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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 03/25/2009 : 13:21:19
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Okay, so, a funny thing happened at the Doctors on Monday. I went in to have him fill out a form and for a follow up visit and he threw me into the hospital. Seems I had too much fluid in my lungs due to not coughing like a normal person due to a broken rib that hurts when I cough due to coughing too hard during a cold I have but shouldn't have anymore but is recurring and going on two months now because I am not coughing it out. (Actually, it's been recurring for a lot of people so I'm not so sure the rib is to blame for that.)
The upshot is I wasn't (and am now only borderline) getting enough oxygen when I breath. Much of the fluid is gone now and I am able to breath much better, but I have a ways to go. And, the broken rib has now been confirmed by x-ray.
Couple that with the completely unsatisfactory experience I had in the ER last Saturday (not all of you know about that), and the last week has been a real slice.
Anyhow, there it is...
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/25/2009 : 13:28:16 [Permalink]
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Damn, Kil, bad stretch of luck there. Let's hope you've finally turned a corner. See, you should have asked Tilton for a miraculous healing when you had the chance...
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Dave W.
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Posted - 03/25/2009 : 14:37:59 [Permalink]
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| Welcome back, Kil. Why didn't they just remove the offending rib? There's a book out which says that men can survive such an operation. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2009 : 14:56:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Welcome back, Kil. Why didn't they just remove the offending rib? There's a book out which says that men can survive such an operation.
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2009 : 17:41:35 [Permalink]
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| Hope you're feeling better soon, Aqualung! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 03/25/2009 : 18:58:32 [Permalink]
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I just hate it when the fundies pray to Yahweh to do that smiting thing.
Heal soon, Kil! Do you have oxygen to help you through?
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2009 : 21:33:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
I just hate it when the fundies pray to Yahweh to do that smiting thing.
Heal soon, Kil! Do you have oxygen to help you through?
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The doctor considered it but decided I was progressing fast enough. I see him on Friday. If I'm still not getting enough, he will probably get me on oxygen. But I hope that doesn't happen.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2009 : 03:16:42 [Permalink]
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I'm reminded of an old sayng: "It's gotta get better 'cause it can't get no worse." Complete and utter crap of coure, as it is with most old sayings.
Take care of yourself, bro.
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2009 : 04:10:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
...If I'm still not getting enough, he will probably get me on oxygen. But I hope that doesn't happen. |
I hope you're feeling better! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 03/26/2009 : 05:59:39 [Permalink]
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| Get well soon! |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2009 : 08:29:02 [Permalink]
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| Same here, mucho get well wishes from me... |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2009 : 11:14:14 [Permalink]
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Thanks all!!! I'm definitely better than what got me addmitted to the hospital. Hell, my breathing sounded like a coffee percolator. My lungs are pretty clear now. I am also on codeine, prednisone and an antibiotic. Coughing hard (getting stuff up) is still problematic and depends on how much my rib is hurting me when I need to cough. Sigh...
Thing about a broken rib is there isn't much that can be done about it accept to not move it and I keep aggravating it because of the cough. So either I hurt my rib or I hurt my lungs by holding back on my coughs. It's a kind of like the old "Lime in the Coconut" song by Nilsson, where the illness and the cure are the same, only in my case, they are at cross purposes. One cure cancels out the other.
But hey, I really am doing much better. I will know more tomorrow when I see the doc again. |
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Bill scott
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2009 : 13:33:17 [Permalink]
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| Seems I had too much fluid in my lungs due to not coughing like a normal person due to a broken rib that hurts when I cough due to coughing too hard during a cold I have but shouldn't have anymore but is recurring and going on two months now because I am not coughing it out. |
You might want to think about putting the ciggs aside.
I am no doctor but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2009 : 13:48:28 [Permalink]
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Bill Scott:
You might want to think about putting the ciggs aside. |
My ciggs are put aside... |
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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Posted - 03/26/2009 : 22:33:14 [Permalink]
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| Sweet geez, hope you get better soon...though at least it sounds like things are kind of under some kind of control. |
>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Out of the hospital
