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Posted:Sep 21, 2019 4:58 pm
Last Updated:Sep 21, 2019 4:59 pm 81958 Views
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I must have been 10 years old when my parents drove back to New York to visit my grandmother in the hospital. She had gall bladder surgery.
One thing I can recall was the mayonnaise jar with gritty looking nuggets in it.
Uh.... that was her souvenir of the gall stones the doctor removed!
Another thing I remember was my father saying she "Went under the knife."
As I got older, I learned it meant surgery. Surgery of any kind.
In the 1960's surgery like that involved an incision as long " and it took several weeks of recuperation.
Modern surgery still uses a scalpel, but it's to make small incisions. All the work is done through a few 'keyholes' where instruments are pushed into tubes and a probe with a camera on the end is that the doctors can see through to do their work!
Recovery time is considerably less. The risk of cutting muscles and nerves to get to the area requiring surgery is also less.
Last year, a coworker had a hernia repair. He was in the hospital less than 6 hours and back to work after 1 week.
In my book, that would mean the term "Going under the knife" should be replaced by the term "Going under the laparoscope"
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Posted:Sep 15, 2019 12:41 pm
Last Updated:Sep 16, 2019 6:41 pm 81811 Views
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Stores are already filling with Halloween products...
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Posted:Sep 14, 2019 7:56 pm
Last Updated:Sep 15, 2019 12:38 pm 82669 Views
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A young boy goes to his father and says "Daddy?"
The father replies "Yes " and the says "Daddy, I have a question"
The father says ", what's your question?"
The boy asks "Is Rotterdam a bad word?"
The father thinks for a second... Rotterdam, the city in Netherlands and says...
"No , Rotterdam isn't a bad word. Why do you ask?"
The says "Well, a cat scratched my teacher's arm..."
"and?" said the father...
"She's got a bad infection" said the .
"and?" said the father...
"I hope it will rot-her-damn arm off!" said the !
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Hillary has a new shirt...
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Posted:Sep 10, 2019 5:35 am
Last Updated:Sep 11, 2019 7:51 pm 79738 Views
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Someone sent me an email that Hillary has a new shirt.
I'm sure by now it's gone viral!
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pornographic profile photos...
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Posted:Sep 9, 2019 2:48 pm
Last Updated:Sep 11, 2019 4:42 am 83670 Views
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I see there's a new member who has a profile photo of her naked crotch. I know Friend Finder has other sites allow for alternative lifestyles, I happen to think she's in the wrong place.
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funny TRUMP things this this month...
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Posted:Sep 7, 2019 7:35 am
Last Updated:Sep 27, 2019 9:59 am 81899 Views
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Back when Dorian was a tropical storm, the original forecast was it would become a hurricane, head toward Florida then curve north along the east coast. All the models reflected this path.
Trump announced it would be a direct hit on Alabama. The weather center said no, but Trump insisted he was right and to prove his point, he went on TV showing an outdated map created from the NOAA website and on the outermost part of the projected cone someone with a black marker (Sharpie) added a path toward Alabama.
The internet went wild over this !!
Trump had Tweeted (some call it twitted) several times again how he was right.
Anyway, it's spawned several other images including a 'hole in one' probably because Trump played golf while Dorian, a category 5 storm at the time was whacking Bahamas.
It's amazing he's been in several public meetings stating he's never heard of, nor seen a category 5 storm before.
Do they exist?
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The shelves are bare...
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Posted:Sep 1, 2019 10:26 am
Last Updated:Sep 7, 2019 6:07 am 79435 Views
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Hurricane Dorian approaches Florida as a category 5 storm with winds of 0mph. All indications say it will head north and not make landfall on the east coast. This has been broadcast on a regular basis now. Not the fear is over, but the odds of it cutting through the state leaving a path of total destruction are very low.
The gasoline panic is over. I no longer see dozens of cars wrapped around gas stations like we had earlier in the week. People at many stations waited 20- minutes to fill up.
Water? 's a different story. You cannot find water on the shelves of supermarkets... with the exception of the French stuff $3.50 a liter all bottled water is sold out. When they bring a pallet of bottled water to the front of the grocery store it gets scooped up within minutes.
I heard on TV to keep 1 gallon person per day for at least 10 days.
Are you f'kin kidding ? A gallon of water lasts 2 weeks!
My coworker came to complain he procrastinated and was lucky enough to have gotten the last supply in the store near his house in Hollywood... miles away from predicted strike zone. I asked how much water did he get and his answer was 48 bottles. It's him and his wife. Why so much, I asked and his response was he could return what he didn't use.
I'm saying temporary insanity came over him.
Thinking the fear of bad things would lessen, I went to the grocery store to fresh salmon. Gone. So was the beef and chicken. Only some seasoned sausage was on display. All of the frozen meats were gone!
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Hurricane Dorian... meet Florida!
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Posted:Aug 30, 2019 1:02 pm
Last Updated:Aug 30, 2019 5:46 pm 76298 Views
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My original blog on August 26 reflected weather forecasters predicting Dorian, then a tropical storm to hit the East Coast of Florida Friday morning as a tropical storm. They were 90% wrong. The only thing they are getting right is the East Coast part.
I said Mar-a-Lago... and it looks like I'm more accurate than the forecasters with their radar, satellites and airplane storm trackers.
Currently... Dorian has slowed it's , picked up speed and is now a category 3 hurricane packing winds over 110 miles hour. Expected to hit Florida early Tuesday morning. means the outer band of tropical winds will be reaching us Monday night!
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Dorian... meet Florida!
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Posted:Aug 26, 2019 8:16 pm
Last Updated:Aug 29, 2019 8:56 pm 72942 Views
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Currently... Dorian is a tropical storm off the coast of Venezuela. Maximum sustained winds are 60 miles per hour and expected to reach hurricane strength Wednesday morning as it crosses over the Dominican Republic on it's way to Florida.
I'm not a weather forecaster, nor do I in a TV series, but a few degrees the north and it's away from Florida and headed South Carolina.
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Peter Fonda dead at 79...
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Posted:Aug 19, 2019 4:45 am
Last Updated:Aug 26, 2019 10:36 am 77121 Views
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News on Friday reported actor Peter Fonda has died at the age of 79. The cause of death was listed as respiratory failure due to lung cancer.
must have been a slow agonizing death...
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