"Tony" Thought Journal 3.0

The guy isn't leaving tracks in the snow. :sneaky:

disclaimer: I didn't look at y'all's spoilers either. I lived in snow country way to long to miss that one. Only 7% get it :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:. That is because only 7% even look at it.
 
I was reading a post earlier in the thread about killing or wasting time. Well that's how my day went today. Because my car is not working and needs a repair I had to schedule a phone visit with a nurse practitioner at MSK. Originally they scheduled me for an 11:00 phone call, so I sat with my cell phone in my hand for around for 45 minutes never got a call. They text me a schedule change to 1:30 which I didn't get to see until after my original appointment. This time we did connect after I sat there about an hour.

We talked for about half hour she had a lot of pertinent questions. I have to admit that my answere to some of her questions were little white lies I didn't answer them accurately. I didn't want some minor issues I have to be blown up where I have to be subjected to different tests. I genuinely feel that these issues are from the hormone pill that I'm taking. I have six or seven months left to take the hormone pill and I will see how things pan out after that, if I'm still here.

later in the afternoon I had an grocery order delivered from Walmart. the wife and I spent about an hour putting the groceries away. Now I'm just resting preparing to help my wife with dinner.
 
Tony Page said:
I was reading a post earlier in the thread about killing or wasting time. Well that's how my day went today. Because my car is not working and needs a repair I had to schedule a phone visit with a nurse practitioner at MSK. Originally they scheduled me for an 11:00 phone call, so I sat with my cell phone in my hand for around for 45 minutes never got a call. They text me a schedule change to 1:30 which I didn't get to see until after my original appointment. This time we did connect after I sat there about an hour.

We talked for about half hour she had a lot of pertinent questions. I have to admit that my answere to some of her questions were little white lies I didn't answer them accurately. I didn't want some minor issues I have to be blown up where I have to be subjected to different tests. I genuinely feel that these issues are from the hormone pill that I'm taking. I have six or seven months left to take the hormone pill and I will see how things pan out after that, if I'm still here.

later in the afternoon I had an grocery order delivered from Walmart. the wife and I spent about an hour putting the groceries away. Now I'm just resting preparing to help my wife with dinner.
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Why waste her time and impair her medical decisions with white lies?
 
Marie Miller said:
Why waste her time and impair her medical decisions with white lies?
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She only has to concern herself with medical issues pertaining to the cancer I had, she works for MSK Oncology Department. I have a lot of medical issues that in my judgment have nothing to do with the cancer. Some I've had way before I got the diagnosis of cancer. The only information that they are interested in is how my blood test turned out and right now it's very good no indication my cancer returned. Why waste her time with every non-cancer issues or ache and pain I get.
 
Faye Fox said:
Well, Tony, I support your "white lies" to your doc if she is an overachiever. The thing is with all the liability, some doctors over do testing just to cover their butts.
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I agree. I don't mention small things to my doctor because I don't want a handful of new prescriptions, lab work, and referrals to specialists. If something bothers me enough or gets scary I will see to it then.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
I agree. I don't mention small things to my doctor because I don't want a handful of new prescriptions, lab work, and referrals to specialists. If something bothers me enough or gets scary I will see to it then.
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This all brings to mind that when I first got married we had a doctor that was recommended to us I don't ever remember once going for an MRI or CAT scan or even an x-ray he was just a good diagnostic person.
He could tell what was wrong with you by looking at you, checking your throat, checking your ears, listening to your heart and complaints, and I don't believe he was ever off the mark about what was wrong with any of us.

After he retired I remember bumping into him in a restaurant and I told him I think he was the best doctor ever as far as Diagnostics go. He told me and my wife, his son that lived in Florida was having a medical problem was in the hospital and he told him what was going on and he told his son what he thought his problem was over the phone, He was right.
 
My old PCP would say the patient is the best doctor and if they give their doctor pertinent info like recent symptoms only, it helps them to diagnose. She advocated that if you had chronic headaches all your life, then don't mention that, just current symptoms of concern.

One of my old specialist used to say as we get older and have to see multiple specialist, then treatment for one issue may contradict another. He said too many meds was like having a soup with too many ingredients, the soup would be ruined. We have to pick our battles. A good example is old folks that take a handful of meds. Start eliminating the meds that address lesser issues.
 
Faye Fox said:
My old PCP would say the patient is the best doctor and if they give their doctor pertinent info like recent symptoms only, it helps them to diagnose. She advocated that if you had chronic headaches all your life, then don't mention that, just current symptoms of concern.

One of my old specialist used to say as we get older and have to see multiple specialist, then treatment for one issue may contradict another. He said too many meds was like having a soup with too many ingredients, the soup would be ruined. We have to pick our battles. A good example is old folks that take a handful of meds. Start eliminating the meds that address lesser issues.
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Last year we thought my husband's sister was sinking into dementia. She was always repeating herself and one day she got "lost" in a Kroger store. She had checked out her groceries and then got back into the line to check out again. She was obviously confused so store employees helped her to the cafe and gave her something to drink while they called my brother-in-law.

My BIL told us how many pills she was taking each day, from her PCP, lung specialist, gastric specialist, and cardiologist. We were shocked. So my husband sat down with all her prescriptions and made a spreadsheet, then contacted her PCP. They ended up deleting more than half of her meds and she rapidly improved both physically and mentally.

All of her doctors are in the same hospital network and have access to her online medical records. How does such a thing happen?? Also, how many older people are over medicated and get confused, but are written off as having dementia??
 
Tony Page said:
As I mentioned on another post yesterday my car broke down on the way home from running some errands. Car warning signs for battery, overheating, throttle control, and possibly a few others popped up while driving home.

After letting the car cool down for a couple of hours, I started it and the only warning light that came on was the battery symbol. I did a voltage check on the battery with the car off and the car running. with the car off the foliage seem to be within range but as soon as I started the car the voltage dropped where it should be increasing to indicate the battery is charging.

The only item that can explain the car running hot and the battery not charging is a belt. I'm hoping the alternator is good and the only thing they have to do when I bring it in to get it fixed is replace a belt.

I canceled my appointment for this coming Tuesday with the MSK oncology Department, due to the car troubles. They called this morning and set up a phone meeting for the same time on Tuesday. They said they would go over my latest reports.

It's a beautiful day here today, I should be outside doing some gardening and cleaning up the raise vegetable beds, instead I'm looking to go and take a nap I'm very tired today.

I'm concerned and sad that we still have not heard from Don Alaska. I hope we hear something soon.

Below is another puzzle I found on line without a solution, I believe I have the answer.

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Long ago in a galaxy far away I had a VW rabbit whose battery kept dying. I took it up to the dealership and they could find nothing. I missed work a lot and my boss finally sent me to and old guy who worked on farm machinery. In a day he found there was a loose nut that kept shorting the electrical out. Interesting because one time I got mad at the car, swore at it, jumped on the hood, punched it and when I got in, it started right up.
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Mary Stetler said:
Long ago in a galaxy far away I had a VW rabbit whose battery kept dying. I took it up to the dealership and they could find nothing. I missed work a lot and my boss finally sent me to and old guy who worked on farm machinery. In a day he found there was a loose nut that kept shorting the electrical out. Interesting because one time I got mad at the car, swore at it, jumped on the hood, punched it and when I got in, it started right up.
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You scared the heck out of the car it started up because it thought this lady's got a short circuit.Haha
 
Mary Stetler said:
Long ago in a galaxy far away I had a VW rabbit whose battery kept dying. I took it up to the dealership and they could find nothing. I missed work a lot and my boss finally sent me to and old guy who worked on farm machinery. In a day he found there was a loose nut that kept shorting the electrical out. Interesting because one time I got mad at the car, swore at it, jumped on the hood, punched it and when I got in, it started right up.
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And you doubted your mechanical abilities! :ROFLMAO:
 
I want to tell you my car story. One of my first jobs, I was 18 or 19 anyway, there was a girl that worked there that I thought was drop dead gorgeous. I always wished she would notice me, when we crossed paths she never even said hi. I was extremely shy and couldn't find a way to "break the ice". I always felt not equal to somebody that beautiful and didn't want to take a chance of being rejected.

One very extremely cold February day I was leaving work and when I got into the parking lot I noticed all the young men around her car she had a hood up so I assumed there was a problem. None of the advice she was given would start the car. I went to my car where I kept a spray can of starting fluid, which is a high octane spray fluid that starts hard to start cars. I walked over to her car told her to get in the car and start it when I tell her, I sprayed the starting fluid around the carburetor and told her to try starting it. The car turned over and started right away. Once it started it kept running. I closed the hood went over to the window and said I think you're good she thanked me, I went back to my car the young guys around the car were all looking at each other. I don't think any of them knew what starting fluid was, so I became the hero for 5 minutes. as I was putting my starting fluid away in the trunk, I could see the young guys going back to their cars and she took off for the home.

The next day at work, she was about 15 ft away and I expected that she would acknowledge me and I would ask her how she made it home. To make a long story short she didn't even say hi, my heart's sank I remember, it just confirmed in my mind that there had to be something wrong with me. I guess I was a sensitive young man.

I remember thinking to myself maybe she'll come over sometimes during the course of the day. when that didn't happen, I thought to myself you can't predict what people going to react to things, I also thought that there had to be something wrong with me, maybe because of my shyness I came across as a snob. Whatever the case I was bothered by this event for a couple of days.
 
Tony Page said:
I want to tell you my car story. One of my first jobs, I was 18 or 19 anyway, there was a girl that worked there that I thought was drop dead gorgeous. I always wished she would notice me, when we crossed paths she never even said hi. I was extremely shy and couldn't find a way to "break the ice". I always felt not equal to somebody that beautiful and didn't want to take a chance of being rejected.

One very extremely cold February day I was leaving work and when I got into the parking lot I noticed all the young men around her car she had a hood up so I assumed there was a problem. None of the advice she was given would start the car. I went to my car where I kept a spray can of starting fluid, which is a high octane spray fluid that starts hard to start cars. I walked over to her car told her to get in the car and start it when I tell her, I sprayed the starting fluid around the carburetor and told her to try starting it. The car turned over and started right away. Once it started it kept running. I closed the hood went over to the window and said I think you're good she thanked me, I went back to my car the young guys around the car were all looking at each other. I don't think any of them knew what starting fluid was, so I became the hero for 5 minutes. as I was putting my starting fluid away in the trunk, I could see the young guys going back to their cars and she took off for the home.

The next day at work, she was about 15 ft away and I expected that she would acknowledge me and I would ask her how she made it home. To make a long story short she didn't even say hi, my heart's sank I remember, it just confirmed in my mind that there had to be something wrong with me. I guess I was a sensitive young man.

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Ya know too late that it isn't always us. It can be about them. My starter fluid story was that in the 80's and 90's I could just go into Walgreens and get it when in town. Sometime in the early 2000's I went into Walgreens and asked for a can or where it was. The kid behind the counter looked at me like I had two heads. I said it is for spraying in the carburetor. He said Lady, they stopped putting carburetors in cars in 1996.
Was my face red?
I kind of miss the Walgreens of old where you got film developed, even black and white. They held out the longest.
 
Mary Stetler said:
Ya know too late that it isn't always us. It can be about them. My starter fluid story was that in the 80's and 90's I could just go into Walgreens and get it when in town. Sometime in the early 2000's I went into Walgreens and asked for a can or where it was. The kid behind the counter looked at me like I had two heads. I said it is for spraying in the carburetor. He said Lady, they stopped putting carburetors in cars in 1996.
Was my face red?
I kind of miss the Walgreens of old where you got film developed, even black and white. They held out the longest.
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Times have changed!!!
I was never a auto mechanic, but I did work on most of my cars. I did my own tune-ups, changed alternators or generators, starting motors, fuel pumps, water pumps, belts, hoses, radiators, brakes, batteries, oil changes. About the only thing I didn't do was transmission, rear ends, exhaust systems, and internal engine problems except I have changed timing chains and head gaskets. I can't tell you how many times I jacked the car up put some cement blocks under it and work on repairs from the top and bottom.

Today's cars I know nothing about.
 
Tony Page said:
Times have changed!!!
I was never a auto mechanic, but I did work on most of my cars. I did my own tune-ups, changed alternators or generators, starting motors, fuel pumps, water pumps, belts, hoses, radiators, brakes, batteries, oil changes. About the only thing I didn't do was transmission, rear ends, exhaust systems, and internal engine problems except I have changed timing chains and head gaskets. I can't tell you how many times I jacked the car up put some cement blocks under it and work on repairs from the top and bottom.

Today's cars I know nothing about.
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You Sound like a mechanic to me.
My present mechanic learned engines in the army. He amazes me and can't wait to work on hubby's 1960 Buick Electra in the back of the barn. But I had him fix all of my farm equipment (mice!!!) and now I am out of pocket money to do much more. Have to wait till next year if he is still here. I would adopt him if I could. But he is 34.
I only have old vehicles and I like it that way.
 
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