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The Big Jesus posted:I tried to do it online and they said I had to call the place. I did, they said the main guy would call me back. He did, and after listening to his lovely sales pitch I re-stated my desire to cancel. He said he'd do it (didn't ask me to send anything). Idk seemed pretty straightforward at the time. lol yeah that's bullshit then. Sending proof of replacement coverage is enough to warrant cancellation. Spoeank posted:USAA is the best insurance out there, bar none. Holy poo poo, they are so good. So so good. Every interaction I had with them was just A++ Ha I legit forgot you worked claims for a minute there 
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C-Euro posted:Got drat close to my first Hades clear earlier today. I cleared it, cleared it again on my next try, and now I'm having trouble getting past the first boss with my free deaths intact. Er, so either don't give up because you'll have good runs or give up now because you will always suck, I'm not sure what I'm saying here.
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Silly Burrito posted:How do you tweet from prison buttphone
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I don't care about Joe Exotic one way or another but reading all these posts of "I guess Trump was only in it for himself" regarding pardons and 1/6 is just a pure shot of schadenfreude.
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Silly Burrito posted:I don't care about Joe Exotic one way or another but reading all these posts of "I guess Trump was only in it for himself" regarding pardons and 1/6 is just a pure shot of schadenfreude. Why the crocodile guy then, because his brother knew him?
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seiferguy posted:Joe Exotic isn't even the worst celebrity prisoner to have an active social media account: So whoever runs that is just taking money from whatever dumbass company thinks a Cosby endorsement would be a good thing, right?
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A friend of mine needs a really rare and really difficult heart surgery. Its so specialized that there are literally only 5 or 6 guys in the country that do them. It involves removing his heart, putting him on bypass, ECMO (basically like a lung bypass), repairing an aneurysm in the aorta, then reconstructing or replacing a valve, and then putting everything back together. He was already super nervous about it and then finds out today his surgeon, who is in his late 60's and was vaccinated (but we don't know when exactly) has COVID. He has to have a whole bunch of scans and tests so that will still go on but man I hope that surgeon just has as mild a case as possible.
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Intruder posted:laughing so hard at this My grandfather was a reporter, then an editor, then taught Journalism at the University of Houston and in my early 20's he kept wanting me to be go into journalism. I was waiting tables at the time and Forbes published a list of 200 jobs and what the general job satisfaction. Waiter was 199, wanna guess 200?
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swickles posted:A friend of mine needs a really rare and really difficult heart surgery. Its so specialized that there are literally only 5 or 6 guys in the country that do them. It involves removing his heart, putting him on bypass, ECMO (basically like a lung bypass), repairing an aneurysm in the aorta, then reconstructing or replacing a valve, and then putting everything back together. He was already super nervous about it and then finds out today his surgeon, who is in his late 60's and was vaccinated (but we don't know when exactly) has COVID. He has to have a whole bunch of scans and tests so that will still go on but man I hope that surgeon just has as mild a case as possible. Chirst. Sorry about your friend, Swickles.
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swickles posted:A friend of mine needs a really rare and really difficult heart surgery. Its so specialized that there are literally only 5 or 6 guys in the country that do them. It involves removing his heart, putting him on bypass, ECMO (basically like a lung bypass), repairing an aneurysm in the aorta, then reconstructing or replacing a valve, and then putting everything back together. He was already super nervous about it and then finds out today his surgeon, who is in his late 60's and was vaccinated (but we don't know when exactly) has COVID. He has to have a whole bunch of scans and tests so that will still go on but man I hope that surgeon just has as mild a case as possible. Doesn’t Covid input your cognitive abilities? Also; when do we get our Biden bucks!!!
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swickles posted:A friend of mine needs a really rare and really difficult heart surgery. Its so specialized that there are literally only 5 or 6 guys in the country that do them. It involves removing his heart, putting him on bypass, ECMO (basically like a lung bypass), repairing an aneurysm in the aorta, then reconstructing or replacing a valve, and then putting everything back together. He was already super nervous about it and then finds out today his surgeon, who is in his late 60's and was vaccinated (but we don't know when exactly) has COVID. He has to have a whole bunch of scans and tests so that will still go on but man I hope that surgeon just has as mild a case as possible. Dude whaaaaaaaat
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That's an insane story swickles but I'm still caught up on ripping apart his insides then gluing them back together as a procedure that loving works
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Forget the Leopards Eating People's Faces party, I'm signing up for the Tigers Eating People's Faces party. seiferguy posted:Joe Exotic isn't even the worst celebrity prisoner to have an active social media account: He isn't entirely wrong though.
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swickles posted:A friend of mine needs a really rare and really difficult heart surgery. Its so specialized that there are literally only 5 or 6 guys in the country that do them. It involves removing his heart, putting him on bypass, ECMO (basically like a lung bypass), repairing an aneurysm in the aorta, then reconstructing or replacing a valve, and then putting everything back together. He was already super nervous about it and then finds out today his surgeon, who is in his late 60's and was vaccinated (but we don't know when exactly) has COVID. He has to have a whole bunch of scans and tests so that will still go on but man I hope that surgeon just has as mild a case as possible. I hope your friend pulls through I do picture this is how that surgery is performed 
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Spoeank posted:That's an insane story swickles but I'm still caught up on ripping apart his insides then gluing them back together as a procedure that loving works I mean, they cut 5 holes in my chest in September and took most of my stomach out and it was just no big thing. Body poo poo's wild man.
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Spoeank posted:That's an insane story swickles but I'm still caught up on ripping apart his insides then gluing them back together as a procedure that loving works Its actually quite similar to surgery that is more commonly done on newborns, to fix something called the Tetralogy of Fallot which is when a bunch of holes are in the heart and the blood flow mixes oxygenated and deoxygenated blood together. But basically, the heart is in the way of a lot of where the surgery needs to be done, also its really hard to do surgery on a beating heart, which is why when doing almost anything on the heart you go on bypass (usually the heart is kept in the chest though). This procedure is also done when removing tumors in the heart (which are pretty rare as well). Also, they aren't plunking the heart down on a another table (although that has been done before). The scariest part actually comes at the very end, and is the most heartbreaking part of the Tetralogy of Fallot repairs. Some of the coronary arteries come off of the aorta, and you basically have to pray that all the manipulation you have done makes it so they can re-attach them, that they are physically long enough to reach what they need to.
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https://twitter.com/CardinalBCupich/status/1352020541285216257 The Catholic Church is definitely going to schism in 10 years where the US becomes the "Protestants that like to have fun" Catholic ChurchAlso no wonder Cesar Chavez is well liked by liberals https://twitter.com/Itmechr3/status/1352024004912152579
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swickles posted:Its actually quite similar to surgery that is more commonly done on newborns, to fix something called the Tetralogy of Fallot which is when a bunch of holes are in the heart and the blood flow mixes oxygenated and deoxygenated blood together. But basically, the heart is in the way of a lot of where the surgery needs to be done, also its really hard to do surgery on a beating heart, which is why when doing almost anything on the heart you go on bypass (usually the heart is kept in the chest though). This procedure is also done when removing tumors in the heart (which are pretty rare as well). Also, they aren't plunking the heart down on a another table (although that has been done before). The scariest part actually comes at the very end, and is the most heartbreaking part of the Tetralogy of Fallot repairs. Some of the coronary arteries come off of the aorta, and you basically have to pray that all the manipulation you have done makes it so they can re-attach them, that they are physically long enough to reach what they need to. This might be a dumb question, but how do you reattach blood vessels? Sutures?
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Man it's amazing what science can do these days but holy crap. Good thoughts for your friend, Swickles.
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swickles posted:Its actually quite similar to surgery that is more commonly done on newborns, to fix something called the Tetralogy of Fallot which is when a bunch of holes are in the heart and the blood flow mixes oxygenated and deoxygenated blood together. But basically, the heart is in the way of a lot of where the surgery needs to be done, also its really hard to do surgery on a beating heart, which is why when doing almost anything on the heart you go on bypass (usually the heart is kept in the chest though). This procedure is also done when removing tumors in the heart (which are pretty rare as well). Also, they aren't plunking the heart down on a another table (although that has been done before). The scariest part actually comes at the very end, and is the most heartbreaking part of the Tetralogy of Fallot repairs. Some of the coronary arteries come off of the aorta, and you basically have to pray that all the manipulation you have done makes it so they can re-attach them, that they are physically long enough to reach what they need to. You know how they handled this for like 99.999%+ of human history? Funeral rites. Modern medicine is loving incredible
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D-LINK posted:This might be a dumb question, but how do you reattach blood vessels? Sutures? yup! Almost everything is attached/reattached with sutures. For bowel we have a fancy stapler system that works well and is superior to sutures in many ways. You clamp both parts of the vessel (or create a temp bypass/shunt) stitch it all together nicely, then you unclamp and/or remove the bypass and make sure there isn't a leak, then finish and close.
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Spoeank posted:You know how they handled this for like 99.999%+ of human history? Funeral rites. Modern medicine is loving incredible It really is, and it's amazing where so many medications and techniques are derived from. Warfarin / coumadin, for example, is one of the frontline medications used when someone presents with blood clots and needs anticoagulation. (Thankfully, I'm part of the small subset of the population that's resistant to warfarin ... the vitamin K restrictions sucked.) Anyway, it was originally developed as a rat poison. Some people at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation--WARF, hence "warfarin"--found that it has strong anticoagulant properties, and so it's been one of the first treatments in clotting scenarios for like 60 years.
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swickles posted:yup! Almost everything is attached/reattached with sutures. For bowel we have a fancy stapler system that works well and is superior to sutures in many ways. You clamp both parts of the vessel (or create a temp bypass/shunt) stitch it all together nicely, then you unclamp and/or remove the bypass and make sure there isn't a leak, then finish and close. Much respect for fine motor skills and people who work with their hands
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Thaddius the Large posted:This is the dumbest thing to care about and yet I’m laughing so hard at it
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Nick Jr. Face posted:That's how I wrote my cursive M's in the 3rd grade I'm trying to remember when I switched my signature from lovely cursive to my first initial with scribbles then my last names initial with a bunch of scribbles followed by dots where I think the I's are. Pretty sure I did it before 25.
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Skwirl posted:I'm trying to remember when I switched my signature from lovely cursive to my first initial with scribbles then my last names initial with a bunch of scribbles followed by dots where I think the I's are. Pretty sure I did it before 25. It's the way to go. Slightly stylized first and last initial, scribbles inbetween. gently caress cursive.
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Skwirl posted:I'm trying to remember when I switched my signature from lovely cursive to my first initial with scribbles then my last names initial with a bunch of scribbles followed by dots where I think the I's are. Pretty sure I did it before 25. For me it was right around the time I started having to use my signature a lot so early 20s. I needed something that I could just scribble out in seconds
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