ArdWrknTrk Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Oh no!!!!! So sorry to see that, Jim! PLEASE BE CAREFUL! I'll keep you in my prayers. Well, I got out of the hospital an hour ago. Hopefully everything will be alright Followup on Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 Well, I got out of the hospital an hour ago. Hopefully everything will be alright Followup on Monday Hospital!!! Oh no! But, you are out so they must think they have you on the path to recovery. Prayers answered, but I'll keep praying, Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85lebaront2 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 I read things like this and am very grateful that I retired from a major defense contractor. They pay almost all of my and my wife's annual premiums for our Medicare supplement. As far as "free" healthcare, I need to look no further than or VA system. Veterans have died waiting for appointments, there was even one who died in the waiting room. Worst part, it varies wildly from one VA center to another. My daughter, who had managed at one point to "game the wellfare system", said to me one day "Medicare is free like Medicaid" I straightened her out on that, as I have been paying into it since LBJ started it and still have it taken out of my Social Security check. The VA almost killed me...TWICE. They say that the worst pain a man will feel is kidney stones. I had two one was 7mm the other 5.5mm stuck in my kidneys and kept blocking the ureter so my kidneys would back up. After a month or so of waiting on surgery, I woke up from the surgery in 10000 times more pain then I went in. Never saw a doctor. They had me on oxy and Vicodin... they wouldn't let me out of the bed to pee in the recovery room until my pain was a 4. They wouldn't even give me a urinal. After about an hour I said my pain was a 4, stood up and pissed blood. They sent me back to my room, the nurse found me on the floor of the bathroom, still no doctor, brought me one Vicodin. I laughed and said I feel like my inside are being ripped out and I was on more meds than that before I came in. I have an extremely high pain tolerance, like laugh at a broken arm level pain tolerance, I have actually cut myself bad enough I severed and artery and drove myself to the hospital no issue, had my finger caught in a log splitter too, never went in, anesthetic doesn't do much for me either. Heck the stones I had would lay up most people I kept working every day. BUT Kidney stones +distended ureters + kidneys backing up = the most I have ever been in. She came back and said the doctors couldn't get the stones and put in stints (I was 24, too young for stints and they are extremely painful) so now I have stint pain, and they effectively turned the stones into medieval maces, and my kidneys were at risk of backing up and rupturing. They put me in a wheel chair with a pocket full of Vicodin and rolled me out on the street. No kidding, 100% didn't care I was worse off than I came in. Told me I would be back in a week... try I dealt with this for 6 months, lived on the peninsula in WA state. 4 hours from Seattle VA hospital. They would tell me to just come in (at this point they prescribed me Vicodin, oxy and morphine tablets all offset by 2 hours), I would be like lady I can barely get down the hall, I'm on 3 narcotics and you want me to drive 4 hours, to get turned around to come back home? Jan 2010-Jun2010 I dealt with this, slept 45mins at a go with heating pads. Showed up in the local ER after an attack was so strong I had to crawl down the hall for help, sill pissing straight blood. The local ER told the VA to shove it and did the surgery. They had me fixed in a day. Walked out pain free but hooked on pills. So I dumped them all less 10 and had to suffer through withdrawals. Yea... screw socialized medicine and the VA. I can go to the VA, but refuse. I have my plan through work I will use. Costs me but I don't care. That is the same VA facility that essentially killed my father-in-law. He was my first wife's father, a two world war Marine veteran. They were doing some surgery on his neck and saw that he had some large calcium deposits in his carotid arteries. The doctor let some of the interns examine and "feel" them. A chunk came loose and lodged in his brain causing a massive stroke. He had walked in and came out in a wheelchair. I believe he stayed there until he passed away. I never met the man as I was on the other side of the country, but did go to Arlington for his interment and later for his widow's interment with him. At least if I do go to the VA for anything, the Hampton Virginia center is pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Cecil Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Well, I got out of the hospital an hour ago. Hopefully everything will be alright Followup on Monday Was it the tooth/gum infection? Ive been so busy, havent been on here much. Im not much of a praying man, but I'll pour one for my brother Jim!! SKOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Was it the tooth/gum infection? Ive been so busy, havent been on here much. Im not much of a praying man, but I'll pour one for my brother Jim!! SKOL! Thank you Ray! That's the old west spirit! A jigger of wisky and bite the bullet. Yeah, I went to the dental clinic last week and asked for antibiotics. They thought I wouldn't need them. So I went to the aquarium store, but It was evidently too little too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Thank you Ray! That's the old west spirit! A jigger of wisky and bite the bullet. Yeah, I went to the dental clinic last week and asked for antibiotics. They thought I wouldn't need them. So I went to the aquarium store, but It was evidently too little too late. This incident seems the straw that breaks my plans to get the front end done in 'Lil Red before I head down to Swarthmore. I still have loose ends to tie up, and now I have to go to the oral surgeon. I'll still get under there and grease up what I can, and hope I don't need 4wd, because that right universal is SHOT. This is very frustrating! 😖 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 This incident seems the straw that breaks my plans to get the front end done in 'Lil Red before I head down to Swarthmore. I still have loose ends to tie up, and now I have to go to the oral surgeon. I'll still get under there and grease up what I can, and hope I don't need 4wd, because that right universal is SHOT. This is very frustrating! 😖 Sorry, Jim. I pray that your surgery goes well and they resolve the problem. And that your trip goes well also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Sorry, Jim. I pray that your surgery goes well and they resolve the problem. And that your trip goes well also. Ok, I have one less tooth, and I'm sure it's not a good idea to be straining while laying on my back under the truck. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Cecil Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Ok, I have one less tooth, and I'm sure it's not a good idea to be straining while laying on my back under the truck. . None of us get out of here alive, nor with all our teeth. My dad used to say "its hell getting old" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted January 28, 2020 Author Share Posted January 28, 2020 None of us get out of here alive, nor with all our teeth. My dad used to say "its hell getting old" Jim - So the surgery was today? Was it successful? Ray - While those aren't the words I'd use I do agree with the sentiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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