Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

We've had some success with weighted blankets.

--Patrick
Any brand recommendations? I've been on the lookout since hearing about them here a year or so ago. It would be helpful if they were available online - I just had to go through Amazon to get a body pillow, because the only store that sells them locally (Walmart) only had ultra-plush, instead of anything firm.
 
Any brand recommendations? I've been on the lookout since hearing about them here a year or so ago. It would be helpful if they were available online - I just had to go through Amazon to get a body pillow, because the only store that sells them locally (Walmart) only had ultra-plush, instead of anything firm.
Kati’s the one with RLS, not me. My problem staying awake at night is more “busy brain” and “this is the only ‘me’ time I ever get.” The one we decided on was this 12lb one, which has a decent weight and quality for the price point (and also came in a color that matched our decor). My only real complaint is that we are using it on a queen size bed, which means it is exactly the right size to cover the bed when nobody is in it, but since Kati also uses a body pillow for sleeping, the 60x80 is just a leeeetle bit too small to reliably cover all 3 of us.

—Patrick
 
My only real complaint is that we are using it on a queen size bed, which means it is exactly the right size to cover the bed when nobody is in it, but since Kati also uses a body pillow for sleeping, the 60x80 is just a leeeetle bit too small to reliably cover all 3 of us.

—Patrick
I keep a spare within reach for those times I have a sleepover with a blanket hog.


I've never needed to provide cover for 3, though. :oops:
 
I've never needed to provide cover for 3, though. :oops:
I am, of course, referring to the body pillow, though on the mornings when our son insists on trying to wriggle his way in, he usually ends up stealing the entire thing. I swear if we gave him a blanket made out of straight-up chain mail, he would squeesplode right on the spot.

—Patrick
 
Last night from my perspective:
Gf: I'm not feeling great. I wanna go back to your place
Me: ok. Here are my keys. I'll cover your uber back

Last night from her perspective:
Gf: I'm not feeling great. I'm gonna go outside for some air.
Me: ok. Here are my keys. I'll cover your uber back

She's not thrilled with me.
 

Dave

Staff member
My wife was gone all weekend. I like spicy food and never get any because she can't handle it. So Saturday I had spicy chicken koorma. Sunday I had the rest of what I couldn't eat Saturday and I topped it off with burgers that were marinaded with a kick. Today I had Mexican. My body is starting to remind me that I'm no longer 20.

I haven't pooped this much since my colonoscopy prep. Time to eat some pudding for dinner.
 
The brofist was for the scope comment. Oh my GOD, if it wasn't bad enough that the mixture tastes like death, the constant POOPING.
 

Dave

Staff member
I actually did a writeup for my colonoscopy on Reddit. Not sure if I posted it here. Turns out I don't think I did. So here's a copy/paste.

Okay, you knuckleheads. I had to have my first colonoscopy yesterday and I asked questions and read stuff everywhere and was basically exaggerated to a lot. Not lied to - exaggerated to. So while I realize everyone's situations might be different, here's mine and what I learned.

Prep:

  • If you go with what the doctor gives you the first time, it'll be a four-liter jug of this stuff called GoLytely. It is a powder that you mix with water. It's clear and has the consistency of milk when you drink it.
  • The GoLytely also comes with a flavor packet. DO NOT PUT THE FLAVOR PACKET IN! Taste it first without the packet. It doesn't have that bad of a taste. I mean, it's not great, but it's not super terrible. But once you put that flavor packet in, it's in!! Like mine tasted like bad lemon milk. It was awful. And you want to not hate this because you have to drink a LOT of it. 8 oz every 10 minutes until half is gone the first day. The second day it's 8 oz per 10 minutes until gone. If it makes you retch (as mine did) you are in for a long night.
  • There ARE alternatives to the GoLytely! Check out this site. One of these is a couple of pills with either 1 or 2 bottle of Gatorade with powder in them. Will it cost more than the GoLytely? How the fuck should I know? I was never given an option to do anything different! Ask your doctor if you can do an alternative. You'll thank me.
  • On pooping. I had heard horror stories. I had my laptop and a TV tray ready to go. I just KNEW I was going to be camped out in the bathroom for hours and my ass would be SO SORE! Wrong. It's just like taking a regular shit. You feel like you have to, you go do your business, it's over fairly quickly, you get up, & leave. The only difference is you have to do it several times. Your life is not on hold. I mean, you can't go run a race or anything, but you can read a book, surf the web, etc. until the urge strikes you again. Which it will. And when it does you have to go, but again, once you've gone you're good again for a little while. Don't be scared of the poop like I was.
  • The colonoscopy itself is nothing. Absolutely nothing. They have you put on the gown that has your ass sticking out, but you're laying in a bed so who cares. They wheel you into a room, give you an IV and you wake up later and go home. Easy as pie. You'll be thirsty as hell, though. I wasn't even really hungry, but after the prep is done, you can't even drink water so you're going to be VERY dehydrated. You'll drink a lot and then sleep.
  • Unless you have problems, the day after the colonoscopy is going to be perfectly normal. No runs, no drips, no errors. Go back to work and joke about how much you farted.
  • You will fart for up to 24 hours. They pump a lot of air into your intestines and the release is glorious. Loud, resonant, and glorious. And since they say 24 hours, you have a reason to let them fly and say to your wife, "Doctor's orders!" and mean it!!
In the end, I got all worked up for nothing. A lot of people said a lot of things that exaggerated the experience, but it was no big deal. My only regret was putting the fucking flavor packet in. Well, that and not asking if there was an alternative to drinking two two-liter bottles of lemony milk.

As always, your experience may vary. But having now had one I can say that colonoscopies are not a big deal at all. Don't get yourself worked up over nothing. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go into the other room and fart by my wife. Doctor's orders.
 
I actually did a writeup for my colonoscopy on Reddit. Not sure if I posted it here. Turns out I don't think I did. So here's a copy/paste.
My Mom was a Nurse for ~50 years, and she worked in a Gastrointestinal unit for part of that time. Apparently in case of "emergency" (a relative term in this case) there's something they give you in the hospital that will have you cleaned out in an hour or two (maybe less, this is an old memory). And it's NOT pleasant. You ARE on the pot (or bedpan, FUN!) that whole time.

What you went through sounds fine. I'm glad it was fine.
 
My prep was to mix up 2x64oz pitchers each with 32oz water and 32oz Gatorade Frost Glacier Cherry spiked with MiraLAX, and to go through those while taking a few Dulcolax. My experience was similar to @Dave ‘s, (very anticlimactic) except that my mix actually tasted delicious, and there was nowhere near as much farting afterwards.

—Patrick
 
I actually did a writeup for my colonoscopy on Reddit. Not sure if I posted it here. Turns out I don't think I did. So here's a copy/paste.
So, my first colonoscopy was a tad different. This was something like 25 years ago, so ymmv.

1. I got this gallon of stuff. It wasn't Golytely. It didn't taste like anything. But it had a weird thick mouthfeel and my body insisted that it wasn't food and that I shouldn't swallow it. That made things difficult.
2. The shits it gave me were wet and explosive. And by the time I had done the half-dozenth shit, my ass was raw from wiping. And yes, I was 'patting' and not 'wiping' (upon advice of the doctor). Didn't help. I kept telling my wife "I refuse to drink another glass of that fucking bullshit" every time I was on the toilet. But drink it I did, until it was all gone. I really really sympathized with Dumbledore in that one Harry Potter movie.
3. I had to drink it all in one evening, not spread out over 2 evenings. I was shitting for hours and hours.
4. They warned me that the flavoring packets sucked, so to use a powdered flavor you liked. To this day,I can no longer drink peach tea.
5. I cannot be twilighted. So I got to have a conversation with my doctor about the stuff we saw on camera while he was rooting around in my ass with the tube. Even then, it wasn't painful. Just a bit indelicate and undignified. Incidentally, taking a tube in the ass awake is much better than a gastroscopy awake: where they shove a tube down your throat. It's not the same tube. Lord, I hope it's not the same tube.
 
The first time I had a stomach scope, i was not sufficiently twilighted and they didn’t freeze my throat enough and I had trouble with the scope. Screaming and me and holding me down did not help.

The second time I explained the first time and I remember nothing after the freezing spray. And that they were generous with it as I was frozen all day.

Note to team 1: screaming at someone to relax does not relax them.
 
I had a scope back in September. I don't remember anything regarding the surgery starting the moment they put me under, aside from a desperate fight to stay awake. Like... it literally felt like fighting; I woke up exhausted, like I had gotten the shit kicked out of me. All I remember was feeling like I was clawing at colors.
 
The first time I had a stomach scope, i was not sufficiently twilighted and they didn’t freeze my throat enough and I had trouble with the scope. Screaming and me and holding me down did not help.

The second time I explained the first time and I remember nothing after the freezing spray. And that they were generous with it as I was frozen all day.

Note to team 1: screaming at someone to relax does not relax them.
yeah, the gastroscopy nurse didn't believe me when I told her I couldn't be twilighted. So after the procedure, I told her I was awake the whole time, and puts her hand on her hip and says all sarcastically "oh yeah? What do you remember?"

"You screaming 'breath through your nose' while holding my head down."

Her eyes fly wide open and she goes "Oh shit"
 
Me: Man I hate the stress from buying a house. I remember why I said I'm never doing this again.

Life: Cool. Cool. Hey, can we go ahead and throw trying to sell a house quickly on top of that?

Me: Ffffffffuuuuuucccc.....
 
I actually did a writeup for my colonoscopy on Reddit. Not sure if I posted it here. Turns out I don't think I did. So here's a copy/paste.

A buddy of mine was not paying attention during the consultation. And drank all the go juice as fast as possible.

According to him, it was not wise.

He thinks he crapped stuff his neighbor ate the last Thanksgiving.
 
GoLytely tastes like death. It is truly the worst thing about colonoscopies.


(EDIT: Yes, I know I'm repeating. It's THAT bad.)
 
Pro tip: if you're using a power drill/driver to put a screw into a board, you should

A) Check to see if the screw is longer than said board, and
B) make sure one's finger isn't directly in line behind said screw.
 
I just had to put my cat to sleep. We had her for seventeen years, which is the longest I've ever had a pet.

I'm completely ruined right now.
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I just had to put my cat to sleep. We had her for seventeen years, which is the longest I've ever had a pet.

I'm completely ruined right now.
Thanks for moving this. Not thinking straight right now.
 
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Pro tip: if you're using a power drill/driver to put a screw into a board, you should

A) Check to see if the screw is longer than said board, and
B) make sure one's finger isn't directly in line behind said screw.
I put a nail through my finger that way. Luckily it was a 11/4 finishing nail and not a roofing nail. Still, it hurt like a bastard. I was working at a cabinet shop at the time, and glad that's the worst that happened to me. There was a lady that split her thumb in two using a pneumatic hold-fast.
 
I just had to put my cat to sleep. We had her for seventeen years, which is the longest I've ever had a pet.

I'm completely ruined right now.
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Thanks for moving this. Not thinking straight right now.
It's been more than a decade since my cat passed away. I still dream of him occasionally, wake up really sad.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
It's a very difficult decision, when you're sitting there groggy in the morning, looking at the bottles of pills you take every day, and you can't remember if you've taken them today yet or not. I mean, most of them are vitamins, so it wouldn't be so bad to double up by accident, but the stool softener gives me pause.

On the one hand, if I don't take it, bad things might happen. On the other hand, if I double up... bad things might happen.
 

Dave

Staff member
Get a days of the week pill sorter. I am so fucking absent minded that I would never manage without one.
This is your answer, Gas. Sorry to say it but you go in once a week and sort them and then take them by schedule. There are pillboxes you can get that are separated by both day and time.

edit: $7.

Amazon product
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Get a days of the week pill sorter. I am so fucking absent minded that I would never manage without one.
Usually I don't have this problem, but I'm a mess today because I had a really bad night last night and didn't get to sleep until 6am.
 
It's a very difficult decision, when you're sitting there groggy in the morning, looking at the bottles of pills you take every day, and you can't remember if you've taken them today yet or not. I mean, most of them are vitamins, so it wouldn't be so bad to double up by accident, but the stool softener gives me pause.

On the one hand, if I don't take it, bad things might happen. On the other hand, if I double up... bad things might happen.
Take half of a pill.
 
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