Owner is known. Last I heard, she couldn't produce current vaccination records. We'll see what she can find tomorrow. Her vet should have records.

By Stephen Stewart (Stevestewart) on Friday, December 14, 2018 - 07:55 am: Edit

Best wishes for a quick recovery.

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Friday, December 14, 2018 - 12:12 pm: Edit

Hope all is well, the stress from these sort of things can be worse than the pain. (The things we go through for our pets...)

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Friday, December 14, 2018 - 04:56 pm: Edit

Sorry to hear this happened.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, December 14, 2018 - 07:07 pm: Edit

Jean is still shaken, but will survive.

She went to the doctor for antibiotics.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Friday, December 14, 2018 - 09:34 pm: Edit

I wondered why my leg hurt so much. One bruise is the size of my whole hand; the other, twice that.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 01:30 am: Edit

Ouch!

Wishing you a speedy recovery!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 07:19 am: Edit

Better take photos, but not for posting, for small claims court.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 09:12 am: Edit

Photos being taken daily. They are too icky to post.

By Michael Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 01:01 am: Edit

I wish I had the pictures the ER took years ago when I was run over by a Camry. There was a TIRE TRACK across my chest.

Which, I assume, is why everyone was so very, very, excited when they ran out of Dukes BBQ (I was run over right out front). I remember being very calm (since I have no memory of the accident itself & had a concussion) and graciously declining help, while just laying there in the street, to sit up or have something put under my head...

My favorite memories of the whole thing are:

1) EMS gets there and the first thing the paramedic says after looking at me is "Dispatch, start me a second truck on this." Which gets me wondering if maybe I'm worse off than I feel.

2) When the backup truck gets there, and they are "packaging" me (I INSISTED on "the scoop"), that same paramedic says "So, what hospital do you want to go to?" I says "Dunno, I've never been to the hospital here in Charleston. What do YOU think?" And he gives me the beady eye & says "You want to go to the Trauma center. Definitely. Definitely the Trauma center."

That was the last time I got to make a decision for a week.

3) I'm laying on the ER table in the "crash room" and the ortho is looking at my Xrays and making "tsk" noises. So I say something like "my mom broke her femur a year ago and she got to go home in 2 days." He looks me dead in the eye and says "you aren't going anywhere for at least 5 days to a week. Then we'll talk about it."

4) So, later, I am in ICU and I'm thinking "man, this is going to be expensive and I have no insurance" (since I just got back from Afghanistan). So, I check out a couple websites and apply for a job using my phone (remember, concussion). I get a call the very next day. They want me to go to Kuwait to fix a thing at a giant munitions depot. They can buy tickets leaving Charleston tomorrow if I'm good with that. I say something like "Well, I need a month to turn off my house, and put stuff into storage, etc." While mentally saying "get this IV of morphine taken out, weaned off the Oxycontin, learn to fake being uninjured..."

I absolutely SMOKED the drug test. But I had my prescriptions in hand, so they gave me a bye. I had something like 12 times the cutoff level of morphine metabolites in my blood. I bet the darn lab tech said something like "WHOA, ding ding a new record!"

It's a lot funnier now that I am better.

By Jason E. Schaff (Jschaff297061) on Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 08:59 am: Edit

Micheal:

Having worked in drug testing, I will GUARANTEE that prescription meds, even at pretty high doses, didn't get you in that lab's record book. :-) Record book is when you go, "How the (bleep!) is this person still breathing!?"

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 04:41 pm: Edit

I had a similar discussion, only in reverse. Nurse is on the phone to the pain center saying something like, "He's had 60 units of morphine and he's not even tired. What do we do now?"

By Jeffrey George Anderson (Jeff) on Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 06:34 pm: Edit

Mike, I hope you recovered 100%, and Jean, I hope you can take heart IN Mike recovering 100%

By Norman Dizon (Normandizon) on Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 10:38 pm: Edit

There is Nothing More Fearsome than a Mama Bear defending her Cubs.

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Monday, December 17, 2018 - 05:02 pm: Edit

So am I the only one that counted how many days until the next full moon?

By Eddie Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Monday, December 17, 2018 - 07:11 pm: Edit

Are you saying we need to get the silver bullets out, will they protect us from the flying fry pan from nowhere.

By Mark Hutton (Trynda1701) on Monday, December 17, 2018 - 07:18 pm: Edit

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Jean.

By Jeffrey George Anderson (Jeff) on Monday, December 17, 2018 - 08:28 pm: Edit

Eddie, I hate to brek it to you, but that's no frying pan. I think it's a Federation CA (or variant thereof; I'll need to check the TacIntel) that's dropped its Warp engines...

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Monday, December 17, 2018 - 10:48 pm: Edit

Federation DD. Mistaking it for a frying pan is completely understandable. ;)

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 09:27 am: Edit

You should all buy me sterling silver and send it to me. Enough of it so we can be sure.

By Michael Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 09:41 am: Edit

Yeah. I've been told that taking ONE oxycontin will get you high. I was taking 4 every 2hours without ANY BUZZ.

And gosh help you, once you have to make that first rock hard poop.

On another note, my grandfather, when he was terminal was taking some special concoction (Brompton's Cocktail) and he actually got THREE home visits by the DEA in 2 weeks just to make sure he was actually taking it.

By Jeffrey George Anderson (Jeff) on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 03:37 pm: Edit

Mike, what happens is that the oxycontin (or oxycodone) works by blocking peripheral nerve signals. Now, for its beneficial effect, these are the nerves that send "Pain" signals to the brain. HOWEVER, with the problem you pointed out, it also blocks the nerve signals to the smooth muscles that push stuff through the intestines (our brains do that without our needing to think about it). End result is that the... #2... Spends so long in the large intestine, which serves the biological purpose of pulling moisture out of our digested materials, that the #2 becomes hyperdessicated...

... and feeling like it takes the Mohs scale to eleven...


Jean, that sounds like a positively Sterling idea...

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 04:26 pm: Edit

They put me on a Methadone-based cocktail for a while last year. I told one doctor I had decided not to take it anymore, and he became quite agitated about the danger of withdrawal issues from just quitting.

"How many hours since your last dose?"

"Sometime last week, why?"

By A. David Merritt (Adm) on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 05:48 pm: Edit

People have massive variations as to how they respond to pain meds. I was at the Dr being given meds for an injury, and he said he was going to prescribe Percocet, I stated that Percocets did nothing for me , (At this point, he's looking at me like, "••••, you got me, I had no idea you were looking for pain meds.") and I asked for Vicodin instead. He blinks, realizes that I am asking for less effective pain killers, and looks very confused.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Friday, December 21, 2018 - 03:25 pm: Edit

I have been switched a different antibiotic. Apparently there are numerous small pockets of infection.

If I become a weredog, I'll probably be an overweight Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I'll only be able to get close because I'll be so cute and non-threatening.