No I’m not a health care professional, but I’ve got over 40 years more experience with my body than you do, and I’ve learned to recognize some of the common routine problems. We can waste an hour filling out the same routine paperwork, answering the same routine questions, and doing the same routine checks. But in the end the doctor’s just going to take a quick glance, give the same diagnosis that I said that it would be, and prescribe the same treatment that I said I would need, same as 3 months ago. I know you might have to do that for insurance or liability reasons, there’s no need to be patronizing about it.
Went to the lab closest to where I live, because I thought it would be most convenient.
Started to explain that I normally lie down during blood draws.
I get glared at, and “Are you a fainter?”
I explain no, but I do like to lie down, as I really am phobic of needles. Finally, someone else sets it up.
On the way out, I get another dirty look.
I should have told her the truth. “No, I am not. What is likely to happen, if I cannot lie down and control my breathing, is I will panic and punch you in the face. So, if you don’t mind, in the name of workplace safety, check the attitude, and book me in one of the rooms where I can lie down.”
Instead, I just walked out the door, and I now go to one about 45 minutes away, where they understand the concept of panicky patients, and basic respect.
There must be a hawk outside, because the blue jays have been screaming bloody murder for the last 6 hours. Everybody’s got to make a living, including the hawks and the jays, but so do I, and the screaming isn’t helping.
Neither is the fact that the cats are all inside today. I mean, if there was a bird of prey that was about as large as me, I’d hang out in the house also.
Maybe what’s grinding my gears is just that my productivity is shit today.
In the middle of a dolphin-viewing cruise, my son pissed up through his diaper (HOW), all over my breasts.
The shock, and immediate exit to clean myself, deprived me of the chance to tell off a woman bragging that ICE will never raid her house, because she’s friends with the chief of Trump’s local campaign and so her Mexicans are exempt.
I have PreCheck for a reason and just about had a full blown panic attack when I saw the lines were closed and I was getting waved into the body scanner. Fortunately they didn’t flag anything? Seriously wonder if they reduce the sensitivity at different times of day.
My good computer mouse has started making clicking noises. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower, sometimes stopped. Moving it usually makes it stop. Unplugging it isn’t enough to keep it from starting…
Despite being unplugged and not using batteries, it started several times overnight, so I haven’t been able to sleep.
Searching for “mouse” (“clicking sound” OR “clicking noise”) is not helpful.
P.S. Switched mouse. Clicking resumed-- maybe it something in the monitor or one lamp, but why would moving the mouse often stop noise from them? And I’d shut down my computer, and turned off the power strip, and unplugged the power strip, and hadn’t stopped the noise.
P.P.S. Probably coming from the lower west corner of the monitor. Which shouldn’t have power overnight either.
I’m not saying this is the cause, but if you ever start hearing clicking sounds coming from your computer, DO A BACKUP IMMEDIATELY because the hard drive may be failing.
Again, this may be a fan bearing or something else entirely, but just as a rule, clicking = OMG immediate backup NOW NOW NOW.
It’s not coming from the computer. Or from any of the hard drives. It’s coming from further west, where I have the mouse, the west edge of the monitor, and the lamp. It’s not coming from the mouse or the lamp either. It may be coming from the power switch on the monitor.
Sounds to me like something shorting (like, as you say, the power switch). I may be wrong, though. Try unplugging the monitor for a while and see if it stops.
I tried that. It doesn’t stop. I unplugged it and picked it up and it kept making that noise. Others have reported similar issues:
I suppose the gum from the sticker over the power button might have worked its way into the electronics. Not much I can do as long as power buttons burn with the brightness of a thousand suns.
That is truly weird. If it is electrical, it could be a capacitor is charged when it’s powered up, and continues to discharge when powered down so that the noise either starts or continues.
Either that or the factory is infested with pests, and one got in. But that’s really hard to believe!
Unfortunately, no. I stayed with my Trump supporting in-laws for two weeks this month. My husband’s father retired after 38 years doing narcotics enforcement. The conversations, when they existed, got a little heated.
