The Glass In My Foot

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Tue May 24, 2016 11:43 am

howard wrote:The two charges, I'm not sure, could be one for surgery, one for recovery room. Or, if you got something fancy for pain control, like an epidural that would be a separate charge.

Could it be one charge for the anesthesiologist and one for the drugs? Or does it not work like that?

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue May 24, 2016 12:04 pm

Steve of phpBB wrote:Could it be one charge for the anesthesiologist and one for the drugs? Or does it not work like that?

I suppose. I don't do bullshit like that (of course), but it has been several years since I worked in a surgicenter or hospital, and such shenanigans are possible, even likely. World has changed.

In a couple of days, they are (very likely) going to close a big hospital in Manhattan, Beth Israel. The third of four hospitals south of 17th Street to shutter in about ten years. This one lost ~$90 million each of the last two years, after ~$20 million annual loss before that (coincided with a merger/hostile takeover by Mount Sinai, so in part there is likely shady accounting.

The point is, this takeover, strip of assets, play accounting games, shut down, dump debt, sell the real estate is the typical game plan of the vulture private equity games from private industry (best practiced by the last GOP presidential nominee), brought to essential health and medical care for a huge chunk of the wealthiest city in America. Of course, the medical school attached to Mount Sinai is vanity branded the "Icann School of Medicine." Also the Icann school of destroying a vital hospital that has served the community for over 100 years, because Free Markets!

And the point is, such money grabbing bullshit is now at the top, and at the bottom (J-Lo's hospital bill) and everywhere in between of this industry. Just like any other industry. Except for the life and death, pain and suffering part.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue May 24, 2016 12:47 pm

howard wrote:
Steve of phpBB wrote:Could it be one charge for the anesthesiologist and one for the drugs? Or does it not work like that?
I suppose. I don't do bullshit like that (of course), but it has been several years since I worked in a surgicenter or hospital, and such shenanigans are possible, even likely. World has changed.

In a couple of days, they are (very likely) going to close a big hospital in Manhattan, Beth Israel. The third of four hospitals south of 17th Street to shutter in about ten years. This one lost ~$90 million each of the last two years, after ~$20 million annual loss before that (coincided with a merger/hostile takeover by Mount Sinai, so in part there is likely shady accounting.

The point is, this takeover, strip of assets, play accounting games, shut down, dump debt, sell the real estate is the typical game plan of the vulture private equity games from private industry (best practiced by the last GOP presidential nominee), brought to essential health and medical care for a huge chunk of the wealthiest city in America. Of course, the medical school attached to Mount Sinai is vanity branded the "Icann School of Medicine." Also the Icann school of destroying a vital hospital that has served the community for over 100 years, because Free Markets!

And the point is, such money grabbing bullshit is now at the top, and at the bottom (J-Lo's hospital bill) and everywhere in between of this industry. Just like any other industry. Except for the life and death, pain and suffering part.

THANKS OBAMA

FIFY.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue May 24, 2016 2:02 pm

howard wrote:
Steve of phpBB wrote:Could it be one charge for the anesthesiologist and one for the drugs? Or does it not work like that?
I suppose. I don't do bullshit like that (of course), but it has been several years since I worked in a surgicenter or hospital, and such shenanigans are possible, even likely. World has changed.

In a couple of days, they are (very likely) going to close a big hospital in Manhattan, Beth Israel. The third of four hospitals south of 17th Street to shutter in about ten years. This one lost ~$90 million each of the last two years, after ~$20 million annual loss before that (coincided with a merger/hostile takeover by Mount Sinai, so in part there is likely shady accounting.

The point is, this takeover, strip of assets, play accounting games, shut down, dump debt, sell the real estate is the typical game plan of the vulture private equity games from private industry (best practiced by the last GOP presidential nominee), brought to essential health and medical care for a huge chunk of the wealthiest city in America. Of course, the medical school attached to Mount Sinai is vanity branded the "Icann School of Medicine." Also the Icann school of destroying a vital hospital that has served the community for over 100 years, because Free Markets!

And the point is, such money grabbing bullshit is now at the top, and at the bottom (J-Lo's hospital bill) and everywhere in between of this industry. Just like any other industry. Except for the life and death, pain and suffering part.

That's OK, you can always get rushed to another hospital 3 or 4 miles away. Should just add a minute or two to the ambulance ride.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue May 24, 2016 2:21 pm

Yeah, Bellevue ER traffic increased about 20% after St. Vincents closed. This will make it an even tougher place to work.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed May 25, 2016 8:26 am

Oh man, I didn't swallow a multi-vitamin correctly this morning and now I feel like it's just sort of sitting somewhere in the middle of my chest. So annoying!

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed May 25, 2016 9:39 am

Did you try swallowing some more stuff?

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed May 25, 2016 9:47 am

More? I'll try anything at this point. Thanks!

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 8:47 am

rass wrote:Good Lord, not again! I wore socks all morning, too!

Again!!!

Had to take off my shoe and sock in the middle of soccer tournament.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 9:06 am

What the fuck is wrong with your cleaning skills?

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 10:15 am

Stop being barefoot all the time.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 3:07 pm

I mean, at some point you're growing the moherfucker.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Jul 10, 2016 2:28 pm

A_B wrote:I mean, at some point you're growing the moherfucker.

I'm glad I took a picture last time, because yesterday was in my heel.

And I'm blaming my dog.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sun Jul 10, 2016 8:19 pm

rass wrote:
A_B wrote:I mean, at some point you're growing the moherfucker.
I'm glad I took a picture last time, because yesterday was in my heel.

And I'm blaming my dog.

I have hair that grows from a lot of different places. Many unwanted.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Jul 31, 2017 8:59 pm

Buy a fucking broom!

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 6:57 am

Is this a kitchen floor joke?

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 7:29 am

He said on FB last night that he stepped on another piece of glass in his bedroom.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:11 am

rass wrote:He said on FB last night that he stepped on another piece of glass in his bedroom.

Threw a stuffed animal at the TV in his bedroom?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:34 am

Two spots too! I have double the chance of a shard of glass getting stuck in there.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:41 am

Johnnie wrote:Stop being barefoot all the time.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:52 am

How do you keep breaking glass in your bedroom?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:57 am

Can we make a Fire Pro Wrestling guy with olde-tyme black and yellow pajamas on and give him Stone Cold's entrance music?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:26 am

sancarlos wrote:How do you keep breaking glass in your bedroom?

Last time someone knocked a perfume bottle off the bureau, and this time the hammering from the renovation downstairs knocked a snow globe off the bureau.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 7:05 pm

Jerloma wrote:
sancarlos wrote:How do you keep breaking glass in your bedroom?

Last time someone knocked a perfume bottle off the bureau, and this time the hammering from the renovation downstairs knocked a snow globe off the bureau.

Plus all the stuffed animals thrown through the TV.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:05 am

Kicked something this morning, then noticed my foot felt sticky later, but I had on socks and slides and just thought I stepped in water.

Thoughts and prayers if you can spare them.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sun Dec 24, 2017 8:36 pm

Unless you are posing that foot somehow, the blood is the least of your worries.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:20 pm

Yeah.... I was holding it out there odd.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:31 pm

Didn't mean to be a dick on Christmas Eve, but apparently couldn't help myself.

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:37 pm

No prob. That you had even the slightest pang of guilt over judging my bloody ugly yet completely functional foot is all I need for Christmas.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:07 pm

Had my first USTA Mixed match of the season yesterday. Up 6-1, 5-0, serving at match point, 40-30. Hit a perfect ace down the middle that landed right on the T and dude called it wide. I wasn't going to say anything obviously we were going to win anyway.

Very next serve at deuce...SNAP! Ruptured achilles. People heard it on the court over.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:09 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:07 pm Had my first USTA Mixed match of the season yesterday. Up 6-1, 5-0, serving at match point, 40-30. Hit a perfect ace down the middle that landed right on the T and dude called it wide. I wasn't going to say anything obviously we were going to win anyway.

Very next serve at deuce...SNAP! Ruptured achilles. People heard it on the court over.

Oh shit!

Sorry to hear this.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:10 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:07 pm Had my first USTA Mixed match of the season yesterday. Up 6-1, 5-0, serving at match point, 40-30. Hit a perfect ace down the middle that landed right on the T and dude called it wide. I wasn't going to say anything obviously we were going to win anyway.

Very next serve at deuce...SNAP! Ruptured achilles. People heard it on the court over.

Oh no....that sucks!

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:13 pm

ahhh!

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:14 pm

Nightmare.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:18 pm

I know I've said it here before but nothing (realistically) terrifies me more than an achilles injury. Is it as horrific as I've always assumed?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:24 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:18 pm I know I've said it here before but nothing (realistically) terrifies me more than an achilles injury. Is it as horrific as I've always assumed?

The sound is scary as fuck but the initial scathing, writhing pain only lasted about 2 minutes. Once they were able to cast it in the right position, not bad at all.

I asked the ortho this morning how he can be sure without an MRI. He said, "I'm grabbing where your Achilles is supposed to be and it's not there. It's just mush."

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:28 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:24 pm
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:18 pm I know I've said it here before but nothing (realistically) terrifies me more than an achilles injury. Is it as horrific as I've always assumed?
The sound is scary as fuck but the initial scathing, writhing pain only lasted about 2 minutes. Once they were able to cast it in the right position, not bad at all.

I asked the ortho this morning how he can be sure without an MRI. He said, "I'm grabbing where your Achilles is supposed to be and it's not there. It's just mush."

Oh god.

Remember how some folks reacted to that nasty picture of an infected foot or too a few years back? That's how badly I am cringing now. Good luck, Loma.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:35 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:24 pmThe sound is scary as fuck but the initial scathing, writhing pain only lasted about 2 minutes. Once they were able to cast it in the right position, not bad at all.

I asked the ortho this morning how he can be sure without an MRI. He said, "I'm grabbing where your Achilles is supposed to be and it's not there. It's just mush."

I hate this. For both of us.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:41 pm

You getting one of those little carts?

One of my co-workers did that a few years back. Wheeled around for a good bit of time. I always get nervous as I age and feel tightness in my Achilles. Especially after running or soccer. Recovery looks like no fun. Good luck.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:46 pm

That sucks. Sorry Jerloma.