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turbo-1 said:next winter's wood is cut and split
Wow. Evo and axe. Maine massacre.
turbo-1 said:next winter's wood is cut and split
Naw! I'll let her use my hydraulic wood-splitter instead of an axe. I'm going to stand very far away while she fells and bucks up the trees with my big Huquevarna saw, though.Borek said:Wow. Evo and axe. Maine massacre.
Evo said:Lovely, I just got a call from the doctor's office saying they just looked at my x-rays again and it appears to be a REALLY BAD fracture (gee, no kidding) and NOT TO MOVE IT! They don't know what to do though yet, so I am supposed to NOT MOVE IT until I hear back from them. I told the nurse I CAN'T MOVE IT, because there is so much pain and swelling.
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turbo-1 said:Naw! I'll let her use my hydraulic wood-splitter instead of an axe. I'm going to stand very far away while she fells and bucks up the trees with my big Huquevarna saw, though.
I'm tellin' ya, Moonie - Evo would be better off with redneck ER. The city-grads that come to Maine to intern are often just going through the motions.Moonbear said:Oh no! They didn't even splint it for you? Surely it should have been immobilized before sending you home? Actually, shouldn't they have checked the x-rays before sending you home? It sounds like you have some of the WORST doctors out your way! I've never heard of someone with a likely fracture being sent home before the x-rays are read and a splint and compression bandage put on to immobilize it until the swelling goes down enough to cast it.
turbo-1 said:Send her up here. I'll splint her with some sticks and baling twine (no frou-frou casts!) and she can live in the junked Olds Rocket 88 down back near the beaver bog (no old GMC pickup or Ford station wagon for Evo - the other two accommodations available - she gets the presidential suite). I'll chain her up and give her enough slack so she can get out to take care of "natural" functions. If she's good and doesn't re-injure herself, she'll get regular food, water, etc. When she's healed up, I'll ship her back (after the garden is weeded and next winter's wood is cut and split). I don't take payment from major health-care plans, but the Maine redneck barter system should defray costs as long as she pays for the air-fare, gas, etc. I haven't had the Rocket 88 rented out for a while so I can afford to give up that revenue stream for the sake of a PF sister. By the time she's ambulatory, I expect the garden to be weed-free, then we'll start on the firewood. The turbo-spa will whip her into fighting trim in just a couple of months.
:!) :!) I get to use the Huequevarna?turbo-1 said:Naw! I'll let her use my hydraulic wood-splitter instead of an axe. I'm going to stand very far away while she fells and bucks up the trees with my big Huquevarna saw, though.
turbo-1 said:Send her up here. I'll splint her with some sticks and baling twine (no frou-frou casts!) and she can live in the junked Olds Rocket 88 down back near the beaver bog (no old GMC pickup or Ford station wagon for Evo - the other two accommodations available - she gets the presidential suite). I'll chain her up and give her enough slack so she can get out to take care of "natural" functions. If she's good and doesn't re-injure herself, she'll get regular food, water, etc. When she's healed up, I'll ship her back (after the garden is weeded and next winter's wood is cut and split). I don't take payment from major health-care plans, but the Maine redneck barter system should defray costs as long as she pays for the air-fare, gas, etc. I haven't had the Rocket 88 rented out for a while so I can afford to give up that revenue stream for the sake of a PF sister. By the time she's ambulatory, I expect the garden to be weed-free, then we'll start on the firewood. The turbo-spa will whip her into fighting trim in just a couple of months.
They have absolutely no idea what they are doing. So funny to get the frantic call this morning "DON'T MOVE YOUR ARM!"Moonbear said:Oh no! They didn't even splint it for you? Surely it should have been immobilized before sending you home? Actually, shouldn't they have checked the x-rays before sending you home? It sounds like you have some of the WORST doctors out your way! I've never heard of someone with a likely fracture being sent home before the x-rays are read and a splint and compression bandage put on to immobilize it until the swelling goes down enough to cast it.
Evo said:I feel so sorry for the guy with the broken foot they sent home with nothing, not even a prescription for pain killers. And there was something wrong. He had numbness and fell when he broke his foot and almost passed out in the waiting room. AND THEY SENT HIM HOME! He said he didn't feel right and asked to lay down, but they closed at 8:30PM. I wouldn't be surprised if he was having a heart attack. I can't believe that they didn't send him to the ER.
Oh geeze, it could have been a stroke! numbness on one side, he was rather slow and disoriented. Kept saying he couldn't feel anything on his right side. I kept talking to him because he just seemed to be needing help. A couple of other people in the waiting room noticed and began questioning him.Moonbear said:He could have been having a stroke! He should have been taken straight from there to an ER, not sent home. They need to know when a case is beyond what they can handle, and send those to the ER. Okay, that's it, you're not allowed to go to Urgent Care anymore when you break yourself...only the ER from now on (though, I'd really prefer you just stopped breaking yourself...what happened to your safety harness to keep you from sliding into the ditch of doom?)
Evo said:Oh geeze, it could have been a stroke! numbness on one side, he was rather slow and disoriented. Kept saying he couldn't feel anything on his right side. I kept talking to him because he just seemed to be needing help. A couple of other people in the waiting room noticed and began questioning him.
I wouldn't wait for someone to have a lawsuit.Moonbear said:They're going to have one heck of a malpractice lawsuit to deal with if someone with that obvious of stroke symptoms (not to mention a broken foot) was sent home without treatment. Even if it wasn't a stroke, the symptoms are ones that should not have been ignored.
Evo said:He was in his 50's and rich, from his clothes and watch, so this wasn't some uninsured bum.
Internet privileges?! An important part of rustic luxury is freedom from modern distractions. The Olds does not even have a battery in it, so the AM radio won't work, either. Nothing to distract from the soothing croaking of the frogs, buzzing of the mosquitoes, yipping of the coyotes, growling of the bears... Ah, the great outdoors!wolram said:That is cruelty, she should have INTERNET privileges.
The source of payment for care doesn't prevent the incompetents from opening a practice. Unfortunately, it is part of why health care costs increase, because the incompetents are the ones driving up the malpractice insurance costs.JasonRox said:Exactly how I don't want my health care system to run. Anyone and everyone can get help here.
Moonbear said:The source of payment for care doesn't prevent the incompetents from opening a practice. Unfortunately, it is part of why health care costs increase, because the incompetents are the ones driving up the malpractice insurance costs.
There are no wait times. It was me, him and a wife that brought in her husband. I was sitting in the waiting room waiting for my daughter to pick me up, she had left so she wouldn't have to wait, I told her I'd only be about 30 minutes (x-rays and doctor consultation).JasonRox said:Exactly how I don't want my health care system to run. Anyone and everyone can get help here.
I had to go see the doctor today and only waited like 15 minutes. Long wait times only exist in busy hospitals, which would happen anywhere in the world.
Evo said:No, I keep re-breaking the same place because they have never set it properly and it's weakened.
No, from what little the doctor told me today, it's my humerus which would explain my lack of humor at this point. Apparently it is also pinching a nerve and/or cutting off blood supply to the rest of my arm as I have numbness and swelling from above my elbow down to my wrist. They got me an emergency appointment at an orthopedic surgeon Monday morning, but if it feels worse tomorrow, I am going to the emergency room.~christina~ said:That's bad..so I assume that this is the same arm that broke the last time, when you tripped over a barbell?
Evo said:No, from what little the doctor told me today, it's my humerus which would explain my lack of humor at this point.
Evo said:No, from what little the doctor told me today, it's my humerus which would explain my lack of humor at this point. Apparently it is also pinching a nerve and/or cutting off blood supply to the rest of my arm as I have numbness and swelling from above my elbow down to my wrist. They got me an emergency appointment at an orthopedic surgeon Monday morning, but if it feels worse tomorrow, I am going to the emergency room.
Evo said:Yes, the fracture is right above the elbow.
I want you as my doctor! They probably killed the poor guy that broke his foot.
Moonbear said:...neuroprotective drugs they can give to prevent permanent damage won't work if treatment isn't within a very short window of time (I think it's 4 hours maximum).
Tsu said:Geez, Sis - with that kind of fracture, how the hell are you even typing?