One of those moments in life where you say to yourself, “Yes, this is happening”?
I really hope the legal issues can get resolved quicker than it sounds like they will, and I hope the unstable mother continues to receive help and makes some kind of mental and behavioral recovery. (But no, you are not her baby sitter and social worker)
All those years as a Navy IDC were good for something. Fortunately there isn’t much medical-related that fazes me.
Fuck United Airlines. Had to fork out $350 to get home on Southwest tonight (their flight wasn’t cancelled) after United cancelled mine and had no way of getting me back until tomorrow. They treat that route as optional. Should just cancel it outright and let a better airline have it.
That’s good to know when I invade^C^C I mean visit your farm.
Hmm, are you well yet? I’ve never done a pancreatic resection, but I saw one once, and I carry my Swiss Army knife everywhere.
Just like with engines, easy to take apart, a touch trickier to put back together.
But I’ve endured worse, like the transformers movies.
plural? now that is pain.
Using MYOB over here.
It’s now “AccountEdge” (there’s “Pro” and "Basic).
Seems to get bought and sold about every 5 years but the customer service/techsupport ain’t too bad.
It’s clumsy and complicated but sucks less than most of the other accounting software… it does invoice chopping, payables and receivables, P&L, pretty much all of the reporting stuff we need.
Our bookkeeper said she’d never support us if we went with QuickBooks. She’s got her act together 98% of the time, so we listened to her.
Chris died a few days ago. Not unexpected as her cancer was not treatable. She was in her 40s and her children lost a loving mother.
I knew her only briefly, but she was part of my life as barista in my favourite cafe and a kindhearted person.
Currently I am a not very happy mutant.
Ha! Wait until you see my stitches. I am a stitching master.
I need to learn how to give myself stitches. Seems like a good skill to have.
Benefit from my experience: it is very difficult to do a good job stitching yourself, even if you have some lidocaine to numb yourself up. But with a decently sharp needle and some sterile silk thread it can be done.
Lidocaine is worthless. Or maybe all the lidocaine I’ve ever had has been a placebo that absolutely didn’t work.
I’m going to remember that when it comes time to change. Switching part way through a year sounds like a PITA, but that might be because I’m not really a bookkeeper. If it wasn’t for my mother, who actually was a bookkeeper for many years, I’d be adrift.
As I take my hiking adventures further and further out, the more I’m in a position where medical attention can’t get to me quickly. It’s more about needing it in a pinch. Though the farther out you go, the more you need someone to come with you.
I’ve heard that there people it doesn’t work on. My dentist likes it because it wears off faster than novocaine, but he always asks “does lidocaine work for you?” I’ve never had a problem with it as a quick local anesthetic.
A disposable stapling kit might be a better option for that. You can buy them at Amazon for about $15 and it’s already sterile. Just throw it in your pack and be prepared. It’s also easier for a professional to clean up and repair your meatball surgery afterwards, if it’s bad enough to need that. And if you’re tough, you can staple yourself without anesthetic. Stitching yourself (or anyone else) without anesthetic is tough.
And for some of us, it works, but takes A LOT.
I had a minor surgery with a local, to remove a lipoma that was getting big and painful, and partway through I started to be able to feel the cutting. They didn’t believe me, perhaps because I was 16. But also because I was 16, my mom was with me and they listened to her. (I hope I wasn’t an asshole for making her watch my neck being cut open.)
My current dentist basically said “If you say so. I’ll give you double, and you holler if it starts hurting.”
So, there’s no way I’m ever giving myself stitches, but that stapler thingie might be a good idea to have around.
I’m the same way. It takes boatloads of virtually anything to numb me properly. When I had my wisdom teeth (impacted) out, the surgeon swore they would only need a local. They wound up putting me out during the middle of the procedure.
