OT: Blues Forum Lounge (Home of All Things OT) - Part 2024-2025

[The Note]

Aren't you the one who was buying a house?

Indeed. We found out my wife was pregnant the same day the offer was accepted!

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Indeed. We found out my wife was pregnant the same day the offer was accepted!

Cool. And don’t sweat getting testy. Just about everyone here gets a little angry once in a while. Emotions are good.

Congrats on the house and it sounds like your little guy is gonna come through just fine. Apparently, he was ready.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better.

I had a similar situation about 18 months ago where I had a very mild UTI and Urgent Care sent me to the ER. The ER doctor apparently failed to read my chart, so he didn't know that I can no longer take anti-inflammatory drugs and shot me with a powerful one. I was back in the ER the next day with liver failure, kidney failure and about 4 liters of fluid trapped in my bladder. That was a fun few days.

Did they name a wing of the hospital after you as part of the settlement from you suing them? That’s ridiculous.

That’s terrible and glad you made it through, that’s scary!

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better.

I had a similar situation about 18 months ago where I had a very mild UTI and Urgent Care sent me to the ER. The ER doctor apparently failed to read my chart, so he didn't know that I can no longer take anti-inflammatory drugs and shot me with a powerful one. I was back in the ER the next day with liver failure, kidney failure and about 4 liters of fluid trapped in my bladder. That was a fun few days.

I sure hope that guy isn't practicing medicine anymore.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

I sure hope that guy isn't practicing medicine anymore.

The operative term here is “practicing”.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

My favorite scene with Gene Hackman was in The Royal Tenenbaums. After he reconciled with his son, there is a scene where he is in the back of an ambulance, dying. He has an oxygen mask on, and looks up at his son and smiles warmly at him. There was no dialogue, but it was such a powerful moment.

EDIT - found it. 1:29

 

[The Note]

Hackman was one of the best. I recently re-watched Unforgiven and he really drives that film, even more so than Eastwood.

One of his more unheralded roles that always delighted me is his performance as the conservative senator in The Birdcage. The dinner scene with him and Nathan Lane hitting it off is gold.

 

[joe galiba]

Hackman was one of the best. I recently re-watched Unforgiven and he really drives that film, even more so than Eastwood.

One of his more unheralded roles that always delighted me is his performance as the conservative senator in The Birdcage. The dinner scene with him and Nathan Lane hitting it off is gold.

I loved him in enemy of the state

 

[Stelmacki]

Well, Mizzou basketball just confirmed they are pretenders.

 

[Memento]

Currently in the hospital. Bad UTI that they thankfully caught before sepsis. In a tremendous amount of pain, but I don’t feel like I’m going to die like earlier.

Will be there for the foreseeable future.

Out of the hospital, thank holy fate.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

I loved him in enemy of the state

Not a Will Smith fan, but Hackman was great in that movie. Fast paced thriller.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

I just listened to the first six songs on Down With the Sickness and it was quite good. Big sound. Big on staccato.