COLD DARK ROOM

[stojanovski92113]

Have a good night everyone!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Radiographically, it's fascinating. I've seen it once on an X-ray. I didn't know there were so many times and I also didn't know you could get it into your bones. I bet it must have been horrible for you. Do you get x rayed or otherwise tested for it regularly?

No, not now.
i had it for about two years before it was diagnosed.
I decided i had bronchitis due to smoking and that was that.
i got weaker and weaker, lost a lot of weight and finally couldn't eat and barely swallow liquids.
Coughing up sputum, but not blood. (that came later).
Finally someone persuaded me to go the hospital, here in Fes, where they took one look at the x-ray and said "TB".
i went to England for treatment and was immediately placed in isolation because I was contagious.
After being reduced to less than 40 kilos (and I'm tall) and 107 days in hospital isolation (first hospital gave up on me after 6 weeks and transferred me to another which saved my life) I was released as non-infectious but still with TB. The x-rays are indeed interesting.
Back to Morocco where I was on medication for another 6 months until blood and sputum tests showed i was 100% clear.
My lungs were a third destroyed and will never regrow completely, but a bit.
All treatment and x-rays and medication in both countries was free.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Have a good night everyone!!

Night, night, take care.
See you tomorrow, i hope.

 

[meech008]

No, not now.
i had it for about two years before it was diagnosed.
I decided i had bronchitis due to smoking and that was that.
i got weaker and weaker, lost a lot of weight and finally couldn't eat and barely swallow liquids.
Coughing up sputum, but not blood. (that came later).
Finally someone persuaded me to go the hospital, here in Fes, where they took one look at is and said "TB".
i went to England for treatment and was immediately placed in isolation because I was contagious.
After being reduced to less than 40 kilos (and I'm tall) and 107 days in hospital isolation (first hospital gave up on me after 6 weeks and transferred me to another which saved my life) I was released as non-infectious but still with TB. The x-rays are indeed interesting.
Back to Morocco where I was on medication for another 6 months until blood and sputum tests showed i was 100% clear.
My lungs were a third destroyed and will never regrow completely, but a bit.
All treatment and x-rays and medication in both countries was free.

It's An incredible Story if you dont mind me saying so. We have patients come in for chest xrays frequently because their TB tests have come up positive but it's very rare for it to be a true positive. Were both lungs destroyed or one more than the other? They do regenerate a little bit but not as much as your liver does. Even more amazing is you had no health care bill. What a wonder, here you'd be in debt till you died :-/

 

[Angel Carrion]

No, not now.
i had it for about two years before it was diagnosed.
I decided i had bronchitis due to smoking and that was that.
i got weaker and weaker, lost a lot of weight and finally couldn't eat and barely swallow liquids.
Coughing up sputum, but not blood. (that came later).
Finally someone persuaded me to go the hospital, here in Fes, where they took one look at is and said "TB".
i went to England for treatment and was immediately placed in isolation because I was contagious.
After being reduced to less than 40 kilos (and I'm tall) and 107 days in hospital isolation (first hospital gave up on me after 6 weeks and transferred me to another which saved my life) I was released as non-infectious but still with TB. The x-rays are indeed interesting.
Back to Morocco where I was on medication for another 6 months until blood and sputum tests showed i was 100% clear.
My lungs were a third destroyed and will never regrow completely, but a bit.
All treatment and x-rays and medication in both countries was free.

I'm very glad you're still here and for the most part healthy besides joining the Cripple Club.

Yay free medical attention! The expensiveness of it is crazy!

 

[Moozillion]

Evening, Bea.
Good day ?

A bit frustrating- couldn't get much done. On the female ward I'm assigned to (I work in a forensic psychiatric hospital) the toilets backed up horribly, and the plumbers worked on it all day. The female patients had to brush their teeth in a sink in the laundry room, and the patients had to be convoyed to the toilets in one of the staff office areas. Much of the regular activity, staffings and groups were delayed or cancelled because of the dreadful, unsanitary mess.
On the male ward I'm also assigned to, we were so short of staff that there was no one to escort patients to any group or activity off-ward.
So I had a long lunch with 2 work friends and got some paperwork done.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It's An incredible Story if you dont mind me saying so. We have patients come in for chest xrays frequently because their TB tests have come up positive but it's very rare for it to be a true positive. Were both lungs destroyed or one more than the other? They do regenerate a little bit but not as much as your liver does. Even more amazing is you had no health care bill. What a wonder, here you'd be in debt till you died :-/

One more than the other, the left I think and only the top third of each more or less wiped out.
In Britain the NHS is free for everyone; in Morocco, TB treatment is free as they are trying to get sufferers to go to the hospital and eradicate the disease (which is actually spreading), if they charged, most could not afford the treatment and wouldn't go, making things much worse.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I'm very glad you're still here and for the most part healthy besides joining the Cripple Club.

Yay free medical attention! The expensiveness of it is crazy!

I'm pretty good now, just get out of breath easily.
Can't understand the American system at all, i'm afraid.

 

[meech008]

One more than the other, the left I think and only the top third of each more or less wiped out.
In Britain the NHS is free for everyone; in Morocco, TB treatment is free as they are trying to get sufferers to go to the hospital and eradicate the disease (which is actually spreading), if they charged, most could not afford the treatment and wouldn't go, making things much worse.

I think that's why we have so much crisis intervention (people only seek medical attention when it's urgent ) hete. Nobody can afford standard health care. It's pathetic

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

A bit frustrating- couldn't get much done. On the female ward I'm assigned to (I work in a forensic psychiatric hospital) the toilets backed up horribly, and the plumbers worked on it all day. The female patients had to brush their teeth in a sink in the laundry room, and the patients had to be convoyed to the toilets in one of the staff office areas. Much of the regular activity, staffings and groups were delayed or cancelled because of the dreadful, unsanitary mess.
On the male ward I'm also assigned to, we were so short of staff that there was no one to escort patients to any group or activity off-ward.
So I had a long lunch with 2 work friends and got some paperwork done.

Goodness, sounds a right mess!
Hopefully, fixed for tomorrow.

 

[meech008]

Well friends. I need to go to bed... early day tomorrow and my sister is coming to visit for the weekend! I'm so excited to see her see everyone tomorrow on the ride to the hospital. Sleep well everyone

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

In 6th place for August, with 365 points earning 20 points to add to July's and carry through to the end of the year was Spud's Mum.
@spudthetortoise
Keep those adorable photos and tales of near-calamitous personal injury coming, please.
You really help brighten up The Cold Dark Room.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Well friends. I need to go to bed... early day tomorrow and my sister is coming to visit for the weekend! I'm so excited to see her see everyone tomorrow on the ride to the hospital. Sleep well everyone

Thanks, Meech, you too.
Say hi to your sister from The Cold Dark Room.
Take care and have fun tomorrow.

 

[meech008]

Thanks, Meech, you too.
Say hi to your sister from The Cold Dark Room.
Take care and have fun tomorrow.

Psshhhh she's going to have a guest spot! I'm excited for you all to meet her. Thanks! Give tidgy a rub for me, darling girl

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Psshhhh she's going to have a guest spot! I'm excited for you all to meet her. Thanks! Give tidgy a rub for me, darling girl

ha de ha!
Look forward to that
i'll give Tidgy a rub from you when she wakes up.
Thanks.

 

[Momof4]

When you see this pattern what would you call it?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

When you see this pattern what would you call it?
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Hi, Kathy.
I dunno.
Leaf motif ?
Leaf pattern ?

 

[Momof4]

Me either! Bamboo or Palm?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Me either! Bamboo or Palm?

Not bamboo.
Maybe a palm of some kind, they have lots of different leaf types.

 

[Momof4]

Thanks, for trying to help.