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sirfrogsworth · 3 years ago

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I had a doozy of a day yesterday.

First, I strained my neck really bad. Which is some real malarky because I wasn't even doing anything strenuous. It's like I turn 40 and my body starts randomly attacking me. I could barely turn my head most of the day. It took hours to find one body position and head angle that wasn't torture. Then I had to freeze myself in that position most of the day and not move an inch.

Thankfully my neck was much better when I woke up this morning. I don't know how, because I have the most un-ergonomic sleeping positions.

Maybe it was the neck gods granting me mercy or maybe it was this weird topical cream my mom gave me.

I don't know where they find the super strong blue emus for this stuff, or what dastardly experiments they are doing to create super-emus, but I'm worried if they aren't careful, there will be another Emu war.

I do not want to fight Captain Emurica, The First Emuvenger.

I'm quite worried I rubbed bits of Captain Emurica's father on my neck and he might be pissed about that.

(How great is Chris's artwork btw?)

Unfortunately the neck pain and emus weren't what made it such a carbuncle of a day.

(Katrina drew me this during the infamous back hole incident.)

My anxiety and anger were through the roof and I could not get to sleep no matter how sleepy I was.

I'm just worried about my parents.

So...

I need to rant about something using vagueries and faux salty language.

I apologize for not naming names and detailing details, but the context clues might be enough to suss it out.

Also, I really wish I was good at profanity and I didn't feel latent programmed Catholic guilt every time I curse. Because if anything deserves to be laced with f*cking f*cky f*cks... it is this post.

A few... outside elements... that have barely been a part of our lives... and don't know anything about our family unit...

They are suggesting these huge, crazy, ridiculous life changes for us.

I mean, gee whiz, they are suggesting these things before my dad has even started his gosh dang rehab.

Why in the heckin' world would you stress someone the heck out, who is trying his heckest to stay hecking positive and heal, with conversations about changing everything about their hecking life?

Why in the ever-loving heckity-heck would you instill a huge worry and anxiety in someone who has at least a month of grueling physical therapy and dialysis treatments ahead of him?

READ THE HECKING ROOM.

Like, maybe that can wait until my dad can walk to the hecking bathroom on his own again.

Jesus Hecking Christ.

It just makes me super-strength-emu mad they decided to suggest these things without even having a monkeyfighting conversation with me first.

Like I don't even frakking exist in this scenario. It would completely change my living situation too. It could make me homeless for Baby Jesus' sake. My disability isn't nearly enough to pay rent. I would need like, 40 roommates.

I would need to join a cult I guess.

Which sucks because they don't even give you *real* murder Kool-Aid. People always say "Don't drink the Kool-Aid!" but Jim Jones was a cheapskate and got fatherflorping Flavor Aid.

I mean, Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, if I'm going out... I want the real stuff.

You know what. I know my value.

Kool-Aid isn't good enough for me either.

I want Wild Cherry Capri Sun in that little aluminum foil bag that you can never get the straw into.

For Merlin's beard's sake, the fact that these outside elements didn't recognize how stressed we all are already, and that it was incredibly bad timing to bring up uprooting everything in our lives right now, shows that they don't understand our living situation in the first goldarn place.

They don't know all of the solutions we've implemented to adapt to new circumstances. They don't know that I can cook 3 things now. They don't know the plans we've made to further adapt our lives.

They just swoop in and think they know what is best for us.

Well, for my parents.

Again, I was not considered.

At all.

So I had to help put out this anxiety fire for my parents and tell them they just needed to focus on getting my dad through rehab.

For now, that is our *only* focus.

We need to do one thing at a time and that is step 1.

And probably step 2, 3, 4, 12, 18 and however many steps it is from his reclining chair to the bathroom.

If anyone tries to talk about plans beyond that, I told my parents to just say, "Right now we are focusing on rehabilitation and will not be discussing anything else."

Just keep repeating that word for word.

I told them no matter how many times they bring it up or how hard people attempt to steer the conversation, cut them off and say that until they get the drift.

As far as the rehab goes, my dad is making progress.

*Slow* progress.

The kind of progress that is two steps forward and one step back. And sometimes the reverse of that. And sometimes involves that exact amount of physical steps.

Sometimes success doesn't happen in a straight line. Sometimes is it more... fractal. And complicated. And successes get all divided and loop de loopy.

These past 2 weeks have been especially hard for him. They actually sent him to a rehab place once already. They decided to send him to a very local one because they thought it would be more convenient for us to visit him.

They are *terrible* about notifying us about any of these decisions. I asked several doctors to call us with updates. And one doctor did call us twice—but all he did was literally read my dad's chart to us. No prognosis. No assessment of how he was doing. Just a bunch of medical-ese about his kidney function and whatnot.

The thing is, if they *had* notified us, we could have told them we can't actually visit him because we are disabled and have no transportation and it's the middle of a monkeyfighting pandemic and we can't risk it anyway.

Visitation shouldn't have been a factor in where they sent him.

And it extra fudging sucks that we can't be at the hospital and talk with the doctors in person. It seems they can only give you attention for the 2 minutes they are in the room. My dad is not in a state of mind to be making big decisions—but most of the hospital staff don't care about that. The nurses try their best when we call, but they are knee-deep in COVID during all of this.

A grand total of one person had the presence of mind to get our permission to start him on dialysis because he was too confused to make that decision on his own.

Usually they just barge into his room with a clipboard and are all... "Sign here and go here."

So this was a problem when they basically chose the rehab facility for him because, well...

We live in a not-so-great area.

Most folks around here are poor like us.

Businesses don't want to be around this area. Even the fast food places are shutting down. One Pizza Hut is now an abandoned lot because no one wants to buy a building with such a distinct roof. And the next nearest Pizza Hut refuses to deliver to our address because they don't think it is safe. But our street is isolated and very safe. I mean, we've had a few burglaries over the years, but so do fancy places. They are making heist movies all the time of rich people getting robbed. And even though the website lets us order and says we are in the delivery radius, they keep calling and cancelling our order—making up excuses like "We don't deliver past the train tracks."

What I'm trying to say is... because the facility was in our area, it was pretty terrible.

Like, 1.0 stars terrible.

They just aren't given the resources to run it properly anymore. Elderly care facilities should be subsidized and staffed with medical professionals. Not Zev and his marketer. They didn't even have a single nurse on staff there.

And the hospital just sent him there without consulting me or my mom. I did not have the chance to do any research before they carted him off.

Because of this (this is where things get a lot less humorous) he was sent to a place where they were borderline abusive.

Or maybe just regular abusive. I don't know.

The world doesn't give a shiitake mushroom about the sick and the elderly and this place was a manifestation of that.

They didn't have a bed ready when he got there. He didn't have a TV for 2 days. He didn't have a room phone. They lost his phone charger. He was out of contact and alone for over a day before we could replace it. The food was rubber. My dad had trouble swallowing said rubber food. When he asked for a snack instead, they told him "Just eat it." He explained he had an actual medical issue with swallowing. They said "You can do it." and left the room. Several times when he asked for help they just told him "No."

My dad said he felt like he was in jail. He was scared and frustrated and unable to do any healing. It all came to a head and at one point he got so angry and confused that he called the police. They came and interviewed him and the staff.

Sadly, the cops didn't care or do anything.

The next day when he was at dialysis a nurse noticed he had a small bleeding issue and they had to admit him back to the hospital.

This turned out to be kind of a blessing in disguise.

He was able to get better treatment at the hospital and we were given time to find a better place for him to heal.

When my brother went to the old rehab place to collect my dad's belongings they "lost" his electric razor and his suitcase was severely damaged. We are pretty sure this was retaliation for my dad calling the police.

So... he won't be going back there.

We decided since we can't visit him anyway to send him to the rehab place *not* in our immediate area.

Basically... we are sending him where the rich folks live. (That is still covered by our insurance.)

The pictures online look much nicer than the other place and my brother toured the place beforehand. The reviews are in the 4 to 5 star range.

As far as my dad's current condition... he is able to stand up right now. Which may not sound like a lot—but is a good sign. He was too weak for that even just a few days ago.

Every journey begins with a minor bleeding issue that resets your journey to a place where you can start your new journey with a single step.

Or something.

Journey 2.0.

They also installed a defibrillating pacemaker to upgrade his old pacemaker. (He also has a titanium hip. What percentage is necessary to officially become a cyborg?) His heart doctor said it really helped and his heart is already stronger. And the dialysis is going well too. The kidney doctor said he may not need it as much as they initially planned—but for right now it is 3 times a week.

His brain is so much clearer now and his confusion seems limited to just after waking up. I can tell just by the tone of his voice that his cognitive function has improved significantly. I can have a normal conversation with him now and he seems very lucid.

Lucid enough to complain about hospital food again.

Before he was so confused he thought his dreams were real. He kept telling us the FBI was there and investigating a bomb threat.

"Dad, you dreamed that." "No, they showed me their badge and everything."

So him being grumpy about a real problem instead of Mulder & Scully in bomb disposal outfits was a pretty big deal and lifted a lot of anxiety from the shoulders of my brain.

I'm hopeful if he can stick it out for a month or so in rehab, he can have a somewhat comfortable life again.

He can come home, sit in his cliché leather reclining chair that all dads seem to end up with, and watch his John Wayne movies.

I spent two weeks scouring the seediest places on the internet (torrenters will get that pun) trying to collect as many Marion Morrison movies as I could find. I ended up finding 104 masterpieces of masculinity.

I even found that terrible, terribly racist Genghis Khan movie where like 40 people died of cancer because Howard Hughes told them to film next to an atomic bomb testing site.

That's all he really wants.

Well, maybe not that movie specifically.

I added that as a joke.

But all of the other ones with horses and big hats and six-shooters...

That's all he really needs.

And maybe a ride to dialysis 3 times a week.

Okay... so... his chair, John Wayne movies, and reliable transportation.

*That's* all he really needs.

I just wish certain people were more motivated to help make that happen for him instead of sticking him somewhere he doesn't fucking want to be.

Pardon my goddamn fucking French.

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allcheatscodes · 8 years ago

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super monkey ball touch and roll nintendo ds

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Genre: Puzzle, Action Puzzle Developer: Sega of America, Inc. Publisher: Sega ESRB Rating: Everyone Release Date: February 22, 2006

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Zero G Station/8-Revolution

This is how to beat this stage real easy. Wait till 53. 00 comes up on the clock and say 1-1000 then go straight. You should bounce off the long platform and then to the goal.

Ultimate Monkey Ball Strategy Guide ( Super Uber Really Long)

After you beat all the levels and unlock studio oneyou should see a monkey banana thing it will say0/2006 after you beat it (it will be a hard level! ) youcan get bananas to unlock a secret level while you aredoing this go back to the first levels to get easybananas in the first one you have to go throughthree levels until you get a bonus level collect the easybananas in the bonus and all others levels of thefirst level get the bananas and repeat a milliontimes (it should not take that many but it willtake a day or so if you just started) after that itwill disappear (the banana thing) to reveal asecret level quit that level go up to big bang boomzero g and studio 1 to see a level that says NEW! it is called Mesh Mash (oh and for beginners lookat the map fully there are other portal things)after ur done with mesh mash you wont have anythingelse (except a longer credits) if you follow thesesteps you can beat the game 100% then go play someparty games and play golf fighting racing orbowling and you have a special power the power ofmaking everything curve! (in bowling you can do thisbut it will take a lot of skill to do it in golf)oh and you will be able to punch harder in monkeyfighting plus ill tell you the hard levels tempeststorm meteorite may him ice lolly pop parvar lavazero g station Really hard levels: Big bang boom andstudio one Uber hard levels (secret level) mesh mashalso don’t use your stylus – it will mess you upbadly! Just use your d pad for this and when you goback to the levels (not challenge mode) replay modeu get infinite lives oh if you are extremely good (tounlock secret level) go to sandy desert thingthere’s a parasite level go to it go down reallyreally fast (be careful not to go out! ) there’sbout 9 bunches of bananas in the air get them butif you are not so good stick to the program first levelonly tons of times! Now do you wanna know anothersecret go to meteorite mayhem and under thediamond hollow there’s a portal under it also thisgame is super hard but really fun well I’m notgonna spoil the secret level its awesomeThis is how you beat the game or unlock secret levelor whatever this is a awesome strategy guide useit hope you get 100%!

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Extra Life

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