Go ahead and get all worked up if you want, but you write with this super authoritative vibe—which honestly made me assume you were a doctor. And man, people here are just way too quick to hand out unsolicited advice (I mean, look at me...) so it’s probably worth being picky about whose input you actually take to heart. I mean, sure, you could have just told me straight up if you were a physician or whatever, but I really respect that you just stuck to the truth. I still trust what you put out there in your posts, and I'll definitely keep reading them...
Honestly, I don't know about you guys, but I feel like there are definitely times when a patient gets to call the shots—and then there are those other times where they just don't... I haven't really run into many situations where that wasn't the case, though.
Yeah, just hope for the best—and honestly, they say smokers deal with throat issues and coughing way more often, so if you aren't a smoker, there was probably less chance you'd be dealing with that kind of cough in the first place.
As for the teeth thing, look, the tube has to pass right by them. And if the anesthesiologist is having a bad day or just being careless, they might snag something... things can get pretty messy sometimes...
ha, you seriously lucked out. Most people end up dealing with a wrecked throat and vocal cords after being intubated—and honestly, when you’ve got a surgical incision sliced across your midsection from some major operation, the last thing you want is to be coughing uncontrollably for three days straight while trying to heal... it's just miserable. Plus, dental issues can pop up too. At the end of the day, nobody actually enjoys having a breathing tube shoved down their throat, and things get even sketchier if the surgery drags on for a long time—like five or six hours or something...
stormylynx14 said:Aside from some technical nuances, a spinal is basically a one-time shot of painkiller that lasts for a set window of time. With an epidural, you've got a catheter in place—so they can just adjust the dosage whenever needed...
Sweet, thanks. Now I actually know something else to keep in mind...
Hey, this seems like a pretty solid spot to ask if someone could maybe clear something up for me... specifically, what’s the actual deal with the difference between spinal and epidural anesthesia? Thanks!
If that’s what you’re dealing with right now, I totally get it—after my lumbar puncture, I had these brutal headaches for an entire week. And then, out of nowhere, they just... vanished...
John Palmer4 said:just waiting on a reply for this one 😁😁😁😁
honestly, I have no idea how to even respond to him...
first off, I’m dying laughing because he doesn't even know the basic "components" of macOS (which isn't really a big deal, but then he tries to act like some kind of genius), then he turns around and accuses me of not being able to grasp o what he was actually getting at—even though what he saidwas impossible to interpret any other way... and then he has the nerve to ask if I've ever workedo with Unix, all while failing to realize that I'm a woman (seriously, who cares about being called a "sweetheart" or whatever, it means nothing to me)... or maybe the issue is just that he thinks women shouldn't know anything about "dosages"?
man, you're being such a pain... seriously, just give it a shot. honestly, it'd make me happy if you just tried: go into your Google settings, find the adblocker section, and just toss in this one filter . that's it—just do that and let me know how long it takes i've actually had my screen ads blocked for months now, but i had to set this specific thing up for it to even work today.
Or, if you're feeling lazy and don't want to mess with browser settings, just jump into your hosts file (it's in macOS/system32/drivers/etc) and add 127.0.0.1 ads.monitor.hr...
Hey. I had the exact same issue—actually, it felt even longer for me—until I finally managed to block every single ad using adblocker.com. Since then, everything’s been running smooth as silk, even my monitor performance...
And just to prove my point, when I go into the settings and switch from "remove ads" to "hide ads"—basically just making them invisible instead of actually deleting them—the whole thing slows down to a crawl again!!!
Carol Jackson45 said:Seriously, screw this. I have all that set up and everything is still running just as slow as ever. Today, specifically.
Are you 100% sure you put the asterisks right after Media Matters in your adblocker settings? Because I tried doing them one by one and it didn't work until I just blocked the whole thing at once...
Man, seriously... (god, what an idiot I am. She just tells me "screw this" out of nowhere and here I am trying to play tech support)
Just grab Mozilla Firefox, toss an adblock extension on there, and make sure you block everything coming from Media Matters—once you do that, everything will run perfectly smooth...