# 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:** 12
**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 7, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/221 "2020-03-07T03:59:42Z")
That makes sense. Gotta protect Lefty from any nastiness from Pancho’s old home. He’s gone but not entirely forgotten. ---
**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 7, 2020, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/222 "2020-03-07T06:02:56Z")
‘Hilda Svengarde’? Damn, I was hoping you wouldn’t ever find this out! :smack: ---
**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 7, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/223 "2020-03-07T08:23:09Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > All this sleeping is cutting into my insomniac lifestyle. > This must not go on. No insomnia? Now who am I going to play “Don’t Bump” and “Count to a Million” with, at 3:00 AM? 😉 ---
**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 7, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/224 "2020-03-07T08:42:12Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > No insomnia? Now who am I going to play “Don’t Bump” and “Count to a Million” with, at 3:00 AM? 😉 I’m still here. My insomnia is intact. **Beck** : So you don’t get to take Pancho home in a jar of formaldehyde? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/225 "2020-03-07T14:51:11Z")
Sounds like the _Federales_ kept Pancho. Best not to ask to see the remains. ---
**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 7, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/226 "2020-03-07T15:11:28Z")
======== **Oh My God Becky** ======= Holy Hell, OM freakin’G, For the love of Pete, Jesus Christ Superstar, oh heck throw Sinatra and Carrot Top in there too… ``` Ouch! ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/227 "2020-03-07T19:58:48Z")
Yes? ---
**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 7, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/228 "2020-03-07T20:28:53Z")
**Sunny girl** , I had a rough night. I’m better now. (:)) ---
**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 7, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/229 "2020-03-07T20:45:13Z")
Are you still feeling sickly, or is it just pain? ---
**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 7, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/230 "2020-03-07T20:50:23Z")
It’s the sleep meds. I just can’t handle them. They make me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/231 "2020-03-07T21:08:02Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ======== **Oh My God Becky** ======= > > Holy Hell, OM freakin’G, For the love of Pete, Jesus Christ Superstar, oh heck throw Sinatra and Carrot Top in there too… > > ``` > Ouch! > > ``` > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > **Sunny girl** , I had a rough night. I’m better now. (:)) > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It’s the sleep meds. I just can’t handle them. > They make me crazy. Eek! But glad thinks are better in the light. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/232 "2020-03-07T21:34:33Z")
A friend of mine just had an overnight hospital stay (hernia). He brought his Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana card and a vape pen. A nurse told him that wasn’t permitted and he laughed. ---
**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 8, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/233 "2020-03-08T03:33:45Z")
**Saturday night Special** I just realized I’ve been here a few days. Jeez, drugs mess with your timing. I’ll lose an hour tonight too. This is sucking my soul out. Let me tell you about bathtime. Lucky it’s Saturday. The Nurse gets me all set and leaves. Before she leaves she says, “Don’t fall down, don’t drown, here’s the buzzer if either thing happens.” This place is so cold. The water is lukewarm at best. I’m liable to have pneumonia. They are gonna kill me one way or another. I got my new jammies on. I couldn’t get back to the bed. I just sat there awhile trying to decide if this was a nurse call button problem or my own personal problem. I may have napped awhile. I know they had a shift change. I heard folks talking out in my room. It seems I was not in bed like I was supposed to be. Well guess what folks? I’m in the john. So…being well mannered I knocked on the inside of the bathroom door. Someone says “come in”…what??! :smack: They finally realized ol’beck is stuck in the john. How embarrassing. I got helped to the bed. Fed, fluffed, fiddled over. Hot time in the ol’surgical wing …tonight. (Except I’m still freezing :)) ---
**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 8, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/234 "2020-03-08T15:55:17Z")
If you tell them you’re cold, and ask for another blanket, they’ll bring you this number that feels like it was crocheted from barbed wire. The knit is so loose, you can put fingers through it. I think patients run fevers in self-defense! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/235 "2020-03-08T16:15:50Z")
When my mum was in recovery from surgery and was cold, the nurses would take a light cotton blanket it and microwave it, than put it on mum’s legs and feet. She said it made all the difference. ---
**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 8, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/236 "2020-03-08T17:10:46Z")
I’ve had the warm blanket treatment. It was very nice. I’m a bit druggy today. I slept well last night But I’ve been painful. I have a little ankle swelling. And a tiny headache I’m gonna nap after lunch. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/237 "2020-03-08T17:20:15Z")
When are you supposed to get out of the hospital? ---
**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 8, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/238 "2020-03-08T18:17:26Z")
^^^I’ll be discharged Monday to a recuperation center. I live in a remote location so the doctor requested I go there. Not looking forward to it at all! (:)) ---
**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 8, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/239 "2020-03-08T19:24:28Z")
Yay for getting out of the hospital! How long in the recuperation facility? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742/240 "2020-03-08T19:30:53Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ve had the warm blanket treatment. It was very nice. > I’m a bit druggy today. I slept well last night > But I’ve been painful. > **I have a little ankle swelling.** And a tiny headache > I’m gonna nap after lunch. So quit pulling against the ankle restraints! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-pancho-my-sick-sick-sick-right-kidney-lets-talk/848742.md?page=13)