# I killed a carrion fly in my nursing home room **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754 "2019-07-28T14:54:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/1 "2019-07-28T14:54:34Z")
Specifically a Green Bottle Fly. Right purty, but as she breathed her last I said, “Wrong room,” in my best James Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/2 "2019-07-28T15:09:07Z")
I once named a buzzing mosquito in my bedroom Henry Higgins. Just you wait, Henry 'Iggins…just you wait ---
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/3 "2019-07-28T15:20:24Z")
I got a skeeter bite on my butt. I was fully dressed at the time;) Tell me how a flying skeeter accomplished that feat. Fairly sure I was seated at the time. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/4 "2019-07-28T15:30:42Z")
**DZ** I thought you were out of the joint. What’s up? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/5 "2019-07-28T15:49:39Z")
After last week’s adventure of being beset by yellow jackets (the little bastards!!!) I decided I would pull some weeds in a different part of the yard. As I was starting to think about quitting (it’s hot!!!) I heard an ominous buzzing, and I high-tailed it out of the garden bed. Fortunately, it wasn’t a yellow jacket, but it wasn’t happy about my proximity, so I took it as a sign to put away my gardening stuff. I’m about to assume the knitting position in front of Netflix. I take flying stingers most seriously, omen-wise. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/6 "2019-07-28T17:17:54Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > **DZ** I thought you were out of the joint. What’s up? Nope. They are sending me to a different one for silly reasons, but maybe the PT, food, and Wi-Fi will be better there. Here PT is nonexistent now, the food has deteriorated from not very good, and I get a poor, one intermittent bar signal. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/7 "2019-07-29T03:28:12Z")
Rant: At 7:42pm I got a call from some medical transport guy saying he’ll be picking me up @10:15am for an 11:00am appointment at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital. This was as the first I heard about it and I immediately tried to talk to the nurse to learn more about it. Meanwhile, I checked the MyChart website and found I have NO upcoming appointments at any Elmhurst branch. My nurse left without seeing me but at 9:45pm–two hours later–another nurse found a sheet of paper describing my appointment with an ortho guy at a completely different place. Grrrrrr! This isn’t the first time I’ve stumbled on an appointment they hadn’t bothered to tell me about. I will be so glad to be shut of this dump. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/8 "2019-07-29T23:49:46Z")
At about 5am the night nurse told me about my appointment. At about 730 the day shift knew nothing about it. At 945 they started getting me ready for a 1000 pickup. Then they couldn’t find a CNA to accompany me because they hadn’t planned ahead. I got to the 1100 disappointment at 1145 and learned they don’t take my insurance. I immediately called the driver but he didn’t show for two hours. Grrr. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/9 "2019-07-31T18:21:06Z")
I’d be very concerned about the presence of carrion flies in a nursing home. Yech. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-carrion-fly-in-my-nursing-home-room/837754/10 "2019-07-31T19:33:56Z")
Yes, since it might indicate someone with dead flesh around an unhealed sore or gangrene.