Inconvenient Annoyances

I did something to my neck right before I got out of bed. It's hurty!

Jewelz, I;m so glad you were seen.  My GP office...well, the receptionists already know me there and whenever I call I probably do the opposite of making their day because if anything, I am very vocal about my needs.  My dad is a doctor and he has a surgery now in MA, but when he was back home I basically ran it for a couple of years and interned in it every summer in HS.  I KNOW how practices should be run and I refuse to take any of their bureaucratic bullshit.  Plus, I know quite a bit about medicine.

If you need stronger pain relief, you can always ask for an anti-emetic so that nothing makes you nauseaus.  Because of my condition, I was on pain meds for several years and still have to take some when my migraines get really bad, and the weakest med I take which touches my pain is codeine.  Anything stronger than tylenol makes me sick so an antiemetic always goes hand in hand.  Before my pain became really bad, I changed NSAIDs and naproxen was very good.  In the states you can get them as Alleve and personally, they are much better then anything else you get OTC.

Sorry about your neck Bmore...

My IA - Last night I went to bed around 2 AM.  Becasue it's been warm, I've been leaving the back door open all day, everyday so that both Tika and Poppy can go out and pee whenever they need to without them telling me to open the door.  Well, Tika tells me, GSDs are very good at that, but Pops is stubborn as only terriers can be, or so I'm told.  Never had a terrier before, always German Shepherds.  Anyway, their last pee on a day when I go to bed at a normal hour, which is around midnight, is around 11pm and they can already hold it until Nige gets up for work and he opens the door for them, so I figured that Tika peed at around that time (when she did go out by herself then, I heard her) because when I told them to go out at 2 am and I went with them to make sure, Popster peed but Tika just ran around in circles wanting to play.

I gave her the command several times to make sure but nada, I was sure she must have already peed her last pee earlier that evening.  But no, Nige wakes up a 7 to find a huge puddle on the carpet in the hall. And I'm talking big, an amount that only an almost full-grown shepherd can pee after holding it for many hours.

I'm really sick, temperature, cold sweats, headache, cramps. Which would be fine if I was at home, but I'm in Liverpool :/
I need to go home, but a 2 hour train ride then an hour on the tube seems like torture right now.

So achey

I'm really sick, temperature, cold sweats, headache, cramps. Which would be fine if I was at home, but I'm in Liverpool :/
I need to go home, but a 2 hour train ride then an hour on the tube seems like torture right now.

So achey

Yuck. Hope you feel better soon!

I'm really sick, temperature, cold sweats, headache, cramps. Which would be fine if I was at home, but I'm in Liverpool :/
I need to go home, but a 2 hour train ride then an hour on the tube seems like torture right now.

So achey

Aww feel better 

I'm really sick, temperature, cold sweats, headache, cramps. Which would be fine if I was at home, but I'm in Liverpool :/
I need to go home, but a 2 hour train ride then an hour on the tube seems like torture right now.


So achey

Omg, how awful.  Drink liquids, get some fever reducer in you.  I don't know what you're doing in Liverpool, but try to lie down somwhere and forget the trains.

I'm really sick, temperature, cold sweats, headache, cramps. Which would be fine if I was at home, but I'm in Liverpool :/
I need to go home, but a 2 hour train ride then an hour on the tube seems like torture right now.

So achey

;-( You need rest and why is everyone sick! I hope you feel better soon Huggs!

Feel better soon, Jewlz.

I somehow need to prove to the US Embassy that I've been resident in Ireland for the past 6 months. Not an easy task with no job or accountability here! 

I somehow need to prove to the US Embassy that I've been resident in Ireland for the past 6 months. Not an easy task with no job or accountability here! 

Do you have evidence of traveling there? Lease agreement?

Do you have evidence of traveling there? Lease agreement?

I'm not on the lease as DH rented the place before I moved here. I have stamps in my passport and an immigration card that show I'm legal to live here, but neither of them prove that I actually DO live here. I'm going to send some job rejection letters, proof that I've purchased Irish healthcare, and copies of my US tax returns that show I filed from Ireland, not the US.

The thing that makes all this super annoying is that the embassy provides you with a checklist of what you need to send. We sent everything in (including the checked off checklist!) and they called and said they need this proof. It seems this information is fairly standard and something that could be included on the checklist so people know to send it in the first time!

I know this is probably obvious but do you have a bank account here?  Anything financial?  Even if it's a Tesco Club card and its statements mailed to your address in Ireland, or for that matter, any correspondence addressed to you at that address?

Yes, I'm on all the bills and such. The problem is that TECHNICALLY that doesn't prove that I'm physically here. The woman at the Embassy wasn't much help. She said to send in anything we think would prove it, but other than an employment contract for me she didn't have much else to offer!

Dodgy tummy and its' consequences. 

Microsoft Windows and Office. Grrr!!!

I hope everyone is feeling better.