that job will be a good thing,
other than the loss of income.  And when things are off, a proper diagnosis
is truly a blessing.  As for how it was handled, it sure sounds like you
should qualify for at least some temporary disability rather than
unemployment (the former isn't taxable) and maybe some compensation for the
way it was all processed.

I know you don't know what you are going to do next.  But I'm sure it will
be a good thing.  A way to be that you can be at peace with yourself and the
world around you.

Jo

Hi Baha
I'm so sorry about this whole mess. I hope it all gets straightened out
soon.

I agree w/Jo that you should be able to get Temporary Disability,
unless & until your psych. determines that you are unemployable. Then
you should be able to get permanent disability. There's a person at
work here who is applying for temp. disability on the basis of mental
helth, so why not a diagnosed disability? And I have a friend who is on
perm. disability for a mental health diagnosis.

{{{{Baha}}}}}

I am so sorry you are going through all this.  May better times be
directly ahead!

Ginger-lyn

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Purrs for a speedy resolution to the identity theft. It's good that you have
your kitties to comfort you.

[...]

[...]

That really stinks about the identity theft. :(  Many purrs also for
the rest of your troubles. May it get better soon!

Purrs, sympathy and making it right thoughts and wishes for you and your
tribulations.  Mandy also has cognitive memory dysfunction, but it's
easier to explain it to others as visual dyslexia.  It tends to go hand
in hand with ADHD and ADD.  Mandy received "speech" therapy for it and
can now do as many as three simple demands without losing it.

I don't know about medications for it, I hope yours help you out without
messing up your bipolar/OCD treatments as well.  Thanks Bast for cats to
soothe the pain away.

Pam, Rob, and the Fayetteville Five + Calvin, Sonya, and Speedy the d-thing

{{{Baha}}} We're so very sorry that life is kicking you around right
now.  The five furkids are sending purrs and gentle headbutts and I'm
sending hugs that things get better soon.  Rant all you want here, we're
always willing to listen and send purrs.

Julie, Hobbes, Selena, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus

Baha wrote:

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Purrs for things to improve.  Kitties always seem to know, don't they,
when we need some 'up close and personal' purrs.  Give them all a
skritch for me.

Regards and Purrs,
O J

I'm so sorry to hear you had such a bad week.
We are thinking of you, sending lots of purrs and hugs just for you, plus
best wishes for things to start getting much better right away,

<snip>

I'm so sorry to read about your problems. Sadly identity theft is
getting more common. Purrs that your life gets better very soon.

MOre inserted.

I've missed you good folk and I'm sorry I haven't been about. But this past
week or so has sucked majestically.
CY: Sorry to hear that.

We discovered last week that some filthbag had stolen our debit card numbers
and started hosing both our accounts. It's been a fiasco.
CY: I can imagine that makes life dificult. Can't do much without money.

We've had to shut
down every scrap of plastic in the house, spend hours on the phone with the
credit bureaus to flag us (because the money has been going to an overseas
company that presses shady credit cards for any fool desperate enough to pay
the activation fee)
CY: Well, gee, spend someone else's stolen money to get another card? Sounds
like someething crooks would do.

and with our banks, not to mention the local police and
FBI. In short, my identity is floating around out there somewhere,
CY: That's no good. YOu feeling disembodied?

and some
five-hundred pound, unwashed man is calling himself Elizabeth and ordering
foreign porn featuring teenagers.
CY: You always were good with mental imaging. I am getting visions of the
500 pound man....

The cards will be replaced with new
numbers, but that will take a bit of time, and for the moment just going to
the store is a nightmare. We went to get groceries Saturday night and it
took almost an hour to get approved to cash a check. I remember when you
could write one right at the counter, no problem. Now? 17 forms of ID, a
police check, character references from your great-aunt in Boise, a letter
from your priest-rabbi-imam-highpriestessofDiana.
CY: And a shoppers card?

We ended up very late for Joycie's birthday party (out of nursing home,
responding very well to radiation, tumor shrunk, good news in all this
mess.)
CY: That sounds like progress, to me. Well, for Joycie that is. Sounds like
you're still deep in the mud.

On top of this, my work has asked me to get an evaluation for what was
thought to be dyslexia. I'd been having trouble following certain
instructions, getting all bollixed up when I had to do a multistep task for
a customer's account. It's not dyslexia. I've had ADHD all this time, and on
top of it I've just learned that I have a learning disability known as
cognitive memory dysfunction. The sympoms tend to overlap with those of
dyslexia.
CY: Wow, and it went undiagnosed all this time?

The bank is ready to toss me out on my @r$e. I've been put on
Strattera as a trial for the ADHD, but little can be done about the other
stuff. I've just lost an opportunity to advance because of this damnable
thing, which has been disclosed to the company, the schmucks.
CY: Oh, those wonderful disclosure statements?

I'm thinking
of giving them a bill. Even with the insurance, my money would be beter
spent on catnip for the babies and a nice, expensive lipstick for their
hardworking mama. My psychiatrist is having kittens himself. My bipolar/OCD
is a bastard to treat as it is, and throwing ADHD in the mix is a recipe for
disaster. He and I are both concerned about me remaining employable. Now
more than ever.
CY: Wow, might have to figure otu something creative? Want some ideas?

Last night after having the job yanked from under my nose, the cats were all
over me. They seem to know when Mama feels like hell. Brandy sat on me and
purred like a little diesel engine. Stosh lay by my feet, and Roxie and
Odessa kept coming to look in on me. I thank God for them. They're not
capable of the bullshit that human beings heap upon one another.
CY: KNow that feeling!

Blessed be,
Baha
--

Three thousand years ago,
cats were deified in ancient Egypt.
To this day, they have not forgotten.

Sorry for not quoting.

Of course you can rant. Having you card numbers stolen sux.

As far as being fired due to disability. That is illegal! Under the
American's with Disability Act of 1990, they are obligated to accomodate
you. Find out where your nearest Center For Independent Living they can
make suggestions on what to do.
Suz

{{{{{{{Baha}}}}}}}
Many purrs on the way for you both.

(snippage)

Hope-it-all-works-out purrs are headed your way. You've really had the
Week from Hades, and I hope life gets better pronto.

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Krista