Not your average sort of day

[kiwigeo]

Got woken up at 7am by the boss.....she told me we need to drive down to the city and the nearest hospital emergency department. She had an anaesthetic last tuesday and on wednesday she developed a severe reaction to the drugs they gave her. By last night it was looking really ugly....entire body covered in red lumps and pustules.....a bit like Kims arms after his run in with epoxy resin. By this morning it was looking really bad so off to the hospital l we went. I dropped her at the hospital and I headed home. Stopped of at Stratco and picked up a packet of clamps for $1750......and they threw in a garden shed with all the trimmings for free.

Got home and was sitting back with a beer when the phone went...it was the boss telling me to get back down to the hospital to pick her up. Doctor reckoned because she'd taken a steroid tablet early this morning he couldn't give her any steroids via IV so she might as well go home. It wasnt a total waste of time...the boss got a hospital lunch and then because she knew the head nurse on duty at the time we got back the $50 we paid at admission....

So that was my Friday.....hope yours was less chaotic.

[Bob Connor]

Hope she's feeling better Martin.

Perhaps a bottle of wine or three could be efficacious in her situation.

[kiwigeo]

Shes back home and a bit better thanks.....her back still looks like Christchurch's CBD though.

[Paul B]

Hope she's ok Martin.

You gotta pay money to get admitted in SA? And I thought our hospitals were bad, ya sure can't the food or you'd never get out. Well, feet first maybe.

[kiwigeo]

Hope she's ok Martin.

You gotta pay money to get admitted in SA? And I thought our hospitals were bad, ya sure can't the food or you'd never get out. Well, feet first maybe.

Private hospital mate.....we have private cover so we pay first $50 and fund pays the rest. We were lucky that this was hospital where the boss had the procedure during which she got given the drugs that caused the reaction. If wed have gone to a private A and E it would have cost us $400....

[Lillian]

Glad she's feeling better.

Those were awfully expensive clamps. Glad to hear they threw in some extras for you.

[charangohabsburg]

I hope she'll recover quickly from those side effects.
Sometimes we complain about badly designed software where too many programmers simply don't oversee any more the program's functions and decision paths. But in the medicine branch it's even worse because there were no humans involved when doing the basic design of a living body and we always will need to rely to a more or less great amount on the body's self healing capabilities.

Stopped of at Stratco and picked up a packet of clamps for $1750......and they threw in a garden shed with all the trimmings for free.

How do you get rid of the shed now?

[Nick]

But in the medicine branch it's even worse because there were no humans involved when doing the basic design of a living body and we always will need to rely to a more or less great amount on the body's self healing capabilities.

If it was left up to Humans Markus, we would still be at the planning committee stage & waiting for resource consent!

Hope the Boss is feeling better Martin, here's to a speedy recovery Don't you just love medicine? Cures one thing but causes 3 other things to happen, you then need more to cure those! Hmmmmmm I'm smelling a drug company conspiracy

[DarwinStrings]

Poor bugga, must have been a bit of a scare or maybe it is just me who panics when this sort of stuff happens. My Friday was cool, a bit of a giggle in the morning. Well more of a stifled, covered giggle as I walked in on my 8 year old daughter making herself breakfast. I chastised her and tipped her "cereal" down the sink. I asked why she had decided it was a appropriate breakfast and she said cause she was bored with all the other cereals. She had poured herself a bowl of jelly beans and covered them in milk

Jim

Ahhhh kids.

[Steve]

I agree - those sort of severe reactions can be terrifying. Glad to hear it all worked out ok.
We had an interesting experience (although it pales to yours) - got woken at 11:15pm by the sound of a screaming chainsaw. Although we do live adjacent to a koala corridor, I would still consider it the 'burbs, so you don't normally expect that sort of noise in the middle of the night. I thought that it was getting pretty rude when next they backed their truck up the street: beep-beep-beep-beep... What I didn't know was that they were reversing their chipper into place - they started it up & worked for the next half an hour putting the entire tree through it. Now, I have to say that I appreciate guys that do a good job, but for the life of me, I can't understand why that couldn't wait until the morning.
Perhaps I've been living a sheltered life, but that wasn't my average sort of day either. It sure seems more amusing now than it did at the time.

[Lillian]

Steve, have to wonder if the chainsaw operator wasn't someone just helping themselves to a bit of wood.

[Steve]

Steve, have to wonder if the chainsaw operator wasn't someone just helping themselves to a bit of wood.

It's pretty wet here at the moment - I've heard since that a tree had developed a nasty lean and was looking like falling on a car in the middle of the night. Apparently it was our local council that came out to give it the chop, but I reckon that they could have come back the next day with the chipper to tidy up.
I haven't been down to check out the stump, but it is likely to have been swamp mahogany - high rates of shrinkage, prone to collapse...but now it has me thinking - I wonder if there are any cabinet species around town that I could park my car under & give the council a call...

[Lillian]

Good luck with that. Let us know how it goes.