It was 44 degrees, cloudy, and breezy when I took Colin out at 7:30.
I did not call to check on Bob. Knowing they put the chest tubes in I am sure he was sleeping most of the day.
Monday December 18, 2017
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I am still astounded at the turn of events over the last month or so. What started out as what seemed a rather trivial medical issue of suspected pneumonia quickly morphed into a life threatening adventure, if one can call such an event an adventure.
It has certainly made me more aware that I should, and will, be going to my doctor for an issue that seems relatively minor in my uneducated medical expertise (in other words, none). I am no longer the youngen’ that I once was where I thought I was invincible. My doctor has explained that to me before but hearing what happened to someone else with whom I have communicated with for almost 20 years, younger than I am, going through these events, is a major wake-up call.
Yearly physicals, colonoscopy and other unpleasant procedures when needed, get to the doctor for any issue, small issues get attention before becoming major, update or create living will and final will, all that stuff I have ignored for years.
Bob and Barbara have my best wishes and prayers that it all works out and Bob has a full recovery.
Good points there @Ray. It is also important that you establish a “regular” and “personal” “family” “general practitioner” doctor and just not be another face seeing another doctor. Yes, your doctor sees hundreds of patients between times he sees you, but many of these family doctors have great memories. Find one now before it is too late.
Continuing prayers for Barbara, Bob, OFD, and all the rest of us.
It is also important that you establish a “regular” and “personal” “family” “general practitioner” doctor
I have one that I have been going to for 25 years. He knows both me and the wife and will ask one of us about the other when one of us visits. Same thing with the fang doctor (dentist). One of the advantages of a small town with small practices.
I’m booked to see a cardiologist next month. No symptoms but at my age (59) and background (heart attacks killed my father and three of my grandparents) it seems like a good idea.
Just watched The Hunt for Red October. A favourite.
Dad, did you ever serve on the USS Houston?
Just watched The Hunt for Red October. A favourite.
That’s my standard answer to “what’s your favorite movie of all time?”
I first saw the Hunt for Red October in the desert. What I remember most is that it was hot. The significance of the events in the movie was lost on me. Blame it on my youth.
I did think the movie was pretty good, but it was not good enough to go down on my top 10 list.
@Miles_Teg said:
“Dad, did you ever serve on the USS Houston”
No, I built, commissioned, and served on SSN 688 USS Los Angeles (the first of the class) and served on and overhauled SSN 670 USS Finback (a Sturgeon-class). Both were Fast Attacks (everything else are targets).
The real USS Houston (SSN 713) has a rather inglorious record outside and inside its “film career”.
References (sorry, I can’t tell you the really interesting stuff):
SSN 688 USS Los Angles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Los_Angeles_(SSN-688)
SSN 670 USS Finback:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Finback_(SSN-670)
World renowned for a topless go-go dancer on the sail planes, this was called “one of the most notorious incidents in the history of the Navy’s nuclear-powered submarine force.”
SSN 713 USS Houston:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Houston_(SSN-713)
Exactly backward. RBT was mostly fine until he went to see the doctor, and then look at the mess that arose. Nope, no doctors for me.
Good points there @Ray. It is also important that you establish a “regular” and “personal” “family” “general practitioner” doctor and just not be another face seeing another doctor. Yes, your doctor sees hundreds of patients between times he sees you, but many of these family doctors have great memories. Find one now before it is too late.
Even if the family doctor doesn’t have a great memory, the history is established and records are maintained.
My wife has a good memory for patient issues and felt bad about leaving her practice in rural SW WA State, but the numbers never worked. And that was *before* the big paper mill announced they were shedding 2/3 of the remaining jobs in town.
My current GP is a year or two younger than me, has my history, and I like him and his attitude toward care. He doesn’t tell me to lose a few pounds or cut out salt as a rote response. His practice keeps changing their IT and check in, having moved to ipads instead of paper for check in. I told them I didn’t like them either from and IT hygiene or a germ hygiene point of view.
There was one page of mandatory questions that basically boiled down to “are you depressed and thinking of suicide.”
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His practice keeps changing their IT and check in, having moved to ipads instead of paper for check in.
My wife’s practice in FL switched from paper to EMR, and the staff got lazy/careless about entering the patient records. A few years ago, when a lawyer subpoenaed records for a lawsuit related to a nursing home’s care for one patient, rather than admin that they lost the records, one of the managers told the lawyer that we had the file here in Texas. The lawyer bought it! We even had a process server show up at the house with a subpoena.
@Nick said:
“There was one page of mandatory questions that basically boiled down to “are you depressed and thinking of suicide.””
Our wonderful (not) intrusive (to the max) gooberment has mandated that the “depressed and suicidal” question be asked every time you visit the doctor (soon to be the dentist too).
The day when we will have a choice of doctors is fast disappearing. Have you noticed the push to these “eDoctors”?
Doctors can write their own ticket these days, there is a tremendous shortage of general/family practice doctors. Even though our current doctor is pressured by the hospital to push through more patients (one every 10-minutes is what they want) he has been able to tell them to pack sand. In the past month I have had 3 visits, none shorter than 30 minutes as we get my insulin shots figured out.
Three years ago our doctor retired to do Hospice service full time. He personally selected his replacement. It took 2 years and 6 potential candidates that we got to critique. He knows his patients’ and the type of doctor that they need. Our “new” doctor is just like our old one, just with a more recent education. He enjoys general/family practice and knows it will not make him rich. But his opinion is that any doctor that is in it for the money has no business being a doctor. I agree.
I broke my arm a few years ago falling off my bicycle. I wound up in the biggest hospital in the big city. In follow up appointments I got the mandatory questions that don’t really make sense for boring middle aged guys like me.
Q: Do you feel safe at home?
A: As long as my wife doesn’t find out about my bicycle riding.
Q: Do you have a drug problem?
A: Does Diet Mountain Dew addiction count as a drug problem?
I did not give those answers, but I was sorely tempted to. I was afraid the humorless staff would arrest my wife if I answered the first question honestly.
RBT was mostly fine until he went to see the doctor, and then look at the mess that arose.
He got pneumonia at home. Got treated for it. It weakened his heart and/or caused a silent heart attack resulting in congestive heart failure. The doctors did nothing to cause this.
Q: Do you have a drug problem?
A: Does Diet Mountain Dew addiction count as a drug problem?
Depends on the state and the sweetener. I used to catch a lot of cr*p about my diet soda habit in WA State … WHERE WEED IS LEGAL.
But weed is “natural” … unlike Aspartame.
A. It does not pertain to the purpose of my visit. Given the current state of affairs in this country, I shall invoke my rights as enumerated in the 5th Amendment.
YHBT
+1
Something to brighten the mood — Saturday night, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters did Letterman’s Christmas show in less than five minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZcaYfrIms
The reason I asked about USS Houston is not that I’m a North Korean spy, but that it was used in Red October, and that some of the officers (and hence the boat) were very unlucky.
Regarding the USS Houston, a prime example of life imitating art (the movie). The Wikipedia article treats the Houston gently. It did not have the sharpest Captain or crew, the unfortunate legacy of the Liberals doing more harm to our Armed Forces than any foreign enemy.
Gently? Babies aren’t treated that gently! Wow, I can’t believe being on that boat in ’89. It must have been miserable.
Of course I was a Nav Girl Boomer F… Never did a Fast Attack tour.
Wow. I had to look that up.
YHBT – You Have Been Trolled.
Given the nature of the thread, I do believe that “YHL. HAND” may also be in order. But only among friends.
“Obama protected Hezbollah drug ring to save Iran nukes deal”
https://nypost.com/2017/12/18/obama-protected-hezbollah-drug-ring-to-save-iran-nukes-deal/
Are you kidding me ?
Are you serious? Are you serious?
Oh, sorry, I was channeling the wrong lying piece of shit.
The big action today is in Tacoma WA where an Amtrak train on its inaugural run ran into something on the tracks (I am sure this will be covered up soon) and has killed many (6+) and injured 77 to 80+ people. The Drudge Report is full of stories about it (http://www.drudgereport.com/).
Various anarchist and terror groups have threatened this new run from Portland OR to Seattle WA.
It will be interesting how this turns out.
FYL, (fer ya’ll information),
I’m in Seattle and have heard what must be fighter jets, or simply, not commercial jets, flying over since late last night. Fuc**ers are FAST. I’ve checked the news and nothing gives, so I wonder what’s up? Ain’t the Blue Angels….
“Something to brighten the mood — Saturday night, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters did Letterman’s Christmas show in less than five minutes.”
Thanks for that – does brighten the mood. Great cover of “Linus and Lucy”.
One of the goals I have had for 40 years is to play that on the piano. I can easily cover the bass and treble parts on guitar or piano but it is really hard for me to cover them both at once. Requires total disconnect of the right and left hands. Maybe I just need to spend a sufficient amount of dedicated time at some point. Sounds like a task for after retirement if that ever happens.
Bill F, would you consider it a win to play one part of the song and record it, then play it back while you played the other part?
Various anarchist and terror groups have threatened this new run from Portland OR to Seattle WA.
Why would somebody pour concrete on the tracks ?
And why does antifa hate the new train ?
Bleh. Today has been foggy and at times foggy enough to feel like a light mist. The temp made it all the way to 55F. I took the dogs on a short walk, just the gate 900 feet away and back. They had a good time and are now back on “their” sofa and chair. 🙂
Crazy mutts.
Bleh. Today has been foggy and at times foggy enough to feel like a light mist. The temp made it all the way to 55F. I took the dogs on a short walk, just the gate 900 feet away and back. They had a good time and are now back on “their” sofa and chair.
My dog turned 15 last week. All she did all weekend was lay on her “sofa” in the gameroom. I got her up this morning at 10 am with a lot of talking and petting. She went outside, peed, ate her peeing outside treats, and went straight back to her sofa where she still was when I left for work at 1130am.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014SS8X1M/
Really nice day at the beach. Fluffy white “sand” is pure quartz and stays cool all day. Soft as powdered sugar too.
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SteveF: NO – I still have to have some self respect 🙂
If you can’t play it live, you can’t play it –
Check out Dave Brubeck. I can’t find a good version in the 2 minutes I looked – but he sets the bar.
Lynn, I have purchased a couple of those Serta beds for my dogs over the years. Dog lovers grin and other peeps look at me like I am a drunken sailor. Oh Well.
Lynn, I have purchased a couple of those Serta beds for my dogs over the years. Dog lovers grin and other peeps look at me like I am a drunken sailor. Oh Well.
I love having a dog inside the house. It is never boring. Crazy at times but, never boring.
It is going to be bad day when Lady passes on. The wife and daughter will totally freak out, me too. She falls all over the place now several times a day and is having “accidents”. That rear end of hers is very weak and I am scared each time that she falls that she is going to break that pelvis.
I also have dog stairs for her to get on the couch in the den. She does not like going down them so she jumps off the top step. I usually run over there if I can and lift her up and down gently. She hates being lifted so she usually gives me “the look”.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGYE0IQ
No dog in this house and I miss him. Seems extra quiet without him sniffling around the couch looking for scratches or treats. every time the kids drop some food off the table I think “no problem, the dog will get it” but he’s not here… We’ll see him soon as we get home though.
While I’m thinking about it, the security line at IAH had the same notice Tampa had last time I traveled that now you must remove any electronics from your bag that are “bigger than a cell phone” and yes that includes you kindle and ipad sir….
And WRT the mental health questions at the Dr office, at least they stopped asking if there were guns in the house. I got downright uppity at that question.
nick
There is a creation story by a native American tribe where God came down with his dog and created earth. It makes perfect sense that God would have his dog with him prior to making the earth as we know it.
A dog is part of the best part of life. (cats also)
And WRT the mental health questions at the Dr office, at least they stopped asking if there were guns in the house. I got downright uppity at that question.
My GP’s wife committed suicide with one of his handguns about ten years ago. She listened to the voices while changing antidepressants. And then his younger daughter asphyxiated herself about four or five years ago. My son used to hang with her and he was not surprised. My GP was kinda rough there for a while (understatement). We have gone to church together for about 28 years now and are Facebook friends so I got to see some tough days. You just don’t know what to say to help out.
That is very hard Lynn. Excellent that you can do whatever you can to help him get past that.
I hate to say it, but the best advice I ever had was not to sleep with anyone crazier than you are. But that can be easier said than done. Not in my case fortunately…
I miss my dog. He ran off with some woman he met on Craigslist.
He made the mistake of nibbling on the wrong pack member once. The pack member who doesn’t have much fur and used to crawl on the floor a lot. I’m glad we got rid of him after he bit my daughter, but I still miss him.
“My wife ran off with my best friend and I miss him.”
Why would somebody pour concrete on the tracks ?
And why does antifa hate the new train ?
Lots of bored trust fund kids in Seattle. You see it every May 1 when the demonstrations start … after shift change at Starbucks of course.
If it was ANTIFA, I don’t think the train was the direct target. If the goal was to disrupt traffic around the military base and/or Intel’s hush-hush DuPont, WA office for several days, I can’t think of a better location than that train bridge. The detour recommended by WDOT is over 90 minutes over the Tacoma-Narrows bridge (say, isn’t that the one from those physics class films?) and back down through Olympia.
I doubt it was sabotage however. Remember, this is AMTRAK — in a state filled with weed, their engineers probably buy only the best. Plus Pierce County isn’t exactly a place where bored wealthy kids want to hang; “Cops” used to film there regularly.
And why does antifa hate the new train ?
Reading the news from Florida regarding Brightline getting approved to run trains from Orlando to Miami, I gotta wonder if WDOT and AMTRAK got a little aggressive with the speed of the brand new route between Tacoma and Olympia.
Brightline is mostly private money.