Emergency Communications Dispatcher

• Fun Poll: Worst/Most Interesting Job You Ever Had - XanaX
  • I have not not too many jobs but - sm -
  • Bill collector for a finance company-worst job, sm - justme2
  • worst = medquist - cesspoolmagic0_0
  • 3 best were - Misha
  • loss prevention officer for major dept store - nm - molly
  • rode race horses in the morning. - sm
  • Emergency Communications Dispatcher - Emily Ayn
    • Question for you... - Silly Girl
    • Actually, some of them do outsource - They said what
  • most interesting job - mt
  • When I was a teenager I loved babysitting - mtmomof2
  • Haven't had that many jobs....but - PAMT~MDM
  • Worst job..(sm) - Just the big bad
    • Did you ask.............. sm - m
      • Yep. I actually did pretty good with (sm) - Just the big bad
  • Microfilming insurance documents - Lllls
  • Answers to poll - MTpolltaker
  • Hmmm...there have been so many - They said what
    • Oh, come on, make our day ! sm - anonamiss
      • Yeah well... - They said what
        • Know what you mean sm - anonamiss
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I was cooking Christmas dinner for our family and my kitchen sink got completely clogged up.  Apparently, garbage disposals can only handle so many peeled potato skins, which I did not know then.  Husband tried plunging, son tried plunging.  The only thing left to try was DrainO, which I did not have.  Had my daughter go see if the grocery store was open (hoping, hoping, hoping that it was) and see if they had DrainO or similar brand, and to make sure it was safe for kitchens and garbage disposals. 

As she left for the grocery, I was plotting Plan B - which would have been to finish making a delicious turkey dinner with all the trimmings by using a bathtub or the laundry tub.  Of course, I could not put any garbage down those tubs.

The grocery WAS open.  The Liquid Plumber DID work.  My family and I did NOT have to eat a turkey that was washed and cleaned in a bathtub!

So, for me....Thank God for the grocery who is open on Christmas!!!

up doing for the same reason.  I talked to my insurance company and he made me promise that I would go to the ER and tell them that I was in a mentally critical condition.  They did give me anti-depressants although it does take a while for the full affect. At least you'll have something on board in the meantime.  You should also be able to go to your PCP and get the same results.  Whatever you do, go see a doctor.  Either your PCP or go to the ER.  They do understand and will help. 

You will continue to be in my prayers.

OK, please help if you can.  My son and I are clueless when it comes to "cool" fashions.  His friends sorta teased him today and said he is really uncool (uncool haircut, clothes, shoes).  They jokingly said they were going to do an extreme makeover on him.  I laughed at first, but then thought, "Hey!  That's not half bad!"  He is starting high school in the fall, and I would like to help him with a makeover this summer.  He is a nice looking kid, just got his braces off (so has a really nice smile), a little bit on the husky side, but his clothes and shoes are Walmart specials.  He is just a basic "boy" hair cut.

What is "cool" for boys?  Where should we shop?  What kind of haircut is cool for a 15-year-old boy?  I'm so clueless!

Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated!

 Chickadee

You know how when you go to the dentist office, enroll your child in day care, fill out a job application, everyone wants contact information "in case of emergency."  Maybe I'm different from everyone else, but I consider an emergency as defined by my falling to the floor clutching my chest while my lips turn blue and I can't talk, or falling down 5 flights of steps, or being hit by a car...you get the idea.

I no longer have a good relationship with my mother (75) because she is getting senile.  I can't trust that anything she knows about me won't make the gossip curcuit as the truth or something totally different, plus she wants to die on her own property without anyone else another and be found days later by some unknown stranger who notices her body out in the yard...so I don't visit, either.  Last time I visited, her whole face was black and blue because she had passed out and fallen face down on a concrete pad where she stayed until the next day when she was finally able to stand up and go inside, then hide from the world for almost a month...I happened to visit her within a week of it happening.  I don't want to be the one who finds her dead on another visit. 

The reason this is important is because of a legal situation that I am in totally unrelated to her and I have a gag order on me...and she can't talk to me without taking "no" for an answer when she quizzes me about it, which she will do every single time we talk.  So, I've just had to say, have a nice life, love you, let instructions to my sister to call me if anyone needs me.

Now it comes back to those old applications I filled out.  My phone number changed and my dentist used my mother's "emergency" contact information to try to reach me, going into great detail the nature of why they were calling.  It was just my 6 months cleaning, but I didn't even schedule it because I was moving and changing jobs and couldn't predict if I could keep an appointment 6 months in the future.  So my mother calls my ex-husband, my ex-mother-in-law, trying to reach me for this "emergency".  My ex-hubby called me.

This is so embarrasing to me.  If someone dies, let my sister call me.  I don't know what to do or how else to get across to her that she doesn't have the right to interfere in my affairs.  The dentist office made the first wrong, and her trying to "save" me was the next one.  I'm almost 50 years old and I think I can take care of myself, thank you very much.  I let the dentist office have it with both barrels.  That was abuse of a reason to call my mother as an "emergency" and they have taken her info out of their system.  I have even had to change physicians because my mother and I had the same primary care, and all my visits were relayed to her by the staff..."oh, your daughter looked so good when she was here last week!", which prompts a phone call to my ex-hubby.  ARRRGH!!  Violation of HIPAA!

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this?  I'm almost at the point of having a lawyer draft a letter to her.  I'm past the point of feeling bad about hurting her feelings as she shows no consideration for mine.