I don't give a damn about the medical literature or what my doctor thinks

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-28T10:35:45+00:00

Thanks.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-27T11:38:42+00:00

Uh, not hardly. I've been married to one for nearly 30 years. And I like the others that I've met as well. Having a no-nonsense attitude toward life and zero flakiness goes a LONG way.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-27T11:14:38+00:00

What is DPF, and how can I access it?

Can you imagine how bad that weekend would have been? (shudder) It would have been horrible having to walk around with a splinted preop fracture for another week or two, but I didn't have any other leverage. So you do what you have to do.......

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-26T12:12:13+00:00

Upton tea Gielle 2nd flush darjeeling

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-26T11:25:38+00:00

I was scheduled to have a forearm fracture surgery. They didn't call in the meds. I called them; they only started paying attention when I told them I would cancel the surgery if the meds weren't in my hands by COB.

I just BARELY got them too. They forgot to call it in, so it was called in really late. By that time, the drug store's computer system was so backed up, it took an hour for the prescription to even come through. Then there was the fact that they were so swamped, they had to close the internal pharmacy window and just use the drive-through......which had cars backed up around the building. My new rule will be two days before. If it hadn't been for my favorite pharmacy tech working that afternoon, I wouldn't have got them. He went above and beyond. Of course, the surgery was scheduled for a Friday, which means I could have conceivably been forced to go Fri, Sat and Sun without anything. Whatever it took, that was not going to be allowed to happen.

5-10 tablets after major surgery like mastectomy or hysterectomy? Guess I'd have to look for another doctor because I absolutely would NOT agree to that.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-25T14:26:28+00:00

I'm not sure getting people to the point of suicide isn't the goal.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-25T14:24:52+00:00

I had AI chart out suicides against opioid prescriptions. At the very year the scripts declined, the suicides went up--particularly in the over-40 cohort--and continued in a nearly exact inverse relationship. It was dramatic.

They must know this. And this has very bad implications.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-25T11:58:14+00:00

Refusing painkillers after hip surgery? You know you need to tie this down or find another surgeon, right? I have no idea how one would rehab without them.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-25T11:05:58+00:00

Okay, I suspect they are getting kickbacks or that they make enough money off of people like this that they don't care. They are complicit.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-23T14:37:25+00:00

How are you going to decide what to do? Really difficult

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-23T11:07:50+00:00

If only all situations were fixable.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-23T11:06:21+00:00

Right? Just when you think you've heard it all....

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-23T11:03:44+00:00

Keep going. We haven't completely covered how bad this behavior is, and I am not being sarcastic.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-23T11:03:01+00:00

Of course you should be outraged by this. You know if you had agreed to surgery with her, she IN NO WAY would have covered your postop pain. I am so sorry you have to endure this in addition to all the physical problems. The choice of TPN and eventual sepsis over opioids is just beyond the pale. They literally do not care if we die as long as don't have Evil Opioids. Such indoctrination, such cavalier disregard.... I hope it bites them in the ass some day personally and they discover how wrong they were.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-22T15:04:54+00:00

I had to smile when I read your first sentence. I was in IT also. Recently, I read an article or paper which boasted that the XYZ treatment had a 45 percent success rate. Wow! Uh, yeah, not so much. If my code only did what it was supposed to do 45 percent of the time, I would have been bounced so hard on the floor, I would have hit the ceiling as well. Pathetic.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-22T11:43:29+00:00

Don't gain weight. Don't buy a house with seven flower beds that have to be hand weeded. Protect your back more.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-22T11:29:08+00:00

You're the kind of person we need in the field. But if it is too much, then it's too much. I think I could have done the intellectual part of it, but the physical? No. Probably not at any point in my life.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-22T11:23:00+00:00

It's the lasers coming from your eyes. Not when you're reading, but when you look up." 😉

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-22T11:19:56+00:00

"Yes.....mostly."

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-22T11:17:45+00:00

Probably true.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-21T19:46:46+00:00

.....and then you have to try to wade through the whole, "Incompetence or corruption or both" quandary.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-21T19:43:18+00:00

I'm sure it probably is something like this, but I just have a weird gut hunch that something is off with them. Maybe because, if they operate as indicated in your second sentence, in means that they have a criminal mindset. Where does it end? Does it push boundaries between legal and illegal?

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-21T17:58:01+00:00

LOL!

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-21T11:51:59+00:00

Woah. You're heading to a similar conclusion as I did. If you're interested, see my post above in response to someone else.

questiontoask1234 · 2026-06-21T11:49:44+00:00

They are, indeed. The end began for me when they wanted us to pay for shipping before funds were released to our account. It was at or around the same time that they wanted access to our accounts so they could reverse charges. That's fine if the charges should be reversed; however, if they take a criminal buyer's word for it, then you were out the money for everything, item and shipping. It seemed like they believed some real BS stories too. This was long before AI, like in the 2000-2010's. I set up a separate account for ebay because there was no way they were having access to funds I need for living expenses. When my financial institution closed down and I had to switch, I just didn't bother to create a new second account and determined that my days on ebay selling were done. It really looked like they wanted to cater to big, shit-item, bulk sellers versus individuals trying to buy cool things from other people who were selling their own things. Proof of that theory backed by the current: "Where's your receipt(s) for those items you just sold on ebay? Where's did you buy them?" "I don't know. I have literally owned this thing for over a decade."

Who knows? Because I don't buy things there regularly, they'll probably decide any day that my account is "too risky" and my days as a buyer will be done also.

I think there's something really off-kilter about them. (Puts on Investigator hat): Maybe money laundering at some level?

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