VERIZON!!!!

I'm so frustrated! We have a telephone....yes a regular telephone....that we don't use....because we have to have it for our DSL line. Yes, I can't have DSL without paying for a phone that i don't use. We wanted to cut the expense of the telephone (did I say that we don't use it?), so while we were away the telephone was service was discontinued, along with my DSL! Now I can't seem to get it turned back on. I've been working on it since last Thursday but it's as slow as I could have ever imagined. I would leave Verizon and go elsewhere but, where we live in the corn...they are the only ISP. I'm still waiting. At the point when it's up, many photos. And fun!!