Do your banks have a claims process where that money can be returned to your account after going through a dispute process? Most of the time when stuff like that happens here you don't end up having to be out of pocket, so I just wondered if they have a similar system in the US.

eta: I hope things get better for you soon. I'll try to keep out of your way. ;)

I miss my friend and wish I had spoke up when it could have made a difference.
Details intentionally left out. I just wanted to post this publicly.

Our good friend died yesterday from metastatic colon cancer. We will be escorting his body via a motorcade of over 50 motorcycles. I will be a pall barer. His BIL will ride his Harley. RIP friend.

Sorry to hear that Merc.

Condolences Merc. Never easy burying a friend.




[eta] Oh, and classic: so sorry you're missing your friend. *hugs*

Same thing that finished my Mum off. It must have been a tough finish. I'm sorry for your loss Merc.

Back at you Ali.

Here is a guy that I was sharing a pint with not 12 weeks ago. If you are over 50 get your routine cancer screening done. Esp if you have a family history. The guy refused to have routine cancer screening colonoscopy. It killed him. Do your breast self exams, get your pap smears, do the right thing.

Mum was diagnosed and dead within 5 months. Doesn't take long. She'd already had a large tumor removed from her liver previously though, and had part of her bowel removed, so was getting checkups regularly.

Sometimes when your time's up, it's just up I think. :(

I just got mine yanked today. I feel good now that it is gone and I too had to travel 60 miles away but getting the specialist WAS worth it. ahh nitrous and codine. I'm good.

I don't know how you feel about me so I am not going to say this because I am wanting brownie points. I just get a good sense about you. You have a beautiful inner self. I think anyone would agree. I know this doesn't take the bleak feeling away but perhaps when you are looking for something to hold onto please hold on to these people here you care about so much because I know they care about you in the same way.

I hope that came out ok in my vicodin befuddled mind.

Merc: I'm so sorry for your loss. It does run in my family; as soon as I hit 40, I'll probably bring it up with my GP. Let me just add, Fuck Cancer!

Bri: hang in there. :grouphug:

My condolences Merc.

I am so sorry, Merc.

Sorry for your loss, Merc, and best wishes for your friend's family.

So did you go?

umm....no


I arsed around in the morning getting ready and checking emails and so on...so was a little late leaving house. Got to bus stop in time to see my bus sailing away. Next one due in 30 mins.

I was standing there gradually wilting in the heat. yesterday was ridiculously hot. I seriously don't cope with heat and sun well. My body's ability to regulate temperature is completely fucked up and my eczema is currently very flared. I couldn't stand there for hal an hour in that heat so I went back home with a vague notion of going back out in half an hour. Trouble is that wuold still have left me sitting on buses for two hours during the hottest part of the day. I'd struggled with the heat the day before when I went into uni and am still sore from the flare it provoked. So...I ended up phoning the dentist and re arranging. Soonest they can fit me in is 1st week in July. I expressed concern about the recent dental abcess but she said if I ran into any trouble with it to phone and they can post me anti-biotics registered post to get to me the next day.

I was glad I made the decision not to go. I stayed in my cool house. When I eventually went out to walk the dog around 6pm (he'd had a morning walk before it got really hot) it was still too hot for me and I had a blinding headache by the time I got down the hill to Ma's. The bus journey at the height of the midday sun would have been a real problem I think. Even in my cool house, the heat rash was almost unbearable.

This wasn't dental phobia stopping me, because they werent going to do anything anyway. It was just to assess the treatment needed and arrange for the work to be done.