Been there, and it is hard. I hope you can keep your relationship with your child really strong, as it’s really important for them to know you’re there. And if things get worse, just remember they’ll get better again.
So, Romanick just told Ross: “We’re a little concerned about Landon’s arm. If he throws one away, Wells could go to third on a steal attempt. What say you pitch one to the backstop so Wells can get to second and be satisfied with that.”
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
It’s looking like Tuesday next week is going to be the day. All the tests show everything’s fine. If we were in America, we’d likely be home by now. They say invasive ASD closure surgery requires about 4 days in the hospital post surgery in the States. It’s 2 weeks here.
So, about 4-5 more days of sitting around here. Crazy.
I’m really glad everything went and is going well, but I’m ready to go home. I was hoping for April 30th to be a bit more awesome than it’s shaping up to be.
az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
Huzzah again! Sounds like happy endings all around this time.
If it would help you remember April 30th more fondly, I would be happy to send you guys a bobbleRickey. I can understand if you’d rather not have a reminder though.
I’d just need an address, my screenname at gmail.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
In case anyone is interested, I went into the ER two weeks ago for a fairly routine ailment. Tests revealed that things had moved past the routine stage and the docs initially tried some creative interventions. When those didn’t work, they did things the old-fashioned way, slicing me open and pulling stuff out of my body. My body didn’t respond as predicted, leading to a fair bit of concern, a second procedure, and finally a recovery. The doctors tried to explain to me why things proceeded as they did but to this scientist’s mind there was a fair bit of bullshittery. Doctors are good, but sometimes they have no idea why what they are doing works.
One thing I’ll say for sure though, one I convinced the docs that I’m technically-minded, they became more willing to give me detailed explanations of what they were doing. I’d guess that I extended the amount of time the docs spent with me daily from ~3 minutes to ~10 minutes because I insisted on technical explanations.
It would be easy to say something trite like “all’s well that ends well,” but it is unsettling when you see (feel) first-hand that even doctors don’t know it all in absolute terms — which most people already understand in an abstract back-of-the-mind way, but haven’t had to actually deal with on a personal level.
It’s good that you insisted on technical explanations and that they believed you would understand them. I insist on that, too — my dad always introduced me as his translator when I went to appointments with him.
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
As an engineer, a.k.a. experienced bullshit artist, I’ve seen a whole lot of “it works in practice but not in theory!” which the medical field certainly has in common with engineering disciplines. You’d think something as (relatively) simple as building a bridge would be pretty well defined, but no, there are “factors of safety” and other fudges all over the place, and (Tacoma Narrows aside) it generally works. Bullshit makes the world go round!
Anyway, I’m glad you’re home and I hope you’re back to 100% soon.
Seriously, though, I’m glad you’re at home recovering and I hope that they’ve solved the problem going forward. I had a similar anecdote > knowledge experience with a surgeon who basically said there were two options, the old-fashioned long-healing way or the fancy new quick healing way, but he had no idea which was more likely to succeed.
Hopefully electronic record-keeping will allow medicine to quickly improve in this area.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Glad you’re doing well, and sorry to hear that it was stressful!
One of the most stressful moments here in the hospital for me came post-surgery, when Mia was kind of loopy with sunken eyes (from anemia) and dilated pupils. I asked the nursing staff if the really big pupils were a cause for worry, and they sort of freaked out and hastily measured them, which naturally freaked me out. Turns out they didn’t know what it meant, and had to ask the doctor, who gave them some tests to check for problems. The lighting was just a little low in the room, and I didn’t realize it.
It would have been much less stressful if they had just said, “I don’t know–let me ask the doctor.”
az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
Excellent! 3-4 road trip, coulda been a lot worse, what with the not hitting and all.
For the second time, the A’s get a real (actually at their homes, not flying somewhere) home off day tomorrow. I bet often they don’t get more than two all season.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
All this royal wedding nonsense prompts the observation that “republican” is one of those words that means very different things in English and American.
My thought was that they fancy themselves funky free-thinkers. They were sitting right behind the queen and I couldn’t get over what a mess they were. What’s weird is that I was on some UK paper site (the Guardian, maybe?) trying to show a friend of mine how awful they were. They had a “best dressed/worst dressed” photo collage, and while they did pick Miss Blue as a worst dressed, they inexplicably put Tacky Tan in the best dressed category.
grover bait (tl;dw)
You had me at “Tina Fey”.
But not even she can have me for an hour these days.
Howdy stranger. How are things going? Any better?
I’m in the middle of a divorce… and I honestly don’t know if that means things are getting better or not.
Sorry to hear that (?)
We have an 8 year old child… sorry is appropriate.
Bummer. Best wishes.
Thanks.
Been there, and it is hard. I hope you can keep your relationship with your child really strong, as it’s really important for them to know you’re there. And if things get worse, just remember they’ll get better again.
Ouch – whatever the before and after, the during sucks.
She is not a Tapir you insensitive bastard.
That’s just “World Tapir Day” said with an Australian accent
And at least I’m not a sexist bastard who presumes all AAs are female.
Mine is. And it’s her day.
TWCTS
(Alt: In former Soviet Russia, mushrooms prepare you in your own juice.)
Now this… this is a cool story
I call dibs on Friday’s game thread…I’ve got a FILK in the works.
Yes!
The world’s first rideable all-wood bicycle.
Pothole!
A walk, an error, a hit-by-pitch … I sense an A’s run in the offing.
Schrodinger
Runs scored without any hits could prove to be the A’s secret offensive weapon this year.
It’s secret because it doesn’t work.
But it’s undervalued!
Vernon Wells everyone!
Barton must be jealous
So, Romanick just told Ross: “We’re a little concerned about Landon’s arm. If he throws one away, Wells could go to third on a steal attempt. What say you pitch one to the backstop so Wells can get to second and be satisfied with that.”
Bold prediction: No W for Haren today.
You have got to be FKing kidding me.
Crazy break.
And yes, Andeux, just another bobbleday for Kz.
It’s not-funny ’cause it’s true.
Normally right now I’d be hoping for a grounder to 3rd.
On the flight home tonight somebody needs to open the door at 37,000 feet and give Kz a shove. I’ve had it.
Yeah, I’m officially done with Kz. SSS and regression be damned.
Does he still have options?
I’m not done with him. I want to pelt him with
tomatoescabbages.DFWAS
…
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
World Tapir Day sucks!
Does your secretary?
Boo.
Cliffy!
Ziggy likely gets all righties except Conger
Hurrah! Fire Kz Now!
I’m glad the Angels’ Kz costs 23 million a year!
Well I couldn’t have been more wrong about this matchup.
HOME! No more nurses! No more IVs! No more blood-pressure cuffs! Just, horrible, excruciating pain in the comfort of my own home!
Great! All except the pain part, that is.
Great to have you back…the A’s have been running on contact from third a lot.
Ugh – might make me sick all over again!
Your 2011 Oakland Athletics: If that doesn’t make you sick, wait for tomorrow!
Athletics: putting the etic in “emetic”
Great to hear you’re home – the offer of help (especially child-related) still stands.
Quoth the rave in Livermore!
(Welcome back!)
Glad you’re home! And ditto ptbnl’s help offer… I’m mostly jobless and my “Mama Jean” (to students) gig is on hiatus for a few weeks.
Hopefully Mia will soon be following your lead.
It’s looking like Tuesday next week is going to be the day. All the tests show everything’s fine. If we were in America, we’d likely be home by now. They say invasive ASD closure surgery requires about 4 days in the hospital post surgery in the States. It’s 2 weeks here.
So, about 4-5 more days of sitting around here. Crazy.
I’m really glad everything went and is going well, but I’m ready to go home. I was hoping for April 30th to be a bit more awesome than it’s shaping up to be.
Awesome, JL! Glad to hear that things with Mia are going well. Hopefully the strong little bugger leaves the hospital on schedule.
Huzzah again! Sounds like happy endings all around this time.
If it would help you remember April 30th more fondly, I would be happy to send you guys a bobbleRickey. I can understand if you’d rather not have a reminder though.
I’d just need an address, my screenname at gmail.
Sweet! E-mail sent–thanks!
Thanks everybody.
In case anyone is interested, I went into the ER two weeks ago for a fairly routine ailment. Tests revealed that things had moved past the routine stage and the docs initially tried some creative interventions. When those didn’t work, they did things the old-fashioned way, slicing me open and pulling stuff out of my body. My body didn’t respond as predicted, leading to a fair bit of concern, a second procedure, and finally a recovery. The doctors tried to explain to me why things proceeded as they did but to this scientist’s mind there was a fair bit of bullshittery. Doctors are good, but sometimes they have no idea why what they are doing works.
One thing I’ll say for sure though, one I convinced the docs that I’m technically-minded, they became more willing to give me detailed explanations of what they were doing. I’d guess that I extended the amount of time the docs spent with me daily from ~3 minutes to ~10 minutes because I insisted on technical explanations.
It would be easy to say something trite like “all’s well that ends well,” but it is unsettling when you see (feel) first-hand that even doctors don’t know it all in absolute terms — which most people already understand in an abstract back-of-the-mind way, but haven’t had to actually deal with on a personal level.
It’s good that you insisted on technical explanations and that they believed you would understand them. I insist on that, too — my dad always introduced me as his translator when I went to appointments with him.
Dude.
Really glad you’re back at home and OK.
As an engineer, a.k.a. experienced bullshit artist, I’ve seen a whole lot of “it works in practice but not in theory!” which the medical field certainly has in common with engineering disciplines. You’d think something as (relatively) simple as building a bridge would be pretty well defined, but no, there are “factors of safety” and other fudges all over the place, and (Tacoma Narrows aside) it generally works. Bullshit makes the world go round!
Anyway, I’m glad you’re home and I hope you’re back to 100% soon.
Hey, be glad you’re not a tapir — they would have just put a rubber band around it and waited for it to turn purple and fall off.
All’s well that ends well! (take that Poppy)
Seriously, though, I’m glad you’re at home recovering and I hope that they’ve solved the problem going forward. I had a similar anecdote > knowledge experience with a surgeon who basically said there were two options, the old-fashioned long-healing way or the fancy new quick healing way, but he had no idea which was more likely to succeed.
Hopefully electronic record-keeping will allow medicine to quickly improve in this area.
Wow, glad you’re okay–sounds harrowing! Thanks for the update.
Barbarian quacks!
Glad you’re doing well, and sorry to hear that it was stressful!
One of the most stressful moments here in the hospital for me came post-surgery, when Mia was kind of loopy with sunken eyes (from anemia) and dilated pupils. I asked the nursing staff if the really big pupils were a cause for worry, and they sort of freaked out and hastily measured them, which naturally freaked me out. Turns out they didn’t know what it meant, and had to ask the doctor, who gave them some tests to check for problems. The lighting was just a little low in the room, and I didn’t realize it.
It would have been much less stressful if they had just said, “I don’t know–let me ask the doctor.”
Yay!
Excellent! 3-4 road trip, coulda been a lot worse, what with the not hitting and all.
For the second time, the A’s get a real (actually at their homes, not flying somewhere) home off day tomorrow. I bet often they don’t get more than two all season.
An interesting breakdown of greenhouse gas emissions by sector.
they forgot the blogging sector!
is balloon juice a greenhouse gas?
balloon juice and hot air.
ooh ooh, the Daily Watt
Incidentally, if anyone is interested, Lily’s school’s auction on Saturday night includes a lot that is dinner at Chez Panisse with Kos.
I bid $5.
Can I have $10?
As soon as you give me $15
Does that come with a voucher for poking him in the face?
I’d think you’d want something more substantial than a voucher.
… but you could serve him with an SBN writers’ class action suit, Ã la HuffPo.
… and get the inside scoop on the Neyer signing.
I’d bid on a dinner at Chavvy’s with Kz.
{snerk}
What about post-ejection tweeting?
Someone hand Ozzie a kleenex.
Christ. We’re really blaming solar panels now?
Christ, what an eyesore
Feel the DRAFTMENTUM.
My personal 9ers preferences:
1. Draft Peterson if available
2. Trade down if reasonable deal available
3. If neither, draft Prince
Seriously? Crickets? Not even a courtesy reach-around?
lockout
Though I didn’t think it was possible, the draft has been made even more boring by discussion of CBA negotiations.
Panthers take Cam Newton. Did not want.
Pundits are predicting Von Miller to the batgirls, and Marcell Dareus to the andeuxs.
Yeah. I love that Cam shot up there. I think he’s better than Jamarcus or Leaf, but not going to be a star.
I really really hope Peterson falls.
This is the biggest question mark. AZ could take him.
And they do.
!#$!@#*$()!@#*$)!@(#$*@%
Not only do we not get him, we have to try to pass on him.
Better than JaMarcus or Leaf. High praise.
Yup.
WTH are the Falcons doing? That’s a lot of picks to trade.
Seriously.
I like Von Miller’s glasses. I’m not watching the Broncos war room cam, but apparently Bowlen cruised through in some short shorts.
Broncos fans seem pretty split between loving the Miller pick and wishing we’d taken Dareus.
I deleted every on-topic response as soon as it was posted
I need my own WCG.
The first one of these was pretty funny, sounds like this one is begging for a K-Thug response.
Why does Hayek have a US passport (and accent)?
The Doodler abides
… and keeps on abiding …
I like how my browser tab reads Free Kraut! >> Happy World…
Face-lick girl as a child.
There’s nothing like recuperating with a network connection :-)
indeed
Thirded. Also, the IV’s finally out! Hooray!
Go Mia!
Seconded! Whooo Mia!
yay!
What a trade for the Browns.
Gabbert = Do. Not. Want.
Interesting. A DE is not exactly a terrible idea, but a 21 year old raw player is pretty awful given we’re trying to make the playoffs.
I really thought Harbaugh would go QB.
Well thank god for that at least.
Well, the Titans did worse at least.
Gruden just said Locker was a great QB because he throws the ball away a lot. Or something like that.
Yeah. He looked awful this year. Against college teams.
There goes Gabbert.
Philly Daily News sportswriter Paul Domowitch just wrote that the 49ers will trade Aldon Smith for quarterback Kevin Kolb. I don’t know how solid that is, but it’s something to consider.
Not a good day for Ryan Dempster – 0.1 IP, 4H, 4BB, 1 HBP, 7R in 40 pitches.
Yeah – and I have him and Zobrist on my fantasy team. I haven’t had the guts yet to check and see if/how they cancel each other out.
Lance Berkman: .385/.448/.705
I wouldn’t have wanted to pay him what he earned at the time (and I think he really didn’t want to DH)
Eric Chavez: .328/.423/.858
How many PAs? (Haven’t been paying even the slightest attention, since — combined with Kouz’s crappiness — it will just make me angry.)
26 that the slash stats are based on and 5 more (0/3 with 2 walks) today.
Looks like the whole one year contract thing is working out for him.
H2N3
Yeah. He’s a top-100 fantasy player right now.
You’re having the wrong fantasies.
100? He obviously values quantity over quality
I still don’t understand why we got rid of him.
Yes, I know, he’s not actually a major-league hitter.
He’d be leading the A’s in HRs right now.
Yes, I know, they’re not actually major-league hitters.
I miss Hannahan. Just yelling his name, if nothing else. Wait…
I would wear that polka dot ensemble tomorrow if it came in my size.
The bottom left one I think I had…
In former Soviet discotech, polka dot ensemble wears you.
A’s should do a green and gold version for the next alt uni. Would go great with CoFro.
With the inevitable pallet loads of remainders to ne sold by O.co
All this royal wedding nonsense prompts the observation that “republican” is one of those words that means very different things in English and American.
Pssh. You’re British, you love it.
Not having a constitution means never having to say you’re sorry.
Pre-emptive raids on London squats? Pre-emptive raids on London squats.
Illegal balaclavas? Illegal balaclavas.
Blanket stop-and-search powers? Blanket stop-and-search powers.
The popo’s gonna do what the popo’s gonna do, constitution or no.
Oh sure, but at least they (sometimes) have to pretend not to here.
I’m with the one bottom-left:
The Redcoat is coming!
TWKMS
OK – this bit I love:
… but this is just WTFk
With those hats they could be at the Kentucky Derby (which is of course a week from tomorrow; I’m going shopping for bourbon this weekend).
Huh, just read the HST piece on the Derby…
I see no one rescinded the invitations of Kang and Kodos. Or maybe they did, and K&K just snuck in as the hats.
Those girls looked horrible.
Mind-bogglingly so … surely they can’t have been under any illusions themselves?
How old are they? Teenagers wear/grow pretty dumb things.
21 & 22.
Close enough, I guess. At that age I had grown a huge beard and shacked up with some woman.
Of course…I currently have a wild beard and am married to said woman…
Progress!
My thought was that they fancy themselves funky free-thinkers. They were sitting right behind the queen and I couldn’t get over what a mess they were. What’s weird is that I was on some UK paper site (the Guardian, maybe?) trying to show a friend of mine how awful they were. They had a “best dressed/worst dressed” photo collage, and while they did pick Miss Blue as a worst dressed, they inexplicably put Tacky Tan in the best dressed category.
Holy crap! The Mexican president’s wife at JP2’s beatification …
The silly hats! They’re BREEDING!
Thirty-freaking-one.
Happy birthday, kid
Happy Birthday!!
HB, JL!
Happy birthday – it’ll be 6 years before you’re in your prime again, so enjoy.
And with more to show for it than most. Happy Birthday old man.
Hey… at least it wasn’t 32!
Happy B-day.
You are now officially more than half my age, and the margin shall continue, relentlessly, to diminish for the duration.
Hah!
Congrats. I’ve got a gift heading your way, though it’s as much for your not-yet-indoctrinated daughter as it is for you.
Sweet! Thanks! And thanks, everybody, for all the birthday wishes!
It doesn’t stop, by the way. In case you’re wondering.
TWHS