BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 07:01 PM

It's later, and I suspect you won't know anything definitive tonight.

Back much later anyway,

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 06:19 PM

Just waiting to hear.................

Friend of mine in college had a step-Dad who would have said, "Boy, all you need is a good physic." Ironically, he died fairly young of stomach cancer. So much for the "good physic."

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 04:20 PM

Yum! Jello!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 04:07 PM

Thanks, Jacqui. I'll check back later.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 03:37 PM

Moldy jello? Hmmmmmm.... Could be a new flavor and color.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 03:10 PM

Mold? Yer sick!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 02:27 PM

Gnu: kinky. Got a special Jello mold?

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 02:19 PM

Oh. Fuck the jello.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: bobad
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 02:10 PM

If I understood correctly Kendall was told he had a massive ABDOMINAL infection. In medical lingo that is usually distinct from an INTESTINAL infection.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:48 PM

Ya know... the well water could very well be slightly "contaminated" as of late with all the warm weather followed by the heavy rain.

May I suggest boiling the well water? You can always use bottled water for drinking for a while.

Of course, jello is good (no red couloured stuff), as are clear fluids, no dairy, etc, etc... the regular advice to help clear up a bad case of the trots. And, after it settles, some "pro-biotic" yoghurt to get the good beasties going again.

In any case, I hope the doc stays on top of the situation and things work out well in the end. Yeah, I know... >:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:46 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:37 PM

What a bummer. Kendall and Jacqui need a vakay. They really need get away from home and all the problems and reminders of sad and worrisome stuff for a while.

So sorry you are suffering like this. Just is not fair.

tam

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:15 PM

How about all of us with free phone service call Ali and tell him to stay off Mudcat? That is a Texas number. How many calls will it take to screw up his phone line?

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:14 PM

Someone please remove the spam.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 01:06 PM

Diverticulitis could certainly be complicated by an over-abundance of E Coli, but it sounds unlikely that diverticulitis alone (lacking E Coli complication) would explain what Kendall described.

As I expected, it sounds to me like Jacqui has it all well in hand.

In our community, when E Coli in wells gets out of hand (some is usually safely present), we just dump bleach in it to knock it down. (The carrying capacity vs. sparse population here is such that bleach does not affect the total groundwater supply, and what we send downstream is fine.) In a more densely populated or more rapidly-vertical runoff topography, that would neither do the trick nor be safe for downstreamers.

The other factor they will be looking at is probably whether the E Coli found in the labwork is the same safe type most well water contains.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Tinker
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 12:51 PM

Lifting you guys up ..... figure if we all pitch in this ridiculously heavy load might just get to the doable stage....

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 12:33 PM

diverticulitis?
The Captain suffers from that occasionally.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 10:58 AM

Kendall started on antibiotics last evening and has to go for a CAT scan of his abdomen this afternoon at two o'clock. I don't know how long it will take to get the results of that but we will need to find out exactly what this infection is and whether it has anything to do with the well water. We've got a guy coming round to give an idea pf what needs to be done to clean out the well - Kendall is not in a fit condition to do that himself. We're also looking at the possibility of having town water piped in, although that is likely to be quite an expensive proposition.

I think that Kendall's constitution has been weakened over the past few weeks by surgery and stress and left him wide open for anything that might attack him. We'll hear what the doctors have to say and act accordingly.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 10:45 AM

My first thought was Lyme disease too... good luck and good health!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jun 09 - 12:09 AM

Don't mess around with this one, Kendall. It's something they can take care of have it all come out all right, so to speak, but it's best not to delay, imo. Oh hell, yer probably asleep, so just gets lots of rest, okay and see the doc tomorrow!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 10:07 PM

Get thee to a hospitalry!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: maeve
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 09:57 PM

I'm home from chorus and waiting for an update, Kendall. I'll check this thread again in the morning.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:54 PM

Nice to know it is not "clinical depression"!

With due respect to Amos, a close friend who had a state of the art/best money could buy water filtration/purification system - still got heart fibrillation. Went to distilled water and has had no problem - over five years now. A distiller costs under $150 and ensures safe water.

Of course, this means one does not get minerals in one's water. However, I tried using the water from rinsing my still on the house plants and they turned yellow. So much for the minerals. Take supplements.

I have other ideas but you are a mainstream medicine person. I am not. So just make sure they take good care of you. Jacqui will!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:40 PM

Go to the doctor.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:39 PM

Does Jacqui agree to wait till the morning?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:15 PM

Well, no wonder yer fellin' crappy, ahhhhhhh, lousy...

Hey, get yer ass into the hospital tomorrow... Screw the Scotch... Like you said, you ain't got no appitite fir it... Get them doctors to get you uninfested 'er I'll come up there and uninfest you myself... You tell the doctors that...

Come on, Kendall... I'm perfectly serious here... You and me ain't done yet, ya' hear???

Hang in there, my friend... This shit will pass... 'Er somethin' like that...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: kendall
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 08:01 PM

She told me that if I get worse in the night to go to the ER. If I don't get worse, I stay put.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 07:39 PM

What gnu said, Kendall.

You know, you're doing an awful lot of prepaying this year. After all this is sorted out you're going to have a good many problem-free years.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 07:14 PM

Forget the PM.

Sorry you're playing host.

D

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: bobad
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 06:50 PM

Please attend to it with all due haste, it can become very, very serious very rapidly.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 06:34 PM

Get well soon, Kendall!

Deirdre

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 05:56 PM

Don't go to the hospital, Kendall. They make you associate with sick people, stick you with needles, feed you bad food, withhold good drink, wake you up at ungodly hours, and then charge you a bunch for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 05:52 PM

SHIT!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 05:48 PM

More single malt! It's that damned water! Rusts yer pipes!

Remember: the power that drove our vessel was the power of Portland rum.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: kendall
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 05:45 PM

My lab tests just came back. Massive abdominal infestion. Could end up in the hospital.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 04:42 PM

SIGH!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 04:29 PM

Well, I'm sure you heard the one about the fella who saw his friend reaching around in the outhouse, trying to bring something up from down below.

"What are you trying to do?" asked the first fella.

"Dropped my jacket down there," was the answer.

First fella said, "It was an old, torn up jacket. Why not just let it go?"

"I don't care so much for the jacket," his friend said, "but I had a good ham sandwich in the pocket."

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: kendall
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 03:54 PM

I guess running my mouth and jumping to conclusions is not sufficient exercise?

I was on the TODAY show in 1976, and Jim Hart asked me to tell a Maine story. Of course, he had to hear it first, so I told him this one:

A farmer noticed that his well water was tasting funny, so he sent a sample of it to the lab for testing. As soon as they got the results they sent an engineer down to do a safety exam. He noticed that the well was too close to the cess pool, so he told the man that he had to either stop using the well or the cess poll.
He figured he could get by without the cess pool so they stopped using it, and 3 days later the well went dry.
No, he wouldn't let me tell that on national TV

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 03:43 PM

Take some pots with ya on the row. May as well make it worthwhile.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 03:24 PM

I would suggest a long row on the harbor.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 03:22 PM

Well, I got a sure fire cure to take all that stuff off yer mind, Cap[t'n and its easy and doesn't involve drugs of any kind... You really don't need much but you will need an anvel, a ballpeen hammer and yer private parts... If you got all this stuff and want the rest of the cure, PM me and I'll walk ya; thru it... BTW, it is guarenteed to take whateveer is bothering ya' off yer mind for a long, long time... Kinda time released cure...

But that ain't the only cure I have... Just the fastest...

Seriously, Capt'n, I ain't no doctor but seein' as if everything seems purdy normal, other than the stresses you have been under, I'd lean toward depression, also... Whoever said exercise hit the nail on the head... Exercise is the best cure out there... No, bending yer arm to get another drink of Scotch ain't exercise... I'm talkin' walkin'... Brisk as you feel comfortable... 1/2 hour of cardiovascualr does the trick... Problem is that it's gonna take a week or two of 1/2 cardio before the endorphins get buzy and make ya' feel better... Oh, BTW, when they get going, everything is gonna get going... Get my drift???

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: bobad
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 03:04 PM

Pour a bottle of bleach down the well.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 02:54 PM

A house-water filtration system would probably be a good idea.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 02:53 PM

Explain to them how to tell the outhouse from the well.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 02:48 PM

Depends on what type of coliform bacteria is found. Most are harmless but indicate possible contamination.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 02:44 PM

Diarrhea, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: kendall
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 02:42 PM

I just got the results of a water test, and it said the well water failed the coliform bacteria test. That was my first suspicion.
What next?

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 02:26 PM

Another thought - we haven't seen sunshine in weeks. Don't underestimate the effect this crappy weather is having on your psyche.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 02:24 PM

Craves Jell-O and no single malt...if this keeps up I will have to find a new friend.

Honest Captain. A long walk on the beach with that silly dog of yours or an hour on the exercise bike and the endorphines will kick in. Plus you'll sleep - nothing like sleep to forget about what ails you.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a Doctor in the forum?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 23 Jun 09 - 01:43 PM

PM sent. Go look.