What pissed you off today? Mark II

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Are they ok?

If so, very inconsiderate from anyone!

Oh yeah, they went shopping

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[MyNameIsNO]

Yup.
Or sushi roll/ blanket burrito them for real.

I wrap Far up in feelings burritos often

 

[MyNameIsNO]

Seeing a married couple, both with dementia, sitting at the same table, completely unaware of each other...

I mean it didn't really piss me off as much as it broke my black little heart.

 

[Farawyn]

I wrap Far up in feelings burritos often

Yea, ya do.

Fucking Feels.

 

[Vorpalone]

The peoples dogs at the end of my street had puppies they were so cute, now I find out there autistic kid twisted the all the puppies heads off in the chain link fence. I can't really blame the kid as he is severely autistic but where where the parents. Im sure it took longer then 5 minutes to twist the heads off of 8 puppies. Anyway it kinda pissed me off.

 

[SalvDali]

^that was dark... My evening was ruined by a leaking drain under the kitchen sink ... 45 minutes later it is fixed and mess cleaned up but not what I wanted to do after dinner

 

[MyNameIsNO]

Laying down after a long ass day only to feel like your bed is spinning. Then you finally get a good full body stretch and both of your calves cramp up at the same time.

 

[Blue]

Euuuuugh.
The world's corporatocracy has won again. According to Scripps Institution of Oceanography the world just last week passed a defined 'tipping point' in its average airborne carbon dioxide levels, 400 parts-per-million (400 CO2 atoms per million everything else). It's called a tipping point because it means the Earth's entire biome will now see the results of a 'runaway greenhouse effect' that we no longer have any control over and cannot be reversed.

Some of the lovely events we (well, me at least, fortunately a couple of you will be long gone) have to look forward to in the coming decades because of the increased atmospheric CO2:
One fourth of all species on Earth becoming extinct by 2050.
Rising sea levels, as we've probably all heard about.
You think we've got a refugee crisis now?
Increased natural disasters like the current streak of wildfires...
Soaring food prices...
The global spread and return of malaria, diptheria, cholera, etc due to their tropical habitats expanding...

"Lol".
Well this is going to be a fun century...

 

[Azuldrgon]

finding out the Jeep is totaled.

 

[MyNameIsNO]

finding out the Jeep is totaled.

But is everyone okay?

 

[TheJestersAdvocate]

Seeing a dog in a car at a nearby hotel.....couldn't find the owner and the hotel just seemed happy the pup wasn't in the building. Sure it's cool out and they have a window slightly down, but it's still messed up in my book. Try and find a place that is pet friendly.

 

[Farawyn]

finding out the Jeep is totaled.

*pets your scaly wings*

I'm sorry, Dragon.

WPMOT?

Having a fever.

 

[clistenovena]

finding out the Jeep is totaled.

Went through that this past winter. Sorry to hear. Hope all are okay.

Seeing a dog in a car at a nearby hotel.....couldn't find the owner and the hotel just seemed happy the pup wasn't in the building. Sure it's cool out and they have a window slightly down, but it's still messed up in my book. Try and find a place that is pet friendly.

Preach!

 

[Azuldrgon]

The only thing hurt was my pride.

Thank you both though.

 

[MyNameIsNO]

The only thing hurt was my pride.

Thank you both though.

I feel that this could be an interesting story...

 

[TheJestersAdvocate]

Went through that this past winter. Sorry to hear. Hope all are okay.


Preach!

Lol, no sermons or soap boxes...I've said what was necessary for the topic, would just be reiterating things and going around myself.

And Azul....it sucks your Jeep got messed up, but as long as you and any passengers are ok, that's what matters. Hope it was something where the insurance will take care of the matter for you.

 

[Vorpalone]

My stepdad that's in his 70s had some growth on his leg. He went to have it taking care of. It was determined that they had to surgically excise it. They cut it out but had to go pretty deep in doing so. The wound was too large for stitches so they packed it with gauzes, bandaged it and gave him a checklist to take home with care instructions. They are as follows.

Do not shower or bathe for the first 24 hours
Change dressing every 8-12 hours
Remove bandage
Remove cotton gauze
Remove excess dried blood with a Q tip
Wash wound with warm water
Gently pat dry with towel
Pack with new gauze
Apply new bandage.

Simple enough right.

He is a retired F-4 phantom combat pilot and was a commercial airline captain for thirty years after that so he's used to doing exactly what's on a checklist in the order that's on the checklist. In aviation it's a matter of life and death of you for instance don't check to see if the plane has enough fuel to get I the next airport before takeoff.

Four days later my mom takes him to the emergency room as he developed a high fever and the whole thing is infected. They had to give him some heavy duty antibiotics, pain killers and literally scrub the inside of his wound out making it even bigger.

As it turns out the instructions he has been following never mentioned soap so he didn't use any soap and just used plain water.

He could have died or lost his leg over some non specific instruction list the doctors office is giving out.

The lack of preciseness pissed me off.

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Had parent drive me to another of nephew's soccer games. They volunteered to stay in car while I walked to game as they have contagious thing.

I walk to field, & see my nephew practicing before game. Wondering where family is, found my sinling & his, walked & talked to them.

On way back to field for game, I get "third degree" about where our parent(s) is/are, as though either/both were at all my fault.

Game is called due to lightning. I say goodbye, saying will see them again at next game if it's played. On way home, parent stops at store so I can get drinks for what will be my first meal of day. (Weather has sucked off & on all day.) Suggests I get few-ouncers instead of 12-pack, as easier to lift/carry to car. I do so, but get stuck behind a few older people who have no clue how to work card machines, so holding little weight forever. I carry it all to car, get home, & then realize carrying less means I have less to last me now that I'm home until tomorrow (when weather may suck again & leave me with little if anything).

"Life sucks, then you die."...

 

[Blue]

[..]
"Life sucks, then you die."...

"But things get better!"
~Thoughtless empty-rhetoric drone

What annoyed me is my latest check-in on Jahi McMath. Been peeking in to see what's going on since this started back in 2013. Short summary:
Girl (Jahi McMath), 13, gets tonsils removed in 2013, experiences surgical complications, results in total brain death. Uber-religious parents fight tooth and nail to have her legal status as deceased overturned on the premise that heart beating = alive (despite one lost court battle already) and have been rolling her body cross-country on ventilation for 3 years to try and get their wish.
Take note of 'ventilation' specifically, not life support. I should be clear that she is genuinely dead. Her blood is being artificially oxygenated, circulated and even having nutrients directly added to it because, as revealed in the court case, her brain has literally rotted away in her skull as it's not receiving blood. She doesn't sweat, doesn't excrete, eyes don't respond to light, doesn't twitch or breathe or swallow or digest food or anything. She's certifiably dead.

My latest checkup yielded the information that she's now living (or is that 'being stored'?) back at her family home. So I just want to link you to this article from uncomfortably strongly religious people if you're curious enough. Shows the cognitive dissonance some people are living with regarding this.

So what specifically annoyed me is that I'm quite sure her parents are using her in a grotesque attempt to exploit California's medical negligence policies. In CA if a person is alive and suffers consequences of demonstrable medical malpractice, the compensation from the hospital they can receive is uncapped. Whereas if they die due to it the compensation is capped at $250,000.
In the above article they try to imply that the hospital wants to legally designate her dead so that they will only have to pay the capped sum to the family (she died almost certainly due to malpractice), but I think the reverse is true. They cannot possibly actually believe she is alive when she doesn't seem to require basic necessities or perform basic bodily functions that even somebody in a coma would do, so I think they're trying to get her legally recognized as alive to receive uncapped compensation. Which would be why they haven't already filed for it.

Eugh

 

[Farawyn]

"But things get better!"
~Thoughtless empty-rhetoric drone

What annoyed me is my latest check-in on Jahi McMath. Been peeking in to see what's going on since this started back in 2013. Short summary:
Girl (Jahi McMath), 13, gets tonsils removed in 2013, experiences surgical complications, results in total brain death. Uber-religious parents fight tooth and nail to have her legal status as deceased overturned on the premise that heart beating = alive (despite one lost court battle already) and have been rolling her body cross-country on ventilation for 3 years to try and get their wish.
Take note of 'ventilation' specifically, not life support. I should be clear that she is genuinely dead. Her blood is being artificially oxygenated, circulated and even having nutrients directly added to it because, as revealed in the court case, her brain has literally rotted away in her skull as it's not receiving blood. She doesn't sweat, doesn't excrete, eyes don't respond to light, doesn't twitch or breathe or swallow or digest food or anything. She's certifiably dead.

My latest checkup yielded the information that she's now living (or is that 'being stored'?) back at her family home. So I just want to link you to this article from uncomfortably strongly religious people if you're curious enough. Shows the cognitive dissonance some people are living with regarding this.

So what specifically annoyed me is that I'm quite sure her parents are using her in a grotesque attempt to exploit California's medical negligence policies. In CA if a person is alive and suffers consequences of demonstrable medical malpractice, the compensation from the hospital they can receive is uncapped. Whereas if they die due to it the compensation is capped at $250,000.
In the above article they try to imply that the hospital wants to legally designate her dead so that they will only have to pay the capped sum to the family (she died almost certainly due to malpractice), but I think the reverse is true. They cannot possibly actually believe she is alive when she doesn't seem to require basic necessities or perform basic bodily functions that even somebody in a coma would do, so I think they're trying to get her legally recognized as alive to receive uncapped compensation. Which would be why they haven't already filed for it.

Eugh

I love you, Con. We rant about her on NO and my nursing boards.

The parents are DISGUSTING.

 

[MyNameIsNO]

I love you, Con. We rant about her on NO and my nursing boards.

The parents are DISGUSTING.

I can't even talk about this without my stomach churning. Ugh.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

That is.. beyond fucked up, twisted and grotesque.
It's monstrous.

 

[Cakecups]

How has her heart not stopped from electrolyte imbalances? If she's not excreting anything