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| Feb 14th, 2009 01:51 AM | ||
| Big McLargehuge | The robot that irradiated me is the most advanced medical robot, IN THE WORLD. It was out patient and only lasted a week. I love the things science does for us. | |
| Feb 12th, 2009 04:48 PM | ||
| Kitsa | I think they're getting way better with dosing these days, but it still plays hell with your body. | |
| Feb 12th, 2009 04:22 PM | ||
| Dixie |
I didn't really have such issues with radiation. It made me sick, but I was high as a kite all the time so I didn't notice much. I remember throwing up at my desk alot though. |
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| Feb 12th, 2009 03:58 PM | ||
| Kitsa | I couldn't taste anything for a long time. I lost all the hair from my ear-level downward. Got pretty bad burns. That was 30 yrs ago...it gets funner with time! :D Wait till you start getting the muscle spasms. | |
| Feb 12th, 2009 03:52 PM | ||
| Big McLargehuge |
my radiation wasn't that bad. food tasted weird, i lost a few patches of hair and now i feel like puking every time i smell acrylic paints. also i peed the bed  it was a weird time.
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| Feb 12th, 2009 01:58 PM | ||
| kahljorn | Maybe. | |
| Feb 12th, 2009 01:50 PM | ||
| Kitsa | Radiation sucks but not as much as dying. | |
| Feb 12th, 2009 04:45 AM | ||
| kahljorn |
jesus man. I think if i ever had something like that id be too big of a coward to go through any of the therapies ;\ It seems painful ;\ was that robot as painful as radiation therapy usually is? I've heard that it burns all of your mucous membranes :O hmm well i was drunk when i did it so it didn't really hurt very much or i dont remember clearly. I think it was stinging like a WHAT IS THAT STRANGE WIND type of way. i did sever a bunch of muscles though. The thing that hurt the worst was when they started stapling it together. another time when i ODed I was almost deaf for like five days that was crazy ;o MUSCLES LOOK LIKE POPPLERS |
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| Feb 12th, 2009 04:35 AM | ||
| Big McLargehuge | also how bad did it hurt? i don't imagine there are many nerve endings in the wrists. | |
| Feb 12th, 2009 04:34 AM | ||
| Big McLargehuge | i was also dosed with radiation by this robot. | |
| Feb 12th, 2009 02:23 AM | ||
| kahljorn |
Goodness ;o the craziest health related thing that ever happened to me was when my wrists somehow got cut open and i bled everywhere and threw up a bunch and I could see what the inside of my wrists looked like. |
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| Feb 11th, 2009 10:52 PM | ||
| Big McLargehuge | i had this surgery :o | |
| Feb 10th, 2009 11:34 AM | ||
| Jeanette X |
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| Feb 10th, 2009 10:31 AM | ||
| darkvare |
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| Feb 10th, 2009 08:11 AM | ||
| Kitsa |
For whatever reason I didn't get lidocaine. But then again, I didn't necessarily get along well with that coworker. When the nurses didn't like someone, they would all fight over who got to give the coldest, thickest tetanus shot from the very back of the fridge. At least I got a room-temperature tetanus shot, so at least the nurses liked me. And I may enjoy my alcohol, but I never thought in a million years I'd crash in a liquor store alley (the liquor store is that blue building at the top of the hill in the first pic). Even though I wasn't drunk. |
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| Feb 10th, 2009 04:25 AM | ||
| Dixie | I DEMAND MORE!!! | |
| Feb 9th, 2009 11:32 PM | ||
| Jeanette X |
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 Why no anesthesia? |
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| Feb 9th, 2009 10:36 PM | ||
| darkvare |
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i once feel on stones like thosse except the thing was my elbow broke and i had to get surgery with 4 nails to keep the bones in place, they took them of without anesthesia |
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| Feb 9th, 2009 10:27 PM | ||
| Jeanette X |
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Did it have to wet when you did it? I guess can see not giving anything if absolutely had to be wet to soften up the tissue... |
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| Feb 9th, 2009 09:34 PM | ||
| Kitsa |
It hurt like hell, no anesthesia, I just got in the shower stall, took a deep breath and scrubbed for all I was worth. As I said, almost puked a couple of times. But then again, I literally had chunks of broken glass hanging out of my knee, and who knows what was on or in that bottle before I landed on it. The sensation of scrubbing was similar to horrible rugburn, but it was many hundreds of times worse than that. |
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| Feb 9th, 2009 09:02 PM | ||
| Fathom Zero | I am not looking at that. Sometimes, you just have to take someone's word for it. | |
| Feb 9th, 2009 08:12 PM | ||
| Tadao | OW OW OW OW OW! | |
| Feb 9th, 2009 08:08 PM | ||
| Jeanette X |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_bridge http://www.circumstitions.com/Restric/Botched1sb.html REALLY, REALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK. So anyway Kitsa, how much did the debriding hurt? Did they give you any topical anesthetic to help with the pain, or did they order you to just scrub it raw? |
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| Feb 8th, 2009 10:53 PM | ||
| Fathom Zero | Debriding is not fun, yeh. May as well give me a belt sander, get it through quick. | |
| Feb 8th, 2009 09:56 PM | ||
| Kitsa |
Couple of years ago I had a nasty fall. I was taking a shortcut home from work and cutting across a waste area between a liquor store and a grocery store. Unfortunately for me, the waste area was a hill, lined with limestone boulders, ending in the back alleyway of the grocery store.  I was doing well until I hit some birdseed that someone had spread on the rocks:  Then I went flying. Fortunately, I landed on my hands and knees. Unfortunately, my knee (and most of my weight) landed on a broken liquor bottle. I also sprained my ankle. I was closer to my job at the hospital than I was to home, and I didn't have a cellphone with me, so I literally limp-crawled all the way back to the back door of the hospital. The copy repair guy was there, he knew me, and when he saw all the blood he ran and got a wheelchair and pushed me right back to the ER where I'd just gotten off work. He got some sort of customer service award for that. It looked way worse before they cleaned me up, but here you go: Hands that hit the asphalt, after they dug the rocks out with tweezers (that was fun):  Road rash and hyperextension bruises from the sprained ankle (this was before it swelled up like an inflatable pool toy):  ...and my gloriously carved-up knee, sans the chunks of grit and shards of glass that were hanging out of it.  Anyway, my point is that when you have something that's a big bacteria-compromise situation, they want you to keep up the Manual Debriding even after the hospital fun is over. I got sent home with a scrub brush...actual plastic bristles...and was expected to scrub the mawfugger with superstrong antibacterial soap a couple of times a day. There is some sort of fundamental self-preservation override you have to achieve to stick a frigging scrub brush in an open wound and scrub "as hard as you can" , per the attending's orders. I nearly puked a couple of times. |
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