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Taking the doggos out for their morning piddle and the area is alive with the sound of sirens. So being nosey, I hopped on broadcastify and am listening to the fire scanner. I don't know if they report it like when I was young, but it's a multi-alarm fire at a manufactured home community about 1.5 miles away on a line from my place.

Florida man, why are you storing paint under your mobile home?

Also, the air quality dipped around here the last few days because of smoke from the Canadian fires.
 
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Yesterday was rough. We got news that a friend who is in her mid-30s was in ICU. She has CF and it has gone downhill over the past few months. She needs multiple organ transplants, including her lungs.

Hopefully she can hold on long enough for that to happen...
 
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Jim Bob said:
Yesterday was rough. We got news that a friend who is in her mid-30s was in ICU. She has CF and it has gone downhill over the past few months. She needs multiple organ transplants, including her lungs.

Hopefully she can hold on long enough for that to happen...
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sorry to hear that JB. hope that something good happens for her.
 
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Jim Bob said:
Yesterday was rough. We got news that a friend who is in her mid-30s was in ICU. She has CF and it has gone downhill over the past few months. She needs multiple organ transplants, including her lungs.

Hopefully she can hold on long enough for that to happen...
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Ah hell, that's rough.
 
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Seen Don Paul today, he told me don't expect any more 80's this autumn the weather pattern looks rather blah. Could be cold snowy winter again, and he evil laughed when he said Lake Erie just hit a records temp for this time this week (lake effect engine). Anyone have a timeshare ? :D

Luckily most of the yard work is done and Halloween decorations out.
 
Well, for the first time in my career on the ICU I had a friend's family member on the unit. I randomly saw my buddy getting out of the elevator. I noticed he was heading in the same direction as me. I was hoping he'd go to one of our step-down units, but he followed me to the ICU. He said his dad was on life support, and that he had a VAD inserted 7 years ago. I believe the average lifespan for a VAD patient is 5 years.

It was a bit surreal watching his dad wither away. I figured he wouldn't make it. I had a bit of anxiety that I'd have to respond to his dad coding.

I came in yesterday, and his room was empty. I checked our soiled utility room, and his dad's VAD equipment was in there, which means the patient has passed. At least he didn't code. They just removed life support. A code can be very traumatic for family members, so I'm glad my buddy and his family were able to say goodbye and not see the rawness of a code.

Needless to say, that one kicked me in the nuts a bit. Me and this dude used to drink HANDLES together. Partied hardy through our early-to-mid 20s. I didn't see him for a while, then I randomly saw him at a bar a year ago, and we hit it off like hardly any time went by. We weren't nearly as wild. We're a fair bit older now.

I sent him a text when I saw they took his father off life support. He said he read it to his mom, and she was very touched by it. That was a gut punch for me. That poor woman. She was there day in and day out. The spouses normally are if they're retired. Find you a good woman, boys!
 
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Ah hell, that's rough.
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The really tough news yesterday is that she is off the transplant lists for now as she is too sick to undergo transplant surgery. They are hoping that they can get her through this and healthy enough to get back on the transplant lists. But, it is really scary right now.
 
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The really tough news yesterday is that she is off the transplant lists for now as she is too sick to undergo transplant surgery. They are hoping that they can get her through this and healthy enough to get back on the transplant lists. But, it is really scary right now.
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Sorry to read that, Jim. That's not an easy thing to go through.
 
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The really tough news yesterday is that she is off the transplant lists for now as she is too sick to undergo transplant surgery. They are hoping that they can get her through this and healthy enough to get back on the transplant lists. But, it is really scary right now.
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So sorry to hear that.
 
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So on the good news, my dad is out of the ICU on only one 1 med currently (a blood thinner). A few more days he should get to go home. Not out of the woods yet as he still needs to do deal with the cancer.
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Best news I've heard all day. I hope things keep working out favorably for him.
 
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So on the good news, my dad is out of the ICU on only one 1 med currently (a blood thinner). A few more days he should get to go home. Not out of the woods yet as he still needs to do deal with the cancer.
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A serious but hard talk about Palative and Hospice care, affairs, and any wishes he may have helps as well in case you need to fall back to those options is important imho. My Dad visited Nashville and had a great time and had 90% of everything in order. I hope this subject was ok to bring up. Believe me it helps.
 
Not sure where to put this.

FOR THE LOVE OF TWENTY

Oh my love, where will the buffalo roam?

Not far from their home. At the top of the East.

Where the beautiful beast set about their feast

On the hearts of Panthers, and Penguins and Maple Leafs.

Oh my love, where will the buffalo roam?

Where valiant victors have a trophy to hoist.

And have bison breath to keep it moist.

Where nasal vapors fly at the sound of the horn.

Oh my love, where will the buffalo roam?

Where the 190 highway meets the Buffalo Skyway.

Under swirling stars, on an icy ground.

Where the relish and the glory forever abound.

Time and again, and round after round.

For twenty fine men, and for Buffalo town.
 
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I'm one who will click on the "Searched" function on EP's website to see folks I do not know and figure out why others are searching on them. Some are easy - trades, someone scored a goal, etc...

Today? Today's list had someone who when I clicked on it, was marked as deceased, DOB in 2008. A quick search... he went missing two days ago. I find this so incredibly sad.
 
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