Post #135,293
1/13/04 5:13:59 AM
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Watson, the blade!
Today I go to the "surgery clinic" - what that means is still unclear, but I assume that if the infection in my bad wheel is sufficiently checked, I'll be under the knife by tomorrow. Procedure is to open the skin, clean out the dead hematoma leftovers, and close the spigot at the site of the injury. We'll see. If finances are wrong I'll be out of options, but I assume this will work out.
Since there is always the slight chance of not coming out of anaesthesia, I'll take this opportunity to thank everyone for putting up with my rants and being good friends.
-drl
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Post #135,295
1/13/04 5:32:41 AM
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Luck!
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #135,317
1/13/04 7:35:04 AM
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Good luck.
-----------------------------------------
"After months of searching and billions of dollars,
we've finally captured the man who had absolutely nothing to do with 9-11 !"
-Rob Cordry, The Daily Show
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Post #135,319
1/13/04 7:44:37 AM
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Hope it works out.
Then stay off the fucking thing until it heals, ok?
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Post #135,321
1/13/04 7:59:41 AM
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Yer a sufficiently "right bassard" (as PeterBox might say)..
...That you'll kick any problem-anaesthesia's ass.
And when you return, I'll show ya the difference between a jabber session (where one can chat real-time with other IWT geeks) and a mud (where one can chat real-time with other IWT geeks and play Uno.)
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #135,327
1/13/04 8:46:30 AM
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Good luck Ross,
Will be thinking of you and hoping that you're doing well.
"All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever."
1 Peter 1:24-25
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Post #135,332
1/13/04 9:22:21 AM
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You're too ornery to die
Least you better be. We need at least one person to stay dry at the next BeePBash.
===
Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #135,333
1/13/04 9:29:19 AM
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Best of luck! See you back here soon.
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Post #135,334
1/13/04 9:37:53 AM
8/21/07 5:42:26 AM
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Hope it works!
Nothing more annoying than a long running injury.
"I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone."
-- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003
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Post #135,341
1/13/04 10:08:11 AM
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Tell us about it tomorrow.
You'll do fine.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #135,343
1/13/04 10:13:29 AM
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Chat with you later! Good fortunes, man!
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #135,355
1/13/04 10:27:44 AM
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Good luck
--
"It\ufffds possible to build a reasonably prosperous society that invests in its people, doesn\ufffdt invade its neighbors, opposes Israel and stands up to America. (Just look at France.)"
-- James Lileks
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Post #135,359
1/13/04 10:29:45 AM
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Mend a leg!
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Post #135,365
1/13/04 10:32:55 AM
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Excellent.
Just don't argue with the surgeon, K?
-----
Steve
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Post #135,377
1/13/04 10:44:33 AM
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Good Luck, Ross
Looking forward to your cantankerous rants in the near future!
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #135,392
1/13/04 11:08:40 AM
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Just be more ornery than the anaesthetic, you'll be back
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #135,399
1/13/04 11:35:36 AM
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ObLRPD: Why use a scalpel when a chainsaw is handy? ;-)
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #135,412
1/13/04 11:43:05 AM
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Yummy....long pork!
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #135,400
1/13/04 11:35:43 AM
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I want you to know
that despite our differences, the flames, and the bad feelings, that I do not hate you. I am still praying for you, and hope that this improves your condition. Good luck!
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #135,410
1/13/04 11:42:42 AM
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You shoulda let me do it.
Anaesthetic's for wusses. Three fingers of Jack and a stick to bite on, you'll be fine.
BTW, I'll be using a welding torch. Don't mind the smell.
Peter
[link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #135,414
1/13/04 11:43:57 AM
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Good Luck, Ross
En cris, ne le mordez pas sur la table, hosti.
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Post #135,429
1/13/04 12:03:05 PM
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Good luck, man.
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Post #135,435
1/13/04 12:08:12 PM
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you'll be right as rain
just remember to walk softly...
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #135,443
1/13/04 12:37:56 PM
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And carry a big Schtick?
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #135,447
1/13/04 12:43:51 PM
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Best of luck with the operation!
Alex
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense. -- Clifford Ambrose Truesdell (1919-2000)
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Post #135,505
1/13/04 5:44:16 PM
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Well? Are you back yet?
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Post #135,592
1/14/04 2:50:26 AM
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Olympus Moi
Just got home after 12 hours of "observation" - that is, 12 hours of scoping the best looking nurses.
I now have a map of Mars on my leg :)
The dead shit, about a cup of it, was excised, leaving - literally - a caldera and a surrounding mound that looks like this:
[link|http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981019.html|http://antwrp.gsfc.n...pod/ap981019.html]
There are "rover tracks" up one side - i.e. scalpel cut and staples. I have to pack the caldera and the magma chamber with gauze - a whole 4-yd roll of Kerlix fits inside! This is done with a sterilized salad spoon end. You soak the gauze in sterile saline and gradually feed and pack it into the caldera with the spoon. This has to be done twice a day for the foreseeable future, which means any question of being disabled is moot. Still, I gotta find some way of getting some income between now and a month from now, but this at least is progress.
Go back tomorrow for a look-see by Bone-Nose - if the sheep viscera fall into the wrong pattern, I have to go on a week of IV antibiotics and more significant cutting, in the Big Hooch of Bone-Nose rather than outpatient surgery, which will really suck. Let's hope not.
-drl
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Post #135,612
1/14/04 5:50:44 AM
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Holy Caldera, Batman
(Talk about pouring salt in a wound)
Now if you're reeel lucky, the internal pain sensors just might not wake-up till after you've finished the packing exercises.
Think beatific thoughts, play Glenn's Partitas
do-not-straddle-bike
Ashton
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Post #135,624
1/14/04 8:06:20 AM
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Woo!
I'm just surprised that Bone Nose didn't follow the LRPD's advice RE: chainsaw. Could this be an example of where the omniscient LRPD is wrong?
Good job on making it to the other side of the ordeal.
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #135,627
1/14/04 8:15:06 AM
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ObLRPD: Billion people harvest on Mars.
Glad it went well... did Spirit find any signs of life?
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #135,629
1/14/04 8:33:13 AM
1/14/04 8:40:49 AM
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Here's an LRPDism for you to chew on...
...while you recover: "Mmmmm. Bacteria injections." ;^>
Get well physically, man... (So I won't feel so bad for having to beat you up verbally now and then. :-)
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
You know you're doing good work when you get flamed by an idiot. -- [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34218.html|Andrew Wittbrodt]
Edited by CRConrad
Jan. 14, 2004, 08:40:49 AM EST
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Post #135,632
1/14/04 8:37:35 AM
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Re: Here's an LRPDism for you to chew on...
CRC, no one can make be "feel bad" with words - and in any case "the honor of Viking combat" is a positive.
-drl
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Post #135,637
1/14/04 9:03:18 AM
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Mmmmm... tastes just like chicken!
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #135,636
1/14/04 8:59:20 AM
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Welcome back
OBLPRD: Only the choicest German spam!
So that's what they are making it with now. Carve up enough people and you got a nice little side business.
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Post #135,644
1/14/04 9:21:01 AM
8/21/07 5:53:10 AM
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Glad to hear you're getting care
"I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone."
-- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003
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Post #135,645
1/14/04 9:24:42 AM
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The are very nice folk
Surgeons are clearly skilled interns at some late stage of training, with a "Poppa" cutter to arbitrate. Poppa was very sharp. He looked at Olympus for 10 seconds and probably collected $500 bucks :)
It's fun being black too. I'm the honored poor white person who is clearly not a heroin addict or homeless alky (yet).
-drl
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Post #135,653
1/14/04 10:09:33 AM
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Congrats
Sounds like it was a success.
Disability has a person wait six months before they get paid anyway. When I applied for it, we had to live off of life savings for six months and what my wife earned before I started getting disability checks.
You rather wanted to work instead of collecting disability anyway, so now is your chance. Good luck finding a job, I wish you well.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #135,654
1/14/04 10:11:45 AM
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SSI is immediate
You can draw money while waiting for a final determination if you are actually disabled. (SSI vs. SSDI).
-drl
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Post #135,655
1/14/04 10:14:02 AM
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Re: SSI is immediate
For some reason I did not get that. I only got the Disability part.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #135,664
1/14/04 10:58:26 AM
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VGer returns!
Glad to hear you're back (and your front!)
Take care yerse'f, bhoi!
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #135,679
1/14/04 11:29:21 AM
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ObLRPD: For what it's worth, gangrene makes one testy.
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #135,682
1/14/04 11:45:45 AM
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so that's what it means to be sent packing
glad to hear that you're back on your foot. Take good care of yourself and keep us posted on your progress.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #135,688
1/14/04 12:07:38 PM
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Hopefully it will be dormant now!
It's good you've taken steps to resolve the problem.
Alex
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch
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Post #135,706
1/14/04 1:40:28 PM
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ObLRPD: And so on, and so forth.
Actually, I had a similar, but lesser experience once - I had a golf-ball sized abscess under my left arm my first year in college, because I didn't have $50 for emergency treatment. Had to wait two weeks to get that sucker out, and migawd did it hurt - and changing the packing was fun, fun, fun.
I can only imagine what you're going through.
I have a blue sign on my door. It says "If this sign is red, you're moving too fast."
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