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  • #211
    Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    Colon blow tomorrow eve and night in preparation for the moon probe on Monday.

    Been a while since the last one which was clean and I don't expect problems.

    I'll reread the previous description to be alert for abnormal symptoms.
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    • #212
      Originally posted by joecct View Post
      Colon blow tomorrow eve and night in preparation for the moon probe on Monday.

      Been a while since the last one which was clean and I don't expect problems.

      I'll reread the previous description to be alert for abnormal symptoms.
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      • #213
        Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

        I survived. Very small pylop was removed. Everything else was ok.

        The doc prescribed CleanPiq to clean me out. Based on my last cleanse with something different, I was expecting the Saturn V of explosions. Not the case. This was more like ion power. Think I prefer the Saturn V approach, though this stuff tasted better.
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        • #214
          Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

          Originally posted by joecct View Post
          I survived. Very small pylop was removed. Everything else was ok.
          Good show! Did they give you 5 or 10 until rinse and repeat?
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          • #215
            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            Good show! Did they give you 5 or 10 until rinse and repeat?
            depends on biopsy of pylop. Hoping 10 when I'll be 74 - that will be the last one.
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            • #216
              Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

              Cafe doctors: please tell me what is happening here.

              The two players react identically -- first they go to a knee, then they hold their head. What has happened to them? Is there a physical shock wave from the strike? Have they been electrocuted through the ground? It comes right on the flash so I don't think it can be percussion. Does the sudden flash of light overwhelm sensory inputs and cause a brain injury?
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              • #217
                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                Cafe doctors: please tell me what is happening here.

                The two players react identically -- first they go to a knee, then they hold their head. What has happened to them? Is there a physical shock wave from the strike? Have they been electrocuted through the ground? It comes right on the flash so I don't think it can be percussion. Does the sudden flash of light overwhelm sensory inputs and cause a brain injury?
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                • #218
                  Originally posted by joecct View Post
                  depends on biopsy of pylop. Hoping 10 when I'll be 74 - that will be the last one.
                  5 years
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                  • #219
                    Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    Cafe doctors: please tell me what is happening here.

                    The two players react identically -- first they go to a knee, then they hold their head. What has happened to them? Is there a physical shock wave from the strike? Have they been electrocuted through the ground? It comes right on the flash so I don't think it can be percussion. Does the sudden flash of light overwhelm sensory inputs and cause a brain injury?
                    No idea in this case.

                    But I can tell you lightning is INCREDIBLY loud. Like, the loudest thing I have ever heard. Back when I was 16 I was working at DQ. There was a thunderstorm and for whatever reason, I stuck my head out the drive through window to get a better look at it. Right as I did that lightning struck in our parking lot like 75-100 feet away, maybe less. I was thrown back from the window, probably because my legs reflexively kicked back. I grabbed my ears and was completely disoriented. It took me a few seconds to realize what happened and make sure I was still alive.

                    Turns out, someone else was struck by that bolt. Didn’t realize it at the time but saw the pictures on the local newscast that night. It looked like he was beaten up by a gang with bats. Two black eyes. Burns. Severe bruising all over. Laid up in the hospital.

                    So it’s possible that they were disoriented.
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                    • #220
                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Cafe doctors: please tell me what is happening here.

                      The two players react identically -- first they go to a knee, then they hold their head. What has happened to them? Is there a physical shock wave from the strike? Have they been electrocuted through the ground? It comes right on the flash so I don't think it can be percussion. Does the sudden flash of light overwhelm sensory inputs and cause a brain injury?
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                      • #221
                        Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

                        Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                        No idea in this case.

                        But I can tell you lightning is INCREDIBLY loud. Like, the loudest thing I have ever heard. Back when I was 16 I was working at DQ. There was a thunderstorm and for whatever reason, I stuck my head out the drive through window to get a better look at it. Right as I did that lightning struck in our parking lot like 75-100 feet away, maybe less. I was thrown back from the window, probably because my legs reflexively kicked back. I grabbed my ears and was completely disoriented. It took me a few seconds to realize what happened and make sure I was still alive.

                        Turns out, someone else was struck by that bolt. Didn’t realize it at the time but saw the pictures on the local newscast that night. It looked like he was beaten up by a gang with bats. Two black eyes. Burns. Severe bruising all over. Laid up in the hospital.

                        So it’s possible that they were disoriented.
                        My brother was in an upstairs bedroom one night at my parents' house. He had left a west-facing window open when going to bed, a thunderstorm started rolling through the area. He got up to close it, took a moment to watch the light show when a bolt of lightning hit six houses to the west. The bolt hit the gas meter on the house's eastern side, and my brother was blasted all the way across the room, hit the wall and landed onto his bed. The house that was hit was about half gone by the time the fire department was able to get the blaze under control.
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                        • #222
                          Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

                          Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                          My brother was in an upstairs bedroom one night at my parents' house. He had left a west-facing window open when going to bed, a thunderstorm started rolling through the area. He got up to close it, took a moment to watch the light show when a bolt of lightning hit six houses to the west. The bolt hit the gas meter on the house's eastern side, and my brother was blasted all the way across the room, hit the wall and landed onto his bed. The house that was hit was about half gone by the time the fire department was able to get the blaze under control.
                          Yikes. What happened to the houses in between? Shock wave? Windows blown out?

                          Only thing I've heard of like that was from a friend on a flight that hit turbulence with no warning. One of the stewardesses was walking down the aisle and bounced straight off the ceiling and cracked her neck -- dead instantly. Guy said it was like being in an elevator and watching a floor rush past -- the plane dropped and it was as if she stayed in the same place. Everything in the cabin that wasn't secured was smashed.

                          I was amazed because I figured everything within the local reference frame would just move together. Apparently that isn't how physics works.
                          Last edited by Kepler; 09-18-2019, 10:21 AM.
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                          • #223
                            Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            Yikes. What happened to the houses in between? Shock wave? Windows blown out?

                            Only thing I've heard of like that was from a friend on a flight that hit turbulence with no warning. One of the stewardesses was walking down the aisle and bounced straight off the ceiling and cracked her neck -- dead instantly. Guy said it was like being in an elevator and watching a floor rush past -- the plane dropped and it was as if she stayed in the same place. Everything in the cabin that wasn't secured was smashed.

                            I was amazed because I figured everything within the local reference frame would just move together. Apparently that isn't how physics works.
                            The neighbors all had a fright, but I don't recall seeing any construction crews aside from the burned house at the time. Then again, I was in college, so I could have easily missed a crew showing up to replace a window or two.
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                            • #224
                              Re: The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

                              Take the time and watch this.

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og62...ature=youtu.be
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                              • #225
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                                Harsh truth: when you don't use your muscles, you lose them. Started physical therapy yesterday to get stronger and I am basically starting from scratch. Seems like everything atrophied, and there is a noticeable difference between my left calf and my right.

                                Time to get moving again. I will become "Amber Marie, marathon runner, ultra-marathon finisher, and future Ironman triathlete" once more.
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