Do you feel like you’re the only person at your job that actually does anything?
- Yes
- No
- I don’t really know what anyone else does
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- Coffee
- Tea
- Soda
- Energy drink
- No Doze
- Adderall
- I’m completely stimulant free
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It’s 5:00 somewhere. What’s your pleasure?
- Beer
- Wine
- Cocktail
- Spirits (on the rocks/neat/shots)
- No thanks, I’m driving
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- Breyers
- Dreyer’s
- What?
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- Crosby
- Stills
- Nash
- Sometimes Young
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So you are 61 and are out with your wife walking the dogs on a 33f cold afternoon. You do not go more than a half mile but on the way back your right hand and right arm suddenly feel numb. Not the cold kind of numb, but the feeling you get when you lie or sit uncomfortably a long time and your arm or leg “goes to sleep.” It’s sort of tingly and your hand muscles feel clumsy when you try to close your right hand into a fist. It is a new feeling to arise from nothing. Thinking it is some kind of pulled muscle you wait for it to go away but it doesn’t (though sometimes it feels like it is going away). Picking things up is suddenly easier with the left hand rather than picking things up with the right hand. But it’s not like the right hand is useless. Heck it is easy for you to type this long poll post with that fuzzy right hand. And it is possibly your imagination that you feel like the right side of your face feels puffy around the lips and cheek, almost as if you have had a novacaine shot. But nothing is droopy in the face in the mirror. Just your regular old mug.
So it has been 12 or so hours and you have a long physical shift at work tomorrow where they will really need you. Shorthanded, of course, like everywhere. It is also supposed to snow tomorrow which could easily get you stuck up alone in a hotel in Town for a day or two. Not fun.
So do you:
- Get up tomorrow and try and reach out to your doctor for advice, worrying sheepishly that you are being overly dramatic over something simple. Paranoia come with age to you. Doctors are right busy these days dealing with patients with actual known serious diseases.
- Get up and if you feel better just go to work, monitoring the conditions as you can and wait for health developments that might indicate a real reason to worry or that it is all nothing. If symptoms persist or turn worse you follow through with option 1.
- Get a grip. What I have described is not likely that big a deal for a man only in his early sixties. Go to work and pack a bag and a good book in case you get stuck in Town.
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I’m breaking the rules because this could be serious and because you didn’t put in a choice for go to the doctor now. Weakness Numbness or feelings of weakness on one side of the body is the number one sign of stroke. I learned this the hard way. I woke up and couldn’t move my arm. I thought I pinched a nerve. I took a shower because I had to go to work. When it didn’t get better I had my daughter drive me to the hospital. They didn’t think it was a pinched nerve. Next thing I know I was swept into the ER and soon on a helicopter going to a brain center. I always try to talk myself out of something being seriously wrong sounds like you do too. There is a very good chance its nothing but you should get it checked out right away.
ETA: I was 51 years old when it happened. Its not an age thing.
Thank you for breaking the rules for this. Seriously, ER now.
I am this much upset that I will no longer be able to hear Neil Young songs on Spotify:
- Very upset
- Moderately upset
- Mildly upset
- Does not bother me at all
- Who is Neil Young / What is Spotify / What are you on about?
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I think @Biotop should seek medical attention to rule out anything serious.
- Absolutely.
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Does anyone else feel a bit awkward posting more “fun” polls after @Biotop’s potentially serious medical one?
- Yes
- Nah, I’m cool with more fun polls.
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Fun Poll. A genie grants you one of these two wishes. Which do you pick?
- Ability to eat as much ice cream as you want with absolutely no health implications at all (weight gain, lactose intolerance, diabetes, etc.)
- One-time lump sum of ten million dollars, tax-free.
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Begrudgingly going to the doctor Monday. I am sure I am going to be fine.
- I hate to go to the doctor and will find most any excuse not to do so.
- If I think I need to go to the doctor, I go.
- Hmm. Feeling out of sorts today. I am off to the doctor to check it out!
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- The pandemic has changed my answer to the above question.
- I’ve always been this way.
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If exhibiting signs that are often associated with having a stroke I…
- Go to the doctor immediately. In many instances they can help you immensely but only if it’s caught early.
- There is no other option
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- Thank you, Loach.
- You too, carnut.
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Inspired by me watching Xanadu yesterday out of morbid curiosity.
Who’s better:
- ELO
- Olivia Newton-John
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Which song do you remember more of the lyrics to?
- On Top of Old Smokey
- On Top of Spaghetti
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Buttered toast.
- Mundane. May or may not be pointless.
- Yum. Underrated.
- Now that I cut way back on carbs I would dash nekkid down Main Street for a piece of warm, buttered toast.
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You’ve just walked to the store and you realize you’ve forgotten your face mask. You know from past experience that the store you’re at doesn’t have free masks at the entrance. Your county also has a mask mandate in effect. What do you do?
- Walk back home and get it
- Just shop without a mask; plenty of other people are breaking the rules
- Walk a little farther to another store that has free masks for their shoppers, get one, and then go back to the first store
- Something else
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