ravenwing989 wrote:Today I learned that I am not going to date another guy for a long, long, long time. I am so over the heartbreak and the downright cruelty from the last one. I never want that again.
Based on your words, I'd argue you aren't over it.
Today I learned that Presidents Bush and Clinton did not use email while in office.
In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Today (thanks to Brad) I learned that manioc (ths source of tapioca), which I believed to be an African plant (because it has indeed become, now, a staple in part of Africa) is in fact originally a plant from South America (cassava/yuca) and has a name very similar to that of a completely different plant (yucca, related to the blue agave from which one makes tequila).
Human is as human does....Animals don't weep, Nine
/me rubs palms with chalk and prepares to hit a deep one ...
LEARNED: It always pays to be nice to your fellow {wo}man, no matter who they are, or what the situation, because all things have a tendency to come back around to you, sooner or later, in the end.
Case in point: I just got home from major spinal surgery. While in recovery (at the hospital), I had problems with the IV anasthesia & several other medications that the hospital needed to use to control my post-op pain ... the result was they couldn't use those medications on me, so I had to endure several days of pretty ghastly post-surgical pain with only two oral pain killers. In parallel with this (unbeknownst to me), my hospital room-mate was apparently a former addict of the replacement painkiller they were using on me, because he seemed inordinately familiar with it's overdosage symptoms.
I began having attacks of the hiccups, of increasing severity, lasting several hours. The hospital pharmacist and pain management doctor both shrugged. My roommate said he'd experienced the same thing years ago, and suggested an alternate. They tried it, and the hiccups stopped. At the time, it was worth a raised eyebrow, but in hindsight, it may have been a lot more significant, because after some preliminary reading (now that I'm home), my roommate *may* have helped save my life, because if I'd stayed on that particular painkiller combo, there was a non-negligable chance I could have slipped into terminal dyspnea as the drug continued to build in my system.
So anyway, back on topic ... I learned about a rare side effect of a drug combo in which my life may have actually hung in the balance a few days ago, and I have a newly befriended stranger to thank for it.
Today I learned that a hospital pharmacist and pain management doctor, having first shrugged off a patient complain, will actually listen to the opinion of a (presumably non-doctor) other patient.
I read (translated ,rather) your post to my family. My daughter was impressed on how lucky you were to have a roommate who could disgnose your problem and offer a suggestion. I, personally, was even more impressed by the fact the medical staff did not brush away that suggestion just as they had previously shrugged off your symtoms.
Anyway, that was a lucky break you had. I'm right happy for you!
Take good care of yourself!
Can you tell us what that combo was, just in case? You never know when someone's live (or your own) can depend on some random info you get!
Human is as human does....Animals don't weep, Nine
Voralfred: the paragraph I omitted above was that I was being nice to my roommate before the hiccup incident manifested ... talking with him, cheering him up, encouraging him to walk, helping to get or adjust things for him whenever I was up, etc. I was basically helping to keep both of us entertained while we killed time in recovery. He repaid the favor in spades when the hiccups began, and no obvious answers were immediately forthcoming. I'd never met him before, and I'll probably never see him again ... but he may have helped save my life. I've already forgotten his last name ... and the tiny flip book I'd used to log my doctor & nurse visits, tests performed, and medications administered, is only a half legible scrawl.
As for the combo - I dont want to give out too much personal information. Let's just say that anyone who has issues with breathing related disorders should locate and talk to both a good anasthesia and a good pain doctor before going under general anasthesia, and also educate themselves as best they can on the relevant medications, both during and post-op. Remember that a Doctor is someone you hire to help you with their expertise, but ultimately, we are each responsible to and for ourselves.
Today I learned that I'll soon be getting a special card that will enable me to go through metal detectors without needing a full body cavity search for concealed weapons. Woo hoo !
p.s. Sorry to keep on & on about the back, but there's still plenty of new schtick to mine, and since I'm presently home all day in a near constant haze of level 8+ pain, I must ask in advance for a little indulgence.
It's been a while, but I learned some time ago that "pink eye" is one of those things that won't get better on its own ..
Hope you're better soon, Kahrey.
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
Today, after having spent several weeks learning how to beat the WSOP poker game on my cell phone fairly, I figured out a simple exploit that will allow me to avoid losing whenever I wish ... which takes all the fun and risk out of the game.
I always tell myself and teachers that I shouldn't work with partners on projects because they will fail to do they're part and/or I will do the entire thing.
Today I learned, that I am right.
"Life's not about standing out, it's about blending in from the cops" - MoonWolf
moonwolf021 wrote:I always tell myself and teachers that I shouldn't work with partners on projects because they will fail to do they're part and/or I will do the entire thing.
Today I learned, that I am right.
Today I learned the same lesson that moonwolf did. I hate partner work. I did our entire packet myself.
Soccer is a game in which a handful of fit men run around for one and a half hours watched by millions of people who could really use the exercise.
-Anonymous
Today I learned that Amazon just sent me my copy of TSK4 (or, for the uninitiated: Horizon, fourth and last novel of the series "The Sharing Knife", by Lois McMaster Bujold aka LMB, one of the distinguished authors who participate to this forum). When I first ordered it, they said around March 1st, but it will arrive a full month earlier!
Callooh! Callay!
I'm chortling in my joy!
Human is as human does....Animals don't weep, Nine
'You can take our lives but you'll never take our freedom!' he screamed.
Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
Today I learned that Amazon just sent me my copy of TSK4 (or, for the uninitiated: Horizon, fourth and last novel of the series "The Sharing Knife", by Lois McMaster Bujold aka LMB, one of the distinguished authors who participate to this forum). When I first ordered it, they said around March 1st, but it will arrive a full month earlier!
Callooh! Callay!
I'm chortling in my joy!
Hast thou slain the Snarky Mod ?
Sorry ... inside joke from an offline area, several years back ... another of my old aliases bites the dust.
cut & pasted from hidden ratings team area ...
SNARKYMODDY
(Adapted by Brad from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky")
`Twas The Doldrums, and TA Alcove,
Did gyre and gimble in the fora wabe:
All aflitter were the OADFs,
And the gothy noobs outgrabe.
"Beware the Snarkymod, my son!
The wit that bites, the jibes that scratch!
Beware the ratings zombies,
The phonetic misspellers,
and the not-so-smartly contribution stats !â€
I empathize. Several years ago, one of my professors divided the class in half for a project.
All I remember is that four or five of us did all the work. The only contribution the others made was giving us access to their allotted lab-time when we had burned through all of ours in order to complete the project.
Today I learned that ..
.. Brad has a lot of time on his hands. .. and more nicknames than I'd realized.
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
While that excuss may work for your most recent forum-additions, I thought you said that "SNARKYMODDY" was actually from "several years back".
That would indicate that this is somewhat of a pattern here ..
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
.. and more nicknames than I'd realized.
