Things haven't been going well for yours truly; ergo, I haven't felt like talking about it. First, I have been to two doctors and shown them the nodes in my breasts, and both doctors blew me off with a demeanor of "Oh Well."
It's like you're old and fat and so what. I hate it when people treat me like that. Hate it.
On both visits to these two different doctors, I asked them to examine these nodes--I undid my blouse and popped those boobs out and the doctors shied away. Geeze. So I have an appointment with the breast center, a specialty clinic, at the end of this month and will see what happens.

THEN: A person whom I respected and thought of as as capable and competent, and has been coming to the house to help me out for several years, threw TWO tantrums under my roof. Her personal life has been in major upheaval and for some reason she let it all blow out at me. I'm too old and tired for tantrums and told her so. Finis for her. All I want is peace and quiet.

Then: Monday week I ordered some medical supplies from Bayer medical company. The company said it would arrive by Fed Ex on Wednesday. It didn't. By Friday I called the company and they said Fed Ex tracking said it had been delivered already.
I called the local Fed Ex office in Hattiesburg and the employee said yes, our driver says he left the package tied to a fence. I said I don't have a fence. She said "Oh he says tied to a gate." I said I don't have a gate or a fence.
Oh. So she says she'll get to the bottom of it.
Several phone calls over the next few days established that the driver had no idea where I lived and didn't deliver the package at all.

I told the Fed Ex front desk I believe the driver didn't want to come down all this way, and threw the package into a dumpster and went home. She said "But he's been with us for years!" As if that explained it. In other words believe the driver, not the customer. Really pi** ed me off. By then I had called Bayer to send more supplies via the post office.

It reminds me of the run in with UPS several months ago. I had ordered two Periodic Table of the Elements charts from Frey scientific. One chart arrived but had been opened while in the custody of UPS. The cardboard mailing tube had been ripped open, the chart crammed back in and a lot of tape used to seal up the tears on the mailing tube. I called Frey who sent me another chart gratis, and I had a go round with UPS about what happened to my property. Not that it went anywhere. I remember the UPS spokesperson saying "But the driver has been with us for years!" I didn't say the driver had done it, but someone along the UPS line had.

THEN: I have been fighting a cold, a downright and dirty cold for about 10 days that has knocked me low.

Well, this is getting to long so I'll blog about that in the following post.

susil