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My wife used to work at a large hospital and from what she says, its all about the patient care numbers these days. All they care about is your after survey, so they'll do a lot of things to make your experience better. The surveys drive their rankings and that is what determines income (directly and indirectly)

How much longer they say you gonna be there and what are visiting hours? Any hot nurses? Can I bring you some Magnums?

I found this.


And then I found something better...

Sorry to hear about your collapsed lung, Joe..

Speedy recovery, and keep your respiratory system NA...

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The puns in this thread are about the only thing keeping me sane right now. Thanks, all.

I still have a boost leak. Can hear the air passing through my lung and then bubbling through the catch tank. Apparently I have to sit and be bored for several more days before they'll go in and staple it.

But on the plus side, got the COBRA situation worked out finally.

A few more days, probably. Still leaking.

Not too many cute nurses in this one, sadly.


I found out that I have a displacement of almost exactly 2.5 litres.


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yeeeesh, i remember that damn thing... Get used to using it alot :)

Hopefully it will only be a few days after the staples for you to get out of there, good luck :)

Glad you have some friends on the internet to tell you to go to the hospital. Pretty much anyone you've seen since first feeling shitty is a dick.

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Damn, those must have been some hellacious cigars!

Not too many cute nurses so they bring you a penis pump?

Not sure if that means your insurance is better or worse than mine.

Well, I really didn't tell anyone in real life, and am pretty good at masking pain. I tend to be kind of private about things like how I'm feeling.

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Ready for paint!

No idea. Seems like pleurodesis is more common than staples these days, but neither has been mentioned in my case. We're just sitting here going super slow and conservative.

And blowin' bubbles through the side of my chest.

I'll donate $5 to get this to Joe tomorrow:



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It must be hooked into his breathing tube so it will register boost and vacuum of Joe.

Haha.

Sadly, we're dealing with much lower pressure differentials than a gauge like that will register. I'd need a magnehelic.

InHg or InAq ?

I have both.


Unrelated parts going into my PC tomorrow.
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Get well soon Joe. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...d59289bded.jpg
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Honesty, I'm gonna be the one rallying for pleurodesis if this thing doesn't stop leaking in the next day or two...

Finally got a cute nurse though. Short, slender, a bit mousey, long straight blonde hair, big round glasses, and just the tiniest little touch of fishmouth.

I'll attempt to attain a photo.

Nvm, found out that Erin the cute nurse has a six year old and lives nearly two hours away... Abort & return to base.

Anyhow, this was funny:

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This room should be of interest to some MT members.


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"Should've gone with the big break upgrade kit, they work fine but, but I need more stopping power on 90° turns."

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Brake


.......... here's some punctuation


Wut?

Y painted hole roters?

Y got slotterd drillt roters?




Pic unrelated.

The moment I read pre-op Walter white spoke it on TV. Freaky.

My impression here was similar; why red paint and slots and holes?



what was the context? I don't remember that scene.



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s03e08

Man, that was a great show. I really wanna watch it again, but it's only been about two years.

I clearly remember watching the last episode, it had some huge symbolism for me. I watched it while riding the train home from Grand Central to Beacon station (my daily commute) for the very last time before moving back down to Manhattan, after the dissolution of my engagement.

It's actually a very pleasant memory, despite sounding a tad morose. Both the train ride and the episode represented the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.

Hell of a good show.


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yeah we started binge'ing it again recently. i'll go out on a limb and say its the best tv series ever created, ever.

I've recently restarted madmen again. It's depressing.

One of the best, easily.

I will now post images which are tangentially related, but not explicitly meant to contest Breaking Bad's excellency.




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Hell yes. I think I've watched the entire series 4-5 times through at this point.

The girlfriend isn't a big TV/Movie person, but I'm dying to get her to watch the show with me.

I hope you've all been watching Better Call Saul too, not QUITE as good as breaking bad itself, but Vince is certainly a great story teller and it's such a great spin-off.

I finished season 1, and something interrupted my life Midway through season 2 (can't remember what it was, maybe the Chicago move) and I lost my place. Gotta restart that one.

Also not sure where Halt and Catch Fire and Silicon Valley stand. Neither one compared to BB, but they're fun shows.

Oooooh, is the next season of Westworld out yet?

haven't seen halt and catch fire. I LOVE silicon valley. and Veep is really good as well.

The two shows are very different. HCF is set back in the very early PC era, and is much more of a realistic drama than a comedy. (I'm not saying it's historically accurate, merely that it feels like it could be.) But they're both excellent shows.

HCF, Hulu or ?

Principal syndication is on AMC. No idea what legitimate streaming services offer it. I use bit torrent.

Has anyone here been following Orphan Black?

Gotcha, I'm too lazy for torrents anymore. I haven't even watched F1 or V8 Supercars in 2 years.

I haven't had cable in approaching 10 years, but I'm about ready to so I can just watch the stuff I want to see when I want to see it.

fwiw- there is a lot of sportscar racing on youtube both live stream and prior recordings. I've watched Japanese GT, FIA GT, FIA Rallycross, a variety of racing from Australia.

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anyone watching black mirror? it's modernish twilight zone. just started this weekend. on S1E4.


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IMSA puts full races up with IMSA Radio commentary within a week of broadcast. Continental Races seem to lag behind a bit longer (probably because of the delayed broadcast time).

First two or three seasons of Halt and Catch Fire are on Netflix.

So I'm finally home.


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No staples. Still a bit tenuous, and I've got a couple of follow-ups scheduled. But I'm not on any narcotics and doing reasonably well.

Also, WRT the photo: I gained 7 lbs in the hospital over the past week. Friggin' Martha the head nurse is like an Italian grandmother. "You gotta eat! You getting so skinny!" I'm embarrassed by this shot, but it's the only one I have of me in full cardio-monitor regalia showing the bandages.

Six chest X-rays in one day has got to be approaching some kind of record...

But a pleasant coda; Turns out that doing laps of the 3rd floor of the hospital every day for the past week has paid off. One of the nurses on the floor (different section, one who I'd kind of hit it off with*,) e-stalked me and invited me to a party this evening just after I got discharged, to which I painfully but happily obliged. We'll see where this goes, hopefully after all the gauze packing is removed.

So she puts out?

Fortunately, the radiation dose from a chest X-ray is pretty minimal these days. Nothing like one of these things:

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--Ian

Too much baggage.

Plus, there is something freakishly wrong at a genetic level when someone who is literally young enough to be my daughter appears old enough to be desirable as a partner. I'm noticing that this seems to be a trend in this area. The women here, as a broad generalization, seem to be unnaturally predisposed to excessive exposure to some combination of sunlight, McDonalds, and/or inbreeding. This one was a fellow CA transplant, and seems to have taken care of herself.





That is a freakishly large example of the breed.

I've had numerous fluoroscopic procedures done over the years. Most recent in memory were the placement of needles in my spine for lumbar epidural injection, and the insertion, inspection, and removal of K-wires from the bones of my right hand. Not my actual hand, but looked exactly the same:

A friend of mine did the exact same thing to let some steam off in a seemingly plastic (flexible) pole, only to find out it was a metal one.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

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