Put On Your Big-Boy Rants

[TBoneTX 45,578]

11 hours ago, SAT said:

Chinese people are loud.

A Chinese family lives two casas down from ours, diverse block man.

They scream instead of talking, good grief man.

Is everybody deaf, huh man?

 

Maybe we can lower the decibel level by commissioning the manufacturing of a bunch of cheap Chinese ear-trumpets and exporting them back over there, huh man?

[TBoneTX 45,578]

9 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

they've unseated Americans

This reminds us of a good one, see man:

 

          A white guy and a Far Eastern guy are sitting next to one another at a bar.  Suddenly, without warning, the white guy hauls off, punches the FE guy in the jaw, and knocks him off his bar stool.

          "What was THAT for?" asks the FE guy, rubbing his chin.

          "That's for Pearl Harbor!" says the white guy

          "Pearl Harbor?  But that was the Japanese, and I'm Chinese," says the FE guy.

          "Japanese, Chinese, Korean, you're all the same to me!" growls the white guy.

          They resume drinking silently.  All of a sudden, the Chinese guy hauls off, punches the white guy in the jaw, and knocks him off his bar stool.

          "What was THAT for?" asks the white guy, rubbing his chin.

          "That's for the Titanic!" says the Chinese guy.

          "The Titanic?" says the white guy.  "But that was an iceberg, and I'm Jewish."

          "Iceberg, Greenberg, Goldberg, you're all the same to me!"

[TBoneTX 45,578]

Interesting revelation about our back, unsure how significant man.

As with the previous 2 days, slow improvement in pain level as today progressed, well whoopee man.

As with all previous days, back to zero after our nap, lying on either side the apparent pain-trigger man.

 

While still lying in bed, we palpated ourself around the back & hip, self-molest we man.

The searing pain-to-the-touch was not in our back, but in the soft tissue near our hip, gentlest pressure man.

This suggests to us that the culprit nerve is there rather than in the back, hmm man.

After poking and massaging there, we could arise and walk without as much usual pain, hmm man.

We have an acu caucus set for Monday and will ask our acu guy to nuke there, see if it works man.

[TBoneTX 45,578]

A great Many GSs itineraried for Sat., plethora man.

No ESs itineraried, first time in recorded memory man.

Of the usual Many ESs available, only one within range is run by a rip-off outfit, refuse to go to theirs man.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

1 minute ago, TBoneTX said:

 

While still lying in bed, we palpated ourself around the back & hip, self-molest we man.

The searing pain-to-the-touch was not in our back, but in the soft tissue near our hip, gentlest pressure man.

This suggests to us that the culprit nerve is there rather than in the back, hmm man.

After poking and massaging there, we could arise and walk without as much usual pain, hmm man.

We have an acu caucus set for Monday and will ask our acu guy to nuke there, see if it works man.

 

There is a lot of nerve perfusion in that area from the spinal region.  

 

#stillfreshfromanatomyclass

 

Really any of the pain in legs/hip/tramp stamp area could be tied to nerves being rubbed/pinched in the spine.

[TBoneTX 45,578]

Anatomic Nola-B.!  Anatomic, ANATOMIC Nola-B.!

Irritated by the spine even if the areas of pain aren't near the spine, huh ma'am?

So what imaging method could best reveal what's happening -- MRI, CT, myelogram, huh man?

 

Haven't heard "tramp stamp" in some time, and always considered it rather unfair man...

Edited October 13, 2018 by TBoneTX

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

Anatomic Nola-B.!  Anatomic, ANATOMIC Nola-B.!

Irritated by the spine even if the areas of pain aren't near the spine, huh ma'am?

So what imaging method could best reveal what's happening -- MRI, CT, myelogram, huh man?

 

Haven't heard "tramp stamp" in some time, and always considered it rather unfair man...

 

The imaging is a question probably best posed to my mother in the morning, being that it is her field of specialty.  I do know that she does warn about the dangers of the overuse of CT scans.

 

Mmm, but yes.  I've been having some S1 sciatica pain for a while, but the L5 has been pretty intense recently.  Same pain on both sides, can't massage it without making it worse, etc.  

 

We've probably got different things going on, though.  A number of years ago a rheumatologist diagnosed me with ankylosing spondylitis, which I thought was BS at the time being that I had been diagnosed with RA a few weeks earlier and Lyme and few weeks later.  Buuuuuut, my mother was AS and I'm beginning to have more and more problems with my joints and back that would indicate that I very well do have it after all.

 

 

 

 

[SAT 9,609]

I have a thing in my L2...

[TBoneTX 45,578]

Oh, and we apologize, apologize we man.

Our first hosed disk is, and remains, the LMany/S1, ow man.

The other was erroneously reported as the L1/2, but it's actually its southern neighbor the L2/Many, whoops man.

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We were in pretty good shape on Sat. morn after massaging our hip, walk we man.

Were able to complete a decent GS itinerary (see pending report) with only minor soreness toward end, ow man.

Returned to casa and said to cat, "To blazes with this, si man!"

Took 2 aspirin and mowed entire lawn, result a thing of beauty man.

The mowing act made things neither worse nor better, muscles obviously not involved man.

 

However, nap afterwards created usual problems, ow and sigh man.

Trip to Aldi Foods unpleasant, ow man.

Two dish loads and (in process) 2 laundry loads also unpleasant, ow man.

We plan to take HSM to see what happens, ow now man.

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Although our condition is largely improved over earlier times, things are still irregular and intermittent, and this is not going away soon, and we should find out what's going on, sigh man.

Edited October 14, 2018 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 45,578]

Saturday GS report, see man:

 

Our first Saturday duty was to gas the Mrs.-T-B.-mobile, run dry again by ADD she man.

It holds Many.Many gallons, and again we instilled Many.ManyMany gallons man.

We then proceeded halfheartedly on our GS itinerary, not excited we man.

 

The take, see man:

-- Gap blouse for Mrs. T-B. = $1, deal man

-- Many (2+2) packs cocktail napkins = $1, deal man

-- Many (2+2+2) books for Mini-B. = $Many ($2+1), deal man

Total = $Many ($2+2+1)

[cdneh 3,112]

This dog. Seriously.  While dashing about in the yard Saturday morning before dawn, barking at  nothing I could see, she has done her knee in. I got her into the vet as soon as they opened. The ACL isn't torn, but she's limping heavily on her left rear leg.  Cannot go up or down steps, and is getting about mainly on three legs. I'm to take her out on a lead until she improves. She's on aspirin for that, so now up to three and a half tablets at various times of the day she doesn't want to take.

Thanks to the prednisone she is drinking water like it's going out of fashion, and as a result of that requires many trips out at night. I came back in with her at 03.30  wet through, and by the time I got her toweled off and got back into bed I was freezing cold. So, I've given in and put the heating on for the first time this fall. I'll leave in on as long as the miserable wet weather continues, through midweek.

I've told her to sort herself out, and start behaving like the respectable middle aged lady she is. That'll work. Not.

[NikLR 13,228]

3 hours ago, cdneh said:

This dog. Seriously.  While dashing about in the yard Saturday morning before dawn, barking at  nothing I could see, she has done her knee in. I got her into the vet as soon as they opened. The ACL isn't torn, but she's limping heavily on her left rear leg.  Cannot go up or down steps, and is getting about mainly on three legs. I'm to take her out on a lead until she improves. She's on aspirin for that, so now up to three and a half tablets at various times of the day she doesn't want to take.

Thanks to the prednisone she is drinking water like it's going out of fashion, and as a result of that requires many trips out at night. I came back in with her at 03.30  wet through, and by the time I got her toweled off and got back into bed I was freezing cold. So, I've given in and put the heating on for the first time this fall. I'll leave in on as long as the miserable wet weather continues, through midweek.

I've told her to sort herself out, and start behaving like the respectable middle aged lady she is. That'll work. Not.

Glad the ACL isn't torn!  Keep her as quiet as you can while it heals!  Those surgeries are 2-4 grand.     I would consider gabapentin or rimadyl for pain vs aspirin. 

[cdneh 3,112]

It's hard to keep her quiet. We were just out in the yard and some geese flew over, and if I hadn't hold of the lead she would have been off.  Seems the urge to run and bark furiously at something is stronger than the pain she is in.

I will ask about the rimadyl, we had that for the greyhound the MIL used to have. There may still be some in the dog box, but I would think it's well outdated. The vet said that given the other things she is already on, he was concerned about the combination of anything other than aspirin.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

Rant:  I had to send about 8 transcripts out recently.  7 were able to go electronically and were there within 48 hours.

 

The 8th required a faxed signature and was mailed out over 10 days after my request.

 

It is 2018, the SUNY system needs to completely switch to e-transcripts.

 

It is the only think stopping me from sending off my form to get put on the waitlist for the paramedic classes.  🤬

 

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It is snowing heavy again today after all the snow melted yesterday.

 

 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

On 10/12/2018 at 3:06 PM, SAT said:

Chinese people are loud. 

The nanny and my mother sits next to each other talking, you can hear it down the block...

 

https://www.whatsonweibo.com/too-loud-too-rude-switzerland-introduces-separate-trains-for-chinese-tourists/

Try living with a Filipina woman.... When she is talking to her family back home OMFG it is loud. Then when she gets around other Filipinas(Women) it is freaking loud.