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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 26, 2019 15:18:13 GMT -5
Well, CCFers, I'm well and truly screwed. (...)
Well, f**k. Best wishes that this all works out better for you.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 26, 2019 16:12:48 GMT -5
Seattle has gotten sooo expensive to live in. I saw it happen to San Francisco earlier, and of course Vancouver (Canada). I had a fairly modest apartment in an old building near downtown Seattle with the rent at $495 a month including water and garbage (not sure about the 'lecky though and that summer I just had to get an air conditioner) circa 2004, but we were super lucky to grab that one at the time. That's when every house seemed to be nearing a million at the lowest end.
Dealing with stress is hard. Especially continual stress created by the actions of others (like I'm going through with the random seeming drug shortages to total unavailability in Canada the last couple of years while many to the south see our drug supplies as their answer to their problems). Health care and real estate as a commodity, sometimes to support however many layers of middlemen, is a football that keeps getting thrown further down the field (or a snowball rolling downhill as end costs grow exponentially).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 16:16:17 GMT -5
Well, CCFers, I'm well and truly screwed. The owners of my apartment complex notified us back in September that they were going to start charging us for water, sewage and garbage as of our December rent, but they didn't tell us how much the increase was until yesterday. The fee is $90, raising my total rent to $940. So here we go again: I can't afford to stay, I can't afford to move, and I can't apply for public housing until next October. It looks like my sister and brother are going to help me out every month, but that's grossly unfair to them And if all this weren't worry enough, I'm also scheduled for an ultrasound on December 6 because my doctor is concerned I may have an aortic aneurysm. He thinks it's unlikely, but it's still scary as hell. I swear if things don't start breaking my way soon, they're going to find me curled up in a fetal ball in some corner gibbering like an idiot! Anyway, I'm not looking for any help, I just needed to vent to a sympathetic audience and I don't parade my troubles on Facebook Thanks for "listening." Cei-U! I summon the straitjacket and rubber room!
Ouch, that sucks, man. I hope things turn around somehow, but hang in there. -M
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 26, 2019 18:42:09 GMT -5
Some needed venting of my own.
Four pharmacies can't get one of my pills, any of them, just struck out the fourth time minutes ago... down to two more I at least think know me before trying some I've never tried before. Next stage is if someone in another part of the country can find them where they are and see if something can be done. They don't want a panic but this is about the seventh or so serious panic I've gone through on one pill or another. Imagine some other people I've heard about getting pills for their cancer therapy on a day by day basis now being told they can skip a week or even two if they have to.
This might be political or not, but I'm going to name two prominent U.S. politicians promising non-Canadians access to 'cheap' drugs from Canada: Donald Trump, he says he wants to go from ten states currently somehow importing our stocks to all fifty... and near the other end of the dial Bernie Sanders who held a press stunt of taking people from the U.S. across the border just to get our drugs. So, robbing from Canadian diabetics for insulin is just fine? Well, that is exactly what is going on right now. There definitely will be some deaths plus all this stress. I am very stressed but cannot begin to imagine even more serious situations. I can ride out some days of heavy pain again if I really have to, where I might not be able to do anything, even typing; there are people who simply can't ride their conditions out, and our government keeps saying they are making this a top priority, for the last year or so... lawyers keep saying we can't discriminate, others are against regulations as job killing, yet we could pass something when there was a problem in Vancouver of people based outside Canada sitting on empty condos they'd flip among each other. I think we are going to have to say to people visiting they will have to return home if they need any prescription drugs they didn't bring with them. We may not want to do that, it might effect tourism, but this is a serious crisis at this point and I think actual citizens have to come first over non-citizens. A lot of people in the U.S. have been making that point for awhile and reluctantly they are the ones forcing Canada to follow.
Deep breath.
Update: Total strike-out at all pharmacies here today so I get an emergency 20 tabs of something a lot stronger which I hoped not to have to go back to, which was left on an older prescription but is still good apparently. I just have to chop them into quarters. Odd, they want to discourage people from heavy stuff like this pill but here I am getting forced toward it because the supply of a much lesser one has been wiped out yet again. Am still going to have to keep looking for the lower dose form. The one I'm really terrified of not being able to get is Paxil and have had two scares about it in the recent past. They did however courier a week's worth once, so maybe that would happen again. Interesting times.
Thanks for your tolerance (or if not, 'nertz to youse'). They say there is always someone worse off than yourself, even if they are only a character on Coronation Street (Gemma had quads and it's nowt but nappy changes for her for next three years).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 21:31:05 GMT -5
Kurt - I "liked" your comment because "well, Fork" wasn't an option.
but you are truly one of the strongest, and most amazing folks I've ever "met" online, and I'm sure you'll persevere.
The medical stuff *is* scary, but no reason to worry about it, until you have the ultrasound results.
I summon the crossed fingers!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 21:33:10 GMT -5
and Beccabear, I hope everything works out and you are able to find a supplier for your needs. (wait, that sounds kinda drug pusher-y, doesn't it? ). . . . hugs.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 27, 2019 9:48:38 GMT -5
Kurt and Becca - so sorry to hear about your individual troubles. Life is stressful enough without having additional BS dumped on top of it.
I'll be praying for both of you to weather this stormy season in your lives.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 27, 2019 10:18:06 GMT -5
Well, CCFers, I'm well and truly screwed. The owners of my apartment complex notified us back in September that they were going to start charging us for water, sewage and garbage as of our December rent, but they didn't tell us how much the increase was until yesterday. The fee is $90, raising my total rent to $940. So here we go again: I can't afford to stay, I can't afford to move, and I can't apply for public housing until next October. It looks like my sister and brother are going to help me out every month, but that's grossly unfair to them And if all this weren't worry enough, I'm also scheduled for an ultrasound on December 6 because my doctor is concerned I may have an aortic aneurysm. He thinks it's unlikely, but it's still scary as hell. I swear if things don't start breaking my way soon, they're going to find me curled up in a fetal ball in some corner gibbering like an idiot! Anyway, I'm not looking for any help, I just needed to vent to a sympathetic audience and I don't parade my troubles on Facebook Thanks for "listening." Cei-U! I summon the straitjacket and rubber room!
Sorry to hear this. It does seem life just kicks you all at once. The last few months had been like that to me, when at my new job without insurance, I ended up having a gall bladder attack with found my heart in Afib which then meant tests and medicine to pay out of pocket and a cardio version on the 12th of this month. Thankfully my insurance kicks in on the 1st of November for the cardio version but I still had to meet my insurance deductible so more out of pocket. And I wouldn't have been able to do it all if it weren't for my generous brother and sister in law and a really late paid out tax return. Things are making a turn for the better for me, so I hope the same for you.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 27, 2019 10:34:39 GMT -5
Well, CCFers, I'm well and truly screwed. The owners of my apartment complex notified us back in September that they were going to start charging us for water, sewage and garbage as of our December rent, but they didn't tell us how much the increase was until yesterday. The fee is $90, raising my total rent to $940. So here we go again: I can't afford to stay, I can't afford to move, and I can't apply for public housing until next October. It looks like my sister and brother are going to help me out every month, but that's grossly unfair to them And if all this weren't worry enough, I'm also scheduled for an ultrasound on December 6 because my doctor is concerned I may have an aortic aneurysm. He thinks it's unlikely, but it's still scary as hell. I swear if things don't start breaking my way soon, they're going to find me curled up in a fetal ball in some corner gibbering like an idiot! Anyway, I'm not looking for any help, I just needed to vent to a sympathetic audience and I don't parade my troubles on Facebook Thanks for "listening."
Cei-U! I summon the straitjacket and rubber room!
Let me know if there's anything I can do, Buddy.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 27, 2019 11:44:37 GMT -5
Cei-U!, sometimes life truly sucks. So sorry you have to go through all this, but hoping there will be some light at the end of the tunnel.
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Post by impulse on Nov 27, 2019 12:03:11 GMT -5
It definitely seems like there is something going around in the universe. My company is doing some retooling for next year and my entire department got a not-devastating but significant pay cut. I won't be out on the streets, but it certainly throws a wrench into our plans. The good thing is it seems to have lit a fire on us to improve things, so that helps.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 27, 2019 14:40:45 GMT -5
I was thinking about Kurt all last night... if people could wish others well he'd be Superman!
Getting a really big wind storm over here on the left coast... I'm going to shut down and batten down, could even be a day or so.
Surf the waves that come.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 27, 2019 16:25:18 GMT -5
It is that time folks! Heading off from work for the weekend of Turkey festivities! Wishing all of you and your loved ones and families the very best of joy, love and peace for this Thanksgiving start of the holiday season! Eat well, be merry, savor the left-overs and enjoy a well deserved rest from the trials and tribulations of life and work!!! HAPPY GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE everyone!!!
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 27, 2019 17:31:20 GMT -5
Safe travels and enjoy your weekend, brutalis!
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 27, 2019 20:45:27 GMT -5
Found out today a long-time friend of my uncle's (since childhood, and they are in their late 70s) was killed traveling on I-5 in southern Oregon. Blizzard/whiteout conditions hit suddenly. He'd just met him on the ferry the day before! They're still trying to find his brother at a remote logging site to inform family, the info isn't released until then. q13fox.com/2019/11/27/hundreds-stranded-on-interstate-5-in-bomb-cyclone-fallout/Be careful traveling out there at this time of year! Winds have been from terrible to minor here, but I saw many flights were grounded/cancelled in other places. Maybe move Thanksgiving up to earlier in October like we have it in Canada? Seems November is often bad for weather.
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