Whats rustling your jimmies?

Xequecal_sl said:

How it's apparently OK for people who have children to treat people who don't like they're children themselves. That, and the implication that the people without kids should always be willing to jump to help out the people who do. I had this basic conversation with three different co-workers:

"I noticed that (manager) let you have a week off at the end of the month, how did you get away with that? We've already got a bunch of people scheduled off that put in way ahead of you. It's going to be a nightmare for everyone still here."

"I got a jury duty notice for April 30, I don't know how many days they're going to need me but I'm obviously going to need those days off. The week is tentative, sometimes it takes that long."

"But you get off at 6:30 in the morning! (I work nights) You can easily make it down there in time."

"So, you want me to work basically 16-hour shifts with two commutes, thus guaranteeing I get 4, 5 hours of sleep maximum in addition to not being able to do anything else."

"Oh, don't be such a baby. When you have kids, 16 hours of work on 4-5 hours sleep is something you deal with every day. You should learn to deal with it now."

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I have a kid and I never complain about stupid shit like lack of sleep. A) I've played video games into the early hours my entire life anyway, and B) I knew what I was getting into when I signed up for this. It's not like I didn't have 9 months of warning before the cause of my lack of sleep appeared.

$4.51 per gallon of gas. $74 to fill my car (not truck) and then sit in traffic for 3 hours on a 1 hour journey.

Burren_sl said:

$4.51 per gallon of gas. $74 to fill my car (not truck) and then sit in traffic for 3 hours on a 1 hour journey.

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We pay $2.22 pr liter. A gallon is 3.7854'ish liters. That's $8.40 a gallon here. I'll take your $4.51 and be glad. Oh, I'll trade you 50% income tax too. Have you thought about getting a car with astart-stop system, if you're stuck in heavy traffic? Might save you a little.

My car does have the stop-start function and it probably does save me $1 per tank. Taxes usually end up being around 35-40% - with a good accountant =D - but you're right; grand scheme of things, our gas is less costly than just about all of Europe's.

Doctors who miss OBVIOUS signs of one problem and give you a diagnosis of something life alterning.

If you remember from this thread about a month ago I was diagnosed as having major brain damage, multiple sclerosis, and the Dr. told me I would never be any better than I was that day. That day involved having someone else drive me to the Dr., getting a wheelchair to get in, the inability to even pick up an empty coke can with my left arm, the inability to tell hot/cold one one side of my body, and several other smaller issues.

Fast forward a month to my 3rd opinion after a stroke and the brain damage/MS one.

I have

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rare in adults but it took the Dr. 3 minutes to diagnose it. After he saw I could walk, had strenght all over and almost all symptons gone in one month he asked if there was anything else. I showed him the shingles rash I have on my arm. He said instantly "I'm 99.9% sure you don't have MS". We looked at my MRI (which I had not done due to not wanting to frankly look at my brain with "massive damage". I stood behind the curtain as he looked and said you should come around here and look. Massive my ass. I had 3 lesions smaller than a pencil eraser. He said instantly this is not MS because they are all the same age. He said MS starts with lots of lesions and you get new ones of varying age all the time. He plans to do another next week (this one is a month old) and he said most likely in that time they will be so reduced you can't see them and they will disappear eventually.

Basically the shingle virus got in my brain causing it to swell which caused the dizziness, the lesions caused the other problems.He said because I had such a quick turnaround he expects in a few weeks to a few months I will return to NORMAL and have no lesions or symptons when the shingles go away. Worst case scenario is nothing gets worse but nothing improves. The only symptons I currently have are funny feeling in my right hand even tho I can feel everything including hot and cold and sometimes I wobble a bit if I stand still for a long time. Big difference in that and MS.

I know TL;DRbut I'm pretty freaking happy today. Bought a lottery ticket and smoked my best cigar today.

So Jimmies rustly in that none of the following could even ID my shingles as shingles let alone get the connection.

Med clinic
ER
Neurologist #1
Internist
Neurologist #2

I understand why your jimmies were rustled, but, honestly, that's definitely a tickled pickle story. I can't even imagine how tickled your pickle must be.

McCheese_sl said:

I understand why your jimmies were rustled, but, honestly, that's definitely a tickled pickle story. I can't even imagine how tickled your pickle must be.

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I'm torn between really happy and wanting to get 100% strength back in my left leg so I can go shove my foot up the Dr.s ass who came in and gave me a 2 minute conversation of "Congrats, you have major brain damage, it's MS, and you will never be better than today" That literally was the entire conversation, never even mentioned what MS was or what you can do about it. Just walked on out. He scheduled a spinal tap at 6am the next day and then he didn't show up for it

Jimmies are also rustled becuase at one point I told my mom the only thing I had that didn't come and go sympton wise was the shingles and I looked it up. Severe shingles can give you many of the early MS like symptons and I didn't get anybody to bite on it.

"Dear Xequecal: Please refrain from using obscure acronyms like "Fe3+ test" to label your iron slides. This is causing a lot of confusion. Regards, Specialties"

That means he really has lupus, better get a 4th opinion!

Fogel_sl said:

That means he really has lupus, better get a 4th opinion!

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It's never lupus. Except for that one episode where it was lupus.

Deathwing_sl said:

Borzak is an episode of House.

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Feel like it. I called the office of the Dr. what flatly said I will never walk again and that it would never be any better than that day and it was BAD that day. I can walk now, almost zero symptons left and am working full time while driving 1-1/2 hours to work each way.

The nurse said "I'm sorry but you must be mistaken". I said if you don't believe me tell the Dr. I'll stop by in person on my way home and he can watch my non wheelchair bound ass kick the shit out of him.

She said "no reason to be rude or upset" "I'm sure you either mistunderstood him or your current Dr.". Which apparently means not only am I an idiot but the family member who was in the room both times misunderstoof as well. I feel sorry for his permanent MS patients.

The thing about doctors is that there are plenty of idiots among them. I think it's easy to fall into the habit of assuming that just because someone is a doctor, they know what they're talking about. It's really no different than any other field; you'll get electricians that suck, plumbers that can't repair shit (lolpun), and teachers who suck at teaching, for example. Studying and working in a field is never a guarantee of actual knowledge, ability, or competence, sadly. Doctors are no exception.

Same thing with lawyers. They can be seen as a highly academic and heady profession but in reality there are tons of people hanging a shingle who are abject morons that just had the determination to get through law school and pass the bar.