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My parents' cat prefers dog food.

Coincidentally, my parents' dog prefers cat food.

I see tiny dogs as rodents, too.

I love seeing giant, pumped, skinheads walking those rodent dogs. I look down as I pass them and then chuckle for a good ten minutes behind their backs. Would never do it to their faces, though. They all look like they might pull out a gun and shoot me in the face if I did.

So I'm in the hospital. Woke up in the middle of the night on New Years with terrible abdominal pain. Looked like a blockage so they kept me overnight to monitor it. Yesterday I had surgery.

They hoped they could do it with a scope, but turns out they needed to do open surgery. Yay.

Do now I have another Longass scar parallel from now from 4 years ago. Plus two smaller ones. Four years ago my recovery took months. I have no ******* clue what I'm going to do with work and my commute...

So, yeah, my spirits are pretty low right now. Also it turns out morphine sucks. It barely works and it makes me like right away.

That sucks diglett.

No paid sick leave or stuff like that?

Ah, here the government takes over 70% of your wages or something if you're ill for more than 2 weeks or so.

Maybe you can work from home as much as possible?

Ouch. Sorry to hear that digg.

I had my appendix taken out when I was 27. It was emergency surgery (obviously) on a Friday night. My surgeon learned his skills as a MASH surgeon in Vietnam. He came to see me the next day and all he did was complain. "It was late Friday and I didn't want to bother anyone, so I didn't call for an assist. You gave me a hard time though, your appendix wasn't where it was supposed to be, it was behind your ileum. You must have had a problem when you were younger, because it was calcified. Broke in half when I pulled it out. Luckily the piece landed on your abdominal muscles and didn't fall back in. That's why you have a drain in place. You must work out a lot because those were the thickest abdominal muscles I've cut through. I hope you don't wear a speedo because you're going to have a long-*** scar thanks to that drain . . . " Meanwhile, all I could muster in response was, if I recall correctly, "uuuhhhhhhh."

Get well soon.

Ouch, Digg, sorry to hear it.

It's a sign of how our of it I am that the joke didn't even occur to me.

Thanks all!

Well, Cyn, that sounds horrifying. I got my appendix out at like 2 am; but my surgeon didn't feel the need to make me feel like I was doing Him a disservice by needing surgery.

Just got my catheter out (first time I pee is going to suck). Really hope the tube down my nose gets taken out today, too. That's going to hurt like hell, but then I can start on broth/ water. I'm so dehydrated...

Thanks again all, it IS appreciated.

You and your weird kinks.

I hope your recovery is swift and easy digg, that doesn't sound like fun.

I've got some good news, I officially have the job. I still have to wait on the background check, but they offered me the job and I spent two hours doing paper work and orientation stuff today. Last day at the grocery store is the 11th. The benefits are awesome too, I'm really stoked!

Their pay schedule is weird though. We technically only get paid on the 5th, but they allow us to do a draw against our paycheck on the 19th free of charge. If they're going to do that, it would make more sense to just pay us twice a month and be done with it.

Essentially. It happens when your intestines don't correctly keep things moving. Something gets caught or something develops to stop the continuation of food, and things get backed up. It's a traffic jam inside your body, and if something goes wrong the intestines are very fragile.

As linked in the wikipedia page, there's a wide range of causes but it sums up to a life-threatening medical emergency that needs resolution ASAP.



As sucky as the situation is digg, keep in mind that it could have been much much worse. Hope you feel better soon.

Edited, Jan 4th 2014 2:11am by IDrownFish

I recently learned that I get backed up if I have the Triple Stuff Crust Pizza from Pizza Hut, which is only annoying up to the point the dam releases and I cry. More weird is that most lasagna have more cheeses and I have no problem. Just that one particular product.