Random thing you loathe right now.

Stengah wrote:

Every once in a while, we'll be watching a non-American show where someone goes to the hospital for some newly found problem and my wife will scoff because there's no way a real person in their financial situation would do that, they'd at least wait until it actually got serious. But then I remind her they don't live in the US and can actually afford to do that. Then we both get sad.

The Canadian healthcare system is not perfect - far from it. But at the same time I think of the few times I or someone I lived with needed immediate medical attention and how the cost didn't even enter our minds.

I used to be on a forum that included a thread of doctors answering questions and it would always make me cringe horribly, because the European questions would be along the lines of "Should I get a second opinion regarding this surgery my doctor is suggesting?" and the American ones would always be something like "There's blood in my urine but I used up my annual insurance allotment for chest pains last month. It's only been 2 days. Is there a chance it will clear up because I can't afford a hefty emergency visit fee if it's just something that will clear up on it's own?"

Could use a few internet-hugs.

I've tried for the majority of my life to be healthy. I love the gym, I watch what I eat, I rarely drink and don't smoke. I really wanted to enter my 30s as fit as I could. Unfortunately, my knees seem to be permanently damaged. No amount of expensive physiotherapy has been able to lessen the pain. No squats, no running, pretty much no lower-body exercise. My feet are the same, longer than 15 minutes standing and they start to get inflamed.

2 nights ago I had to go to emergency for a minor operation. The pilonidal sinus I had on my lower back/butt started to get very inflamed and the doctors were worried about a blood infection occurring. I entered the emergency room at 1am and left at 11am. So. Much. Waiting. This will need a followup surgery under general anaesthetic later this year. Fun times.

My GP called me after another round of blood tests and it looks like my overactive thyroid is not just a temporary thing. She wants me to look into possible surgery for that too. I'm scared. I hate anything medical, I've had too many painful experiences in hospitals.

As much as I tried, my body just feels like it's falling apart. I feel so utterly defeated, crushed by the weight of things I can't even prevent. Can't sit, can't stand, can't do the things I love to do.

PurEvil wrote:
Coldstream wrote:
NSMike wrote:

Stories like this.

Competitive innovation indeed. Some fruits are too rotten to be allowed to survive.

You won't get any argument from me on that one. While I think a reasonable argument can be made for competition within the spheres of developing and improving medical technologies (better, faster MRI, for example), the for-profit medical system is an absolute travesty and needs to be burned to the ground.

I had to explain some of this to my wife recently. We've been in a good spot throughout our marriage because she's active Navy, and while military healthcare has it's issues, they generally take care of people. On the flip side, we live next to a single mom with two girls around the same age as our boys. Due to a failed marriage, the mom is technically an illegal immigrant at this point, works crap jobs for crap pay, and has no insurance. A week or two back, her youngest (while being watched by her older sister while mom was at work) was running through the house and put her arm through a plate glass window. She lost a lot of blood before coming over to our house, where my wife was able to clean the wounds and field dress them.

She took a chunk out of her wrist, punctured just below her thumb (lots of nerves), severed her pinky (split open an artery and possibly did ligament damage), and lots of other semi-deep cuts over her arm. Her mom ran her into the ER that night, they re-dressed it, gave her a shot of antibiotics, and sent her home with a followup with an orthopedic surgeon. No imaging, no real care, just shot in the arm and a 'good luck'.

She's healing up well enough, but is already showing signs of severely diminished mobility, and it's her dominant hand. Her mom is dragging her feet because she has no insurance to pay for it, and this is well beyond our means to really help them financially. My wife and I are both worried about the long term consequences here, whereas the military would have probably been doing surgery on her within a day or two before everything closed up.

Google immigrant services for your state, most likely you will find some and in many cases they may be able to help. There are some clinics that may be able to help. Doesn't solve the underlying problem with medical services, but it may give the little girl some basic care. While I am making an assumption, many of the Latino churches have a network of support.

SpyNavy wrote:

Google immigrant services for your state, most likely you will find some and in many cases they may be able to help. There are some clinics that may be able to help. Doesn't solve the underlying problem with medical services, but it may give the little girl some basic care. While I am making an assumption, many of the Latino churches have a network of support.

You are indeed making an assumption, A_Unicycle lives in Australia where the Latino population is less than 0.5% of Australia.

A_Unicycle, many hugs and good vibes. FWIW, the pilonidal sinus thing you're talking about is very treatable and an overwhelming majority of patients make a full recovery. Your healthcare system is such that I'm very hopeful that you will get very good care. I can't speak to your feet and knee issues, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Eleima wrote:
SpyNavy wrote:

Google immigrant services for your state, most likely you will find some and in many cases they may be able to help. There are some clinics that may be able to help. Doesn't solve the underlying problem with medical services, but it may give the little girl some basic care. While I am making an assumption, many of the Latino churches have a network of support.

You are indeed making an assumption

I think Spy's response was to PurEvil's tale about his immigrant neighbor, NOT about A_Unicycle's difficulties. He even quoted PurEvil.

Rainsmercy wrote:
Eleima wrote:
SpyNavy wrote:

Google immigrant services for your state, most likely you will find some and in many cases they may be able to help. There are some clinics that may be able to help. Doesn't solve the underlying problem with medical services, but it may give the little girl some basic care. While I am making an assumption, many of the Latino churches have a network of support.

You are indeed making an assumption

I think Spy's response was to PurEvil's tale about his immigrant neighbor, NOT about A_Unicycle's difficulties. He even quoted it.

An honest mistake, I'm sure. But I confess I enjoyed the irony.

Coldstream wrote:

An honest mistake, I'm sure. But I confess I enjoyed the irony.

I'm sure, and I wasn't trying to be an Ahole about it, just seemed odd to my logical thinking brain....

A_Unicycle wrote:

Could use a few internet-hugs.

Internet-hugs and good thoughts. I cannot imagine how tough that is.

SpyNavy wrote:

Google immigrant services for your state, most likely you will find some and in many cases they may be able to help. There are some clinics that may be able to help. Doesn't solve the underlying problem with medical services, but it may give the little girl some basic care. While I am making an assumption, many of the Latino churches have a network of support.

She knows what she needs to do (the mom) but it just seems it's a slow process, especially now. Or at least she's told us she's working to get citizenship, but she could just as easily be telling us that so we drop the issue. She's trying to finally get divorced from her deadbeat husband (whole different story, drugs and police involved), and I think she's just overwhelmed with everything. We're trying to support them as best we can, while trying to not also overstep boundaries.

PurEvil wrote:

Or at least she's told us she's working to get citizenship, but she could just as easily be telling us that so we drop the issue. She's trying to finally get divorced from her deadbeat husband (whole different story, drugs and police involved), and I think she's just overwhelmed with everything.

Naturalization applications can generally continue in the absence of a sponsor if there's evidence of spousal abuse or some similar mitigating factor, at least based on all the stuff I read as part of my wife's own process. It's great that you guys are there in a supporting role. Sounds like you're walking a good line between being available for active support without being overly intrusive.

A_Unicycle wrote:

Could use a few internet-hugs.

Sending big internet hugs and positivity your way.

Uni,

::hugs:: and ::hugs::

During one of my work injuries in years past, I had also been in a situation where sitting, standing, and lying down hurt me. I’m sorry this happened to you. I know it sucks. Hang in there.

Rainsmercy wrote:
Coldstream wrote:

An honest mistake, I'm sure. But I confess I enjoyed the irony.

I'm sure, and I wasn't trying to be an Ahole about it, just seemed odd to my logical thinking brain....

I also have a logical thinking brain but I’m still human. (And I could've sworn the big chunk of quoted text wasn't there yesterday.)
Apologies for the mix up.

Getting to an age where I can't be 100% certain that what I'm feeling is a fart, and not a poop. Better not chance it....

Mixolyde wrote:

Getting to an age where I can't be 100% certain that what I'm feeling is a fart, and not a poop. Better not chance it....

YOLO

I’ve been lurking on a Depends pun here for far too long... someone put me out of my misery please.

I love my new job but I keep messing things up. MRI is hard and administering all the scales and diagnostics is so new to me. I've messed up so many things and just want to crawl into a hole and hide from everyone.

A_Unicycle wrote:

I love my new job but I keep messing things up. MRI is hard and administering all the scales and diagnostics is so new to me. I've messed up so many things and just want to crawl into a hole and hide from everyone.

Hang in there. Mastering a new skill takes time. Ironically, stress makes it more difficult to concentrate and negatively impacts memory, which makes things even more stressful! I'd recommend taking a step back, congratulating yourself on everything you've achieved so far, and acknowledging that errors are going to be a part of your learning process. Hopefully you have good oversight to ensure patients are getting what they need. Better yet would be a mentor. You'll master this stuff in no time and it will become muscle-memory. Finally, remember this moment when you find yourself teaching a wide-eyed, nervous newbie at some point down the road.

The endless inertia of chores/tasks. To quote the incredibles.

Sometimes I just want it to stay saved! You know, for a little bit? I feel like the maid; I just cleaned up this mess! Can we keep it clean for... for ten minutes!

I say this while being rather spoiled with the fact it's only me. I can't imagine having a full family and dealing with that. Be me feeling spoiled by what I got is a completely separate loath.

A_Unicycle wrote:

I love my new job but I keep messing things up. MRI is hard and administering all the scales and diagnostics is so new to me. I've messed up so many things and just want to crawl into a hole and hide from everyone.

Lean in. Ride that shame until you never make a mistake again.

Grenn wrote:
A_Unicycle wrote:

I love my new job but I keep messing things up. MRI is hard and administering all the scales and diagnostics is so new to me. I've messed up so many things and just want to crawl into a hole and hide from everyone.

Lean in. Ride that shame until you never make a mistake again.

This is the way.

ThatGuy42 wrote:
Grenn wrote:
A_Unicycle wrote:

I love my new job but I keep messing things up. MRI is hard and administering all the scales and diagnostics is so new to me. I've messed up so many things and just want to crawl into a hole and hide from everyone.

Lean in. Ride that shame until you never make a mistake again.

This is the way.

Embrace the suck! It won’t be forever. YOU GOT THIS!!

You folks are the best, thank you <3

YouTube, if I didn't take the opportunity during the ENTIRE GODDAMN MONTH OF MARCH to sign up for YouTube TV to watch March Madness, what makes you think that I'm going to at this point? Especially when EVERY SINGLE VIDEO starts with your stupid unskippable 6 second spot advertising it?

Do you think I keep forgetting?

God, I hate advertisements. And I hate service tiers that eliminate ads. "Oh, we're going to keep hitting you with these super annoying advertisements, and we know that every time we give you the option to skip, you hit that skip button as soon as its available, but you can avoid all that if you just pay us money." It's almost like an abusive relationship.

It’s gotten to the point that I can’t stand to watch YouTube unless I’m on a web browser that is set up to block all of YouTube’s ads. Any more, if I decide to watch through a YouTube app on a TV and an unskippable ad pops up, I decide I to go do something else and turn the TV off, even if the ad is only a few seconds long.

uBlock Origin for the win. I never even use the YouTube app on my phone anymore. I installed uBlock on Firefox for Android and never looked back. It's a bit fiddly to use the controls in the web browser, but it works and I never see ads.

Yeah, I have ad blocking on my PC for sure - the ads can't really be blocked on the Roku, though.

Yeah I stopped watching youtube on roku because of the insane amount of ads. On android devices I use youtube vanced and pc ad blockers.

Is there a good way to block ads on iOS?

WizKid wrote:

Is there a good way to block ads on iOS?

In Safari? Yes.

In the whole OS? Not that I’m aware of.