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Bad news from my Doctor: He wants me to go on cholesterol lowering medication. My appointment is on Wed. I plan to beg for another chance to lower it with diet and taking Niacin. I've heard the side effects of the medication are horrendous. Also I haven't been taking my diet very seriously lately. I started tonight eating veggies with my homemade pizza for dinner. Since I must eat sweet at 2:30 am I will ONLY eat it then. I will also tell myself if it goes in the supermarket cart it WILL go in my mouth, so I will stay out of aisles I should not be in.

 

Also if I ask OddHat to bring me a gift or surprise, we'll make it non-food.

 

I'm on enough medications already.

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What medication are you talking about? They tried several with me (they didn't do the trick) before I was put on Lipitor, which slammed the LDL levels down to acceptable. There's nothing to be done about my lousy HDL levels (for which I can only curse my metabolism) but I haven't noticed any side effects in the 2-3 years I've been taking it.

 

I tried niacin first, and that was both miserable and ineffective. The other stuff (sorry, I don't remember their names off the top of my head) didn't have side effects, but it didn't do the task, either. So we tried the statins (which, I must admit, my brother was already on, and they work for him too), and at my check-up last month things were As Good As They're Gonna Get for me.

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I'm going to file a formal complaint about a coworker. I already made one yesterday' date=' but I'm going to talk to the owners about this POS.[/quote']

 

I was going to file the complaint today, but when I went to work, I found out his father passed away. So I'll hold off for a while.

 

On a cranky note, why do some students test your limits until they get into more trouble than they can handle? One student thought riling me up was all fun and games until I had my supervisor talk to her. Then she got upset.

 

I don't like having to scold the students. I feel bad about it afterwards. But I don't put up with any BS from them either.

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Well' date=' maybe I'll be different from you. I want to give Niacin a chance. What about it made you miserable ? Also I really have not been eating well. I started changing that with dinner tonight. I hope that helps too.[/quote']

 

With me, the niacin pill gave me a nice monstrous hot flash sort of thing. Break out in a nice hot rash/flush, kinda itchy but not overpoweringly so, that lasted about 40 minutes. Now, if I had the pill with dinner, the rash sometimes would be diminished but not always. After a month of that, and no improvement in the cholesterol numbers, I dropped it like a live grenade.

 

The statins work for me, but exercise ... real, 40-minutes 5-days-a-week aerobic stuff ... does help. I can't jog (I've got an ankle that can't take impact for an extended period) and the local pool's hours are not useful to me, so my exercise of choice is walking at a good clip. We have plenty of hills around here so getting the burn of your choice is not a problem. Of course, it rains so much that the 5-days-a-week thing is usually the issue.

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I miss my mom. And I have no desire to stop missing her. But I want to know when I'm going to stop suddenly crying when I notice random things that only peripherally remind me of her. For instance, this morning on my commute in this morning I was listening to "Leaving on a Jet Plane" sung by Peter, Paul and Mary. Mom loved them, but I don't have any particular association between that song and her. I've listened to it recently with no problem. But this morning, it made me think of her and I just started crying.

 

I miss you mom.

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Well' date=' maybe I'll be different from you. I want to give Niacin a chance. What about it made you miserable ? Also I really have not been eating well. I started changing that with dinner tonight. I hope that helps too.[/quote']

 

Large doses of niacin cause something like 2/3 of the population to suffer a flushed, itchy face for around half an hour. I personally get the flushed itchiness on the back of my neck. I suppose I could put up with it if my cholesterol was that bad, but otherwise no. Exercise is the real answer, at least for me, but it's next to impossible what with the two kids.

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As I told Cancer' date=' there is such a thing as No-flush Niacin. We get it at The Vitamin Shop. You can also order on line.[/quote']

 

How does that work? And what does it cost?

 

From what I can tell with a little Googleing, badly.

 

http://health.yahoo.com/experts/heartdisease/3924/dont-be-taken-in-by-no-flush-niacin/

 

http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/no-flush-niacin-kills.html

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Four thousand orders walked through the doors of the store last night. That's a lot more than 4000 people. Good thing that it was a Sunday crowd. If it were Saturday, there would still have been people lining up to "speak with the manager" on Monday.

Still, there are some. Case in point, the customer who is "awfully busy" but is concerned that the mesh onions are signed grown in Canada, but are actually American, and won't budge from customer service until I've personally promised to go change the signs right now. It turns out that he has managed to misread "grown in Can/USA."

Right after that, I'm called to the meat department, which, to be fair, looks like a war zone due to the guy who was supposed to be there being in for cancery surgery and replaced by a rookie who can barely steer a stocking cart. The customer has prepared an extended diatribe on our managerial failures, money-grubbing ways, and the intolerable disruption of her life that we have inflicted by making her go out of her way looking for fresh ground beef right now, and wishes to share it.

Which is why I explained to her that "the employee who was supposed to be here is in for cancer surgery." (Notice the exact wording, because it is about to become important).

It turns out that the customer just wants me to substitute some deluxe frozen hamburger for the ground beef we don't have. Which is fair enough, even if it does contradict her diatribe a little.

I've barely seen the last of her --unlike the poor cashier who had to deal with her a few minutes after, I learned later-- when I'm called to the desk for another complaint. It turns out that my comments above were overheard by an officious taller lady who informs me that she "works for the Federal Privacy Commission," and that I have committed an intolerable breach of privacy. She is "disgusted" with me, and underlines this with an "I don't want to talk to you anymore" heel turn and departure.

 

So to every insufficiently unspecified person about whose health I have spoken in an insufficiently unspecific way, thereby violating their privacy as unknown or possibly hypothetical individuals, I apologise.

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Why is it' date=' when a customer swears or insults me for no good reason, it surprises them that I become less helpful afterwards?[/quote']

 

When I worked in retail, we had very specific instructions. If a customer was just upset, trying to calm them down was just fine. But profanity directed at the employee was supposed to be dealt with in a very specific fashion. Tell the customer "Just one moment", and then call security. Who will then come down and escort the customer out of the store.

 

As I knew people in security, I also knew that policy for the security personnel was to do their best to get the customer to leave voluntarily, after telling them that they would be welcome back in the store once they had calmed down. If the customer wouldn't leave, they were supposed to be informed that they were now trespassing and that they cops would be called if they didn't leave. It rarely got to the point of the cops getting called. Heck, it rarely got to the point of security getting called.

 

One of the quickest ways to get fired was to argue back with a customer that was cursing at you.

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Back when I was trying to get phone service hooked up at my new house, I had more problems than I could count. I would call up Customer Service and explain my problem. They would transfer me to Technical Support. I would explain my problem again. They would then transfer me back to Customer Service. And again. And again. And again.

 

Frequently, they would say, "Are you at your house right now? No? Call us back when you're at your house." When I called back from my house, they would say, "I'm sorry, you're not calling during our regular hours. You have to call back then."

 

(Some of us have to be at work during the day, and so for me it was one or the other -- either calling them during regular hours while I was at work, or calling after hours while I was at home).

 

It went on for weeks. Nobody could help me. Nobody wanted to help me. One day, I finally told them to send a technician to my house. They said they would have to charge me for it (and not just a little bit, either -- I think it was something like $90 per hour).

 

I exploded. I had had enough. I began screaming profanities into the phone. SCREAMING profanities. I told them to give me to their supervisor. I screamed profanities at her. She tried to tell me not to talk to her that way, and I let her have it with both barrels -- "Your ****ing company has been ****ing me over for weeks! Don't you DARE tell me I have no right to talk to you like that, you *****! You've been treating me like ****, and I'm not going to ****ing take it any more! Do you ****ing understand?"

 

After that diatribe, I got the service I required. They cleared up my problem in less than an hour.

 

Less. Than. An. Hour.

 

After weeks of being patient and polite, all it took was a handful of well-placed scatalogical references and suddenly they were giving me what I needed.

 

It was a terrible, shameful thing. The girl on the phone didn't do anything to deserve my wrath. It was all her company's fault -- it was their policies and procedures that led to my problem. She was just a drone; she had nothing to do with any of it.

 

And it was her company's fault that I yelled at her. It (apparently) is their company's policy to not assist their customers until the point where they begin yelling profanities.

 

It's the worst company policy I can imagine, and yet, there it is.

 

So I sympathize with you that a customer was yelling at you. But I wonder how badly your bosses screwed them over to get them to that level of anger and frustration. :(

 

 

 

 

It was Qwest, by the way. May they all burn in hell forever.

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