Yay!!

Yay, success! Victory! After being ripped-off by the florist I finally  got the sunflowers I ordered yesterday!! When they arrived the other day it was Gerbera Daisies and not sunflowers like I'd ordered and looked nothing like the photo on the website so I sent repeated e-mails demanding my $$$ back but they just ignored it so called the credit card company about stopping the payment and they said we had to call  them and try and work it out(not just e-mail) and to give it a week and if we still can't get justice to call them back and they'll remove the charge so that's what we did. With that threat( or rather, promise) all of a sudden they said that the sunflowers "conveniently" just arrived yesterday  and instead of refunding our $$$ how about sending out the sunflowers like I ordered and of course I agreed. I just don't want to be ripped-off and sunflowers was what I wanted and ordered in the first place! I didn't actually think or expect they'd actually really do it and  send  them though; I thought it was just to shut us up but sure enough later yesterday afternoon they were delivered! Now, just as long as they don't charge us twice! You have to advocate for yourself though and NOT let anyone cheat you, rip you off or get away with shit. You have to stand up to injustice and assert yourself and your rights, not only as a customer but also as a citizen, a parent, an employee, a tenant, a patient,  etc.

This is also my cousin getting his first dialysis yesterday. As you can see they access it thru a "port" in his chest just like how my 22 YR old had his chemo when he was 7 and had leukemia. I remember that well; that's a nightmare and trauma that I will never  forget. He had 2 ports actually; one of them got a staph infection and made him really sick and it had to be removed and replaced once the infection got cleared up. Before that he had a temporary PICC line in his arm. I remember my mother decades ago had a friend whose husband was on dialysis only he had his own dialysis machine he kept in his garage and he'd hook himself up and do his own treatments overnight as he slept so it wouldn't take up so much time interrupting his life since it needs to be done several times a week and takes several HRS to complete each session. Luckily Buddy seems better too after not eating at all the other day yesterday he was starving  and ate everything in sight and kept asking for more he was so hungry, and a few hours after that chair tried to kill me yesterday I had a baaad headache, was dizzy and nauseated too and today I have a bump on the back of my head so I guess it's from when I fell and hit my head, and the 26 YR old scolded me I should  get out and work , get a job, bring in some $$$ (even though I DO get $$$$ from the gov't that pays all the monthly bills) even though with my Social Phobia,Asperger's, depression, bipolar, and Rheumatoid Arthritis I am unable to work(plus I have no skills,anyway)_ and besides I did  work for some 25-plus years raising a family and homeschooling my kids and now I'm retired! he says I'm a "loser" too even though by society's standards he would also be considered a "loser" too; 26 years old and still lives at home, works 2 days a week at a part-time minimun wage job and doesn't even have a driver's license so I don't really think he's one to be calling me a loser.

It's better to forget than live with regret.