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Veruca Salt

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  2. Please enlighten me

    · Veruca Salt · 08/13/2013 06:30

    I would love to hear your opinion on this post.
     
    I sit at work and wonder why life is so unjust. All my life I have struggled for everything I have.
    As a teenager I had to work for any money I needed. I did not get to go on the class trips, I did
    not get the yearbok, famcy clothes yet I worked and learned how to get what I wanted and what I
    needed. As an adult I still struggled, with a 1 year old son I went to college and earned a degree, and
    still worked my way through at RadioShack. Due to circumstances beyond my control I found myself a
    single parent. Once I finished college I moved back to my hometown area and my son and I started a life.
    No help from my parents, young and not being able to leave the home even to meet people.
    I went garage sale to garage sale buy this and that. I filled my 1 bedroom apartment. He got the bedroom and
    I on the couch. Once I settled I landed a job at WalMart (hey it's something). I was having trouble finding a
    way to work and get my child off to school, at no point in my life did I ask for or take a goverment handout. My
    mother told me I need to stay at home with my son and collect welfare. I wanted more for him and myself. I
    wanted to work. This whole time my parents lived right below me and would never help. When I did ask them
    for help she told me there is a shelter in our area that would take us in.
    Slowly over time and my son growup. I started different jobs paying more money. Was able to purachse a washer and dryer and moved into a mobile home (2 BEDROOMS). I got up to working 2 jobs but that took away a lot of time with my son and cost a lot for a babysitter.
    When my son was 9 I met a man and seem to be the dream life. We all moved in together and I found that "Larry" did not have any thing of his own, like money, the house was in foreclosure and the diswasher was filled with bills (how can I make that one up). I found that I was pregant. I had a wonderful daughter. As Larry's drinking was consuming his life I took my kids and moved out again. Starting over, I bought my first piece of new furnature, A COUCH. Things were always tough but I figured that as much as I have been through I can start over again. Now my son is an adult and in the Navy, I could not be prouder. My aughter is now 9 years old and I found myself a man when she was 2. He is not a perfect man, we keep our money seperate and split the bill. We have been together for 7 years now.
    To sum up the run on drama story. Why do sone people get life handed to them and have no clue the value of a dollar, or don't mind sitting on their butt's waiting for the goverment to send them something to barely live on and here am I. Working like a dog 3 shift making just enough to pay my bills and have a little left.
    WHY IS IT SO UNFAIR, life that is......

  3. Extreme Nausea

    · Veruca Salt · 07/09/2013 04:50

    I am 2 months out and all along I have been complaining of servere nausea. There is no ryme or reason for it. I have been tracking myself and I don't see anything that provokes it or helps it. The nausea medicine in the stores just seem to do nothing. Anyone have any ideas.
  4. I have spent the day clothes shopping. I am losing all my weight in my legs and butt, but nothing in my gut. I am able to find jeans to go right up but can't get them buttoned. Does anyone have any ideas? Can you please tell me where everyone does their clothes shopping.

  5. I need smoking help

    · Veruca Salt · 03/20/2013 04:48

    I have been trying to quit smoking for this surgery. When I do start to try again I get really bad headaches which put me in the hospital. I don't know what to do at this point. Does anyone know how to pass the blood nicotine test without quitting?

  6. My Long Journey Alone

    · Veruca Salt · 03/04/2013 06:42

    Like a child on Christmas Eve, once I had my first appointment with the doctors office I could not wait to get started on all my tast to be done. I ran home with my binder (they had given me) sat down and read the whole thing. I had a new outlook on life already. That same day I called my family doctor to write a letter of support and had them fax it in. I then saw my councelor and had her write a letter of approval and fax that. On Saturday ran out and had my blood drawn. I was on the road. I gave up the soda (I loved very much) started out to the store buying the right food and reading boxes. Ran to WalMart and bought the most expensive scale they had. I even started to buy babyfood for after the surgery. Wow, sice that first meeting I was too busy to notice my doctor's office had not done a thing. I found out that I won't even meet my surgon until right before surgery, When I call them with concerns they give me a line or 2 speak and hang up. I am starting to lose all the interest I have in thhis whole thing.
    I feel I have shown so much effort and am not seeing anything in return, this is very discouraging an upseting. I need support with this, and even though my family is there, they don't understand. I need to see somethig from my doctors side that shows they are their and moving on their end as well.
    If you have any feedback on this PLEASE let me know you feelings. I feel alone and ready to jump ship. I have even found myself crying on the phone with the doctors office and still got no where..
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