u/madpeezy

Hey y'all,

My Walgreens pharmacy changed their controlled medication refill rules about a year ago, where I now have to call in every time to ask them to start filling my medication after I have my pain appointments. Usually I'm not on the correct schedule so they tell me to call again in a few days and then they will fill it.

I call them earlier today asking if they can start to fill my Butrans patch and Hydro. They say yeah you can pick up the hydro tomorrow but it looks like the butrans patch is on backorder, every single strength is actually on backorder and we don't know when we can get it in. We check the back order medications every day so we can let you know when we think we'll get more in stock. If your insurance approves it, you can probably get the generic version which is not on backorder.

I'm sitting on the phone like....girl..... I put my last patch on last Wednesday and need a new one this Wednesday. There's no way you can 1) contact my doctor and have him write a whole new script for a generic, get a pre-auth, and order it by Wednesday. 2) The pharmacy is in a pretty small town (like 30,000 people or less), I'm probably one of a handful of people who's on Butrans. I know they probably don't want to go through the hassel of calling everyone on this medication (which they know gets changed every 7 days), to give them a heads up that it's all on backorder but cmon now this shit is insane.

I'm so nervous about possibly going through withdrawl and getting sick because no one updates patients on anything until we have to call. I'm just getting to the point where I'm fucking exhausted advocating for myself. I know I have to, I'm just tired of it. If you know a pretty important medication is on backorder, and there's probably like 10 people or less on it from your pharmacy, can yall not just give me a call to let me know omg :(

I hate this shit so much. No one thinks about how this impacts us- it's not just annoying-it's potentially dangerous for our health!!!

I lost my family dog of 9 years on 6/14. She ate a wild mushroom (we think late 6/13) and went into very sudden liver/kidney failure and had to be euthanised the next day. I was out of town housesitting starting the morning of 6/13, and was informed by my parents that Della had gotten sick during the night and was lethargic and didn't eat breakfast in the morning, so they took her to the ER. She kept getting bumped down the triage list, and they had to wait 4 hours to be seen. They were sent home with anti nausea meds around 1:30.

I stopped by the house around 5pm and noticed Della was laying on the floor, completely lethargic, barely reacting to me, which was super unlike her. I even mentioned to my mom that she looked terrible, like she was dying. I just sat with her for ~20 minutes until she got up to go outside, and I followed her to make sure everything was ok. It was not.

My poor baby dog tried for about 30 seconds to squat to do her business, but her legs were shaking so much she couldn't. She just had what I thought at the time was bloody diarrhea. Now looking back it was either bloody urine or literally just blood because it was all liquid. I literally started screaming bloody murder and holding my dog, trying to get one of my parents' attention. I think because I explained it as bloody diarrhea we called the ER to ask what to do instead of just putting her in the car and driving. I wish I sat with her in the backseat of the car instead of putting her in the way back as her organs were shutting down.

I keep having visions of her getting violently sick in front of me. I keep seeing her lethargic on the floor. I keep remembering how the only time she reacted before euthanasia was when my mom opened the door and left before she was sedated. Even though my dad and I were there the whole process, she saw my mom leave her.

I have so many regrets. I feel so guilty. My poor dog was probably in so much distress because they didn't run bloodwork the first time at the ER, I didn't come home sooner, I didn't demand we go back to the ER when I saw her lethargic on the floor, I didn't immediately make us go to the ER when she had bloody urine/blood. I feel so bad that I probably scared my dog so much as she was in pain by screaming so loudly when she got sick in front of me.

I feel traumatized and don't know what to do. Dying from mushroom poisoning is a notoriously horrible and painful death, and I feel like I can't keep living with the knowledge of how much my dog suffered before we found out what was wrong and put her down.

TLDR;

Dog of 9 years had to be unexpectedly euthanized after ingesting a poisonous mushroom from the day prior. I saw her completely lethargic and not herself, struggle to squat, and having partly or fully bloody urine and it keeps replaying in my head. I feel so much guilt for the horribly painful death she experienced and am struggling with guilt over what I saw/ the decisions my family and I took.

Hi all,

I had to put my dog down Sunday night and would love some help enhancing this photo of her to use in her memorial. Could you please remove the shadow on the grass behind her, the shadow of my phone on the left, and sharpen her face a little (the sun made her super bright lol). I'm unemployed and apologize for the free request.

Thank you so much.

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I started pet sitting for a family friend Saturday evening and said a quick goodbye to my dog Della, who’s an 11/12 year old Doberman mix. I live on my parents’ property so they were watching her (she usually sleeps with me though).

I woke up yesterday to a message saying they took her to the ER because she wasn’t eating and was lethargic. She wouldn’t take her medications either. My parents and ER vet agreed to wait on blood work because she was due for some at her regular vet in about 2 months, but gave her subcutaneous fluids and sent her home with nausea medications around 2 and I came by the house around 5.

My dog was on the ground looking insanely lethargic, not really looking at me but I figured she was trying to recover. My parents said she still hadn’t eaten or taken her meds. I sat with her for \~30 minutes until she got up and walked outside with her. She tried to squat to do her business but her legs were shaking so much she couldn’t, and basically had projectile, bloody diarrhea. She walked over to our pool, which she has a bad habit of drinking out of (there are two water bowls in front of lol) and you could tell she wanted to drink out of it but couldn’t lean down. It was horrible to watch. It was like even in her distress she wanted to do this routine one last time and she just couldn’t. I just hugged her as she stood since she couldn’t sit down while my parents got the car ready.

We took her back to the ER and agreed to do blood work, X-rays, and overnight hospitalization and they would administer iv fluids. My parents drove home and I went back to housesitting. 5 minutes after getting back, my dad called to let me know that Della’s bloodwork shows she’s in liver/kidney failure because she ate a fucking mushroom and we had to go back to the ER to put her down.

We were able to spend some lucid time with Della before they put her down, and we were assured she had gotten a good amount of pain meds so she was comfortable. We left her with her original lambchop that we adopted her from the rescue organization with.

I’m so mad at myself for not being there for her these last few nights/ days because I’m housesitting. I’m so mad bloodwork wasn’t run the first time we dropped her off at the ER. I’m mad she ate a fucking mushroom after living on our property for 8 years!!!! And I’m mad at myself for having a sleep disorder which makes it extremely hard to wake up, because if I was able to function normally I could have spent more time with her instead of less than an hour today. I’m usually up all night with her, so if I was at home I might have spotted the red flags earlier than my parents.

I don’t know where to go from here. This wasn’t supposed to happen this way. We were going to euthanize her at home when the time came. I’m at a loss for my sweet baby and I’m beating myself up.

I know it just happened, but I keep getting the image of her in distress, not acting like herself, getting sick, and struggling to lean down to drink out of the pool out of my head. I’m so upset by the fact that she was suffering for multiple hours before we got her back to the ER, and I’m horrified by the fact that she was sick the first night I started housesitting. I don’t know how to get these images to stop playing in my head. I’m also deeply saddened that I wasn’t there for her before she got sick. I was with her less than an hour between coming home and bringing her back to the ER, and she wasn’t herself in that time.

I wish I spent more time with her before leaving for housesitting, I wish I could have driven her in my car one more time, taken her to the beach, and just cuddled her. I just wish she didn’t pass away this way and I’m really struggling.

Hey all,

I started a private sector job on 6/2 after being out of work since October 2025, but I'd like to break into the public sector. I've filled out my STD 678, except for this new job, as I'm unsure of the best practice.

After being hired, I was told that my job title and responsibilities would differ from the job posting and the interview. Within a week, I've witnessed multiple red flags (no one takes their breaks because they don't have time to complete their work and I wasn't allowed to go on mine for the first few days, people are shit-talking each other and using slurs, supervisors are raising their voices and speaking inappropriately to employees, etc). There's more, but the long story short is that to preserve my mental health, I absolutely cannot see myself working here any longer and am going to resign this Friday.

My question to y'all is: I know the STD 678 stresses that you need to list every job in the last 10 years regardless of duration, so it looks like I'll have to add this week and a half stint on there. I'm a little stumped on how to fill out my duties performed section for this, since I haven't actually performed all of them. During my first week, my supervisor was out sick, so I shadowed the employee that I was supposed to replace. My first hands-on experience began this week, and I've only performed a few of my listed responsibilities.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? I understand this brief job may look bad, and I'm concerned it could hurt my chances for interviews, but I still want to try. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I was hired as a receptionist for a solo estate planning office and start tomorrow. Originally the job posting was file clerk/ receptionist, but in the interview they said it would be more receptionist/ front desk work and stressed it’s a super busy environment. The culture seems really supportive though.

The job posting stated I’ll be drafting letters and preparing estate documents for signing under supervision and that has me nervous. I saw the office was hiring an associate on indeed, but that listing disappeared quickly so not sure if they’re expanding.

Any advice for a new estate planning receptionist? I’m trying to keep calm before tomorrow but I’m really stressed out :/

Yall,

I’m tired. I’m tired of waking up with a new symptom and I’m tired of having to find another specialist to add to my roster. I did not think MCTD would impact this many body systems, and I especially didn’t expect them to keep coming one at a time over the years…

I’ve developed severe dry eye from the inflammation, and Restasis was prescribed. It’s yet ANOTHER medication to remember to take.

I’m really exhausted managing this many specialists; pain doctor, rheumatology, cardiology, neurology, pulmonology, dermatology, now ophthalmology. I’m resigned to the fact that MCTD affects every single fucking bodily system and I’ll just keep taking fistfuls of medications until I croak.

For the past few weeks I’ve been feeling nauseous from all the medications I take. I want to cut back on some, but I honestly don’t even know where to start- which doctor to bring this up with? Rheumatology since that’s kinda what’s controlling my life now or my pain doctor since that’s one of my biggest issues?

I feel completely consumed by this disease and what it takes to “manage” it… I don’t think I’m managing it very well honestly. I thought I could handle it when I first got diagnosed, maybe because I was just happy to have an answer, but now I’m just overwhelmed. My life has changed so much, I’m disabled some days by it, and other days I’m ok. I’m turning 32 in a few weeks and am trying to find a job that can accommodate my physical needs and all my appointments.

It’s tough out here, especially because people outside this subreddit don’t understand this disease at all 😞

This is a rant. I applied for a file clerk/ receptionist role at a law office (estate planning, solo lawyer) and the culture seemed super supportive and like the lawyer really valued her employees.

I had my in person interview two days ago and the lawyer sat in for the first ~10 minutes. She shakes my hand, says hello and then immediately asks me if I speak Spanish (bilingual was a “positive”, not a requirement). It was super awkward for the first question , and something I feel they should have asked me on the phone. I said no and she starts rapid firing questions like:

“Have you experience the loss of a love one?”
“Did you seek help for your grief?”
“Have you lost a family member specifically?”
“Tell me about yourself, do you have a partner?”
“Tell me a time you felt unsupported at work”
“Can you handle clients being upset & emotional? We deal with clients family members after they have passed on, you need to be able to handle upsetting situations. ”
“Have you ever been rattled by a client? Why? What happened?”

I felt myself stumbling through my answers, the pacing was so quick, and it was clearly a situation where she hadn’t read my resume or been briefed on the fact that I’ve been a veterinary receptionist in a previous role. I’ve had to deal with clients experiencing the worst day of their lives (finding out a pet is sick/ euthanizing a pet/ having an unexpected $3k bill ) and having to charge them for their visit as they’re falling apart in front of me. I have experience with extremely emotional situations, including devastating grief.

I feel like those skills were very transferable to this job, and I was really excited about the supportive office environment, which the two other women interviewing me after the lawyer left kept saying was the best working environment they’ve had, but I still walked out of the interview having an ick feeling by the questions the lawyer asked me and how she asked them.

No, I don’t have a partner, but thanks for reminding me of that lol, I’m sure she just wanted a more personal “get to know me” answer, but you’re not even supposed to ask that question. It was also awkward explaining that I’ve dealt with personal loss, and then saying what I’ve done to get through it (therapy), just for the lawyer to then ask if I’ve dealt with family loss, which felt minimizing of the fact that just because my friend wasn’t a blood relative, that loss didn’t count as much? (She was my very best friend that passed, like a sister to me, and I’m still grieving her everyday, so that stings) I’m just not in a great place mentally and I left feeling stupid about how I stumbled through all these weird questions and like I don’t even want to work with this woman if I do get the job.

I understand she’s looking for someone who can remain professional in the face of emotional clients, but if you had looked at my resume you could have seen I’ve done just that. It felt like none of my answers were good enough for her, she barely reacted to them.

Might just be my depression talking but even 2 days later I just have this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach that’s warning me about this place, even though the other two ladies assured me the lawyer “wants the best for everyone, pours herself into us, and gives you all the tools to succeed”.

Anyone had an interview like that before?

Hey all,

This is just a rant/ I'm struggling. I'm so exhausted. I usually average 4-5 doctor appointments a month, but I've been unemployed since last October and have been trying to make the most out of my freer schedule to get everything done.

I've had 9 fucking appointments this month.

Pain doctor x2

Sleep Study

Rheumatology

Labs x2

Jaw/migraine panel botox

Auriculotemporal nerve block consult

Eye doctor

When does this shit end? How are we supposed to function in society when we're working full time jobs just getting medical care? This doesn't even cover the amount of time spent making appointments, driving to them, rescheduling, waiting for your doctor who's always 25+ minutes late, making new appointments, checking insurance issues, picking up prescriptions, etc. Non chronic pain/illness folks have no idea how much time and effort goes into taking care of your failing body.

I'm just getting to the end of my rope here. I'm in so much pain, I feel like I'm not being heard, I don't know how I'm supposed to manage so many appointments, I don't know how to continue like this. I don't know how to get a job that accommodates all my appointments while being able to pay my bills as a single person, and I'm not at the point where I can qualify for disability.

I'll be 32 in June and this pain has changed my life so much already. Looking towards the future seems impossible right now. I'm already scheduled for 3 appointments next month. I'm burnt out.