Three years ago I could have done this without directions. Now I have no clue how to do this.

My less than a year old tv died today...well, I can still get sound, so technically now it's a radio. (It's still under manufacturers warranty, and I have a 4yr warranty with Best Buy, but the manufacturer is Westinghouse and they only have 2 repair service places in the U.S. and from what I've read about them, the repair centers suck and take forever to fix anything...never buying another Westinghouse tv ever again)


I borrowed a tv from my dad while I wait till tuesday for Best Buy to come and declare the tv dead and haul it away (and hopefully give me a new tv because I have the warranty).

I cant get the stupid borrowed tv connected to my cable box and Tivo.

First, the crappy a/v wires that the cable company gave me are too short. So, I switched to brand new wires that are longer, except that the plugs are blue, green and red, instead of the white, red and yellow the old cables were. So, that's a problem. I dont even know if these things will work now. I have no idea which input to plug them into now

I've tried several different configurations of the wires and I cant get anything to work...the borrowed tv wont even turn on. (I'm guessing it knows it doesnt have a signal and that's why...maybe?)

All I want to do now is sit here and cry because apparently the MS trolls have eaten the part of my brain that used to know how to connect a stupid cable box.

I called the cable company, and they REFUSE to help me because I want to connect a Tivo and "they dont do that", so they hung up on me before I could even ask if they'll just help me connect the cable box. (I just want to be able to watch tv)

I called Best Buy for help and "that department is closed".

I looked on the internet, but my brain doesnt understand this crap anymore apparently and I cant figure out the stupid schematics.

Anyone else here ever notice that something that used to be easy for you is now the hardest thing in the world to understand?

I think my brain quit working, at least the part that used to be able to put things together without ever having to read the instructions (oh yeah, the cable company didnt give me any instructions for the installation...which I probably wouldnt understand anyways now)

I'm going to go sit on the floor and cry and stare at the blank tv.

Wow! At least you COULD do it once. That's way beyond anything I would ever attempt!

Try not to let it get you down. I'm thinking you're up waaay past your bedtime. Things should be brighter in the morning.

My bedtime is like at 4am...(insomnia issues)

I almost had it awhile ago. I had the tivo menu showing up, but no sound and no channels.

Then I had the cable connected, and had tv and could watch stargate, but there was no tivo.

now I'm back to no tivo, no cable, nothing...dead air.

Why is my brain so fubar that I cant get this working?

I wish my boyfriend were here, or that he'd call me, because he'd be able to help me figure this out. I just wish I knew when I turned stupid...I never noticed it happening.

Erin did you hook up a cable feed to the tivo box? (IN----out) you need to take the incoming signal wire and hook to the in feed then the out feed to the tv.

as for the MS it does do that to us sometimes, happend to me at sandy and Jim's place Christmas eve, been racking pool balls since i was knee high to a grasshopper, I just stood there, after i had racked 4 games or so, stood there totally lost on what to do, it does get a bit annoying

hope you can get it up and running

I got a blue ray for Christmas, and I told my son he'd have to get it hooked up for me, because that would be too tough for brain to handle.

Well, with only an HD compatible tv, the only way he could get it to work is if we switch cables from the DVD player to the TV and back and forth. I figured I could handle that. Couldn't get it to work. Spent an hour messing aorund with settings and such.

Finally realized I'd put the blue cable in the green and vice ersa. It makes me so mad when I do something stupid like that!

Just know you're not alone - and yes there are many in the people in the world that don't have MS that don't even know where to start hooking something like that up.

Ask a teenage neighbor boy. Pay him five bucks and he'll probably have it done in a few seconds !

Oh yeah, Erin. I have MS stupidity too. Some days I can do things just like I used to pre-MS, other days: forget it. We are having all kinds of TV, DVR, receiver problems too. My husband can't even fix it so I know it's not from the MS this time .

Too bad that I live in a neighborhood where I'm probably one of the youngest people living here. (I'm almost 40) I'm the one the next door neighbors call when their printer tells them that they're running out of ink.

I'm hoping that my boyfriend will be online tonight, or that he'll call me sometime during the day, because he is a genius when it comes to putting stuff together like this. He'd be able to tell me how to do this.

At least I'm getting to play with the new iPod compatible radio (with remote control) that I got myself yesterday as a late xmas present for myself. The remote even controls the radio settings and not just the iPod. Yay!

I just wish I didnt have an infection in my toe that I had the nail removed from last week. I think that might be what's causing the bad case of MS stupids.

I just picked up antibiotics, new gauze and some fancy Rx burn cream (I've used this stuff before for an actual burn. It's great!) to use to get rid of whatever ickyness that's in my toe.

I dont think it's a serious infection yet, just enough to make me feel icky...altho the icky feeling could be whatever pestilence (chest cold) that my mother has brought into the house. I dont have a chest cold yet, but there is a weird tickle in my chest that seems a bit ominous.

I'm apparently not in for a good week or three healthwise. I can just tell. It's time for the after-Christmas creeping crud. I think I'm going to go schmear burn cream on my toe now.

You know what's great to fix a television problem?

A book.

And by that I mean, read a book instead of flipping out over a television that won't work.

Oh, I've access to several televisions here. I just want one of those access places to be in my room. (I spend a lot of time in my room)

I did get an Amazon Kindle (electronic book that I can download e-books to)

I think I'm going to go buy the first five Tarzan books in e-book format and re-read them...and listen to The Monkees on my new radio.

I just played doctor on my sore toe. I'm going to go pop an antibiotic and sit and wait for the toe infection to go away and for the yeast infection to form.

Call the cable company tech support and let one of their little geniuses walk you through it. That's what I do in those situations...