Also, gotta vent: they failed to perform a successful lumbar puncture on me this evening after NINE ATTEMPTS. I think they were going to keep trying, but I had to put a stop to the utter bullshit insanity.
So tomorrow I get it done under x-ray.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amyth - Nov 11, 2019 2:07:30 pm PST #13386 of 30019
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
amyparker - Nov 11, 2019 2:09:47 pm PST #13387 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
NINE?!? Oh, hell to the no.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2019 2:10:22 pm PST #13388 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh no. That sounds terrible
Jesse - Nov 11, 2019 2:18:27 pm PST #13389 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh nooooo. Yikes.
Aargh. Nigel head of the theatre wants to know if I am better and wants to meet. I basically want to just throw him off a roof. I really just wanted to try a month with no theatre to see how it felt. Can I tell him to fuck off, politely, until December?
100%
JZ - Nov 11, 2019 3:01:33 pm PST #13390 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Dammit, amyth, that's awful. Who are these people? Isn't there some grizzled OB/GYN veteran who's been doing spinals on people in labor since forever they can drag in?
Amy - Nov 11, 2019 3:15:04 pm PST #13391 of 30019
Because books.
Seriously. Nine tries is way beyond okay. After two they should have called someone else in!
Sophia, tell him no! With glee!
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2019 3:44:28 pm PST #13392 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
So a reply like
Nigel, thank you for your concern. I can be available to meet after December 1st.
Would. Not be nutty? I honestly think I won't go back.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2019 3:46:06 pm PST #13393 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
No, that would totally be fine.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2019 3:46:20 pm PST #13394 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(I might just say "after Thanksgiving," though.)
amyth - Nov 11, 2019 3:49:14 pm PST #13395 of 30019
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
One of the drawbacks of an otherwise excellent teaching hospital. It was being performed by an attending, a resident and I think an intern? The attending was hands off because he wanted the other two to learn. So they tried seven times, and I finally said, "At what point do we call this a failure?" And they said, "When the attending can't do it." So the attending gave it two tries, and I said, "At what point do we decide to switch to doing this via x-ray?" And the attending said, "Right now." I think he would've kept going. He kept saying how he almost had it, but he could hear that I was Over It, and he backed off.
Sophia, I think that's a perfectly reasonable response.