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« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2009, 04:51:48 AM »

Did you smile for the camera?  Or was it more of an action shot?
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« Reply #26 on: September 25, 2009, 12:39:30 PM »

Smile for the camers? They do everything to wipe the smile off your face.

First there's the Flush. Flush, note, not drain. It's a real plumbing job. If you've ever had a boiler replaced, that's what the plumber does to your pipes.

In the hospital, since you're not a contortionist, you can't see what's going on. You can feel it though. You know those big red double deck busses they have in London? It feels like they are stuffing one of those up. I can assure you, you don't smile when one of those is being rammed up your ass. You cough. Or worse.

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« Reply #27 on: September 25, 2009, 03:06:04 PM »


In the hospital, since you're not a contortionist, you can't see what's going on. You can feel it though. You know those big red double deck busses they have in London? It feels like they are stuffing one of those up. I can assure you, you don't smile when one of those is being rammed up your ass. You cough. Or worse.


No sedatives?

Here in the States they usually give some sort of sedative so you don't feel a thing.
And sometimes it even knocks you out, so you wake up in the recovery lounge not remembering the procedure at all.

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« Reply #28 on: September 25, 2009, 07:38:05 PM »

Oh, Stoday! Not fun! We definitely get twilight stuff. Don't remember a thing!

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« Reply #29 on: September 25, 2009, 09:11:16 PM »

Yeah I was given sedative, but I think it didn't work very well.
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« Reply #30 on: September 25, 2009, 11:21:44 PM »

Evidently not Stoday!!!! Come to the states next time you have to have one of those ugly tests!!!
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« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2009, 04:35:19 PM »

Dialysis is not as bad as being turned down for a date because you're on Dialysis.
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« Reply #32 on: December 01, 2009, 05:00:28 AM »

Choking.

Drowning.

Getting a tatoo.

Getting dumped.

The pain of Childbirth?  Not that I would know about this one!

Some of the replies on this post made me laugh this morning...that's a very good thing  ;D
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« Reply #33 on: December 01, 2009, 05:33:19 AM »

I don't yet know how bad dialysis will be but I'm sure it won't be as bad as haveing a TV camera stuffed up my jacksie.   :sir ken;

I hope it wasn't the same one they put down my throat!! :puke;
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« Reply #34 on: December 01, 2009, 10:50:51 AM »

Well, as I always say it beats the alternative.  :)
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« Reply #35 on: December 01, 2009, 12:50:53 PM »

What is that "twilight stuff"?  I like it.  Can you buy it at Kroger or Safeway?

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« Reply #36 on: December 01, 2009, 01:08:04 PM »

Dan, if you could we would be standing in line..................................
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« Reply #37 on: December 01, 2009, 01:08:27 PM »

dialysis is not as bad as setting your hair on fire.
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Life's a bitch and then you go on dialysis!

« Reply #38 on: December 02, 2009, 01:37:57 AM »

Forplay with a crocodile.
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« Reply #39 on: December 02, 2009, 06:05:20 AM »

  Being chsed by a grizzly bear!
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Getting the heck out of town.

« Reply #40 on: December 02, 2009, 06:51:20 AM »

having a monkey eat your face off.

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« Reply #41 on: December 02, 2009, 07:18:50 AM »

loosing your child.....
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« Reply #42 on: December 08, 2009, 03:20:56 AM »

loosing your child.....

A resounding YES to that one.
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« Reply #43 on: December 12, 2009, 01:44:44 AM »

My fam and I were watching some tv show, and I said being a parent must really be the hardest thing ever, then my 8yr old cousin said. No loosing a child.  out of the mouths of babes
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« Reply #44 on: December 12, 2009, 02:35:18 AM »

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« Reply #45 on: December 12, 2009, 05:35:38 AM »

Trying to talk to an ER triage nurse.... those women scare the hell out of me, they are by far the nastiest things ever put on this earth
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« Reply #46 on: December 12, 2009, 11:32:20 AM »

Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.
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« Reply #47 on: December 14, 2009, 01:35:45 AM »

Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.


ew, my nephew and brother in law are both rural fire brigade (one volunteer and one paid+volunteer) and they deal with all of the bad crashes outside sydney metro area. They wont really discuss it, but they said they know the smell the moment they arrive on scene.
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« Reply #48 on: December 14, 2009, 09:00:37 AM »

Not as bad as dealing with a fatal car crash.


ew, my nephew and brother in law are both rural fire brigade (one volunteer and one paid+volunteer) and they deal with all of the bad crashes outside sydney metro area. They wont really discuss it, but they said they know the smell the moment they arrive on scene.

Can't blame them, and they are right.  Somethings have a destinctive smell. 
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« Reply #49 on: February 07, 2010, 11:44:16 AM »

seeing your newborn daugher in the neonatal unit with IV's in her shaven little head ---
not being able to hold her until she was 3 months old
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she is 21 now and has one lung but normal in every other way
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