Stress

Last Thursday my son went snowboarding with some friends. The telephone rang and it was him calling to let me know he sprained his ankle pretty bad and had to be carried down the mountain by the ski rescue team. He went to the doctor the next day and found out he broke his fibula and tore some ligaments in his ankle. He's staying at my house so that I can take care of him until his leg and ankle heal. Then on Saturday I booted my computer to post to my discussion boards and the monitor went totally black. I called Dell tech support and was on the telephone with them for about four hours preforming diagnostic tests before they decided I had a defective monitor and would be replaced free of charge. The problem was that it would take three to four days for it to arrive. In the mean time I tried to find a monitor that was compatible with my tower. You would think older dell monitors would work with dell towers.....wrong! I located three different monitors and not one of them had the correct connections. Losing your access to classes is terrible but, to have it happen during finals really "bites".