Roy- pleurisy is chest pain in the lungs. COPD is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and causes chronic shortness of breath and other problems. But Karen is right, you need to take care of it right away or the infection will get worse. I have problems with bronchitis and I can usually tell when it is starting and I get right in to the doctor's office for an antibiotic, if I don't I have had it hit me hard and turn into pneumonia.

I don't know if you get flu shots or not Karen, but I do and I have found that when I get my bronchitis, it is not as severe as when I get it if I miss my flu shots. I also got a pneumonia shot, won't stop you from getting any pneumonia, but a couple of the strains of it. Something to think about.

I wish your doctor's office would have given you some samples of something, or go to the ER and have them give you some meds to get started, they can give out meds, they could give you a couple of days of Zithromax or something else to get you started so you don't have to keep waiting Karen.

Have a good week everyone. Take care.

well, today is a sweet sixteen for one of my neices......and she enjoyed it, just wish i'd been able to give her something for her birthday. oh well, she didn't care, she was just happy i was there

i got a quick question for everyone........does anybody know of a inexpensive OTC shampoo that contains tea tree oil in it??? i'm having a rough time with my psoriasis and my parents won't buy the shampoo that works pretty good on me because it's 14 bucks a bottle.....

dDunno if you have a World Market or a Trader Joe's but they deal with whole foods and natural products......maybe they can help or try looking online to order some?

I don't have pluerisy, and I have already looked up vaccinations. I am taking an antibiotic that I was saving for emergencies. I had the whole script since they gave it to me then decided to put me on something else before I could start taking it. I will be going in for the x ray tomorrow after class. Then the pharmacy. I have to go to the Droffice to since I dont trust the Dr office to fax back the script. I will go in to get it in person.

So the insurance is only going to cover the 1st month of the Chantix. FUKC! It is a three month program. WTF? SIghhhhhh. More money "I don't have" to shell out.

I have to quit and I am not the type of person to just put them down and never pick them up again. People who do that have fewer addiction receptors in their brains. I happen to have a lot I guess. I have to quit or I will die a long and painful death of suffocation and or heart attack.

Not something I can just PAY for. FUKC! I am so pissed off right now. It just seems like one thing after another and I'm so sick, and have to get my ass out the door tomorrow. You know what I'm talking about. AND no one can help. My car needs attention severely, I need medication I cant get, the bills are piling up, I can't even go see my family for the price of gas, and no one can help.

I'm FUKCed at every turn. AND things are changing between me and John and there is nothing I can do about that either. How can you have any kind of good relationship with anyone if you never see them or talk with them? So now the love of my life (who I can't be with) has no time for me and doesn't like the way I look anymore. He wants me FAT! Like I can just magically get fat?

School sucks because I'm so tired from lack of oxygen and that is why I've been having so much trouble. To stop smoking would help that, but back to square one. Life sucks boners! I wish the pharmacist had never asked if I was allergic to penicillin! I should have said NO!

Oh ok, Marie. That was how my friend was describing it as a chest pain. She was telling me that atleast she knows what it is after seeing the doctor. I still think she should of called in though. The story still seems fantastic. Her rent was paid up and so were the furniture payments. She was telling her landlord said if she offered him sexual favors that he would take it off the rent. Of course, her girlfriend wouldn't have gone for that and according to her she wouldn't, either. She says she was threatened with an eviction notice. The rental company catching wind of this information took the furniture because they were concerned with their furniture since it wasn't completely paid off. They told her that they would let her have the furniture back if she got a different place to stay. I told her that she needed to get hold of a lawyer not for the furniture because I could see their point of view but the landlord point of view I would think would be kind of like blackmail. The rental place is basically just holding the furniture and they are not being charged for rental of the furniture while the rental company has it. The story just seems so fantastic to me.

Not to mention SSI and Disability fukcing with my insurnace and money......everytime I think things are worked out they aren't. Fukced and they didn't even kiss me first!

I can tell that you are angry, Karen. You are really having a rough row to hoe. I pray that it may get better for you. I know that must be frustrating for you and John.

John can kiss my lily white ass. It's taken me 20 months to get to the wieght I'm at and he has been stringing me along for 6 years. Fukc him!

that's great you lost the weight tho karen.........i'm gonna start the 30 minutes a day walking tomorrow......i'm already cutting down on my calories, even though i'm about to starve all the damn time now.........oh well......no pain no gain (should i say loss) huh?

sorry to be blunt karen but a man who loves you doesn't care what you weigh,just your happiness.with all the **** you are going thru your weight shouldn't even be on the agenda.what a dufus.i pray his brain engages and your troubles subside.((((karen)))
hey amber and ray hugs to you.

John is the least of my problems. I was just responding to roy. thanks though.

oh..

What I mean't was that I was just responding to what he said about John.....Mostly Im just mad about everything thats been going on the last few weeks. Sorry everyone for going off.

I have found its a better vent if you can go off, Karen. Evidently, I touched a raw nerve. The one nurse and I vent a lot at work back and forth. Another nurse said she is on some kind of power trip and another nurse just thinks she is crazy. But they don't have her case load. They don't work as many hours as she does. When I first started venting with her I would cuss, shout and rage. Gradually it began to get better. I could say I was wrong when I was; Disagree with her when I thought I was right and actually communicate without going postal. I still like going postal but it seems more controllable now. I guess I like the power trips, too. I think they can be addictive. It just pisses me off when I don't get my way, sometimes. Other times I am glad I am not in control and I am just the aide because I really wouldn't want all the responsibility that comes with being the nurse. I guess I was a nonconformist so long that I don't make a good leader or follower. I really like being a groupie, though. It is so much less lonelier being a groupie than being a loner. I get to ***** more. I find I ***** a lot here lately. Comes with the job I guess. Last night I was with a resident and the resident asked why do we keep waking him up to do our wet checks we have to do every two hours since we know it makes him angry. At the same time the new IRCA asked me how I dealt with his anger. I answered them both at the same time with I am just getting fed up with being intimidated for just doing my job. He asked me why I kept waking him up and I told that I am paid to do that. If he had any complaints to take it up with the management. I am afraid my bedside manner really sucks sometimes. But he asked me a simple honest question and I gave him a simple honest answer.

i have found i feel better sometime after i blow up, but immediately after i feel so horrible that i will cry for hours because the blow ups are extremely violent and scare me to death.......i'm actually on the verge of a bad blow up now........even having physical symptoms like chest tightness and some pain.

I can relate with that. Part of it for me was I wasn't what you call social. I just kept mostly to myself. I tried to stay in an unemotional state and look at things logically. Trouble was I was human and not an android. Being human now means that I do have emotions and feelings. I just have a lot to catch up now that I don't act like an android like I use to. I really haven't that much experience sharing emotions and feelings. Sometimes, I think being logical about everything was easier except that I like not being in a rage all the time like I used to. I guess it is a good tradeoff because I am happier more now.

I try not to show my emotions because every time I do, I end up having to defend myself and I'm just sick and friggin of fighting, I'm really just about ready to give up

You might have to develop a take it or leave it attitude then. Let others believe or think what they want. Yeah, I have trouble because I have been defensive because it seemed the other was being offensive. Got tired of having to prove myself about everything. Life is more tranquil now. I grew up whether my parents were fighting all the time. Then got into a relationship that became the same way. Divorce can be a beautiful thing because of the no more fighting because there is no one to fight with. Fighting all the time really sucks. Seems like there should be a better way to resolve differences.

Here's my situation tho roy, if i cry, i'm not strong enough, if i just don't give a crap, then i have a bad attitude...........no matter what i can't win when it comes to my family, i'm just not good enough for them