the white screen of death

On Thursday evening my iPhone died.  Maybe using the word "died" is a bit of an over-reaction considering it still actually worked, I just couldn't see anything I was doing on 2/3rds of the screen due to the screen being all white.

I almost cried, and I stressed so much that I gave myself a headache.

When you rely on your phone for everything and then you don't have it, it is a massive stress!  What DID we do before iPhones were invented?!?!  It'd be like having your pigeon carrier be eaten by your cat and you can't get a new one for ages!

My husband, bless him, lent me his old Nokia phone.  After 24 hours of "using" it, I still didn't have a clue on how to use it, and my texts were badly composed, and I often cut people off, didn't know how to answer a call, or put them on speaker whilst trying to disconnect.

The worse part?  No twitter. No facebook. No weather app to tell me what to expect as the day went on.  No train timetables to check trains on. No Email. No Calendar to check things. STRESS!

Queue Apple Store. 1 hour.  Guy has my iPhone, I sit playing with an iPad.  He comes back.  "I just replaced your screen, all good now".
I leave super happy that I have my iPhone back, and I can see everything I do now.
The bad part?
I want one of these....