Electric Chicken
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Good thing you're in a different time zone.
Duck Pond Redneckery
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speaking of which, it's past feeding time for my tropical fish..
they might be pissed right about now.
BlackBart
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Watch them dump trucks on 94
Electric Chicken
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Might I suggest going around the section with the flipped over one.Watch them dump trucks on 94
Duck
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I'm being stalked by a bunch of old guys on tractors. 
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Duck
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Ok I don't know if I've posted this about the mysterious circumstances around Sarah's stroke. Until now I've only told a few people.
This is Rush University Medical Center, the new east tower built ten years ago.
Sarah was in that building for a week in 2015 when her VNS was replaced. Her neurologist is in a different part of that complex and she's been there every few months since she was 15.
If you zoom in on the picture, it says "Chicago North"
That's computer imagery.
That's a photo I took of the TV in the spare room upstairs. My mom's urn is right next to that TV.
It's 23 or 32 minutes into the movie "Death Wish" (2018) in which Bruce Willis is a surgeon who goes vigilante on the criminals who murder his wife and injure his daughter.
I was watching that movie and saw that scene, recognized the hospital and paused it, took that picture to text it to Sarah but decided to just go get her instead.
I found her on the porch swing about a minute before her stroke. Right after I told her to come look at the TV, her arm jerked and I thought she got stung by one of the little sweat bees that got me earlier in the day but she didn't answer when I asked her about it. A few seconds later I realized something was wrong, and I had 911 on the phone less than a minute later. I thought it was a new type of seizure I'd never seen before, but since the symptoms were the same as a stroke, I called 911.
If it hadn't been for that short little scene in the movie, I wouldn't have been right next to her when she had the stroke and had Manteno FD there 6 minutes later. I wouldn't have found her for at least 90 minutes later when the movie was over.
When I saw that hospital in the movie I had no idea I'd be inside that building just a few hours later.
Coincidence? Sure it's possible but what are the odds?
This is Rush University Medical Center, the new east tower built ten years ago.
Sarah was in that building for a week in 2015 when her VNS was replaced. Her neurologist is in a different part of that complex and she's been there every few months since she was 15.
If you zoom in on the picture, it says "Chicago North"
That's computer imagery.
That's a photo I took of the TV in the spare room upstairs. My mom's urn is right next to that TV.
It's 23 or 32 minutes into the movie "Death Wish" (2018) in which Bruce Willis is a surgeon who goes vigilante on the criminals who murder his wife and injure his daughter.
I was watching that movie and saw that scene, recognized the hospital and paused it, took that picture to text it to Sarah but decided to just go get her instead.
I found her on the porch swing about a minute before her stroke. Right after I told her to come look at the TV, her arm jerked and I thought she got stung by one of the little sweat bees that got me earlier in the day but she didn't answer when I asked her about it. A few seconds later I realized something was wrong, and I had 911 on the phone less than a minute later. I thought it was a new type of seizure I'd never seen before, but since the symptoms were the same as a stroke, I called 911.
If it hadn't been for that short little scene in the movie, I wouldn't have been right next to her when she had the stroke and had Manteno FD there 6 minutes later. I wouldn't have found her for at least 90 minutes later when the movie was over.
When I saw that hospital in the movie I had no idea I'd be inside that building just a few hours later.
Coincidence? Sure it's possible but what are the odds?
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Duck
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Ok I guess I did mention the movie scene.
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So much shit on my mind lately
Duck Pond Redneckery
Do you also have a bike with a car tire on it? Used to… got rid of all the scooters after the wife’s motorcycle accident.
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So much shit on my mind lately
AK7
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Just take care of Sarah and we'll deal with your babbling..Ok I guess I did mention the movie scene.
Duck Pond Redneckery
Do you also have a bike with a car tire on it? Used to… got rid of all the scooters after the wife’s motorcycle accident.
So much shit on my mind lately
Just like we do for @Sinister
Duck
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Hell I deleted half of my ramblings from last night. I was afraid @Uncle Birchy would get accused of hacking my account.
Duck
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The Wi-Fi quit working. Won't authenticate. Gotta use mobile data.
I was looking at this screen and realized that "Nightingale" is the name of a famous nurse. Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of nursing. I already knew that.
So I looked up the other two names, correctly assuming they were also historic medical pioneers.
Halsted and Osler were founding members of Johns Hopkins University.
But Osler was also a genocidal psychopath who wanted the government to kill people when they turn 67.
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I wonder if the nerds in the IT department know they named one of their Wi-Fi networks after a psychopath.
I was looking at this screen and realized that "Nightingale" is the name of a famous nurse. Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of nursing. I already knew that.
So I looked up the other two names, correctly assuming they were also historic medical pioneers.
Halsted and Osler were founding members of Johns Hopkins University.
But Osler was also a genocidal psychopath who wanted the government to kill people when they turn 67.
William Osler - Wikipedia
Osler is well known in the field of gerontology for the speech he gave when leaving Hopkins to become the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. "The Fixed Period", given on February 22, 1905, included some controversial words about old age. Osler, who had a well-developed humorous side to his character, was in his mid-fifties when he gave the speech and in it he mentioned Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period (1882), which envisaged a college where men retired at 67 and after being given a year to settle their affairs, would be "peacefully extinguished by chloroform". He claimed that, "the effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty" and it was downhill from then on.[38] Osler's speech was covered by the popular press which headlined their reports with "Osler recommends chloroform at sixty".[39] The concept of mandatory euthanasia for humans after a "fixed period" (often 60 years) became a recurring theme in 20th century imaginative literature—for example, Isaac Asimov's 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky. In the 3rd edition of his Textbook, he also coined the description of pneumonia as "the friend of the aged" since it allowed elderly individuals a quick, comparatively painless death: "Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illess, the old man escapes those "cold gradations of decay" so distressing to himself and his friends."[40] Coincidentally, Osler himself died of pneumonia.
I wonder if the nerds in the IT department know they named one of their Wi-Fi networks after a psychopath.
Electric Chicken
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So which one did you connect to?The Wi-Fi quit working. Won't authenticate. Gotta use mobile data.
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I was looking at this screen and realized that "Nightingale" is the name of a famous nurse. Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of nursing. I already knew that.
So I looked up the other two names, correctly assuming they were also historic medical pioneers.
Halsted and Osler were founding members of Johns Hopkins University.
But Osler was also a genocidal psychopath who wanted the government to kill people when they turn 67.
William Osler - Wikipedia
Osler is well known in the field of gerontology for the speech he gave when leaving Hopkins to become the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. "The Fixed Period", given on February 22, 1905, included some controversial words about old age. Osler, who had a well-developed humorous side to his character, was in his mid-fifties when he gave the speech and in it he mentioned Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period (1882), which envisaged a college where men retired at 67 and after being given a year to settle their affairs, would be "peacefully extinguished by chloroform". He claimed that, "the effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty" and it was downhill from then on.[38] Osler's speech was covered by the popular press which headlined their reports with "Osler recommends chloroform at sixty".[39] The concept of mandatory euthanasia for humans after a "fixed period" (often 60 years) became a recurring theme in 20th century imaginative literature—for example, Isaac Asimov's 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky. In the 3rd edition of his Textbook, he also coined the description of pneumonia as "the friend of the aged" since it allowed elderly individuals a quick, comparatively painless death: "Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illess, the old man escapes those "cold gradations of decay" so distressing to himself and his friends."[40] Coincidentally, Osler himself died of pneumonia.
I wonder if the nerds in the IT department know they named one of their Wi-Fi networks after a psychopath.
Uncle Birchy
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Does it really matter
Electric Chicken
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Yes.
Uncle Birchy
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Then he probably chose the one with the strongest signal
Duck
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Yeah that one.
Except the internet was out for the whole hospital last night.
The nurse couldn't get into the system to get Sarah's medicine last night. So I got on Sarah's phone and set up her "my chart" account via mobile data and then handed it to the nurse so she could get her current list of medications.
God forbid they have anything written down on paper. Not like missing medications because they don't know what to give COULD KILL PEOPLE or anything.
Uncle Birchy
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They can't do anything because the system is down.God forbid they have anything written down on paper. Not like missing medications because they don't know what to give COULD KILL PEOPLE or anything.
I recently couldn't get a shower because the system for that was down.
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