The crazy lady strikes again for Saturday, July 22, 2006

Today, I read a story containing information that disturbed me. A boy in his late teens (I believe he's 17; I know that he is legally considered a minor in his state) refused chemotherapy and other provider-recommended treatments when he learned that he was out of remission - in other words, that his cancer had returned. (I remember that he had been diagnosed with lymphoma, although I could be wrong about just which form of cancer he had.) Although this boy was successfully able to achieve... Sign in to see full entry.

My husband called our bank's customer service department (which my husband learned to call the Help Desk when he was first hired by that bank) and was apparently able to get a stop order issued on that phone-company debit when it shows up on the bank's computers. The question then becomes this: What will the phone company do when they formally fail to receive the money because we put a stop order on the payment before it actually had cleared the bank according to bank records? I remain... Sign in to see full entry.

I am so tense right now. When I wrote most of yesterday's entries, I was fine. The handymen had finished the bathroom early, so they weren't constantly running in and out of the apartment, driving me nuts because I was scared Garfield would run into the parking lot. I was then able to calm down and write effectively. After all, I wasn't seemingly being interrupted every time I tried to type one letter. Then, my husband got an email about the payment arrangements for the second installment on... Sign in to see full entry.