Mine was 10 years ago, for cancer. Mine took about 7 hours from my house til I was back at my house. Robotic, laparoscopic and easier than some root canals I’ve done. 5 tiny inch long incisions, closed with glue and covered with bandaids.
Hoping for the same for you.
I always say that we’re getting old at the right time, medicine-wise. New knees, new hips, and day surgeries.
Praying yours goes well (so, technically, I’m praying that your surgeon is sober and competent).
I’m impressed!
Mine will be robotic as well. We don’t think I have cancer. I actually hope it’s longer than 7 hours… that would put us on the way home during EVENING RUSH HOUR. Which, in the DC suburbs, is no laughing matter. It’s 45 minutes to home in “good” traffic… Maybe I’ll “not feel quite well enough” long enough to delay departure until 7 PM or so, LOL.
Spotted on Facebook:
I work for county government in social services. Recently I was assigned to supervise/train a new worker. This person happens to be the adult child of one of the county commissioners who run the county government - essentially one of the main “bosses”.
In my 30 years of working for this agency I have never personally met a commissioner other than to sit in the occasional group meeting to discuss salaries or other assorted issues. I don’t even think I’ve ever even known their names most of the time.
My new worker brought dad to my office a couple weeks ago. Dear lord.
This was unexpected and a bit awkward but I managed to deal appropriately. He seems like a genuinely nice guy. He then participated in our agency luncheon which was subsequently a bit restrained. I tried to keep things light by entertaining everyone with one of my eccentric life stories.
We are about 3 months in so far of this person’s employment.
Said worker has required a bit of intense supervision in some benign areas such as organization/office cleanliness/etc. but is actually very inquisitive and catching on to the work.
Worker stepped on a rusty nail the first month during a required home visit and had to go to the hospital for treatment.
Tonight I get a message that worker was in an accident driving home from a mandatory state training class held in a nearby large city.
Not sure about the outcome other than that the worker was taken to a nearby hospital and father was on his way to the ER.
I hope everything is OK. I think I would have heard if things had deteriorated.
I had hoped my last year or two of work would be without excess tension and drama.
That doesn’t seem to be the way things are turning out.
I ordered some sweatpants from Old Navy. Originally promised by the 28th (next Monday). Then I got an l email saying they’d be here early - on the 24th.
I checked tracking late last night and they’d already arrived at UPS nearby - in fact the package had been there since 5 AM. I thought maybe they’d arrive today.
Nope: they’re coming tomorrow. UPS would rather something take up space for 48 hours, than deliver early. Yeah, first world problems.
Had the screening call for my surgery Friday. It had occurred to me that with all the bloodwork, they didn’t do a blood type testing. A lot of people have told me that theirs is done right at the time of surgery. Well, the screening nurse said “You need to get your blood typed, they can’t do that at an outside lab. You should come by the hospital tomorrow”.
I refused. I’m not going to waste 2 hours in the middle of the workday to do something unnecessary. They can do it when I get there Friday. She didn’t even try to strong-arn me into arriving early Friday. A transfusion is unlikely to be needed anyway. Nobody told me in advance that this has to be done at the hospital, not even the doctor So, the whole thing is bullshit.
Oh, and the nurse was insistent that my schedule was 40 minutes later than I’ve been told by the doctor’s office. I have a message in to confirm. Imagine if I went by today’s call, showed up at the time the nurse said, and was told “Sorry, you missed your arrival time, you’re out of luck”. I mean, I know the time might slip either way, especially due to emergencies, but the doctor’s office needs to communicate that.
I wish you smooth sailing with your surgery.
I do hate how doctor’s offices communicate poorly about all things medical. Very annoying.
And I hope your sweatpants arrive on time!
I have a similar issue on my way to and from work. Please changing lanes like crazy people. I have had so many poeple recnetly chnge lanes before they are past my car, I have to break to prevent an accident which of course in heavy traffic means more risk from the cars behind us. We are having a lot of slow downs as well. I see so many cars darting into spaces so they can get ahead for a few seconds. Ihave yet reached the point of going surface roads as that signifigantly increase my travel time. trael with light traffic <25 minutes. traffic with lots of wrecks and slow downs about 45 minutes, surface roads 45 minutes to an hour. Folks be crazy around here.
I was shopping at Goodwill where there was a pretty long line to check out. the woman in front of me left her cart and walked away. I stepped around the cart and continued with the line. She cam back awhile later and tried to get back in line infront of me. I refused and said she left. she lost her mind. whe started yelling that that was how lines worked that she could leave her cart and come back to the line(i guess we were supposed to advance her cart for her?) then she started threatening me, that she was going to wait for me in the parking lot. I told her I had 911 on speed dial and to go to the end of the line. One I got to the cashier i let them know she was crazy and threatening me. I had the security guard watch outside while I went to my car.
I have never heard of leaving a line to ship some more and expecting to return “your place” in line. SMH
KDL what have you done with our access to FREEGAL ? I was looking forward to dragging out the lounge chair to the deck today and listening to my downloaded FREEGAL tunes from the app on my phone on the big speaker. The app doesn’t recognize my zip code. I call KDL and speak to a librarian who tells me they dropped the music service a couple months ago! This is bad bad bad news. The librarian tells me in a chipper voice I can check out albums on hoopla ( 10 a month for seven days each, no downloads to listen later either ) or go to their vibes section to listen to local artists and download an mp3. (What? MP3? I need a media player for that and to use a desktop computer wtf)
Oh this does not sit well with me at all. So many fucking great tunes I had saved.
Fucking assholes. There goes my summer listening enjoyment right to the shit can.
I had eye #1 cataract removed yesterday (#2 in 2 weeks). In the few hours I was gone, some motherfucker came in and placed dust everywhere. We won’t mention the carpets.
That can work with two people. One leaves to grab something and the other stays with the cart. Or with one if they just grab one thing from within sight distance.
It’s best if the person who left is obviously hurrying.
Years ago I was grocery shopping and a woman was several people ahead of me in line. Her cart was about half full and I watched as she sent her children to run through the store fetching more items. By the time she got to the front of the line her cart was nearly full. The person in front of me was not amused.
OMG, even here in the Great White North, it’s summer, even though it doesn’t officially arrive for another two months. Thanks, global warming, but actually, no thanks. I hate this. The garage is now useless as a fridge and is now actually counterproductive – I opened doors and windows today and it’s warmer outside than inside.
I hope my A/C is in good shape as it will be doing serious work in the coming months!
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She sounds like a crazy person, but this is pretty standard at my local Trader Joe’s. People will often leave their cart/basket in the line and grab other items, since the line snakes past certain aisle. Yes, you just push their thing forward until they come back. It’s really not a big deal.
I have been in that situation myself, where someone who leaves the line in front of me says they want to grab one more item and asks me to watch their cart. I always say, “Sure.” And I will push their cart forward. It doesn’t cause a problem for me, because I’d be behind them in line anyway.
The only time it becomes a problem is if their cart gets to the front and they aren’t back yet. Then that would stall the whole line if everyone had to wait. Usually, that is the point where the cart is pulled out of line, and they have to grab it and go to the back. And I’ve never seen anyone complain about that, because they know they were taking too long.
I’m not even talking about Trader Joe’s, I’m talking about regular supermarkets around here like Safeway or Fred Meyer (Puget Sound area of Washington). This seems like regular shopping line etiquette.
I have never seen that type of behavior in my life. I don’t even know how I’d react, it’s just not done to ask someone to keep pushing your cart for them while you keep shopping. If you’re not done shopping, don’t get in line, maybe? I know people forget things, but either do without, or leave the line and come back.
If there’s a couple, or a kid who runs off to grab ketchup or something, and they come back while still in line, that’s something I’ve seen and accept. But never ever have I seen someone just walk away from their cart, and I would never expect anyone around here to push my cart for me!
I agree, but if someone did ask me, I wouldn’t mind.
If someone walked away and just expected me to do it, I would probably just push their cart out of my way and move forward as soon as they were about ten feet away.
In the places I seen it, it makes the line easier, because people pushing carts through the line to get to those aisles will cause quite a logjam. Much simpler to step off and grab what you need when the line gets to that point.
How long do the cash register lines get where you live? And they somehow block multiple aisle ends to they point where they cause logjams?
Do people just put an empty cart at the end of the line, get a stranger to push it, and sprint up and down the ailes? What if everyone did that? Maybe set up a little train of carts that just goes round and round the cashiers? (My mental image of what you’re describing is veering into the absurd and making me giggle)
I think I’m very fortunate on where I shop and what time of day, or all my stores everywhere I’ve lived have much better layouts where such a scenario is hard to imagine actually playing out. I’m rarely behind more than 3 people at the cash and the lines don’t block the ailes at all.
I’m honestly a little boggled. The American stereotype is that they shoot each other for walking down the wrong street but they trust each other to push their food around the store?