Comments on: I Need A Break

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:48:02 +0000

Having someone who is willing and able to take you to the hospital is not as easy as many people think. There are a lot of people who just don’t want to go near the place. Yes, friends are not easy to find and keep.

Other people’s kids are always easier to love than your own – you don’t have to live with other people’s kids. [so says an uncle who has created havoc in the lives of his siblings].

On that basis, Hipparchia, Ringo should be taking me to the ‘vet’, because she is definitely angry.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:43:11 +0000

Kryten, the fact that you’re whining is proof that you’re mending .

🙂

my cousin’s veterinarian has a motto that parallels that: an angry cat is a healthy cat.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:02:58 +0000

LOL bt! That;s what I have my towel for… to stop my guts spilling onto the floor! (Ford Prefect would be so proud!) 😉 😀

There was a lot wrong with ‘the good old days’, but there is a lot wrong with the new days. The difference being, today it’s mostly by design and deliberate. 🙂

I didn’t mean the politics is boring Bryan, I was only talking about the election process. The end results are remarkably similar here and there. Morons are elected that shouldn’t be allowed to be in charge of a lemonade stand let alone a Nation!

Well… I have this really gorgeous friend who took me to the hospital and visited me who would look great in a Nurses uniform… problem is, I like and respect her a great deal. She’s a 27yo single mom with two great kids I love also. Damned morals! (Not really of course! I wouldn’t have it any other way.) On the whole, I’d much rather have her as a good friend. They are rare. I discovered when I was younger and fitter… Bed partners are easy to find. (Oooh! Should I have put a disclaimer first for the puritanical hypocrites out there??) Nahhhhh… 😈 😉

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:05:07 +0000

Kryten, I’m really ready for politics to be boring. Boring is the best thing that could happen. Al Gore is really boring, and he would have actually solved some problems. Jimmy Carter had to have a crazy brother to provide any interest. Boring is how government should be – something you can ignore, like elevator music.

Maybe you should see about a visiting nurse, or someone who can play a visiting nurse 😉

Google buys everything it think might provide ad space. At some point you will have to recognize corporate logos and put up with an ad to comment at Blogger.

Badtux, the science is great, but the delivery is still screwed up, major league.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:50:21 +0000

Bryan, the number of tests you get depends on whether you’re a member of a PPO, an HMO, or Medicare/Medicaid. If you’re a PPO patient, you’ll get every test that the doctor can trick the insurer into paying for, whether you need it or not, but probably not a horrific number of tests because it takes too much work to push a test through the deny deny deny deny deny deny deny accept cycle. If you’re an HMO patient (i.e., the doctor is salaried so has no incentive to overtest, the clinic or hospital is owned by the insurer, and the insurer makes money by denying care, not by providing care), you’ll have an experience similar to Kryten’s — one of my former bosses was in horrific excruciating pain for almost six months before Chiseler Permanente finally relented and did a MRI on him, Chiseler Permanente simply kept shoving pills at him until then (pills he mostly couldn’t take since he had a job to do and they put him to sleep). And of course Medicare/Medicaid, doctors prescribe anything they think they can get away with and justify it with “well, they pay less, so we have to prescribe more tests to be fulfilled by testing centers that *we* own in order to make the amount of money we want to make!”

Kryten, the fact that you’re whining is proof that you’re mending ;). Do take it easy, getting too energetic after someone just finished rearranging your guts is not recommended, you don’t want to have all your guts suddenly fall out onto your feet after all :).

Of course, as much as we gripe about health care today, the “good old days” were hardly good for those living then. If we funded healthcare today at the same level as in 1960, we’d have the same outcomes as 1960 — liver disease? Send patient home to die. Kidney disease? Send patient home to die. Leukemia? Send patient home to die. Heart disease? Give the patient some palliative treatments and send him home to die. And so forth and so on, page after page of diseases that were death sentences then and survivable today. Something to think about next time you’re griping about how health care is fscked up today…

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:56:19 +0000

BTW. speaking of reCAPTCHA, did you know Google acquired the organization back in 2009? Is there anything Google won't buy to track users? *SIGH* Google Acquires reCAPTCHA One less *Freedom of the Internet*. *shrug*

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:07:59 +0000

LOL @ your Mom! 😀 I don’t know your Mom at all, but I think I’d like her! 😀

I think I mentioned in another thread before I went into Hospital about buying that coffee… Serves me right for showing off! You think I’d learn by now… *sigh* 😉

I’ve been told by master coffee roasters that the best way to store roasted coffee is in an air & light tight container in a cool cupboard. Green beans can be kept in the Freezer. 🙂 That reminds me… I have been looking into roasting my own beans. Apparently, one of the best ways is with one of those hot air popcorn poppers! Green beans are a lot cheaper to buy. However, some beans roast better with a steam or hot water process, so have to be careful what beans to buy. 🙂

I’ve had the same issues with spam etc, and I decided there is no such thing as a perfect solution. In fact. I’d say it comes down to *least worst* or at best, what causes your visitors to whinge the least! A lot of sites now use reCaptcha which is a PITA! The number of times I can’t read one of the damned words, even with my glasses on and the page zoomed to 200%, and have been forced to reload the image… Gaaaahhhhhhh!

I am pretty pleased with my progress! 😀 I was out and about for about 4 hours, and carried 2 bags of shopping home on the but! I am exhaused, but feel good! However… proving that I am not totally stupid, tomorrow is a designated *lazy SOB, stay home and watch vids or play music, do nothing* day! 😉 😀 I have two new movies to watch, Ted & the Avengers; and catch up on the past dozen episodes of Daily Show (on the road to Tampa, Florida RNC & Charlotte NC DNC)! Should be a million laughs! 😆
I love their slogans for the two conventions.

DNC: “Democalypse 2012. Hope and Change Again, Again. It’s less weird than if he didn’t run!”

RNC: “A Party, too Patriotic for Facts. A candidate, too successful for taxes. A city where flip-flops are evening wear. The road to Jeb Bush 2016!”

Yeah… Gonna lay back and veg out and laugh until my stitches burst!! LMAO (OK… Maybe not that much!) 😉 😀

You have one big advantage over our elections… Yours are funny as hell, ours are boring as hell! (Sorry man, but you know it’s true, at least to the World outside the USA.) 😉

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:06:37 +0000

In reply to Kryten42.

My Mother is permanently forbidden to ever have another hot fudge banana split [an ice cream sundae]. She has said if they had told her that before they decided to save her life, she would have had to think it over.

It won’t be at its peak, but if you seal tight and throw it in the freezer, the coffee should be almost as good in three months. Maybe not $46 good, but still better than $40 😉

I’m glad you understand about the filter, because if the regular software is bad, the plug-ins are even worse when you try to figure out what the programmer had in mind.

I’ve considered using registration, but that is a real pain for people, having to sign in before commenting. It might not bother other people, but it really annoys me.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:59:08 +0000

Any time you can con cute women into your ‘bedroom’ can’t be all bad

Ain’t that the truth! 😉 😆 Mind you… It’s been a long time between drinks (as we say down under!) 😆

You wanna know what the WORST part is…

I’d just spent US$46 on 3lbs of the Wallenford Estate Blue Mountain Coffee (regarded as the best anywhere) just before I went into Hospital and they banned me from having caffeine for 3 Months!!

Life just ain’t worth living… Just shoot me! *SIGH*

OT: (or, should that actually be OT:OT: now?) 😉

No worries about the filter m8! It’s really no biggie, and I understand! I just like whining right now! 😆 It’s all cool! 😀

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:56:39 +0000

Well in the US you would have had every test known to exist, but no one would have actually looked at the results because the point was to rack up billable charges, not fix problems. Not surprising when in most group practices the doctors are expected to see at least 3 patients per hour, so there isn’t much time to review records. Besides, if they fix the problem you might not come back for a while, and they want to maintain their customer base.

Any time you can con cute women into your ‘bedroom’ can’t be all bad 😉

They are training doctors to rely on the testing instead of developing old-fashioned diagnostic skills, and then they get clamped down on the use of the tests, so of course things are screwed up. The way to fix it is to look for patterns of abuse and deal with the abusers, not blanket suppression of testing. Send a few people to jail and the situation will improve dramatically.

OT: Spam? That’s in a plug-in, and it must have been all of the references to ‘drugs’, a common topic for spammers. Filters are a real PITA, but comment spam is still a problem, and I’m trying to avoid using Captcha to reduce it to a reasonable level. Sorry about that, M8.