March 10, 20214 yr 11 hours ago, DEagle7 said: No shame in getting woozy with shots, but just pointing out that you'd all be garbage at childbirth. Agreed. I didn't even want to watch much of that at all. There's enough chaos going on that day, don't need to compound it by me freaking out over the health of the person I care about more than anything else.
March 10, 20214 yr 9 hours ago, rambo said: I looked. Can't unsee. Cut the cord on #1. #2 let the doc handle. They also remove all visitors when they do the epidural. Good move because that would've put me out. If only! After sitting down, I asked what the problem was, he said he never had this much trouble in the 50 he'd done. In my head I was like, "50?!" Would've been better if he just lied to me and added an extra zero.
March 10, 20214 yr 11 hours ago, RPeeteRules said: After a surgery of mine, they had to find a new spot for my IV, it took them the first half of a preseason Eagles game for them to find it. It was a lot of poking into my arm and using a machine to help to find a good spot. It was unpleasant. I did faint after giving blood once (I had to give blood in case I needed it after my surgery) but I was only like 14 at the time. I haven’t given blood since. How do they check your cholesterol?
March 10, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: How do they check your cholesterol? I’ve had blood work, but I haven’t donated blood, is what I meant.
March 10, 20214 yr I also get lightheaded during blood draws and donating blood. The trick for me is forcing myself to continue to breath. I'm honestly not afraid of the needle or anything it's just like a response my body goes into i dunno how to describe it. Only one time did I pass out and that was when I was getting a CT scan and they set up an IV and gave me saline solution or whatever before they put the dye in my blood for the scan. I sat down, the nurse walked out of the room and I passed out in a chair. I woke up and for a brief second had no idea where I was or why and all I could see was that I had hospital socks on, freaked me the hell out for like 3 seconds.
March 10, 20214 yr 13 hours ago, Bwestbrook36 said: What is wrong with you people?? Lol. I watch them put the needle into my vein like a real man. This. I actually have an aversion to not looking. I can't stomach the thought of not knowing when it's happening.
March 10, 20214 yr Started giving blood in the USAF. After you give blood, you get orange juice and a doughnut from a nurse (possibly cute) and can't be assigned heavy duty that day. Probably the benefits made me not mind the process. My wife, an EMT, loves medical shows and some of those give me the crawlies. The guy being wheeled into the ER with a large kitchen knife in his chest - twitching with every heartbeat. The face being peeled off to work on eye sockets beneath. Could not watch.
March 10, 20214 yr 29 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: Agreed. I didn't even want to watch much of that at all. There's enough chaos going on that day, don't need to compound it by me freaking out over the health of the person I care about more than anything else. I watched two of our kids' c-sections over top of the little curtain thing that they put up. Not sure they allow that normally, but my wife worked at the hospital in OB so they didn't care. That was, uhhh, interesting to say the least. Pretty wild watching them pull your daughters out of your wife's abdomen. There's blood and sheet everywhere. Good times!
March 10, 20214 yr 13 hours ago, Bwestbrook36 said: What is wrong with you people?? Lol. I watch them put the needle into my vein like a real man. Same, I actually feel more comfortable knowing when/where it's going.
March 10, 20214 yr Bunch of wussies!!! I've had ultra sound guided needle core biopsy. Sounds like a nail gun going off when they take the sample. I asked to see it when they were finished and it did make me a little dizzy. I watched the needle go into what was a cyst in my boob and it ruptured on impact. That was cool. Next one on the right side was called sterotatic or something. They sit you in a chair, smash your boob in the mammo machine and then stick the needle in there to get the samples. For surgery, the prep is getting a dye pack inserted in your breast, then going over to the mammo machine where the stick a wire guided needle in you-ouch. I had one on each breast. While waiting as these needles are sticking out of your boobs they put styrofoam cups over them and tape it. It was torture. Felt like a pig in a slaughter house. I was ever so glad to get knocked out. The purpose of the dye of course is to trace where the tumor drains and they test the sentinel nodes that are in your breast. If one is positive for cancer cells, they keep going to the next one, and possibly out to your auxilliary nodes (the ones under your arm). I was 1 for 2 on the nodes within the breast. After radiation I had a weird rash on my upper arm that was never in the radiation field. Had a blood draw and the rash would go from upper arm to where the blood draw was. Back and forth for a month or two until it finally went away. Now, no more blood draws on the left side. Ever. Not even a blood pressure cuff. Don't need anymore weird rashes, or needles stuck in me again!
March 10, 20214 yr Got the first shot yesterday. Arm's a little sore and I suddenly have the urge to buy brand name products at retail prices, but otherwise I'm fine.
March 10, 20214 yr 10 hours ago, rambo said: I looked. Can't unsee. Cut the cord on #1. #2 let the doc handle. They also remove all visitors when they do the epidural. Good move because that would've put me out. Here's the thing - I'm not scared of needles at all. I watch the needle going in and all the blood going out when getting blood drawn. When my wife was in labor, I was an IDIOT and ate nothing for like 24 hours. When it came time for her to push, I got SUPER dizzy. They had to pull me away and make me eat a granola bar or some crap. She still busts my balls to this day about it. When I got back in there I stayed at her head - I did see the "aftermath" however - Jesus. Oh and I was present when the doctor did the epidural, and screwed it up and had to jam that giant needle in a second time. That screwed my wife up for 2 weeks - she had really bad headaches and double vision when we got home. Apparently some of her spinal fluid leaked out.
March 10, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, mikemack8 said: Here's the thing - I'm not scared of needles at all. I watch the needle going in and all the blood going out when getting blood drawn. When my wife was in labor, I was an IDIOT and ate nothing for like 24 hours. When it came time for her to push, I got SUPER dizzy. They had to pull me away and make me eat a granola bar or some crap. She still busts my balls to this day about it. When I got back in there I stayed at her head - I did see the "aftermath" however - Jesus. Oh and I was present when the doctor did the epidural, and screwed it up and had to jam that giant needle in a second time. That screwed my wife up for 2 weeks - she had really bad headaches and double vision when we got home. Apparently some of her spinal fluid leaked out. Why the hell would you stick around for that? And I'm surprised they let you. They made me leave both times, which was fine by me.
March 10, 20214 yr Just now, VanHammersly said: Why the hell would you stick around for that? And I'm surprised they let you. They made me leave both times, which was fine by me. I guess I didn't know any better.
March 10, 20214 yr https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-covid-19-vaccine-johnson-johnson-order President Biden on Wednesday is expected to order 100 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses from Johnson & Johnson, just weeks after the one dose vaccine received its Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. A White House official told FOX Business that Biden will announce that he is directing the team at the Department of Health and Human Services to procure an additional 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The FDA, last month, endorsed Johnson & Johnson's vaccine, 22-0, with all committee members voting in favor of emergency use approval, and officially received its EUA days later.
March 10, 20214 yr 13 hours ago, vikas83 said: I will admit it. I turn my head and look away. Me too and I have a very high threshold for physical pain. Not a fear of pain thing.
March 10, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-covid-19-vaccine-johnson-johnson-order President Biden on Wednesday is expected to order 100 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses from Johnson & Johnson, just weeks after the one dose vaccine received its Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. A White House official told FOX Business that Biden will announce that he is directing the team at the Department of Health and Human Services to procure an additional 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The FDA, last month, endorsed Johnson & Johnson's vaccine, 22-0, with all committee members voting in favor of emergency use approval, and officially received its EUA days later. A lot of people are saying that Biden's the greatest dealmaker of all time.
March 10, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, VanHammersly said: Why the hell would you stick around for that? And I'm surprised they let you. They made me leave both times, which was fine by me. Yeah. It was not an option for me to stay. It was the hospital's policy. I guess based on past experience there are a lot of soon to be dad pass outs involved.
March 10, 20214 yr 23 hours ago, Kz! said: I never ranted about math, moron. My argument is that it's retarded to calculate mortality rate under the assumption that 100% of the cases have been detected, and I stand by that argument. Your previous stance that 99.99% of people survive was just brutally destroyed by vikas. Move along.
March 10, 20214 yr Feelin' fine today. Woke up a little hot in the middle of the night and had to take off a layer, but fell right back to sleep. Arm was definitely sore in the morning, but 2 ibuprofen did the trick.
March 10, 20214 yr 23 hours ago, vikas83 said: The entire population of ND is ~762,000 people. 1,479 people in ND have died of COVID, or 0.2% of the population. So even if every single person in ND had COVID, the survival rate would be 99.8%, not 99.99%. What was that rant about math and calling others dumb again? Something, something, comorbidities, the numbers are skewed...
March 10, 20214 yr 11 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Something, something, comorbidities, the numbers are skewed... Every time people say this they seem to forget that there are comorbidities with the flu as well, but yet the tumpbots did everything they could to up the yearly deaths from the flu to make COVID seem like no big deal....hmmmm
March 10, 20214 yr Which is closer to the truth - KZs 99.99% or the leftys in here saying that EVERYONE who doesn't get vaccinated will die? I love this place
March 10, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, mikemack8 said: Which is closer to the truth - KZs 99.99% or the leftys in here saying that EVERYONE who doesn't get vaccinated will die? I love this place
March 10, 20214 yr I didn't know that BioNTech is a German company. Now I understand why Pfizer has the best vaccine: It's that famous (infamous?) German engineering
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