[Tsundoku]

Mum is going in for hip replacement surgery tomorrow. She held off telling me about until it was too late for me to get leave to be there with her. "Didn't want to be a burden" or some crap. Doesn't want me visiting her in hospital during the first week of convalescence either because she's afraid she'll be whacked out of her brain on painkillers and "doesn't want me to see her like that".

Luckily after being discharged she is staying for the next few weeks with her sister who lives virtually around the corner from the hospital.

I know this sort of shit is routine these days, and by all accounts the hospital and her doctor are well-regarded, but she's 72 and she's my Mum and I'm worried.

Also, work is being a complete turd these days.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 19 April 2015 - 08:38 AM

[Andorion]

Sombra, on 19 April 2015 - 08:37 AM, said:

Mum is going in for hip replacement surgery tomorrow. She held off telling me about until it was too late for me to get leave to be there with her. "Didn't want to be a burden" or some crap. Doesn't want me visiting her in hospital during the first week of convalescence either because she's afraid she'll be whacked out of her brain on painkillers and "doesn't want me to see her like that".

Luckily after being discharged she is staying for the next few weeks with her sister who lives virtually around the corner from the hospital.

I know this sort of shit is routine these days, and by all accounts the hospital and her doctor are well-regarded, but she's 72 and she's my Mum and I'm worried.

Also, work is being a complete turd these days.

My grandmother got a knee replacement, and yes, these days the surgery is pretty routine. But the key to a succesful recovery we found was post-operative care that is physiotherapy and exercise.

[worry]

I wonder if that "didn't want to be a burden" thing is a virus you automatically become susceptible to at age 50.

[QuickTidal]

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet.

Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.

Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!

Jeebus hell

[Tsundoku]

worry, on 19 April 2015 - 07:52 PM, said:

I wonder if that "didn't want to be a burden" thing is a virus you automatically become susceptible to at age 50.

Dunno, not sure how widespread it is. Would make a hell of a twist on a zombie flick for sure. George A Romero's 'Day of the Geriatrics'.

QuickTidal, on 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet. Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!Jeebus hell

Ever heard of the Brown Snake? Eastern or King? Either are nasty bastards. A bunch of Eastern Browns have been caught all over my workplace recently. A bunch of babies from a recent clutch apparently. They're not so cute when you find out that the toxin of the baby snake is nastier than the adult due to their inability yet to control the dosage. Brrrrrrr!

[QuickTidal]

Sombra, on 20 April 2015 - 12:38 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet. Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!Jeebus hell

Ever heard of the Brown Snake? Eastern or King? Either are nasty bastards. A bunch of Eastern Browns have been caught all over my workplace recently. A bunch of babies from a recent clutch apparently. They're not so cute when you find out that the toxin of the baby snake is nastier than the adult due to their inability yet to control the dosage. Brrrrrrr!

Oh great. Thanks Sombra, I was already fearing one snake...LOL. Now I gotta fear more.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 20 April 2015 - 01:34 PM

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 20 April 2015 - 01:34 PM, said:

Sombra, on 20 April 2015 - 12:38 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet. Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!Jeebus hell

Ever heard of the Brown Snake? Eastern or King? Either are nasty bastards. A bunch of Eastern Browns have been caught all over my workplace recently. A bunch of babies from a recent clutch apparently. They're not so cute when you find out that the toxin of the baby snake is nastier than the adult due to their inability yet to control the dosage. Brrrrrrr!

Oh great. Thanks Sombra, I was already fearing one snake...LOL. Now I gotta fear more.

do NOT go to Australia.
Ever.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 20 April 2015 - 02:13 PM, said:

do NOT go to Australia.
Ever.

I'm trying to sort out why anyone would CHOOSE t live there. My cousins and my uncle all do, and I ask them why they would choose a place that actively tries to injure and/or kill you...even with PLANTLIFE!

[Maark Abbott]

QuickTidal, on 20 April 2015 - 02:49 PM, said:

Abyss, on 20 April 2015 - 02:13 PM, said:

do NOT go to Australia.
Ever.

I'm trying to sort out why anyone would CHOOSE t live there. My cousins and my uncle all do, and I ask them why they would choose a place that actively tries to injure and/or kill you...even with PLANTLIFE!

Fun fact: Bulletstorm is actually set in a realistic version of Australia.

[Grief]

Getting absolutely battered by deadlines. I've got one tomorrow, then one on Thursday that I can't even think about working on just yet, except for it to contribute to my stress because I know I'm going to struggle with it. And if I screw up and miss it, it bites into time I need for another deadline shortly after that. The worst part is that I could've mitigated it somewhat if I'd just got my act together more in advance but I screwed that up. I constantly underestimate how long work will take me. Every time something like this happens I tell myself I'll do better next time but I just seem to be getting worse for it.

[Nicodimas]

QuickTidal, on 19 April 2015 - 09:10 PM, said:

Reading a non-fic book about a guy trying to find the lost white city in the Honduran jungle...and they described the worst pit viper on the planet.

Something called a fer-de-lance ...and fuck that snake. No seriously, whatever hell it is that wasps and brown recluse spiders are in...the goddamned fer-de-lance can go there too.

Something about stopping your blood from clotting and you bleed out through your goddamned pores!

Jeebus hell

Had..to go look at pics..

/gross

[worry]

You should read about the boomslang: http://blogs.scienti...-until-you-die/

[Jakovasaurus]

Well, on the plus side it was a clothed executive producer. Just imagine if it was one of the naked participants and imagine if that participant got bit on his dinky!

[Gnaw]

Grief, on 20 April 2015 - 06:30 PM, said:

Getting absolutely battered by deadlines. I've got one tomorrow, then one on Thursday that I can't even think about working on just yet, except for it to contribute to my stress because I know I'm going to struggle with it. And if I screw up and miss it, it bites into time I need for another deadline shortly after that. The worst part is that I could've mitigated it somewhat if I'd just got my act together more in advance but I screwed that up. I constantly underestimate how long work will take me. Every time something like this happens I tell myself I'll do better next time but I just seem to be getting worse for it.

Spoiler

[Grief]

Yeah, I've more or less done the thing I needed to do for tomorrow. Hopefully it's up to scratch.

Then I'll have tomorrow afternoon and the day after to research and write a paper, when all I'll want to do is take a break. And the paper is going to be really hard to get anything going with...

[Gnaw]

Grief, on 21 April 2015 - 02:44 AM, said:

Yeah, I've more or less done the thing I needed to do for tomorrow. Hopefully it's up to scratch.

Then I'll have tomorrow afternoon and the day after to research and write a paper, when all I'll want to do is take a break. And the paper is going to be really hard to get anything going with...

I am a world-class procrastinator. One of the best papers I ever wrote I started typing 45 minutes before it was due. I wrote myself into a corner on page 5 (I'm a fast typist) when my use of Hannah Arendt's theories presented in "On Violence" resulted in the conclusion that Arafat wasn't in control of the 2nd Intifada. Which was ridiculous because he was on TV every day telling the world that he was. I got a B on it with the comment "...but, but, you stopped".

I started paying a whole lot more attention to my reading of Arendt a few weeks later when the Mitchell report implied that Arafat was the tail the dog was wagging.

[HiddenOne]

I'm composing a letter/response to an insurance company that could either save some jobs (maybe even mine) or have no effect. We've run afoul of an administrator that may be trying to lay the shaft to us all. Hints of accusations of dishonesty, that type of thing. It's all because I caught them trying to cheat us out of $500 and protested. Bah.

[Loki]

Nice, friendly strangers who want to talk to me whilst I am at the park with my son.

Sure, I'm polite and I smile and make small talk but really I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU!

There's just no polite why to say 'I don't want to talk to you' when you have no excuse other than the fact that you're just not a social person.

On a scale of 1 to 10 this only rates a 2 but I wanted to contribute to the woe thread.

[Dadding]

Loki, on 22 April 2015 - 02:01 AM, said:

Nice, friendly strangers who want to talk to me whilst I am at the park with my son.

Sure, I'm polite and I smile and make small talk but really I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU!

There's just no polite why to say 'I don't want to talk to you' when you have no excuse other than the fact that you're just not a social person.

On a scale of 1 to 10 this only rates a 2 but I wanted to contribute to the woe thread.

One of my roommate's friends was staying at our place a while ago, and I was in the middle of a skype call with some friends, playing some video games, as you do. This guy comes into my room to ask me a question or something, so I say BRB to my friends, take off my headphones - skype is still up on the screen so it's clearly visible, and this guy just keeps on talking to me. It went on for about 15 minutes before I could politely extricate myself from the situation.

I know that feel. It sucks.

[Morgoth]

Why not just say you're having a conversation on Skype?