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God I'm tired of posting on this thread but I did this the 1st week of February. Since I had my construction accident in 95 that eventually led to my amputation I periodically have nightmares where  I relive the accident and dive out of bed in my sleep,  always without a problem...until now. Multiple surgeries scheduled for Friday. 

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5 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

God I'm tired of posting on this thread but I did this the 1st week of February. Since I had my construction accident in 95 that eventually led to my amputation I periodically have nightmares where  I relive the accident and dive out of bed in my sleep,  always without a problem...until now. Multiple surgeries scheduled for Friday. 

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Damn. Good luck on the surgeries

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Darn, already been a month... time for the eyeball needle. 

Damn good thing tissue heals faster/better than bones.

Speaking of which... how's it going, Shooter?

 

Posted
3 hours ago, Tex Long said:

Darn, already been a month... time for the eyeball needle. 

Damn good thing tissue heals faster/better than bones.

Speaking of which... how's it going, Shooter?

 

Horrible, there's no way to move that the bone doesn't 😕 stab the muscle, no way to sleep arrrgggghhh

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Posted
1 hour ago, CycleTex87 said:

What am I looking at besides a shoulder replacement some time back?  Non radiologist here.  

Reverse replacement, now outside of the shattered bone.

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Posted
2 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

What am I looking at besides a shoulder replacement some time back?  Non radiologist here.  

Not to mention the Boston Scientific Bi-V ICD which is the least of his worries at the moment.

 

Boston Scientific, yes?

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Posted
4 hours ago, SurlyGator said:

Not to mention the Boston Scientific Bi-V ICD which is the least of his worries at the moment.

 

Boston Scientific, yes?

Those terms take me back in time, an old gf was an ep tech. Good lord that job seemed like a total ass whip. 

Posted
16 hours ago, SurlyGator said:

Not to mention the Boston Scientific Bi-V ICD which is the least of his worries at the moment.

 

Boston Scientific, yes?

Nailed it 

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57 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

one of the worst parts of getting old is burying all your family / friends / loved ones 

I haven't thought about this for quite a while, but your observation brought it back to mind.

My step-dad visited me the night he died. He was completely gold, didn't look like clothed, but he wan't naked either. He said everything was fine, and the lives we lead make perfect sense viewed from there. He said that the pain we survivors felt, that pain is not for him, but for ourselves, and that once we realize that, we can let go of it.

He told me there was so much he had to do and learn, and that reincarnation is a choice, not a certainty. Everything, even things we are horrified by, are inconsequential when viewed from there. Said he wouldn't be coming back to us again. and he turned and walked away, disappearing over the horizon.

One other thing he told me was that we should understand that Worry and Prayer are exactly the same Thing. People who want to pray but can't, aren't doing it right.

Worry is just imagining that Bad Things are going to happen.

Prayer is just imagining that Good Things are going to happen.

Now you know. Whenever you realize you're imagining Bad Things, just flip that mental switch from Bad to Good.

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"Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a minimally invasive procedure to remove your gallbladder. Instead of one large incision, your surgeon will make three or four small incisions in your abdomen. They’ll place a viewing instrument, called a laparoscope, and surgical tools into the incisions to extract the gallbladder."  Let's add co2 to open the abdominal area for better views. 

 

This sucked so bad! Surgery was on the 26th and today, Mar 3rd the balloon abdominal pain has finally started to depart. I thought I was gonna pop.  Age didn't help.  My 22 yr old co worker had hers removed at 18 and healed quicker. 

Looking at my abdomen,  I will no longer wear a bikini or crop top lol. 

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Posted
20 hours ago, sidis said:

wrong thread.

If I'm taking that wrongly, I apologize, but I assume that was meant for my post. I'm not sure why you feel the need to play thread police, and particularly so when you fail to offer an alternate thread. It should come as no surprise to see you were currently hanging out in CR when I looked.

Again, if "wrong thread" was about some other post, I apologize.

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2 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

If I'm taking that wrongly, I apologize, but I assume that was meant for my post. I'm not sure why you feel the need to play thread police, and particularly so when you fail to offer an alternate thread. It should come as no surprise to see you were currently hanging out in CR when I looked.

Again, if "wrong thread" was about some other post, I apologize.

Nothing to do with your post. It was intended as an edit note convention that is common throughout this site in which a substantive post is inadvertently made in the wrong thread and would otherwise appear to be a non sequitur since deleting the post is not an option.

feel free to weirdly surveil my next site visit location on the porn board if you like. 

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Posted (edited)
20 hours ago, Bevoette said:

"Laparoscopic cholecystectomy ...

I got hauled off to the hospital for a heart attack (1999, I think), which turned out to be gall stones. Went in for that three- or four-hole laparoscopy surgery, which was a pretty new deal then. The top hole wound up being much larger, because of what the surgeon ssaid was the biggest gall stone he ever saw... bigger than a chicken egg, close to duck egg size. Fuck, oh dear... no wonder it hurt so badly.

But it really healed up pretty quickly, and no real pain. I was 56 at the time, so reckon it ain't just youth to account for it.

But I still ain't wearing a bikini...

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Posted
9 minutes ago, sidis said:

feel free to weirdly surveil my next site visit location on the porn board if you like. 

Tell me about this porn board. 

I'm still curious about the post in the wrong thread, though.

Posted
4 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

Tell me about this porn board. 

I'm still curious about the post in the wrong thread, though.

He posted something in this thread that was meant for another thread.  Then removed it.

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Posted
Just now, Jerry Callo said:

He posted something in this thread that was meant for another thread.  Then removed it.

Well, shit... what a sensitive asshole I am. (No Johnny foosball Mom reference)

Never really paid attention to removals - do they leave a trace? There's always a few edited blank except with a ne'er mind here and there. Had a few, myself, then was too late to edit.

 

Posted
5 hours ago, Tex Long said:

Tell me about this porn board. 

I'm still curious about the post in the wrong thread, though.

 

5 hours ago, Tex Long said:

Well, shit... what a sensitive asshole I am. (No Johnny foosball Mom reference)

Never really paid attention to removals - do they leave a trace? There's always a few edited blank except with a ne'er mind here and there. Had a few, myself, then was too late to edit.

 

unlike i was, you are definitely in the right thread.

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Very scary experience this afternoon.
At 8am we dropped off my Civic at the Honda Service center close to the Interstate in Round Rock 15 minutes from the house. 
We’ve done that route literally hundreds of times in the past 30 years (car dealerships, restaurants, hospitals, shopping).
We picked it up at 3:30pm, then I drove out of the service place with wife intending to follow me home. 
After getting out on the street to the intersection I noticed she was slow leaving her parking space, but the light turned green and I had to get going. 
A half block up the road I discovered I had left my cellphone at the service desk, so immediately tried to circle back thru a McDonalds, but was forced to make a U-turn. Rush hour traffic was starting and was pretty heavy.
Anyway, retrieved the phone and headed home quickly to try to catch up with her.
Arrived home…and no wife.
I knew she had no plans to make any stops, so I became very worried and got back in my car to backtrack to look for her. 
I called her cellphone to find out where she was. 
When she answered she said “I’m lost and have no idea where I’m going”. Of course that scared me shitless, especially when I asked her if she saw any familiar business buildings or street signs.
She answered in the negative - and her voice was getting very weak. 
I was ready to call 911, but then she saw a road sign and a school campus, so I had a rough idea where she was.
I told her to pull into any business parking lot, describe it to me, then wait for me to come get her to lead her home.
I found her at a gas station by the Cracker Barrel restaurant and had her follow me home. 
On the way back I noticed she was driving slightly erratically, then it dawned on me she was probably having another one of her low glucose “spells” like she had just before Thanksgiving two years ago. We had to call 911 for that one because she looked like she was going into a catatonic state.
Then I remembered she only had her chocolate breakfast drink before we left the house that morning, and no lunch because she went to the 12:30pm Ash Wednesday Mass at her church (fasting before communion). Plus she ate nothing afterwards.
Luckily we were in our neighborhood by that time and she safely made it into our driveway.
Once inside she sat on the couch just staring at nothing, so I brought her some grapes to eat, then one of her power bars. After that she became more alert and responsive.
I laid down the law that from now on she has to have something more substantial for breakfast and to eat a sandwich for lunch, just to keep herself going until dinner.
She can be very stubborn about that - in fact when I heated up a pot of leftover spaghetti and meat sauce, she would only eat a few small spoons of the pasta.
I am at wit’s end about this attitude- and it isn’t doing my mental state & blood pressure any good.
As I said, it scared me more than I’ve ever been.
Told her if this is the way she wants to be, then we were going to move into the nice assisted living community next to our neighborhood. 

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On 3/5/2025 at 8:41 PM, Armybrat said:

Shooter, how are you doing?

Better  but still  miserable.  Going to be a long hard road back to to any semblance of normalcy, if there's any chance at all.  Really hard to stay positive or optimistic hurting this bad and limited sleep/rest.

 

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On 3/5/2025 at 8:45 PM, Armybrat said:

Very scary experience this afternoon.
At 8am we dropped off my Civic at the Honda Service center close to the Interstate in Round Rock 15 minutes from the house. 
We’ve done that route literally hundreds of times in the past 30 years (car dealerships, restaurants, hospitals, shopping).
We picked it up at 3:30pm, then I drove out of the service place with wife intending to follow me home. 
After getting out on the street to the intersection I noticed she was slow leaving her parking space, but the light turned green and I had to get going. 
A half block up the road I discovered I had left my cellphone at the service desk, so immediately tried to circle back thru a McDonalds, but was forced to make a U-turn. Rush hour traffic was starting and was pretty heavy.
Anyway, retrieved the phone and headed home quickly to try to catch up with her.
Arrived home…and no wife.
I knew she had no plans to make any stops, so I became very worried and got back in my car to backtrack to look for her. 
I called her cellphone to find out where she was. 
When she answered she said “I’m lost and have no idea where I’m going”. Of course that scared me shitless, especially when I asked her if she saw any familiar business buildings or street signs.
She answered in the negative - and her voice was getting very weak. 
I was ready to call 911, but then she saw a road sign and a school campus, so I had a rough idea where she was.
I told her to pull into any business parking lot, describe it to me, then wait for me to come get her to lead her home.
I found her at a gas station by the Cracker Barrel restaurant and had her follow me home. 
On the way back I noticed she was driving slightly erratically, then it dawned on me she was probably having another one of her low glucose “spells” like she had just before Thanksgiving two years ago. We had to call 911 for that one because she looked like she was going into a catatonic state.
Then I remembered she only had her chocolate breakfast drink before we left the house that morning, and no lunch because she went to the 12:30pm Ash Wednesday Mass at her church (fasting before communion). Plus she ate nothing afterwards.
Luckily we were in our neighborhood by that time and she safely made it into our driveway.
Once inside she sat on the couch just staring at nothing, so I brought her some grapes to eat, then one of her power bars. After that she became more alert and responsive.
I laid down the law that from now on she has to have something more substantial for breakfast and to eat a sandwich for lunch, just to keep herself going until dinner.
She can be very stubborn about that - in fact when I heated up a pot of leftover spaghetti and meat sauce, she would only eat a few small spoons of the pasta.
I am at wit’s end about this attitude- and it isn’t doing my mental state & blood pressure any good.
As I said, it scared me more than I’ve ever been.
Told her if this is the way she wants to be, then we were going to move into the nice assisted living community next to our neighborhood. 

Dayum!!!

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On 3/5/2025 at 8:45 PM, Armybrat said:

Very scary experience this afternoon.
At 8am we dropped off my Civic at the Honda Service center close to the Interstate in Round Rock 15 minutes from the house. 
We’ve done that route literally hundreds of times in the past 30 years (car dealerships, restaurants, hospitals, shopping).
We picked it up at 3:30pm, then I drove out of the service place with wife intending to follow me home. 
After getting out on the street to the intersection I noticed she was slow leaving her parking space, but the light turned green and I had to get going. 
A half block up the road I discovered I had left my cellphone at the service desk, so immediately tried to circle back thru a McDonalds, but was forced to make a U-turn. Rush hour traffic was starting and was pretty heavy.
Anyway, retrieved the phone and headed home quickly to try to catch up with her.
Arrived home…and no wife.
I knew she had no plans to make any stops, so I became very worried and got back in my car to backtrack to look for her. 
I called her cellphone to find out where she was. 
When she answered she said “I’m lost and have no idea where I’m going”. Of course that scared me shitless, especially when I asked her if she saw any familiar business buildings or street signs.
She answered in the negative - and her voice was getting very weak. 
I was ready to call 911, but then she saw a road sign and a school campus, so I had a rough idea where she was.
I told her to pull into any business parking lot, describe it to me, then wait for me to come get her to lead her home.
I found her at a gas station by the Cracker Barrel restaurant and had her follow me home. 
On the way back I noticed she was driving slightly erratically, then it dawned on me she was probably having another one of her low glucose “spells” like she had just before Thanksgiving two years ago. We had to call 911 for that one because she looked like she was going into a catatonic state.
Then I remembered she only had her chocolate breakfast drink before we left the house that morning, and no lunch because she went to the 12:30pm Ash Wednesday Mass at her church (fasting before communion). Plus she ate nothing afterwards.
Luckily we were in our neighborhood by that time and she safely made it into our driveway.
Once inside she sat on the couch just staring at nothing, so I brought her some grapes to eat, then one of her power bars. After that she became more alert and responsive.
I laid down the law that from now on she has to have something more substantial for breakfast and to eat a sandwich for lunch, just to keep herself going until dinner.
She can be very stubborn about that - in fact when I heated up a pot of leftover spaghetti and meat sauce, she would only eat a few small spoons of the pasta.
I am at wit’s end about this attitude- and it isn’t doing my mental state & blood pressure any good.
As I said, it scared me more than I’ve ever been.
Told her if this is the way she wants to be, then we were going to move into the nice assisted living community next to our neighborhood. 

Love you AB, prayers be a flying for you brother 🙏❤️🙏❤️

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I have to admit that I hit a sugar low every once in a while (not more than once or twice in a period of several weeks), pretty much always because I have a couple of cups of black coffee for breakfast and nothing to eat and then skip over or put off dinner/lunch. My physical response is just shakiness, which so far is a warning to me. Having lived with a needle-shooting diabetic many years ago, I have a standard response to that of hitting a couple big spoons of honey and glugging fruit juice if available, and preparing a meal immediately. I also try to keep some packets of honey in my vehicles' glove boxes in case I hit that wall while traveling.

I can't recommend strongly enough to AB and all of y'all, to keep some of those honey packets in the car. 

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