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(Message started by: Lissa on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:33pm)
Title: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Lissa on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:33pm
I met my boyfriend's family for the first time over the holidays.  They were all very nice.  One thing that bugged the shit out of me was their constant complaints about migraine headaches.  My boyfriend, his sister and his brother all get migraines.  New to the "family", I thought I'd add to the conversation by saying that I get cluster headaches.  They both responded "Oh yeah, we have those too" (like it was no big deal).  I was like, yeah right!!!!  If they really had clusters, they wouldn't have just said "Oh yeah, I get them too!"  It made me mad.  Grrrrrrr.
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Little Deb on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:37pm
Get a new boyfriend's family!
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Giovanni on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:38pm
I was told recently in Florida that this condition I had was more or less stress related and mentally conceived. I saw red.  Wish that individual could spend a few days in our shoes.

>:(
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Little Deb on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:40pm



No, wait!  Invite them over for dinner, fill it full of a laxitive, and when they are in agony, say.."oh, I get an upset stomach sometimes too."  Then offer desert!


LOL!



feeling a little pet peev'd too...little deb
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by hopefull on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:40pm
::)
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Opus on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:41pm
The only thing to do is let them see you with a CH, and when they offer you Tylenol tell then it won't help at all.  Also make sure they know it is impossible to sleep with a CH. That's all you want to do with a Migraine.

Opus/Paul
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by jonny on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:42pm
Hire me to show them the pain of CH ;;D

............................jonny
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Lissa on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:43pm

on 01/07/04 at 16:40:17, Little Deb wrote:
No, wait!  Invite them over for dinner, fill it full of a laxitive, and when they are in agony, say.."oh, I get an upset stomach sometimes too."  Then offer desert!



ROTFFLMAO   ;;D
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Paigelle on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:43pm
Tell them to take some Excedrin.
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Lissa on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:44pm

on 01/07/04 at 16:42:22, jonny wrote:
Hire me to show them the pain of CH ;;D


Oh fuck............ :o
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Lissa on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:45pm
If I let them see me with a CH they'd think I was a fucking freak.  I don't even like my boyfriend to see me with one.   :-/
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by jonny on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:46pm

on 01/07/04 at 16:44:42, Lissa wrote:
Oh fuck............ :o


Exactly ;;D

.......................jonny
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by echo on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:46pm
They need help!

Slap the crap out of them next time for shits and grins.
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Paigelle on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:47pm
I know, bring them to this site and let them read the note that Lil Deb just received about the sufferer who committed suicide 2 years ago.  That has broken my heart today.  
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by ZAIRA on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:48pm

;;D My mother-in-law ( http://www.littizzetto.it/forums/html/emoticons/029.gif) always says me : It is just an headache! ;;D Don't mind!
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Lissa on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:48pm
You guys are too funny.  LOL
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by BlueMeanie on Jan 7th, 2004, 5:53pm
Gggrrrrrrrr ! I bet your ears where smokin'

>:( >:(
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by thomas on Jan 7th, 2004, 5:59pm
I hate those kind of people, yeah, I get that too, I don't have a fuckin' clue what you're talkin' about, but I'm sure I get that too. [smiley=bigtiny.gif]
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Linda_Howell on Jan 7th, 2004, 6:02pm


If you hire Jonny, will you please video-tape it for all of us so we can live vicariously?

Now, forget the family.....what does your boyfriend think about your "little HA's" ?   THAT'S what is important.

and then again I like lil Debs answer too.  Linda   [smiley=crackup.gif]
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Charlie on Jan 7th, 2004, 6:07pm
It's a self-involved response. They hate being upstaged and want you to get back to their problems.

Next time get Jonny to do some tattoo work on them with a welding torch and explain that clusters are worse pain.  >:(

Charlie
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Jackie on Jan 7th, 2004, 6:16pm
I'm not a clusterhead and comments like that piss me off!!!! >:(

Example:  I had new carpet laid in my office.  The carpet man decided I should know all his wife's medical problems....including migraines.  I related that my husband suffered from chronic cluster headaches.  His response....."oh yeah,  she has those too".  My response (to myself... ;;D)  B*llshit she does.

Another one that gets to me is when friends and acquaintances say to me something like....."Jackie, you're an intelligent woman.  I can't believe you let this go on.  Why don't you get him to a good doctor".... >:(

If people only knew.... :(

Jacks 8)
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by jonny on Jan 7th, 2004, 6:42pm

on 01/07/04 at 18:16:26, Jackie wrote:
 I had new carpet laid in my office, The carpet man.


If thats the case im going to learn carpet.......LMMFAO ;;D

............................jonny
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Jackie on Jan 7th, 2004, 6:59pm
LMAO....jonny, did I ever tell you that you're a smartass....... ;;D

SMOOOOOCH,
Jacks 8)  (wonder where I got that handle.. ::))
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by ClusterChuck on Jan 7th, 2004, 7:08pm
Oh, Lissa, get off your high horse!!!  Sheeeshhh!!!

Everyone knows WDGCH  (Women Don't Get Cluster Headaches)   ;)   ;;D   [smiley=laugh.gif]

Chuck
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by jonny on Jan 7th, 2004, 7:14pm

on 01/07/04 at 19:08:03, ClusterChuck wrote:
Oh, Lissa, get off your high horse!!!  Sheeeshhh!!!


YA!!!!, Like Chuck says.....Christ!!!!, your 4' 1" and have a pretty face........get over whatever it is your up on ;;D

.................................jonny

Opps:.....SMOOOOCH Jacks  :-*
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by stevegeebe on Jan 7th, 2004, 8:03pm
Perfect Little Deb.  

I wish I had thought of that.

Steve G
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Linda_Howell on Jan 7th, 2004, 8:21pm

Hey Chuckie?  Have I told you lately that you're pissing me off.  Well, hon, I'm telling you now.  lmao

The only other person here that has said that is BobP and he's somewhere in the Pacific sailing the USS OUCH.

Linda
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Kevin_M on Jan 7th, 2004, 8:52pm
The difference is, had you posted here that you suffered from clusters, there would have not been one response from the sufferers and supporters here like "Oh yeah, I get those too."  
It reminds of talking to my talkative two and a half year old niece and asking here what day it was.  I laughed my ass of at the blank stymied expression she gave me, like I was an alien asking her what color a dog bark is.  The poor little thing had never thought of, or had any conception of what time was.
Don't take certain responses so hard, my niece's not responding was funnier and smarter than certain adults think they are.
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by kipple on Jan 7th, 2004, 9:03pm














Yeah, it sucks when the ignorent masses talk that BS but what really sucks is when the medical pros do it. Hell, I had one md suggest magnets. keeerist!
Kip
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by ClusterChuck on Jan 7th, 2004, 9:07pm

on 01/07/04 at 20:52:27, Kevin_M wrote:
what color a dog bark is.


WTF???  Are you gonna keep us in suspense?  What color is it?

Inquiring minds want to know ...

Chuck
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Elaine on Jan 7th, 2004, 9:11pm
That use to upset me to. Now I use that as my educating them on what a cluster is. I went to get my nails done the other day. I was wearing my O.U.C.H. T-Shirt and was asked about it. When I told him, thats what he said "his wife had them".  I started asking him if her eye watered, if her nose ran , if she had to move and on and on. If she hurt so bad that if she went to the ER with a cluster and her arm hanging off witch one would she want them to treat first? The cluster or the arm. Just about every cluster head would say the cluster.
By the time I got done he knew what his wife had was not a cluster. He didn't get it, but when ever he hears clsuters he will know the difference.
Don't get pissed! Just tell them the difference in a nice way.
I do understand and know how pissed you can get. God forbid anyone say that to me durning a attack. I might not be nice then !!!
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by pubgirl on Jan 7th, 2004, 9:17pm
KIPPLE


Are you Kipple of Kip fame?

aka Bob Kipple


If you are, can I  [smiley=bow.gif]



Wendy
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by juvy on Jan 8th, 2004, 5:51am

on 01/07/04 at 16:41:09, Opus wrote:
The only thing to do is let them see you with a CH, and when they offer you Tylenol tell then it won't help at all.  
Opus/Paul



Like I said before, rip off their arms and so "Oh you have a boo boo, want a band aid?"
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by hunterdonguy on Jan 8th, 2004, 7:49am
interesting....i know where youz is comin from for sure...i called my neuro to see if i could get a script for ox and the receptionist pissed me off so bad...she was so rude and cold to me...i was being totally polite and she just answered me in sterile clinical tones "the doctor is seeing other patients right now"  "i'll give her the messege" "we'll contact you this afternoon" blah f-ing blah....i somehow kept my cool but wished to god that she (and my neuro could spend just 30 minutes at a kip 10) just 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....a-holes...thanx1, now ya got me pissed off ;)
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Lissa on Jan 8th, 2004, 8:37am

on 01/07/04 at 18:02:19, Linda_Howell wrote:
Now, forget the family.....what does your boyfriend think about your "little HA's" ?   THAT'S what is important.


My boyfriend knows the truth.  Thank God!  He could tell by the look on my face that I was getting pretty hot.  I didn't say anything though until we got in the car.  He then told me that no one in his family gets clusters.  Well, DUH!!
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Lissa on Jan 8th, 2004, 8:39am

on 01/07/04 at 19:08:03, ClusterChuck wrote:
Oh, Lissa, get off your high horse!!!  Sheeeshhh!!!

Everyone knows WDGCH  (Women Don't Get Cluster Headaches)   ;)   ;;D   [smiley=laugh.gif]

Chuck


Shit...you blew my cover.  I don't really get clusters.  I just like this board so much.   ::)
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by TomM on Jan 8th, 2004, 10:57am
And after jonny does his work, call me. I'll help dig the holes to burry the bodies!
TomM
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by Lissa on Jan 8th, 2004, 12:33pm
lol
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by BobG on Jan 9th, 2004, 4:52am

on 01/07/04 at 21:17:16, pubgirl wrote:
KIPPLE


Are you Kipple of Kip fame?

aka Bob Kipple


If you are, can I  [smiley=bow.gif]




Wendy


Mr. Kipple is a very shy gentleman and may not wish to talk about himself but to answer your question... Yes he is and yes you may.
Title: Re: Pet Peeve  (grrr)
Post by BarbaraD on Jan 9th, 2004, 6:03am

on 01/07/04 at 21:03:50, kipple wrote:
Yeah, it sucks when the ignorent masses talk that BS but what really sucks is when the medical pros do it. Hell, I had one md suggest magnets. keeerist!
Kip


Hey don't knock the magnets.... Heck, I even tried that. Put them under a headband - the latest in fashion statements....

Actually they looked better than the banana peels...

And then there were the jalepenos....

The things we'll do......

Hugs BD


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