My Week IV

The other week I, along with various other people on wordpress.com, experienced a very strange issue wherein you couldn’t type the letter “i” on wordpress.com sites. It lasted between 24-48hrs and then inexplicably cleared up. I wrote about it HERE.

I had contacted “support” and this week got back the following response:

Hi there!

WordPress.com is a web application and does not have control over how individual letters or characters behave on your keyboard or browser. The problem you’re experiencing with the letter “I” seems to be an issue outside of WordPress.com’s functionality.

Here are a few troubleshooting steps you can try:

1.  Clear Browser Cache and Cookies: Sometimes, cached data can cause unexpected behavior. Clear your browser’s cache and cookies and see if the issue persists.
2.  Try a Different Browser: Check if the problem occurs on a different web browser. This can help determine if it’s a browser-specific issue.
3.  Disable Browser Extensions: Certain browser extensions can interfere with web applications. Disable any extensions one by one to see if any of them are causing the problem.
4.  Update Your Browser: Ensure that your browser is up to date. Sometimes, outdated versions can cause issues with web applications.
5.  Check Keyboard Settings: Make sure your keyboard settings are correct and there are no issues with the physical keyboard itself.

This problem ONLY happened on wordpress.com managed sites and no where else. But that is what WP Support does these days. First it denies, then it blames, then it ignores. And if you keep on persisting, you get banned, first from the forums and then I suspect you get your site taken down for alleged TOS violations.

Wednesday I woke up at 3am with some pressure on my lower left abdomen. Got through work and then went to Urgent Care at 4pm. The dr there poked me, told me I needed a CT scan and sent me off to the ER. I got there at 5pm. I didn’t get out until 2am. It was a horrible experience of waiting and doing nothing. I got the CT scan, had blood work done and was told there it was just a general inflammation and to eat the BRAT diet and take acetaminophen (tylenol) until it went away. And if it didn’t go away, to contact my primary care doctor and get an appointment with a GI specialist. When you’ve been waiting for 8hrs, being told there is nothing they will do feels pretty crushing. Got home and slept until past noon. So now I’m on the BRAT diet through the weekend in an attempt to help my guts get uninflamed. The BRAT stands for Bananas, Rice, Applesauce and Toast(dry).

That’s all on top of the busy’ness of the end of last week and the beginning of this. Sometimes I feel like I’m losing control of events in my personal life and letting it get too busy. Most of that feeling is because I’m still tired from my ER time. Give me a week or two or normalcy and I’ll be feeling just fine.