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

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

2 minutes ago, SAT said:

 

 

Now I'm nursing an upper respiratory. 

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

I hope you feel better this weekend

[SAT 9,609]

Thank you, but that's very unbecoming of a US Marine. 

 

See, when I was in, I would said something to the tune of, "shut the @)&$ up! Stop your $#@&x whining! Are you @$_&$ dying?!"

[SAT 9,609]

 

But that's the old Corps, the new corps is..."aww...does your pp hurt? Do you need anything? Would you like a few days off?"

[theresaL 408]

11 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

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

This is so true. When I had students mostly from Saudi it was "Hey, Abdullah or Mohammad" and you'd get about 6 to respond at the same time. I started numbering them.

[theresaL 408]

19 hours ago, cdneh said:

 

 

15 hours ago, cdneh said:

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. 

Wow, I had no idea he had such serious health issues. I had to look up the med terms to know what it is. This is a lot to deal with on both of your parts. As my granny used to say, "There for the grace of God go I". Really puts the liquefied peanut butter and hot office in proper perspective. Here's praying his health improves and you continued strength.

[cdneh 3,112]

1 hour ago, theresaL said:

 

Wow, I had no idea he had such serious health issues. I had to look up the med terms to know what it is. This is a lot to deal with on both of your parts. As my granny used to say, "There for the grace of God go I". Really puts the liquefied peanut butter and hot office in proper perspective. Here's praying his health improves and you continued strength.

Thanks for that. He has a lot of other health issues, but you do what you have to do I suppose.  It's not all doom and gloom, even though some days it does look that way. I am hoping this hot spell breaks as promised over the weekend; he seems to do better when it's cooler.

[TBoneTX 43,580]

3 hours ago, theresaL said:

I started numbering them.

In Poland, you have Stanislaw #1, #2, #Many, #Many, #Many, #Many...

Edited October 3, 2019 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 43,580]

9 hours ago, SAT said:

Now I'm nursing an upper respiratory. 

How much does your nurse charge for that, huh man?

Would it be cheaper if it were a middle or lower respiratory, huh man?

9 hours ago, SAT said:

that's the old Corps, the new corps is..."aww...does your pp hurt? Do you need anything? Would you like a few days off?"

The proper -- oj nie, the ONLY -- question is, "Would you like to buy a pre-owned toilet seat, huh man?"

[TBoneTX 43,580]

3 hours ago, theresaL said:

you'd get about Many to respond at the same time

This is what happens whenever we walk into any bank with our POTS receipts for deposit, red carpets rolled out man.

[TBoneTX 43,580]

Our rental casa is vacant again, bye tenants man.

Real estate agent recommended replacing (smallish) kitchen countertop, upgrade man.

Mrs. T-B. has seized this project and found a guy for the labor for only $Many00, $[2+2]00 man.

This includes various other little corrections throughout the r-casa, deal man.

Unsure of costs for materials, still pending man.

However, should accomplish tasteful upgrades on the cheap, cheap we man.

[TBoneTX 43,580]

We saw a great sign on a business recently, see we man:

 

WE ARE ALWAYS HERE, si man

Except When We Are Not, no man

 

We also saw a great T-shirt, see we man:

HI, si man

I DON'T CARE, no man

THANKS, si man

[TBoneTX 43,580]

On 10/2/2019 at 11:52 AM, DaveAndAnastasia said:

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...

You'd better stick around in this thread and the RUB forum, si DA man.  No disappearing acts, no DA man.

[TBoneTX 43,580]

Scintillating repartee here since last night, yawn man.

In gripping news, we have yet again set a weekly record for POTS* sales, $i man.

 

*order your POTS today, si man

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,079]

17 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

You'd better stick around in this thread and the RUB forum, si DA man.  No disappearing acts, no DA man.

*poof*

 

/don't plan on going anywhere

[Ontarkie 14,008]

Had to go get meds from the doctor. Good news my asthma is under great control, bad news I still managed to cough up a lung. 

Three prescriptions later I should feel better soon.