# Dear Pancho: (My sick, sick, sick right kidney) Let's talk! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742 "2020-03-01T07:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/181 "2020-03-06T02:55:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I’m in North Little Rock. Where is this…hospital? “Animal Hospital and Roofing, no job too big or too small” about five miles from where the truck blew up. ~VOW ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/182 "2020-03-06T03:11:23Z")
**~VOW** , don’t make laugh. My cough pillow don’t work for laughing. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/183 "2020-03-06T03:20:01Z")
I faked Nurse Rachet out. She brought me a sleeping pill. I didn’t swallow it yet. I’m trying to watch ‘Spartacus’ Don’t worry I’ll swallow it in a bit. I gotta be perky tomorrow so Nurse Hoss-man won’t chew me out. I would kill for a corndog. I can’t even talk the lil’wrekker into going after some. She brought me some protein bars. :smack: ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/184 "2020-03-06T03:31:00Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’ll bet her first thoughts about\* those cats!\* > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I need to call the Meezers. Hmmm!? How can I do that? Chortle. Gatopescado called it. And Beck is still definitely Beck. Which is very good to know. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/185 "2020-03-06T03:38:06Z")
You need sleep, girlfriend. Take the pill and throw us out. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/186 "2020-03-06T03:44:13Z")
Oh, I thought I was asleep. I took the pill. Nurse Rachet came hooked up my restraints and turned the TV off. I’m asleep now. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/187 "2020-03-06T04:05:12Z")
Ask Nurse Rachet to show you the warrant for the restraints. No warrant, call Security. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/188 "2020-03-06T05:54:30Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Gatopescado called it. Yep. She loves her cats. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/189 "2020-03-06T08:10:15Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Apparently I kept getting out of bed during my acid trip. Setting off a multitude of Alarms. Hee-hee. I did that after my heart surgery, just to see whether I could stand up. All the alarms and everyone came running. So they raised my bed WAY up so I couldn’t get out, but I figured out how to lower it. I got a “FALL RISK” bracelet which I still have. Did you get one? Vienna sends her best to the Meezers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/190 "2020-03-06T08:52:03Z")
what you do to get rid of the relatives is tell the nurse to come in say 45 minutes or so and chase em out … when I was taking pain meds in the hospital for my gallbladder my dad didn’t like the idea of me on morphine so he had it switched to Demerol … made me sick as a dog and took a week longer to get out because it didn’t work with the other meds … I’m surprised tho your eating solid foods I didn’t get any for a week in a half until they brought me warmed up leftovers like an hour before checkout and i wolfed it down … the weekend nurse was amazed until she read my chart and said "you eat shoe leather right about now wouldn’t ya " ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/191 "2020-03-06T11:56:32Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’m trying to watch ‘Spartacus’ I am Beckdawrek! ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/192 "2020-03-06T12:21:00Z")
No! I am Beckdarek! Seriously, **Beck** , we need you here. 'Nuff said for now, S. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/193 "2020-03-06T14:10:49Z")
I’ve always gotten the best breakfasts at hospitals. Eggs,bacon, biscuit & jelly, cereal, and coffee. I learned quickly to fill up on breakfast because lunch sometimes sucked. I could get by eating a bite or two of a bad lunch and not be too hungry. Hope they start you on regular meals soon Beck. I guess you know most hospitals will offer alternate food? They used to serve catfish on Fridays. I hate,hate,hate fish and refused to eat. So they’d make me a ham sandwich or turkey. Wasn’t fancy but a lot better than nasty fish. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/194 "2020-03-06T14:25:33Z")
Thou art Beckdarek Welcome back Beck ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/195 "2020-03-06T14:54:52Z")
\*\ ***Day Four “Ollie look what you’ve got us into”!** \*\*Good ‘_ouchy_’ morning! Surgery hurts. ☹ Breakfast was pretty dang good. Oatmeal and really nice strawberries. The sausage kinda resembled meat. Only complaint is: it was not enough. I hear I will see the PT people today. Nurse Hoss says they are nice people. Hmmmm? beck, who’s still hungry. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/196 "2020-03-06T15:05:53Z")
I’m curious, did they stick a sponge or something in you to fill the hole left by Pancho? ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/197 "2020-03-06T15:09:15Z")
Hi Beck, glad to see you’re progressing to therapy already. They _should be gentle_ these first days because they understand you’re in pain. Need to get that pain pump refilled. 😉 But not too much. The docs are cautious these days with that stuff. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/198 "2020-03-06T15:11:55Z")
Feel better soon Beck. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/199 "2020-03-06T15:17:48Z")
I’m hoping they are just gonna talk today. 😌 Crossed fingers. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/200 "2020-03-06T15:28:05Z")
I had a friend in college who was a PT major. He said that, in his experience, there were two breeds of physical therapists: 1. “Ohhh, you poor thing, you must be in such pain! Let’s take this slow, and we’ll get you back up and moving soon.” 2. “Get out of bed, you lazy bastard! Pain is just weakness leaving your body! Drop and give me 20!” May you get the first type. 😃 And, I’m glad you got a meal that was actually palatable this time! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742.md?page=11)