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Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Dave_in_AZ, Mar 19, 2018.

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Okay OPUS, I'll let ya in on (a) recent event(s) that may well define HIGH STRUNG for low living:
Starting Friday Morning, I swallowed one PROCHLORPERAZINE 10 MG TAB at 05:00.
Took Two 10 MG DIAZEPAM at 07:18 for a PET/CT at 08:00 (for the relaxing part).
That evening, took another prochlorperazine 10 mg tab (1 tablet every six hours for nausea or vomiting, which I had neither) at 19:23.
At 21:50 I took 1 Tramadol 58 TV 50MG (1 or 2 tablets every 6 hours).
Urination ceased after tramadol. I was told it would OPEN Urinary Tract. Another medical falsity.
About 7 hours later, I woke up the Wife and told her to get up and dressed as I've called 911. Ambulance arrived about 0430, and we chatted with personnel about possibly best place to go and ended up at same Hospital I'm having Chemo "treatments".
Wife and I drove to Hospital E.R., checked in, explain what's been happening timeline, quickly directed into Emergency Room and a single room, within 30 minutes 2 Male Doctors see me and start the ball rolling.
I had enough pain but not too much to not be sarcastic and comical.

SARCASM: It works wherever you work it.

Diagnosis: Acute Urinary Retention, Constipation Adult.
2 Nurses arrive after Doctors and assess it's best for a catheter, which was my preferred request with a LARGE bag. There's a point in everyone's life when modesty goes out the window with a concrete block.
mine disappeared in the latter 70's.

Departed E.R. at 08:57.

Now I have a Catheter until, probably, Friday, 4-14.
My ABS need attention yet not too much too fast.
I'm 64, not a spring just sprung turkey.
I have a 2 hour chemo infusion Thursday starting at 09:45 and maybe Catheter can be gone then during that event, but probably not.
They may well defer to E.R. or another Doctor.
If Urology division doesn't remove it by Friday then it's the E.R., where most (another story) of those wonderful Nurses perform their miracles.

Those events may have an inkling of HIGH STRUNG. I've had much worse but they disappeared when I quit Alcohol in June '92, 7 years before Trucking.
CHEERS!! would ANY of the above description possibly cause a wee bit of HIGH ANXIETY?? end of line
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Dang, @Val_Caldera , I didn't know you were that sick. I thought you were running. Well, I guess all that stuff will harsh one's mellow a bit.
I hope the best. Take care.

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JolliRoger said: ↑

They say that is quite similar to having a feeding tube run UP thru your nose and DOWN into your stomach.
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Some people say that, yes. Some people have never done both, especially to themselves, so it would be hard to take their opinion seriously.

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The OM is looking at me like," Eat your oatmeal, and get your roadwork done."

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D.Tibbitt said: ↑

Bonus points if his butt crack makes a an appearance from the dirty gray sweatpants
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Still traumatized tidbit from the last episode of trucker butt?

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REO6205 said: ↑

Some people say that, yes. Some people have never done both, especially to themselves, so it would be hard to take their opinion seriously.
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Agreed... I have had the nose and once it deviated on installation and returned out the opposite nostril, looked rather quaint. Asked the nurse if that was usual and she scampered, sayin Oh, My God, no... Never had a catheter that I remember, but the 4 bypass heart surgery was not too vivid at the time.
No desire to self install/manipulate one.

For a real trip, get you a "peg" stuck into your stomach and add "baby food" 6 times a day. Like a valve stem stuck into you stomach, a foot of like windshield wiper hose hangy down. This keep you alive after you have recovered from a stroke; can walk plus, just cannot swallow.

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Bill51 said: ↑

Fat Mike's, the ShopRite, Howard Johnson's when they sold ice cream and fried clams.
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Howard Johnson had the concessions on Penn TP and Hot Shoppes had the IN East West Toll Road, back in the late 50's.
Or was it the other way around?? Any OH is blank to me. Was it in existence pre 1958? I was steady running west middle 57 till 3/58.

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JolliRoger said: ↑

Howard Johnson had the concessions on Penn TP and Hot Shoppes had the IN East West Toll Road, back in the late 50's.
Or was it the other way around?? Any OH is blank to me. Was it in existence pre 1958? I was steady running west middle 57 till 3/58.
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Howard Johnsons was in PA along the TP

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