Man Colds
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It's that time of year where men need to be diligent and have their wills updated.
I'm dealing with a sinus infection and just shared this thread with my wife. If I don't make it, someone can take my prepaid rounds of golf in PHX this weekend...
Will be thinking of you. About this time last week I was not sure if I would make it.
Tell your family you're "day to day" in CMC's scale and to prep the eulogy. Damn harsh way to go. Hope it's been a great ride. Thoughts and prayers.
Took my first sick day in over a decade on Monday.
Spent the day hobbling around the house, groaning with each slight movement as my head and body throbbed in pain. Asked ChatGPT to write touching letters to my loved ones and hired a laundry service to dry clean and press my best suit.
Shame I won't be around to watch ISU win it all this year because of this damn cold. Please drink a few beers and scream profanities at the refs in my honor.
Spent the day hobbling around the house, groaning with each slight movement as my head and body throbbed in pain. Asked ChatGPT to write touching letters to my loved ones and hired a laundry service to dry clean and press my best suit.
Shame I won't be around to watch ISU win it all this year because of this damn cold. Please drink a few beers and scream profanities at the refs in my honor.
Pretty rare these days I think for stuff like that to roll year to year unless you work for a govt agency.
Anyone had laryngitis lately?
Woke up with no voice yesterday. Still not much of one today, and feel totally run down.
Woke up with no voice yesterday. Still not much of one today, and feel totally run down.
I figured I'd find a kidney stone thread. I'm currently in the urgent clinic with an IV and catheter. I have 2 3mm stones that I passed to my bladder this morning. I dealt with the pain since 2 this morning. My great doctors here have given me a bunch of good stuff.
This is by far the most uncomfortable I've ever been. I've had shoulder and Achilles surgery and ran a marathon. This is BAD! I can't imagine what people without access to Healthcare do. Although he said passing them to the bladder is the hardest part. I told my wife it's like holding your pee so long it backs up to your kidney, have stomach flu, and then the worst abdominal cramps you can have all together.
Hope anybody with stones can avoid my experience. Had a stone the size of my thumbnail. Suffered trying to pass it (from kidney to bladder) for a week before the mobile "we can blast it to dust" truck was scheduled for my area. They blasted it but it shattered first and they couldn't dust it all in the allotted time so I was asked to pass the remnant. After a week on a morphine machine I swear they tried to grub it out using a backhoe--and you know the access they used to get there. Tore my ureter in the process and i got to wear a stent for almost three months to allow that to heal, taped to the side of my unit so it wouldn't move. I told the nurse if you looked up extreme pain in the dictionary it would show my picture and if you looked up mild discomfort it would show a pic of her having a baby. She said "I agree, I've had both". The stent caused so much pain irritating my bruised kidney wall from the blasting that after a couple nights of literally no sleep I decided to remove it myself a couple days before scheduled so I popped a pain pill, drank a fifth of schnapps and yanked it myself--no more pain (and they don't give you anything for it when done in the office). The Doc said "we don't get too many like you". I later passed a chunk about the size of a pencil eraser. My wife told me to show it to her dad and his words were "Good God, how could you pass something that size?" I told him I didn't know how he was equipped, but it was easy for me.
Podiatrist cut a fracture blist out of my ankle. Didn't even ask if he should deaden the area first. Cut it out and then started to probe the interior of my ankle. It was a painless procedure until.....he touched one of the two major nerves in my leg!! My leg went into the air and I started shouting to Jesus as my leg was in convulsions. My wife said she wondered who the was yelling.
A week later telling this story to a friend of ours and I told her about my pain experience, "I have not idea what childbirth is like or what passing a kidney stone is like..." She replied immediately, "passing a kidney stone!" Note that she naturally birthed five boys.
When Mrs Bosco and Little bosco's get sick I seem unaffected Mrs. Bosco asks how is that so:
Oh, come on. You just asked for the same thing a year and a half ago. Give someone else a chance.
