I can stand Adelle, she ain't my favorite but she's far from bad.
Thank you Costco for having a decent selection of cheap wine.
GasBandit
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For functioning adults, low tolerance is a good thing - it means you can get buzzed off small amounts, so you don't have to spend as much, or you can even buy the really good stuff and it will last forever.
Myself, when I plan to get drunk, I just don't eat anything after lunch. All of a sudden I'm the lightest lightweight.
I've always had an insane alcohol tolerance. And, for a homebrewer, I don't even drink that much. Maybe 3-5 drinks a month. I wonder if it's somehow related to my insanely high tolerance to painkillers and anesthesia.
I never said that
I'd believe it. Aussie has high tolerance to alcohol, painkillers and anesthesia, too. When he was given morphine after he fell on the ship, he acted like they gave him a glass of water.
Yeah, when I had cataract surgery, they do a "block" on the nerves and muscles in your eye by using a big hypodermic needle to shoot the juice directly into your optic cavity above and below the eye. Don't click that link if you're squeamish.
That's supposed to deaden the eye for a full six hours. You can't blink, you can't move it, and you can't feel shit.
Half-way into the surgery (which only takes 15 mins), I feel the sonic probe breaking up my cornea.
After the surgery they tape your eye shut and put cotton batting and a dome shield over it to keep you from injury, since you can't blink or anything. It's supposed to stay on for the full 6 hours. So, when the doc comes at me with the cotton batting and surgical tape, I blink. Because, you know, that's what you do when something is heading right for your eye.
So she calls over the anesthesiologist and reads him the riot act. "Why can he do that? Blink again! Show him." So I do.
The anesthesiologist shrugged said "He talked to you for 10 minutes about how he was resistant to anesthesia. Did you think he was lying?"
So I only had to wear my shield for 45 minutes.
I appreciate the warning. Eye stuff really gets me.
Are the two related? I'm a pretty brutal lightweight when it comes to hard liquor and wine. I can have a few beers though. However, I'm disturbed by how little heavy painkillers help me these days.
I couldn't say. I'm just guessing. Hell, you can't hardly find a doctor that will even admit that anesthesia resistance is even a thing.
edit/update: 1/2 a bottle (750ml) of vodka down. Don't even have a buzz
Cajungal
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I like the song okay, not as much as her other stuff. I don't like the video as much either. She seems too self-aware in this one. She spends so much time mugging and rubbing her own face.
I've had quite a few surgeries and I've done nerve blocks/spinals for several and for my son's C-section the block didn't work completely. I was in pain and they refused to believe me that I could feel pain. Either they applied it incorrectly or I was resistant to it. They didn't believe me and it was happening right there. A similar thing happened after my arm surgeries. For both, they went in at my neck and froze my arm. The first time my arm was frozen for about 36 hours. The second time, it was waking up and I could move it shortly after the surgery. They refused to believe me. I mean I could move my fingers and I showed them....why would I make that up?I couldn't say. I'm just guessing. Hell, you can't hardly find a doctor that will even admit that anesthesia resistance is even a thing.
edit/update: 1/2 a bottle (750ml) of vodka down. Don't even have a buzz
Story of my life...they always assume I'm trying to get more painkillers out of them, at which point I always scoff and say "if they don't work, why would I want more?" I've only ever filled one vicodin prescription in my life, and that was to have an emergency supply in the house.
The only thing Aussie's had done that you could tell had an effect on him was when he had lumbar facet injections. He acted high for a couple of hours afterward. He had problems getting the doctor to give him something more than Tramadol to control his day-to-day pain.
YOu can buy La Fin du Monde here... but only the export version.
Dammit it is noon and I already have a buzz.
I made a drink to watch Dr Who at midnight last night. I watched the episode and went to bed. At 8 this morning I found the untouched drink.... mmmm.... bourbon breakfast. Then I just could not stop at one... or two...
I made a drink to watch Dr Who at midnight last night. I watched the episode and went to bed. At 8 this morning I found the untouched drink.... mmmm.... bourbon breakfast. Then I just could not stop at one... or two...
...I thought it was pretty well documented that redheads have higher pain tolerance/anesthesia resistance. Why shouldn't other people? Considering how anesthesia even works, why shouldn't this be possible?
--Patrick
Can confirm, it's true. I wouldn't wish it on anyone else.
My family doctor has always been really good about pain meds when needed. I was sent home after one of my arm surgeries where they had cut through muscle, moved a nerve to lay in the cut muscle and etc etc with a few days worth of painkillers and a bad attitude from the med student....I mean for real? I had a foot long incision. Thankfully my family doctor made that right.
I find in general, they are getting stingier and stingier about pain meds until now. I must have reached a certain point with my specialist because now they give me such crazy prescriptions that my drug plan won't fill them all at once.
That sounds horrible. That sounds like something that happens as the unfortunate result of punching through a plate glass window more than something you would actually choose to have done.
--Patrick
It was my third and final surgery to try and fix all the damage. Things were so smushed (swear to god the plastic surgeon said smushed) at the elbow that the only option was to move it to the front of my arm. It was a weird consent form because he didn't really know what all he was going to need to do once he got in there. We joked about not cutting my tattoo while they froze my arm...but once I could look, they got pretty close.
I went for a sigmoidoscopy once, and after I get the IV in and get comfortable, a nurse comes up to me and says "Ok, so we're going to twilight you now."
"No you're not," I say. "But you can try. I've already told everyone in the room how I can't be twilighted."
"Well, I'll just give you the shot and come back in 15 minutes to see how you're doing," says she, but with a look on her face that says she wished she could add "asshole" to the end of the sentence. Some medical professionals act like it's something personal when you tell them their shit don't work on you. Or maybe she just thought I was trying to be a special snowflake, but full of shit (as so many are).
So I start talking to another nurse (there were like 3 in there), and the conversation turns to Irish music, so I have a lot to say. Before I know it, the first nurse comes back. "How are you feeling?" She asks.
"Fine. I'm not sleepy if that's what you're asking."
She looks annoyed and says "Well, I'll give you another dose and some demerol, and come back." And I guess the other nurse gets the picture that the lady is annoyed, because she leaves too.
Fifteen minutes later, she comes back and sees I'm still awake. "Sleepy yet?"
"Nope, but now I'm high as hell from the demerol. Let's just get this show on the road."
So they did.
Both times for my arm surgery, I was meant to be awake with just my arm frozen. They were meant to lightly sedate me and each time, I remember very little of the surgery where I remember everything from my hand operation that they kept me awake for. My hand surgeon even offered me a look inside before closing which I declined lol.
Some people might find that kind of thing awesome. I just think it sounds terrifying.
I always like to look when I get stitched up and the like, but it usually makes them nervous. The guy that extracted the fish hook out of my thumb a couple months ago specifically requested I look away. Heh.Some people might find that kind of thing awesome. I just think it sounds terrifying.
For the arm surgeries, they put a big sheet/barrier thing up and I was in an OR. For my hand surgery, we were in a smaller room and it was up to me to look away. My surgeon is really experienced in these operations and was able to do this fairly complex one with just one nurse, so we didn't need the whole OR. The bad thing was that without sedation or being under, it was a big deal when he went further than the freezing.[DOUBLEPOST=1447027154,1447027098][/DOUBLEPOST]
He must have interested people or he wouldn't offer right? Ew, ew, ew!!Some people might find that kind of thing awesome. I just think it sounds terrifying.
I think the reason it makes doctors nervous is they're afraid you'll cringe or pull away.
Or involuntarily contract. I like looking when they stitch me up or whatever too, but some won't let you. Pfuh.
(I fly high as a kite off a normal dose of pain killers, though. Try to avoid the stuff, don't even take them when doctors tell me I should because I prefer functioning somewhat. As said elsewhere, I was sick the past few days (and called in sick, I had to - no voice so couldn't work....) and I was pretty much tripping the past 48 hours. I'm somewhat better now so coming down now. Booh.
What scares me now is that pain medication that seemed so strong several years ago after surgery and made me a bit silly now barely helps my current pain and my side effects are all related to an upset stomach and there is no silliness.