The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

Losing a parent is epic. My condolences. Nary a day goes by that I don't think about mine, but after many years it's more with wistfulness than sorrow. As in "Gee, Mom would've really like this." "I wish Dad could see this." My favorite, though, is "Damn! I'm channeling El again!" when I catch myself parroting Mom.

Sorry Parents are not with you any more!

 

[CapricornFarm]

When i lost my Dad and then my favorite Aunt. I got extremely depressed. Sat in a rocking chair all day and watched TV. It took a move to Virginia to get me out of that funk.

 

[bruceha2000]

Most pork is almost as good as chicken.
Bacon not so much though

You are the polar opposite of DW and DD2. Neither cares for chicken or pork but would eat a pound of bacon each if I put it in front of them.

 

[ronott1]

You are the polar opposite of DW and DD2. Neither cares for chicken or pork but would eat a pound of bacon each if I put it in front of them.

I wrote that wrong!

It was supposed to be for health. The lower fat part of pork is as almost as healthy as chicken. Bacon is not healthy though.

 

[bruceha2000]

OH!

 

[Peep_Show]

So pork belly good, bacon bad?

 

[Peep_Show]

I think pain levels are subjective to tolerance. I used to do depositions where the accident victims would routinely be asked "On a pain scale of 1 to 10, where are you at now?" Invariably they would state something between 8 and 10. I did an inward grimace at that because, for me, my 10 pain level was when they did a uterine biopsy on me without any anesthesia whatsoever. Yeah, when every fiber of your body is screaming because your guts are being ripped out. It was surreal as a cadre of nurses held me down.** How in the h*ll was William Wallace even able to scream "Freedom" coherently? The person sitting across the table from me during the depo is calmly sipping coffee and taking notes... Not something you can readily accomplish when being eviscerated.

I'm not intending to mitigate other's feelings relaying this story, just that numerics on the whole being bantied about make me cringe.

**Happy to say the doc performing his duties in such a barbaric way no longer practices in my state. Needless to say, this episode has not warmed me up to wanting to visit doctors with any frequency or regularity. Glad I'm of healthy stock!

 

[Peep_Show]

On a lighter note...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yeah, 2 is heaven when you have been working on a pain index that is somewhere in the bracket of 7-9. I had my Gallbladder out in 86 along with my appendix. Pain afterwards was monumental as they did an 9 inch incision. That is what I judge my pain index from. That was my perfect 10. I've had some 10s when my back gives out on me. But my pain index was a 7-8 average for so long that yes a 2 is bliss for me. Doctor I think wants it to be a 0 but hey, chronic pain is what it is.

We are very alike during surgery she took my appendix saying later I really did not need it going bad later ..Like I had an option

I think pain levels are subjective to tolerance. I used to do depositions where the accident victims would routinely be asked "On a pain scale of 1 to 10, where are you at now?" Invariably they would state something between 8 and 10. I did an inward grimace at that because, for me, my 10 pain level was when they did a uterine biopsy on me without any anesthesia whatsoever. Yeah, when every fiber of your body is screaming because your guts are being ripped out. It was surreal as a cadre of nurses held me down.** How in the h*ll was William Wallace even able to scream "Freedom" coherently? The person sitting across the table from me during the depo is calmly sipping coffee and taking notes... Not something you can readily accomplish when being eviscerated.

I'm not intending to mitigate other's feelings relaying this story, just that numerics on the whole being bantied about make me cringe.

**Happy to say the doc performing his duties in such a barbaric way no longer practices in my state. Needless to say, this episode has not warmed me up to wanting to visit doctors with any frequency or regularity. Glad I'm of healthy stock!

I am so sorry for your pain of which none of us could relate to

 

[microchick]

Peep, that is absolutely horrible as in the worst medical horror I have ever heard in all my career!

I have to agree. If my pain is a continuous 10 there is no way I would even be sitting upright. DH has had to help me straighten up on those occasions when my back has gone out and the pain has shot up. I can't imagine feeling like that and acting in even a halfway 'normal' state for me, yet alone sitting in on a deposition.