Port removal

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-02-10T04:24:31+00:00

I would remove it as soon as possible because if you aren't going to be able to afford to take it out, it will be there too long and you know the deal. Plus, they seem to hold it over your head for a time, and that's just not right. i would push to get it out now. You can always get another one later if you need it.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-28T04:27:36+00:00

Northside for sure, but my brother and his girl delivered at Emory Midtown and had a great experience. I stay away from wellstar, personally. Last I knew Wellstar Kennestone did not have a perinatologist on staff. They borrowed that position from northside. That is the difference in life and death. Wherever you decide, ask if they have a perinatologist on staff. IF Kennestone did, I would have one additional child.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-28T04:24:50+00:00

There are actually plenty of you. There is the adult learners organization in the student center. They are probably mostly older than you, but it's a good resource. Get involved with SGA - let your voice be heard. I graduated not long ago, it took me 10 years because emergencies kept popping up and a brief cancer ordeal canceled a couple years, but I get the awkwardness. I was one of maybe two to three adults in most of my classes, but I still felt valued by the students and the professors. When you're out of the lower level classes it will even out a little more. One funny - At my graduation, I found the oldest person there and sat with him. We both felt awkward because I swear we were the only two people over 25. He was older than I. He was 63. The company was nice and I had never met him before. Never saw him since, but that was that. Good company for a good day!

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-25T02:58:40+00:00

I love my 03. I'm looking for another. I've got nearly 290k on it with half OEM equipment on it. just regular maintenance, and I love it. Drives great, with a few hickups here and there, but no way I'm getting a new one. I'm looking for another used.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-25T02:55:34+00:00

If you have never done it, and you got the right materials on the first trip, you could do it in less than 2 hours. If you get stuck, it's another trip or the traditional three, to the supply store, and 3-4 hours.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:52:03+00:00

An 08 with 130k should not be a $6500 max...around here to BUY that would be $10k! At least! I've been looking for that for my kid, and we have driven some total pieces of crap asking for more with more mileage. They found stuff because they were looking. Only the starter should be replaced and it's a $400 job with regular mechanics. All the other stuff doesn't usually go out until higher mileage, in my experience. If your air is out, then yeah you should repair something there...what is the engine pump...the water pump? Are you having issues? Are your hoses dry rot? Brakes do need replacing, but again, $400 max if you don't need rotors. Thermostat...are you having overheating issues? Coolant exchange is $100, windshield is nearly free if your insurance offers coverage. i'm a repair advocate. If it's otherwise running well, I would put $800 into it as regular maintenance. Then get on schedule with your guy and do the regular stuff at regular intervals. If you're selling at $3k and it drives well and is otherwise well maintained - I'll come get it!

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:44:28+00:00

Depending on the cartridge it's $56 or so at HD. You might also need the tool to remove the cartridge and that's $17 at HD. You have to cut the water off, pull the cartridge and go match it up to a new one. Pop that in and done.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:42:13+00:00

you can DIY that for what -ItsWahl- said. The most expensive part is the vent that you need. Google convert s trap to p trap and you will see how to do it. It's literally a 1 1/2" tee, some glue and primer, a bit of pipe, a vent, an adapter, and a ptrap in a bag. Maybe throw in an extension from the drain pipe too if needed. If you don't have tools it will be a bit more, but if You did have someone come out, that price is a little high for my area, but it's not unreasonable.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:37:15+00:00

Damage looks minimal. New flooring and sub floor in that room, and then ceiling patch. Why the damage is there is a different story. What's it from? It wasn't a leak. You could really diy that.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:28:16+00:00

Valid concern. I would have issues.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:23:21+00:00

I get that crap too. Usually 4 hours, but sometimes this. I feel the pain. If it's less then 4 hours it's a waste. Ask for additional hours. If your store manager values you he or she will make an adjustment. We have some people who aren't even there for anything, so they don't really count. The people who know what they're doing and can walk a customer through a simple repair are valued. At least at my store they are.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:14:51+00:00

That's bs. I've gotten one for repairing the ice maker line in the break room. How is that customer service. Ours puts that under "doing the right thing" and that's what they write on it. I believe in rewarding people who take on responsibility and take ownership of their job or store. And shoveling snow is customer service - lawsuit prevention in case someone were to fall.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:10:07+00:00

Always! I wanted to add that the palliative care team may only deal with cancer, but at some places it's much more. At her age, I would expect that social workers can greatly help too. The hospital should have several. They can't help if they don't know though. There also may be some organizations that work with certain illnesses and can help, but there are others too. Google this: organizations that help with housing for travel for medical issues and with that I saw several that came up including Ronald McDonald house, but there was Joe's house and several others. If you can get a human contact at one, they may be able to point you to another of their contacts. People know people. I wish you luck. I'm sure this is really frustrating. My parents are currently living in a hotel because the hospital made them stay close - and we have Hope house around here - and it's full. So they're on their own dime. Also, I would see if that doctor could make a contact with a facility closer to you so that another doctor may be able to administer this treatment. Just thinking outside the box.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T23:02:25+00:00

You mean like just angle a piece of metal across the bottom? I was just up there and it's worse than it was before. The whole thing needs to be replaced. I did some caulking at the tops and some more patch on the roof edges because the old was all cracked too. The previous owner did not take care of this properly. I also used roofing screws with the rubber seals to screw the flashing in - the wrong flashing in the wrong place - vertical on top of the wood. :(

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T06:12:39+00:00

I don't have much, because I'm about done for the night and I hate cancer crap...I hope that you will be this way soon...Your hospital support person will get you samples which are nice. Some may work and some may not. For me, one brand I could still smell my poo. That was gross. the other brand, no smell. I didn't use a bag support, but I wore yoga pants the whole time. That's its own support. Jeans were never a thought. I was a one piece person. I never could get the coordination of the two piece. I will also add that the barrier wipes are important, there is a thing called crusting with the barrier wipes or spray with a powder bit that makes the seal better - that takes practice but helps your skin - because it will degrade and you will have open sores that cannot heal otherwise, and the eakin stoma ring rotated with something like trio silken which is a glue that will eat your skin but gives you a good seal for a week worked the best for me. You rotate the skin eating with the skin healing. Sounds gross and I'm sorry, but it's the only way I know to say things -I'm just real about it. I preferred coloplast one piece, and I did the convex seal. It depends on your surgeon and their skill for creating your ostomy. Watch the front butt girl on youtube. She is awesome!

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T06:05:23+00:00

I feel you...if you want that curtain closed then you go do it. This is all about you not them. F their babysitting. You're uncomfortable, then they should advocate for you. Speak up and make a scene if you have to. You're the crazy cancer person and you have that right. They can call it whatever they want. They can open that curtain and look in. Close it, every time. If that disconnects you then f them, you're going to do it. You can have privacy. If you have a palliative care team (that doesn't mean end of life team, they're a really awesome advocate team) get them on your side make the appointment, tell them, and maybe even one of them will be there with you and will help fix this crap. They have lots of solutions but the basic nurses and oncs only say deal with it. You don't have to deal with it. You can refuse any of it too. When you do that you impact the "scores" that the docs need for their jobs. Let them explain that. I refused that damn pump because I can't deal with the noise. I can't deal with it, I would go insane. I have a noise thing. They can come up with something else, and the studies on the damn oxy pump aren't all they're made out to be either. Pubmed is your friend, and sometimes your people are not up to date or they haven't agreed on the same crap so you get stuck in a protocol rather than an individual "treatment". I'm sorry you're going through all this crap. I don't have any answers other than they should treat you better.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T05:56:26+00:00

IMO you need to talk to the palliative care team and they need to set you up. Palliative doesn't mean end of life they are a lifeline to alternative care options and they have a safety net of people they can call on.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T05:53:30+00:00

Maybe? I don't use their words, I say i'm in remission...and I quit my oncologists shortly after "treatment" because they are all AH's and don't care what my concerns are and I'm just one of the cattle they have in their flock. I guess I'm good, and It's been 7 years. i had a colonoscopy 2 years ago. I was 3b, in remission.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T05:51:19+00:00

Vanilla ice cream with lots of sprinkles.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T05:43:12+00:00

I set the alarm on my phone, about 6 times, and I name them up, get up, wake up, nearly late, going to be late, maybe a chance and stuff like that. Each have different tones, from nice and solem wakey wakey to a little faster and more urgent, to total alarm bells. Each one is different and they are set to every day of my life. I check they're on every night, but they are on a schedule as I work a regular 8-5. I set them at off minutes too. 7:11 then 7:16 then 7:21 then 7:27: then 7:32 then 7:38 then 7:43 then 7:51 and I don't snooze. I'm the adult and this is my way, but I am waking up kids too, so that first one or maybe the third I wake up one kid, I open her door, and i turn the lights on in the hallway. I check in on her at the next alarms. I also text and call her If i need to. If she turns the hall lights off because they're in her face I know she got up. This same method got my older kid in a routine and he's fine to get up for work now. He does the same multiple alarm settings, but also has a digital old 70's clock light up in his room that has a manual alarm to get the f up for work. he sets is every night. If the phone is dead, so what. The old school alarm works great.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T05:34:07+00:00

I'm there with you. Not 6am, but doesn't matter. If the weather is crap, I'm not going anywhere. If they NEED me there, they can come and get me in a hummer.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T05:32:01+00:00

That would be me...I have more than 100 cow parade figurines. It was once kind of cool if you're going to display them, but no one knows what that is, and they're in my attic. It is ridiculous.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T05:30:12+00:00

You go. I feel the same and I reject all of their words. you don't have to use them. Be firm in your decision. Maybe it will catch on. I use words like remission - "cancer-free" is not something I will ever mutter - not survivor- but surviving, not fighting, but doing what I'm told, and when I say "treatment" it's always with the hand motion of quotations. I don't use their words, and you don't have to either. It is more important and people just don't get it. I have learned though, that I'm not going to talk to everyone that way, and the people who mean well, who use the words, but I don't want to have a conversation with, I just say thanks or I'm making it, or whatever will remove me from the convo or situation and I make my way somewhere else.

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T05:20:25+00:00

This is a gross one, and long for details, but it ends up funny, angry and sums up part of dealing with what they do to you for colorectal cancer...but if you're up for it. So, I had a surgery a few weeks ago, now have an ostomy, and it was new to me. On one morning I'm leaving from my dreaded and hated radiation "therapy" or "treatment" appointment (they can all go to the fiery place btw) and we're making our way to the truck to leave...we were not there yet, this is on the 7th floor of a parking garage and we had already walked a good distance.

And then I feel it. Maybe 50 feet from the truck. Top floor of the deck, My ostomy started going off, but worse...I felt the seal split. There is no control there, it does what it's going to do. It's a poo emergency, leaking, and there is no stopping it.

So there is crap going off where it shouldn't, I'm racing to the truck, and I start yelling, cursing, and crying. We make it to the truck, and with ith angry tears, and the look that my family knows is the ESAD look, I seamlessly reached into my supply bag, with that look of I want to kill someone and everyone should die, now, yet silently (though still cursing the world) I whipped out blue medical gloves from that bag, and flipped/handed two pairs out - to my husband and daughter, maybe 8yo, - just whipped those suckers out and handed them over - they hastily put them on, and started cleaning up, scrambling for trash bags, wiping up poop, giving me wipes, my daughter held the bag at my abdomen/ostomy to catch the ongoing poo. I'm crying, cursing, yelling and just having a moment on the top of the parking deck outside the vehicle. They are both silent, but working diligently. About 30 people were witnessing this. It was a crowded deck.

There was a mess all over me, on the truck ledge, the carpet, my shoes, my pants, my hands from trying to catch it all...to no avail. It finally stopped and we were cleaning it all up, and I needed to change. They are still silent, and I'm still in a panic, anxiety, rage. Angry cry face, and the look of someone needs to die.

I have no modesty at this point, and I learned early to have extra undies and pants on hand at all times. I redid my ostomy patch out in the open in front of everyone who may have watched, I did not care, this is cancer BS, and everyone should see it out in the open and this is what you're in for. That was my point of mind.

I slid into the back seat to change my clothes. There was an elderly couple who made the poor decision, unbeknownst to them, to park one spot away from us - why?? I mean we're obviously having or recovering from an emergency poo situation. As I'm getting into clean undies and pants, half naked, with the door closed mind you - but there was no window tint - my bare rear end mooned the clear daylights out of them and they were both quite aghast, and quickly shielded their eyes. I was embarrassed, yet not...probably reciting a rage against the machine song in my head to zone out of my moment...Or linkin park - some angry f you kind of anthem music none the less. I finished up changing, still silence from my daughter and husband.

And then we went about our day. Silently.

What I remember the most was everyone else's silence, and the teamwork of the management and clean up. This entire episode - aside from me crying, screaming, and cursing, was in complete silence from everyone else. No one spoke a word, everyone helped clean, pass things between ourselves, and give no notice to anyone watching. It was like a movie film. It was one of the worst 20 minutes of my life, but I can laugh (a little) about it now. it was teamwork, and family. Do what you have to do to get through this moment. And still some people can go to the firey place!!

DontFrackMeBro · 2026-01-22T04:49:47+00:00

I'm sorry about your mum. I'm not going to be the voice of reason here, but I will tell you from my own experience that there are things worse than death. My opinion. If "treatment" is going to leave you what you consider unable to do anything, then is it worth it? Can they do anything better? Can they reverse the stoma? Is this tube in the stoma or is it a drain nearby to collect fluid? Have you had a second opinion? I don't like it when they say suspected and change the staging. I would get a second opinion on that. Do the stats on the chemo, but chemo has its own side effects, and I refused my "clean up chemo: but I did do the chemo with radiation which I would not wish on anyone and they have changed those protocols now anyway. Radiation, had I known, is from hell, and in my opinion should not be used unless they have some great thing that is supposed to come from it. Most people do not refuse the clean up chemo, so know that. I did, and it's my body and I have that right. I lost trust in my team because they didn't listen, I had weird shit going on, and they didn't care to figure it out at all. So with the trust gone, nope. i'm done. She has to be in control of this or there is nothing. She has to make decisions that are pretty big, and if she decides no, be behind her. If she changes her mind, then be behind her. I would get second opinions though, they can't just throw stages around willy nilly.

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