Comments on: Let’s Just Forget The Last 24 Hours

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:02:56 +0000

Procedure, Andante, you can’t do anything without following the procedure, whether it makes any sense or not. Money for nothing, as they say in the song.

By: andante

andante — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:12:26 +0000

The last time I went to see my family medico for a consultation the damned nurse insisted on weighing me, checking my height, b/p, pulse, and taking my temperature.

All that just to discuss my mother’s deteriorating memory.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:56:03 +0000

There are different types of valves and some require pulling the toilet apart to get to the worn part. I do this a lot during the year and it normally takes about 5 minutes, but every so often…

Well, Ellroon, the new toilets are much lighter than the ones I normally deal with, but they also have plastic parts rather than the brass in these antiques. It was a thin wall brass tube that broke. I could have glued a plastic part back together.

By: ellroon

ellroon — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:11:12 +0000

I have repaired toilets, but the first one I tried my hand at was destroyed. You ah… need to tighten the tank to the bowl slowly and EVENLY or it explodes. In shards…

I have repaired flappers and chains, water sources and washers….but I think I’m done. The way we’ve remodeled our bathrooms with tile means that the toliets have to be removed from the wax washer thing on the floor to do the simplest repair. I call a plumber.

And the crap at the doctor’s office, they do all of this because you can sue their asses off. Hence mindnumbing paperwork and irritation on all sides.

By: Anya

Anya — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:01:59 +0000

Bryan, your Uncle Phil did not enjoy working on toilets, either. For years, we had to deal with turning the water on and off at the wall because apparently replacing the damned thing was beyond his patience. Must run in the family. 😆

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:14:41 +0000

Sox gets real Bayer Cipro for the infection from the vet which costs 10% of the generic cipro for humans. The vet does the test as part of a visit in about 5 minutes.

I want to be taken to a vet if I’m sick. The vet is much nicer and much cheaper than a MD, can do his/her own lab work, and provides treats.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:38:31 +0000

Yowza…when it rains – it pours (or comes in buckets?).

Well, I’m still on a *faint* because back in May at the beginning of the Poe days, the little bugger contracted Coccidia and Giardia. Giardia is potentially transferable to humans…and as she was pooping all OVER the place, and I had clean up duties… I had to get tested. My Dear DR. ordered a series of Other Scatter-shot tests…just to be certain of other possibilities for lab tests. It cost $25 to find BOTH these parasites in dogs…and $176 to find out if Giardia was in me (or not). And the entire bill for these couple of additional tests was $794 plus $99 for the pathology! Cripes…I would never have agreed to that IF I’d know getting raped financially was also part of the lab package!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:54:10 +0000

When a doctor finally appeared the entire process was over in under a minute with a script being written. Prior to then it was the “procedure”, would could not be deviated from, and a constant barrage of questions about possible heart problems. Five hours for what would have been dealt with by a phone call if it wasn’t a holiday.

I wasn’t the patient, but I recognized the problem because Sox has the same problem from time to time, and uses the same antibiotic.

I already had two toilets to deal with in the re-hab job, but they are the newer types with only two tank bolts. I might just get fed up and buy a new, more efficient toilet.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:44:24 +0000

Ouch! Bryan, I hope your next 24 hours go much better.

I’m reminded of something a colleague said to me probably 30 years ago. He was both an MD and a technical professional, though I always had the feeling he enjoyed working on software more than fixing people. Anyway, he said, “In every medical school, there’s a required course in being a bastard. As a patient, your task is to find and deal with only those physicians who flunked that course.” May you have better luck in your next trip to the ER.

Sorry your plans for the toilet are in the toilet. Apart from replacing or adjusting floats and flappers, I’ve done a “real” toilet repair exactly once. And as far as I’m concerned, that’s it for my lifetime. Never again. Good luck with yours; when you are done, may you have a royal flush.