Slice & dice

[smokeywolf]

I just plain don't take acetaminophen at all. Take aspirin or Ibuprofen and I'm pretty careful about when I take the Ibuprofen; never before bed and always with food (not spicy or high acid foods).

 

[462]

Corsicana

Now, there is a name. Kalispell is another. Been to Kalispell, likely will never see Corsicana.

 

[Bret4207]

About 15 years ago when I screwed up my back, I had an internist, a neurosurgeon and a pain management doc treating me. Pain management doc was writing scripts for bottles of 90 Oxys at a time. One morning I woke up and realized they weren't making enough of a difference anymore. Stopped taking them. Still had 80 or so left in the last bottle. Pain management doc wanted to know how I got off them. Told him it was very simple. The up side was no longer outweighing the down side. They were no longer effective enough at moderating the pain and I was tired of being stopped up all the time.
He said, "No really, how did you get off them. It's almost impossible to just stop taking them once you're addicted." I said, "I don't think I was addicted". He said, "you can't take as much as you were taking for as long as you were taking them and not be addicted". I said, "I am very resistant to allowing anybody or any thing to have control over me".
That was the last time I saw the pain management doc.

Sounds to me like the pain dr didn't much care if his patients got addicted. That doesn't sound right to me.

 

[Rick]

Starting to look like I'm gonna get out of this fairly easy. Improved this morning, no opioids and slept like a baby last night with no issues. Still right uncomfortable but nothing like the last couple of days.

 

[Charles Graff]

Corsicana fruit cakes -- best door stop I ever found. You can even re-gift them - Kinda like original twinkies - 100K yrs life span.

Lord have mercy! Satan be gone! Burn the witch! Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana Texas makes the best fruit cakes ever! They have been a Holliday tradition around my home since early childhood.

 

[KeithB]

Good deal Rick. The first three days after my knee surgery were the worst, a lot was just inflammation.When that abated everything got better a lot quicker.

 

[Rick]

I dunno if I have any swelling. They have my leg wrapped up with an ace bandage from my hip down to and including my foot. Why? I haven't a clue but I can't see the knee so it could be swollen? Dunno. They said leave that on for three days and no showering, don't get it wet. Two days now, good thing it's December and not August.

 

[KeithB]

Sponge baths can be fun with the right help! Ace is probably to keep down swelling, prevent blood clots and pooling up from inactivity. That all seems like SOP to me.

 

[Winelover]

Same surgeon and hospital, four months apart. First knee replacement, leg was encased by an Ace bandage. Second replacement, not. First surgery, nurse had to remove a catheter the next day, second nada.

 

[RicinYakima]

A good surgeon will evaluate the soft tissue he damaged, individual location of your connecting tissue and do the closing and wrapping that that individual knee requires.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Probably gonna look a out like this I figure.

This is just after first "unwraping".

 

[Ian]

Lord have mercy! Satan be gone! Burn the witch! Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana Texas makes the best fruit cakes ever! They have been a Holliday tradition around my home since early childhood.

I have to disagree, and I like most any fruitcake. My stepfather sends us one every year in the red, cirumcular tin and even after several weeks stewing in Crown Royal (another mediocre to poor product IMO) it's.....just okay.

 

[Charles Graff]

I have to disagree, and I like most any fruitcake. My stepfather sends us one every year in the red, cirumcular tin and even after several weeks stewing in Crown Royal (another mediocre to poor product IMO) it's.....just okay.

Collins sells many thousands every year, so I must not be their only fan. My wife prefers the Ellenberger fruitcakes because it has pecans in it, so of course that is what we buy and give now. Ellenberger comes in a cardboard box, so no more nice round tins to store this and that. Drat! But, the boxes are sturdy and do well for cast bullet storage.

I do agree about the Crown Royal, I consider it to be brown vodka, fit only as a mixer.

 

[Winelover]

Collins sells many thousands every year, so I must not be their only fan.

I do agree about the Crown Royal, I consider it to be brown vodka, fit only as a mixer.

Some people will eat/drink anything.

On the other hand.............Crown Royal has it's following, too.

That's why they offer chocolate and vanilla.

 

[Rick H]

The best thing about Crown Royal is the cloth bag it comes in. Now a nice Evan Williams Bourbon with a dash of bitters and lime or orange peel is another matter entirely.
For all you Fruitcake haters, you can send them up my way. I am fond of "disposing" of them.

 

[Charles Graff]

Some people will eat/drink anything.

On the other hand.............Crown Royal has it's following, too.

That's why they offer chocolate and vanilla.

True, but I don't eat Mexican Machitos, Haggis or any other offal. My wife's first husband drank Crown Royal, but he died of cancer. I like both chocolate and vanilla, what does that say about me?

 

[Winelover]

E.W. 1783 (small batch) is my bourbon of choice. Lemon, only if I mix it with Coke, during the Summer.

 

[Rick]

Gentleman Jack for some fine sippin whiskey. Never tried it with fruit cake or coke or lime. Sometimes with a little frozen water.

 

[462]

Crown Royal: Time for a trip down Memory Lane. Ric is welcome to accompany me, as he may have a similar memory.

In 1968, a bottle of Crown Royal cost $4 at the Phan Rang, RVN, base exchange. The base had a tradition, and other bases and services may well have, too, though I don't know. When someone was down to 30-days left
in-country, the tradition was to drink a bottle of Crown Royal straight and by himself at one sitting, then tie the gold and black ribbon to the top button hole of his jungle shirt. When my time came I bought a bottle, but being one to suffer severe hangovers, I cheated and shared the bottle with a fellow crew member. We finished it at one sitting.
I don't remember, but am positive the following day was one of misery, and triple-digit temperature and humidity, heat reflecting off the concrete flightline, Armco reventment walls, and aircraft skins would have added to the misery. Among my relics from that year is that ribbon.

 

[RicinYakima]

Since most guys were there for a year, we did Crown Royal on birthdays. In Army you had to be an E-6 with five years service to buy liquor at the PX. So my 20 year old 2LT bought my bottle and assigned me to “bunker duty” supposed to survey and record explosives. You got the day off and your squad members got to help you finish any left after duty hours. They all got a little drink that wanted it. I bought beer for the rest.