Minor Ailments

sadchild said:
You don't have to prep when you cancel an appointment!

Get it? You "pushed it out" for the canceled colonoscopy. Then you have to "push it out" again for the rescheduled one. *rimshot*
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Oh my God Sad. You are a child just like me.

I read that and my thought went to the joke that you are totally wrong. Scotch never pushes out. He's always trying to accept more in. This cancellation was clearly an anomaly. Your whole promise doesn't make sense.
 
Back to being serious for a second, sometimes at work I feel my left knee get like a twinge of pain and it worries me because I'm old now that it might become a thing like a surgery thing at some point.

I am deadly fucking afraid of a catheter. I am not joking. I know it's funny cuz it's your dick and everything but I'm not joking. I said it here a million times before. Whether or not a medical procedure requires a catheter would be a major deciding factor as to if I would even consider the surgery.

And I'm pretty sure if you totally fuck up your knee you wind up with a catheter when they're fixing it.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
I don't see how a cathedor is required for knee surgery.
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First off, I'm pretty sure I don't need knee surgery yet, probably a few years away from that.

But I thought basically every time they put you under to the point where after you're out they stick a breathing tube down your throat. You also get the dick tube.

Like if an anesthesiologist is in the room the whole time you're getting the dick tube.

Hopefully I'm wrong about that.
 
scotchandcigar said:
I'm realizing that I may not have told the recent story of my tooth. Two days before leaving for Costa Rica, I'm chewing one of these...
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which I think are made by the ADA to boost revenue. And a crown in the back of my mouth comes out. I got an emergency appointment with my dentist on the day before flying. They smoothed it out a bit, but basically said it would have to come out after I get back. They gave me penicillin for my trip, in case there was pain, but fortunately, it didn't bother me.
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So this was a year ago, when we were about to go to Costa Rica.

Fast forward to this year. Less than 2 weeks before we leave for Costa Rica, Mrs. Scotch and I are doing a midday hike with the dogs. At the time, there wasn't much snow on the ground, and there was exposed grass. There was ice on the heavily-walked paths, but it was easy to get around it. So we didn't wear our micro-spikes.

But on the heavily wooded slopes, there was ice that we couldn't get around. And I went down hard. I had been stepping carefully, but the foot I was NOT stepping with gave out. I hit the ground with my left arm folded, so that my elbow impacted the ice, shoving my hand and forearm into my shoulder and neck.

For the next week, I'm taking over-the-counter pain meds, but things are not getting better. My doctor has me go to the walk-in, where they take an x-ray, and see nothing wrong. This walk-in visit turned out to be quite problematic, for 2 reasons:
- They send me to the ER, where they do a CAT scan, and see that I have an inline fracture to my clavicle (collar bone), which was not caught on the x-ray;
- While in the waiting room, a guy towing a trailer clips the back of my car in the parking lot, causing seemingly minor - but expensive - damage.

I'm prescribed pain meds, and I follow-up with my doctor before we head to Costa Rica. Mrs. Scotch says we can postpone the trip, as we have travel insurance. But I decide I'd rather rest in tropical warmth, rather than sit in subfreezing temps, and watch 2 feet of snow dump on us. Besides, putting on coats and sweatshirts is painful.

Now that I'm back, I'm glad we went. It was somewhat difficult to sleep some nights, but it would've been the same if we stayed home. I was told this will take about 6 weeks to heal. I found that the only pain meds that really work for me is Tylenol. So that's all I'm taking.
 
Dude that's awful, sorry to hear. Hope you're steadily improving.

After my wife's tumor removal surgery she had kidney stone removal surgery. Once she was finally feeling better, she stubbed her pinky toe so hard she broke it. She finally stopped wearing the ski boot thing last week, but it still hurts every day.
 
Continuing from the Sundials time change thread.
My whole life I've had issues with reactive hypoglycemia. When I'm fasting normally and take a blood test, my glucose level is a good 80-90 range typically. I took one of those 3 hour glucose tests where you drink the sweet drink then they check your blood every so often. The last needle stick, I could tell my blood sugar had dropped like crazy. They called a few days later and said my glucose level at that time was around 45, which is dangerously low.
Under normal circumstances, I've learned how to control it for the most part, although sometimes its got a mind of its own and will drop randomly. But after a big meal, or delaying normal meal time often leads to an episode. When I'm traveling or anticipating a meal being off schedule, I'll adjust and have a snack around that time, or whenever I feel like the blood sugar could be getting low, I snack. Also carry glucose tablets in the car.
They say it's generally not hereditary, but my daughter deals with it also.
 
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