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UPDATED: Wed, 04/16/2008 - 8:31pm
Gina M...
Brain electricians on notice to be fired.
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There is me. And then there is my brain. My brain and I are not on speaking terms. So, that said, I'd wish to have my brain kidnapped, brainwashed, and reprogrammed so that It and I can finally come to some sort of understanding.
During this process my brain is to understand that when I am embarking on new jobs and/or schooling, that it is to behave itself. It is to stop taking me hostage. hostage situations are not conducive to a working relationship. It needs to be made to understand this.
Whether they are union or not, my brain electricians all need to be fired, fire them all. They are not doing their job, and multiple shortage and connection failures have been noticed. Shabby workmanship. If we must, we'll find a way to convert solar energy for electricity up there, put mirrors on our ears or something. So, scrub it down and clean it out. Once everything is rewired and the gray matter finally understands it's place, then negotiations can begin.
I am quite seriously annoyed that every time I start to get back on my feet. Start to think my seizures have become at least if not gone, then silent, they decide to come back and riot. This is unacceptable behavior. My nerves are protesting. My muscles are protesting. My bones have gone beyond protesting and have filed formal complaints with all joints of interest. I expect the nerves and muscles to join them any day now.
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My cave men would like to thank the nuerotransmitters union for sending down a rep as they was pretty hungry at the time and he went down well. hahaha
A WARNING NOTICE TO ALL NEUROTRANSMITTER DELEGATES:
Delegates attending contract negotiations BEWARE of scab CAVEMEN from Carpenters Local 1516 as they seem to be intent on disrupting negotiations by CLUBBING and even EATING representatives attending current talks. They are also suspected of beeing responsible for the disapearance of the shoes in question.
Sincerly,
ictal president 7109 (memory Bank)
Tom
Gina
Your "dismissal notice" is a wonderful expression of how seizures impact your life. May I quote this when explaining quality of life issues to doctors (who diagnoze but do not live with epilepsy)?
Thank you, Joyce Cramer, ETP President joyce@epilepsytherapyproject.org
Thank you Ms. Cramer. You are certainly welcome to use it if you feel it will be helpful:)
GINA, WAIT, TELL JOYCE SHE CAN'T USE IT UNTIL YOU COPYRIGHT IT! THINK OF YOUR POTENTIAL EARNINGS GIRL!!!! HAHA! YOU COULD MAKE A FORTUNE, AND AT LEAST THAT PART OF YOUR PROBLEMS WOULD BE SOLVED.........JUST KIDDIN, BUT THINK OF THIS FOR THE FUTURE GINA!! LOL! JAN
I USE ALL CAPS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
I AM YOUNGER THAN I LOOK, OLDER THAN I THINK, AND WISER THAN I KNOW......EEEEEEEEKKKK!
Now you tell me! lol, it's ok:) I often wish I had talent to become a comedian. Unfortunately, my most hilarious thoughts turn up after the moment has passed! Sheesh. Plus, I lack the ability to carry it off if I think about what I'm saying. Guess I'll just stick with the nursing venture:) I do write though and have copyrighted most of my writings, poetry mostly, I've been trying to change the type of poetry, trying to make it alittle less, well, depressing. I was reading over my writings a few weeks ago and got myself depressed just reading what I wrote! God what a horrid thing that would be, to make others depressed too ~shudder~ So i'm attempting to make them a bit lighter. So far hey're light enough to be nonexistent, any moment now the words will appear, I can feel it...or that could be a sneeze approaching too, hmmm
Btw, would you find it easier if I wrote to you in caps too?
thankyou for the laugh i needed that... just woken up from a mid-day sleeping session lol.... lov from soph xxx
**the Princess yappy dog wants a hug!!! lov ya xxx**
I feel the same way about mine and some day's I want to blow my head
off and end it. I'm in this situation because my paternal
grandma didn't have the common decency to die. I wanted to
be trained as a medic formally. I quite good but I don't have the
proof you know the paper work and my family wouldn't let me get any
training because they wanted to bring my dumb bitch of a grandma here
and wreck my life. So I tried getting training in security having
passed and paid they didn't send me the certificate and changed names
in addition to ignoring me entirely once I completed the degree
and was ready to get started my maternal grandma got sick and died on
my dead brother's birth day and then I had the full blown seizure 15
days after that.
I was trying to
finish up with security so I could get a job and move out of the house
leaving my grandma there. Just let me have my degree that I
earned and let me get out of here. I have bad ovaries, lost my
boy friend, was in a really awful car accident, was raped, then
had to quit martial arts because they were jerks, wound up in santa
Cruz Honduras as the group's only medic. Then quit the group and
tried to just simply get a job finally did and then was looking for
another onme and was going to get decent training get a good life, I
could have gotten health insurance, a decent salary and maybe even my
own appartment in a couple years but no I had to take care of my stupid
grandmother instead of getting trained formally as a medic so I
decided to quit and go with security instead. People who hit
thugs with mag lights and carry guns don't get stuck with stupid old
ladies or get pushed around, abused or taken advantage of. If
they try it then you just pick up the maglight and beat them with it
and they stop doing that.
Nice people always get stuck
with the check and end up with people they do not want in their lives,
they also get stuck with people who do not hold up their end.
Think you wouldn't want someone who sent someone to the ICU taking care
of an old lady. If I'd used drugs, gotten arrested, wound up in
rehab and then got into fights all the time they would not have done
this to me. If this is my "reward" for being decent and doing what I
was supposed to I don't want this thing and wish I had used cocaine and
messed up badly to avoid this. The millitary would have taken me
even with an arrest or even after knowing I used drugs or even sold
them.
I'm thinking about getting hooked up with a
supplier and just dealing to get out of here. I tried to do the
right thing and it blew up in my face so maybe I should just do the
wrong thing and it might just work better. Maybe I'd be better
off dealing drugs than trying to be legit since I'm tired of getting
something and then losing it because of family members wants or
needs. Frankly at this point I don't care about either.
Epilepsy made it worse I think I've been through enough garbage.
I think I should have run at 4 am and took maybe three outfits and done
what I wanted telling them what I just did and telling them the cops
need to be told not to look for me and to basically lose the paperwork
long enough for me to be removed. Once I got sent to training
government property parents couldn't do anything about it. Now
it's too late to split.
So I have to wait until I can
either get myself another job and move out or until she dies and once
she dies then I'm not doing anymore in medicine because I decided I
just quite frankly hate taking care of old people and I can't believe
they did this to me. I wanted both my parents out of my life and
I couldn't imagine anyone I had less use for than them but I found out
I have less use for my grandma than both of them. If they had let
me do things my way I wouldn't have hated them as much as I do.
Decided fine I don't want medical if I have to take care of an old
lady. My mom says she didn't realize how much I planned and
thought before this and I told her I regarded this whole thing as a
waste of my effort and time and told her I didn't want her in my life
for that very reason. Figured I'd have to simply wait for my
mother to die so she'd stop messing up my life or ruining things for me.
If
the meds don't work then I'm thinking of exploring the possibility of
having my temporal lobe removed entirely or just the part where the
seizures start. I'd want them to bag it for me, I'd stick it in
the fridge until I recovered and then take it outside, get my baseball
bat and beat it to the consistancy of paste and then start a fire and
burn it up. The next day go back to work. I figure the
temporal lobe wrecked my life so I have every right to destroy it with
a baseball bat and set it on fire. That's what I'd want to do to
it since I'm so angry with it.
Well hello there boy you did leave the keyboard on the table or is it in bits on the floor? You seem to be almost as angry as I can be especially when it comes to family!By the way I'm susan and living in Dublin - Ireland.I've had epilepsy for the past 10 yrs and i'm now 44 so i wasn't born with it nor was it result of accident etc.Over here when they don't know -they say a 'virul infection'. I have a husband and 2 kids .My feelings are maybe similar ie if we are talking hate.Basically my mother and sister (a nurse) never bother to visit or help even at the very start .They don't like seizures and are scared of them!!! The other things that happened to you can never be measured to elilepsy.To be raped must be the most terrifying thing.Anyhow lets see if this thing works as i'm not long on the internet.There are some strange and weird parts to my story lost most of my memories after it occured and still would write lots of things to do lists.Talk soon Susan.
Nevermind, I erased my comment. By the way, we should have the option of a "delete" button.
Strangely, now I see the "edit" button has been removed, I'm wondering why it was taken away. And just to clarify, I merely suggested adding a "delete" button so that I could go back and remove my own post - nothing more.
Brain Electrician's Union ~ Discussion 975609 ~ E.com
Ms.Gina,
It has been brought to our attention by the Neurotransmitter's Union that your Brain Electicians have been fired without proper notice or clarification.
From what we have ascertained thus far, the suggestion from your brain's neuron's that the larger transmitters are known to - and I quote fron Neuron C12z's mouth - "Like totally, they just like get a wild hair out of totally nowhere, dude and out comes the paddles..." further insinuating the said transmitters make a game of playing ping-pong with smaller neurons resulting in brain zaps is suspected on my part to be a viscious rumor.
Furthermore, without Neuron C12z getting said event documented on EEG, MRI, PET, camcorded, witnessed by 10 people at 5 different angles and signed in triplicate - we feel the firing of said Brain Electricians to be completely unjustified.
I had asked the tellers from the Memory Bank Union to include a statement in this notice but received only this answer to my request: "Who are you and have you seen my shoes?"
Thank you for your time and we will advise you of further notices regarding this investigation.
--Neurotransmitter 01z3--
-Spiz
~We all matter, even when we haven't the slightest clue why~ ,
Dear Shop steward: (Brain electricians Union),
During ongoing negotiations it has been brought to our attention that the largest hurdle yet to overcome is the return of said pair of shoes. However, due to the inability of Brain Electricians Union Local 3376 to provide sufficient connection for a wire transfer of said shoes. The Memory Bank Union can only interpret this as a sign that you are unwilling to participate in further negotiations and therfor will continue the strike!
lol, now what are those who crossthe picket line called? squabs? can't remember. That file too was deleted. But I'm thinking the carpenters are covering the electricians. Would explain the surges as they get fried.
Shop Steward - Brain Electrician's Union Local 3376~Discussion 975609~Ecom
To All Interested Union Bosses:
In order to try to clear up issues over said shoes, I sent the following notice to the Memory Bank Union 7109 Ictal President :
Dear Ictal President,
In order to clear up confusion over the said pair of missing shoes, would you be so kind as to describe shoes and their color. Thank you. -Neurotransmitter 01z3~Shop Steward
Hopefully this will help to clear up the issues blocking negotiations. Regards. -Neurotransmitter 01z3
-Spiz
~We all matter, even when we haven't the slightest clue why~
Dear Neurotransmitter 01z3 (shop steward),
The shoes in question are believed to be of the AED brand and come in various colors and sizes from 25-1000mg. The shoes are believed to have been sold in America at an outrageous price but could have been found in Canada or Mexico for a lesser amount. It is with our most sincerity that the recovery and maintinance of said shoes will further negotiations and eventually resolve this matter.
Respectfully,
Ictal President 7109 (Memory Bank) Tom
Bank Memory Union 9107- I think...~To the person that wrote this to me~Ecom
I'm wearing shoes?
- I.B. Forgetful ~ Ictal President ~ Union Bank Memory 0719
-Spiz
~We all matter, even when we haven't the slightest clue why~
Totally enjoyed the comment about the shoes.. it brought a smile to my face.
Now...regarding that Memory Bank... mine doesn't accept deposits...it only makes withdrawals.
Can I file a complaint somewhere? Nevermind, I'd probably get lost.
ROTFL...thanks for putting a smile on my face :)
-Spiz
~We all matter, even when we haven't the slightest clue why~
BUT SPIZ, YOU FORGOT ABOUT NEUROTRANSMITTER -13XQ!
I USE ALL CAPS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
I AM YOUNGER THAN I LOOK, OLDER THAN I THINK, AND WISER THAN I KNOW......EEEEEEEEKKKK!
"I had asked the tellers from the Memory Bank Union to include a statement in this notice but received only this answer to my request: "Who are you and have you seen my shoes?"
LOL, I just caught this one, I need that on a t-shirt!
I DO BELIEVE YOU AND SPIZ HAVE FOUND YOUR MINDS.......NOW IF YOU COULD ONLY FIND MINE, AND THE SHOES, WE WOULD BE SET! LOL! JAN
I USE ALL CAPS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
I AM YOUNGER THAN I LOOK, OLDER THAN I THINK, AND WISER THAN I KNOW......EEEEEEEEKKKK!
Thank you for the laugh...I am studying to be a nurse and sometimes I wish mine would get back in shape too... It has taken me 7 years to try and go for my nursing degree since "The Big Diagnoses" still I fear it will quit on me when I need it the most and I wont be able to cross the finish line(graduate)...I have put mine on notice..Shape up or face the consequences..hee hee hee hee I wish it were that easy :):) good luck to you all
That's so exciting! The world can never have enough nurses. I'm going for my PCA degree, not sure if every state has 'em, but they're between a CNA and an LPN in job duties and what nots. I have this one fear though of doing the phlebotomy section and ending up with a seizure that freezes me in place, in my daymare I see the patients face first confused, then concerned and finally panicked as they realize the needle is not going to detach anytime soon. Thank god this college uses that life like dummy to practice on first, can't hurt him! Although, I hear that he bleeds, weirdly enough.
College is definately showing up some strange concerns to me. I'm finding that the cognitive problems that popped up when I started the AED's in the begining, seem more pronounced now that I'm actively trying to learn and express what I'm learning. Especially when I end up transposing numbers, writing the wrong one, or leavin them out altogether, i'm sure that would not be helpful when giving medications, I have to figure out how to get past that. What are you finding to be your biggest challenge in going back to school? It's funny seeing your post here because I was just thinking about starting another thread asking for input on those in college, esp. those adults returning to school after an absence that included a new dx of epilepsy. My biggest challenge are the lights, they're flourescent, the old flickery types, combine that with the horrid stripped wall paper and I swear I can hear my neurons melting.
Have a great weekend!
I USE ALL CAPS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
HEY GINA, THAT SOUNDS BETTER THAN WHAT STEPHS, BANFF AND I TRIED TO DO.....SELL OUR BRAIN! GIVE THEM AWAY! TRADE THEM! YOU ARE SOOOOOOO FUNNY! GLAD TO SEE THAT SENSE OF HUMOR COME OUT! JAN
When I first commented about my brain electricians doing a decent job, I was referring to keeping my seizures under control. I didn't realize this thread was going to take such a hilarious turn. Like everyone else here, I also have tons of "brain farts". As frustrating as they are, I just try to laugh them off - otherwise I'd go nuts. Thanks for the laugh, I really enjoyed these posts. : )
But being bonkers is so much fun:) You get away with things sane
people can't because you are crazy. Crazy people have more
fun. If you're nuts then you get to act up and
they can't do much of anything. Maniacs can get away with
practically anything.
I'm so very glad that so many have responded to this thread with the humor I was hoping would show up. I've found lately that the more difficult things get, the more and more I'm responding with humor because it's the only thing that helps me hold onto the positive side of things and be hopeful. Of course there have been times I've been sure the doctors and staff have wondered if I needed to be shipped off to the funny farm, but hey that'd work for me too. Besides, doctors can take themselves too seriously sometimes.
LMBO!!!!
-Spiz
~We all matter, even when we haven't the slightest clue why~
Oh my goodness.. You have just made my day. I'm still laughing.... I feel the same way. Different parts of my brain either go on strike or take too many smoke breaks and they should all be fired!!! I would like a whole new staff please and thank you! You ROCK!!! Laughing is always the best way of dealing. Thank you for the spirit lift;-)
Take my brain, really, its useless, no memory no nothing. All I remember is MATH. So really, take it.
Oh! I'll take your math and give you memory...errr, ok memory sucks, how about, mmmm, language? Wait, my speech is having issues but it still gets the message across, just takes the scenic route :) I suck at math but need it for my nursing degree. But i'd hate to leave you without anything....do you think your electricians are leaving you just enough to hint at a raise? :)
I must have been advertising in the wrong job market because all I got was cavemen who's only idea about fixing any thing is to shake it a few times then hit it with a club and to pronounce happily "UGG".
ROFL, the mental picture that raised for me still has me cracking up a day after I read it:) Gotta give the cavement credit, they lived a simple life without much worry about the little things...like toilet paper and digital tv's...and they couldn't miss driving since the engine, maybe even the metal? hadn't been invited yet. Thank you for the chuckle:)
My brain electricians are doing a fairly decent job of getting the work done. However, I'm not doing so well in the cognitive/memory dept.
Perhaps we can switch workers for a few weeks for brain training sessions. How does that sound?
Just trying to insert a bit of humor here. Sorry you're having a rough time.
lol, you'd be getting the raw end of that deal. My memory left a long time ago and has yet to return. :) Ah well. Humor helps when dealing with frustration. Thanks:)
Well, if your memory hasn't returned yet, perhaps it got lost and can't find it's way back. I'm going to have to renege on my offer then, because without my brain electricians, and no memory to boot, I don't have a fighting chance. I think you're on your own with this one, sorry! :P
Maybe your electricians filed a grievence and feel their contract is not being fulfilled so they are going to "work to rule". No overtime! Only the contracted time! None of this extra hours for free!
Well I knew I was forgetting something, well something else at any rate the list gets so long I forget I had a list. Wonder what the terms of their contract was....their misconnections fried that file
Wow, you explained how I feel in a funny way! Laughter is the best medicine as they say! My electricians have been on strike for some time now! We still get electical storms and earth-quakes up there though and that makes the workers want to end the strike but they haven't yet! I also have a terrible memory to boot. On a daily basis I'll get up and go into a room for???? I have to turn around and go sit down because it always throws me off and it's getting worse. I have a hard time reading because what I'm seeing and what I'm saying are totally different, my doc says those are little sparks so I definitly need my electricians back to work!
Thank you Gina, I needed a good laugh and this thread definitly did the trick! It's good that you have such a good sense of humor about having epilepsy! Kudos for you!
Common sense is not so common!
"On a daily basis I'll get up and go into a room for???? "
Now the one thing I've begun to appreciate about that, my life is nolonger anywhere close to sedantary (sp?), in fact I'm sure the pacing back and forth between rooms prompting me to be "healthy enough" to tackle the gym. Of course on occasion I've forgotten I was working out while I was working out, I tell you nothing worse than stopping to take a rest while the treadmill is still going full speed ahead! Captain, iceburg behind us! and they always seem to put the treadmills by the walls lol.
lol, thank God I don't use a treadmill or I'd more than likely stop walking with it still going also! The pacing from room to room waiting to remember what your going in there for is great exercise! I really do admire your sense of humor, I come back to this thread daily to see your comments!
Anybody willing to train a very forgetful person for a job?????? Still waiting on a hearing for Disability! I used to be a professional but I can't remember of what let alone what I did for a living, now that's pretty sad!
Common sense is not so common!
I've GOT IT! EUreka! I've got the perfect job in mind for those of us that forget frequently. Customer service:) The only thing we'd have to remember is to be pleasant. We'd never worry about those repeat offensivers because we'd forget who they are and end up treating them nicely every time whether we'd originally have wanted to or not. Course we'd probably forget what we're suppose to be helping them with, but hey they'll end up with an end result perhaps just not the one they started out looking for....now let's see, what other job don't you need memory for? Or at least, not a great memory for....huh, I know I was thinking of something. It'll come back to me, all my brain circuits are connected in a circle, things do eventually come back around, just some are on the inner side of the track and others on the outer side that takes longer. :)
I think it's great though that you're still looking to work. "Professional" is such an interesting term, mostly because after having worked with so called professionals, I've found that they can be amazing jerks the higher on the chain of command you get. I believe those uppity uppers must have memory issues as well, how else can they forget they're human too? Delusions of godhood...see what you got out of? Psychosis :D
Take care:)
Legs and buns of steel with just pacing from room to room! Some claim that they don't even realize that they're exercising! Get yours now for the low introductory price of $, "crap I forgot how much I was going to charge, damn electricians!"
Brain farts; my brain is always farting I'm just glad they don't stink! Gas-X doesn't work or brain farts though, I've tried!
Have a good day and a good laugh!
I don't think I have electricians at all just a bunch of bad IT guys that only know Ctrl Alt delete however it makes watching Law and Order reruns that much more enjoyable I'm even thinking of hiding my own easter eggs next year.
LOL!!! Oh my sides!!!
-Spiz
~We all matter, even when we haven't the slightest clue why~
The "easter egg" part made me laugh, so loud that I woke my husband. Thank you......
I've found that forgetting can be good for my wallet. I'll put my change in my pocket and later find all sorts of bills and coins when I do laundry or retrieve my winter coats. Winter is a good time of year! :) Course it can be problematic if I put the money in an envelope or something with the intention of saving it, I always seem to remember when I need money I've put aside but can't remember where. Course the good side of that is that the apartment gets a thorough cleaning, bad side is that my family gets treated to one hell of a frustration temper. They always choose to go for a long walk about that time. Guess forgetfulness helps my families physical health too, all that walking :D
Ah yes, I love payday also or laundry day! At least I'm not as bad as my mother-in-law whom washed her cellphone that she forgot in her back pocket of a pair of jeans! That made me feel good "that it wasn't me who did that one!" Because it sure does sound like something that I would do!
When I was able to drive I would be driving along and forget where I was going. I'd have to call my husband to find out what I was at the store for so many times because I would forget what I was there for! And let's not forget the doctors appoinments when the doctor comes in and asks "what are we seeing you for today" uh, I don't know or I can't remember is said very frequently!
Common sense is not so common!
I agree! Thank you sooo much for sharing your humor, many people think it "dark" but how can you not go to the funny side some days!
My electricians are doing fine now, but with all the rebooting and surge protectors being fried, my memory, cognitive thinking, don't even try to connect my eyeballs to my brain cause we've had a loose terminal there for years, and then theres the emotional wiring which I think with the last reboot was switch to gas and the conversion kit was not installed properly.
Good luck hon, chin up and you'll do fine
Lorelama MN
Well behaved women rarely make history.