Hospital Visit : Oct 31 / 05

Ah...the beauty of Crohns Disease. Another Abcess popped out in my belly , hospitalizing me for 8 days. Just got out today.

Had to take Fragman injections everyday. That is to say , nurses had to give them to me. There was this one nurse called "Lucy" , but I just call her The Butcher. She's very good at talking. Stab you with a needle..oh you scream worse than me..stop that.
No empathy at all... she seems to think you're a car or something and she's an automechanic and you just turn the nob here, unscrew this... ignore the funny noises the car makes they're not important...

Well...for a needle I suppose thats not bad.

Unfortunately , they had to dig deep , DEEP down into my belly to remove the abcess, which was about half the size of my fist. And guess what ? Pain killers work great on your skin , but not so hot deeper down. Apparently there's no nerves (then how come I'm feeling pain if the'res no nerves .. never did get an answer to that) so down there below the skin, and since the pain killers are working on your nerves , it has no effect on deep down stuff.

IN other words, when they dug down deep, they were essentially working on me with no pain killers.

This would explain the howling and groaning and screaming like a little girl that I was going through when they dug that there hole in my belly.

Guess what ? The wound has to be packed. Every day. That means you slowly (painfully) pull out the old bandages and then poke new stuff in there. Every Day.

Yes. It's a scream fest.

If you yell loudly ... you hardly feel any pain ..did you know that ? Don't try and hold it in , let it all out. And when they ask you to be quiet , or can they put something in your mouth ? Tell them no, you've decided to share the experiance with the world , thank you very much.

Distractions also work ok. Have a second nurse there making jokes or even just get into a yelling contest with her to see who can yell the loudest. Anything to take your eyes of this big gaping wound that they're stuffing bandages down thats causing you to scream like a little girl in the first place.

And another thing. How do people get addicted to morphine ? They juiced me up on Deladin , a synthetic morphin , every time before they changed my bandages and packed my wound. the needle going in isn't bad, just a little prick , but it burns like HELL as they do the injection. And people are supposed to enjoy this ? My god there are a lot of deeply sick people out there.

US Lawmakers Agree : Internet should be controlled by USA

Lawmakers urge U.S. to keep control of Web


WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. lawmakers are urging the Bush administration to resist a push from other countries to shift control of the Internet to the United Nations, arguing that such a move would stifle innovation and free expression.


I think I should run the internet ! I don't care what you think !!Arrr ! Me harty's ! Man the Gunsels ! Prepare for boarding ! Kill the women and children first !


Are you going to allow folks who have demonstrated a pattern of suppression of content, are they going to be put in charge of running this thing?" said Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman,

(further down in same article)

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) agreed to suspend work on a proposed .xxx domain name for sex sites after the Bush administration objected in August.


Arrr .. we'll be running the show matey ! And we'll decide what yea can and cannot see ..not some floosey in a turban from Iran ... arr matey ...

4% interest...why not bank online?

Article

This is got to be the most slanted "give me your money" article I have every seen !


NG Direct, a unit of ING Groep NV, recently raised its annual percentage yield (APY) to 3.40 percent from 3.30 percent while competitor EmigrantDirect, the online branch of New York-based Emigrant Savings Bank, is offering consumers a whopping 4 percent yield, up from 3.5 percent – making it the highest-yield account available.


In an age where virii and trojens routinely engage in identity theft where just visiting a web page can get your system trashed and billy boy gates has decided to do nothing about it but pay lip service and fud (fear , uncertainty, distrust among the competition) rather than fix his problems, you want people to go online for a lousy 4% ?


Internet security may also be a concern for consumers particularly as identity theft becomes an increasing problem for the banking industry. But online high-yield accounts generally have security measures in place.


"Generally have" means some do , some don't , or so they tell us. And no one discusses security issues with a reporter.


And if you're looking to have your hand held, online accounts are not for you. ING Direct, for instance, closes an average of 3 percent to 4 percent of accounts a month, when customers require too much personal service.

"We fire our customers is a colorful way of putting it," said ING Direct's Kuhlmann. "While the banking business says the customer is always right, we're online guys and you can only do business with us in a certain way."

He added that it just isn't cost effective to maintain high maintenance customers that need more personalized attention.


Oh , I'm sorry ! You got a virus that stole your personal information and now you're coming to us with this problem and making work for us ? We don't like to do work , we don't want you as a customer anymore !

I smell a disaster in the making, and a bunch of rich bankers saying "too bad ... not our problem" when it happens.