Bad Week

Hello HW friends,

I'd like to reach out to you all for some support. I'm just having one of those terrible weeks. I was so sick last weekend from a combo of the build up of side-effects from my meds & a brief period of withdrawl from having to stop the meds for several days to get over the extreme sedation they caused. My pain levels have been way up the last few days & since we are still trying to get me squared away on a good maintenance dosage, my meds are not touching it. I feel like someone is stabbing me in the eye right now. It was so bad last night, that I was crying while driving home & almost had to turn around. I'm not sleeping at all. I'm not eating. I literally just want to take my eye out, although I know that would do no good.

And on top of all this, my 2mo old computer died last week, and I got it back today only to find that the hard-drive had been replaced, and I lost EVERYTHING. Three months worth of research (which was soooo hard to do because of my eye) for a huge paper due next week, important notes that I had written to doctors & my school about my condition & I wanted to keep on file. Everything. I'm just so upset because multiple technicians that looked at my computer/spoke to me on the phone last week told me that it was NOT a hard drive problem, and that my hard drive appeared to be intact. If I had known that they were going to have to replace it, I would have paid to have the apple store try to salvage my info from my old computer, but everyone told me not to lister. Stupid me, I listened to them, and I hadn't yet got around to buying a external hard drive since the computer was brand new. I didn't have the money when I bought it, and I figured I'd be safe for at least a few months until I could save enough money to buy one. Lesson learned all too well. This is just one more thing I don't need. I feel like someone is out to get me.

Thanks everyone. I hope everyone is having a pain free day.

Skeye

Post Edited (skeye) : 12/12/2008 9:33:47 PM (GMT-7)

I think we all need magic wands!

And yes, I spend several hours on the phone today with about 4 different people from different departments at Apple Support, and there is no hope of getting the drive back. That was my first thought as well -- if they still had the drive, I might still be able to get the info. But I guess literally thousands of damaged drives get thrown together & there would be no way to track mine down.

Thanks so much PAlady! The hug you sent does help! I am out of M&M's, so I turned to Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream instead .

This is my first mac, and other than this latest situation, I have loved my computer. I did speak to 3 or 4 techs yesterday. They said that they did replace the hard drive & that there is no way to to get the old one or its data back . But I eventually complained to enough people that they gave me a free wireless router. It doesn't come anywhere near to replacing the data, but at least they acknowledged the situation & tried to make it a little better.

Hopefully I will get some sleep tonight. Not sleeping definitely makes pain & everything else worse!

Hi Mala,

Thanks for listening & thanks for your support! I have severe chronic eye pain from a bad injury I sustained 2yrs ago. We think the pain is from inflammation & scar tissue compressing the nerves behind my eye as well as damage to, or swelling within the nerves themselves. I've had a million tests, been to a bunch of specialist, but no one can tell me for sure. I'm hoping I'll get a more definitive answer from another neuropthalmologist that I am going to see next month, although unfortunately the likelihood of that is slim, since I've already been to two neuropthalmogists without much luck. But it has been over a year since I have last seen one, so I'm hoping something has changed. It basically feels like someone has grabbed the back of my eye, is squeezing it really tight and digging their fingers into it, it's definitely frustrating not knowing exactly why.

Skeye