derorim Posted April 29 #120226 Share Posted April 29 16 minutes ago, ReneeFLL said: Marcel is definitely loving that. We have a cat that loves to have the insides of her ears rubbed. I’ve never had a cat that liked that so I thought maybe she had ear mites. Nope, she just likes her ears rubbed. In fact, she will start to drool when Mike gets a little inside her ear. Eew! Marcel is quite the drooler, then he’ll shake his head and get it all over you. His ears get a lot of gunk in them, so that’s probably why rubbing his ears feels good to him. Andy cradles him like a baby and I wipe the gunk out of his ears. He seems grateful when it’s done. . 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coralc Posted April 29 #120227 Share Posted April 29 15 hours ago, grapau27 said: I was told they don't use a general anaesthetic now rather a numbing injection near the hip which eased my worries of having to stop my heart medication pre-op when I decide I need to get it done. High dose Ibuprofen or naproxen helps arthritis a lot if you can take antiinflammatory tablets. A regular on P&O forums in his mid 70s had hip replacement surgery done recently and said he is walking several miles a day now and was walking up stairs the day after the op. I don't know where you heard that or what your health service is like. But I seriously doubt if that is the case with a hip replacement Graham. Based on the number of contortions and procedures involved in the surgery, general anesthesia is definitely required. Most people would faint dead away if they were allowed to be awake during the procedure. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted April 29 #120228 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 3 hours ago, Coralc said: I don't know where you heard that or what your health service is like. But I seriously doubt if that is the case with a hip replacement Graham. Based on the number of contortions and procedures involved in the surgery, general anesthesia is definitely required. Most people would faint dead away if they were allowed to be awake during the procedure. I was personally told this at the hospital musculoskeletal department last April 2023 when they suggested hip replacement for me. I was awake and watched the TV screen while having a colonoscopy 15 years ago. I watched the TV screen while having a cardiac stent put into my circumflex artery during an angioplasty op following my heart attack in December 2019. Edited April 29 by grapau27 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted April 29 #120229 Share Posted April 29 Good morning. It is partly sunny and 46°F here at 09.16am. I hope everyone is safe and well and y'all had a great weekend and looking forward to a nice day today. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgmn Posted April 29 #120230 Share Posted April 29 On 4/27/2024 at 11:13 PM, firefly333 said: The drive over all those bridges from one key to another is a fabulous drive. Takes a whole day from miami when I've done it. Slow drivers also enjoying the drive. Key west has roosters and bars, no real beach. Just nothing special by itself though at sunset everyone goes to Mallory square ro clap for the sunset. Dont see that either on a cruise ship. When we first got married and Gary was building flying hours, the cheapest way was to fly within Florida. We spent a couple of weeks flying up and down and across the state, including along the keys. We got buzzed by two fighter jets, think out of Homestead. Lots of stories from that trip 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rrraydon Posted April 29 #120231 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 58 minutes ago, grapau27 said: Good morning. It is partly sunny and 46°F here at 09.16am. I hope everyone is safe and well and y'all had a great weekend and looking forward to a nice day today. Good morning! However, I work overnights, so 2 more hours of work and I get to go home and go to bed. I guess it's like night time for me instead of morning. 😁 05:00am here, sunny and 86 here today. Edited April 29 by rrraydon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgmn Posted April 29 #120232 Share Posted April 29 55 minutes ago, grapau27 said: Good morning. It is partly sunny and 46°F here at 09.16am. I hope everyone is safe and well and y'all had a great weekend and looking forward to a nice day today. Beautiful sunny day here too. First for ages. Its been such cold wet winter and Spring so it's lovely to see the sun again 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgmn Posted April 29 #120233 Share Posted April 29 10 minutes ago, rrraydon said: Good morning! However, I work overnights, so 2 more hours of work and I get to go home and go to bed. I guess it's like night time for me instead of morning. 😁 I use to do days and nights shifts , 12 hour shifts, four on four off. The feeling of going home and snuggling into bed as everyone else was going to work almost made shift work worth it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted April 29 #120234 Share Posted April 29 5 hours ago, ReneeFLL said: Marcel is definitely loving that. We have a cat that loves to have the insides of her ears rubbed. I’ve never had a cat that liked that so I thought maybe she had ear mites. Nope, she just likes her ears rubbed. In fact, she will start to drool when Mike gets a little inside her ear. Eew! Jade likes to have her ears rubbed also. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rrraydon Posted April 29 #120235 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 1 minute ago, sgmn said: I use to do days and nights shifts , 12 hour shifts, four on four off. The feeling of going home and snuggling into bed as everyone else was going to work almost made shift work worth it. Yes! I feel the same way... 😂 Mine are three 12s also. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Edited April 29 by rrraydon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted April 29 #120236 Share Posted April 29 1 hour ago, grapau27 said: I was personally told this at the hospital musculoskeletal department last April 2023 when they suggested hip replacement for me. I was awake and watched the TV screen while having a colonoscopy 15 years ago. I watched the TV screen while having a cardiac stent put into my circumflex artery during an angioplasty op following my heart attack in December 2019. Plenty of people decline meds for colonoscopies. Though I understand it is more common in Europe. Angioplasty and stent placement don't require meds. I've never heard of someone being awake for a hip. Maybe Americans are just wimps. 4 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted April 29 #120237 Share Posted April 29 27 minutes ago, sgmn said: When we first got married and Gary was building flying hours, the cheapest way was to fly within Florida. We spent a couple of weeks flying up and down and across the state, including along the keys. We got buzzed by two fighter jets, think out of Homestead. Lots of stories from that trip The being buzzed by jets reminded me of this. We had been on a 15 nights Hawaiian cruise on Grand Princess in December 2019. After leaving our last port of Ensenada in Mexico on our way back to San Francisco 2 fighter jets flew around our cruise ship for almost 30 minutes and they came frightenly close to the ship at high speed several times. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rrraydon Posted April 29 #120238 Share Posted April 29 5 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said: Plenty of people decline meds for colonoscopies. Though I understand it is more common in Europe. Angioplasty and stent placement don't require meds. I've never heard of someone being awake for a hip. Maybe Americans are just wimps. A lot of my patients are so I'm gonna have to agree with you on that! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted April 29 #120239 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said: Plenty of people decline meds for colonoscopies. Though I understand it is more common in Europe. Angioplasty and stent placement don't require meds. I've never heard of someone being awake for a hip. Maybe Americans are just wimps. I turned down the hip replacement op offer in April 2023 because I was only 66 and also expressed by concerns about my heart medication and General anaesthetic. I was told they now use numbing injections instead of a general anaesthetic for hip replacement. Edited April 29 by grapau27 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dani negreanu Posted April 29 Author #120240 Share Posted April 29 58 minutes ago, sgmn said: I use to do days and nights shifts , 12 hour shifts, four on four off. The feeling of going home and snuggling into bed as everyone else was going to work almost made shift work worth it. 57 minutes ago, rrraydon said: Yes! I feel the same way... 😂 Mine are three 12s also. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Sue and Donna, Pls. help me understand... "12 hours shifts" -- does it mean continuous 12 hours, or 4 days [shifts] of 12 hours, and then 4 days off? Same as 3 week end days in a row? When I've served in the army, we had 7 hours shifts with 2 breaks of 20 mins of sitting down. We're patrolling in what may be called the "Grand Central", checking suspects of terrorism activity. I used to return home whipped out. Since then, I'm sitting down whenever I have the possibility....😉 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rrraydon Posted April 29 #120241 Share Posted April 29 8 minutes ago, dani negreanu said: Sue and Donna, Pls. help me understand... "12 hours shifts" -- does it mean continuous 12 hours, or 4 days [shifts] of 12 hours, and then 4 days off? Same as 3 week end days in a row? When I've served in the army, we had 7 hours shifts with 2 breaks of 20 mins of sitting down. We're patrolling in what may be called the "Grand Central", checking suspects of terrorism activity. I used to return home whipped out. Since then, I'm sitting down whenever I have the possibility....😉 My shifts are every Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights from 7p to 7a...I work in the emergency department. It can be busy some nights and be 12hrs non stop or if slower some breaks in-between. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine3601 Posted April 29 #120242 Share Posted April 29 2 hours ago, grapau27 said: Good morning. It is partly sunny and 46°F here at 09.16am. I hope everyone is safe and well and y'all had a great weekend and looking forward to a nice day today. Hope you have a nice day pain-free day😊 It was high 50s on Saturday, 84f yesterday and expecting 89F today. These swings in temperatures are crazy. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keksie Posted April 29 #120243 Share Posted April 29 3 hours ago, grapau27 said: I was personally told this at the hospital musculoskeletal department last April 2023 when they suggested hip replacement for me. I was awake and watched the TV screen while having a colonoscopy 15 years ago. I watched the TV screen while having a cardiac stent put into my circumflex artery during an angioplasty op following my heart attack in December 2019. Wow. I don't think I could do any of that. I just want a good nap with the stuff that helps you forget it even happened. You are a trooper. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted April 29 #120244 Share Posted April 29 2 hours ago, grapau27 said: I turned down the hip replacement op offer in April 2023 because I was only 66 and also expressed by concerns about my heart medication and General anaesthetic. I was told they now use numbing injections instead of a general anaesthetic for hip replacement. I wasn't doubting you. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted April 29 #120245 Share Posted April 29 12 minutes ago, Keksie said: Wow. I don't think I could do any of that. I just want a good nap with the stuff that helps you forget it even happened. You are a trooper. You don't want to hear a saw cutting through your bone? 2 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etta1213 Posted April 29 #120246 Share Posted April 29 16 hours ago, helen haywood said: But Diana is and always stays…regal. What a perfect window seat you have for her! She is regal! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted April 29 #120247 Share Posted April 29 Weird pages 4809 and 4810 are a repeat ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare h20skibum Posted April 29 #120248 Share Posted April 29 2 minutes ago, Jimbo said: Weird pages 4809 and 4810 are a repeat ! On mine they are not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted April 29 #120249 Share Posted April 29 1 minute ago, h20skibum said: On mine they are not. Not on my mobile phone in the UK either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare h20skibum Posted April 29 #120250 Share Posted April 29 You may remember about a month ago, Ricky, my daughter’s cat ended up in the hospital for a blood transfusion. He was diagnosed as anemic, and his PCV (I think that is the correct term) was down to 9. When he was released, it was up to 22, which was still a little low. Today, will be the fourth time I have taken him to the vet for a blood test, as they continue to monitor how he is doing. He is still on steroids, and a second round of antibiotics. Tomorrow we will find out where his numbers are. They have been up to 30 and down to 16. He was not happy when I put him in his carrier. I am not sure, but I think this is his evil eye, once I brought him back home. 19 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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