Hi Miss Mandy, welcome fellow Wisconsinite! I'm not far from you, I'm in Madison.
I have two mini vents today. Bear with me, this might be long.
My first mini-vent is that something really scary happened yesterday. I was sitting on the couch when all of a sudden I heard a "thump". I looked out the window and saw that a man in a black SUV had rear-ended a parked car. He had just tapped it, no real damage. But I kept looking - and what I saw suddenly got really frightening. The man in the SUV suddenly FLOORED his car into reverse as fast as he could and slammed into a parked car on the other side of the street! He kept his foot on the accelerator and his tires were spinning and smoke was filling the street. Then, just as suddenly, he jerked the car into drive and slammed into a 3rd parked car, right in front of my house! There fortunately is a big tree in the way - the SUV kept spinning his tires, if the tree weren't there he might have been able to drive up into my yard and possibly my house! Then he hit reverse again and hit the 2nd parked car yet again. I was incredibly freaked out by this time and my hubby was already on the phone with 911, as were most of my neighbors. At this time, the SUV driver very calmly, as if everything was normal, put the car into drive and started driving up the street at about 20 mph like a normal person. Fortunately, the cops got there fast and caught the guy. The cops would only tell us that he man had "something wrong with him," they wouldn't say if he was on drugs or what though. It's scary, I want to know more about this man, why he was in my neighborhood and what to do if he comes back! My neighbors car, the 2nd parked car (the one that was hit twice), was just demolished. I feel so bad for them, they're such nice people and didn't deserve something random and awful like this to happen.
So that was a really shocking and stressful thing to see. Nobody got hurt and the guy was caught but it was still horrifying to watch somebody smash the hell out of people's property. The stress affected my guts and I'm not having such a good guts day today.
Mini-vent #2 is that my hubby had another bad attack of kidney stone pain yesterday a few hours after the car smashing incident. He only had one vicodin left but his urologist said he'd sent over a new prescription to the pharmacy. So we went to the pharmacy - but there was no prescription and no vicodins for hubby. We called the after-hours answering service for the urologist and they said they'd page the doctor and ask him to call hubby back. We didn't get a call and hubby spent the night in awful pain. Then, this morning hubby looked at his phone - 3 missed calls! The urologist and pharmacy did call back after all, but for some reason hubby's phone was on silent and he missed the calls. We were so frustrated and angry about that! And because hubby was up half the night in pain, I also slept very poorly - I feel so bad when he's in pain like that and I can't sleep when he can't sleep. So today I'm exhausted and I'm having d/nausea/pain because of the stress of hubby's pain and the car thing.
On a slightly funny note, hubby said that he knows he wasn't being very sensitive to the pain & symptoms I was having when I first became ill. He said sometimes he wonders if I put a voodoo curse on him and gave him kidney stones so that he'd have awful pain & symptoms of his own and he can have an idea of what I've been through. Then he said maybe I didn't put a voodoo curse on him, but he knows that I'm on this forum a lot, so now he thinks maybe one of you guys put a curse on him! So fess up, which one of you did it?
Just kidding of course. I thought that was funny though. It is kind of an interesting way of karma getting back to hubby for being less-than-sensitive to me during my first handful of flares.
