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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2011 17:51:46 GMT
;D
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 24, 2011 18:43:39 GMT
Good evening...
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2011 19:47:26 GMT
See, that's what I like about Palesa -- she's consistent!
And good afternoon to you, Cheery. (2:44 pm Sat. CDT).
Question: does anyone else use Yahoo & are any of you not getting all your emails? I'm missing two (that I know of) since this morning. Luckily the sender let me know by another means. but it makes me really paranoid about what else I might not be receiving.
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Post by palesa on Sept 25, 2011 6:01:13 GMT
I love seeing these old threads pop up.
Happy Memories
I remember how exciting it was when we had a brand new forum .... now look what you all have done, crowded it with lovely photos and stories ;D
Blah blah blah
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Post by palesa on Sept 25, 2011 6:02:08 GMT
Oh, no, I don't use yahoo I am 100% a gmail girl, so sorry Bixie can't help you
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Post by bjd on Sept 25, 2011 6:47:47 GMT
Someone else I write to told me he had problems with yahoo mail lately. Don't use it myself.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2011 15:55:42 GMT
No Yahoo for me. I am a city boy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 25, 2011 17:40:49 GMT
And you probably don't drink Yoo-hoos anymore, either. I was a Chocolate Soldier girl, myself.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 26, 2011 20:19:24 GMT
bixa seems a bit delirious - does she have a fever?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2011 20:40:30 GMT
Probably just a Yoo-Hoo overdose, whatever that is.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 26, 2011 22:24:17 GMT
If you all never had those, you had deprived childhoods. And thanks Palesa & Bjd. I have no emotional attachment to yahoo, but since I've used it for so long, it's the email adress everyone has for me. I changed from hotmail to yahoo years ago & advised everyone I know. I still get mail in the damned hotmail acct, though, even though I beg people to remove it from their contacts for me. One person she told me she tried to remove it & couldn't . Yes, it's a pet peeve.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 27, 2011 10:14:23 GMT
Morning....I'm on leave for another couple of days nursing my post-operative OH....bless. Changed his dressing today...ew...ew...ew...ew....Got a bit of cabin fever so we're going for a little walk today. The patient is making excellent progress and is no longer acting like a petulant 2 year old (is it a man thing?) Going back to work on thursday and as OH can't drive until his Consultant is happy with the op I'll have to catch the bus...rats. It means allowing at least an hour either way for travelling a distance that takes 15 minutes in the car...I almost wish that I had learned to drive....
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 27, 2011 16:45:22 GMT
I'm glad your dear one is feeling better & turning back into a dear one rather than a grumpy patient. Is this your first time out since the operation? God, you must have been screaming inside.
Cheery, can you catch a ride with someone going in that direction, or are your hours too varied? If you could find someone who'd love to have your company & a little gas money, it could work out for both of you.
Interesting about the driving. As an American, the only adults I know who didn't learn to drive when they were teens are women who grew up inside cities. Note I say women. I don't think I've ever known a man who didn't drive.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 27, 2011 20:28:55 GMT
None of my colleagues live around here or pass on their way to work unfortunately, and as we work shifts and at any of the 3 different sites we very rarely overlap anyway. Good idea tho...
I started having driving lessons when I was about 30...but after 8 lessons my average speed was 10 miles an hour, I didn't 'do' corners and tended to take my hands off the wheel, cover my eyes and scream if we came across a roundabout. It's one of the things that's defeated me, along with swimming (I sink like a stone, thrashing about wildly)...I have no idea why I can manage to deal with scary emergencies at work calmly and efficiently yet put me in a driving seat and I go to pieces...
At work I am the only member of staff without a drivers license....oddly enough niether of my sons can drive either, even tho we paid for them to have lessons when they were teens.
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Post by bjd on Sept 28, 2011 7:50:15 GMT
....oddly enough niether of my sons can drive either, even tho we paid for them to have lessons when they were teens. Maybe it's genetic? ;D I have quite a few neighbours who don't drive -- but they are all women in their late 70s and 80s.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2011 8:08:07 GMT
Almost none of my friends have driver's licences and they are all over the age of 40 -- but that's normal for Paris where less than 50% of the population own a car.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 28, 2011 11:01:09 GMT
It's only sometimes that I regret not being a driver, like atm with OH having lots of hospital appointments. I don't mind using the bus generally, and I'm not a particularly independent person. I've always been fortunate enough to know strong people who like bossing me about My OH, Father and one of my sisters are all quite controlling (altho I absolutely adore all 3 and they have many other redeeming qualities..) and I tend to rebel passively.... I think that one reason I had such trouble learning to drive was because I was TOLD to do it by my OH. I had no plans or the desire to drive, but he thought that I ought to. We'd never have been able to afford to run two cars anyway...and he wouldn't have let me drive his...so what's the point?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 7, 2011 17:40:26 GMT
Hlo....tomorrow I'm doing my first 24 hour shift for over a year.....and I'm a bit apprehensive. Hopefully I will get a few breaks and might even get online. It's silly because i'm perfectly capable of doing the shift and the financial reward makes it worth it. I just don't like the lack of sleep...I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for this malarky. wish me luck. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 18:42:02 GMT
Could you explain "24 hour shift" to me? Surely you are not on non-stop duty for 24 hours?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 7, 2011 19:08:24 GMT
Could you explain "24 hour shift" to me? Surely you are not on non-stop duty for 24 hours? Yessir....I carry a bleep and am the only haematologist on call for the entire hospital. The work is pretty steady, usually fairly busy from 0800 to around 1500...then tails off for a bit, getting busy again in the evening. Usually it's not too bad after midnight unless there are any very ill patients.,,but one rarely gets a proper break. The hospital I'm covering specialises in cardiac cases (as well as others) and includes an ECMO unit..patients on ECMO need lots of blood transfusions so they keep me quite busy. On-call is supposed to be just emergency work, but basically we do everything that we're asked to do. there's an on-call bedroom but quite honestly I find it very tiring to go to bed and then have to get up again about 11 times! it's easier to just stay in the lab. It's changing soon...we're going onto a 24/7 shift system in April (0700 - 1500, 1500 - 2300, and 2300 - 0700) but I don't really know how that will be managed as we're very short staffed. If we are working a shift we are entitled to breaks away from the lab, so that would be good. In a warped way I quite enjoy oncall...I like working on my own, using my skills and experience, liaising with the medical staff etc I feel more involved in patient care.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 7, 2011 20:00:55 GMT
I understand why you'd like the on-call routine and your skills are probably happy to get to be on their problem-solving best. However, I will never understand why people in work that demands sharpness are allowed to work such long hours. Can cops, paramedics, etc. on the eleventh hour of their twelve hour shifts be counted on every time to make their best decisions then?
Well, hang in there. You do sound pumped for the experience.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 20:14:01 GMT
I know about "on-call" for flight attendants and mechanics in my airline profession. But it just means that you must be contactable at all times and able to appear on duty in less than one hour -- and it is very rarely necessary.
However, I do remember seeing the very first episode of E.R. where intern Anthony Edwards kept trying to sleep but was called to emergencies all night (otherwise there would have been no point in calling the series E.R.).
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 7, 2011 23:19:33 GMT
I guess they could have gone in another direction with the exhausted intern theme & called it "Whoops".
Anyway ............. here is my saga:
A young woman (Lupita) in my neighborhood had some puppies she rescued & tried to get me to take one after Ginger was lost. I vacillated for a month or so, then finally went over the other day & said I'd take the last two, both girls, both small dogs. Well, one was promised to Lupita's mother in another town, but the one that was left was the one I like the best anyway. However, I felt weird about separating them & said no again. Thought about it one more day, then went to the store yesterday & bought a bunch of stuff for a little puppy.
So, I'm in a cab returning from the puppy supply mision, almost to my house, when I see Lupita pulling out of her driveway. "Catch that car!" I cry, a la 40s movie. My driver speeds up, but it's dusk & Lupita has no reason to recognize his vehicle. Me: "Honk the horn!" Driver: "I haven't got one!" He caught up to her & in a nifty little bit of driving cut her off before she escaped out to the big road.
Windows are rolled down, yes she still wants to give me the dog. My purchases are off-loaded & I run to her house and collect darling little Darla.
There was only a teensy bit of alarm at being in a new environment, then Darla proved that, puppy though she is, she is a perfect dog. Nice, huh?
So this morning we're hanging out in the patio & the neglected little terrier who lives on my neighbor's roof is whining at me to notice her, as usual. Then the two dogs noticed each other & there was much "let's play" posturing. Now, a week or so ago I said to my neighbor jokingly that he should give me the dog. I said it as preface to maybe convincing him that the little thing needed more attention. It was also when I found out that she is afraid of him, which is worrisome.
At any rate, the neighbor walks over to the edge of his roof & asks if I still want the dog. Uh.
Upshot is now I have two dogs -- the perfect Darla & the very sweet & cute but could-be-aggressively-jealous female terrier.
Such is life, so I do what I can to get the new dog-filled situation going.
So, late this afternoon I'm starting to cook supper & the doorbell rings. It's Lupita, who wants to know if I'll babysit the not-yet-her-mother's dog over the weekend.
All of my rugs are rucked & flipped up and there is a mad ball of energy made up of three pint-sized mutts rampaging back and forth and up and down the house.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 8, 2011 18:19:14 GMT
Someone just rang my doorbell to ask me to give him a donation so he could go on a pilgrimage.
Yes, I'm that wrong tree you hear about people barking up.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2011 18:54:40 GMT
I was deleting annoying spammatory email and accidentally deleted a free ticket to Disneyland Paris worth 56€. Even though I had no plans to go, doing that was even more annoying than the spam.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 9, 2011 4:34:16 GMT
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Post by rikita on Oct 9, 2011 11:41:16 GMT
oh, another random thought thread? i finally decided what to do for my wedding anniversary... oh, and speaking of dogs, the other day i was a bit lost and cycling in some dark, park like area, when suddenly a quite big dog ran towards me. fortunately it ignored me, but did i ever mention i am quite scared of dogs? i cycled on, and saw the owner a few hundred meters later...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 9, 2011 15:40:24 GMT
Oooooooh...I'm sooo jealous Bixa... ;D you are going to be very busy. I suggest that you get some roller-skates so that taking them for walks is a little easier..... I've just got outa bed....yesterday's shift went OK and I got a couple of breaks. Annoyed that the taxi fare home was 20% more expensive just because it's a Sunday...
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 9, 2011 16:00:30 GMT
hee hee, Rikita! Actually, Palesa started this thread way back at the beginning of anyport so we'd have a place to chat about stuff in general. It's great to have somewhere we can answer each other on particular topics when we don't feel like starting a whole new thread. Ooo, even without fear of dogs, having one run at you from the dark could cause you to swerve & hit something on the bike. I've heard to carry a spray bottle of water or a water pistol to deter dogs that run after you when you're cycling. And what will you be doing for the anniversary? Cheery, I gave the next-door neighbor's dog back. I shouldn't have taken her, but he surprised me so much when he offered. However, since she lives next door & has been to my yard before, I think she just took the whole thing as a visit, rather than being accepted then rejected. The one I'm baby-sitting goes back tomorrow, then I'll be left with little Darla. She's the only one of the three who doesn't appear to have any terrier in her -- probably why she seems essentially calmer. So great to hear that you survived on-call & presumably had a good sleep afterward. Were you able to put your feet up, at least, during the breaks? Yikes, that must have been a stiff taxi fare! In one way, I understand their logic that they're less likely to catch a fare on the way back. But on the other hand, often it's harder to find a cab in some cities on a Sunday, so there are surely people out there looking for rides.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2011 18:41:25 GMT
Oh so many dogs!
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