As someone who has done two Stress/Echocardiogram tests, I will only say that the most incredulous thing is that after trying to kill you on the treadmill, they have you jump on the table for the ultrasound and, as you're panting and wheezing trying to catch your breath, you are asked to EXHALE AND HOLD IT so they can get the image they want.
Or it'll go the way of any commodity in history for which there is demand that has been outlawed...
THANK you for saying that! I should have recorded her screaming at the top of her lungs at me. I should have known better than to stay at her house. Even my son warned me. But she wanted me to stay there so she wouldn't have to drive alone to Houma. I love my sister but I'll never stay at her house again. It was just too weird seeing someone drunk rambling on about my vaping addiction flailing her arms in the air. I haven't slept hardly at all since.I would have taken pics of her when she was shitfaced, and then shown them to her, asking if she really wanted pics of humans with problems.
Andria
Yeah. It's not something I want to do again.
I know what ya mean.
But a mean drunk I can not tolerate and it sounds like your sister is a mean drunk. 
Thats some ironic shit right there. Someone who drinks heavily giving you greaf about something that does much less damage if any at all.
Thanks. Yes, she is a MEAN drunk. She can be a really mean person sober too. I knew I'd be in trouble as soon as I saw her with that drink. I don't know why people drink if they are going to get mean. It's ridiculous.Sorry to hear you had to go thru all that. I dont mind someone who is drunk as long as they dont want to talk to me three inches from my face, and i always enjoyed a happy drunk, they are lots of fun. I become a silent drunk when I am drinking and peeps dont even know I am in the room
She's the biggest hypocrite and you're right about the mirror. It would have made it worse. I told her to stop yelling and she got angry when I said that and actually put her fist up in my face. It was like watching one of those shows on tv where people are acting like total idiots. At least the bedroom door had a lock so I went in there and locked it. She screamed outside the door for about 5 minutes and then gave up and went to bed. I woke up early and took a taxi to the airport.I still feel ill over the whole mess.Thats some ironic shit right there. Someone who drinks heavily giving you greaf about something that does much less damage if any at all.
Holding up a mirror would have made the situation worse unfortunately.
GFY spanks!
Sounds like yer sis needs some of this
You could eat em I would just drink beer.
LMAO! That's great!Sounds like yer sis needs some of this
GFY Lucy!
It rained for about 15 minutes then the sun came back out. Got Florida hot after that.
Mornin Lucy, remember if the day looks bleak you can always GFY
Thanks Lucy. It's quite painful. We only had each other for years and I know she loves me as much as I love her. We are complete opposites though. She's a control freak, I'm laid back and feel I don't need to tell people how to live their lives. She feels the need to completely control others around her. I admit I did say some nasty things to her as well (after her berating me for a few days), but I'm not a "get in your face" screaming type of person. Confrontation is my enemy. She's a girly girl, I'm a tomboy. She even tells me how I should dress, that I need more makeup, etc. It is what it is. I'm glad to be back at work.............uh, and I'd better get back to it. lolDrag about your sis -
I can relate. There is a reason I live thousands of miles away from most of my relatives
I was wondering the same thing.................................hehehehehe
Lotsa Zots here.Batten the hatches!!!
Morning Moo, RC, Bojangles. lol
Some of us apparently have other things to do besides hang out on the net?
Me neither, but given my history I'm sure there's another one in my future at some point.
So I ordered a couple of metal ones from Desert Vapes, and also this thing they have called a "Ming Bowl", a CherryVapes thing that's supposed to allow you to use a Ming driptip that's gotten broken... so I saved the red one I broke last night, maybe the Ming Bowl will let me keep using it.
Well, that's great news! They told me I had Tachycardia when I had mine done 10 years ago. I cut my 2 pots of coffee a day down to 3 cups and I'm pretty good to go now. Still get the heart racing thing every once and a while. but it's not very often. My heart was clocked at 164 sound asleep when I wore that holter monitor thang.Me neither, but given my history I'm sure there's another one in my future at some point.
The good news is that I just did my 12 month/12,000 mile checkup with the cardiologist and I'm off the blood thinners.
And I was very pleased with my vitals: BP 124/78, pulse of 59 and O2 sats at 99%.
Dang! Sorry about your mom. Man, she sounds A LOT like my sister. She actually got ticked off at her daughter for putting the toilet paper on the roll "backwards". Heck, I'd be happy that she just changed it.My mom was a horrible mean drunk, and ALWAYS has been a control freak. But it was SOP at our house; if it was past 8pm, DO NOT call Grammie's house, because that woman was just plain UGLY. Best news I heard for years was when she said she had to quit drinking.... and though she would never "lower herself" to attend AA, she somehow managed to stick to it -- a diagnosis of cirrhosis is a good deterrent for some people.
Alcohol lets people be who they really want to be -- it made me a "social butterfly" instead of a shy, reserved, social-anxiety-afflicted geek -- until it made me a fucking crybaby about everything. I guess some people are really just rude assholes but somehow they manage to hide it... till they get drunk.
Andria
Dang! Sorry about your mom. Man, she sounds A LOT like my sister. She actually got ticked off at her daughter for putting the toilet paper on the roll "backwards". Heck, I'd be happy that she just changed it.
The woman LIVES on sugar and sugary snacks, won't eat much of anything else. Her biggest problem is... HERSELF. She just turned 75, and has the emotional maturity of approximately a 7.5 yr old.
The cirrhosis is really the least of my mom's problems -- quitting drinking apparently arrested it, and it hasn't gotten any worse. Her diabetes on the other hand...
Andria
Being in the same age group as you, I have helped care for etc. numerous older relatives and it has been my experience that 9 out of 10 times the maturity level drops every year after 75 and gets very pronounced when infirmities set in - whether they are self-inflicted or not.
I just pray I know when to say when before I go into my dotage
But once I had my own child, and had quit drinking (he was 4 at the time), I finally managed to grow up, myself (I was 31 when I got sober, so it was about damn time!!)... and I could really see what he had meant, all those years ago. Unfortunately, she's still the one person who can get me into a screaming, mouth-frothing incoherent rage.
Me too. My mom was quite the dingbat but she was very sweet and loving. My grandmother was as sharp as a whip up until the day she died. Brilliant woman. My sister is the ONLY family member (I know of) that has anger issues. She's always had them, but just gets meaner the older she gets.Being in the same age group as you, I have helped care for etc. numerous older relatives and it has been my experience that 9 out of 10 times the maturity level drops every year after 75 and gets very pronounced when infirmities set in - whether they are self-inflicted or not.
I just pray I know when to say when before I go into my dotage
That sounds amazing!
