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Sat, Oct 20, 2012 10:55 AM
Awww poor Kitty! Having to look like Maddog...poor thing. :wink: |
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MadDogMike
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Sat, Oct 20, 2012 4:06 PM
I see the resemblence! :lol: |
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Sophista-tiki
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Sun, Oct 21, 2012 6:24 PM
I dont have an injury but I;ve had walking poo-moan0ya for 6 weeks now. stoopid flem hacking! |
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MadDogMike
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Sun, Oct 21, 2012 8:09 PM
Dawn, what is green and carried a black bag? Mucus Welby, M.D. What's green and glides accross the ice? Peggy Phlegming |
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VampiressRN
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Sun, Oct 21, 2012 9:28 PM
LOL...I always liked Peggy's hair style...now I will only think of phlegm. Feel better Dawn...I am just now getting rid of the plague...the junky cough hangs on for weeks and weeks. |
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danlovestikis
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Thu, Oct 25, 2012 5:54 PM
MDM you are very photogenic. We are sorry to hear you aren't feeling well Dawn. We hope you are on the mend now. Yesterday Dan and I donated blood for all those in worse shape than we are. Stay well by washing your hands! Dan looking cute. I got faint and had to stay an extra hour with my feet up. Maybe I'm too old for this. Cheers, Wendy |
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MadDogMike
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Thu, Nov 15, 2012 1:07 PM
Turns out that which I thought was skin is merely a basal cell carcinoma farm for my Dermatoligist to harvest every 3 months, I thinks she's using it to make her BMW payment :D Dr Eaton, standing over me with a scapel: "So we're going to cut out this spot on your neck?" |
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Thu, Nov 15, 2012 1:30 PM
Those butchers! what kind of "Inquisition" trained Witch Doctors are working in that mudhut they call a hospital! "Dr.(Bones) McCoy" |
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danlovestikis
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Wed, Nov 21, 2012 9:12 AM
Some scars are sexy on men so you are looking good Mike. Wendy |
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VampiressRN
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Wed, Dec 12, 2012 6:33 PM
MDM...who knew we would be voluntarily (yet with trepidation) have our skin poked, probed, and snipped at in our twilight of life!!! Sending good vibes your way. I am heading to Occ Med tomorrow to get my messed up knee checked out...hopefully it will heal on its own. However, to add to the excitement, I am having some major allergic reaction on my face. Saturday woke up with right red cheek and it spread up into eye and jar, painful to touch...that lasted 2 days and now today it spread to my left cheek & my nose...I look like Jolly St. Nick. Must have been a bug bite or I am allergic to the Gingerbread at Starbucks. |
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danlovestikis
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Thu, Dec 13, 2012 8:42 AM
VampiressRN we are so sorry to hear about your face and knee. Dan took the Norco for his post surgery pain and he itched all night so now he's trying Naproxin and the itching is letting up. I hope they do well by you during your appointment. Dan's surgery 12-12-12. He's doing well today but I have a sore throat. I can see my tonsils. Now I have to wash my hands every few minutes so I don't give this cold to him although it may be too late to avoid. Poor guy. Get well hugs, Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-12-13 08:45 ] |
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MadDogMike
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Thu, Dec 13, 2012 8:53 AM
DAMMIT VAMP ~ we are NOT in the "twilight of our lives"! :lol: Hope that knee heals on it's own and the rash goes away soon! |
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Thu, Dec 13, 2012 3:27 PM
That's the stuff! |
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danlovestikis
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Fri, Dec 14, 2012 9:46 AM
Not near as exciting as Dan's surgery photos but what the heck. We put a wooden bench in front of the sink so he could sit to brush his teeth. Of course I forgot and ran my shin into it in the dark. I cried and jumped around and poor Dan couldn't get up to hug me. Of course with this bad cold I couldn't let him anyway. It hurt worse than it looks but soon I'll have a nice bruise. Wendy |
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MadDogMike
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Fri, Dec 14, 2012 4:01 PM
Nice goose egg there Wendy. I saw you posted in the middle of the night, I hope you or Dan weren't having a bad night |
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danlovestikis
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Fri, Dec 14, 2012 5:10 PM
Hi MadDogMike, Dan's sleeping really well. I made us chocolate chip cookies too close to bedtime so the sugar and caffeine kept me awake the entire night. No naps today just working on glazing so I'll sleep really well tonight. Thanks for asking, Wendy |
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kraken
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Fri, Dec 14, 2012 11:53 PM
Quite edifying to see Dan and Wendy donating blood. I first donated knowing that my blood type (O-neg) was When I arrived to donate the desk was staffed by the This must have disturbed what some people would call my Then came many uneventful donations followed by a Last month I donated blood again, for the first time in |
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danlovestikis
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Sat, Dec 15, 2012 3:06 AM
i'll be watching for part two of your story. The reason your blood spurted was that the phlebotomist hit an artery. I was a Red Cross volunteer at an army base and they trained me to draw blood. The training consisted of watching for one hour and then being told to draw five tubes of blood each on 40 pregnant women lined up in the hallway after a Lamaze class. The one thing they didn't tell me was to check for a plus and to avoid drawing blood from any that did. So of course I found a site on one woman and when I stuck in the needle the blood actually hit the ceiling and then rained down on both of us. I was given a jug of peroxide to cleaned us up with after finding out from the captain what had happened. They must have drained out your blood really fast! Whenever I have blood drawn I always look up at the ceiling. Wendy |
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danlovestikis
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Sun, Dec 16, 2012 8:31 AM
I changed the bandages on Dan's knee and saw he's doing great. VampiressRN how are you??? Wendy |
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VampiressRN
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Fri, Dec 21, 2012 10:56 PM
Thanks for Dan's pictures...I really kneeded those!!!! Hope things are going well for ya Dan. We miss you on the broom patrol. Kraken...bring on part 2...we can hardly wait. So far I am just diagnosed with a tweaked knee with inflammation of the bursa...supposedly 2-4 months should self-resolve. I know the roller derby will have to find some new jammers with all of us knee veterans on the mend. |
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danlovestikis
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Sat, Dec 22, 2012 11:15 AM
Hi Vamp that's good news. We hope you mend super fast. Happy Holidays, Wendy and Dan |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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Sat, Dec 22, 2012 12:37 PM
What! are we getting old? my back,damn it this out burst put my back out...... |
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kraken
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Mon, Dec 24, 2012 12:07 AM
Part two---why I stopped donating blood for more than 8 years. The problem started with lower intestinal disturbance: queasy, There followed over a year of treating me with any combination That's when I took my medical needs to another organization. Slow recovery from surgery, but problem solved! No recurrence PS--I wanted to save the foot of bowel, which even had my |
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danlovestikis
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Wed, Dec 26, 2012 1:45 PM
Wow Kracken that's a good example of never giving up. You saved your own life with a great attitude and by trusting your "gut". It's a story with a good ending. That's the best Christmas story so far this year. Best Wishes, Wendy |
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kraken
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Sat, Dec 29, 2012 1:13 AM
Many thanks, Wendy, for your encouraging reaction When I was born my family lived in a vintage house on Very shortly thereafter we moved to a two-story house |
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danlovestikis
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Mon, Dec 31, 2012 4:44 PM
Hi Kracken, I never fell in water once unintentionally as a kid but I started swimming lessons when I was 6. I loved them but the water was always so cold that my teeth chattered. As for falls we moved to a 2 story home when I was 12 and falling down those stairs was a habit I've not yet broken...bones I've broken. I posted photos of my metal plate going in my wrist earlier on this thread. I really think about it now before the first step. Kids bones are more pliable and not so brittle as us old folk. Stay healthy and have a wonderful Happy New Years. Wendy PS we are only 105 miles from you |
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kraken
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Tue, Jan 1, 2013 12:38 AM
Wow! Only 105 miles from me--that's pretty close by My apologies for having no broken bones in my history, 'Twas a week later that eye trouble cropped up. Things This I promptly did, in fear and trembling. Before I had The medical people on this thread probably recognize this My real regret was that something so common (another |
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danlovestikis
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Wed, Jan 2, 2013 9:10 AM
Hi Kraken, we are 16 miles south of Sacramento. If you are in our area come for a tour. Just PM me as soon as you know when. I recently had flashing lights at the perimeter of my vision. The clinic doctor told me it was an eye migraine. He sent me to the specialist who confirmed it. I was told it was common but I'd never heard of it. I only had it one time and never again but it was so weird to see fireworks. I'm glad you recovered. Wendy Fixed! [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2013-01-03 07:12 ] |
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kraken
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Wed, Jan 2, 2013 10:29 PM
Your migraine diagnosis is new to me. Apparently That doesn't improve my opinion of that ER physician Yes, we definitely should arrange to get together some Kraken PS--I spell my screen name without a C because I've |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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Thu, Jan 3, 2013 12:53 AM
Also know with the common term "Torn Retina" which can lead to blindness in some cases |
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kraken
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Sun, Mar 3, 2013 9:44 PM
And now, the further stultifying medical misadventures of KRAKEN! Since last summer, kraken has had an unexpected and unexplainable Time for endoscopy at both ends. As initial prep for the colonoscopy On to the gastroenterology lab, where kraken was told both scopings would Upshot---kraken has been able to restore quite a bit of strength but no |
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MadDogMike
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Mon, Mar 4, 2013 10:00 AM
Dulcolax in the PM for a BM in the AM! :D Kraken, hopefully it was just a passing thing and you are on the mend now. I have about 10 or 15 extra pounds that I would gladly donate if you want to build that reserve back up? |
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danlovestikis
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Wed, Mar 6, 2013 2:38 PM
Hi Kraken, are they going to do any more tests? It seems that this has been serious enough that just saying, Oh Well we don't know what's wrong is not enough. If you have lost muscle mass then you must eat protein and do some weight lifting to regain it. Keep going back. We lost Dan's dad because they kept giving him iron for anemia when he had blood loss from a small bowel cancer. I'm glad they did a torso CT but how about a whole body scan in Nuclear Medicine? Keep us informed. Best Wishes always, Wendy |
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kraken
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Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:24 PM
You bet I'm going to insist on deeper investigation These are standard symptoms of the anesthetic So for a while I can't go back to working as a caregiver. Only bright spot in all this. One of the doctors is |
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danlovestikis
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Fri, Mar 22, 2013 10:48 PM
http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Zintz_Walter_4776445.aspx Hi kraken, I haven't been looking here for awhile so I was pleased to see you have posted. I did look up your profiles. Unless you are a woman named Walter all the photos I saw were wrong. I know what you mean about the after affects of things given for tests. I lost my sense (for 3 days each time) of taste after MRI's years apart. Now its in my medical records which contrast agent causes it to happen to me so they can give me an alternative. Maybe you shouldn't have the same anesthesia medication next time. Since you care for people with dementia this must be a scary time for you. I hope in the days since you posted you have noticed an improvement. I'm glad you are not going to stop until they figure out why you have the weight loss. Maybe you have a tape worm they are still a problem in some countries. Best Wishes for you always, Wendy |
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kraken
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Sat, Mar 23, 2013 1:10 AM
I am definitely a man, with a substantial beard. If you direct My memory problem keeps improving, but the rate of uplift Definitely will reject the anesthetic Versed (pronounced Meanwhile, let's get this thread hopping again! It started off |
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danlovestikis
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Sat, May 4, 2013 8:26 AM
Kraken, its time for you to let us know how you are doing. Dan has re-torn the meniscus in his knee which was repaired last year. He may be up for another surgery. Take care of your knees, cheers, Wendy |
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Mon, May 6, 2013 5:17 PM
Hi folks, Tried to post my status update here earlier, but it Turns out that my original set of problems (at Horrifying to see that long, long needle going into kraken PS--Please excuse the (now corrected) mistake in [ Edited by: kraken 2013-05-06 23:33 ] |
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danlovestikis
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Mon, May 6, 2013 6:37 PM
HI Kraken, it seems like this is good news. Fighting to stay healthy is always a challenge. The shot worked wonders for Dan's knee pain. So he's hopeful. Keep us up to date on your recovery, best wishes, Wendy |
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VampiressRN
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Mon, May 6, 2013 7:37 PM
Glad to hear you are feeling better Kraken. YIKES Dan...soooooooo sorry about your knee. Hope the injection will help out. Nice pictures Wendy. |
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kraken
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Sat, Jun 15, 2013 9:09 PM
If you've enjoyed seeing Dan and Wendy donating blood above, |
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Sat, Jun 15, 2013 9:29 PM
Cardiologist says it's time to fix GROG' broken heart. 1st up, gotta schedule an angiogram. Bicuspid aortic heart valve----it's a bitch. |
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VampiressRN
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Sat, Jun 15, 2013 9:38 PM
Been a nurse for over 30 years, spent the first 16 years in ICU, mostly post cardiac surgery recovery. There are so many people to help you through the whole process and valve surgery is fairly common, you will do well. I will be thinking good thoughts for you...if you post pictures, you may blow Dan's pictures out of the water!!! Best of luck with all your tests. |
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Sat, Jun 15, 2013 10:19 PM
GROG will they use a brontosaurus donor valve as a replacement? :D Keep us posted on your progress Ernie. |
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Sat, Jun 15, 2013 10:20 PM
My thoughts are with you Buddy. Let me know when you want the King Cake sent. Take care. |
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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Sat, Jun 15, 2013 10:50 PM
Because of your primitive physiology Ernie, you will be just fine! |
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Sun, Jun 16, 2013 7:56 AM
Keep us updated Grog, all our good thoughts and positive vibes are headed your way. I'm sure a big strong caveman like you will do wonderful. :)
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Sun, Jun 16, 2013 9:58 AM
Thanks ya'll. Brontosaurus valve would be great, but not too many of them around anymore. El Jefe, GROG not sure if GROG should have King Cake before surgery to relieve stress, or after surgery to celebrate successful surgery. |