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Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Stephanie - Sep 05, 2010 3:38:58 pm PDT #1356 of 30000
Trust my rage

This is a dumb question because I have been reading the updates, but do we know what happened to Drew? I know he had his gallbladder removed and then something went wrong? It's just freaky hat he had a minor surgery and now will be in the hospital for weeks.

ION, my SIL had a 9 lb, 14oz baby boy named Levi Quentin today. I am impressed by her accomplishment.


Ginger - Sep 05, 2010 3:41:03 pm PDT #1357 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Perhaps you should give them some hemorrhoid medication, Bonny. Or high-fiber cookies.


DavidS - Sep 05, 2010 3:42:38 pm PDT #1358 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I know he had his gallbladder removed and then something went wrong?

He has pancreatis. They think maybe a gallstone got loose and did some damage.


Stephanie - Sep 05, 2010 3:43:55 pm PDT #1359 of 30000
Trust my rage

Okay, it was the pancreatitis that put him in the hospital. It's just so freaky that ine could have surgery and end up so much worse.


beekaytee - Sep 05, 2010 3:47:39 pm PDT #1360 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

Perhaps you should give them some hemorrhoid medication, Bonny. Or high-fiber cookies.

My original impulse was to lean out the window and 'join the conversation' with a remedy suggestion. Shoulda done that. But I just got so mad! These folks are definitely bearing the brunt of my disgust over the lack of civility in society in general. I have to cop to that.

One recommendation in the dog park was that I write a note and include the wikipedia page in re: the disorder.

Honestly though, I'm not even sure the residents were present at this point, so I'm going to save the jokey stuff until I know for sure.


WindSparrow - Sep 05, 2010 3:49:26 pm PDT #1361 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

When you make cookies for them, consider making chocolate Ex-lax chip cookies.

t /evil


beekaytee - Sep 05, 2010 3:56:25 pm PDT #1362 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

Bwahhaha. It's a good kind of evil.

In other news, for the love of pete, I just read that the novelist famous for The Horse Whisperer nearly killed himself, his wife and her brother (a Scottish clan chief, no less) by feeding them all a poisoned mushroom dish.

They will all need kidney transplants.

He goes on at length about how careful he normally is to check the guidebooks for anything he forages. On this day, he did not.

Everyone involved is unbelievably cheerful about it...in print anyway...I'm not sure how I would live with myself after a mistake like that.


Pix - Sep 05, 2010 4:46:42 pm PDT #1363 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Okay, it was the pancreatitis that put him in the hospital. It's just so freaky that ine could have surgery and end up so much worse.

Stephanie, gallstones are the most common cause of pancreatitis aside from alcohol abuse. The surgery may have knocked a stone loose, but it's equally possible that one could have escaped even if he had never had the surgery--that's what happened to my aunt years ago. She had to wait five months for her pancreas to completely heal before she could even have her gall bladder out. There's no way to know if Drew's surgery caused the stone to be retained or if it would have happened regardless. Pancreatitis is really the only true danger of gall bladder disease. Drew just had exceptionally bad luck--a stone caught in the common bile duct that then caused inflammation of his pancreas and liver. He had/has both cholangitis (an infection of the bile duct) and moderately severe pancreatitis. You can look here for more: [link]


Pix - Sep 05, 2010 7:26:35 pm PDT #1364 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Wow, I killed the thread but good with oversimplified medical mumbo jumbo.


Spidra Webster - Sep 05, 2010 7:35:34 pm PDT #1365 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

No, it's just resting after a prolonged squawk. It's pining for the fjords.