[General George Hammond sits down in Colonel Jack O’Neill’s living room, looks at the bottles of beer on the side, and points to them.]
General George Hammond: You wouldn’t happen to have another one of those?
Colonel Jack O’Neill: I would.
[Jack goes to the dining area, and gets a six pack of bottles.]
Jack: I hope you like Guinness, Sir. I find it a refreshing substitute for… food.
Archive for July 2008
I forgot. I learned that at Chester County Hospital Code Purple means that all the beds are full and there are people waiting in the ER for beds.
On 7/10 I had some girl surgery and an appendectomy. When the surgeon went in for the girl bits Dr. Askinas noticed the appendix was not right and to prevent me from having surgery in the future took the appendix. That was good news and bad news. So this is my experience with the surgery and my stay in Chester County Hospital.
My surgery was scheduled for 7:30 am which meant that I had to be at the hospital at 5:30 am. Total yuck! But my Beloved David had me to CCH on time. Mom was already there. There were about 7 or so people in the waiting room. The nurse that took us back to start the process was one of the nurses that had taken care of Dad when he was having chemo. She is very nice. She put me in this purple gown called “Bair Paws” that had all these little ports in it. The ports were for hot air. According to the research, if the core temperature is kept up prior to surgery post surgery healing doesn’t take as long. It was nice. After all my vitals were taken, they took us upstairs to the recovery room. Mom stayed and David left, but only after I was settled in the recovery room. All the nurses and anethesia folks came over and introduced themselves. About 7:40 Dr. Askinas came over asked me if I was ready, the nurse said “I’m putting the medicine in” and within a minute I was completely out. It was like I was drunk. I looked to the right and next thing I knew I was waking up with a pain in my belly.
I have no idea how long I was in the recovery room. I think my co-worker’s Mom was in the bed next to me in the recovery room. Towards the end of my stay in recovery they brought in a little one who was in a lot of pain and he was screaming his head off.
They took me to room 157W. Mom left shortly after they brought me up. Which was ok because they started me on a morphine push when I was in recovery. I did a whole lot of sleeping. They wanted me to sit up to listen to my lungs. Ooooooowwwwwww!!!! That hurt like crazy. I had a perfect roommate. Her name is Elizabeth and she wasn’t in pain (no moaning or groaning) and she didn’t watch TV (no game shows or soaps). All she did was read. Which was perfect for me. The 1st night the nurse, Nick, didn’t like my pulseOx count when I woke up so he put me on oxygen. Anyway, the 1st night I had rolled on my side because my butt hurt. Well, in the middle of the night I had to pee like crazy. The problem was, I had a cathiter so I shouldn’t have had that problem. And the fun part was it was the middle of the night and my nurse call button didn’t work. So I asked my roomie to call the nurse for me. It turns out there was a kink in the tube and once they unkinked me all was good.
Since they took my appendix I had to “pass gas” before they would let me have solid foods. Day 2, they had me up and in the bathroom and sitting in a chair. Which hurt like crazy. But it was easier to get up to go to the bathroom. Mom & Dad came to visit. Terri came to visit and Maribeth came to visit. I was pretty tired by the time they left.
The rest of the stay was pretty uneventful. Except for Saturday night. One of the patients did a runner. The one nurse kept saying “Who’s his nurse? Stop him. Call security.” They found him a couple of hours later on a different floor in a laundry room. Then they sent a guy from across the hall to the ER at about midnight. And then at 2 am they brought in another patient. It was a long night.
The food was actually ok. After they let me have some. The nurses were fantastic. Over all I’d give my stay an 9 out of 10.
Chapter 36 – Bats, Cats, Possums and Skunks
The fun part about living on the edge of rural, just beyond suburban, is the variety of wildlife we have here that comes by the house. We have bats, cats, vultures, deer, skunks, foxes and possums. Just to name the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
The vultures congregate in the yard 2 doors over. There is a small stream, trees around the edges and a lot open space to land in. Plus there is a compost pile that they seem to be fascinated with. We have fox around the corner. I haven’t seen any directly in our backyard, but they are in the neighborhood. And the deer migrate through the backyard, especially in the fall and winter. There is only one fence to block thier progress.
Bats. One night on of the kitties came in squeeking. Well, it turns out it wasn’t the cat that was squeeking, it was the bat that it had caught. He has a small hole in his wings but other wise was unharmed – as far as we could tell. Since it was alive we took it away from the kids and put it in a box with a small saucer of water. Do bats drink water? Who know. But Binky got water. Yes, the bat got a name when he went into the box. David put Binky’s box on the top self in a wardrobe to keep him away from the kitties. The next day we went to get Binky from his box and put him outside in a tree. Well, he wasn’t in his box. He had climbed out of the box and was hanging on one of the coats in the wardrobe. So David put Binky out in a tree. We kept an eye on him until he flew away.
We know all about Edna the possum. Who spent a night in the bathroom. But Florence the Skunk came for a visit night before last. We put food out for the cats that live on the porch. Earlier in the evening I had smelt her go by… but when David put food out for the cats she jointed in. The weird thing is, the cats didn’t seem to mind and they all ate together. She was pretty docile, but then again, we didn’t give her a reason to get her tail up. And that’s a little update on our wild life.
Tomorrow starts season 3 of Eureka. I can’t wait. It looks like it’s going to be another good season. Henry is coming back with a new hair cut. I’m glad he got rid of the mini-dreds. I don’t like Allison’s new do. It doesn’t look like either Mrs. Dr. Abby Carter or Callie Currie are coming back. So that leaves Jack free for Allison. It does look like Zane is coming back for Jo. At least for the first 2 episodes. And “Hairboy” is coming back for Zoe – at least if the commercial is anything to go by. And at least if IMDB.com is anything to go by. I guess we will see!
Mythbusters Shark week special is pretty good. It’s about the only thing I watch during Shark week. I would probably get in the water with the sharks. Especially if I had chain mail on.
If an illegal alien is an undocumented immigrant, why isn’t a drug dealer a unlicensed pharmacist?