Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it,
follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given
their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!
Hospitals and Long Term Treatment: Chronic illness thread for the repeat customers
Posts
<3
you need to make to dirty south this year, it's looking to be in Juneish. I hope, if I can ever get the braintrust to fucking respond to my location lists.
Trunk Club
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
I'll make it. Pick dates ASAP so I can just plan to start wherever I go to next after it.
@Stale
I'm looking for PAX Badges! Please PM me if you have a Four Day, or any Single Day Badges to spare!
we are TOTES not going to hang out
EVER
<3 <3 <3 hugs to everyone
you've been in the hospital
Trunk Club
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
If I had to guess I'd say that your digestive system has said "fuck you I have enough problems" and refused to absorb it that way. My body does that with certain things I need to take since part of my intestine is gone. This way it's going right to your blood. IANAD though.
Yeah but in the first one your blood was full of DYE, so
You know. Your glands probably weren't ecstatic.
Depends on the root cause of your sleep apnea, and how severe it is.
Some people will be fine if they can train/learn to sleep in a different position (usually on the front).
For many people the issue is weight related, and losing weight can cause the apnea to disappear.
Mine is caused by me having a really small throat... Not much I can do about that, but then my apnea is mild enough that I don't function too badly without the CPAP, it just helps me get a better night's sleep, that's all.
They know for sure it's obstructive? Central sleep apnea exists as well, in which case I'm told adjusting your breathing/sleeping habits won't help much. I get cases of sleep apnea mixed with sleep paralysis, and the most the doctor can tell me is to reduce my stress as best I can.
Which actually works for me (most of the time)
Uh, I meant nobody knows why antibiotics work on treating crohn's and inflammation.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
So what
you saying you don't wanna visit me in the hospital?
Afraid of catching something?
Since when has 'been in the hospital' precluded you from giving your opinion!
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
@Ledneh
I've had experience with sleep apnea. I finally had it diagnosed my senior year of college, when I was literally falling asleep during class sometimes. I never noticed actually stopping breathing, but my girlfriend at the time did.
Are you overly tired? When you wake up, do you feel rested? There are different levels of sleep apena.
So I went for a sleep study and found out I was micro-waking a couple of hundred times at night. I had a CPAD machine, which is basically a device you wear over your nose and mouth that constantly pushes air to keep your airways open.
Eventually I went on a fitness kick and lost a bunch of weight. After that I found that I didn't need the CPAP anymore!
"Hey Will, I know you're laying in bed pissed at God and the world he laid out in general. Miserable and exhausted, but here's a list of houses and locales, tell me where you wanna go have fun even though right now you can't even fathom getting out of bed without screaming in pain. Get back to me ASAP. Kay?, bye."
When I feel like shit, that would just piss me off.
Trunk Club
@Stale Are you secretly from Bizarro World?
I'm just difficult.
Trunk Club
Honestly? I'd like to try Savannah this time.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
If you see an unmarked door that apparently has no purpose, it's a bathroom.
You have no idea the kinds of people that wander into the hospital.
Of course they would want to hide the good bathrooms.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
Turns out with three dozen wires and a couple breathing straps stuck on me I didn't get to sleep until 2:30 AM, and then only for two hours, so now I have to schedule a talk with the doctor THEN another study for titration
And each one requires a referral because I am retarded and took the HMO, and Aetna sucks
The worst part is, they're definite that I need the CPAP because in those two hours of sleep my blood oxygen was crap and my windpipe kept constricting (but not quite closing), but rules are rules
Which means if you want to sneak up on me do it from the left.
God dammit.
Really hoping I don't die from some infection now.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
Which is hurting pretty badly today
I kinda hope it continues to, though - I guess because maybe they could see if there actually is some kind of connection?
That would really put a damper on my day, which, of course, is what you should be the most concerned about
In fact any time you are about to suffer from some sort of horrible medical complication stop. Ask yourself: Will this make Didgeridoo sad? And then stop being sick. That's how it works, right?
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
Solution:
ohh boo hoo
ya big sissy, you're fine. Last time I had a PICC I used to pop that cap off constantly and play with it. Nurses used to flip the fuck out.
Trunk Club
Munkus and Stale I am pleased to no end to see you both swimming up waterfalls over and over. It gives me hope that maybe she can do the same.
Had a discussion with the sleep doc on Monday, talking about the results of my sleep study the previous week (as it turns out, sleeping in an unfamiliar place on a pullout bed with three dozen wires strapped to you is very hard!)
The results were kind of interesting. He told me that 'severe obstructive sleep apnea' is considered to be 25-30+ apnea events ('arousals') per hour over the course of your sleep time. Turns out I averaged about 40, so I was snapping out of deep sleep almost once every minute and a half :o
So I'm on the slate for a CPAP machine in the next week or two, for either the rest of my life or (if I'm lucky) when I stop being a fatarse. I'm sort of curious and impatient to find out how well it works; the doctor just stopped short of saying it would be a lifechanger for me considering how bad my sleep quality appeared to be!
Also fuck you medicine regulation law things that prevent me from easy access to painkillers that actually fucking do something.
Fuck everything.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Well, that fucking sucks.
Hugs, dude, hope everything turns out okay.
I'm looking for PAX Badges! Please PM me if you have a Four Day, or any Single Day Badges to spare!
If I refused to take three months supply of my medications, the street value would pay off a hefty chunk of my student loans. Maybe all of it?
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
I don't even want anything like, insane, I just want some stronger cocodamol right now.
This pussy ass 8/500 mix doesn't do shit for a gout flareup, if I'm lucky I'll be able to get something stronger along with medication to treat the problem tomorrow, but it's bad enough right now that I simply can't sleep.
So instead I'm sat here bitching about it like a petulant child or some shit.
And I have stitches on the abcess heal area and a tube out my ass.
I am become Stale, the only thing I can manage to eat is Ensure. Too much pain to be hungry.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
Is Mr. McCoy proving to have a good bedside manner, at least?