# Beck's Update: second kidney successfully removed **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775 "2021-06-21T17:18:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/61 "2021-06-23T12:12:09Z")
Good morning **Beck** , glad to see you posting. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/62 "2021-06-23T12:30:07Z")
Glad to see that you are recovering well! šŸ™‚ ---
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/63 "2021-06-23T12:39:59Z")
Yay! Beckā€™s awake and posting! Hope all goes smoothly from here on out. ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/64 "2021-06-23T12:58:35Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The nurses hate me. > I asked the day nurse what time she got off. She said ā€œNot soon enoughā€ Donā€™t take it personal. Considering the year health care workers have had Iā€™m sure they hate EVERYBODY and not just you šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/65 "2021-06-23T12:59:59Z")
@Beckdawrek , glad you made it. Itā€™d be dull, dull, dull around here without you. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/66 "2021-06-23T13:00:00Z")
I totally agree. I am exasperating.šŸ˜‰ ---
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/67 "2021-06-23T13:13:01Z")
Welcome back, Beck! _hugs_ ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/68 "2021-06-23T13:21:13Z")
Welcome back to the the real world Beck. Not much has changed, Biden is still President and a new strain of covid has arrived. The Olympics will entertain us in July. We may even have a repaired bridge into Memphis sometime in the next few weeks. Woo-hoo! Take care of yourself and stay after the nurses. Make sure they give you the attention and care you need. Get better soon. We miss you. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/69 "2021-06-23T13:35:20Z")
Welcome back, **Beck**! Glad to see youā€™re recovering and driving the nurses to an early retirement. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/70 "2021-06-23T15:41:02Z")
Well Beck, I didnā€™t know you were down until you were up again. So glad you came out of it all right! We need you around here! ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/71 "2021-06-23T16:03:42Z")
Iā€™m glad you are better. Our lives would be sad without your reports of Clarence and Bigtoe. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/72 "2021-06-23T16:17:18Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Iā€™m sure the nurses love you. Itā€™s everyone else thatā€™s annoying them. Night nurse speaking. Iā€™m sure they love you too and it **is** the other patients who are making them weary. Arenā€™t pain pumps the bomb!? When Iā€™ve had one I call it ā€œDope on a rope.ā€ Of course ā€˜dopeā€™ holds a different meaning for me now that I have found you guys. Yā€™all are far more likely to keep me awake and laughing than to put me to sleep. As I remember my newbie-new days here **Beck** , you were the first poster to have that delightful effect on me, I hung on every word you posted, laughing all the while. Iā€™m a Beck groupie. Iā€™m owning that. Use your ā€œDope on a ropeā€ to the max, thatā€™s what itā€™s there for. The nurses are all busy in the break room fighting over who **gets** to take care of you. ---
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/73 "2021-06-23T16:21:11Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > The nurse are all busy in the break room fighting over who **gets** to take care of you. Sheā€™s probably right, you know. Good to see you back, @beckdawrek! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/74 "2021-06-23T16:41:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ā€¦hepped up on goof-ballsā€¦ I though me and Letterman were the only folks who use that phrase. Iā€™ve just decided I like you. The nurses donā€™t hate you. They probably hate being understaffed, overworked, and very likely underappreciated (not by you, by hospital administration). Wishing you calm waters and smooth sailing! mmm ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/75 "2021-06-23T17:00:33Z")
Glad to have you back @Beckdawrek - and donā€™t overdo it getting caught up on the board or the world. We (and it) will wait for you to heal a bit. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/76 "2021-06-23T17:53:03Z")
So glad to see you! Weā€™ll be here as you heal. Hope you get some shut-eye soon. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/77 "2021-06-23T20:02:51Z")
At the risk of exposing that I havenā€™t carefully read every thread about the ongoing perils of ~~Pauline~~ **Beck** ā€™s innards I read this threadā€™s title as suggesting **Beck** now has zero kidneys. :eek: If true thatā€™s far from good news on a strategic level even if the darn thing was badly diseased and needed to come out to live to fight another week. So am I reading this right? ---
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/78 "2021-06-23T20:06:54Z")
@LSLGuy: you are reading it right. She had one kidney (which she had nicknamed ā€œPonchoā€), which had been causing her problems, removed surgically last year. The remaining kidney, ā€œLefty,ā€ had soldiered on for a while, but she started needing dialysis a few months ago. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/79 "2021-06-23T20:28:40Z")
Ouch! Poor thing! I was afraid thatā€™s what that meant. A difficult road just keeps getting steeper. Life sucketh greatly sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775/80 "2021-06-23T20:29:09Z")
Whoa, I didnā€™t realize that either. šŸ˜¬ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becks-update-second-kidney-successfully-removed/944775.md?page=5)