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3/25/2008 11:55:17 AM

Yay! I'm in a new room with a window (6C23)!!!!

Send me a PM if you want to chat on my personal hotline (aka- I've got a phone line, too)

3/25/2008 4:39:26 PM

lol, 6th floor ftw. that's where i always am (and will be tomorrow).

3/25/2008 5:33:09 PM

w00t

3/25/2008 5:36:18 PM

^^more surgery?

^ just tell the doc to patch your broken liver up with super glue and send you packing.

3/25/2008 5:39:52 PM

if he wont, ill super glue it for you. i've done it many a times pretty much a trained pro at that shit.

3/25/2008 5:41:14 PM

give us ur meds and/or bwn.

3/25/2008 6:50:06 PM

haha- there aint no way in hell anyone is getting my meds

And I've already got someone who satisfies all of my other 'needs'

3/25/2008 7:43:42 PM

How you feelin jamie?

3/25/2008 7:45:14 PM

super glue??

we use JB Weld around here

3/25/2008 8:56:34 PM

Everything except my neck has a good, potent, constant ache, and from my lower ribs to my abdomen hurts a lot. lower back has pretty significant sharp pains, too.
the worst burn on my leg is looking OK-- but I don't think the hospital is caring for it enough, so I think i'm going to start doing it myself more often. One of my nurses applied a ton of the special cream to my good skin & that turned out badly-- so I had someone call the pharmacy to tell me how it's supposed to be done. That way I can make sure they do it right. OH- and i've got a ton of bruises that continue to get prettier every day
I just have to keep requesting the pain meds before they wear off-- I figure I may as well use it while I can.

[Edited on March 25, 2008 at 8:59 PM. Reason : ^ LOL... TRUE, but no JB Weld is going near my liver... hahaha]

3/25/2008 8:57:57 PM

awww don't be such a pussy.

3/25/2008 9:04:33 PM

def keep ahead of the pain.. it takes a lot more to stop pain after it gets intense than it does to keep it numb constantly.

3/25/2008 9:08:34 PM

^^ I'm just taking the meds while I have to be here... IMO there's no point in roughing it out while I have to be in here. I could definitely go without, it's just unnecessary to try & act all tough if i'm stuck in here anyway.

3/25/2008 9:16:16 PM

i was just joking about the jb weld.

3/25/2008 9:28:30 PM

haha. yeah. i think i read it wrong the first time... i'm super drugged up right now sry.

3/25/2008 9:36:25 PM

pass them percs, will ya???

hopethey'll fix you up pretty quick.

gasgasg has new parts coming as of today, although i couldnt get them in red/orange to match the truck, it will be looking better than it ever was. so when we hittin uwharrie?

3/25/2008 9:43:46 PM

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"gasgasg"

esgargs?

3/25/2008 9:57:09 PM

tdub holdin down the 6th floor, w00t

3/27/2008 11:21:57 PM

you up here now too?

3/27/2008 11:34:50 PM

yep. i just pm'd jamie with my room number, etc.

i'll be here at least through tomorrow afternoon, maybe saturday.

3/28/2008 12:00:41 AM

CARROT JELLO?!?!?!?!?! FOR LUNCH??!!?! WTF?
I guess the cook got bored and was trying to be creative.

3/28/2008 11:36:47 AM

wtf is carrot jello? is that carrot flavored jello? or some other flavor jello with carrots in it? Either way it sounds disgusting

3/28/2008 11:49:25 AM

i didn't eat it , but apparently danny did when i fell asleep (along with the rest of my tray LOL)

From the outside it looked like orange jello w/ little carrots all in it (like slaw consistency)
Danny said it was actually carrots, pineapple, & something like mandarin oranges in orange jello
The cafeteria called it 'Sunshine salad.'

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 1:41 PM. Reason : ]

3/28/2008 1:40:59 PM

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"yep. i just pm'd jamie with my room number, etc. i'll be here at least through tomorrow afternoon, maybe saturday."

Ummm I wish I would have known you were going to be there too I would have stopped by on Wednesday Sorry Ivan...

On a more exciting note: I passed my defense and have officially sent my thesis in for review from the graduate school!!!!!!!!!

3/28/2008 3:46:23 PM

ooops double post.. .I was excited to tell everyone

[Edited on March 28, 2008 at 3:47 PM. Reason : sdfa]

3/28/2008 3:46:45 PM

Congrats Squirt!!! I say we have a kegger on the 6th floor

3/28/2008 5:48:36 PM

man i've hurt myself plenty, but i never supermanned anything.

get better soon.

3/28/2008 6:55:07 PM

Yea same here. She went for a ride tho from what i seen(inch away )I just hope everything will be ok for her!

3/28/2008 7:00:28 PM

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"CARROT JELLO?!?!?!?!?! FOR LUNCH??!!?! WTF? I guess the cook got bored and was trying to be creative."

ahaha, yeah i got my tray about the time i was leaving today. i ate that and the peaches and bounced! the main entree was "chicken pastry" which is mostly gross.

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"wtf is carrot jello? is that carrot flavored jello? or some other flavor jello with carrots in it? Either way it sounds disgusting"

carrot jello is interesting stuff... it's orange flavor jello with strips of carrot mixed in before it gels. the food there isn't TOO bad relatively speaking. i know ncsukat is sick of it by now though, it always wears on me after 3-4 days. i was on a "diabetic" diet this time also because my blood sugar was high for some reason, so i didn't even get any of the "good" stuff like desert. (however, if you tried to get ice cream cups and they were out that was me... i cleaned out the whole supply on the 6th floor, ahaha).

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"Ummm I wish I would have known you were going to be there too I would have stopped by on Wednesday Sorry Ivan... "

it's cool, i wasn't really up for visitors until yesterday and then i left around noon today. they were taking me off the pca (dilaudid) this afternoon and i never see any reason to hang around after that. being a "frequent flier" my doctor just kind of leaves it up to me as to when i leave which is nice.

3/28/2008 8:23:53 PM

stage 3 on my shoulder lol.

3/28/2008 8:46:55 PM

WHEREE MY PERCS AT????

3/28/2008 9:49:14 PM

Ivan and FOO when we going to chill out at ur place??? in the mts? may 2nd jamie b day

3/28/2008 10:15:17 PM

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"WHEREE MY PERCS AT???? "

percs are the weak sauce

3/29/2008 8:54:24 AM

I want carrot jello

3/29/2008 9:51:41 AM

is this ncsukat the girl or her bf or what?

I can't imagine the girl that went mountain biking w/ us that one time is the same girl whod do this...?

3/29/2008 11:50:49 AM

it's the girl (jamie). her bf is moparnum5.

3/29/2008 12:36:18 PM

Finally got out around 1PM yesterday (Saturday) afternoon... back home for the time being

w00t.

3/30/2008 12:20:33 AM

nice. so what's the prognosis? just take it easy for a while? any danger of future problems/complications?

3/30/2008 12:44:01 AM

i'm not allowed to do much of anything for a good long while
no large crowds-- someone might run into me
[i.e. If I were in HS I couldn't go to school b/c the halls would be too crowded during class changes to be reasonably safe]
no kids -- they might hug me too tight or run into me or do something dumb
no animals -- they might jump on me
no swimming pools -- I might get kicked or just generally screw something up
no running
no contact sports whatsoever
no 'roughhousing'
no dirtbikes
no eating leafy greens [thins the blood-- could possibly cause new bleeding to occur in my liver]
no lifting anything even remotely heavy
[i.e. no taking books to class at all... ]

the list goes on & on-- essentially, all I can do is walk in sparcely populated areas right now..

apparently, from what i've been told...
if anything happens to upset the clot that's keeping my liver from bleeding, then that is really, really bad
i would most likely have to go have lots of blood transfusions and surgery and other fun stuff -- easily fatal if they can't get the bleeding back under control

yay for happy posts!

[Edited on March 30, 2008 at 1:08 AM. Reason : better wording]

3/30/2008 1:06:16 AM

what about the important stuff? wings and beer, we need to have a reunion

3/30/2008 9:32:06 PM

awww they freed you!! is a pedicure too much risk???

3/30/2008 9:43:43 PM

haha

3/30/2008 9:45:27 PM

hope you are a meat eater. Sounds like cookout is your diet now!

3/30/2008 11:32:52 PM

hahaha... wings are fine
as for beer-- well, I jokingly asked about drinking... they just blatantly ignored my question

Jen- haha... i think a pedicure would be glorious I wonder if I could get doctors orders for one

As for Cookout-- well, I'm not supposed to drive & Danny's in Pensacola -- so it's all about some campbell's soup & ramen for a few days (But I did stop to get Cookout on the way to the ER last Sunday!! ER lady was SOOO pissed I was eating! hahahahahahaah)

3/31/2008 1:00:55 AM

tww insomniac crew represent

3/31/2008 1:14:24 AM

So as a person who never goes to the hospital unless I KNOW something is broken... Was it the burn that convinced you to go to the hospital?

I think I personally would have passed off the pain as something I deserved for doing something stupid (I am not talking about you and what you did, I'm talking about the MANY times I've injured the piss out of myself and not gone to the hospital) and then died... that scares me...

so what prompted the ER trip?

PS: very glad that your out and doing better

[Edited on March 31, 2008 at 2:04 PM. Reason : Glad to hear she's doing well considering]

3/31/2008 2:03:12 PM

^to respond-- [caution: words]

I've experienced moparnum5 & aias both wrecking their street bikes and have been around for the entire recovery from their wreck(s). So, when I didn't feel like anything was broken, I wasn't worried at all. I felt like shit-- but like you said, I thought it was deserved and that I was just badly bruised & scraped up, so nothing to really worry about. I had no neck pain at all-- which really surprised me because of the way that I landed-- THANK GOD FOR HELMETS & me having the sense to make sure I secured it -- so I really thought I was in the clear.

It wasn't until I got home and was working to try to clean myself up that I realized that I had the burns, including a 3rd degree burn. I've had lots of first aid training, but I'd never dealt with bad burns and was apprehensive about whether I had the knowledge to know what it needed. Jason had a lot of luck just going to student health for his bad road rash on his hand, so I figured I would try to go there and get help (plus, the people in the ER at the Cary Wake Med were real asses to Danny & I have always been misdiagnosed for $texas every time I have been to an ER... so I was trying to avoid it at all costs).

The burn was still worrying me though, because that part of my leg had no feeling whatsoever & it literally looked (ok-- still looks) like cooked chicken . I called the 24hr student health line, a family friend who used to work on an ambulance, and did lots of searching online. Everything told me to go to the ER-- so I finally gave in to being safe rather than sorry after a few (3) hours of debating.

When I got to the ER, still didn't have any idea about the whole liver thing. Since we had had a bad experience at the Cary Wake Med, we drove over to Rex to the ER. They put me into the quick turnover minor section-- and weren't taking me seriously at all because to them the burn was really small. The nurse had already written me off and bitched at me because I was eating in the waiting room (I was fricken hungry-- so shoot me), but when the doc came over -- I guess I started talking about the accident and something set him off so he suggested that I get a few CT scans (head, neck, & abdomen) and a chest Xray just to be sure I didn't have any internal injuries.

Lo and behold, he returns about an hour later to tell me that I have a broken liver-- and as I think I've said before-- he had to repeat 3 times... before I would believe he wasn't kidding. Thankfully, the ER doc's wife was a trauma surgeon over at Wake Med and he knew they would be able to watch my condition a lot better over there since they specialize in trauma. He made a lot of calls to people he knew personally over there, and I got transported over really quickly and the people at Wake Med ER were waiting for me when I got there. I was amazed by how great everything transitioned. All the trauma docs that were there came down and looked me over and talked to me... and a few hours later I got put into SICU for constant surveilance.

Point of all this-- I had NO IDEA about my liver. I fear that if I had waited to go to student health Monday morning, they wouldn't have caught it either. However, my first nurse in SICU said my body would have told me by then because there was a lot of internal bleeding going on. I dunno-- I'm just glad I got over the $$ worry and went in (thank goodness for insurance!!! ).

Ok- sorry for the novel... hope that answers your question. This whole ordeal has caused me to wonder how often we hurt ourselves a lot worse than we know and just heal naturally.

P.S. Thanks

[Edited on March 31, 2008 at 10:36 PM. Reason : ]

3/31/2008 10:23:37 PM

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"Congrats Squirt!!! I say we have a kegger on the 6th floor"

Thanks Ryan... tryin to find a job now

4/1/2008 12:49:44 AM

I can't imagine what your bills would be like without insurance.

Insurance = good.

4/1/2008 12:54:32 AM