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Lara said:
I know a lady who recently had her whole knee replaced she's off work for three weeks and before she goes back she's been on a hiking trip. =) They can do wonders. Unfortunately for me and my latex allergy they are likely to kill me ah vell...

You can still have surgery if you have a latex allergy...

Apparently, they go through a great deal of trouble with people who are allergic to latex to make sure no latex is used at all. They ask about that during the history interview.
 
triplet said:
Oh, I know what you mean... When my shoulder was hurting so bad I dreaded the surgery but was also looking forward to it to stop the pain.
Yeah, it sounds like you've had similar experiences. ;) I was only guessing at my op date based on my pre-op assessment being on June 2nd. My op appointment came today, so I'll be in hospital on June 14th....

It got so bad I couldn't even hold a cup of coffee in my right hand because my shoulder couldn't take the strain. Pathetic.
I've never had a weakness like that in an arm, but I did dislocate my left shoulder about 18 months ago. For about six months afterwards the nerves were grumpy, so I would get shooting pains down my arm and my grip was sometimes weak. Luckily it got better with rest and a course of anti-inflammatories. Stupid part? I dislocated it getting out of bed! I put my arm down to help myself get up, and it just popped out of its socket.... Freaky stuff. :eek:
 
jas01724 said:
Yeah, it sounds like you've had similar experiences. ;) I was only guessing at my op date based on my pre-op assessment being on June 2nd. My op appointment came today, so I'll be in hospital on June 14th....

We'll send virtual flowers.
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My right shoulder is trashed.. common work-related injury for my field. Playing on the PC as much as I do doesn't help either. I plan on switching to a left-handed mouse, being that I am a lefty. My dad uses his left-handed so I have tried his and it's not too bad.. will take a bit of getting used to though.

I'm off to pay people to hurt me now. :rolleyes:
Feel free to send some good karma my way.
 
jas01724 said:
Yeah, it sounds like you've had similar experiences. ;) I was only guessing at my op date based on my pre-op assessment being on June 2nd. My op appointment came today, so I'll be in hospital on June 14th....

Well, I hope they can fix you up since you've been having so many problems with it.

jas01724 said:
I've never had a weakness like that in an arm, but I did dislocate my left shoulder about 18 months ago. For about six months afterwards the nerves were grumpy, so I would get shooting pains down my arm and my grip was sometimes weak. Luckily it got better with rest and a course of anti-inflammatories. Stupid part? I dislocated it getting out of bed! I put my arm down to help myself get up, and it just popped out of its socket.... Freaky stuff. :eek:

Well, mine wasn't muscle weakness or even because I dislocated my shoulder. I broke my elbow by falling on my outstretched hand while the elbow was locked.

That broke a bone in my elbow but the force of the fall jammed my upper arm bone into the shoulder joint, which ripped the joint up pretty good.

The whole support system for my shoulder was a mess... I had torn cartilage and stretched out the ligaments and ripped a tendon. It took about a year for the problems to get as bad as they did...

I also sprained my wrist pretty good in that fall to boot so from time to time the whole thing can still bother me... my right arm will never be the same. :(
 
triplet said:
You can still have surgery if you have a latex allergy...

Apparently, they go through a great deal of trouble with people who are allergic to latex to make sure no latex is used at all. They ask about that during the history interview.
Trust me I'm an RN so I know lots about it we just had a doc have to give up going to the hospital entirely becasue he has a reaction walking through the door. I need a biopsy and my dr won't do it because he doesn't have a full er/code blue set up available. All they have to do is pull up meds through a rubber stopper etc. You wouldn't believe how little people know in the field. Mine is anaphlatic which is why I'm here typing at home instead of working anymore it waaay sucks. Plus try avoiding all balloons it's airborne. Ok pity party done.
 
Lara said:
Trust me I'm an RN so I know lots about it we just had a doc have to give up going to the hospital entirely becasue he has a reaction walking through the door. I need a biopsy and my dr won't do it because he doesn't have a full er/code blue set up available. All they have to do is pull up meds through a rubber stopper etc. You wouldn't believe how little people know in the field. Mine is anaphlatic which is why I'm here typing at home instead of working anymore it waaay sucks. Plus try avoiding all balloons it's airborne. Ok pity party done.

My sis was a medical technician in the army (still does it in the reserves) and she's allergic too but not as bad as you, it doesn't sound like. She could still assist during surgery (her specialty was orthopedics), but had to switch to wearing special gloves... I'm not sure what other precautions they took.
 
triplet said:
My sis was a medical technician in the army (still does it in the reserves) and she's allergic too but not as bad as you, it doesn't sound like. She could still assist during surgery (her specialty was orthopedics), but had to switch to wearing special gloves... I'm not sure what other precautions they took.
She probably has a contact allergy. The actual Ige anaplaythic allergy is much less common and is as deadly as bee sting allergy. PLus the actual proteins are airborne. The whole thing is complicated and weird I have to carry an epi shot and wear a medical id. You wouldn't believe peoples faces when I can't go in somewhere because of balloons. It's actually fairly funny. I know a nurse who went into a code blue because the person next to her had on the gloves. She almost died. Another had to be treated in an office building next to the hospital. Some people are on disability. A lot of people have the contact allegry and can't where the gloves so that's why people get confused between the two.
 
Lara said:
She probably has a contact allergy. The actual Ige anaplaythic allergy is much less common and is as deadly as bee sting allergy. PLus the actual proteins are airborne. The whole thing is complicated and weird I have to carry an epi shot and wear a medical id. You wouldn't believe peoples faces when I can't go in somewhere because of balloons. It's actually fairly funny. I know a nurse who went into a code blue because the person next to her had on the gloves. She almost died. Another had to be treated in an office building next to the hospital. Some people are on disability. A lot of people have the contact allegry and can't where the gloves so that's why people get confused between the two.

Oh, I have a mild case of the contact allergy too... some band aids give me a rash, but nothing as bad as my sister's but she's also deathly allergic to bee stings. I don't know if I am, never been stung.



Anyway... didya ever notice in one Smallville ep, I think it was in Velocity, when Lana shows up with balloons for Jonathan two of the baloons are latex ones?

I always thought that was weird... Aren't latex balloons forbidden in hospitals?
 
Happy Mothers Day to all the forum moms!
 
To all you lovely mothers out there, you know who you are. Happy mother's day. Here's a gift I know all of you will enjoy. ;)

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sage1047 said:
To all you lovely mothers out there, you know who you are. Happy mother's day. Here's a gift I know all of you will enjoy. ;)

Thanks, Sage. You made me smile. :)
 
sage1047 said:
To all you lovely mothers out there, you know who you are. Happy mother's day. Here's a gift I know all of you will enjoy. ;)

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you are such a great guy sage. happy mothers day ladys. :)
 
sage1047 said:
To all you lovely mothers out there, you know who you are. Happy mother's day. Here's a gift I know all of you will enjoy. ;)

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Thanks, Sage.

That one is a keeper.

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OK, here is how and why my life/job sucks.

I work for a real life Lex Luthor, Im not kidding you. He is a master manipulator, a millionaire, entrepenuer/chemist. He made his fortune by stealing technology from a company that set him up for employment in 1977 here in america (he's from Croatia originally). He grossly underpays 85% of his employees for the jobs they are required to do by job description, but he also make his employees do free personal work for him, which he does not compensate you for, and if you dont do it, he'll fire you. He's constantly being sued by people, for just reasons. He seems to have a split personality and his wife, who is the VP, is equally nuts and on constant drugs to deal with his BS. He cheats on her all the time, and also has cheated on her several times with employees of the company. Recently sued for sexual harassment.
He also just ran for President of Croatia, lost. Claimed that the current president stole votes, and ran a dirty campaign. But in fact it was him that ran the dirty campiagn, spreading rumours about the president that could not be backed up with fact. He was the croatian consulate to the united states, which granted him diplomatic immunity (which he abused on a regular basis) but since he talked so much trash about the current croatin President, he had his title stripped from him.
So, he lost the election (which was paid for by company money, a grand total of about 3 million) They cut jobs, spread out job responsibilities and completely overloaded everyone here.
He then immediately went on to run for the mayor of the capital Zagreb, the election is Sunday, but there is no chance in hell he'll win. He recently ordered survailance equipment to spy on his employees at the campaign office. Im not supposed to know that, but I saw the order forms.
He invites young female students to come work here over the summer and sexually harrasses them and scares the crap out of them, making them feel trapped here.
His daughter and X wife claim he used to beat them, comeing out to the croatian newspapers during the election. His son however (who he had not spoken to in over a year because the dont get along) sudden comes out to the newspapers saying that his sister and mother lied about what they said about him. This is less then 24 hours after my coworker sends a check for 25 thousand to his son's minneapolis address.


This you realize is only the surface BS that is going on at my place of employment. I could write a novel. Oh, he wrote a book of his life awhile back, which was proven to all be made up or half truths. He is a pathological liar. He also paid a croatian filmmaker to make an autobiography about him to play on Croatian public television, and told the media that US Cable stations paid for its production. ( all that cash came out of company funds as well)
 
Zombie... I thought I had it bad. Jeez.

No wonder it's enough to drive you to drink.

Is the company publically traded?

If so, he's breaking some federal laws, I believe.
 
No, its not a public company. Seriously, I should start a weekly article about the BS that goes on around this place. I have barely scratched the surface of his shady business practices.
 
You know, DZ, with your talent I hope you're still shopping yourself around for an art job. One without a crazy-ass boss to deal with.
 
Ive been job hunting for over a year now, but the job market is not that great. Im tempted to give up on the art thing temporarily just to get out of here, its destroying my soul. They offend my moral standard on an hourly basis.
I wonder if its why I watch Smallville so religiously, because I can see similarities in my boss and Lex Luthor.

Ive said before that if James Bond breaks through my office window and shoots me dead, I'd deserve it because I feel like an evil man's henchmen.
 
Damn DZ that's some crazy stuff. Maybe you ought to really consider moving on to something else.
 
I have been looking for a job for over a year, but there are not alot of jobs in my field available. I've currently been considering shoveling S#!T for a living. Anything would be better then here..
 
ok, and Todays BS is:

Eti, my coworker whos croatian is currently is being blamed by the VP (who is also my evil boss's wife) for leaking public info to croatian a magazine about Cortec (the company I work for)loosing a lawsuit. The Lawsuit was that Cortec was making claims about thier products that were untrue and in turn painting the competition in a bad light.
Anna, the VP asked Human Resources to spy on her, and the listen to what all the employees are talking about and report back to her because she is ultra paranoid that people are talking bad about them. the HR lady told Eti right away what the VP asked her to do, because she knows that Eti is innocent and that the owners are in fact insane.
The funny thing is, we knew about the lawsuit, because it involves the marketing dept. to change all out brochures because boris the (CEO/meglomaniac) made illegal claims about certain products of our. In a meeting they tried to tell us that we choose to change our literature as a new marketing approach, but we need it done by such and such time to show the Lawyers. Hello, if we are showing lawyers our progress, its not being done out of choice. They think we are morons or something. Just admit when your wrong. The lawyers told them they would probably have to hire a full time person to go through all the literature (we have tons and tons of documents with these illegal claims) and change it because its a full time job, but they are making our way understaffed Marketing Dept do it ourselves. They are so freakin cheap here, mainly because he is spending all the company money on his political campaigns (seriously, he's spent like 3 million dollars to get people to like him, and has failed miserably, how funny is that)
Anyhow, all this lawsuit stuff ended up in Croatian newspapers, saying how crooked of a business man boris is. It showed a copy of the actual lawsuit in the article, something they never showed us, because they tried to lie to us about what was going onand somehow, in thier paranoid delusions, are balming my CoWorker for this, when she had no access to such document. So she is resigning on monday when they are in the office because she doesnt feel she deserves this kind of insane treatment.
Now, marketing will be down another person, right before our huge world sales meeting. And I mean this meeting is huge, they spend alot of money on it. *last time we did one, cortec was 120+ people strong...2 years later, we are a little over 60 and they are planning a bigger event. Come on, like we have the fawcking resources, or the man power. **But they don't care,*they are going to push everyone beyond the breakingpoint.
The best part of the whole 120 employees down to a little over 60 in 2 years is, we pull in alot more money each month then we did 2 years ago, yet somehow, we cannot afford help.
Seriously, every day I say to myself "This place can't possibly get any worse" Then like clockwork, we enter and even deeper level of hell.
If I didnt have house payments and car payments and all that, Id just up and leave, problem is I require to make a certain amount of money to just keep up with all my bills, I havent found another job in this field that can compare to this with my lack of schooling.
Thats why I'm depressed today.
 
darkzombiemutt said:
Ive been job hunting for over a year now, but the job market is not that great. Im tempted to give up on the art thing temporarily just to get out of here, its destroying my soul. They offend my moral standard on an hourly basis.
I wonder if its why I watch Smallville so religiously, because I can see similarities in my boss and Lex Luthor.

Ive said before that if James Bond breaks through my office window and shoots me dead, I'd deserve it because I feel like an evil man's henchmen.


dude this is you...

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:D ;) :p
 

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