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Tomkitten just reminded me we do have one more guy, oh this guy is a real pip.
Wants to take people to John Glenn international for flights out $125-150 easy money.
He also comes out from hiding when Kenyon College or Mount Vernon Nazarene University has Parents Weekends-Those parents tip like Drunken Sailors.
He doesn't accept fares post Midnight, he might have to transport a drunk and somebody might try to hurt his "widdle self".
As an example I had Tomkitten to the ER, was there quite a while,released about 9:30 pm, called Mr Pip for transport, he's 6/10th of a mile away but refused the booking although I told him I would pay more than his usual rate. So I starting calli,g friends, finally found one who would answer, most everybody was out of town on a Saturday evening.
So I would not call him reliable.🚕

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Update: He ended up canceling on me on Monday and the surgery was rescheduled for Wednesday at 5:30 AM. I don't know why he rescheduled but something must have happened on Monday. I got emotional but understood that he too is a person. I just don't see the sense in scheduling surgeries so late in the day but not my business.

Surgery is done.. Now comes the hard part. The pains are still bad. Gas and all. I was walking first day in the hospital right after surgery. Went home the following day after surgery. Had my first BM at 5:30 this morning but for some reason am feeling a lot of Gas pains today (3 days post). Made another post about it. Thank you all for your well wishes.

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I was just looking through my packet, and my hospital has a integrated medicine team. So, they come in pre-op for massage and stuff. I know 3:30 isn't ideal, if it was me, I would be anxious all day. Maybe your hospital offers something like that to help with the "big day" nerves. Good luck on your big day!!

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I imagine since we are more elective, maybe we don’t get the best surgical times. Mine was 1130 but they were running at least an hour behind

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Update I did go to my 55th reunion as planned, since I haven't had my surgery, everyone. did recognize me. One old semi-friend said " Oh you look like you always did,only more so" Didn't have to put it on the p.a. system after all, second person I asked said she would be "honored" to do Tim First person, had an air-tight excuse- --'her D.H. is having,open heart surgery the end of August and she hopes to be helping him recover that week.
So my childhood friend Kathy will be doing it although it does mean she'll have get up at an ungodly hour to do it. Said to expect her at sometime after 3 AM, maybe towards 3:30. I honestly did not think I was liked enough to find someone. You see, I was a chubby nerd-ette who would rather read than to run around with the cliques that formed. Wasn't a cheerleader, majorette, flag corps member or dated a handsome jock,from the football team, thought I appeared faded back like part of the woodwork.
Funny thing, people who cut me dead at,18, were hugging me, acting,like I was really somebody. I would be flattered, but at my age, you seem be thrilled to find someone besides youself still breathing , that remembers some,of the same,things you do. I was born just before the Post-War baby boom, so my class wasn't as large as the 3 years following, still we numbered over 300, and now,if we counted right,maybe there are a 100?, Some died in Vietnam and the ensuing police actions the USA. was prone to participate in, but we lost 10 in the last year.
So Kathy,my cancer survivor friend who has kept her sense of humor through it all, I think the only disposable organs she has left are her gall bladder and tonsils, everything she has given up 1 or both to medical science. But like the old commercial for aTimex watch's "She's taken a licking and,keeps on ticking!"
So temporarily, I'm not annoyed myself but I'm sure something will turn up soon!👈😝👉

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I had to be at hospital 8:30 on the 7th and didn’t even make surgery until 123:30

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On 8/3/2018 at 2:56 PM, E G said:
On 8/3/2018 at 2:49 PM, Orchids&Dragons said:


Congrats on getting your surgery date!


On the upside, you won't have a long, uncomfortable evening the first night out. By the time you're settled back in your room, it will pretty much be bed time. My surgery was about 1:30 in the afternoon and I the long evening (when I couldn't drink anything) was torture.

Thank you. How long did you have to wait for the swallowing test after your surgery?

What's a swallow test?

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14 minutes ago, Jingle123423 said:

What's a swallow test?

An upper GI following surgery to see if there are any leaks. If your surgeon orders one, you can't drink anything after surgery until the test is done.

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Thank you!

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Well Jingle it's getting closer to surgery. Have you got all your bells in. a row. so they can ring out a Victory Chime when your surgery comes and goes?

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I get it. I’d be annoyed too. I wanted my surgery to be first thing in the am so I didn’t have time to fret all day. It is what it is. I’m sorry!

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So @E.G. are we doing. any better on this lovely Thursday?

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I have my surgery tomorrow at 2. I have to be there at 12:30PM. Ugh, I wish I had to be there at 6AM! So lame

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Well it is Ragweed season in Ohio, I would like to take Roundup to each,and every plant! My worry? Sometimes this kicks. my sinusitis into gear and I fear getting a bacterial superinfection there. Its less than 3 weeks until my Surgery,Day, the culmination of 3 long sorrow-filled years. There,is an implicit threat if you are sick 2 weeks before they may consider postponing your surgery. Can't have that, I'm alreay taking,Zyrtec
every night, maybe start taking hot tea? And I already thought to up my Vitamin C. Anybody got a shaman in reserve? In Evangelical church the line is Lift my ____up in prayer! If I say Lift my nose up in prayer, it sounds like I'm asking to be made "stuck-up"! What do I do now?

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