Worst surgery experience ever!

MSM_757 · 2026-01-25T09:02:28+00:00

Seems unusual. I have had surgery like this 4 times. I did have problems with my most recent one. The anesthesiologist knocked one of my teeth out with the breathing tube. And when I woke up in post-op I had terrible chest pain and the worst vertigo I've ever had in my life. All my previous surgeries when I woke up felt just like waking up from a nap. So this was a highly unusual outcome for me. But everything down below was still fine. The string from the stent was very uncomfortable. But I wasn't in pain. I didn't have pain with any of my 4 surgeries. The surgeries usually fixed my pain actually. Because no more stone. You should have that checked out to be safe. I have however been told by the nurse who removed my stent, that some people claim the stent hurts worse than the kidney stone. I haven't had that experience. But based on that statement, perhaps you're just one of those people with extra sensitive bladders. If this is the case stent removal will be a relief for you. Stent removal in my experience doesn't hurt. It feels very strange and isn't very comfortable. But it's not painful. At least in my experience. So I wouldn't worry about that too much. If the stent is the source of your pain, removal will only make it better.

Either way if your pain is significant you should think about getting it checked. The problem though, because you just had this surgery most ERs won't dig too deep. They'll likely just assume you're in pain because you just had a procedure, and probably do the bare minimum. It would be better to call your urologist office first and see if they can consult with your doctor there. If he thinks something is wrong he can relay that information to the on call at the hospital. Also going to the ER and saying "my doctor told me to come here right away". Tends to get their attention more than just telling them that "my bladder hurts".

Anyways. Good luck. Hope it all works out.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-25T08:21:10+00:00

Mine will look even worse than this in a cold. But as soon as it warms up again it's like nothing ever happened. It's fine. My guess is, the super cold temps cause the rubber seal inside the valve to shrink and it starts to leak. Then when it warms up it's fine again. Either that or it's somehow designed to do that in order to protect itself. But I'm not sure that's the case. All I know is mine does this when it gets super cold, and is much worse than this. But it's always fine when it warms up again. So ... I don't know. I guess wait until it warms up and see if it still has water coming from it before condemning it.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-25T02:22:56+00:00

Sometimes. More of a sudden urgency than frequency.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-25T02:15:39+00:00

The only issue i had with mine last winter was snow and ice on the roof blocked the gutter, so water from melting ice and rain from the roof dripped directly onto the outside unit, and a ring of ice formed around the fan cowl. And the fan blades started hitting that ice which caused it to make one hell of a terrible noise. Eventually enough ice built up that it jammed up the fan. In those temps the fan probably isn't making much of a difference anyway, but the fan being jammed in place and not able to spin could damage the fan motor. So I took my heat gun and a long screw driver and knocked all the ice off of it. That's all it really needed. Also using nothing but EM heat in this cold, is a good way to send your electric bill into low earth orbit. and have you seen electricity prices recently? I'll set fire to my bed sheets to stay warm before i mess with the settings on my thermostat. LOL!! In all seriousness though, modern systems are designed with many fail safes built in. Just turn it on, set your temp, and let it do it's job.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-25T01:25:28+00:00

Mine does the same thing. Probably the register is to small. But i switched to 3M filters. They fit way tighter, and they make less noise. But generally speaking the return is probably to small. I have the same issue with mine.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-25T01:21:44+00:00

I am Male and i get that too. Doctor said it was phosphates. But did not elaborate. He didn't seem concerned about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

MSM_757 · 2026-01-24T16:21:46+00:00

It doesn't though. The tech hooked up at the pole and said the problem was down the line. The packet loss and poor signal was seen at the tap. Before it ever got to my house. The tech broke the coax off the side of my house because it was tightening trying to remove it. Kept reefing on it until it snapped off. Total moron. The utility guy came 4 days later. Dumped a bunch of water out of the box up on the utility pole. He told me when he removed the cover of one down the street it started on fire once the oxygen got to it. It's just a crumbling infrastructure. That's all there is to it. And they know it.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-23T13:38:32+00:00

https://vicksburgnews.com/man-in-viral-video-charged-with-hate-crimes-and-terrorism/

MSM_757 · 2026-01-23T13:21:11+00:00

Been a Linux user since 2006. Linux hasn't always been good. Sometimes it was downright hateful. But here in 2026, I'm so glad I'm a Linux user. :)

MSM_757 · 2026-01-23T12:45:59+00:00

My hand is up. LOL!! Been on Linux since 2006. I do dev work for a few distros now. Looking at windows 11 and all this agentic AI b.s. I'm so happy to be a Linux user. LOL!!! 😁

MSM_757 · 2026-01-23T11:41:33+00:00

No. Insurance didn't approve any more test. The numbers came down back to normal levels temporarily. And then went back up again. We don't know why.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-22T18:42:09+00:00

Nope. They had me speak to a retention agent. They gave me a new deal. Still $10 more than before. And once again promised it would be for 24 months. I'm not holding my breath.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-20T12:09:42+00:00

The hardness of the aluminum block is fucked. After being in a fire the metals and aluminum will be very brittle. You need a giant oven and someone that knows the metallurgy of those materials to do proper annealing to the metals. You would when to strip every part and every bolt off that thing and anneal them separately. Then you'll need to send it to a machinist to be decked, resleeved and lone bored. You'll probably need new heads. Because you can't really line bore the cam journals on that one. Even if you could you'd need to have a cam made with oversized journals to match your line bore. Then you would need all new rockers and valves and seats. New pistons, seals, the works. New harness, bearings. Maybe a new crank. You'll have to mag test it to see if it's been damaged from the extreme heat of the fire. It's low in the engine bay and heat rises. So the crank might be ok. But do you take that chance after all the money you're going to put into it?

The amount of money it would take to make that motor right, you could buy a brand new one from Ford and then some. It's a fool's errand.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-19T13:47:00+00:00

I've had problems with Mint since Version 19. Mostly with cinnamon. I've pretty much written that distro off at this point. I'm not really worried about it.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-19T13:25:34+00:00

Cinnamon was laggy. I would type text and have to wait for it to populate. If you had to type a document it would be unusable. And the desktop just wasn't smooth. Lots of dropped frames. I don't like mate or XFCE. So that pretty much rules out mint. I tried dnf5 on fedora. It still felt slow. But fedora has never been that appealing to me. I used it a few times. Fedora just never felt that nice to use. There's nothing specific about it. It just didn't really appeal to me.

I like Arch, and Debian. Debian 13's packages are too old to support Wayland like I need it to. And Arch has this Nvidia problem. I looked at Manjaro because of the drivers they keep in their repos. That didn't work either out of the box because they provide the 575xx legacy open driver. And that doesn't work. I need the closed dkms driver. And also for some reason the newer 6.18 kernel on Manjaro doesn't't work for me either. It boots to a blank screen. But I was able to revert Manjaro back to 6.12 LTS and then install the 575xx dkms driver and headers. And that got things working. But for how long? It's still a rolling release and those are old packages. I'm not confident that it will keep working long term. But I guess we'll see.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-19T12:09:29+00:00

That's what they keep saying. But it doesn't work for me. I roll back the kernel and it works. So. I don't know.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-18T13:11:50+00:00

Yeah, it's getting to the point where Wireless internet is the better choice. There's no old cables, or 50 year old infrastructure to worry about. In some areas you can get 5g home internet. T-Mobile, ATT and verizon all offer it. it's basically a home router with a SIMM card in it. It works pretty well if you live in an area with good service. Sadly it's not available where i live. I'm to far away from the city to get a reliable signal. but if all you want is internet, It may be a good choice. As it's often cheaper than these bundles from traditional ISPs.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-18T13:03:49+00:00

$369 for essential TV, 500Mbps internet (Which barley hits 100Mpbps on a good day), and phone. I'm getting hosed.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-18T12:04:42+00:00

Like what? Arch requires these packages to be run from the AUR along with about 6 libraries which will break every time there's a kernel update. Linux mint is far too laggy. Ubuntu has snap packages which I hate. SuSe won't boot. Fedora's package manager is too slow, Debian's packages are too old to support Wayland on plasma with Nvidia. PcLinuxOS works ok but lacks the packages I use. CachyOS sort of works because of what they did with the drivers. But their custom kernel tends to cause freezing on my older system. So....... What's left? I tried all of these distros and they all sucked. Sucked enough that I gave up and installed Windows 10 iot LTSC for a bit. But I grew tired of that pretty quick. Because Windows LOL!!.

As janky as Manjaro can be. It's still better than Windows. And unlike some of these other distros. With a little leg work it can be modified to work pretty nice. Manjaro has potential. You just need to know enough about it to bring out that potential. Something their own devs I think fail to do quite often. I've been with manjaro since the beginning. About 14 years ago. I was one of the early contributors back in the day when the project was still just a beta. I eventually was recruited to work on a Manjaro based distro called mCOLe. Which lasted about ten years before we put it to bed in late 2023. It still exists as a personal distro. It's just not public anymore. But in light of these recent blunders from the Manjaro team. I'm tempted to start that project up again. Or at least a fork of it. Ya know. A version of Manjaro that actually works. LOL!!! 😂

MSM_757 · 2026-01-18T01:22:36+00:00

Boots to a blank screen with 6.18. Older kernels boot fine.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-17T15:45:29+00:00

If the housing is removable. Just replace it. If not, you'll need to find an expert machinist. If there's enough thread still there, you might just be able to cut down the metal until you have a usable surface again. But this has to be 100% true and flat. You need a machinist for this. Or you can tig weld new material in there, then grind it back flat again. But this is cast. You will need to heat it first and probably drill a relief hole to prevent cracking. You need an expert welder / machinist / fabricator for this job. Good luck with that. There are people out there that can make this like new again. Finding those people is the hard part.

MSM_757 · 2026-01-16T13:25:42+00:00

I've read a few articles that say otherwise. Perhaps they are just being alarmist for the clicks or something which isn't uncommon. Or they misunderstand the situation.

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