RANDOM RAVES : Kick it up a notch! (term is over!)

[ReindeerThistle]

My last operation I was out like a light. During recovery, I got to catch up on mods and CFC and a year later I was back to my old self!

Thanks CFC!

 

[classical_hero]

I'd actually prefer it if you didn't try and cater to us. I enjoy learning new things.

What I would have done to cater for Americans is this. This is how I would re-phrase my previous post. See how it works that you learn something new and still understand it without explanation.
"While I was at the Doctor's surgery(office), they were playing some Mr Bean, so that was good to see rather than the usual boring stuff."

@RT, What was your latest surgery?
Mine was on Wednesday, but technically is wasn't really surgery just a minor procedure that was only about 20 minutes. I had an abscess near my exit site where a tube comes out for doing Peritoneal Dialysis. Since it was rather close it could have been a concern had i left it longer, so it was done as a priority, but not as an emergency, so for that simple procedure, I was in hospital for over a day, but had I been seen on Friday, since I went to clinic to get it checked and it was rather bad then, but they just sent me home, when the nurses at hospital said that they were rather disappointed when they heard that. Things are slowly healing up and the wound is slowly suppurating (I learned this word from a friend who explained it as supper you ate and he had to draw it as to what it mean, and suppurate means to ooze with pus, he drew a picture of someone eat the pus coming from him that ran into a bowl, to show the meaning of the word. It is a rather effective way of learning new words, since I have remembered that for well over a decade now.) So now I am on antibiotics to treat the infection. Once the ooze stops that will be good and soon the wound will start to heal and hopefully I will be back to normal.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That rewording works but if you try and proactively clear up confusion I won't be able to so handily pad my postcount.

I marvel at how *not a big deal* it is for you Australians to go to the doctor and get needed services and surgeries. I don't even think about it, just talking to a doctor for 10 minutes here costs a couple hundred bucks without insurance.

Obamacare sign-ups start next week for me though!

 

[ReindeerThistle]

@Classical Hero: I had a double linguinal hernia operation. Hoo-ah! All my parts still working. I was out of commission for ten days -- under strict party orders to get better. This was 2012.

Bummer about the abcess. Hang in there. I know how you feel. I mean, in that instance. I can't imagine what dialysis is like, though one of my friends went through it.

@Hobbs: Oh yeah, the ACA. I am going with the bullet-in-head option versus the slowly bleed you out via the jugular vein option.

 

[Takhisis]

@classical: was it the one where Mr. Bean goes to the dentist?

 

[madviking]

i got my class pimp ring

 

[ReindeerThistle]

i got my class pimp ring

Now you've done it you fool! You,ll have to graduate.

I did not graduate, btw. I wear my GF's Class ring: Duke! Duke! Duke!

 

[madviking]

the best part is that it says "BS" on the side.

also this is the philosophy i'll be living this weekend:

 

[ReindeerThistle]

the best part is that it says "BS" on the side.

also this is the philosophy i'll be living this weekend:

Haha! Worth repeating...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

@Hobbs: Oh yeah, the ACA. I am going with the bullet-in-head option versus the slowly bleed you out via the jugular vein option.

Easy enough to say when you have health insurance and/or access to free clinics. I would have figured you'd be all in favor of healthcare access for those who don't have it even if it's not your preferred solution.

Rant: where is rugbyLEAGUEfan? I need awesome aussie!

 

[madviking]

i got my class pimp ring

 

[Wrymouth3]

Class of 1819, nice! Did you defend your honor in a duel when a fellow student insulted your Concord shoes?

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Easy enough to say when you have health insurance and/or access to free clinics. I would have figured you'd be all in favor of healthcare access for those who don't have it even if it's not your preferred solution.

Rant: where is rugbyLEAGUEfan? I need awesome aussie!

I have neither health insurance nor "free" clinics. I do have experience.in dealing with ACA and its predecessor, Mass Health. ACA recruited us one Red when her hours were gerrymandered by three university employers -- she was a PhD earning under $20k a year but had coverage. So she ended up having her health care eliminated.

In Mass, the state cut 38,000 previously-uninsured "subsidized" people off because the state "didn't anticipate so many people needing subsidized care.

I don't have the stats in front of me, but the big winners are insurance companies and big pharma. We may get another Red as another Doctoral candidate who is taking a break from her studies in neuroscience was going batty knowing all her work was directed by big pharma, and she would have no tenancy in her fieldbof study. She volunteers 50 hours a week.

I am favor of access to health care, and I did not mean to offend with my flippancy. But coverage does not equal care, and any solution that puts profit before people as our system does will never provide the care it promises.

However, I will be on the people end making sure people DO get what's promised, since it is the law. I am a law-abiding citizen...

Yeah, and where is rLf?

 

[classical_hero]

@classical: was it the one where Mr. Bean goes to the dentist?

I saw bits of two episodes and they were not that episode. The first one was Mr Bean in Room 426 and the second one was a subject of Mythbusters.

 

[Verarde]

Today a professor complimented me on my scruffy "beard" at lunch.

I think I'll go grin inwardly for the rest of the day.

 

[madviking]

shave that thing off

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Today a professor complimented me on my scruffy "beard" at lunch.

I think I'll go grin inwardly for the rest of the day.

Post a pic on the Member Photo Thread and your fellow CFCers can judge, Radio Verarde.

 

[madviking]

10 lbs of hand picked apples = $12 = one happy madviking

 

[ReindeerThistle]

10 lbs of hand picked apples = $12 = one happy madviking

Yea, but that's only about a quart of applejack. What's everyone else gonna drink? Sterno?

 

[madviking]

they don't sell applejack in virginia