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His account of what went down that night reminds me of English Bob's account of what went down at the Blue Bottle Saloon that night with Two Gun Corky


wait, is there a cliff's notes or a page number I should start on? I can read it, got nothing to do today. Turns out I've done a good job wrapping things up/delegating. But I thought that thread was about an assault and I looked at the last few pages and it's ..........craziness about an EPA movie and an activist who does not appear to be mentally stable???? I know we have thread derailments on CF but I'm struggling to see how that went the route it did.
 
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Ah yeah, I know Marian. Have a couple of friends that went there. I think it’s a catholic school, right? Right by the Children’s Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Arts (and both of those are amazing if you’ve never been.)


Yup.
Those would be great, but we're not moving for a 1 semester gig.
1 year is OK for a good one, but not 1 semester.
 
wait, is there a cliff's notes or a page number I should start on? I can read it, got nothing to do today. Turns out I've done a good job wrapping things up/delegating. But I thought that thread was about an assault and I looked at the last few pages and it's ..........craziness about an EPA movie and an activist who does not appear to be mentally stable???? I know we have thread derailments on CF but I'm struggling to see how that went the route it did.

You might get a slightly better idea if you read the whole thing but it is still chaos and that guy is all over the place.
 
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I only go if I have no other choice. I know the women (and many men) on this board will hate to hear that, but I just hate doctors.

I had a cracked tooth that caused an abscess that I put up with for about three months before I got so bad I had to go to the dentist. I was literally eating probably close to 50 ibuprofen per day with it, typically 9 or 10 at a time. It also doesn’t help that I have a really high pain tolerance.

That said, don’t do what I do. Listen to what I’m going to assume the women of the board will tell you, because they’re right. Go to the doctor.

I'm a wait till later type of guy as well. It would need to be pretty extreme for me to go to the emergency room.

Yea sounds like I am the same way. Last year with my pulmonary embolism I waited so long the doctor called me an idiot :D

I also ask because last night I was having weird side/chest pains like when my embolism started. But I checked my oxygen levels, blood pressure, pulse, and all the other vitals I could and they were fine. Still got this weird pain going on but hey, it seems like I am ok anyway :rolleyes:
 
Yea sounds like I am the same way. Last year with my pulmonary embolism I waited so long the doctor called me an idiot :D

I also ask because last night I was having weird side/chest pains like when my embolism started. But I checked my oxygen levels, blood pressure, pulse, and all the other vitals I could and they were fine. Still got this weird pain going on but hey, it seems like I am ok anyway :rolleyes:

Chest pains are probably the one thing that I won’t mess around with.
 
omg, I'm legit crying laughing so hard at Keep's "I'm going to let another mod deal with this thread post"

I think that's my fave post ever on this site.
 
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Yea sounds like I am the same way. Last year with my pulmonary embolism I waited so long the doctor called me an idiot :D

I also ask because last night I was having weird side/chest pains like when my embolism started. But I checked my oxygen levels, blood pressure, pulse, and all the other vitals I could and they were fine. Still got this weird pain going on but hey, it seems like I am ok anyway :rolleyes:


you had an embolism??!?!! The current pain, absent other issues and what you believe are normal vitals would make me say urgent care vs. ER. But with your history, probably wouldn't ignore it.
 
Hospital stuff urgent care if necessary, even though you sort of have to oversee them they seem kind of sketchy on their actual knowledge. I try to do physicals with my regular Dr. but last yr when I went it was 5 yrs instead of 2 or 3 like I thought oops.
 
Got this one friend of a friend who always wears weird fancy blue jeans. Literally have NEVER seen him in anything else. And always long sleeve shirts. Wonder what he's wearing today? It ain't long pants weather, hell, it ain't even pants weather.
 
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Get a lawyer. You're getting sued for sure.
Yep. I'm not a lawyer but I do work in a courthouse and I'm pretty sure her statement about being mentally unstable is actionable.

Also, actionable is one of the newer words that I like. It always makes it seem like the CIA is going after something.

"My honeydo list is twenty items long but only 3 of those items are actionable at this time due to resource and time constraints."
 
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you had an embolism??!?!! The current pain, absent other issues and what you believe are normal vitals would make me say urgent care vs. ER. But with your history, probably wouldn't ignore it.

Yep, that embolism was part of the reason for my absence in this thread and forum for a while. If you're curious for the story I put in that "brink of death" thread a long time back here you go:

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I had just went golfing the day before my side starting hurting so I thought I just strained a muscle. Hurt all day Saturday, took some pain meds and enjoyed the summer day. Hurt even worse on Sunday but I thought I must've pulled it hard.

The next day I flew to DC for work and met with the customer and it really was hurting at that point and I couldn't breathe without it hurting like hell. Went to an urgent care clinic after work but they couldn't see me in time before they closed. At that point I didn't want to go to the hospital at 8pm at night (because why? I'll never know) so I went to Walgreens and got some pain meds and tried to sleep it off but the pain was so overwhelming it was very hard sleep.

Tuesday morning I had an early call at 8am and I couldn't even get through a sentence without gasping for air and the pain was so intense my body was shaking with every breath (more like hyperventilating). I looked up the best hospital in DC and took an Uber to there because I think an ambulance would've taken me to a different one. Anyway, they run all these tests and my oxygen saturation is 71% and they see dozens of blood clots in my lungs. My organs are starting to fail as my body prioritizes the heart and the brain. They inject me with blood thinners every hour, steroids, not enough morphine and I spend the next 6 or 7 days in the hospital on oxygen then flew home was on an oxygen tank for a few more days at home. Eventually my oxygen levels went back to normal and I live a relatively normal life with blood thinners every day. I have a blood disorder that makes my blood sticky and my traveling job with a sedentary-ish lifestyle just made it worse.

Spending a couple days basically hyperventilating with every breath feeling like the last one you'll ever take, alone, in a city you know no one, with nothing to do but look at a TV and think about dying is a really humbling experience
 
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