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Quick summary: I want to hit something really hard, and I'm angry about how my life is going and how little control I have, which is driving me mad.

I was born with hypospadias and had many surgeries when I was a child. Everything was fine for 11 years, and then suddenly, at the age of 17, I couldn't urinate. I'm 25 now, and this fucking shit has never gone away.

Dilation after dilation, catheter after fucking catheter—it almost always instantly closes up again, leaving me with a tight, narrow stream, and sometimes just a dribble after the operations. I always dealt with it, but the last three months have been completely out of control.

In March, I got pneumonia and urinary retention at the same time. The pneumonia was likely caused by breathing in harmful fumes while working with CNC machines. Since then, I've lost my job funnily enough i left a good job where i did Computer aided design and mechanical assembly and left that great job for a shit company, had two urinary tract infections, lost a lot of money because I haven't been able to work, lost a lot of muscle because I haven't been able to go to the gym or work, erections are painful as hell, and I've had blood in both my semen and urine.

I can't get the treatment I need because the NHS fucking sucks.

I'm at my breaking point. My life sucks. I could go on and rant forever.

Up until about a year ago, I was super fit and muscular. I was the man. I've been dealing with urinary retention and all this other shit for years, but now it's worse than ever. I'm a driven, hardworking guy who's been passionate about work and has had some sort of job since I was 13. I want to succeed and finally buy my freedom from this modern slavery system, but right now I just want my health back.

Clearly, the NHS won't fix me endless waiting cancelled appointments, so I guess I'm asking if anyone knows of any alternative routes to getting a urethroplasty. Who would you recommend in the private/paid healthcare sector? As I’m not going to wait years to get the treatment I desperately need

I just feel so alone in all of this. It hurts me to say this and sound so weak, as I've always been the tough guy with bulletproof armour, but cant lie, I'm afraid I just want to be normal again, go back to MMA, get a dirt bike, just be a lad

Thanks. I'm going to punch something now.

Hello all, I have a pretty serious issue with a seller. The set was advertised as new and sealed, but as you can see, it clearly is not this is what I was greeted with inside. The seller refuses to solve the issue in a reasonable way but has accepted they made a mistake and meant to list it as used complete.

My first idea was to return everything, and they would refund me in full, which they accepted, but they then refused to pay return shipping costs. The way it is, why should I be £20 out of pocket because of their mistakes? I will not pay for return.

The other solution I came up with is I pay the value of Minifigures 10.03 euros, the used destroyer droid, which in its condition in the UK sells for around £40, 46.15 euros on Facebook and eBay, and the shipping cost, which I would have paid had I bought it from the UK, which would have been 3.95 plus say £1 handling fee convert that to euro's 61.89 - 146.43 = 84.54 so a partial refund of 85.54 would also be acceptable but they refused that as well so I'm at loss for what to do now, the seller will not provide any solution for his mistake and now I don't know what to. For reference, I'm a seller as well. My old Bricklink account was 9 years old. I have 444 sales on eBay, so I know a thing or two, and this is not good customer support in my eyes. Thanks for any help its greatly appreciated as I have never had an issue on Bricklink and I don't know what to do in this scenario.

EDIT: Thanks all for your replies so much more helpful then the Lego subreddit everyone basically said it was my fault and what did you expect but screw them that's besides the point.

I've now posted it back to them we both have the tracking number and they said when it arrives they will refund me and pay the return shipping costs so it's solved hopefully we will find out if they will try and pull any crap yet, it's just ridiculous that we sent about 20 plus email and bricklink messages back and fourth before he did the right thing I mean like I said I'm a seller as well mostly eBay I'm just so shocked that someone with so much feedback and experience could be so difficult and frankly dishonest to me treating a customer like this is unthinkable, Thanks all.

At my fucking breaking point need urethroplasty

New Sealed bricklink set was not sealed seller refuses to correct issue please advise.