# Bad, bad, bad Beck has once again arisen from the depths. (My latest travails in healthcare) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126 "2020-09-21T06:21:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/81 "2020-10-12T18:37:30Z")
When someone hears from her, please let the rest of us know. I’m thinking all the stress can’t be good for her. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/82 "2020-10-12T19:32:28Z")
And please let her know that we’re all thinking of her. ❤ ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/83 "2020-10-12T19:41:05Z")
That’s sad to hear. Best wishes to the whole family. I don’t suppose we can send a pizza or something. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/84 "2020-10-12T20:24:26Z")
Doesn’t dropzone know her IRL? – and hasn’t been here for a while either, I realize. @dropzone – are you there? do you know if Beck’s OK? and are you OK yourself? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/85 "2020-10-13T00:47:07Z")
DZ stopped posting soon after the move. He had a bunch of stuff happening and he hated the new platform. I’d get in touch but an unfortunate accident caused me to lose my contact list. We are at the mercy of the fates ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/86 "2020-10-13T01:07:59Z")
Had to stop and think for a moment, lotta crap going on myself. The last thing I heard from her was that Sonofwrek was stabilized and out of surgery. Wish I had more to offer. It’s bugging me too ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/87 "2020-10-13T01:19:47Z")
Ok desperation leads to inspiration. Dug out my old phone on the slim hope that I hadn’t done a factory reset on it yet. Luck and the fates smile upon us, message dispatched to Beck ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/88 "2020-10-13T01:27:59Z")
Thanks, DorkVader. And please – back up that info someplace! Maybe even write a note? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/89 "2020-10-13T01:45:55Z")
This just in I’m so overwhelmed right now. I just can’t think. My Son has had a scary proceedure done. He came through the surgery and will be fine. It’s gonna be a long recovery period. He is, of course sad we can’t see him very much. They won’t even let me in the parking garage. I see him on a screen. His wife and Mr Wrekker get in for about 20 min. each a day. I told her to not worry, keep taking care of things there and that I’d check with her in a few days ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/90 "2020-10-13T01:48:44Z")
On that note, we need to do something for her, I just don’t know what or how. But her and her family are an integral part of this community as much as any of the past greats were. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/91 "2020-10-13T03:11:48Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > I told her to not worry, keep taking care of things there and that I’d check with her in a few days > [@DorkVader](#): > > On that note, we need to do something for her, I just don’t know what or how Thanks for finding her and passing news along. It’s a relief. No ideas, but I keep my thinking cap charged and turned on. Would you have a chance perhaps just once a day to send her a quick text that we’re all thinking of her and she and her family are not ‘out of sight and out of mind’? Hey **@spoons** , can you crank out one of your swell songs and send it to **Dork** for him to forward to **Beck** , with our love and hugs? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/92 "2020-10-13T03:18:38Z")
I can try, **Boo** , but it may take a while. Let me think a bit. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/93 "2020-10-13T03:22:13Z")
Since we can’t bring over dinner ourselves, and since they live well outside of where any carryout place would deliver, maybe we can arrange to have something shipped to the house from one of the companies that does frozen overnight deliveries? (Assuming that DorkVader has, or can get, Beck’s actual address.) ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/94 "2020-10-13T03:30:37Z")
I can do that Boo, maybe not once a day though, she has enough going on right now, I want to let her have a little space to focus on her family. Here is what I’ll do, everyone either post here or pm me message for her and I’ll copy paste them to her all at once on Thursday evening. I understand we’re all concerned and fretful over her, but I’m also sensitive to her situation right now, having witnessed something similar with my parents in the past. I don’t want to be too intrusive but I do want to do something that will let her know that we’re thinking about and worried about her and her family Thats why I wish someone other than Beck had a direct line to Dropzone, as far as I know, he’s the only one who actually knows her address. I’ll see if I can tease something out somehow… ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/95 "2020-10-13T03:52:41Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > I understand we’re all concerned and fretful over her, but I’m also sensitive to her situation right now, having witnessed something similar with my parents in the past. I don’t want to be too intrusive but I do want to do something that will let her know that we’re thinking about and worried about her and her family Thank you~you’re thinking this through a lot more smoothly than I had. I leap before looking, so from now on I’ll supply my enthusiasm and you supply the level-headed finesse. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/96 "2020-10-13T03:59:24Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I can try, **Boo** , but it may take a while. Let me think a bit. Thank you 🎶🎵 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/97 "2020-10-13T04:15:12Z")
Any chance of sending frozen corn dogs? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/98 "2020-10-13T04:19:55Z")
DorkVader, thanks very much. Will add something here to pass on to Beck – will try to do it when I’m more awake. Am very glad her son’s expected to recover. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/99 "2020-10-13T04:31:20Z")
Okay, sometimes these things are easy, and sometimes they are downright impossible. This fell somewhere between those extremes, but was still challenging. I’m proud of parts of this; others I think are a little banal. But I thought I’d post it here for critique and comments, before **Dork** sends it off to **Beck**. If he does at all–if we all agree that it sucks, it shouldn’t be sent, right? So let’s get your feedback. **Lean on Us** (based on Bill Withers’ "Lean on Me) _Sometimes in our lives we all have pain,_ _And what kind, depends._ _But if we are wise,_ _We know that we’ve got plenty of friends._ _Lean on us; we’re here for you_ _'Cause we are your friends,_ _We’ll help you carry through._ _For, it won’t be long,_ _'Til we’ll each need,_ _Somebody to lean on._ _ **Beck** , it’s a tough time,_ _Should you need help, we can assist,_ _You’re needed elsewhere, but be aware,_ _And know that you are missed._ _You just call on us **Beckster** , when you need a hand,_ _We all need somebody to lean on._ _We just might have a problem that you’ll understand,_ _We all need somebody to lean on._ _Lean on us; we’re here for you_ _'Cause we are your friends,_ _We’ll help you carry through._ _For, it won’t be long,_ _'Til we’ll each need,_ _Somebody to lean on._ _It’s a real tough load you have to bear,_ _And you must carry._ _But, we’ll help you cope._ _So say your friends from the Dope,_ _We’re here to lean on._ _Lean on us; we’re here for you_ _'Cause we are your friends,_ _We’ll help you carry through._ _For, it won’t be long,_ _'Til we’ll each need,_ _Somebody to lean on._ ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126/100 "2020-10-13T04:32:55Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Any chance of sending frozen corn dogs? 🤔Hmmmm, I wonder, perhaps corndog shaped balloon? Anyway, I have what I think is a strong possibility for her location, now my task is to somehow get her to confirm it when I talk to her next without being obvious about it. Or I could just be upfront and ask her [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-has-once-again-arisen-from-the-depths-my-latest-travails-in-healthcare/921126.md?page=6)