Mike made it. OT more or less

"tanadashoes" wrote in
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Well, Mike made it to Orlando yesterday and was settled into his
apartment today. He discovered that his phone runs out of juice in
5-6 hours as he is in what would be a roaming area, except that we
changed our plan to a nation wide non-roaming one. So he complains to
me and I call Alltel and find out that since the change from Analog to
digital they've been getting a lot of complaints of this sort. Mike's
options are to carry on as he is doing, buy a second battery and
switch them out, turn off the phone unless he needs to make a call,
change his plan so that he can only call home and receive calls from
home, or change to a different company down there. Since the last
isn't happening (he'd have to pay for his own plan) it looks like he's
going to have his cell phone on the charger unless he has to take it
off to go somewhere, like work.

He will be sharing a three bedroom apartment with five other guys. I
can smell disaster already; I know what slobs males can be. I also
know what a slob Mike can be. I kept the advice down to suggesting
that the apartment mates have a rules meeting and that everyone label
their own food. He could buy a small fridge, I guess, but I don't see
that happening. When I talked to him last, the group or the five of
them that were there already were taking a trip to Wal-Mart to get
food and other supplies. Sigh.

Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had grown,
or shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on the 19th for
his oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not hopeful. QC, Huey, and
Merlin have been living on Rob, more or less. His feline medical
staff has spoken. I suspect that the minute they stopped the chemo the
cancer kicked into overdrive. To do them credit, the three nursemaids
have also been trying to comfort me. When Merlin isn't trying to beat
up Tanada, that is. Some days I wonder.

Pam S.





Sending best thoughts for Rob.

Andy

"kilikini" wrote in message
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tanadashoes wrote:
Well, Mike made it to Orlando yesterday and was settled into his
apartment today. He discovered that his phone runs out of juice in
5-6 hours as he is in what would be a roaming area, except that we
changed our plan to a nation wide non-roaming one. So he complains
to me and I call Alltel and find out that since the change from
Analog to digital they've been getting a lot of complaints of this
sort. Mike's options are to carry on as he is doing, buy a second
battery and switch them out, turn off the phone unless he needs to
make a call, change his plan so that he can only call home and
receive calls from home, or change to a different company down there.
Since the last isn't happening (he'd have to pay for his own plan) it
looks like he's going to have his cell phone on the charger unless he
has to take it off to go somewhere, like work.
He will be sharing a three bedroom apartment with five other guys. I
can smell disaster already; I know what slobs males can be. I also
know what a slob Mike can be. I kept the advice down to suggesting
that the apartment mates have a rules meeting and that everyone label
their own food. He could buy a small fridge, I guess, but I don't
see that happening. When I talked to him last, the group or the five
of them that were there already were taking a trip to Wal-Mart to get
food and other supplies. Sigh.
Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had grown,
or shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on the 19th for
his oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not hopeful. QC, Huey,
and Merlin have been living on Rob, more or less. His feline medical
staff has spoken. I suspect that the minute they stopped the chemo
the cancer kicked into overdrive. To do them credit, the three
nursemaids have also been trying to comfort me. When Merlin isn't
trying to beat up Tanada, that is. Some days I wonder.

Pam S.

Pam, you know if you need to talk, I'm here. Wish I could check on Mike,
but now Allan's out of a job completely and we have no idea what we're
going to do.

kili

{{{{{{{{{{Kili and Allan}}}}}}}}}}

I'm so sorry to hear that! We're sending job finding purrs to Allan.

Hugs,

CatNipped

kilikini wrote:
tanadashoes wrote:
Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had
grown, or shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on the
19th for his oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not hopeful.
QC, Huey, and Merlin have been living on Rob, more or less. His
feline medical staff has spoken. I suspect that the minute they
stopped the chemo the cancer kicked into overdrive. To do them
credit, the three nursemaids have also been trying to comfort me.
When Merlin isn't trying to beat up Tanada, that is. Some days I
wonder.

Pam S.

Pam, you know if you need to talk, I'm here. Wish I could check on
Mike, but now Allan's out of a job completely and we have no idea
what we're going to do.

kili

Oh no! As if the job thing wasn't already bad enough! {{{{{{kili}}}}}}

Jill

On Aug 12, 4:22�pm, "jmcquown" wrote:
kilikini wrote:
tanadashoes wrote:
Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had
grown, or shifted location. �We'll be picking up the films on the
19th for his oncology appointment on the 20th. �I'm not hopeful.
QC, Huey, and Merlin have been living on Rob, more or less. �His
feline medical staff has spoken. I suspect that the minute they
stopped the chemo the cancer kicked into overdrive. �To do them
credit, the three nursemaids have also been trying to comfort me.
When Merlin isn't trying to beat up Tanada, that is. �Some days I
wonder.

Pam S.

Pam, you know if you need to talk, I'm here. �Wish I could check on
Mike, but now Allan's out of a job completely and we have no idea
what we're going to do.

kili

Oh no! �As if the job thing wasn't already bad enough! {{{{{{kili}}}}}}

Jill- Hide quoted text -

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Spiceypurrs heading South for Pam, Rob, Kili, and Allan. Sounds like
the purr version of Romper Room.
Suz&Spicey

CatNipped wrote:
"kilikini" wrote in message
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tanadashoes wrote:
Well, Mike made it to Orlando yesterday and was settled into his
apartment today. He discovered that his phone runs out of juice in
5-6 hours as he is in what would be a roaming area, except that we
changed our plan to a nation wide non-roaming one. So he complains
to me and I call Alltel and find out that since the change from
Analog to digital they've been getting a lot of complaints of this
sort. Mike's options are to carry on as he is doing, buy a second
battery and switch them out, turn off the phone unless he needs to
make a call, change his plan so that he can only call home and
receive calls from home, or change to a different company down
there. Since the last isn't happening (he'd have to pay for his own
plan) it looks like he's going to have his cell phone on the
charger unless he has to take it off to go somewhere, like work.
He will be sharing a three bedroom apartment with five other guys. I can
smell disaster already; I know what slobs males can be. I
also know what a slob Mike can be. I kept the advice down to
suggesting that the apartment mates have a rules meeting and that
everyone label their own food. He could buy a small fridge, I
guess, but I don't see that happening. When I talked to him last,
the group or the five of them that were there already were taking a
trip to Wal-Mart to get food and other supplies. Sigh.
Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had
grown, or shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on the
19th for his oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not hopeful. QC,
Huey, and Merlin have been living on Rob, more or less. His
feline medical staff has spoken. I suspect that the minute they
stopped the chemo the cancer kicked into overdrive. To do them
credit, the three nursemaids have also been trying to comfort me. When
Merlin isn't trying to beat up Tanada, that is. Some days I
wonder. Pam S.

Pam, you know if you need to talk, I'm here. Wish I could check on
Mike, but now Allan's out of a job completely and we have no idea
what we're going to do.

kili

{{{{{{{{{{Kili and Allan}}}}}}}}}}

I'm so sorry to hear that! We're sending job finding purrs to Allan.

Hugs,

CatNipped

Thank you sweetie. It'll work out somehow. Things always do, don't they?

kili

jmcquown wrote:
kilikini wrote:
tanadashoes wrote:
Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had
grown, or shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on the
19th for his oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not hopeful.
QC, Huey, and Merlin have been living on Rob, more or less. His
feline medical staff has spoken. I suspect that the minute they
stopped the chemo the cancer kicked into overdrive. To do them
credit, the three nursemaids have also been trying to comfort me.
When Merlin isn't trying to beat up Tanada, that is. Some days I
wonder.

Pam S.

Pam, you know if you need to talk, I'm here. Wish I could check on
Mike, but now Allan's out of a job completely and we have no idea
what we're going to do.

kili

Oh no! As if the job thing wasn't already bad enough!
{{{{{{kili}}}}}}
Jill

Yeah, well. It happens. Hopefully Allan can get on unemployment and I'll
be able to get some disability in here to bring in some extra income.

kili

kilikini wrote:
jmcquown wrote:
kilikini wrote:
tanadashoes wrote:
Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had
grown, or shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on
the 19th for his oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not
hopeful. QC, Huey, and Merlin have been living on Rob, more or
less. His feline medical staff has spoken. I suspect that the
minute they stopped the chemo the cancer kicked into overdrive.
To do them credit, the three nursemaids have also been trying
to comfort me. When Merlin isn't trying to beat up Tanada, that
is. Some days I wonder.

Pam S.

Pam, you know if you need to talk, I'm here. Wish I could check
on Mike, but now Allan's out of a job completely and we have no
idea what we're going to do.

kili

Oh no! As if the job thing wasn't already bad enough!
{{{{{{kili}}}}}}
Jill

Yeah, well. It happens. Hopefully Allan can get on unemployment and
I'll be able to get some disability in here to bring in some extra
income.
kili

I thought you already received disability? Or maybe you mean the benefit
will be increased now? At any rate, he should qualify for unemployment
provided he wasn't terminated for gross misconduct. Benefits vary by state,
of course. He should file right away. Good luck!

Jill

jmcquown wrote:
kilikini wrote:
jmcquown wrote:
kilikini wrote:
tanadashoes wrote:
Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had
grown, or shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on
the 19th for his oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not
hopeful. QC, Huey, and Merlin have been living on Rob, more or
less. His feline medical staff has spoken. I suspect that the
minute they stopped the chemo the cancer kicked into overdrive.
To do them credit, the three nursemaids have also been trying
to comfort me. When Merlin isn't trying to beat up Tanada, that
is. Some days I wonder.

Pam S.

Pam, you know if you need to talk, I'm here. Wish I could check
on Mike, but now Allan's out of a job completely and we have no
idea what we're going to do.

kili

Oh no! As if the job thing wasn't already bad enough!
{{{{{{kili}}}}}}
Jill

Yeah, well. It happens. Hopefully Allan can get on unemployment and
I'll be able to get some disability in here to bring in some extra
income.
kili

I thought you already received disability? Or maybe you mean the
benefit will be increased now? At any rate, he should qualify for
unemployment provided he wasn't terminated for gross misconduct. Benefits
vary by state, of course. He should file right away. Good
luck!
Jill

Yeah, I do get disability for $108.50 a month. If Allan's unemployed, I
should be able to get more. We'll see what happens. I'm writing my
disability advocate tomorrow.

kili

tanadashoes wrote:
Well, Mike made it to Orlando yesterday and was settled into his apartment
today. He discovered that his phone runs out of juice in 5-6 hours as he is
in what would be a roaming area, except that we changed our plan to a nation
wide non-roaming one. So he complains to me and I call Alltel and find out
that since the change from Analog to digital they've been getting a lot of
complaints of this sort. Mike's options are to carry on as he is doing, buy
a second battery and switch them out, turn off the phone unless he needs to
make a call, change his plan so that he can only call home and receive calls
from home, or change to a different company down there. Since the last
isn't happening (he'd have to pay for his own plan) it looks like he's going
to have his cell phone on the charger unless he has to take it off to go
somewhere, like work.

He will be sharing a three bedroom apartment with five other guys. I can
smell disaster already; I know what slobs males can be. I also know what a
slob Mike can be. I kept the advice down to suggesting that the apartment
mates have a rules meeting and that everyone label their own food. He could
buy a small fridge, I guess, but I don't see that happening. When I talked
to him last, the group or the five of them that were there already were
taking a trip to Wal-Mart to get food and other supplies. Sigh.

Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had grown, or
shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on the 19th for his
oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not hopeful. QC, Huey, and Merlin
have been living on Rob, more or less. His feline medical staff has spoken.
I suspect that the minute they stopped the chemo the cancer kicked into
overdrive. To do them credit, the three nursemaids have also been trying to
comfort me. When Merlin isn't trying to beat up Tanada, that is. Some days
I wonder.

Pam S.


Glad that Mike made it safely. Good luck purrs to him on sharing with 5
other guys.

We revving up the purrs for Rob's growth to be non-existent. We think
of of you guys often.

Sam and Ramona, supervised by Mistletoe

"kilikini" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
"kilikini" wrote in message
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tanadashoes wrote:
Well, Mike made it to Orlando yesterday and was settled into his
apartment today. He discovered that his phone runs out of juice in
5-6 hours as he is in what would be a roaming area, except that we
changed our plan to a nation wide non-roaming one. So he complains
to me and I call Alltel and find out that since the change from
Analog to digital they've been getting a lot of complaints of this
sort. Mike's options are to carry on as he is doing, buy a second
battery and switch them out, turn off the phone unless he needs to
make a call, change his plan so that he can only call home and
receive calls from home, or change to a different company down
there. Since the last isn't happening (he'd have to pay for his own
plan) it looks like he's going to have his cell phone on the
charger unless he has to take it off to go somewhere, like work.
He will be sharing a three bedroom apartment with five other guys. I
can smell disaster already; I know what slobs males can be. I
also know what a slob Mike can be. I kept the advice down to
suggesting that the apartment mates have a rules meeting and that
everyone label their own food. He could buy a small fridge, I
guess, but I don't see that happening. When I talked to him last,
the group or the five of them that were there already were taking a
trip to Wal-Mart to get food and other supplies. Sigh.
Rob had an MRI today to see if the growth was still there, had
grown, or shifted location. We'll be picking up the films on the
19th for his oncology appointment on the 20th. I'm not hopeful. QC,
Huey, and Merlin have been living on Rob, more or less. His
feline medical staff has spoken. I suspect that the minute they
stopped the chemo the cancer kicked into overdrive. To do them
credit, the three nursemaids have also been trying to comfort me. When
Merlin isn't trying to beat up Tanada, that is. Some days I
wonder. Pam S.

Pam, you know if you need to talk, I'm here. Wish I could check on
Mike, but now Allan's out of a job completely and we have no idea
what we're going to do.

kili

{{{{{{{{{{Kili and Allan}}}}}}}}}}

I'm so sorry to hear that! We're sending job finding purrs to Allan.

Hugs,

CatNipped

Thank you sweetie. It'll work out somehow. Things always do, don't they?

kili

Yep, they do always seem to. You've put a *lot* of good karma out there
into the world and hopefully some of it will get back around to you to help
you guys out!

Hugs,

CatNipped