Posts by crimsonpuma48

Is this some kind of PhD thesis 😕?
Look, I don't wake up in the morning just to sip coffee. I get out of bed because I have to get to work, and I grab my first cup there just so I can actually keep my eyes open. After that, it’s one cup after another until my break.
My caffeine intake stays exactly the same whether it's a workday or the weekend.
Take today, for example—I knocked back a literal liter of coffee, and my big "productive" activity was just brewing it and chugging it while staring at my computer and the TV. ☕.

I seriously doubt either of our grandmas were sipping actual coffee back in the day. If they were drinking anything remotely similar, it was probably just chicory—basically brown water that looks like coffee but isn't.
In this part of the country, decent coffee wasn't even a staple until about 25 years ago.
If you’re young enough, go ask your mom about the old days when things like coffee, laundry detergent, and gas were actually hard to find.
Back then, if anyone was drinking coffee, it was out of those tiny little espresso cups. Personally, I don't touch anything less than a heavy pour now.
People used to be way more active, too. Even if it was just sprinting to catch a city bus or a subway.
Our parents, and their parents before them, didn't grow up stuffing themselves with processed junk loaded with additives, dyes, pesticides, GMOs, preservatives, and flavor enhancers.
That’s why I feel like all this medical progress won't actually make us live much longer. Sure, life might be higher quality, but that’s got nothing to do with coffee.
Heading over to the women's lounge 🙂

I’ll be honest, I hadn't even considered that. Now I'm actually curious to see what kind of insights we end up digging up.
In my family, my dad and I are the absolute biggest caffeine addicts.
We both live for 😁 .

Which hospital were you even at?
Seriously, thank God 🙏 🙏 🙏 that I’m mostly healthy.
Other than giving birth, everything was fine—I haven't had any hospital runs where I was actually the center of attention.
Until last summer.
I gotta give props to the trauma team at Mayo Clinic 🙂 though. They walked me through everything—what they were doing, how, and why. Their work was top-tier. The only thing they didn't bother asking my opinion on was the antibiotics and that blood thinner stuff. I guess they figured my signature covered all that. They wouldn't even touch me with an IV of Voltaren until I gave them the green light.
Maybe your doctor used to work at a state asylum or something and just hasn't broken those old habits yet 😕 .

Steven Cruz53 said:Look, I’ve already got a stomach ulcer. I really don't want to deal with a doctor because I already know what they'll say—quit smoking and stop drinking coffee. Sure, women have rights, but I'm not in the mood for a lecture when I already know all this stuff myself.
Basically, it's my own fault, so there's no point complaining.😁

A massive number of doctors kick off an exam by asking one thing: "Do you smoke?"
If you do, boom—diagnosis complete. It's all "it's from the smoking."
I had some liver issues once and paid out of pocket for a private specialist. As soon as he heard I smoked, he immediately diagnosed me with high blood pressure and wrote a script for meds. My liver went straight to the back burner because apparently, "this lady smokes, so she must have high BP. She'll die if she doesn't treat it."
Since my blood pressure didn't feel high, and I realized I'd be stuck on these pills forever, I just quit taking them on my own. My pressure stayed totally normal, and even my liver enzymes stabilized within two years—all without ever actually finding out what was wrong in the first place (every single test came back negative).
My husband hasn't touched a cigarette in five years, yet he’s still living on Pepcid.
And since he's got extra testosterone to maintain his ego, he refuses to go for a gastroscopy. They basically murder you in there, right? 😲 😲
Look, since you're a woman, just go get checked out and lie about the smoking. Maybe then they'll actually give you a fair shake.

granitetiger50 said:http://www.covermagazin.com/zanimljivost.php?NID=229

I always knew I shouldn't quit smoking because eventually, they'll find some "miracle cure" just for me too.😲

Ever heard of marketing?
They dream up nonsense, wrap it in pretty packaging, slap a "healthy" label on it, and sell it for a premium to suckers.

I'm sticking to the stuff at the local farmer's market.😁

John Adams4 said:It’s just not working on my end.

Endoscopy or 🙂

Sophia Parker4 said:Can someone tell me if I just eat a tiny breakfast and then nothing else all day—just some cocoa or coffee at night, zero exercise—how much weight can I actually drop in a week?

1. Personally, skipping lunch is way easier than eating breakfast and then starving myself until bedtime.
2. Just got back from grabbing a slice of pizza, and now I’m ready for a nap.
3. If you can actually stick to a crazy diet like that for a while, sure, you'll lose weight. But without hitting the gym or moving at all, don't expect any massive changes.
4. Why not swap dinner for a walk, a bike ride, or whatever works for you? People say even doing laundry burns calories.

Good luck. 🙂

trebor said:Ogi "rules"....😵 ....and there's a "twin" over at Mayo Clinic, "Mr. 5000Bucks" is just as much of a sleazebag....acting like they have some "exclusive" info that they can probably charge a premium for...total idiots!

Is this what cardiologists charge? 😲
We heard all that talk too, but because it was an absolute emergency, we moved Dad over to Magdalena. We paid roughly what it costs for the exams, the surgery, and the hospital stay.
AND THEN WE GOT THE BILL !!!

I pull about six hours of sleep at night, but I live for those afternoon naps.
The problem is, I can't even remember the last time I actually caught one. 😕

Kimberly Wright said:It’s pretty obvious you haven’t stepped foot in an Emergency Room lately. If you had, you’d know they don't "stop the lines" there. In the ER, people get treated based on how critical they are, not who showed up first.

What kind of embarrassment are you even talking about, lady?! And tell me—what makes you think you know which 10% of people don't belong or don't have the right to walk into an ER? What, does 90% of the population pay for health insurance while 10% doesn't? Is that your logic?

Luckily, I don't spend much time hanging out in emergency rooms, but my experience tells me the most urgent cases are usually the ones with connections. 😈
Even with regular scheduled appointments, you can't just expect things to run perfectly on time like some textbook scenario. 🙂

Rachel Brooks63 said:At first, nobody actually knew what the deal was. People were just coming after Susan Martin24 because she's got a sharp tongue, not even because of this specific mess.

If Kimberly Wright had just laid out the facts instead of going off on some theoretical rant about "rights" and fighting for them, half this thread wouldn't even exist...

What would we even have to read or talk about then?😕

Kimberly Wright said:I’m honestly asking these questions because I want to protect myself just in case I end up relying on someone's mercy again. It always seems to happen—random pains, breaks, allergic reactions—right when it's a holiday or a weekend.

As far as broken bones go during those times, Trauma is the way to go.
I rolled in on a Saturday afternoon, and there were only two people in the waiting room. As soon as my X-rays were done, I was patient number one. Within an hour—that’s all it took for blood work, chest scans, and getting my blood pressure checked for anesthesia—I was already on the table.
When I went in for my first follow-up on a regular weekday morning, that's when it hit me how much our people suffer, just left to wait, and wait,🙂,🙂 ...
Funny enough, there was a news segment on TV showing empty waiting rooms in Norway. Meanwhile, the papers were running stories about the chaos at Trauma, with people showing up at 8 AM and waiting until 3 PM just to be seen.
And no, I didn't pull any strings in five minutes.😈

Dow Chemical said:Malicious... just so you know, there’s a moderator here watching everything and reading closely. Like, really closely.

Don't even try saying you weren't warned that being a jerk is an automatic ban.

Dow Chemical, please be at least half as decent as the Woman from San Diego so we don't lose her to a ban 🙏.
Honestly, a lot of us actually get value out of what she posts.
Just let the woman defend her profession.
BTW, I have a colleague who sprints to the ER every single time her kid hits a 100-degree fever or gets a stomach bug. Everyone at the office just rolls their eyes when she tells us the doctors gave her the side-eye again because her kid is acting up.
Look, people love to panic when their own family is sick, but it doesn't take a Nobel Prize winner to figure out if someone is actually in critical condition or not. That's why they run tests—to minimize mistakes.
If a doctor is pulling a 24-hour shift and 10% of the patients rolling in shouldn't even be there, they have to make it known, even if they aren't being polite about it. They can deal with a little embarrassment to keep the floor clear for people who are actually dying, rather than letting things stall because some patient is too stubborn to report all their symptoms and just sits there in silence.

Sophia Martinez65 said:There’s this online book for filing complaints against the American healthcare system: www.doctors.com , but hardly anyone knows about it. It would be awesome if you guys used it to post some praise 🙂 or a complaint.

I already posted some shoutouts for my trauma center, but they won't publish them.😢

trebor said:Contraindications:
- Under 5 or over 65.
- Any malignant disease, except for primary brain tumors (but as far as I know, nobody actually has those, and if they did, they’d be headed straight for an autopsy).
- Hepatitis B or C, HIV, syphilis.
- Chronic low blood pressure that won't budge even with vasoactive drugs.
- Any history of prior organ damage.
- Sepsis or any proven infection in the organ systems.
- Low urine output or total kidney failure despite being on diuretics.
- Abnormal labs for urea, creatinine, or liver enzymes.

...and that’s pretty much the whole list.

Based on this, you could be perfectly healthy and still be dead.😈

Justin Fox said:Here’s my take: if a smoker gets a free pass to light up in a restaurant, then why can't a non-smoker just set fire to a block of Styrofoam or spill some nasty chemical in there? It pollutes the air for everyone else and puts their health at risk, just like cigarette smoke does.

By that logic, a non-smoker could basically torch the whole damn building.😁

Mixing calcium and magnesium together is 👍
I used to take half a dose of effervescent Ca and half of Mg every morning and night.

swiftrider said:Which one is harder: dropping weight or packing it on?

The hard part is always whatever you actually need to do.
Skinny people struggle to gain, and heavy people struggle to lose. 😵

Finally found my lost 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
I realized I had basic editor selected at the bottom of the options page, which is why they vanished.
Switched back to standard editor and thank God 🙏 the toolbar finally popped up where I'm typing, and my emojis are staring back at me again

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