ROTD thread

[Rocky]

Yeah, just thinking it through, you'd probably still have to prep, but I'm pretty sure we could all do without the anaesthetized anal probing. I'm sure a camera (with lighting) could be designed to do this with an AI that can look for polyps and probably cut down on 95% of the colonoscopies being done. Just my opinion, of course. But, like I said, it's an entrenched gold mine industry.

I'm sure there are better technologies out there. But as the brother of someone who died of metastatic colon cancer undiagnosed by the friendly little blue and white box advertised on television, I'll take my chances with the current standard.

 

[adorshki]

Just don't eat any red jello! And good luck!

Yeah. Red jello, brown acid, and yellow snow. Be safe out there.

 

[adorshki]

with an AI that can look for polyps and probably cut down on 95% of the colonoscopies being done. Just my opinion, of course. But, like I said, it's an entrenched gold mine industry.

There are some things at which I draw the line.

 

[WaltW]

Procedure complete, Propofol induced blackout was immediate, eyes opened, then nothing with the next breath, then woke up in recovery. Within 5 minutes sitting up and getting dressed. No dizziness or nausea just this really strong desire to eat something of substance, so off to the local diner for fried eggs, pancakes, bacon and coffee. First meal since Saturday night.
5 small polyps removed all under 4mm and instructions to return in 3 years....Oh Boy!

 

[davismanLV]

Good news!! Now let the EATING COMMENCE!!

 

[Bill Ashton]

Great news brother, but go easy man, go easy! Don't want no "rockin' and rollin" this afternoon

...when you go back to the Doc, he'll tell you to eat more crucifierous vegetables...cue up the Brussels Sprouts and Broccoli!

 

[chazmo]

Double Big Mac!

 

[Bill Ashton]

OK @chazmo , but you have to clean up after him...

 

[davidbeinct]

Procedure complete, Propofol induced blackout was immediate, eyes opened, then nothing with the next breath, then woke up in recovery. Within 5 minutes sitting up and getting dressed. No dizziness or nausea just this really strong desire to eat something of substance, so off to the local diner for fried eggs, pancakes, bacon and coffee. First meal since Saturday night.
5 small polyps removed all under 4mm and instructions to return in 3 years....Oh Boy!

Glad to hear it. Removing any potential polyps right away is while I will stick to the old fashioned way.

 

[WaltW]

Double Big Mac!

Well chazmo, you were really close! Big Mac(hadn't eaten one in about 20years) large fries and a vanilla shake. Most out of control meal I've eaten in years and it tasted fantabulous!
I eat a couple of veggies(raw & cooked) with dinner every day, including 4-5 veggie salads 4 or more times a week, fish - seafood - chicken; red meat one a week. Yogurt with 3 fruits and granola for breakfast most mornings. I cook almost all of our meals all month long except I won't make Chile or stur-fry, those are my wife's specialty. Ever since my wife's first operations, 12 years ago, I cook 26 -28 days of the month and I must say we do eat pretty well. My dear wife, Jane, has been cut from head to toe throughout her life starting with open heart surgery when she was 7 years old, in 1958 and she's still ticking today at 72: carpal tunnel both hands, left rotator cuff and shoulder blade tendon, both knees replaced wear surfaces, double mastectomy, left heal fusion with screws all in the past 15 years.
How Could I Not Cook for Her? Now the forgetting is starting for her, possibly caused by her low grade cancer meds and Estrogen therapy.
Playing and collecting guitars is my current distraction and most long lived hobby.
Oh! As an aside. My father died from colon cancer at 78 (1990) and my grandfather(dad's father) died from it at 70 (1951).

 

[walrus]

That's quite a love story, @WaltW, what a great husband! Wishing your wife well, and you, too!

 

[davismanLV]

Yes, heartbreaking and hopeful by turns. Stay strong, @WaltW ..... to quote Auntie Mame, "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

 

[chazmo]

n years and it tasted fantabulous!

I haven't had one of the double big macs either. A regular big mac is fine by itself.

Chili and stir-fry are excellent, Walt. But, I like to mix things up once in a while.

 

[Opsimath]

I suppose I could get a job with the local phone company. It rained this morning and internet promptly went out. I went to the box, dried the wires (tech guy didn't screw it shut, and I didn't either yesterday so they got wet), then loosened the nuts and checked his wiring. One wire was barely touching the post and another touched but was not wrapped. Wrapped them well on the posts and tightened the nuts, then screwed the box shut.

Internet's back.

Why cant these people just do their jobs?

 

[Rocky]

I suppose I could get a job with the local phone company. It rained this morning and internet promptly went out. I went to the box, dried the wires (tech guy didn't screw it shut, and I didn't either yesterday so they got wet), then loosened the nuts and checked his wiring. One wire was barely touching the post and another touched but was not wrapped. Wrapped them well on the posts and tightened the nuts, then screwed the box shut.

Internet's back.

Why cant these people just do their jobs?

Good thing you're handy with that kind of stuff, but really, you shouldn't need to be fixing problems that a 'trained professional' created.

 

[chazmo]

I suppose I could get a job with the local phone company. It rained this morning and internet promptly went out. I went to the box, dried the wires (tech guy didn't screw it shut, and I didn't either yesterday so they got wet), then loosened the nuts and checked his wiring. One wire was barely touching the post and another touched but was not wrapped. Wrapped them well on the posts and tightened the nuts, then screwed the box shut.

Internet's back.

Why cant these people just do their jobs?

The guys at the local phone company who actually know what they're doing are mostly getting ready to retire (or have been "retired"). It's sad, but then we're talking about dead technology.

 

[GAD]

The guys at the local phone company who actually know what they're doing are mostly getting ready to retire (or have been "retired"). It's sad, but then we're talking about dead technology.

The guys who knew what they were doing retired in the '90s. The US phone system used to be magnificent.

 

[chazmo]

The guys who knew what they were doing retired in the '90s. The US phone system used to be magnificent.

True about the old phone system.

There are holdouts, GAD, and I know a few of them here in MA. Good people. All frustrated with the state of affairs.

 

[Midnight Toker]

If you are important enough to have to go on your phone and check your messages and start texting every time you are stopped at a red light, you should probably be riding in the back of a limo...and then your driver wouldn't be still be sitting on their brake pedal 6-7-8-9 seconds AFTER the light turns green, only allowing a handful of the long line of cars behind you to make the light.

I predict the rest of the world's traffic will soon start sounding like NYC traffic where folks talk with their car horns...and do it quick! I've already gotten to the point where you'll get a swift 4 count...then I'll give a baby tap on the horn. If no response, by 6 Mississippi, I'm leaning on the horn hard. It's getting WAY out of hand. And I've found it's not all millenials! It's mostly 40-50 yr olds!!

 

[walrus]

Cell phones and drivers are worthy of a rant on a daily basis. My goal in the last several years driving has simply been to make it home in one piece. The level of inattention of many drivers is astounding. And I agree it's over many age groups.