Random Rants VII: Why do they ALWAYS do that?!

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Mirc said:
I just came home from a visit to a hospital where I've had a truly "great" experience.

Text below not for the faint-hearted:
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I crushed my fingernail a few days ago. Problem is that a blood clot formed above my nail (just where the nail ends), 3 mm behind the point where it blends with the finger.

So what did they do?

They put a thick needle BETWEEN my nail and my finger and pushed the needle through 2/3 of the visible part of the nail while PRESSING on the clot, which BTW happens to be the most painful part, for the blood to squeeze through the space between the nail and the finger and be removed from the clot. That, BTW, did not remove all of the blood as a tiny part is coagulated and they just hope it will melt away, which means that if it doesn't, I'll have to go through all this again.

All this without one bit of anesthesia. The whole process, from the point when the needle separated my finger from my nail and until the point when they stopped pushing on the clog lasted around 9 minutes according to my watch. Just... IMAGINE 9 minutes of that. :cringe:


PLEASE please let it get well and don't make me go through this again :cry: If this doesn't work next time, they will have to remove my nail. And according to them, they don't use anesthesia for that either. I honestly hope I will lose consciousness from the pain if that happens to be necessary.

It's by far the most painful and hideous thing ever to have happened to me. I truly can't describe the pain. AFAIK, yanking people's nails was a torture method, wasn't it?
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Today's Overcompensating is coincidentally covering the same topic:

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Veritass said:
I feel for you, Mirc. A few years back, I was playing ball with my dog, and I went to kick the ball just as the dog went to grab it with his teeth, and I ended up hitting my big toe nail on his teeth. It ripped the big toe nail about 2/3 of the way off and bled all over my living room.

When I went to the doctor, they said I had two choices: (1) they could just grab the nail with a pair of forceps (pliers) and rip it off quickly, and that is going to hurt a lot, or (2) they could give me shots into my toe, which is going to hurt a lot, and then remove it. I chose the latter, but the two shots they gave me went straight into the tip of my big toe and back toward the foot. I was crawling up the wall as they did it. The tetanus shot they gave me was a relief after those two shots in the toe.

I still get chills thinking about it.
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Ah I've never had problems with toes but I can definitely imagine how that feels like, after today.

The feeling was exactly like that, like crawling up the wall...
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They put me face-down on the bed-like-thing (don't know the proper english word for it) and of course I chose to look in the other direction than my "wounded" hand, but that didn't help much because I could literally feel the blood squeeze through the space they made below my nail (imagine lava flowing or something like that, it all hurt terribly but those "rivers" were worse than all the rest) and the warmness of the blood as it was getting out and touching the unharmed part of my middle finger in tiny drops.

Yeah, it sounds almost like a horror movie, but I could feel exactly that and I had to stay completely still this whole time since I didn't want to have the needle slip further "into" my nail.


I remember I could almost feel no other pain at all after that, just like you had with that tetanus shot. I was forcing myself to smile at the 6-year olds around me looking worried at me after I came out from there (the hospital is only for <20, I had to wait a lot because the young kids had priority, and I was 3 times the age of most patients there :)).



@silver: at least I got to take some time to read today, I had no idea how many kinds of torture related to fingernails and toenails existed in history. :p


Edit: didn't see Catharsis' post, writing with one hand is slower than it looks :p Hahaaa :rotfl:

choxorn said:
@Mirc: Your pain is as often the subject of your rants as D'art's stuff breaking is the subject of his. :rolleyes: The universe doesn't like you, I guess.
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Been through a pretty unbelievable 3-week period, starting with the pneumonia and HOPEFULLY ending with this. I wouldn't have believed that all this will happen to me in such a short time if you told me 1 day before. :) Hope it's over.

(in fact, before late August I can't remember ever making a post about health, mainly since I normally consider myself in great health... the pneumonia, mysterious cough, and nail horror experience kinda ruined the pride about my perfect health though :p I still maintain that the rest of my body is in good shape and most of what was lost will be regained.
 
I hate Tuesdays :(
 
Rant 1

I can deal with handicapped parking spots. You got a ******** kid, you need space to unload the van, whatever. Fine. I don't care about a few handicapped parking spots. But "mother with infant" parking spots bug me a bit. I don't mind 'em too much, but they're kind of annoying. "Expectant new mom", spots, though, those are too much for me. I'm friggin parking there if I feel like it, and ain't nobody gonna tell me I can't. What are you gonna do, tell me I'm not knocked up? None of your goddamn business and you're not gonna tell me where to park on it.

I probably won't actually park in them. But they piss me off. And expectant new mom shouldn't be at the damn store anyway, she should be back home, letting baby daddy go to the store while she makes him his dinner.

Rant 2

You gotta be kidding me, CVS. I ain't paying no $1.99 for a 2-liter bottle of regular soda. Go screw. The kwik-e-mart doesn't even charge that much.

Rant 3

Caution tape is not an appropriate halloween decoration. And no halloween decoration is appropriate in September. Stick with the back-to-school crap, please. Although I guess it's better halloween than christmas already. Jeez.

Rant 4

"With other added ingredients" negates "100% juice". You have to pick. Either it's 100% juice, or it's <100% juice because you put other crap in it. I am not going to buy your frickin pear-grape juice. I want grape juice, not pear-grape juice that says grape juice on the label. Grape juice. Why is that so difficult? Grape juice, and if it's not 100% grape juice, if you put frickin hfcs or PEAR JUICE in it, please don't call it 100% grape juice, you frickin liars. I hate pear juice purely on principle.
 
choxorn said:
@Mirc: Your pain is as often the subject of your rants as D'art's stuff breaking is the subject of his. :rolleyes: The universe doesn't like you, I guess.
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I'm getting a new cell phone soon (probably the old one), and I'm taking it out of my pocket before I put my clothes away.

Oh yeah, the L button isn't broken. It's unresponsive, but a blow can get it working for a few more hours.
 
The last of the girls I went to church with in high school is getting married. Of our little 8 person sunday school class (and people I was pretty close to growing up), I'm the ONLY single one.

I AM ONLY 21 YEARS OLD I AM NOT THE WEIRD ONE HERE IT IS ALL YOU GUYS.
 
Nylan said:
I hate Tuesdays :(
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I was all set to disagree, because I have Institute on Sundays and I like Institute. I was all set to then go to Institute.

My car, on the other hand, had other ideas. Y'see, normally, putting the key in the ignition has some sort of effect. Not my car, nosiree. If the ignition turned, what sort of weakling would it be?

downtown said:
The last of the girls I went to church with in high school is getting married. Of our little 8 person sunday school class (and people I was pretty close to growing up), I'm the ONLY single one.

I AM ONLY 21 YEARS OLD I AM NOT THE WEIRD ONE HERE IT IS ALL YOU GUYS.
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Heh, that's totally normal. And by "normal" I mean weird. At least my singles ward is full of people older than me.
 
d.highland said:
Say wha?

... It's 2 degrees (CELCIUS) here in the morning TOPS...
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Well first of all, you can get sunburned skiing. It's about sun, not temp. Second, I don't live in Canada.

I was out in the sun yesterday for a long time and my face got some mild sunburn. It was uncomfortable. It's practically over now.
 
what's so bad about it? If you don't think its gunna' be good, just don't read it?

its not like other things didn't add onto an already finished series type thing just to make an extra buck
 
Taras Bulba said:
what's so bad about it? If you don't think its gunna' be good, just don't read it?

its not like other things didn't add onto an already finished series type thing just to make an extra buck
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The same reason you don't add a couple of chapters to the Bible :nono:
 
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