I guess movinghouse moved along. As you can see from my quote, he had only a sales pitch to offer.
They hit 80 in Philly today, a few degrees less out here in the wilderness. It's so easy to be fulled into believing the winter has left, particularly since we haven't had a late March this nice in over a decade. It used to like this the last week of March and I thought I'd seen the last of it. I'm still not considering burying the snow blower just yet.
I'm back into the elderly support lifestyle again, this time with my 93 year old uncle, my mom's brother. He's been having leg pain pretty much since he returned here after living in England for 27 years. Well, it got so bad the previous Sunday that he called in the emergency people and spent 3 days with them trying to figure out what was wrong. After two days they wanted to release him to physical therapy because they couldn't identify what was wrong. I made them rethink their plan as the PT person came in to get him to walk and he had excruciating pain the moment he was on his feet.
It was lucky I did for a couple reasons. When the social worker came in, I made it clear he wasn't ready to be moved, especially by me, with the pain he had. After that I found out he would have been responsible for room and board if he left after two days. If he stayed another night, Medicare pays for up to 100 days, depending on him not leveling off on improvement. Daily cost at rehab was $500 a day and I'm sure the vast majority would have been on him.
I still hadn't gotten anyone to agree with me so I told them I had things I needed to take care of and would be back in a couple hours. I really didn't, but I wanted them to have time to reconsider. I went and got something to eat and then went to his place to pack things up for his move. I tried to call the social worker from there and noticed he had messages waiting for him. One was from his family doc. He had some exrays done and found he had lumbar spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the passages at the base of the spine where the nerves pass through. Now we finally know the problem, now it's determining how to minimize the pain and get him back on his own. Fun times.
I'm back into the elderly support lifestyle again, this time with my 93 year old uncle, my mom's brother. He's been having leg pain pretty much since he returned here after living in England for 27 years. Well, it got so bad the previous Sunday that he called in the emergency people and spent 3 days with them trying to figure out what was wrong. After two days they wanted to release him to physical therapy because they couldn't identify what was wrong. I made them rethink their plan as the PT person came in to get him to walk and he had excruciating pain the moment he was on his feet.
It was lucky I did for a couple reasons. When the social worker came in, I made it clear he wasn't ready to be moved, especially by me, with the pain he had. After that I found out he would have been responsible for room and board if he left after two days. If he stayed another night, Medicare pays for up to 100 days, depending on him not leveling off on improvement. Daily cost at rehab was $500 a day and I'm sure the vast majority would have been on him.
I still hadn't gotten anyone to agree with me so I told them I had things I needed to take care of and would be back in a couple hours. I really didn't, but I wanted them to have time to reconsider. I went and got something to eat and then went to his place to pack things up for his move. I tried to call the social worker from there and noticed he had messages waiting for him. One was from his family doc. He had some exrays done and found he had lumbar spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the passages at the base of the spine where the nerves pass through. Now we finally know the problem, now it's determining how to minimize the pain and get him back on his own. Fun times.
He's doing better but still in rehab. I think he's going to have to live with some level of pain regardless. The spinal lumber stenosis isn't going to go away. We have an appointment with the pain management doc on Tuesday. What they recommend is going to be key. We went to his cancer doc yesterday, he has a leukemia issue also, but his blood counts are stable and the doc didn't set up another appointment for a year.
We're looking at 3-5" of snow on Sunday. Hopefully they're wrong, but even if they're not, it won't hang around long.
We're looking at 3-5" of snow on Sunday. Hopefully they're wrong, but even if they're not, it won't hang around long.
Snow? Say it ain't so. We are back down in the 40's and 50's for a few days but no snow in the forecast.
Good luck to your uncle. I hope they figure out something to help him.
Good luck to your uncle. I hope they figure out something to help him.
Things change rather quickly. It looks like that storm just disappeared and Spring will start without any white stuff. Can't say I'm disappointed.
Any one get any juice from OneHitWonder. A friend asked me if I wanted a bottle of Milk Man he had which is a Strawberry Flavor. It was a big bottle 120 or 160 ml that he said he paid $60 for and only used a small amount. He wanted $40 for it so I figured I'd give it a try. I dripped it to test and it didn't seem too bad so I took it off his hands. That was three weeks ago.
I decided to load it into my tank and I haven't been able to change up since. I just love the stuff. I love the taste and I don't know if it's the 50/50 mix or the 4mg nic level, but I can take a full lung hit. Of course that creates a pretty big cloud but the flavor is worth it to me. I try to not be too obnoxious. The only problem is I do have to charge my batteries a bit more frequently than before.
Any one get any juice from OneHitWonder. A friend asked me if I wanted a bottle of Milk Man he had which is a Strawberry Flavor. It was a big bottle 120 or 160 ml that he said he paid $60 for and only used a small amount. He wanted $40 for it so I figured I'd give it a try. I dripped it to test and it didn't seem too bad so I took it off his hands. That was three weeks ago.
I decided to load it into my tank and I haven't been able to change up since. I just love the stuff. I love the taste and I don't know if it's the 50/50 mix or the 4mg nic level, but I can take a full lung hit. Of course that creates a pretty big cloud but the flavor is worth it to me. I try to not be too obnoxious. The only problem is I do have to charge my batteries a bit more frequently than before.
I haven't tried anything from them. I've been making all of my own liquids for several months.
Yeah, I have all the fixins to do that myself but I consider that my emergency stash, just in case the FDA gets stupid. I'm sensing they're afraid to do anything at this point though. Another year has passed and still no word. They're bound to get sued if they try what they proposed but we'll see.
Time to blow off a little steam. That woman who lives in my house (using the term girlfriend is beyond stretching the point, lol) drives me crazy. She's constantly picking up things at the thrift that have something wrong with them and expects me to fix them. The latest is a Green Machine similar to this one.
Plethora: 80's Corner
It's a cool little bike for her grandson, but it had a flat. Blew it up and found it had a hole in the tube. Now I'm taking the whole front end apart to get to the tube, find it has one hole so I order a small kit to repair it and a new tube in case the repair doesn't hold. So now she has $30 into it. The stuff comes in today, I repair the tube, get it in the wheel, blow it up and start putting the fancy plastic back on the wheel. It explodes and I mean explodes. It sounded like a shotgun went off. I pull it apart and the patch held but the tube just exploded.
Now I'm onto the brand new one. This time I blew it up but not to the range the tire was supposed to be blown up to. I guess the former owner must have run into something and bent the rim out so the tire doesn't seat properly in it. It's quite obvious why theyu sent it off to the thrift.
Now I'm waiting until next week to entirely disassemble it and decide if I want to try to straighten it out with tire and tube still on it or try to get everything off the rim. What are my chances of not needing another tube before it's all said and done?
Time to blow off a little steam. That woman who lives in my house (using the term girlfriend is beyond stretching the point, lol) drives me crazy. She's constantly picking up things at the thrift that have something wrong with them and expects me to fix them. The latest is a Green Machine similar to this one.
Plethora: 80's Corner
It's a cool little bike for her grandson, but it had a flat. Blew it up and found it had a hole in the tube. Now I'm taking the whole front end apart to get to the tube, find it has one hole so I order a small kit to repair it and a new tube in case the repair doesn't hold. So now she has $30 into it. The stuff comes in today, I repair the tube, get it in the wheel, blow it up and start putting the fancy plastic back on the wheel. It explodes and I mean explodes. It sounded like a shotgun went off. I pull it apart and the patch held but the tube just exploded.
Now I'm onto the brand new one. This time I blew it up but not to the range the tire was supposed to be blown up to. I guess the former owner must have run into something and bent the rim out so the tire doesn't seat properly in it. It's quite obvious why theyu sent it off to the thrift.
Now I'm waiting until next week to entirely disassemble it and decide if I want to try to straighten it out with tire and tube still on it or try to get everything off the rim. What are my chances of not needing another tube before it's all said and done?
That sounds like a nightmare. It might just be easier to get one from Walmart for $79. I guess she didn't figure out how much your time is worth.
My youngest got a green machine for last Christmas. Apparently the quality has went down since the good old days. Took him and his brother about two weeks to basically render it junk. Plastic broke, pedal broke, metal bent, bolts missing. I gave it away to a neighbor who wanted a hobby. Haven't seen it since. 
Well hopefully this one will be better, it certainly isn't one of the new machines. I couldn't find it in any of the pictures
A lot of stuff like that is being made cheaper and cheaper. God forbid they actually make a quality product that can be repaired.
Yeah Hitt, but then you need to find quality repair persons, then they want $90 an hour and by the time the repair is done you end up wishing you got a new one. When my uncles fridge stopped working, I didn't give it a second thought. I took into account his age and the unknown age of the fridge, went to Lowes and bought the nicest low cost fridge in the size he needed. They even handled getting rid of the old one.
I'm one of those 90 an hour repair guys but the stuff I work on costs more than a fridge. Most customers will spend up to half the price of a new one to fix stuff. If more stuff was repairable then that'd be more jobs not only for repair people but for people making parts.
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