*primal scream*

[LSPoorEeyorick]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGH.

Now you.

What are you screaming about?

I am screaming about last several hours, which involved these things:

1) College loan foundation runs my check card as I pay off a hefty sum; calls me after third attempt to say "your card is being rejected, please call your bank." When I call the bank, they say, "hmm. They ran your card for the hefty sum twice, and that's why it got rejected the third time; you're significantly in the red." Need gas and have no money until the loan foundation faxes a request for reversal.

2) Mom injures herself (kind of blechy, behind the spoiler tag)

Spoiler:

A skin tag (the little growths that pop up as we age) tore off and she didn't realize it until the blood had soaked through two pillows.

3) The origin of Mom's recent post-breast-cancer infection revealed a few hours later. (REALLY blechy, behind another spoiler tag.)

Spoiler:

Her tumor was removed three years ago, from one side of her breast. This year, the other side of her breast became infected and extremely painful and we feared that the cancer was back. She's been in a lot of pain and the infection just hasn't gone away.

They removed a bandage today and stuck to it was a bit of surgical thread. "Hmm, that's weird." So they pulled... and pulled... it was FIVE INCHES of F U C K I N G SURGICAL THREAD, working its way out across the length of her breast from the side where she'd had the tumor removed. Her surgeon left it inside her when he closed up the tumor wound.

She said she could feel pulling along from one side of her breast to the other. AAAAAAUGH!

All of this, so great, since she's diabetic and has an effin' autoimmune disease... takes her months to heal a tiny scratch.