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Good Morning in here!!!!!!!!!!!
*looks at the coffee longingly and takes a few small drinks*
I am saving some for everyone else this morning... I got a whopping 3 hours of sleep last night so I am working on my 2nd Mt. Dew already. Has the FDA approved saline IV drips with caffeine in them yet?
Good morning Don, Fran, Whis, Wharf and crew!
*looks at the coffee longingly and takes a few small drinks*
I am saving some for everyone else this morning... I got a whopping 3 hours of sleep last night so I am working on my 2nd Mt. Dew already. Has the FDA approved saline IV drips with caffeine in them yet?
Good morning Don, Fran, Whis, Wharf and crew!
Mt. Dew addicted huh???
Heya Whis !!!! This weekend is the High Sierra Regatta, our biggest race of the year. Should be fun, though it's going to be sooooo hot in the valley the breeze is probably going to be pretty light.
Caffeine addicted, and those things have tons of sugar and caffeine. It lets me survive my schedule... which is not a fun one!
Between school (graduated) and working, I have either been working and going to school nights, or working two jobs for 8 years now. There might be a little blood mixed in with the caffeine that runs through my veins!
Good morning everyone. Just wanted to check in and say hi. Busy a can be and no time for nothing.
I think the glitches on the site might be fixed now. If anyone has any issues please email me at don@backwoodsbrew.net
I think the glitches on the site might be fixed now. If anyone has any issues please email me at don@backwoodsbrew.net
Thanks Don!!! Don't forget to take some time off at some point! We can't afford to let you work yourself into an early grave... and if you don't... then we will ask Whis to email your wife and have her make you! 
They said the type of procedure he's having for valve replacement is experimental and his isn't an emergency so they want to have him wait for a few more to be done first...I know it sounds scarey, but its not really...the way they want to do his , is to fish it up with a cath inside a stent , instead of cutting his chest open.
It all sounds scary to me... I have only had one surgery as an adult... and it was for pancreatitis. The bill was even scarier when I got it. I hate the idea of having him wait... are they afraid that it will not work as well as the more traditional surgery and want some more time to evaluate the recovery Whis?
Alot of both those things AL, they have to have just the right canidates for this type of thing and he is still in the low risk area so they said he could wait a little longer..if it was an emergency, they would do it the traditional way.the recovery time is less than 3 days. He wants to opt for the less invasive way, thats why he will wait.
It makes sense... even a less invasive surgery is a pain. I was out of the hospital in 5 days. My girlfriend (now my wife) forced me to go to the hospital on a Saturday afternoon... she bullied me into it and by that time I was feeling too bad to keep arguing with her (I had gotten sick Fri night)... she drove me to the ER around 3 or 4 PM... the doctors told me I probably would not have been alive if I had waited until Sunday.... they did the surgery Monday and released me on a Thurs... all told it was about $30,000 (no insurance) and that was after taking about $10,000 off for not going on a payment plan! The doctor that cared for me and did the surgery only received about $2,000 of that (his office not him personally)... the hospital got almost all of the rest!
Yes I am... by the time that she finally made me I do not know if I could have driven myself... the care that I had sounds cheap in comparison to what you are talking about... and my surgery was rather routine. All they had to do was wait for the swelling to go down before they could do it.
So I see both sides. There is not much of a risk that by waiting he becomes a less desirable candidate for the procedure is there?
So I see both sides. There is not much of a risk that by waiting he becomes a less desirable candidate for the procedure is there?
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