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  1. I've always said that the 1st time it was love. The next time it's 20bucks. According to this I've been selling myself short and need to rasie prices. http://netscape.compuserve.com/love/package.jsp?floc=MM-oocs6&name=fte/happiness/happiness
  2. I brought you into this world and I'll take you out of it. I made you and I can make another one just like you if you don't watch it. (Refers to above) Boy, you better put that joint out! She did that one to catch me smoking a cigarette.. But mom it not a joint it's a cigarette. Oh Shit! Busted! You must think I like you or something
  3. nubain1

    I still hurt

    make sure you take good care of your stitches too - that way you dont get funky scars I got crazy glue instead of stitches. And it still hurts to move or do any thing I still have a week of light duty left but I'm thinking I might need a little more before I can get back on the ambulance with out having problems.
  4. nubain1

    I still hurt

    I would but I have to work tommorow and a drs appt and teach class tommorow night.
  5. nubain1

    I still hurt

    I had a emergency appendectomy last monday and I still hurt like hell. Ant to top it off I just stabbed myself in the foot with a exacto knife.
  6. Here's a happy thought for ya since I had surgery yesterday. Went into the OR and they had they radio on a classic rock station. I watched them draw up the meds to put put me to sleep. next thing I know I'm waking up in my room.Sore as hell but that's to be expexted after surgery.
  7. Nice. 2 days recovery! Holy moly.. you should definitely milk that for a bit longer. Did they go in through your belly button? Glad to hear that they got you fixed up in time. I've got surgery tommorow and I'm freaking out! Yeah, the main incision is in the belly button and then 2 more smaller ones. 1 on each side.It's not bad. A couple of steri-strips and band aids.It's just sore as hell right now.
  8. How about sliding down a 50' razor into a barrel of rubbing alcohol?
  9. Right now I have this nasty taste in my mouth. I don't know why but I get it everytime I take pain meds. Almost like when your sleeping on the couch and you have your mouth open cause your snoring and someone comes by and lets one rip right then. Nasty. And I can't seem to get rid of it./
  10. My son had his taken out the same way last year and he was in the hosp. for 3 days. His scar still looks bad.
  11. Just don't make me laugh. Then it really hurts. I'm popping pain pills like pez and still hurt. And Laughing makes it worse. I've been holding back a sneeze all day today cause I'm scared to let it go.
  12. Actually I'm playing with my weak stomach. One of the incision sites anyway. Just changed the dressing on them. UMMMM YUMMY
  13. Watch out for the cracked and peeling skin. I wonder how bad athletes hand smells?
  14. You know they'll probably use one of his big toes to replace the thumb. So now instead of getting athletes foot he'll get athletes hand instead.How sick is that. I sure wouldn't want to shake his hand.
  15. I went to work yesterday and it was a typical morning, I did'nt wantt o be there as usual. I was trying to get some training stuff taken care of before I got on my unit for the shift. So any way, I had to go to my car to get my phone, as I was walking back to the building, I got this extremely sharp pain right lower quadrant. Hurt like a bitch.... I had rebound tenderness a positive tap test, started running a fever and sweating bullets. OH SHIT...... Appendicitis. I tried to stay at work but my boss would'nt let me. She gave me 4 choices... 1.drive my self to the hospital 2.call austin/travis cty to take me 3. get into one of our trks to go 4 she takes me herself. SO I went with #4. We go to the er and got back into a room. Dr came in a checked me out. I had blood work done and was supposed to go to have a CT scan. My lab results came back. I had a WBC of 18.7 Dr says the CT has been cancelled and I'm scheduled for surgery at 1:00.....Damn I don't want to do this. Oh,I forgot that while waiting to go to the prep area I got a total of 9mg of morphine and was still hurting. Anyway.......... I'm in the prep area for what seems like forever.. I FINALLY get wheeled into the OR. I remember the anasthesiologist talking to me. I watched her draw up the diprovan.Blank..........I remember coughing and fighting the staff while the were pulling the ett out. Then I next remember waking up in my room later on. I have 3 bandaids on from having laprascopic surgery to remove my appendix. So, all last night I'm up and down.. I'd sleep for a hour then get up and walk the halls(recommended by the dr.to walk after surgery). Then I'd go back to sleep. Get up and do it again... all night. Got some more morphine for the pain. So this morning they said I get to go home. Yahoo. But I still hurt like hell and will continue to hurt for a couple of days. Left the hospital and went by work. I get to start on light duty tommorow. I've got enough paperwork and stuff to take care of the next 2 weeks while I'm off the trucks. So that's how I spent my day.......How was yours?
  16. I still have good eyesight and hairless palms so no.
  17. I missed seeing anything from the USDA studies done in the 80's and the studies from UCLA and other colleges. I did a big report on it in college. Some of my points were from these studies. Such as.... You can make every grade of paper at 1/4 the cost of trees and is a much faster renewable resource. The seeds have more dietary protien than soybeans. Of course everyone knows about the pain control and help with nausea. It reduces pressure on the eyes thereby helping to relieve glaucoma symptoms. One report even hinted that it can help you live longer but I don't have the full report on that one. ETC,ETC, and so on and so forth.
  18. I agree there are some drawbacks like that .If the tech could be made more reliable and unable to be read by others then i would do it. Right now, no. I can look at it from both sides with teh pros and cons being in the med field myself.
  19. Here's a intersting article in this month's JEMS (Journal of Emergency Medical Services) What do you think? Would you do it if it meant it could save your or a loved one's life? Or is it a invasion of privacy that's not worth the risk. Personally,I think it's a good idea,but there should be limits to who can access the info. http://www.jems.com/news/233450/ Many question new patient data microchip By Ann Geracimos The Washington Times Copyright 2006 News World Communications, Inc. A microchip the size of a long grain of rice encased in a tiny glass capsule and injected into the upper right arm could, in an emergency, save a person's life. The device, called VeriMed by its manufacturer, contains a series of 16 numbers — a code — that when read by a hand-held scanner can reveal key computerized medical information to properly registered people. The device is meant to help with treatment and prevent giving needless or possibly harmful medication to patients unable to talk to health care workers about their medical history and condition. Admirers see it as a technological convenience no different from bar codes in supermarkets or the electronic EZ-Pass in one's car. Detractors say it has dangerous implications for civil liberties. The problem is getting enough scanners and trained personnel in hospitals while simultaneously persuading enough people to be implanted with the chip, which is known as a passive radio frequency identification device, or RFID. The cost of an implant is between $150 and $400, and insurance does not yet cover the procedure. "It's a three-prong approach, and all three [doctors, hospitals and patients] have to come together," explains Dr. Jonathan Musher, a Bethesda physician. He works for the manufacturer, VeriChip Corp. of Delray Beach, Fla., a subsidiary of Applied Digital, building what he calls "the network" required to make the chips effective. He says he was convinced of the device's merit before he joined the company and always has mixed his clinical practice — geriatrics and adult medicine — with what he calls "an administrative component." Dr. Musher has about 260 doctors in his network and has implanted about 30 chips to date, mostly in elderly people who he says are those most likely to need the device — especially the senior population in assisted-living facilities and anyone suffering from mild dementia. About 2,200 patients have been implanted worldwide since the chip was introduced in 2004, he says. "If someone presents to an emergency room who is comatose, he gets scanned, and important information comes up," Dr. Musher says, giving one example of how the chip would function to save time and avert mistakes. An authorized person would put in his own identifying number and, with a password, be able in five to 10 seconds to learn a patient's name and pertinent medical history. "Let's say, worst case, someone can do that who is not authorized and they come up with a name, certain allergies, diagnoses and the fact [the patient is] on three or four medicines and has an advanced directive not to [take extreme measures] to resuscitate. I say, 'So what?' Everything in life is a risk-benefit. That is low risk versus the benefit." Dr. Musher equates the procedure to getting an injection halfway between the right arm's shoulder and elbow, with a local anesthetic used to numb the site. "The body physiologically forms a cocoon around it," he says, adding that "the chip is not visible as it might be in the shin. New medical data is added and old data changed by using a special password in the computer program that stores the information. "It appealed to me immediately," says Roxanne Fischer, a biologist with a local government health agency whose 83-year-old mother has Alzheimer's disease. "I would love to see more people take advantage of this. Certainly anyone with pets thinks it is an incredible idea. I'd definitely get one myself. There is a lot to be said [for having] a means of identification on your body so you don't have to be carrying something." Worry about identity theft doesn't bother her. "Just the opposite," she says. "It is a passive chip and doesn't emit energy and can't be tracked." Nevertheless, she says she might have been more skeptical if she had not known Dr. Musher as a physician caring for her mother. She cites troubles with her mother, who, when living alone in Florida, once was lost for two days after eluding a caregiver. Daniel Hickey, 77, a naval commander living in a military retirement home, agrees. He has had the chip implanted although he is of sound mind and in relatively good health in spite of having had high blood pressure for most of his life. "As soon as [Dr. Musher] mentioned it, I said, 'Why not?'" he says. "If you are unconscious and they wheel you into the emergency room, what do they know about you? Nothing. Even if you are conscious and in pain, you don't want to answer a bunch of questions." High-profile supporters include former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, now partner in the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and a member of the board of the VeriChip Corp. His primary interest, he says, is promoting new technologies he believes are badly needed in the health care field - "It's my shtick." He once pledged publicly to have the chip put in himself, but says now that he is waiting until "more hospitals have signed up." It's that chicken-and-egg question again. Washington Hospital Center, the area's largest medical facility, has a scanner but has not trained anyone to use it because the chances an emergency patient will have a chip are slim, says spokeswoman Paula Faria. "We don't feel we are at that point yet," she says. Suburban Hospital in Bethesda and Shady Grove Adventist in Gaithersburg have scanners, supplied free by VeriChip, and have trained personnel to use them. "I think it is better than any method to date," says Dr. Robert Rothstein, Suburban's director of emergency medicine, who is an advocate without any association with the corporation. "Plenty of people are around who could benefit. You can imagine when police find somebody wandering and they sit around and wait for somebody to call." The chip's main opposition is a group called CASPIAN Consumer Advocacy, for Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. One group leader is Katherine Albrecht, who holds a doctorate in education and is co-author of the book "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move With RFID." In a telephone interview, she raises questions about the technical proficiency of the chip — "The information may not always be there when you need it, especially in the case of natural disaster and where the community is not functioning at top-notch rate" — and asks rhetorically why a medical ID bracelet won't do as well. New to the market is a product called the Portable Health Profile () that, for $49.95, provides a consumer with a mini-CD as well as a USB Flash Drive, both of which can store an individual's medical information and can be accessed by computer as needed. Dr. Musher counters by pointing up the danger that bracelets and other portable devices can be lost and that patients, especially those with a form of dementia, are liable to pull off a bracelet.
  20. Not not a cop.jost a street legal drug pusher, a ditch Dr, a emt with big needles and electricity. a paramedic.
  21. No,from the ones that I've seen you need 3-5 years street exp. acls, btls ,and pals. I will get pals renewed in the class. alreadt have acls and btls and almost 14 years street time. It just makes it easier if your having to compete with someone else applying for the same position.
  22. Thanks for all the replies. I feel better getting that off my chest. For the next long while, I'll just be looking for a good time, not a long time. Just relations, not a relationship. And I'll postpone moving to Tibet and joining a monastary to get away from women.
  23. I took my entrsnce test to get into the Critical Care medic class today. Holy Shit there was stuff on that test that I have'nt seen in years. I find out next week if I get in or not. I hope so. My only problem will be after the class and getting on a helocopter. I can just see me telling the pilot to take it to 5k and I'll meet them on the ground. One cool thing I found out today is that Dr. Bledsoe will be teaching part of the class.Talk about being humbled.