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Re: I'm more broken than you - El Dingo - 07-29-2015
Wait - You have a new 46" TV and haven't scheduled a DOOM gathering? WTF?
Re: I'm more broken than you - cranefly - 07-30-2015
Quote:ED says:
Wait - You have a new 46" TV and haven't scheduled a DOOM gathering? WTF?
Yeah, well. Here's the thing. Because my hearing isn't the greatest, I got a soundbar with subwoofer and satellite speakers to go with the TV. A very respectable sound system. The biggest complaint I've read about it is that the wires from the subwoofer to the satellite speakers are a tad short for a lot of setups. That includes our living room.
To make it work, I had to run the left speaker wire across the carpet in front of the hall doorway, rather than up and around. Yep, the wires are that short.
So anyway -- and you should know this is coming -- a couple weeks ago I tripped over that wire (Lady Cranefly and I take turns), and rather than it hold tight, sending me headfirst into the TV, the RCA plug totally tore out of the subwoofer. Yep, brand new, and I managed to wreck it.
I looked into soldering it back together, but gave up and tracked down a replacement part. That recently arrived, and I've got it all working again just fine. I even bought a longer wire for the left speaker, which now runs up and over the hallway door.
All of which is a secret Turing cypher meaning: DOOM night!
P.S. BYOTDD (bring your own tripwire-detection devices).
I'm Less broken - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-20-2015
My doctor just told me my prostate was smooth, words I never thought to hear or even thought made a rational sentence.
Plus, I don't have to take my diabetes medication any more. Or for the near future. And no, that doesn't mean she has given up on me and is throwing in the towel.
That's great! - Drunk Monk - 08-20-2015
Congrats on the diabetes. That's the best news I've heard today.
Re: I'm more broken than you - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-20-2015
I'm celebrating by eating a bag of Hershey Kisses and 12 pack of Mexican Coca Cola.
Just reading that made me go diabetic - Drunk Monk - 08-20-2015
srsly tho, congrats. that's a tough one to beat.
As to beating it . . . - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-20-2015
I'm thinking you just contain it, you don't beat it.
But for now, I'm only on the hook for one medication a day.
You beat it. It beats you - Drunk Monk - 08-20-2015
A beating isn't permanent but when you are on the delivering end, you just got to savor it. Maybe that's a martial arts thing. I'm just so used to being on the receiving end that I'm happy whenever I'm the beater.
Celebrate and keep up whatever you're doing that's working.
Health is such a battle now. Summer has left me pretty spent. Skipped too much practice and really starting to feel it.
Deep Purple - cranefly - 01-18-2016
Yesterday I went blind in the right eye for about three minutes. Lady Cranefly wondered what the heck I was doing. I'd gotten up and was tilting my head side to side and blinking and conducting other important experiments. After all, it's not often one gets to experiment with something like this when one has full vision. When I told her what was happening, she became mildly alarmed. As vision trickled back at the edges, the occluding area turned a deep purple. Yeah, an intriguing deep purple. When I blinked, I'd see the yellow-orange complement. Within about three minutes my vision fully returned.
Lady Cranefly is strongly pressuring me to see a doctor. Oh bother. I suppose I will, except today is a holiday. From my reading, these are the leading candidates. 1) A capillary leaked blood into the vitreous humor, and as it dissipated, my vision returned. That might explain the deep purple. 2) Bloodflow to the eye might have been temporarily interrupted by something like plaque. 3) A visual migraine happened on a larger scale than normal.
I'm hoping for 3. I get visual migraines a couple times a month, without any headache -- just squiggly patterns that slowly migrate across my vision, lasting maybe 15 minutes, making it hard to read. Number 1 would likely also be minor. Number 2 could be more ominous, suggesting plaque in the bloodstream or perhaps even a precursor to stroke.
This actually happened to me once before, about 5 years ago when I was in Indiana. Yeah, you guessed it. I didn't tell anyone. This time I slipped up.
Not looking forward to stepping within the Kaiser edifice and having to undergo a barrage of tests. I have a new doctor, by the way. Haven't even seen her yet. She was born, raised and mostly educated in China. Maybe she'll just do acupuncture on the eye...
How can you read up when you're going blind? - Drunk Monk - 01-18-2016
Get that looked at, pronto. One of my good friends, so good I tried to cajole him into joining DOOM, had visual issues. He had been experiencing increasing back pain, and then one day his vision got super blurry. Turned out to be a brain tumor. He was operated on and went through chemo, and survives to this day.
But you really do NOT want to mess around when it's your eyes. Get that checked ASAP!
RE: How can you read up when you're going blind? - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 01-28-2016
(01-18-2016, 04:54 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Get that looked at, pronto. One of my good friends, so good I tried to cajole him into joining DOOM, had visual issues. He had been experiencing increasing back pain, and then one day his vision got super blurry. Turned out to be a brain tumor. He was operated on and went through chemo, and survives to this day.
But you really do NOT want to mess around when it's your eyes. Get that checked ASAP!
Agreed. I get visual migraines (the slow sparkly-fog kind) and that doesn't sound like anything I've had. Better safe than dead or in a coma.
Went to an opthalmologist... - cranefly - 01-28-2016
Just to update you, I got hold of an advice nurse, who consulted with a doctor and then set me up to see an ophthalmologist. Took me a week altogether to see one. He put drops in my eyes to dilate them, among other things, says my eyes look in good shape. The capillaries feeding the eyes are very tiny, so sometimes something in the bloodstream can cause a brief blockade. He recommends I get my cholesterol checked, and maybe have a complete physical. I'll pursue that shortly.
One bothersome thing. Among other things, he gave me a vision test. It seemed very hokey, and brief. Then he printed out a prescription for reading glasses. All well and good, but the eye doctor I had before, and whom I really liked (but she's not part of Kaiser) would give extremely detailed vision interrogations ("which is clearer, this or this") to come up with a prescription. And this new dude's prescription is nowhere close to her prescription. I just trust hers a lot more. But now that we're on Kaiser, I have this dude.
Oh well....
Can you read this? - Drunk Monk - 01-28-2016
One of my old coaches is an eye doc for Kaiser. He's based out of Hayward. I imagine if I told him you are our copy editor, he'd see you. He prescribed my reading glasses. Email me if interested and I'll see if it can be done. He's a good friend and trained under Sifu Lam in S.F. so he's our Sihing.
RE: I'm more broken than you - Greg - 01-29-2016
Amazingly, or sadly, this is now one of our most popular threads.
A cooperative effort... - cranefly - 01-29-2016
Quote:Greg says: Amazingly, or sadly, this is now one of our most popular threads.
See what can be accomplished through cooperation? If we all keep working together, I bet we can keep this thread going for a very long time.