Sir Napsalot
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Your "old firm"?
What did you accomplish today?
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cannabineer
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I am both old and firm.
Sir Napsalot
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Way to hit the slow pitch
manfredo
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I want some of what you are smoking
manfredo
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Someone should teach a class on dab rig terminology...Holy shit, Titanium, quartz, ceramic. bangers, nails, enails...and soooo much more. But I am getting there! Sloooowly 
Heard from an old buddy tonight...was a real good buddy back in the day. Him and his wife both had covid, she got real sick and a heart attack right after that they think was related, now they found cysts in her lungs and are going in for a biopsy...and my buddy is having a hip replacement the following day. This poor guy has been through more shit...stage 3 Hodgins disease , lung cancer, and much more
Heard from an old buddy tonight...was a real good buddy back in the day. Him and his wife both had covid, she got real sick and a heart attack right after that they think was related, now they found cysts in her lungs and are going in for a biopsy...and my buddy is having a hip replacement the following day. This poor guy has been through more shit...stage 3 Hodgins disease , lung cancer, and much more
Arkos
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Jesus man some people just can't catchThis poor guy has been through more shit...stage 3 Hodgins disease , lung cancer, and much more
a break, I hope your buddy and his wife pull through, sounds like their tough and will make it .
farmingfisherman
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Crawlspaces suck!
Yande
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Different country, different situation. Had an operation/Procedure last Saturday, looking for Varices.. "Esophageal varices are abnormal, enlarged veins in the tube that connects the throat and stomach (esophagus) . The liver, being damaged, can back up blood whilst it works to process it. If they rupture, it can be fatel. My damaged liver was from a wayward youth, being diagnosed with Hepatitus, Non A, Non B, back in 1977. Turns out it was Hep C, yes.... from a wayward youth. Hep C chewed away at my liver for 40 or more years (thank God/Allah I smoked dope and didn't drink alcohol!) until a few years ago when my Dr. said, "We can cure that!" My Gov't supplied me with 90 tablets, at a total cost of $AUD94,000, and Hep C was cured. In the mean time, they found a Lesion on my Liver (Cancer) and a simple operation later, that too was cured. (Micro Ablation - google it) So, since that op, I have gone from monthly, to 3 monthly, 6 monthly and now 9 monthly CT Scans, and consider myself one very lucky individual. Unlike say, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Chopper Reid and many, many others..
I am a firm believer in our socialist medical system and do not understand those that chose to have private cover. Their choice I know. But considering my and my wife's brain anneurysm, which lead to open brain surgery, has not cost us a cent, apart from our usual Dr., visitation fees, for us, it is a no brainer.
If you are over 50, perhaps get yourself some tests done. Don't want to wait until it is too late. I had NO SYMPTOMS! NONE.
I am a firm believer in our socialist medical system and do not understand those that chose to have private cover. Their choice I know. But considering my and my wife's brain anneurysm, which lead to open brain surgery, has not cost us a cent, apart from our usual Dr., visitation fees, for us, it is a no brainer.
If you are over 50, perhaps get yourself some tests done. Don't want to wait until it is too late. I had NO SYMPTOMS! NONE.
manfredo
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Consider yourself very lucky! I was one of the Guinea pigs for hep c treatment. Back in about 1988 I was diagnosed with hep c, and I sure wish I had done nothing about it. I listened to a quack doctor, who have me chemo for a full year, only to have the hep c come back with a vengeance, and nearly kill me. I had a viral load of over 5 million. I later found out that treatment only had a -5% chance of working, and I wasn't told it could make things worse if it didn't work. But they had a new treatment...and I was on deaths door...another full year of chemo, now with pegylated interferon and with an added med, ribovarin. 12 months of explosive diarrhea and being very sick. The treatment nearly killed me also, but in the end it cured me of the disease, but caused many other issues ...and of course a damaged liver never recovers, which is why this old dog doesn't drink.
Nowadays hep c is a fairly simple, quick treatment... Yeah, pretty sure doctors have done more damage to me than good over the years!!
Yeah Covid is a clotting disorder, it causes endotheliailitis so a heart attack isn't an uncommon side effect. I hope your buddy gets lucky, sounds like he's ready for his luck to turn.Someone should teach a class on dab rig terminology...Holy shit, Titanium, quartz, ceramic. bangers, nails, enails...and soooo much more. But I am getting there! Sloooowly
Heard from an old buddy tonight...was a real good buddy back in the day. Him and his wife both had covid, she got real sick and a heart attack right after that they think was related, now they found cysts in her lungs and are going in for a biopsy...and my buddy is having a hip replacement the following day. This poor guy has been through more shit...stage 3 Hodgins disease , lung cancer, and much more
Arkos
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Pics or it didn't happenReplaced the hangers on my Hlgs with chains cause eh I vegged way too long
You know it going to be good shit when you got plumbing pipes
manfredo
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He's like a cat with 9 lives...He had the Hodgkins disease at about age 30 with 3 young children, and it was amazing he lived through that. He's early 60's now. Poor guy was so sick and so broke...I got him stoned everyday for a year or more, just so he could get some food down.
He kept saying last night, we are next to die, and he's not wrong
He's lucky he had you. I actually find comfort in the fact we are likely next. I think our children/grandchildren maybe offered immortality and I don't think I'd want that temptation.He's like a cat with 9 lives...He had the Hodgkins disease at about age 30 with 3 young children, and it was amazing he lived through that. He's early 60's now. Poor guy was so sick and so broke...I got him stoned everyday for a year or more, just so he could get some food down.
He kept saying last night, we are next to die, and he's not wrong
Arkos
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At least he got a good friend like you, something to be said about kindnesses and generosity in this day and age, respect.
Laughing Grass
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Sign me up!
manfredo
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I find myself thinking about death too often these days. It scares the hell outta me. Not death, but the dying part. Some people get lucky and die in their sleep, but for many there is great suffering. Scary shit!! I can't even comprehend all the people that suffered alone dying during covid.
Besides luck I think part of dying with dignity and less pain is knowing when to say no to further treatment and go for comfort measures. Also make sure you have an advanced directive so if you have a terminal diagnosis some well meaning relative can't intervene. But quality end of life is an issue we are starting to deal with, finally.
sarahJane211
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Age 65 here, I've done almost every thing I wanted and am OK with dying.
I missed out on owning a giant rabbit and walking up to Machu Picchu in case you were wondering.