Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

impolyt_one said:

Went to the hospital yesterday to check on my ears, they are totally ruined now. After explaining the 8 year saga that has been my hearing and health problems to the doctor, he was able to quickly diagnose it as a case of Meniere's Disease - and when I got home I did a little researching - sure enough, it makes a whole lot of sense at this point. A bad case of it, as well, but perhaps receding now. It's pretty much done it's damage.
The thing that pisses me off though, is that if I google Meniere's Disease, one of the first hits I get is a study and report done by my old doctor, the specialist I got referred to and had to give about $30K to over the course of a year with no health insurance - this guy ran me all these bills to have him tell me he didn't know what was wrong with me, and that there was no answer. This, the same guy who has apparently done extensive study on the disease I have? mega The disease is fairly incurable, but I had to spend a year off work, with no insurance, giving this guy a bunch of money to have him tell me 'I don't know' - in those exact words - It took a long time to catch up on that financially, and it was 4 years ago.

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CalTex said:

sorry to hear that man...is there anything you can do legally?

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Piobaire said:

****DISCLAIMER****
Method involves having large, thick penis.

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impolyt_one said:

Went to the hospital yesterday to check on my ears, they are totally ruined now. After explaining the 8 year saga that has been my hearing and health problems to the doctor, he was able to quickly diagnose it as a case of Meniere's Disease - and when I got home I did a little researching - sure enough, it makes a whole lot of sense at this point. A bad case of it, as well, but perhaps receding now. It's pretty much done it's damage.
The thing that pisses me off though, is that if I google Meniere's Disease, one of the first hits I get is a study and report done by my old doctor, the specialist I got referred to and had to give about $30K to over the course of a year with no health insurance - this guy ran me all these bills to have him tell me he didn't know what was wrong with me, and that there was no answer. This, the same guy who has apparently done extensive study on the disease I have? mega The disease is fairly incurable, but I had to spend a year off work, with no insurance, giving this guy a bunch of money to have him tell me 'I don't know' - in those exact words - It took a long time to catch up on that financially, and it was 4 years ago.

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edinatlanta said:

Piobaire said:

****DISCLAIMER****
Method involves having large, thick penis.

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So what in the hell would you know about this?

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impolyt_one said:

Went to the hospital yesterday to check on my ears, they are totally ruined now. After explaining the 8 year saga that has been my hearing and health problems to the doctor, he was able to quickly diagnose it as a case of Meniere's Disease - and when I got home I did a little researching - sure enough, it makes a whole lot of sense at this point. A bad case of it, as well, but perhaps receding now. It's pretty much done it's damage.
The thing that pisses me off though, is that if I google Meniere's Disease, one of the first hits I get is a study and report done by my old doctor, the specialist I got referred to and had to give about $30K to over the course of a year with no health insurance - this guy ran me all these bills to have him tell me he didn't know what was wrong with me, and that there was no answer. This, the same guy who has apparently done extensive study on the disease I have? mega The disease is fairly incurable, but I had to spend a year off work, with no insurance, giving this guy a bunch of money to have him tell me 'I don't know' - in those exact words - It took a long time to catch up on that financially, and it was 4 years ago.

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LawrenceMD said:

I just tried to print some pictures at a wallgreens...with one of those self service machines...
twas a total disaster... a train wreck I knew was coming when the 60y/o woman with a mullet comes over and is angry at me for trying to "do it myself"...
she then pulls out the memory card with a huge (DO NOT REMOVE THE MEMORY DEVICE WARNING) in the middle of the screen... and I lose all my data (so I can't even try it some other photo shop). She then calls her manager and blames me for breaking the machine.
I realize that I could print at home, but printing quality 8x10 photos at home actually can be more expensive than wallgreens (with all the photopaper jams, ink running out, and trial and error ****-ups)...
the last time I printed at wallgreens that **** was actually nice and fast and super duper cheap... but thats when they had their old printing nook with huge machine/printer with an attendant... which they still had about 4 months ago.

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pnutpug said:

Recycling pisses me off.

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

As I write this, there's a tub of garbage outside our door. There is always a tub of garbage outside our door. Once a week, we take this tub of garbage to the curb, where it is picked up by a truck and allegedly recycled. Whether that happens or not, who knows, because there is, so far as I know, no one making sure that the recycling/garbage company (the same company picks up the bona fide trash and the garbage masquerading as recyclables) is actually recycling the garbage. Smart money says they are not, even though we pay extra for the privilege of keeping garbage in a tub by our door and taking it to the curb once a week. If I ran the garbage company, I sure as hell would be taking it to the landfill and laughing ****** off all the way.
I won't get into how fun it is to strip the glued-on labels off tin cans, then rinse the cans out, then put them in the tub of garbage along with empty milk jugs, aluminum cans, boxes that once held frozen pot pies, plastic blister packs, glass bottles,aspirin bottles and just about everything else you can imagine that can, somehow, magically be recycled because the freakin' garbage--excuse me, recycling--company said so when they convinced my wife that she needed to do this to save the earth and pay extra for the privilege.
A few weeks ago, I followed the garbage--excuse me, recycling--truck for an hour before it finally lost me (this is embarrassing to admit, but my Buick wasn't fast enough to keep up with a goddamn garbage truck). Before it dropped me, however, I discovered that it would, typically, drive two or even three blocks before stopping to pick up a bin filled with garbage--excuse me, recyclables--passing dozens of other bins en route. Why? Because there are four goddamn garbage/recycling companies in this town, each with its own set of customers, and so every week FOUR FLIPPIN' TRUCKS DRIVE DOWN EVERY DAMN STREET IN THIS TOWN PICKING UP TUBS OF GARBAGE/RECYCLABLES IN THE INTEREST OF SAVING THE EARTH. And another four do the exact same thing to pick up bona fide garbage, because it would not look good to have the alleged recyclables thrown in with the bona fide garbage, even if all the trucks, as I suspect, are going to the landfill. That is eight full-size garbage trucks driving down every street in my town once a week, and while this ain't New York, with 54 square miles and nearly 120,000 people, it ain't Mayberry, either.
I do not know what kind of mileage a garbage truck gets, but there's more atmosphere being warmed in this silly effort to save the earth than is being saved by recycling stuff, presuming I'm wrong and the alleged recyclables aren't actually going to the landfill. None of this makes a bit of difference to my wife, who insists on continuing with this stupid recycling racket even when I pointed out the folly of being the only house on our block that uses this particular garbage/recycling company, which means the garbage/recycling truck has to make a special trip just for us.
I'm not through yet.
Chicks are at the bottom of this. Before I got married, most every woman I dated was aghast that I didn't recycle. One insisted--and we had quite an argument about it--on going through my garbage and taking out the cans, bottles, what-have-you and taking them to her house to recycle. "Oh, it's no trouble." "That's not the point. That stuff is my property. Leave it." "**** you." "No, **** you." That relationship lasted all of three weeks.
Ever fly across the United States? Ever look down while you're in the air? Ever see all those miles and miles and miles of nothing but vacant, trackless land that was put there by God to create landfills? My lord, we've been churning out garbage since Adam and Eve tossed the first apple core and guess what? THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF ROOM FOR MORE!

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impolyt_one said:

Went to the hospital yesterday to check on my ears, they are totally ruined now. After explaining the 8 year saga that has been my hearing and health problems to the doctor, he was able to quickly diagnose it as a case of Meniere's Disease - and when I got home I did a little researching - sure enough, it makes a whole lot of sense at this point. A bad case of it, as well, but perhaps receding now. It's pretty much done it's damage.
The thing that pisses me off though, is that if I google Meniere's Disease, one of the first hits I get is a study and report done by my old doctor, the specialist I got referred to and had to give about $30K to over the course of a year with no health insurance - this guy ran me all these bills to have him tell me he didn't know what was wrong with me, and that there was no answer. This, the same guy who has apparently done extensive study on the disease I have? mega The disease is fairly incurable, but I had to spend a year off work, with no insurance, giving this guy a bunch of money to have him tell me 'I don't know' - in those exact words - It took a long time to catch up on that financially, and it was 4 years ago.

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MrG said:

I don't care if you goof off. I know most people do it, and it's between you and your boss, but do four people really have to walk down the hall, meet up outside of my office, and TALK LIKE THIS about purses and shoes?

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Damn, man, I'm very sorry to hear this. Really terrible.

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impolyt_one said:

I'm alright now, bills are paid, nothing I can do about an incurable disease once it's done it's damage, really - such is life.
Would like to talk to that doctor again though, and make him feel bad and imply that he's ruined my life and that what has happened to me was preventable if he wasn't so incompetent - I do a hold a grudge against him, because these doctors in America do the rock star routine and make you feel like they're granting a privilege to allow you to speak to them in their fancy offices. Guy didn't help me at all and wasted my time and money, my hearing is ruined forever - had I been diagnosed properly back then (and now that I've read up on it more, I was showing the key symptoms back then form the get-go), I would've possibly been able to retain more of my hearing as it was still there up until 6 months ago.

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