I admit it...

[Bort]

... Once my junkie detector went off, I was kind of mean to a guy who did in fact have signs of ongoing infection around the margin of a rather large, unbandaged wound on his calf who was petitioning for doxycycline money. The fact that the tattered script was dated July 21 (there was another) didn't help. He claimed that it had just been debrided but he only received a script rather than its filling from the UC ED.

I didn't call him out or, say, escort him to the pharmacy counter (Walgreens charges a fuckton for doxycycline) to check things out, but I did drag things out to the point that I brought up EMTALA while acknowledging that, yes, the Jackson Park Hospital blows.

The mean part is that I do in fact have a stash of topical and systemic, prescription and OTC antibiotics. Oh, and I pointed out that my clothes were worse when he played "look at my" in response to "you say you're homeless?" Finally, I noted that if he let the infection progress, a hospital would have to admit him.

I decided within about 45 seconds not to return with first aid. But then I did this.

I actually understood most of this one.

Wait.  What?  Panhandlers ask for money so that they can buy doxycycline?  I never heard of doxycycline before I read that post.  Do all of your panhandlers go to Med School?

I didn't say that he pronounced it correctly. On the other hand, I was rudely treated as a drug-seeker at the so-called Jackson Park Hospital on Independence Day after fainting and fracturing the hell out of my ribs. These assholes haven't even coughed up the fucking films for my primary-care doctor, although the charge nurse, apparently irked that lying in a bay next to an elderly man crying "please help me" for several hours did not in fact remedy my discomfort, shouted out for no discernible reason to everybody else that "those were old fractures."

Thanks, pretend radiologist. Anyway, drug seekers can be sophisticated in this fashion. He was asking for 80 bucks, after all.

I was once approached on the street and was offered an opportunity to buy a brand new sweater that "just fell off the truck" for $40.  I turned him down and he asked what he could sell me for $40.  This was several years ago.  I assume that the street price has gone up.

A sweater? What size are you? I'm clearing out stuff. Brooks Brothers Shetland, navy, size 42. Name your price.

Wheezer, I hope the sweater exchange works out but why did you faint?
And are you okay now?
(fully understanding that Wheezer and "okay" may be mutually exclusive)

Seriously though, why did you faint?

Yeah...seconded. Are you...what passes for okay?

[Wheezer]

I haven't been to the dentist in 4 years.

Have you been in the last 7?

Many, many times.

Did somebody say dentist?

"His mother wanted him to be a dentist, so Perry was adopted by a quack dentist, for whom he blacked boots before running away at age twelve to join a carnival. He earned his living for a few years as a singer and tap dancer."

[PenFoe]

I have been watching and enjoying the Olympics. 

[Wheezer]

... Once my junkie detector went off, I was kind of mean to a guy who did in fact have signs of ongoing infection around the margin of a rather large, unbandaged wound on his calf who was petitioning for doxycycline money. The fact that the tattered script was dated July 21 (there was another) didn't help. He claimed that it had just been debrided but he only received a script rather than its filling from the UC ED.

I didn't call him out or, say, escort him to the pharmacy counter (Walgreens charges a fuckton for doxycycline) to check things out, but I did drag things out to the point that I brought up EMTALA while acknowledging that, yes, the Jackson Park Hospital blows.

The mean part is that I do in fact have a stash of topical and systemic, prescription and OTC antibiotics. Oh, and I pointed out that my clothes were worse when he played "look at my" in response to "you say you're homeless?" Finally, I noted that if he let the infection progress, a hospital would have to admit him.

I decided within about 45 seconds not to return with first aid. But then I did this.

I actually understood most of this one.

Wait.  What?  Panhandlers ask for money so that they can buy doxycycline?  I never heard of doxycycline before I read that post.  Do all of your panhandlers go to Med School?

I didn't say that he pronounced it correctly. On the other hand, I was rudely treated as a drug-seeker at the so-called Jackson Park Hospital on Independence Day after fainting and fracturing the hell out of my ribs. These assholes haven't even coughed up the fucking films for my primary-care doctor, although the charge nurse, apparently irked that lying in a bay next to an elderly man crying "please help me" for several hours did not in fact remedy my discomfort, shouted out for no discernible reason to everybody else that "those were old fractures."

Thanks, pretend radiologist. Anyway, drug seekers can be sophisticated in this fashion. He was asking for 80 bucks, after all.

I was once approached on the street and was offered an opportunity to buy a brand new sweater that "just fell off the truck" for $40.  I turned him down and he asked what he could sell me for $40.  This was several years ago.  I assume that the street price has gone up.

A sweater? What size are you? I'm clearing out stuff. Brooks Brothers Shetland, navy, size 42. Name your price.

Wheezer, I hope the sweater exchange works out but why did you faint?
And are you okay now?
(fully understanding that Wheezer and "okay" may be mutually exclusive)

Seriously though, why did you faint?

Yeah...seconded. Are you...what passes for okay?

I fainted because of a coughing fit. It happened in June, too, but I had a seizure after that occasion; I was still pretty conscious. This time, I was in the kitchen and the back door was open, so the neighbor heard me hit the ground. She said my eyes were open but I was unresponsive. Still can't figure out the trajectory, as I clearly hit the left side of my head and was lying on my left side, but the broken ribs were all on the right side.

Anyway, the EEG was normal and nobody called after the MRI, so the only thing wrong with my head seems to be severe depression and anxiety. The homelessness is going to be real this time.

[Canadouche]

Allow me to assure you that you don't know stress from a hole in your head.

All stress is relative. The amount of stress that I feel toward baseball is relatively trivial; I doubt I'll lose much sleep over it, if any at all. The amount of stress I feel regarding Trump's chances of winning is more significant, but it's not the greatest stressor I've experienced in my life. You seem to be implying that this level of stress, nor any other kind of stress I've felt, can compare to yours. I wouldn't compare, but I'd caution you from making that kind of statement because you don't really know me. I suspect that everyone here has experienced levels of stress that are totally devastating, based on horrific events in their lives that they hope to never relive. I know I have.

But anyway, this is the "no judgment" thread, so who cares?

I fainted because of a coughing fit. It happened in June, too, but I had a seizure after that occasion; I was still pretty conscious. This time, I was in the kitchen and the back door was open, so the neighbor heard me hit the ground. She said my eyes were open but I was unresponsive. Still can't figure out the trajectory, as I clearly hit the left side of my head and was lying on my left side, but the broken ribs were all on the right side.

Anyway, the EEG was normal and nobody called after the MRI, so the only thing wrong with my head seems to be severe depression and anxiety. The homelessness is going to be real this time.

Yeah, okay, I get it, and I'm sorry.

[Wheezer]

Allow me to assure you that you don't know stress from a hole in your head.

All stress is relative. The amount of stress that I feel toward baseball is relatively trivial; I doubt I'll lose much sleep over it, if any at all. The amount of stress I feel regarding Trump's chances of winning is more significant, but it's not the greatest stressor I've experienced in my life. You seem to be implying that this level of stress, nor any other kind of stress I've felt, can compare to yours. I wouldn't compare, but I'd caution you from making that kind of statement because you don't really know me. I suspect that everyone here has experienced levels of stress that are totally devastating, based on horrific events in their lives that they hope to never relive. I know I have.

But anyway, this is the "no judgment" thread, so who cares?

I fainted because of a coughing fit. It happened in June, too, but I had a seizure after that occasion; I was still pretty conscious. This time, I was in the kitchen and the back door was open, so the neighbor heard me hit the ground. She said my eyes were open but I was unresponsive. Still can't figure out the trajectory, as I clearly hit the left side of my head and was lying on my left side, but the broken ribs were all on the right side.

Anyway, the EEG was normal and nobody called after the MRI, so the only thing wrong with my head seems to be severe depression and anxiety. The homelessness is going to be real this time.

Yeah, okay, I get it, and I'm sorry.

Nah, you were right. I'm not trapped in Aleppo, for example.

[Canadouche]

Allow me to assure you that you don't know stress from a hole in your head.

All stress is relative. The amount of stress that I feel toward baseball is relatively trivial; I doubt I'll lose much sleep over it, if any at all. The amount of stress I feel regarding Trump's chances of winning is more significant, but it's not the greatest stressor I've experienced in my life. You seem to be implying that this level of stress, nor any other kind of stress I've felt, can compare to yours. I wouldn't compare, but I'd caution you from making that kind of statement because you don't really know me. I suspect that everyone here has experienced levels of stress that are totally devastating, based on horrific events in their lives that they hope to never relive. I know I have.

But anyway, this is the "no judgment" thread, so who cares?

I fainted because of a coughing fit. It happened in June, too, but I had a seizure after that occasion; I was still pretty conscious. This time, I was in the kitchen and the back door was open, so the neighbor heard me hit the ground. She said my eyes were open but I was unresponsive. Still can't figure out the trajectory, as I clearly hit the left side of my head and was lying on my left side, but the broken ribs were all on the right side.

Anyway, the EEG was normal and nobody called after the MRI, so the only thing wrong with my head seems to be severe depression and anxiety. The homelessness is going to be real this time.

Yeah, okay, I get it, and I'm sorry.

Nah, you were right. I'm not trapped in Aleppo, for example.

Yet. (Based on the way things are going.)

[ChuckD]

Allow me to assure you that you don't know stress from a hole in your head.

All stress is relative. The amount of stress that I feel toward baseball is relatively trivial; I doubt I'll lose much sleep over it, if any at all. The amount of stress I feel regarding Trump's chances of winning is more significant, but it's not the greatest stressor I've experienced in my life. You seem to be implying that this level of stress, nor any other kind of stress I've felt, can compare to yours. I wouldn't compare, but I'd caution you from making that kind of statement because you don't really know me. I suspect that everyone here has experienced levels of stress that are totally devastating, based on horrific events in their lives that they hope to never relive. I know I have.

But anyway, this is the "no judgment" thread, so who cares?

I fainted because of a coughing fit. It happened in June, too, but I had a seizure after that occasion; I was still pretty conscious. This time, I was in the kitchen and the back door was open, so the neighbor heard me hit the ground. She said my eyes were open but I was unresponsive. Still can't figure out the trajectory, as I clearly hit the left side of my head and was lying on my left side, but the broken ribs were all on the right side.

Anyway, the EEG was normal and nobody called after the MRI, so the only thing wrong with my head seems to be severe depression and anxiety. The homelessness is going to be real this time.

Yeah, okay, I get it, and I'm sorry.

Nah, you were right. I'm not trapped in Aleppo, for example.

Yet. (Based on the way things are going.)

[Powdered Toast Man]

...I don't watch the news much at all, so are you guys up to speed with what's happening where I live in Baton Rouge, LA?

We had a 1,000 year rain event here over the weekend. A lot of creeks, bayous and rivers overflowed their banks. There are thousands without homes to return to. There is a town to the north and east of Baton Rouge called Denham Springs where it's estimated that 90% of the homes there are complete losses. I think the number reported by local media was that 13% of the people in the parish have flood insurance. Most of the homes affected aren't even in flood zones (you are required to have flood insurance if you're in a flood zone if you obtain a mortgage...loosely stated). FEMA will qualify those people for assistance because of the magnitude of this event.

The Amite River was so swollen, it backflowed (the river was so high that it's tributaries took on reverse flow and thus overflowed their banks). Now, Baton Rouge is not New Orleans. New Orleans, in cross section, looks like a bowl and is bounded by Lake Pontchartrain and sea level in the lake is above ground level in the city.

Baton Rouge just has low lying areas here and there. But in such an extreme event (like I said, this was a 1,000 year event it's being estimated) even areas not in flood zones were inundated. Here's the Range Avenue interchange with Interstate 12 in Denham Springs (before and after):



A few more areas:

A neighborhood in Denham Springs:


Juban Road in Denham Springs:


A portion of LSU's campus (LSU is located in Baton Rouge, in the western portion of East Baton Rouge Parish...Denham Springs is about 25 minutes east of campus):


I don't need anything and my own family and neighborhood are, thankfully, high and dry. I'm not asking for money, I'm not asking for donations, I'm just asking that you guys think about the good people coming together in this area in the wake of what happened in Baton Rouge, LA recently with the shooting death of Alton Sterling and the ambush on Baton Rouge police shortly afterward.

People have immediately started gofundme pages, started collecting and donating goods, and have pooled their own resources like boats, tools, etc. to help their neighbors.

This is one of the times I'm most proud of the people around me. I just thought I'd share with you all. There are lots of Cubs fans in south Louisiana, also.

Go Cubs, go.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Way to bum everyone out, dude.

[Wheezer]

Allow me to assure you that you don't know stress from a hole in your head.

All stress is relative. The amount of stress that I feel toward baseball is relatively trivial; I doubt I'll lose much sleep over it, if any at all. The amount of stress I feel regarding Trump's chances of winning is more significant, but it's not the greatest stressor I've experienced in my life. You seem to be implying that this level of stress, nor any other kind of stress I've felt, can compare to yours. I wouldn't compare, but I'd caution you from making that kind of statement because you don't really know me. I suspect that everyone here has experienced levels of stress that are totally devastating, based on horrific events in their lives that they hope to never relive. I know I have.

But anyway, this is the "no judgment" thread, so who cares?

I fainted because of a coughing fit. It happened in June, too, but I had a seizure after that occasion; I was still pretty conscious. This time, I was in the kitchen and the back door was open, so the neighbor heard me hit the ground. She said my eyes were open but I was unresponsive. Still can't figure out the trajectory, as I clearly hit the left side of my head and was lying on my left side, but the broken ribs were all on the right side.

Anyway, the EEG was normal and nobody called after the MRI, so the only thing wrong with my head seems to be severe depression and anxiety. The homelessness is going to be real this time.

Yeah, okay, I get it, and I'm sorry.

Nah, you were right. I'm not trapped in Aleppo, for example.

Yet. (Based on the way things are going.)

Heh. The neurologist called about 45 minutes after I made the remark about the MRI. Lumbar puncture comin' up.

[PenFoe]

...I don't watch the news much at all, so are you guys up to speed with what's happening where I live in Baton Rouge, LA?

We had a 1,000 year rain event here over the weekend. A lot of creeks, bayous and rivers overflowed their banks. There are thousands without homes to return to. There is a town to the north and east of Baton Rouge called Denham Springs where it's estimated that 90% of the homes there are complete losses. I think the number reported by local media was that 13% of the people in the parish have flood insurance. Most of the homes affected aren't even in flood zones (you are required to have flood insurance if you're in a flood zone if you obtain a mortgage...loosely stated). FEMA will qualify those people for assistance because of the magnitude of this event.

The Amite River was so swollen, it backflowed (the river was so high that it's tributaries took on reverse flow and thus overflowed their banks). Now, Baton Rouge is not New Orleans. New Orleans, in cross section, looks like a bowl and is bounded by Lake Pontchartrain and sea level in the lake is above ground level in the city.

Baton Rouge just has low lying areas here and there. But in such an extreme event (like I said, this was a 1,000 year event it's being estimated) even areas not in flood zones were inundated. Here's the Range Avenue interchange with Interstate 12 in Denham Springs (before and after):



A few more areas:

A neighborhood in Denham Springs:


Juban Road in Denham Springs:


A portion of LSU's campus (LSU is located in Baton Rouge, in the western portion of East Baton Rouge Parish...Denham Springs is about 25 minutes east of campus):


I don't need anything and my own family and neighborhood are, thankfully, high and dry. I'm not asking for money, I'm not asking for donations, I'm just asking that you guys think about the good people coming together in this area in the wake of what happened in Baton Rouge, LA recently with the shooting death of Alton Sterling and the ambush on Baton Rouge police shortly afterward.

People have immediately started gofundme pages, started collecting and donating goods, and have pooled their own resources like boats, tools, etc. to help their neighbors.

This is one of the times I'm most proud of the people around me. I just thought I'd share with you all. There are lots of Cubs fans in south Louisiana, also.

Go Cubs, go.

I have a college roommate from Lafayette, lives in Baton Rouge now.  He's been posting updates, but otherwise I'd be pretty in the dark about most of this.

I'd say overall, the media hasn't given this as much attention as I'd expect.

[Canadouche]

...I don't watch the news much at all, so are you guys up to speed with what's happening where I live in Baton Rouge, LA?

We had a 1,000 year rain event here over the weekend. A lot of creeks, bayous and rivers overflowed their banks. There are thousands without homes to return to. There is a town to the north and east of Baton Rouge called Denham Springs where it's estimated that 90% of the homes there are complete losses. I think the number reported by local media was that 13% of the people in the parish have flood insurance. Most of the homes affected aren't even in flood zones (you are required to have flood insurance if you're in a flood zone if you obtain a mortgage...loosely stated). FEMA will qualify those people for assistance because of the magnitude of this event.

The Amite River was so swollen, it backflowed (the river was so high that it's tributaries took on reverse flow and thus overflowed their banks). Now, Baton Rouge is not New Orleans. New Orleans, in cross section, looks like a bowl and is bounded by Lake Pontchartrain and sea level in the lake is above ground level in the city.

Baton Rouge just has low lying areas here and there. But in such an extreme event (like I said, this was a 1,000 year event it's being estimated) even areas not in flood zones were inundated. Here's the Range Avenue interchange with Interstate 12 in Denham Springs (before and after):



A few more areas:

A neighborhood in Denham Springs:


Juban Road in Denham Springs:


A portion of LSU's campus (LSU is located in Baton Rouge, in the western portion of East Baton Rouge Parish...Denham Springs is about 25 minutes east of campus):


I don't need anything and my own family and neighborhood are, thankfully, high and dry. I'm not asking for money, I'm not asking for donations, I'm just asking that you guys think about the good people coming together in this area in the wake of what happened in Baton Rouge, LA recently with the shooting death of Alton Sterling and the ambush on Baton Rouge police shortly afterward.

People have immediately started gofundme pages, started collecting and donating goods, and have pooled their own resources like boats, tools, etc. to help their neighbors.

This is one of the times I'm most proud of the people around me. I just thought I'd share with you all. There are lots of Cubs fans in south Louisiana, also.

Go Cubs, go.

I have a college roommate from Lafayette, lives in Baton Rouge now.  He's been posting updates, but otherwise I'd be pretty in the dark about most of this.

I'd say overall, the media hasn't given this as much attention as I'd expect.

This is undoubtedly worst than what happened in Nashville a few years back, but they were devastated by a flood, and shocked when the national media didn't cover it. Who has time for a once-a-millennium disaster when Donald Trump is busy hiring a Rogues Gallery to run his "campaign"?

[CBStew]

Allow me to assure you that you don't know stress from a hole in your head.

All stress is relative. The amount of stress that I feel toward baseball is relatively trivial; I doubt I'll lose much sleep over it, if any at all. The amount of stress I feel regarding Trump's chances of winning is more significant, but it's not the greatest stressor I've experienced in my life. You seem to be implying that this level of stress, nor any other kind of stress I've felt, can compare to yours. I wouldn't compare, but I'd caution you from making that kind of statement because you don't really know me. I suspect that everyone here has experienced levels of stress that are totally devastating, based on horrific events in their lives that they hope to never relive. I know I have.

But anyway, this is the "no judgment" thread, so who cares?

I fainted because of a coughing fit. It happened in June, too, but I had a seizure after that occasion; I was still pretty conscious. This time, I was in the kitchen and the back door was open, so the neighbor heard me hit the ground. She said my eyes were open but I was unresponsive. Still can't figure out the trajectory, as I clearly hit the left side of my head and was lying on my left side, but the broken ribs were all on the right side.

Anyway, the EEG was normal and nobody called after the MRI, so the only thing wrong with my head seems to be severe depression and anxiety. The homelessness is going to be real this time.

Yeah, okay, I get it, and I'm sorry.

Nah, you were right. I'm not trapped in Aleppo, for example.

Yet. (Based on the way things are going.)

Heh. The neurologist called about 45 minutes after I made the remark about the MRI. Lumbar puncture comin' up.

You don't deserve tsouris like this.  I wish you all the best.

[Canadouche]

Allow me to assure you that you don't know stress from a hole in your head.

All stress is relative. The amount of stress that I feel toward baseball is relatively trivial; I doubt I'll lose much sleep over it, if any at all. The amount of stress I feel regarding Trump's chances of winning is more significant, but it's not the greatest stressor I've experienced in my life. You seem to be implying that this level of stress, nor any other kind of stress I've felt, can compare to yours. I wouldn't compare, but I'd caution you from making that kind of statement because you don't really know me. I suspect that everyone here has experienced levels of stress that are totally devastating, based on horrific events in their lives that they hope to never relive. I know I have.

But anyway, this is the "no judgment" thread, so who cares?

I fainted because of a coughing fit. It happened in June, too, but I had a seizure after that occasion; I was still pretty conscious. This time, I was in the kitchen and the back door was open, so the neighbor heard me hit the ground. She said my eyes were open but I was unresponsive. Still can't figure out the trajectory, as I clearly hit the left side of my head and was lying on my left side, but the broken ribs were all on the right side.

Anyway, the EEG was normal and nobody called after the MRI, so the only thing wrong with my head seems to be severe depression and anxiety. The homelessness is going to be real this time.

Yeah, okay, I get it, and I'm sorry.

Nah, you were right. I'm not trapped in Aleppo, for example.

Yet. (Based on the way things are going.)

Heh. The neurologist called about 45 minutes after I made the remark about the MRI. Lumbar puncture comin' up.

Fortunately, there is a doctor who can cure you. She's currently located in Aleppo.

Seriously, though, I hope you get treated quickly.