Electric Chicken
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I'm old school. I stick with 3,000.
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Electric Chicken
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That's because he's not as creative as I am.
Duck
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It leaks a little bit.
I'm probably going to need help. I'll pull the drain back off and put silicone or plumbers putty between the iron and the rubber gasket but then I'll have to hold it in place while someone else simply screws the drain piece in from the top.
Maybe my drinking buddy Ron will show up on his dirt bike.
I was going to say hire a plumber, but your idea is much betterDo what I'd do. Burn the house down and build a new one. Screw plumbing.
Duck
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The house was built in 1917.
The bathroom was added on afterwards I think but the floor joists and planks predate modern dimensional lumber.
The foundation wall is flag stone on the inside but on the outside its cinder blocks with fake cinder blocks on the outer surface.
Anyway that wall is starting to lift.
There's a tree next to the bathroom.
Roots seek water.
Yeah
I don't know,. Maybe fixing the leak will stop the roots from growing any more.
Or maybe I'll have to cut down the tree.
The only damage at this point is the back door frame is out of square and it makes the door hard to open & close.
Not a big job if it doesn't get any worse.
Yeah I think I'll have to cut down the tree.
Duck
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I gotta build a wheelchair ramp.
I can't leave her in the care of incompetent morons.
The dumb shit day shift left her in the recliner after her physical therapy and didn't hook up the alarm and she fell out.
A physical therapist found her asleep on the floor. No bruises on her head though. They were going to do a CT scan but I got pissed off and left, and put my sister in charge of being the Karen.
But they lied to me and said the alarm was hooked up even though it was clearly not when I walked in there this afternoon. So there's no telling how long she was on the floor.
There are two wires. One is a telephone cord that comes from the pressure pad to the alarm and the other one is a microphone type of cord and plug, and it connects from the alarm to the wall to trigger an alarm in the nurses station which also makes every nurse & CNA's cell phone go off with a room number on the screen.
The day shift nurse followed me in to the room this afternoon and told me about it but then a CNA fucked up a few minutes later and told me she checked on her at 12:50 then she went to lunch and after lunch she was in the hallway and saw the physical therapist run in there from the room across the hall THEN the room's pager went off because the physical therapist hit the call button.
The physical therapist who found her was the one who should have made sure the bed alarm was hooked up to the pressure pad on the recliner.
My phone is almost dead. I gotta call the nurses station and see how that CT scan went.
I can't leave her in the care of incompetent morons.
The dumb shit day shift left her in the recliner after her physical therapy and didn't hook up the alarm and she fell out.
A physical therapist found her asleep on the floor. No bruises on her head though. They were going to do a CT scan but I got pissed off and left, and put my sister in charge of being the Karen.
But they lied to me and said the alarm was hooked up even though it was clearly not when I walked in there this afternoon. So there's no telling how long she was on the floor.
There are two wires. One is a telephone cord that comes from the pressure pad to the alarm and the other one is a microphone type of cord and plug, and it connects from the alarm to the wall to trigger an alarm in the nurses station which also makes every nurse & CNA's cell phone go off with a room number on the screen.
The day shift nurse followed me in to the room this afternoon and told me about it but then a CNA fucked up a few minutes later and told me she checked on her at 12:50 then she went to lunch and after lunch she was in the hallway and saw the physical therapist run in there from the room across the hall THEN the room's pager went off because the physical therapist hit the call button.
The physical therapist who found her was the one who should have made sure the bed alarm was hooked up to the pressure pad on the recliner.
My phone is almost dead. I gotta call the nurses station and see how that CT scan went.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
So, This is the fucking douche-bag.
Duck
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Night nurse said she has no swelling. X-rays haven't been read yet.
Blood pressure was 70's/40's, she's usually low but not that low. They hooked up an IV to give her fluids, and upped her dose on whatever medication they've been giving her to try to raise it.
Electric Chicken
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I hired a plumber once. That's why I suggested burning it down.
Phantom Trucker
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How did you not choke slam somebody?
Duck
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I wanted to slam that CNAs head into the wall the instant I realized she was lying to cover for her colleagues.
That's why I left.
But I hooked up the bed alarm to the bed before I left. They said the one built into the bed does alert the nurses. The portable green one is for the recliner but for some reason they have an extra pad under the sheets on the bed for it too.
So I hooked it up before I left. And I left the cord for the pressure pad on the recliner coiled up on the seat part so it's obvious but I should be there in the morning and I'm going to talk to "Esther", the physical therapist. I think she's the one who fucked up.
The alarm wouldn't have prevented the fall though.
The fall was Sarah's own damn fault. She leaned forward to pick up a wrapper she dropped on the floor and lost her balance.
She did the same thing a few days ago but I was right there on the folding chair and I caught her.
The nurse on duty tonight is also named Sarah. Coincidentally she's my 2nd favorite because she seems to be on top of everything.
I talked to her a little bit ago and I told her they should have a seat belt on that damn recliner.
389 Hood
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So, 100,000 miles or 10 years, whichever occurs first, right?
you gonna trust a drunk to screw...anything..????View attachment 84810
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It leaks a little bit.
I'm probably going to need help. I'll pull the drain back off and put silicone or plumbers putty between the iron and the rubber gasket but then I'll have to hold it in place while someone else simply screws the drain piece in from the top.
Maybe my drinking buddy Ron will show up on his dirt bike.
oh sure, cut down the tree, and most likely, you'll see your foundation collapse, and then you'll be here for like 47,000 pics of you rebuilding that foundation..The house was built in 1917.
The bathroom was added on afterwards I think but the floor joists and planks predate modern dimensional lumber.
The foundation wall is flag stone on the inside but on the outside its cinder blocks with fake cinder blocks on the outer surface.
Anyway that wall is starting to lift.
There's a tree next to the bathroom.
Roots seek water.
Yeah
I don't know,. Maybe fixing the leak will stop the roots from growing any more.
Or maybe I'll have to cut down the tree.
The only damage at this point is the back door frame is out of square and it makes the door hard to open & close.
Not a big job if it doesn't get any worse.
Yeah I think I'll have to cut down the tree.
leave that damned tree alone, it ain't bothering me.
probably cause he didn't show up with 47 air impact wrenches, in his tool bag????
Duck
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He's an ASE certified auto mechanic. I think he can push a drain down then turn it clockwise.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
Drunks are way more reliable than alcoholics!
Electric Chicken
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I trust...no, expect...a drunk to screw anything.
Electric Chicken
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Duck
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The only positive thing that happened today was she stayed awake until 8pm. Yesterday she crapped out at 2:30 pm.
Blood pressure still low enough it scares the CNAs and they call in a nurse.
Speech is 90% incoherent and when she does speak full sentences, they don't make sense.
Early this morning she told me a Cyclops chased her down and attacked her and killed her. It took me a while to get her to eventually tell me it was a dream.
At 1:30 she didn't know why she was in the hospital and thought her arm & leg wouldn't move because she had been in a car accident. When I explained it to her she started crying and babbling incoherently. But I had the therapist help me get her onto one of the beds they use for training family to lift & move patients, so I could sit next to her and hold her & get her to stop crying so it wouldn't cause her a headache.
Meanwhile I've got her parents, who are still devastated over her brother's murder, texting and asking me when we can tell her about Zach.
The last I had updated them was Thursday night when things were looking more positive.
I don't know how much more they can handle so instead of telling them, I told her sister and her other brother instead so they can decide how to break it to them that Sarah isn't recovering as quickly as expected.
She had thousands of seizures over the years, and now a stroke. I don't know how much more her brain can handle.
Today they did a CT scan and it showed no new problems, and there's an MRI scheduled for tomorrow.
They did tell me to expect ups and downs, that the progress would be more like a path up a terraced landscape than a straight linear path. Stages of progress followed by periods of stagnation without improvement. But those same people seem surprised and concerned by what at this point is looking like a decline.
It's all about the low blood pressure though. They did a cortisol test to measure adrenal gland function today but we don't have the results yet.
Hopefully they figure it out tomorrow.
Every time they increase the blood pressure medication, it only results in about 8 hours of improvement before they have to increase it again.
I'm pretty close to asking for a transfer back up to Chicago where they have better facilities and all the doctors are actually professors who are at the top of their field.
Blood pressure still low enough it scares the CNAs and they call in a nurse.
Speech is 90% incoherent and when she does speak full sentences, they don't make sense.
Early this morning she told me a Cyclops chased her down and attacked her and killed her. It took me a while to get her to eventually tell me it was a dream.
At 1:30 she didn't know why she was in the hospital and thought her arm & leg wouldn't move because she had been in a car accident. When I explained it to her she started crying and babbling incoherently. But I had the therapist help me get her onto one of the beds they use for training family to lift & move patients, so I could sit next to her and hold her & get her to stop crying so it wouldn't cause her a headache.
Meanwhile I've got her parents, who are still devastated over her brother's murder, texting and asking me when we can tell her about Zach.
The last I had updated them was Thursday night when things were looking more positive.
I don't know how much more they can handle so instead of telling them, I told her sister and her other brother instead so they can decide how to break it to them that Sarah isn't recovering as quickly as expected.
She had thousands of seizures over the years, and now a stroke. I don't know how much more her brain can handle.
Today they did a CT scan and it showed no new problems, and there's an MRI scheduled for tomorrow.
They did tell me to expect ups and downs, that the progress would be more like a path up a terraced landscape than a straight linear path. Stages of progress followed by periods of stagnation without improvement. But those same people seem surprised and concerned by what at this point is looking like a decline.
It's all about the low blood pressure though. They did a cortisol test to measure adrenal gland function today but we don't have the results yet.
Hopefully they figure it out tomorrow.
Every time they increase the blood pressure medication, it only results in about 8 hours of improvement before they have to increase it again.
I'm pretty close to asking for a transfer back up to Chicago where they have better facilities and all the doctors are actually professors who are at the top of their field.
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