What's wrong with me: Emergency appendicitis surgery. After which my TMJ has been so bad I can't open my mouth all the way. Oh, and so far I'm 18K in debt to the hospital. That I know of. I'm sure there's more coming because everybody that touches you sends a separate bill. I don't have insurance, but that doesn't really matter anyway. When I did have insurance they refused every damn thing I tried to claim and the deductible was 15K, max out of pocket was 30K/yr. That was the only policy we could afford. Even on the marketplace. It would have been way cheaper to bury me. My husband says I'm worth the money but I'm not so sure. Very depressed. Still can't eat normally. Still can't wear real pants because of incisions. Lost another 5lbs too. Officially underweight. Can't afford a TMJ specialist. I'm feeling so sorry for myself it's difficult to breathe. Kind of wishing I'd refused to go to the hospital at all.

If a relative cropped you out of a picture and posted it on FB, would you be ok with it? Swallow all pride to go a family event at their house just to keep the peace? My sister and I had a petty argument that blew into a huge family feud. I still sent presents to her son, she never acknowledged my kids on their birthdays, or even when my daughter was born.I apologized for my part because my mom was going through a hard time and it wasn't the time. She didn't apologize but whatever, I just wanted to move on.We agreed and I thought that was it-until Mother's Day when she posted a picture of her, my grandmother, my infant son, mother and-I am absolutely cropped out. We hadn't even talked since we agreed to let bygones be bygones. I am hurt and I am refusing to go to the event. Now I'm the bad guy. I am ready to just cut off the family because the things she has done before all this was just waved away as "her being young" *she's 25* I'm sick of swallowing how I feel.

Sorry to hear you have been dealing with this! I wish you were in Canada, where you could have gone to the ER and gotten the scans and treatment without a bill, even if they didn't find anything until it was acutely inflamed. Appendicitis can be tricky and its awful that you have to keep paying when they can't do anything until it's bad enough. Canadian healthcare has its problems, but at least bills are not one of them. Best of luck on a speedy recovery.

I live in a condo complex, and my mailbox (and several others) got pried open over the weekend. I just talked to the Association, and of course got the usual "This isn't our problem, you have to pay to get it fixed". A hammer and a pair of pliers later, and the door works just fine. It looks ugly, but I don't care, and apparently this in my property, so I can do what I want. :) As I was fixing it, a neighbor walked by and asked if I could fix hers too. I warned her I might make it worse, since I didn't know what I was doing. She pointed out it was already broken, so I might as well give it a shot. Yup, fixed hers too! And while I had the tool kit out, I trimmed the roses that were getting caught in the door, so now my condo smells like flowers. I'm feeling pretty badass.

Last fall I got sicker than I'd ever been in my life. Horrific abdominal pain. Days of pain and not being able to eat. I thought it was food poisoning, I'd gotten that same pain before but never that bad. I became kind of afraid to eat, not knowing what was making me sick. Kept getting that pain, intermittently a couple times a month but not as bad. Stopped eating a whole lot of things. Kept happening. Tried even harder to dial in my diet. Kept happening. Then, a week ago it happened again. Worse than anything I'd ever experienced. I've never actually been stabbed, but it felt like stab wounds. Like I half expected to see blood. At least then I would have had a reason for why I was dying. Broke down and let DH & FIL force me to go to the walk in clinic. (In my life experience, doctors are less than useless and I hate going) Well, without even a real exam they sent me to the ER at the nearest hospital telling me I probably have appendicitis. I get to the ER (cont'd)

Between the gas shortage, real estate skyrocketing, stock market bubble, etc. My anxiety is *really* bad. I don't know what to do and it's scary. I wish there was somewhere safe to go, but I feel like it's too late and the rest of the world isn't great either. Not sure if I should be stockpiling emergency food things or what.

I canNOT with all these homeschool moms not allowing their children to have a voice and then as soon as they turn 18 expecting them to be adults. "My kids want to go back to school, but I don't and I don't allow them to contribute to decisions regarding their future." Oh fuck off. I try SO hard to let my kids make their own decisions while also guiding them to the *wise* decision. If they mess up, they learn from mistakes and have me there to catch them. Not just me forcing them to do what I want them to do or be or say. I was never allowed a voice either, I guess that's why it pisses me off so badly. There's a difference between respecting a parent and outright fear and domination in parenting.

Im so tired of being an outcast. It is exhausting. I've never fit in before, and now I don't fit in with moms either. I'm not crunchy enough, or "free parenting" enough, not liberal or conservative enough, not a helicopter mom. There's nowhere that I fit, and as a result my kids don't fit either. Like today, someone posted a public preteen middle school pizza party, invite for all preteens, outdoors, masks, perfect for us since we fit in that category. Nope. Expressed interest and the mom says "oh no, thanks for your interest but this is for 13 and up and just for certain people. Not for everyone!" Then why post that everyone was welcome? It's bad enough that I struggle socially, but every time I put myself out there I get rejected. I'm tired.

My job is in the healthcare industry, and unfortunately it's customer service. I've done it for 10 years and working with the public is making absolutely hate people. I'm so sick of entitled pos who think they can get away with bad behavior and I just have to be kind and put up with it. And it never fails that my day always seem to end with an asshole so I have the entire evening at home replaying their bullshit over and over a hundred times in my head, instead of relaxing and not thinking about work.

OP with personal horrible women stories here. I wasn't talking about bosses, I was talking women I have worked with in a professional setting. And I got no problem with assertive people (men or women), I'm talking actual horrible experiences. Like the time I was party to a a female coworker telling her direct reports "We got to get this guy fired, he is useless. If he isn't gone in a week, I'm going to say he is sexually harassing me - that ought to get him out of here. You all will back me up, right?" Yes, I reported her to HR. It didn't change anything. Well, we did get rid of the useless guy at the next review, because he was bad at his job. I got several more stories like that. I'm not saying all women are horrible, just in my experience, I see truly appalling behavior more from women than men. It is possible it is my bias, although that would be deeply subconscious, since I am a women in a professional setting who puts effort toward both gender and race equality in the workplace.