Topic: The things that make me sad, angry, and upset

[revalations]

Monday I found out a dear friend has a tumor on his lung. He got pretty sick back in January and the diagnosis was pneumonia, month after month he never did get much better, tired, short on breath, pains in his chest and neck, blood in sputum and generally feeling ill. He's in his 70's so his doc just kept telling him it takes awhile to get over pneumonia at his age and kept prescribing for bacterial infections. After a biopsy a  week back they finally confirmed the problem.

Now 9 months later he's looking at rush surgery. The cancer hasn't spread to other organs but is into lymph nodes. This pains me so much as he was about a fit and active as a man in his 70's could be. I'm trying so hard to keep positive (he's still in great spirits). Praying for a good outcome to this just the same.

[Ex-airbalancer]

Facking arthritis!

What...no CBD oil?

After a couple bottles it did not help

Pure CBD or CBD+THC?

Research has shown cbd+thc is far more effective. Basically, allows the cbd to work far more effectively.

Cbd & THC ,
Since none of the painkillers are working that great ,  I rather take nothing

[tortoise]

revelations, that's terrible to hear. 

On a less somber, but still annoying, note - my right front tire is toast thanks to a pothole just outside Montreal. Didn't see it coming and just smoked it at highway speeds.

I'm happy it held together but there was at least another season left on these tires. Fack!

[Sir Osis of Liver]

God damned cancer.

Best of luck to your friend Rev.

[KD]

Not only do I need to spend over $500 to fix our stove, but we've also got an issue with our septic system that requires us to excavate part of it. 

That sucks, in Ontario , it is big money to do anything with a septic system

This shouldn't be too bad. Need to dig up the outlet pipe because it isn't lined up with the outlet hole and it's causing it not to drain properly. Costs $100/hr to run the excavator. Hopefully will be only a few hours.

Just reading this.  Hope everything went well. 

I had a back flow problem a few years ago where water backed up through the basement floor drain and onto my basement floor.    Turned out to be that my septic tank was full and finally overflowed.  The confusing part was that I had it cleaned twice in the 7 years since we bought the place at that time. 

The issue turned out to be that my cleanout hatch was on the wrong chamber.  There are three chambers; inlet, main tank/cleanout, and outflow, and my cleanout hatch was on the outflow chamber, so it never got cleaned out properly.  This happened in mid-December but luckily it was very warm that year and the ground was still not frozen.  Also, a coworker of mine owns a septic cleaning service and was able to come down right away.  He had my system flushed and cleaned out in pretty short order.  Luckily the field wasn't blocked, which he said was quite possible, then i would be into big $$$ to fix that.   As it was the only damage was a few cork flooring tiles and i had enough left over to replace them with.  The dufus who cleaned out my tank the first two times will never get work from me again.  Cant imagine how he didn't notice. 

[Ex-airbalancer]

Not only do I need to spend over $500 to fix our stove, but we've also got an issue with our septic system that requires us to excavate part of it. 

That sucks, in Ontario , it is big money to do anything with a septic system

This shouldn't be too bad. Need to dig up the outlet pipe because it isn't lined up with the outlet hole and it's causing it not to drain properly. Costs $100/hr to run the excavator. Hopefully will be only a few hours.

Just reading this.  Hope everything went well. 

I had a back flow problem a few years ago where water backed up through the basement floor drain and onto my basement floor.    Turned out to be that my septic tank was full and finally overflowed.  The confusing part was that I had it cleaned twice in the 7 years since we bought the place at that time. 

The issue turned out to be that my cleanout hatch was on the wrong chamber.  There are three chambers; inlet, main tank/cleanout, and outflow, and my cleanout hatch was on the outflow chamber, so it never got cleaned out properly.  This happened in mid-December but luckily it was very warm that year and the ground was still not frozen.  Also, a coworker of mine owns a septic cleaning service and was able to come down right away.  He had my system flushed and cleaned out in pretty short order.  Luckily the field wasn't blocked, which he said was quite possible, then i would be into big $$$ to fix that.   As it was the only damage was a few cork flooring tiles and i had enough left over to replace them with.  The dufus who cleaned out my tank the first two times will never get work from me again.  Cant imagine how he didn't notice. 

Do you have a walkout basement ?

[KD]

Not only do I need to spend over $500 to fix our stove, but we've also got an issue with our septic system that requires us to excavate part of it. 

That sucks, in Ontario , it is big money to do anything with a septic system

This shouldn't be too bad. Need to dig up the outlet pipe because it isn't lined up with the outlet hole and it's causing it not to drain properly. Costs $100/hr to run the excavator. Hopefully will be only a few hours.

Just reading this.  Hope everything went well. 

I had a back flow problem a few years ago where water backed up through the basement floor drain and onto my basement floor.    Turned out to be that my septic tank was full and finally overflowed.  The confusing part was that I had it cleaned twice in the 7 years since we bought the place at that time. 

The issue turned out to be that my cleanout hatch was on the wrong chamber.  There are three chambers; inlet, main tank/cleanout, and outflow, and my cleanout hatch was on the outflow chamber, so it never got cleaned out properly.  This happened in mid-December but luckily it was very warm that year and the ground was still not frozen.  Also, a coworker of mine owns a septic cleaning service and was able to come down right away.  He had my system flushed and cleaned out in pretty short order.  Luckily the field wasn't blocked, which he said was quite possible, then i would be into big $$$ to fix that.   As it was the only damage was a few cork flooring tiles and i had enough left over to replace them with.  The dufus who cleaned out my tank the first two times will never get work from me again.  Cant imagine how he didn't notice. 

Do you have a walkout basement ?

Yes.

[aquadorhj]

had an annual blood test.   apparently my cholesterol is high.

how do i lower it, i ask the doc.

she goes : oh, eat omega 3, lower your carb intake, exercise etc.

I do all of those already.    fkx. 

[quadzilla]

had an annual blood test.   apparently my cholesterol is high.

But what is high? People can have different readings just because of genetics and it means nothing. Do you have a baseline over the last few years/decades to compare this number to? Trends are always nice to have and compare with.

[sailor723]

Boat came out for the season today.

[ChaosphereIX]

had an annual blood test.   apparently my cholesterol is high.

how do i lower it, i ask the doc.

she goes : oh, eat omega 3, lower your carb intake, exercise etc.

I do all of those already.    fkx.

hey you could go v....oh nevermind... 

[johngenx]

hey you could go v....oh nevermind... 

Okay, that's a good one!

[BWII]

1. V - as in rhymes with Regina?  If that works to take weight off, I'm in!  (literally)

2. Holy! Nice boat...oh wait, this is the sad thread...WGAS...nice feckin' boat!  Wow.

3.  Dealer offered me $20g for my truck...well...no, can't do that then.  Looks like Hammy will be the only one with a new one this year.  Too bad Cord isn't still around, he might be able to give me an idea of its worth, maybe they are being generous.  Oh well...just have to keep dreaming. 

[ChaosphereIX]

well, if you do it enough...it can be a good workout regimen 

you know what I meant 

https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/i-slashed-my-cholesterol-plant-based-eating.html

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-08-meta-analysis-plant-based-vegetarian-diet-cholesterol.html

But yes, a steady diet of...Regina will also work wonders, and your lady I am sure will appreciate it as well 

[BWII]

You obviously don't have kids, and haven't been together over 30 yrs...I'd have better luck with Scaerio, and I'm not even his type. (Nor he mine...for that matter...I mean, I like Regina...nice place to be)

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Maybe it's because I'm surrounded by Regina, but I don't see anything to get that excited about.   

[Great_Big_Abyss]

Maybe it's because I'm surrounded by Regina, but I don't see anything to get that excited about.   

Well, pretty soon you won't be surrounded by 'Regina' anymore, you'll be here in the 'Peg and surrounded by 'Ameya'.  How's that for a mental image?!?

[ChaosphereIX]

You obviously don't have kids, and haven't been together over 30 yrs...I'd have better luck with Scaerio, and I'm not even his type. (Nor he mine...for that matter...I mean, I like Regina...nice place to be)

nope, don't have kids and have been together 16 years...will see what the next 16 bring if they are to be...

well if Regina is off the menu, perhaps go vegan? Proven to lower cholesterol. Worth a try if other avenues are not working maybe?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Maybe it's because I'm surrounded by Regina, but I don't see anything to get that excited about.   

Well, pretty soon you won't be surrounded by 'Regina' anymore, you'll be here in the 'Peg and surrounded by 'Ameya'.  How's that for a mental image?!?

When you put it like that

[aquadorhj]

 

thanks all, re: cholesterol.   my doc was working off of what's called "framingham risk score" (you can download PDF of this online and check it out yourself if you know your cholesterol level).

i mean, it was "high" last year too, but my HDL is high as well.   (supposedly HDL is the good cholesterol, and HDL + LDL is the total cholesterol level)

i've never considered going vegan and probably never will, cuz i like dairy stuff too much and egg... and bacon, but sometimes think about going vegetarian.  i mean, i don't HAVE to have meat when i'm eating at home.