That Itch You Can't Rant About (The Rant Thread)

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,085]

Sorry, no funny stories of PRG in America for a while.

 

And no more immigration paperwork for almost two years  (Anastasia's green card should be in the mail today).

 

Now for the fun of PRG learning to drive...

[theresaL 408]

12 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Lurking TL ma'am!

We were referring to T ma'am, who differs from TL ma'am, si TL ma'am.

Number of new Chinese students precised, see and  TL ma'am.

Has anyone besides us noticed that most transliterated Chinese surnames that don't begin with B, C, L, M, or Q seem to begin with W, X, Y, & Z, huh man?

Oh, so you're saying you DIDN'T miss me????? how is that even possible????

 

The  surnames aren't the problem, since most of those are one syllable, it's the first names and all that tonal pronunciation stuff changing meaning.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

So is it Fall yet? According to the temperature here in NC it isn't here yet

[theresaL 408]

14 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

So is it Fall yet? According to the temperature here in NC it isn't here yet

That's what they say. It's still hot here too.

[cdneh 3,112]

24 minutes ago, theresaL said:

That's what they say. It's still hot here too.

Stupid hot here. I'm told the 'feels like" temp is 97. So it's August 96th.

[theresaL 408]

1 hour ago, cdneh said:

Stupid hot here. I'm told the 'feels like" temp is 97. So it's August 96th.

yep. We haven't had working AC in my office or classrooms all summer. One entire floor of the building has no AC and they turn off the air handlers at 5 pm, so we don't even get air movement. I took a jar of unopened peanut butter out of my desk drawer and it was liquefied, much like my brain at the end of the day.

[cdneh 3,112]

46 minutes ago, theresaL said:

yep. We haven't had working AC in my office or classrooms all summer. One entire floor of the building has no AC and they turn off the air handlers at 5 pm, so we don't even get air movement. I took a jar of unopened peanut butter out of my desk drawer and it was liquefied, much like my brain at the end of the day.

Wow. That's just wrong. At least I can hide inside where it is cool/ That said, I've just mown half the lawn, it's not at all late in the day, but it sure does get dark in a  hurry.  I will try to get to the rest tomorrow, provided it doesn't rain. Yah, sure. It's so dry here I am surprised we aren't under a burn ban.

 

The Doc at the transplant center asked me to try and wean Himself off one of his meds. I will have to add it back. No wonder he said he was light headed, his pressure was  only 96/ 54.

[theresaL 408]

2 hours ago, cdneh said:

Wow. That's just wrong. At least I can hide inside where it is cool/ That said, I've just mown half the lawn, it's not at all late in the day, but it sure does get dark in a  hurry.  I will try to get to the rest tomorrow, provided it doesn't rain. Yah, sure. It's so dry here I am surprised we aren't under a burn ban.

 

The Doc at the transplant center asked me to try and wean Himself off one of his meds. I will have to add it back. No wonder he said he was light headed, his pressure was  only 96/ 54.

It gets dark before it cools off. Two stage mowing.

 

Hope the hubs gets better. Why did the doc want him to stop taking it?

[cdneh 3,112]

13 minutes ago, theresaL said:

It gets dark before it cools off. Two stage mowing.

 

Hope the hubs gets better. Why did the doc want him to stop taking it?

He has an autonomic disorder, dysreflexia, ordinarily seen in cord injury patients. His pressure can be very low, say 80/40, but in 15 minutes it can be 267/170. This goes on all day, every day. Lately his pressure has trended more to hypertension, with fewer lows. The meds were originally meant to bludgeon his system into some form of regulation, so that he would maintain enough pressure to allow him to be up and walking around without falling over. It would never have been as elegant as what the rest of us have. He had damage to the baroreceptors from his cancer surgery in 1984, and managed to cope, but the transplant surgery was emergent, and he was debilitated due to a  failed treatment attempt for HEP C likely from blood transfusions during his open neck dissection.

The concern is now we know that he has no carotid function on his right, or good side, and a 60 percent blockage on the left internal carotid, no longer having an external. He isn't operable either, the risk is far too great. So, we juggle, all day, every day.  We are aiming for a sweet spot of 170 t 180 systolic, but given his poor flow issues, we can't let it get too low either. 

[TBoneTX 44,787]

6 hours ago, cdneh said:

it sure does get dark in a hurry

Which sucks, si Eh ma'am.

3 hours ago, cdneh said:

we juggle, all day, every day. 

Continuous prayers for you and Mr. Eh man, si Eh ma'am.

[TBoneTX 44,787]

11 hours ago, theresaL said:

The  surnames aren't the problem, since most of those are one syllable

The good news is that if you say "Hey, you!" then everyone named Yu He will answer you, si TL ma'am.

[TBoneTX 44,787]

Those surnames of one syllable remind us of the absolutely classic TV show "Married with Children," on which a character (TV reportress) was named Mirrrrrranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardinale, vastly different system in Spanish surnames man.

Edited October 3, 2019 by TBoneTX

[SAT 9,609]

CDH hope your jarhead gets better.

 

 

16 hours ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

So is it Fall yet? According to the temperature here in NC it isn't here yet

 

It was 90 here yesterday. Dropped 30 degrees today. 

[SAT 9,609]

 

 

Now I'm nursing an upper respiratory. 

Hopefully I'll be up to taking the brats to the apple farm this weekend. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

2 minutes ago, SAT said:

CDH hope your jarhead gets better.

 

 

 

It was 90 here yesterday. Dropped 30 degrees today. 

I wish that was the case here. Unfortunately it is still going to be about the same temperature today as it was yesterday