Frustrations with Windows Operating System and repair thereof compounded by BMT visit

BMT clinic visit today was as slow as I expected it to be and they rarely disappoint me.  The only thing done was placing a line in my port.  The clinic was not crowded but another patient was being weighed when Vivien took me to the weight room so she weighed me without me removing my boots and did not measure my height, which is just as well as I have started to buy trousers with 30 inch legs instead of the 32 inch legs that I have bought for years.  I know that I have lost almost 2 inches in height, but thought it to be shrinkage or compression of disks in my back and not in my legs. She then seated me in chair one in the infusion room for procedures.  I waited until one of the girls from the registration desk came to take orders for sandwiches.  The sandwich was delivered a few minutes before Vivien came back from pharmacy with the Velcade.  Vivien gave me the infusion, removed the line from the port and I left for home just after 12:00.

My frustrations with Windows began Thursday when I answered a very persistent call from an 802 number with a tech telling me that I have lots of problems in my computer that are affecting Windows elsewhere.  I don't know how this is possible, but he persuaded me that I should let him get into my computer wherein he could show me that there were 1181 programs or parts thereof that were compromised and needed to be cleaned up.  He worked for awhile then told me he would call back in 10 minutes for more work, which he did several more times and finally when I agreed to pay for lifetime security and maintenance he had it all cleared up and working in fine order.  Before the session ended a woman, whom I could hardly understand, came on and said she would call me back Friday.  On Friday she did so and again I could hardly understand her but I could understand that she wanted me to pay $99.00 for security.  I told her I won't do that and terminated the call.  She called back again and I told her that I had already paid for lifetime security and maintenance and I wasn't going to pay any more.

I tried to use the computer Saturday, but when I clicked on my email program I got a whirling circle that would not stop and no matter where I moved it.  So I called the Customer Service number and a tech walked me through corrective measures I could take and sure enough the computer began to function properly.  Did the caller on Friday do something to make the computer malfunction?   The malfunction reappeared as I tried to start this post, but I then did what the tech that I had called told me to do and I was able to make it work again.  But there is some malfunction now, perhaps a defect in my blog program, where I find that if I want to erase a letter or blank I am obliged to erase the line and everything after it and write a new line and message.  I frequently think about my now deceased boss who used to commiserate with me about the perfidious nature of our computers.