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[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

I’d vote for Bill Clinton right now if he could run for POTUS again

Times were good back then.

Hey, at least when he told a lie it was somewhat believable. Didn’t care for the way Somalia was handled, but Aidid was taken care of in the end.

[HONDO74]

I’d vote for Bill Clinton right now if he could run for POTUS again

Times were good back then.

Hey, at least when he told a lie it was somewhat believable. Didn’t care for the way Somalia was handled, but Aidid was taken care of in the end.

MAYBE WITH A DIFFERENT LADY

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"...and an 'if' in life."
If one has gone to a hospital for an emergency procedure, the if factor in life becomes loudly apparent and ingrained, even while , when, after and if all parties involved have succeed at their chosen task. IMHO .

Once you are scooped off your feet and placed on a device to roll you around, you know you have lost control of your entire self , as well as of the if.

I have spend the majority of my life working in a hospital of one sort or another. You gain perspective.

You gain more when you become the patient...

In my opinion, you folks who work in the medical profession, teaching others or actually medicating or cutting into patients, I say, you should be paid among the highest salaries in the world. Maybe some of your are, and if so, I would applaud that, bigtime.

My rationale for saying that is as follows. When I collapsed after a hike in Upstate NY, after an entire night of vomiting, I took myself to the hospital ER (in Cortland, NY) and announced that I thought I was having a heart attack, due to accompanying chest pains having spread from by chest to my center-back, and back again.

An admitting-nurse asked me about what I had been going through, and when I said that I had been vomiting, she reacted immediately by stating that I was not having a heartattack, deduced from the vomiting symptom and where on my body I was indicating other pains were omnipresent. I told her what I had eaten the previous day, the day the pains started. She sent me for some specific exams, which discovered, just as she had diagnosed, that my problem was my Gall Bladder, not my heart. Subsequent examinations of my heart pronounced it as exceptionally strong and steady. They scheduled me for surgery immediately.

Since then, I like hospitals very, very much (always have actually, having been a Respiratory Therapist at three different hospitals, during the 60's), even though they do scare the heck out of me, nowadays, even when depicted on TV shows, which I cannot watch, nowadays.

Yapping completed.

[Roy]

Murph, we had the same experience. I also went to the ER when I thought I might be having a heart attack. Ultimately, I was diagnosed with a gallbladder problem. But, instead of being cut open right then in the hospital, they told me to go to a specialist surgeon. He couldn't find anything on the tests done in the ER.

I hope you weren't the victim of unnecessary surgery.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph, we had the same experience. I also went to the ER when I thought I might be having a heart attack. Ultimately, I was diagnosed with a gallbladder problem. But, instead of being cut open right then in the hospital, they told me to go to a specialist surgeon. He couldn't find anything on the tests done in the ER.

I hope you weren't the victim of unnecessary surgery.

Actually, the story gets far more complicated. When I spoke to the doctor in charge of the ER, I declined the surgery, and announced I would be driving the 200+ miles homeward immediately (they had given me something for pain.). She said (and I quote),"You'll be dead at the side of the road!" To which, I said, "So be it. But I am not having my wife travel up here to possibly have to collect a corpse, or even simply travel here all upset and alone for the journey."

They had me sign papers, and I left for home. Made it fine. Visited my regular urologist and scheduled a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, along with a TURP. A suddenly and copiously bleeding esophageal ulcer needed attended to, also, as did a "dark mass" behind my urinary bladder.

After the surgeries, the surgeon told my wife that my Gall Bladder "was dead."

Interesting. We just never know what's next, do we.

[Roy]

My grandfather did have gallbladder surgery, back in the 60s or 70s. His was not an emergency situation, though. I remember him mentioning there were several large stones in it. That was back in the days before it was a common laparoscopic procedure.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murph, we had the same experience. I also went to the ER when I thought I might be having a heart attack. Ultimately, I was diagnosed with a gallbladder problem. But, instead of being cut open right then in the hospital, they told me to go to a specialist surgeon. He couldn't find anything on the tests done in the ER.

So, what was the real problem then?

[Roy]

Murph, we had the same experience. I also went to the ER when I thought I might be having a heart attack. Ultimately, I was diagnosed with a gallbladder problem. But, instead of being cut open right then in the hospital, they told me to go to a specialist surgeon. He couldn't find anything on the tests done in the ER.

So, what was the real problem then?

Don't know. They told me in the ER my heart was OK. I haven't had any symptoms since, so I don't worry about it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murph, we had the same experience. I also went to the ER when I thought I might be having a heart attack. Ultimately, I was diagnosed with a gallbladder problem. But, instead of being cut open right then in the hospital, they told me to go to a specialist surgeon. He couldn't find anything on the tests done in the ER.

So, what was the real problem then?

Don't know. They told me in the ER my heart was OK. I haven't had any symptoms since, so I don't worry about it.

Probably just gas.....

[HONDO74]

Murph, we had the same experience. I also went to the ER when I thought I might be having a heart attack. Ultimately, I was diagnosed with a gallbladder problem. But, instead of being cut open right then in the hospital, they told me to go to a specialist surgeon. He couldn't find anything on the tests done in the ER.

So, what was the real problem then?

Don't know. They told me in the ER my heart was OK. I haven't had any symptoms since, so I don't worry about it.

Probably just gas.....

Bean Burritos will do that to you.

[Roy]

Probably just gas.....

Bean Burritos will do that to you.

Could well be. I've always liked beans, and they're a great food. Recently, I tried Beano and a similar generic, but they didn't work. I switched over to beef tamales, and the problem is like 95% alleviated.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

We're relieved to hear it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We're relieved to hear it.

At least those of us that were upwind are......

[robert.]

Try a Guatemalan herb Epatzote. I used it in some deer chili this weekend. Works good. Reduces gas. Takes a few meals to get used to it's flavor.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The age old question.........