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Sorry, this is a rambling post. I've been locked out of my room all day, and thus, missed two doses of Librium (meaning I'm jumpy as poo poo right now). Just took it, but I'm still shaky, sweaty, and ADD as all gently caress. So I have a keyed lock on my bedroom. Mostly because bipolar stepdad, and some trust issues between me and him. I have 3 keys for it. One on each set of car keys. One was hidden somewhere, but long forgotten. Guess who locked both sets of keys in his bedroom today? I gotta say, for a lovely $8 Mountain Security lock from Wal-Mart, it put up one gently caress of a fight. Broke a Dremel cutoff disc trying to cut through the screws once I'd pried the plate back. Tongue got so hosed that it came out in 5 pieces once I finally got the door open. Getting it opened took a 5 pound sledgehammer and a screwdriver through the rivets - once I finally got the outside part ripped apart. Which also took a sledge. I've been through this with Kwikset locks before (supposedly "higher quality", though these Mountain Security locks use Kwikset key blanks), and it was a 5 minute affair. This took well over an hour before I gave up and grabbed my spare car key so I could get to my doctor and work, and I wound up cracking the door slightly when I finally did get it open. (door's already in bad shape and due for replacement anyway though). Before you ask, no, I don't have a working drill. Otherwise I would have just drilled the rivets out.   I gotta make a copy of the keys and keep one in the car (no it's not keyed like the house), since I always keep a spare car key in the bathroom (thank gently caress I did, otherwise I would have missed both my doctor's appointment and work - the car came with 4 keys, GM confiscated one during the recall, and gave me 2 more, so I have 5 total). Doctor gave me the medication I was after, but said he's only giving it to me once - he's giving me a referral to a psychiatrist to handle it and my SSRIs when I go back for blood work in a few weeks. He was familiar with the med (I'd printed up all the info from drugs.com just in case), and I also showed him the "home medication list" that the hospital gave me to pass along to him. He basically did a "what the gently caress were they even thinking?!" and threw it in the trash, told me to not change dosages on anything, and he added glyburide 2x/day to hopefully stabilize the blood sugar. Seems to be working, took a dose with dinner.. it was 260 before dinner, 280 after, down to 140 now (about 2 hours later). He warned not to ever take it on an empty stomach or I'll crash, so when I filled it I made sure to pick up some glucose tablets, and educated my family on what to watch for and how to use my glucose meter. He glanced over the bloodwork from the hospital and explained a lot of things I didn't understand with it. The tl;dr of the bloodwork is I was severely dehydrated and severely malnourished, and one liver count was almost off the chart. Also apparently lactated ringers is hospital lingo for banana bags He was also shocked (literally said "I'm shocked they did that to you") when I told him they gave me 2 months worth of Librium - with no tapering schedule at all. He asked how I planned to taper, told him I was already starting to - FFS I just got a 15 day refill, and the first bottle is still 1/4 to 1/3 full (and apparently the first bottle is MIA in my car somewhere). I guess that blew my cover, he said "you've been through detox before, I'm guessing more than once". Got to explain my ICU visit several years ago, along with my 30 day inpatient rehab immediately afterwards. Sadly, both new meds are on the non-preferred list, so  went out of my pocket. And apparently my dr's office got in trouble for not collecting copays even when patients are over their out of pocket limit, so that was another $35 I couldn't really afford to spend. Which means, depending if I'm referred to a general psychiatrist, or one specializing in addiction, my copay will be either $55 or $35 (which will then be refunded, eventually).edit: holy poo poo, new med works really well. As above, 260 before dinner, 280 after, then 140. 108 now. I haven't seen it that low since I started monitoring. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Why do you have an EKG lead stickered to your discharge paperwork?
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Oct 28, 2014 11:20
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 I had one of those portables the last 48 hours I was there. My chest is fairly hairy - not 70s porn star hairy, but hairy enough that the EKG leads would barely stick, and I wasn't really feeling up to shaving my chest at the time. They kept coming off, and the nurses would wander in and bitch about it and try to reattach them (and another would fall off 5 minutes later). Also, when I was told I was being discharged, they told me someone would be by in about 15 minutes to disconnect everything. Nearly 2 hours later I got annoyed and disconnected everything myself except the IV, so that I could at least get back into my street clothes. Of course, 10 minutes later, a tech came by to disconnect the IV. They already knew I'd disconnected the EKG since I was on a floor with remote monitoring, but at that point I don't think they gave two fucks by then. I already had the discharge paperwork, and I was too tired to try to toss them into the garbage. The only thing I didn't disconnect myself was the IV. And I'm glad I didn't; I knew how to turn the machine off just from watching the nurses shut it off so I could shower, but I had no idea how long the IV cath (is that the right term?) was. I made the mistake of looking as it was removed; it was about 5-6 inches.  That was downright uncomfortable coming out - it was in my left bicep, and they used an ultrasound machine to find a workable vein to stick it in.
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Oct 28, 2014 12:30
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Geirskogul posted:Why do you have an EKG lead stickered to your discharge paperwork? Edit: yep, I was right ^^^^
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Oct 28, 2014 12:32
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Hahahah that's adorable. They'd remove maybe 1 or 2 hairs each. Nair doesn't do much better, just adds chemical burns.
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I've never seen a 6 inch IV catheter, but I'm just an EMT/68W. I've seen longer (up to 3 inches or so, from the normal .5 to 1.75 inch) catheters used for ultrasound-located IVs, on rare occasions. Though I have heard of docs repurposing arterial-line kits for IVs (up to 6 inches), but I've never seen one done in person. Super-long IVs have a higher chance of going through a valve in the vein, which can be painful, and is a pain in the rear end for the tech to push through. IIRC valves in the extremities are about 5-9cm (?) apart on average. Explains why it was uncomfortable to remove. Could have been an A-line, but you'd know, because the fluid bags would be inside another bag with an air bladder to provide pressure, to overcome arterial pressure. Plus they wouldn't have let you anywhere near it while conscious. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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It was located via ultrasound. They had originally inserted a ~1.5-2 inch into my hand after giving up on anything on my arms (I even told them not to bother with arms, just go straight for my hands), but it came out on its own in less than 24 hours. I did warn them that they were going to have a hell of a time finding a vein. I'm not morbidly obese (anymore), my veins just like to run off and hide. It was just taped to my arm - when I took a shower, they disconnected the IV from it, and wrapped my forearm in plastic and tape to keep it dry. Seemed like a normal IV, aside from being stuck in the middle of my bicep. What really sucks is I'm a side sleeper, and the kind that basically spoons a pillow while sleeping. The IV was in my left bicep, so while on my right side it was just mildly uncomfortable. I also roll over a lot in my sleep - every time I rolled onto my right side I woke up and wanted to scream. There was no air bag that I know of - just a typical IV drip machine. The machines they had in the ICU looked like they could handle 3 lines; once I got moved to another room it looked like a traditional 1 line machine.  It may not have been 6 inches, but it was the longest IV cath I've seen. It was hard to judge as it came out at a pretty good angle (~45 degrees?), but I'd say 4-6 inches. And yeah, it took the tech several minutes to push it through, and hurt like hell going in - it rolled at least once.  e: I need to go talk to the hospital about several errors in the records. I'm not going to complain about the stuff they neglected to bill me for, but it'd be nice to have proof that I have both flu and pneumonia shots (the discharge sheet states I declined both, billing statement says I accepted both). Also have some complaints about how they handled my medication - my PCP was absolutely livid when I showed him the discharge medication paperwork yesterday. Nurses were fantastic, doctor was a loving douchebag and condescending the whole way around (and had some truly hosed up medicine orders). e2: Since I'm waiting on a drug test (pre-employment), I fully expect a MRO to call to ask about the benzos. Anyone ever had to deal with one of these folks? I'm wondering what they're going to ask - I have the medicine records from the hospital (over 20 pages), billing statements (5 pages) show multiple Ativan injections and oral Librium, and I have two bottles of Librium (got a refill yesterday, keeping the original bottle though). Also kinda curious how long they usually take to call - I took the test Friday, and it was an e-cup tested on site. MRO is in KS. e3: never accept a pneumonia shot in a hospital. Over $600... + $50 to administer it. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 13:40
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the spyder posted:I'm looking at a 2012 Sportwagon TDI tomorrow. I feel like I need to turn in my man card or something. Quick, someone find me something for under $20k that gets 30MPG and doesn't look like a loaf of wonder bread.   30 MPG every tank on my trip. I'm about 3k into it, picked it up for 1k. 5 speed and enough power to get out of its own way. Plus the rear hatch swallows anything you put in it. Couches, engines, body panels, it doesn't care.
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the spyder posted:I'm looking at a 2012 Sportwagon TDI tomorrow. I feel like I need to turn in my man card or something. Quick, someone find me something for under $20k that gets 30MPG and doesn't look like a loaf of wonder bread. Naturally, as the TDI guy and the VW guy, I have to support you in this endeavor. But, as an honest person, any of the Wagons being proposed will fit your bill nicely. Mazda, Subaru, hell, take a look at a Volvo.
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As long as it's a low mile TDI, you'll be fine. About 200k in is when the VW electrical gremlins started showing up and completely disabled the vehicle by 300k even though everything associated with my trouble code had been replaced/diagnosed to be fine by 3 VW shops after I tried taking care of it myself. Those gremlins man..
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some texas redneck posted:e3: never accept a pneumonia shot in a hospital. Over $600... + $50 to administer it. poo poo man- I think you need to spend the rest of October in bed. It certainly isn't doing you any favors.
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Re: Sportwagon Here's the short explanation. I have a 40 mile commute each day. My Rx-7 is not a winter car by any means (and thus far it's been nasty) and I'm tired of wondering what will break next. Case in point, I overboosted last night and shoved the intercooler piping into the crank pulley, cutting a good 1/4" into a cast aluminium elbow. I've looked at CX-5's, 3's, and Fords equivalent. I seem to be stuck on a wagon due to the shear amount of space they offer. If I buy a brand new car, like a 3, I'll end up spending 7k more then a $18k TDI just to get similar packages, like heated seats/nav/bluetooth. Plus I still haven't gotten over how much in depreciation I lost on the new Mazda 3 hatch I bought in 08. Three years later and I barely sold it for what I had left in the loan. I'm open to options, but my guide lines are pretty much: new car = around $20k and 30MPG or used = $10-20k. There are some great choices if you remove the gas mileage requirement, but this is mainly my commuter/run to the beach/drop+pick son up from school car and he's not getting any smaller.
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Guess who has 3 jobs now? This guy.  Working part time at two Pizza Huts (until my transfer goes through), and Wal-Mart just called. They want me in at 2pm to fill out paperwork. Apparently the fact that I simply told the administer of the drug tester what I would test positive for was enough. I haven't slept all night, I'm going to be a loving zombie all day. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 16:20
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some texas redneck posted:Guess who has 3 jobs now? How are you doing this with your health?
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the spyder posted:I'm open to options, but my guide lines are pretty much: new car = around $20k and 30MPG or used = $10-20k. There are some great choices if you remove the gas mileage requirement, but this is mainly my commuter/run to the beach/drop+pick son up from school car and he's not getting any smaller. Dodge Caravan. No I'm not joking. If you can get over the "I'm not driving a minivan" crap they are great cars with the most utility possible that's not a truck. You can get a low mileage GEN 4 ('01-'07) for under 10k easy and if you stay away from the Grand Caravan you get the 3.3 over the 3.8 which is a better motor. Transmissions are fine if you use the right fluids and stay on top of it, and you'll average close to 30 on the highway. They are great highway cruisers and you can fit a metric fuckton in them, especially with the seats out. Only car I know that can go from a people mover to a moving van to a lumber hauler with ease in one day. Also once you get used to sliding doors you'll always want them 
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There are some real nightmare maintenance items on the latest Caravans though. Trying to do anything with the rear heater core or EGR is an unbearable cavalcade of misery.
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That's why I recommended Gen 4's. That generation was refined over almost two decades and the latest ones are the best. I had a Gen 3 in our family for over ten years and never had any problems with it, rust ended up killing it. But yeah, I would be hesitant about the latest generation.
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leica posted:Dodge Caravan. No I'm not joking. If you can get over the "I'm not driving a minivan" crap they are great cars with the most utility possible that's not a truck. You can get a low mileage GEN 4 ('01-'07) for under 10k easy and if you stay away from the Grand Caravan you get the 3.3 over the 3.8 which is a better motor. Transmissions are fine if you use the right fluids and stay on top of it, and you'll average close to 30 on the highway. They are great highway cruisers and you can fit a metric fuckton in them, especially with the seats out. ....okay, don't take this the wrong way, but a Caravan? It barely gets 24-25 MPG highway, and its got a motor so crammed in there maintenance is a nightmare. That, and its a Caravan. Its literally synonymous with crap.
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Never had any problems with ours. And I said close to 30, his requirements for 30mpg were for a new car anyways. I've seen LOW mileage GEN 4's for 5 to 7k all day long, for that much cash you're way ahead of any new car mpg savings. Besides, maintenance on them is not bad at all, and I did it in my loving back yard. I'm sure spyder could handle working on a Caravan.
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CommieGIR posted:How are you doing this with your health? One of the Pizza Huts (the one I'm transferring to as soon as they hire a replacement) has drat near zero prep to do. When they said they had "a shitload of dishes" and asked me to do them, my GM and I both walked back.. saw 2 of 3 compartments of the sink piled high. We both started cracking up. A shitload of dishes at my original Pizza Hut is an 8 ft wide 5 shelf rack that's overflowing, with 2 55 barrel garbage cans piled high, plus the sinks piled high. There's very little prep work to do at the Hut i'm transferring to - at my original store, I'd have to prep, say, 250 hand tossed larges by myself, then make 8 buckets of pizza sauce, then probably 70 breadsticks, then attack dishes for at least an hour. This one? I prepped 15 breadsticks last night. Dishes are laughable at this place, and easy enough that I can knock out pretty much every dish when I return from a delivery (er, dishes that have piled up since I left). My GM is also much, much, much more relaxed at this store - far less stress for him. He was close to walking out of the old place. The current GM of the PH I started at has agreed to let me transfer to the above store. He did warn me it's a much slower store (he was the GM there at one point as well), but there have ZERO corporate deliveries and a much more compact delivery area. It's also much closer to home (5 miles) - between the those of those, I'm going to save a fortune on gas. At my original store, we did 5 figures worth of corporate orders per week, which never had a tip. I've made more in the past 2 days at the new-to-me store than I have in the past week at the original store.1 As for health - I've working my normal hours for over a week with no issue. At one point I worked 60 hours at week between two Papa John's, and another 20-30 at Target. The only health issue I have at this moment is I took benadryl a couple of hours ago to fall asleep, and the phone woke me up - when I get woken up in the middle of a deep benadryl sleep, I have some visual hallucinations. Going to lay back down for a couple of hours pretty soon. I've done overnight stocking at several jobs (and liked it! it's a good workout), and even loaded 18 wheelers for UPS. My health has greatly improved now that I have a normal appetite again, though I'm prescribed enough Libreium to knock down an elephant (I'm not taking anywhere near the prescribed dose, already trying to taper off of oit). I don't feel perfect, but I feel a hell of a lot better. I also started naltrexone, which should hopefully really help with the alcohol cravings. tl;dr My health will handle it fine. I have a week of orientation anyway. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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You can now buy X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and other Lucas games at gog.com. 
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leica posted:Never had any problems with ours. And I said close to 30, his requirements for 30mpg were for a new car anyways. I've seen LOW mileage GEN 4's for 5 to 7k all day long, for that much cash you're way ahead of any new car mpg savings. I mean, if you like it, thats great. The one thing my wife and I agreed when shopping for a new car after our first born: No minivans. Never. Thankfully, her Volvo XC70 has been doing great for a high milage $4k car.
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CommieGIR posted:I mean, if you like it, thats great. That's why I said if you can get over the stupid minivan hang ups they are great cars. If you can find a later gen4, like an '06 or an '07 with a 3.3 you're getting the best caravan ever made and it will run forever with basic maintenance.
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CharlesM posted:You can now buy X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and other Lucas games at gog.com.  is pretty steep for some 20 year old games...
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I already own all of them but gog throws sales all the time although I doubt these will go on sale for a while.
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the spyder, it's my duty as a Hyundai salesperson to recommend a CPO Hyundai. A 10-year/100k-mile warranty means you can drive it without worrying about what will break next, and my Elantra gets 34 mpg average. Mine was listing at just over 12k. It's gutless and soulless, but I literally could not give two shits about it, so it's perfect for the type of person who already has a project or two to worry about. STR, good luck. The two biggest things that helped me with my alcoholism were Naltrexeone and quitting the restaurant industry forever.
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meatpimp posted:
if they've updated them enough to have support for widescreen its worth it alone, but really how much is your time worth setting up DOSbox to run right?
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Finally got off my rear end and submitted my first proper job application since quitting Sears last November. It's been 11 months. I am not good at jobs.
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rscott posted:if they've updated them enough to have support for widescreen its worth it alone, but really how much is your time worth setting up DOSbox to run right? If you have a mac, Boxer.app is the best DOS emulator that I've ever used.
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leica posted:Only car I know that can go from a people mover to a moving van to a lumber hauler with ease in one day. My suburban would like a word with you.
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 my new truck has a birthday Repost, but It is scheduled to go down the assembly line on November 14th I am hella pumped for the most expensive thing I have ever agreed to purchase. Yay big rear end orange dually!
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Holdbrooks posted:Repost, but It is scheduled to go down the assembly line on November 14th I am hella pumped for the most expensive thing I have ever agreed to purchase. Yay big rear end orange dually! Have you purchased something more expensive against your will?
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Fucknag posted:Finally got off my rear end and submitted my first proper job application since quitting Sears last November. That's how you have so much time to win sheep games
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angryhampster posted:That's how you have so much time to win sheep games "win"
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Slow is Fast posted:
yea, 30mpg is do able in a subaru cruising on the freeway, but my JSW tdi gets 30mpg while sitting in seattle traffic. I was lucky to get 20mpg out of the outback we had in the same traffic. the spyder posted:Re: Sportwagon I still feel kinda bad about how much I love my sportwagen, but its just such a nice car to deal with the lovely seattle traffic. Its the first auto I have ever actually liked to drive. Granted we got ours new and I will probably get rid of it before the warranty expires. The 0% financing made it a lot easier to buy it new, combined with the pretty high resale value that they have around here.
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meatpimp posted:Have you purchased something more expensive against your will? College Education
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