Monday, August 17, 2009

Check Your Walmart Receipts!!!

Hello everyone,

I know it’s been a while since I have posted, and I’m sorry if that dissapointed anyone out there. Life sort of got away from me for a while there and is still kinda crazy, but I thought this one was worth posting. I received this in an email from my grandfather and think everyone should read it. It is just one more reason for all of us to hate Walmart….


“YES!  THIS IS TRUE!  It happened to me at Wal-Mart (Supercenter Store #1279, 10411 N Freeway 45, Houston , TX 77037 ) a month ago. I bought a bunch of stuff, over $150, & I glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the bags.  I saw a cash-back of $40.  I told her I didn’t request a cash back & to delete it.  She said I’d> have to take the $40 because she couldn’t delete it.  I told her to call a supervisor..  Supervisor came & said I’d have to take it.  I said NO!  Taking the $40 would be a cash advance against my Discover & I wasn’t paying interest on a cash advance!!!!!  If they couldn’t delete it then they would have to delete the whole order.  So the supervisor had the cashier delete the whole order & re-scan everything!  The second time I looked at the electronic pad before I signed & a cash-back of $20 popped up.  At that point I told the cashier & she deleted it.  The total came out right.  The cashier agreed that the electronic pad must be defective.  Obviously the cashier knew the electronic pad was defective because she NEVER offered me the $40 at the beginning.  Can you imagine how many people went through before me & at the end of her shift how much money she pocketed? 

Just to alert everyone. My co worker went to Milford DE Walmart last week. She had her items rung up by the cashier. The cashier hurried her along and didn’t give her a receipt. She asked the cashier for a receipt and the cashier was annoyed and gave it to her. My co worker didn’t look at her receipt until later that night. The receipt showed that she asked for $20 cash back. SHE DID NOT ASK FOR CASH BACK. My co worker called Walmart who investigated but could not see the cashier pocket the money. She then called her niece who works for the bank and her niece told her this. There is a scam going on. The cashier will ask for cash back and hand it to her friend who is the next person in line.  Please, Please, please check your receipts right away when using debit cards. The store has the cashier under investigation now. We can only pray that she is caught very soon.

I am adding to this.  My husband and I were in WalMart North Salisbury and paying with credit card when my husband went to sign the credit card signer he just happen to notice there was a $20 cash back added.  He told the cashier that he did not ask nor want cash back and she said this machine has been messing up and she canceled it.  We really didn’t think anything of it until we read this email.  Please be aware!”

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Quick update…

It’s been a while… So here’s the update as of now. My brother was taken back to the hospital on Saturday night around 11:30 pm. He was once again screaming in pain… At the ER they doctors drugged him up, and around 4 am they sent him home, this time with dilaudid pills that they were hoping would help. They seemed to work for a short period of time, about a day, then he was screaming again…

Monday morning rolls around and my mom is done. At this point he has been screaming in pain for a month, with little to no releaf. She took him in to Urgent care this time and they couldn’t get his pain back down, so they sent her, once again, to the ER. This time they must have called ahead because shortly after arriving, they admitted him. They ordered another MRI, multiple blood tests and an ecocardiogram. They still didn’t know what they were looking at. Finally the MRI was read and they said it lit up and was obviously discitis. 
For those of you who don’t know, discitis is an infection of the disc between the vertebrae in the spine. His is so severe that it is also affecting the vertebrae on either side of the disc. 
Anyway, we also heard a day or two later that they found bacteria in his blood. They weren’t sure what kind yet, but it was a step closer. They started giving him antibiotics as of yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, they heard back that it is S aureus, so they changed his meds to be more specific. 
As of now they are testing his blood every two days until it is clear. Once his blood is clear, they will be implanting a PIC line in him and he will have a constant pump of antibiotics for around 6 weeks, possibly a little longer depending on how things go. Oh, a PIC line is basically a semi-perminant IV that he can come home with. 
So why did it take so darn long for them to figure this out? Well, according to the doctors, it takes a little bit of time to be readable on an MRI. Also, discitis is very very uncommon. Not only is it uncommon, but from what I have read when researching what it is online, there are only around 60 reported cases in the US of people suffering from discitis over the age of 10. It is more common in children, but essentially unheard of in adults. 
What’s going to happen? We have to do a major clean on the house since it has been pretty neglected the past month with all that has been going on before he can come home. He will remain in pain, at least for a little while, while the antibiotics start working, so he will still be on some major pain meds. After that, they can’t say he won’t have any back pain, but given he is only 18/19 years old, they think he will recover and be just fine. He should be able to go into the fire academy again nest spring since he will probably barely be off the meds by August and will not have had any physical therapy to rebuild the increadable amount of muscle mass he has lost through this. 
Finally! A light at the end of the tunnel! Off to the hospital to see him. 
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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Life…

For those of you out there in the blog world who don’t know what has been happening in my life for the past week and a half, here’s a quick rundown. 


My brother was taken to the hospital for his back pain on Friday night around 6:30 and sent home with Vicodine and Valleum for the pain around 3am. It wasn’t working… He was still miserable. Saturday night, I think he woke up once and had really bad spasms for about ten minutes, but Sunday night was a thousand times worse. He woke up I think three times and was in so much pain because of the spasms all he could do was scream. We gave him both pills around 12, and tried to go to bed around 12:30, only to wake once again to his painful screams around 2:30. So Monday my mom decided to take him in to the doctors again. He was given stronger meds (about twice as strong) and sent home. Again, no relief. We gave him meds again around 12 on Monday night, tried to go to bed, and were up again at 2:30 with him screaming in pain. Finally he broke down around 10am. He was crying and just asking me when the pain will end. I was the only one home since Steph was at school and my mom was dealing with the other major issue that crept up, my dad.  Anyway, when my mom got home, she took him back into the ER and they ran a CT and an MRI. Both ended up coming back clean, so they went back to the idea of it being a really bad strained muscle. So, they kept him there until Thursday afternoon for managed major pain meds and observation. He has yet stronger pain meds and is home again. We’ll see how things go. As of now he’s mostly sleeping and not moving around too much.

Ok, on to my dad. Sunday he told us that the bottom half of his left eye was blocked by a black “blob”, inside. He had a detached retina in his left eye about 5 years ago, so he knew thats what it was. I took him in to an emergency eye appointment Monday morning where they told him that they were definitely going to have to do emergency surgery to repair it. They sent him straight to the surgeon thinking they could take him straight into surgery. Then the surgeon found out that they wanted to send him to Pomona Vally hospital for the surgery and he was a little worried because they hadn’t completed very many and weren’t as well equipt as well as Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.  So, he had to fight the insurance to get him into the hospital that has the best equipment for the job, which meant he had to wait until Tuesday. He went into his surgery Tuesday and they said it was as successful as it could be. They won’t know how well he can see for about 2 months, and for now he has to stay face down 100% until at least Monday when he goes back in for a follow-up. We’ll see what happens. 

Ok, so maybe it wasn’t so quick. Anyway, because of all of this I haven’t slept more than maybe 12-14 hours since last Sunday. I also skipped class Monday to take my dad in to see his doctor, have done no homework so I can do everything I can to help them both, have been doing my best to help clean house, run the shop, take care of the pool, and take care of the dogs (who don’t get what is going on), and have a huge presentation Monday morning. I’m so exhausted I can’t hardly see straight anymore. That’s my mental status right now.

I told them all I have to do this presentation today because I have no time left, but I’m still being told I’m not doing enough. My dad told me I need to do more to help my mom who now has swollen ankles from running around so much. I don’t know what else I can do… I feel like none of them seem to care about all I have already done and are simply focusing on the fact that I’m trying to do homework, which is stopping me from helping as much, and telling me I’m not doing good enough… I don’t know what to do… I have to go work on this presentation, which by the way, I seem to have writers block for… great… 
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

A Day Of Answers…

Hello again everyone!

Wednesday of last week (1/21) I received two phone calls that changed the course of what will follow in our lives. The first was an awesome phone call to receive. After two months I FINALLY heard back from Cal State Fullerton about Grad school. Long story short, (well, sort of) the wrong person was given my grad school paperwork and application to process and instead of passing it on, it was left on his desk until 5 days before I got the phone call. That really happened, the reason he gave for not passing it on sooner? He didn’t want to do anything over his Christmas break. When it was finally passed on the Professor who was responsible for reading it was out of town until Wednesday, yes the same Wednesday I got the phone call. Well, I am now in the biology graduate program; school started Monday. So, I should have my Master’s in 2 years… =)

So the second phone call wasn’t as pleasant. The second call was from the Church; they decided they aren’t approving our application for use of the campus for the reception. The strangest part of the whole thing is that I’m not furious with the church for leading us on and not giving us an answer for 5 months. (Yes, they had the application for 5 months before we were finally answered) I am however disappointed and I kind of feel unwelcome or unwanted at my own home church, which is never a good feeling and it is never a feeling I wish on anyone. We both have attended and been members of the church since they opened and have been serving for almost 18 years between us. The reason we were given? They just aren’t ready to hold a reception yet. Here’s why this makes me feel the way I feel. I have been to a reception on the church grounds, and I know they are hosting another reception for another couple in about a month. So, was I lied to by my own church? I don’t know. I don’t know if the reason I was given came from the group of people who I was told were writing a policy for which members of the church could and couldn’t use the grounds or if the reason I was given came from the person who made the phone call. Either way, I no longer wish to have my reception and possibly even my ceremony at the church if I can avoid it. I don’t feel welcome there. I had looked at the church as a second home and a second family, but I don’t know anymore. I am sort of uncomfortable around the people who I know were on the committee, and it makes me sad. No one should feel this way around the leaders of the church. I don’t in any way blame the pastor who is our contact and who we have grown up with and we hope if we find a location for both that he will still do our ceremony. He always seemed genuine in his attempts to help us out and he is really a great guy. We still love him to death. Anyway, just so you are all updated after this huge gap of nothing, that is the biggest thing that has happened in the past couple weeks.  

Thanks for stopping by…

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Here she comes!

I recieved a text message at 3:50 am from my sister (one of my best friends who isn’t technically my sister, buy you get the point). She was on her way to the hospital to finally have her baby. I’m so excited! She’s been dialated 2 cm for a few weeks and yesterday she had a doctors appointment.  They told her she has progressed to 3 cm and she would be giving birth any day. I’m so excited! And J and I are headed up there on Thursday and will be there until Sunday.  Just thought I’d share… I’m super excited that I’m going to be an auntie!
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Friday, October 17, 2008

It’s been a long while…

but I am back. At least I hope I’ll be getting better at this. It’s been an insanely busy past couple of months.  So I thought I’d start with a little life update.  I turned 23 today, but I’m not entirely sure how I’m feeling about it. I don’t mind getting older, but the older I get, the faster life seems to go and the busier I seem to get. Oh well I guess. J and I went to Disneyland about a week ago to hang out and have some fun with our passes. It was supposed to be my birthday thing since we’re trying to save up as much as possible for when we get married, but he bought me the first two seasons of Grey’s Anatomy too. He’s getting me the other two, but I guess Target was out of them. I’m excited to watch them all!

I also got a text message today telling me my niece is going to be here soon, hopefully. Just to clearify, no, she is not genetically related to me. Neither my brother nor my sister is having a baby. One of my best friends (who is basically my sister) is having the baby girl. She told me today that the baby is measuring vull term and she was told it could be any day now. I’m super excited and I hope she gets here soon. J and I are going to visit the three of them (hopefully she’s here by then) November 6th - 9th.  
Other than that, I’m still doing my research. I’m going out to the desert again next weekend, and once a month through March. I still have a ways to go, but that’s ok. I’m not really in a huge hurry I suppose. I’m finding the more I think about it, the more I don’t really care if I take a full 2 years. I am getting married on Feb 5, 2010 and if I take a bigger chunk of classes my first and second semester of my masters and lighter loads my second two, then I can slow down and enjoy my first year of marriage. Anyway, what do you think? 
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Finally!!

Finally our wedding website is up and running. It just took J and I a while to get there. Feel free to check it out! www.momentville.com/jasonandkrista. Hope you like it…
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Back to school…

Starting tomorrow, I will once again be back in school. Back to school means driving out to Fullerton at least twice a week. The hardest part about going back to school, I still don’t have a car. I should be getting a Corolla next weekend, but I still don’t have it yet. Oh well I suppose. Anyway, just thought I’d share =) I’m excited and sad at the same time… I’ll live right?
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

:-( Unable to post…

After attempting many different routes to post the video slideshows I was talking about, I can’t get them online. They are in a format that isn’t supported apparently. Sorry. If you really want to see one or more, lete me know. I’ll try to send you a copy the old fashion way. Here’s the titles: Hawaii, Alaska, Forever Young (parent’s version), Forever Young (Grandparent’s version), Ari Max Joey & Sophie, and Typical Myers. I will only send the first four becase the other two aren’t of my own family.
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Friday, August 8, 2008

Girls Night!

Friday night was girls night. It was supposed to be the 5 of us who go to school together nd my sister if she wanted to come. She decided to go out with her girls instead… no big deal. Then about an hour or so before we were all due to meet up, I get a text from one of the other girls. She can’t make it either. She had to move and paint, so I suppose she is forgiven. ;-) Anyway, the 4 of us went to a little mexican resturaunt on Brea Blvd by the Improv. That was apparently enough for us. We ended up just hanging out and catching up on each other’s lives for the few hours that we sat there. It was actually a lot of fun! Anyway, so after some scary fun photos and convincing one of the girls that she had actually drank more than half of the drink she ordered (which she reall only drank a few sips), we headed home for bed. It had been a long week… All in all, tons of fun!
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