251. Author: Gene363 | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 10:15AM EST | |
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252. Author: DrafterX | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 10:30AM EST | |
8trackdisco wrote:Wish I had the ability to provide some good options for you, Buckminster. Here’s all I can muster. #1: My mom could drive you around (not recommended). #2: Because I’m not using it very often, you can use my brain.
Re #2. Not sure how I’d get my brain to you, which may make you NOT want to choose mine.
LMK if I should call mom.
We could just get him a new one from the Brain Depositary... |
253. Author: dkeage | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 11:16AM EST | |
DrafterX wrote:We could just get him a new one from the Brain Depositary... Maybe that one from Abby….something…. |
254. Author: MACS | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 11:53AM EST | |
dkeage wrote:Maybe that one from Abby….something…. Ziiiiing! |
255. Author: Stogie1020 | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 12:34PM EST | |
Good luck on the recovery Bucky, and good call on driving. Maybe you could use a e-bike to get around. -Crap, bad idea... |
256. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 12:56PM EST | |
dkeage wrote:Maybe that one from Abby….something…. Think he has that model currently. |
257. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 12:57PM EST | |
Stogie1020 wrote:Good luck on the recovery Bucky, and good call on driving. Maybe you could use a e-bike to get around. -Crap, bad idea... Ouch. Am afraid he might go … door to door. |
258. Author: Abrignac | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 3:49PM EST | |
Best wishes Bucky. Wish there was something I could do to help. Keep us posted. |
259. Author: BuckyB93 | Date: Thu, 1/4/2024, 5:31PM EST | |
Thanks guys, I appreciate the best wishes, the jokes and the humor. Not looking for sympathy. When I die I could try to donate my brain to medical science but after they review it, they would probably toss it in the hazardous waste bucket and choose the Abby Normal one.
Maybe if I wore a helmet that day riding my bike this wouldn't have happened. There's nothing anybody can do fix things. I just gotta follow Dr recommendations. I've been though more difficult times and I've survived. I'm sure I'll get thorough this too.
The local/regional city bus service has a shuttle program that covers my town and the surrounding towns. Runs M-F from like 5 AM to 7 PM. You set a schedule with them, tell them where and when to pick you up, and where to drop you off. Then tell them where and when to pick you up and where to drop you off for the return trip. Door to door shuttle service. It gets me to work and back easy enough and the times I scheduled to use it and my pickup/drop off location, I'm usually the only one on the shuttle.
It's like having a personal chauffeur. I pay $205/month - not a bad deal. Price depends on distance from point to point, age (they have student and elderly discounts), and frequency of monthly use. It's rather popular for those that can't or don't drive for one reason or another like medical issues, no vehicle or single car family, college students without a vehicle, your car is in the shop for a couple weeks and need transportation to and from work or school, etc...
Again, I appreciate the best wishes and the humor. I'm not offended if I'm the butt of the jokes based on my own stupidity.
Signed, Bucky (with a little less fully functional brain matter than I had a last spring).
P.S. If those brain cells can't take a smash on the pavement and some inflammation then maybe I didn't need them anyway. Only the strong survive. |
260. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Fri, 1/5/2024, 7:35AM EST | |
Buck, The humor I was dispersing was an investment in humor, not meant to be at your expense. Think you know that, but just in case.
I’ll let my mom know she doesn’t have to relocate. (Investment). |
261. Author: MACS | Date: Mon, 3/25/2024, 7:36AM EST | |
Yeah, so my last 2 blood tests showed my eGFR at 72 and 74. Apparently for my age bracket it should be 85-ish. Normal is 90-120.
So I got that going for me. The f'n wheels are falling off this vehicle... |
262. Author: Gene363 | Date: Mon, 3/25/2024, 8:26AM EST | |
MACS wrote:Yeah, so my last 2 blood tests showed my eGFR at 72 and 74. Apparently for my age bracket it should be 85-ish. Normal is 90-120.
So I got that going for me. The f'n wheels are falling off this vehicle... What does the Doc say? Not everyone fits into test criteria nicely. |
263. Author: danmdevries | Date: Mon, 3/25/2024, 8:35AM EST | |
Gene363 wrote:What does the Doc say? Not everyone fits into test criteria nicely. That test is universal, not individual variable. It's a measure of the kidneys efficiency. |
264. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Mon, 3/25/2024, 11:34AM EST | |
I saw something last week where they put a pig kidney in a guy so not to worry. Ba de ba de dats all folks! Hope it can be corrected. |
265. Author: MACS | Date: Mon, 3/25/2024, 12:13PM EST | |
Gene363 wrote:What does the Doc say? Not everyone fits into test criteria nicely. Went to make an appointment, and she saw me right then... wanted to discuss the blood test results. She's not concerned. Says I am taking meds now and I wasn't just a short time ago. We'll just keep an eye on it. |
266. Author: danmdevries | Date: Mon, 3/25/2024, 12:33PM EST | |
70s ain't bad. Sub 50 we worry. |
267. Author: plinytheelder | Date: Fri, 3/29/2024, 3:08PM EST | |
BuckyB93 wrote:
The local/regional city bus service has a shuttle program that covers my town and the surrounding towns. Runs M-F from like 5 AM to 7 PM. You set a schedule with them, tell them where and when to pick you up, and where to drop you off. Then tell them where and when to pick you up and where to drop you off for the return trip. Door to door shuttle service. It gets me to work and back easy enough and the times I scheduled to use it and my pickup/drop off location, I'm usually the only one on the shuttle.
It's like having a personal chauffeur. I pay $205/month - not a bad deal. Price depends on distance from point to point, age (they have student and elderly discounts), and frequency of monthly use. It's rather popular for those that can't or don't drive for one reason or another like medical issues, no vehicle or single car family, college students without a vehicle, your car is in the shop for a couple weeks and need transportation to and from work or school, etc...
I had a neighbor that had a blind daughter that was registered for a shuttle bus (short bus). There was a benefit to having that neighbor. Every time it snowed, our block had been designated a "level 1" for snow removal like all the major roads. Yep, dump truck plow came down our block to give the bus access if called. We never had a hard time getting out to the major cross streets. |
268. Author: rfenst | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 8:14AM EST | |
Pain Management procedure this morning. Just local anesthesia in doctor's office. No thank you to Xanax or Valium. I don't get anxious about stuff like this after having my neck and back injected a couple hundred times over the last 30 years. In fact, I am going alone and driving myself. Radio-Frequency Ablation is the name of the procedure. In my case, it is being used to burn away four upper thoracic (T4-7) sensory nerve-roots. Basically, it's simply a needle tip placed up against the nerve root and then an electric current from wires attached to the needles. The microwave tip of the needle heats up. This, in turn, burns away the nerve root. The procedure has multiple other uses. But, the cool thing is that the doctor uses video fluoroscopy: x-ray video streaming in real time like a movie. I actually like watching the needle as it approaches my spine. Lasts 18-36 months. Had it several years ago and it worked well. I have had two sets of trial injections of local anesthesia to the nerve roots and both were highly successful. |
269. Author: MACS | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 8:17AM EST | |
Hope it goes well, Robert. |
270. Author: ZRX1200 | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 9:34AM EST | |
Good luck Robert. |
271. Author: jeebling | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 10:05AM EST | |
Went to have an ablation procedure on my esophagus this morning. The doctor told me he can’t do the ablation because they want more biopsies. The last biopsies are looking a little sketchy and Ive had cancerous polyps removed in the past. So now they’re trying to figure out if they want to do surgery or if the ablation procedure will be ok. I’m sick of getting that camera stuck down my neck. |
272. Author: Ram27 | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 10:16AM EST | |
jeebling wrote:Went to have an ablation procedure on my esophagus this morning. The doctor told me he can’t do the ablation because they want more biopsies. The last biopsies are looking a little sketchy and Ive had cancerous polyps removed in the past. So now they’re trying to figure out if they want to do surgery or if the ablation procedure will be ok. I’m sick of getting that camera stuck down my neck. Wishing you & Robert good vibes. |
273. Author: Ram27 | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 10:28AM EST | |
An unrelated post, my Prostate doctor has me on 2 medications following bout with Prostate cancer. Started with Orgovyx meds 60 tabets,30 days: You paid $0 Plan paid $2,586.70. Last visit started me on Xtandi 60 tablets,30 days. You paid $0 Plan paid $13,820.16. Dang grateful for my insurance plan. |
274. Author: DrMaddVibe | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 11:25AM EST | |
Be well fellas! |
275. Author: Gene363 | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 12:53PM EST | |
Ram27 wrote:An unrelated post, my Prostate doctor has me on 2 medications following bout with Prostate cancer. Started with Orgovyx meds 60 tabets,30 days: You paid $0 Plan paid $2,586.70. Last visit started me on Xtandi 60 tablets,30 days. You paid $0 Plan paid $13,820.16. Dang grateful for my insurance plan. I hope you get an excellent result. |
276. Author: MACS | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 1:28PM EST | |
Yeah, hope it all works out for you, Ram... but the pharma companies have absolutely NO f'n bidness charging what they do for pills that cost them pennies to make. All the R&D is done at this point... it's absolutely absurd. |
277. Author: Ram27 | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 2:18PM EST | |
Been years and so far everything is good . Thanks guys . |
278. Author: rfenst | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 2:24PM EST | |
Easy-peasy.
THANKS FOR THE WELL WISHES! |
279. Author: jeebling | Date: Tue, 4/16/2024, 2:46PM EST | |
Ram27 wrote:Wishing you & Robert good vibes.
Thanks, Ram. You as well. The prices they charge when insurance is mandatory is ridiculous. I thought the idea was to bring down healthcare costs. It’s all a machine and we are the hamsters on the wheel. |
280. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Wed, 4/17/2024, 11:04AM EST | |
Lots going on with the Brothers. Prayers abound.
Shawn, Pharma companies will tell you another reason for those ridiculous prices is for R&D on new drugs on the horizon.
There are many kernels of truth on that cob. I’d like to see much more transparency on what salaries, stock, and other benefits they get on the top 10% of these companies payroll.
Not that it would matter. Excess Greed and all time lows in Shame play the big roles in the current situation.
I know a few people who are cutting pills in half and not taking medications at all due to the cost. I get it. |
281. Author: rfenst | Date: Wed, 4/17/2024, 3:04PM EST | |
Procedure recovery going really well. Only one anti-inflammatory and one muscle relaxant, with a couple puffs of weed yesterday and I was out of pain the rest of the day. NO pain today. GOOD INDICATOR of likely success!!! |
282. Author: Ram27 | Date: Wed, 4/17/2024, 3:56PM EST | |
Great news Robert . 👍 |
283. Author: BuckyB93 | Date: Wed, 4/17/2024, 4:08PM EST | |
Positive news. |