They have those motor homes here too. Drip drop or something.
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Where to get IV bags and solution?
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Pretty sure the mobil IV thing is getting popular to cure hangovers. The person I know that used it for that. It was like $175, I'm sure it varies depending on what exactly you get. Funny "Jamba Juice menu" haha!
I wish you well.
Thank you my friends, it's such a strange world when you go from having a large family to no one. People on more than one occasion say I should write a book.
Her timing with the diagnosis of Gibson makes me wonder as that's they same age I learned of my Hypothyroidism. It is all to possible that it is a misdiagnosis, or partial diagnosis.
I've heard Dr's are taught as far as diagnostic medicine "that if you hear hooves, expect a horse not a zebra." The other problem is if you look at anyone hard enough you will find something, and it's hard for many to get past that single target (good old "Target Fixation") or just turn and burn through patients, as they try to treat as many as possible and make more money for the hospital.
My sister was told she had MS in her later teenage years (what sucks is one dr or hospital makes the diagnosis the rest will run with it, not test it themselves, so after Mayo, KU med assumed the same, etc) which after more digging over the past 20 years (as my sister will go at some problems like a honey badger) became endometriosis and another rare genetic disorder, I'm waiting to hear back from her what it was, OK, just heard back... gastroparesis, part of dysautonomia and MCAS "mast cell activation syndrome" where the body will act like it has a severe allergy to anything it decides. It's apparently becoming more common after covid too. They make you take histamine blockers aside Benadryl. She's on something that's a Rx that works best for her, and is rather cheap. This may be something to look into as well. Neither of us had the shots, but only knowingly had a mild case when Delta was the rage. But MCAS (not the 737 kind) might be worth investigating as well.
My mother and I both have/had severe hypothyroidism. It kicked in in my early 20s, but for the past 10 years+ My body is at the point it no longer makes T3 or T4 and my Thyroglobulin level that tells the body to make T3 and T4 is barely traceable, and that's if I'm taking my thyroid meds or not. I have to get it all from meds made of pig thyroid, synthroid does nothing.
For mom it was specialist after specialist to try and figure it out. In the end she may not have had it because usually the treat to see if that resolves it but within a week or so of the specialist deciding that she had addisons, she no longer was around to treat to see if the adrenal issues were 100% a part of it. Onset seemed rapid though while she was 57 that fall to late Feb when she passed, nothing I can think of before then unless it was mild enough to be overlooked.
As silly as it sounds, see if she can keep down regular Dr. Pepper. There is something different about it that at least for my GI and my mom's it'd get in and settle things down. Her last few months on this planet that was the one thing that would not come back up (if taken on its own). We may just be weird, but I've had stress induced ulcers since 6th grade and it is one of the few things I can nurse on is regular Dr Pepper and it will knock the fire out. Coke, Pepsi however are like gasoline, and the clear ones or gatorade would be similar, gatorade is as as bad as coke for me if I have any hint of heartburn.
Speakin of IOs...today lol
This chick coded and in those situations i am usually quick to grab an 15ga IO just to get a quick line in to push epi and othet shit, then get a line elsewhere for mx...well...i wad drilling just as my buddy placed and ET tube and she kicked and bent my damn IO needle...thats a first lol.
That code was ****ed lol...i roll in and people are daying no pulse anywhere...so i said and nobody is doing cpr why?...i jumped on and broke every rib in two compressions lol...then i put in my IO
This chick coded and in those situations i am usually quick to grab an 15ga IO just to get a quick line in to push epi and othet shit, then get a line elsewhere for mx...well...i wad drilling just as my buddy placed and ET tube and she kicked and bent my damn IO needle...thats a first lol.
That code was ****ed lol...i roll in and people are daying no pulse anywhere...so i said and nobody is doing cpr why?...i jumped on and broke every rib in two compressions lol...then i put in my IO
I. Read that as enema cream
Good news, the IV completely changed her condition and when I talked to her on the phone earlier at work she sounded normal, and not frail and shaky, and then when I got to the house she looked almost back to normal, just a little weak still from the ordeal. She had them do two bags of the vitamin loaded solutions and it was definitely the key to getting a leg up. Definitely going to be the way forward if she starts to feel a flare up coming on.
The nurse and nurse practitioner who screened her told her that her symptoms sound a lot like Sickle Cell which sounds like it could be, but it sounds like that would have likely been caught long ago since she had blood tests done the last time when we went to the ER plus when she first saw a specialist when this first started to happen in college. I read a little bit about it and it appeared like it is screened for easily in medical standards. Babies also get screened for it right away it said.
The nurse and nurse practitioner who screened her told her that her symptoms sound a lot like Sickle Cell which sounds like it could be, but it sounds like that would have likely been caught long ago since she had blood tests done the last time when we went to the ER plus when she first saw a specialist when this first started to happen in college. I read a little bit about it and it appeared like it is screened for easily in medical standards. Babies also get screened for it right away it said.
Oddly enough, when you read about the script EMLA cream it mentions how it is also used on one's penis and/or vagina rather then your typical uses. Weird.
Yeah those infusion services have gotten popular around here too
Fantastic! The human body is a weird machine, but Iv is like a human WD40.
As I said earlier they like to look for horses (which makes sense) I'll admit I've gotten fixated on the Zebras. Perhaps the question now is not only double checking for sickle cell incase it had slipped through, but then what sounds and acts like sickle cell, but isn't?
Hey brother. This is weird but I deal with the exact same shit as your better half. My wife is a nurse and I’ve lost count of how many bags of fluid she’s given me over the last few years. In fact, I crashed again Wednesday. Slept almost 24 hours straight, no food or water, and repeated it yesterday. Two bags last night and one today and I can keep Saltines down. So I’m on the mend.
PM me your number and I’ll be happy to help however I can. I’m also very interested in hearing what she thinks causes her episodes and comparing notes.
Mike
I'll hit you up when I'm off work and can get a chance.
Sorry @_Snake_ for not replying. An interesting development came out of this... I lost my job! Lol. It's not that funny, but with what I was dealing with at work I was about to walk out myself as I received my check without a bonus when our numbers showed we met the requirement and I heavily rely on that bonus as in two years of working there I have only not met the requirements once and that was because I was running the shop by myself for 3 weeks of that month. This is probably going to be long but I'm going to lay it out because I need to rant.
So when my gf first got really sick it was about 2mo ago and I ended up taking off a whole week of work because it really freaked me out and it was serious enough that I wanted to make sure I was there. Well, my boss was not happy about me being gone but the shop manager understood and said to stay home and take care of her because that was more important. Him and I got along well at work and he even mentioned that I was the first advisor he has worked with that he hasn't gotten fired; weird thing to say, but okay. While I got along with him, I never fully trusted him because he proved on a few occasions the willingness to throw me under the bus. He'd say he'd take care of some issue and then the next thing I know my boss is blasting me for said issue saying the manager told him knew nothing about the issue when I'd bring up that he was the one that made the call. These kinds of things got more frequent to where I was getting more and more vocal about it because I'm not going to be blamed for something that the shop manager said to do in the first place. I'll take blame for things I do wrong but I'm not going to be blamed for other people's decisions, and who would?
This last time around, Rose got sick on a Thursday and she begged me not to leave her on that Friday because she couldn't take care of herself so I called in and let the manager know I was staying home to take care of her. He texts back and says "You don't value your job do you?" That set me off and I called him out for saying something so insulting knowing how hard I work and how devoted I am to the success of the shop. In that current state of anger I ended the text saying "the next time you dip out and disappear for 3 weeks I'll make sure to ask you the same thing". This guy, on three different occasions in the last year alone would just leave for 2-3 weeks at a time and come up with excuses as to why he needed to be out, one being that he had to go see a therapist for his alcohol use. It was a joke around the shop and everyone knew he was full of shit and was likely on a binger, and for that reason he got fired from his previous job back in Chicago. So you can kind of see the hypocrisy and why that pissed me off.
I think everyone would agree you can't mouth off to the manager, but there is a caveat to that. He is the shop manager and we are both service advisors. I always treated him like my manager but my boss made it clear that he is not my manager, he is the shop manager and I answer to my boss, everyone else answers to him. This type of organization doesn't work when the owner of the shop, my boss, is never there. There needs to be someone who can make decisions for the shop in his absence so it is inevitably going to be the manager. My boss told me he is not my manager because he wanted me to be able to push back on him steamrolling me by pushing his customers to the top over mine which happened a lot so I eventually got into with him and told him to stop pushing his jobs over mine.
Pretty sure what I texted him that day is what got me fired though because he wouldn't talk to me all of last week and then my boss calls me in Friday and says we need to part ways. He never mentioned what I said to the manager, but instead brought up all of these old shop losses that he blamed on me. Things from over a year ago and things that had nothing to do with me altogether. Sure, I made plenty of mistakes and there were some losses that I will admit to, but almost all of those losses were due to a failure of the shop in general, not just me. Just like any shop there are going to be mistakes made that you have to fix and that just goes with the territory, but you obviously are trying to minimize that as much as possible. I went off on him and called him out for everything he did that set me up for failure and countered every single thing he said was my fault. There were issues that I brought up to them long before it was an issue and told them needed to be addressed but they brushed it off and never got involved until it was too late. He blamed me for that but I threw it back at him and called out their failures among others. None of it really made sense and didn't fit the bill for getting rid of your highest grossing advisor.
Last year I led his shop to his highest profits in 26 years, beating his previous record by over a half million dollars. For 2022 I did a total of $1,322,988.xx, my average RO was $1210.42 with 1,093 total ROs and a GP of 58.18%. Those are great numbers, especially for it being my first year as a mechanical service advisor in a high volume shop (I've been an advisor for coming up on 10 years but this was the first year after actually going to school for it). For 2023 he switched me over to handle all of his fleet repairs that primarily includes Enterprise which accounts for about half the vehicles that come through the shop. Fleet is obviously going to be a much lower labor rate and ultimately lower GP, but I made sure to print off my performance sheet for this YTD before I left. For fleet I was at $760,779.xx YTD with an average $1130.43 average per RO (total 673 vehicles) and a GP of 55.45%. I calculated it out and at this rate I would have finished the year at a little over $1.1mil. I checked all previous years and that would be a record for that particular category.
Laying all of that out, I just don't buy the narrative he gave me. I could be a great performer but still be ruining the reputation of the shop with poor customer service, and that would be a valid reason to get rid of me, but that was never the case. I did so well because I work so well with people and the customers trust me and my honesty with them. There was never anything that I solely did that put the shop in danger, but he surely made it sound that way. He even tried to blame losses from theft and vandalism to vehicles on me!
Last Friday, the day I got laid of, and before I met with my boss, I had a feeling something was up and I felt like it had to do with the manager. I think he called it in on me and told the owner that he couldn't work with me anymore, and instead of making it about a personal matter that could easily be resolved with some conversation and apologies they made it about something else that sounded more termination worthy. Even the techs that I have talked to agree with this. They are pissed off and think the manager is being a bitch about it. Funny thing, is with him being from Chicago, he always stated how sensitive people are in the PNW because he would say all kinds of offensive things and people would mouth off back to him and he'd say they were too sensitive. I mouthed off to him and he gave me the silent treatment for the entire week... like a bitch.
I know that was long, but I needed to rant about this. The good thing is that I actually feel good and I'm not falling into a slump, but just trying to figure out what I want to do next and if I want to change careers at this point.
So when my gf first got really sick it was about 2mo ago and I ended up taking off a whole week of work because it really freaked me out and it was serious enough that I wanted to make sure I was there. Well, my boss was not happy about me being gone but the shop manager understood and said to stay home and take care of her because that was more important. Him and I got along well at work and he even mentioned that I was the first advisor he has worked with that he hasn't gotten fired; weird thing to say, but okay. While I got along with him, I never fully trusted him because he proved on a few occasions the willingness to throw me under the bus. He'd say he'd take care of some issue and then the next thing I know my boss is blasting me for said issue saying the manager told him knew nothing about the issue when I'd bring up that he was the one that made the call. These kinds of things got more frequent to where I was getting more and more vocal about it because I'm not going to be blamed for something that the shop manager said to do in the first place. I'll take blame for things I do wrong but I'm not going to be blamed for other people's decisions, and who would?
This last time around, Rose got sick on a Thursday and she begged me not to leave her on that Friday because she couldn't take care of herself so I called in and let the manager know I was staying home to take care of her. He texts back and says "You don't value your job do you?" That set me off and I called him out for saying something so insulting knowing how hard I work and how devoted I am to the success of the shop. In that current state of anger I ended the text saying "the next time you dip out and disappear for 3 weeks I'll make sure to ask you the same thing". This guy, on three different occasions in the last year alone would just leave for 2-3 weeks at a time and come up with excuses as to why he needed to be out, one being that he had to go see a therapist for his alcohol use. It was a joke around the shop and everyone knew he was full of shit and was likely on a binger, and for that reason he got fired from his previous job back in Chicago. So you can kind of see the hypocrisy and why that pissed me off.
I think everyone would agree you can't mouth off to the manager, but there is a caveat to that. He is the shop manager and we are both service advisors. I always treated him like my manager but my boss made it clear that he is not my manager, he is the shop manager and I answer to my boss, everyone else answers to him. This type of organization doesn't work when the owner of the shop, my boss, is never there. There needs to be someone who can make decisions for the shop in his absence so it is inevitably going to be the manager. My boss told me he is not my manager because he wanted me to be able to push back on him steamrolling me by pushing his customers to the top over mine which happened a lot so I eventually got into with him and told him to stop pushing his jobs over mine.
Pretty sure what I texted him that day is what got me fired though because he wouldn't talk to me all of last week and then my boss calls me in Friday and says we need to part ways. He never mentioned what I said to the manager, but instead brought up all of these old shop losses that he blamed on me. Things from over a year ago and things that had nothing to do with me altogether. Sure, I made plenty of mistakes and there were some losses that I will admit to, but almost all of those losses were due to a failure of the shop in general, not just me. Just like any shop there are going to be mistakes made that you have to fix and that just goes with the territory, but you obviously are trying to minimize that as much as possible. I went off on him and called him out for everything he did that set me up for failure and countered every single thing he said was my fault. There were issues that I brought up to them long before it was an issue and told them needed to be addressed but they brushed it off and never got involved until it was too late. He blamed me for that but I threw it back at him and called out their failures among others. None of it really made sense and didn't fit the bill for getting rid of your highest grossing advisor.
Last year I led his shop to his highest profits in 26 years, beating his previous record by over a half million dollars. For 2022 I did a total of $1,322,988.xx, my average RO was $1210.42 with 1,093 total ROs and a GP of 58.18%. Those are great numbers, especially for it being my first year as a mechanical service advisor in a high volume shop (I've been an advisor for coming up on 10 years but this was the first year after actually going to school for it). For 2023 he switched me over to handle all of his fleet repairs that primarily includes Enterprise which accounts for about half the vehicles that come through the shop. Fleet is obviously going to be a much lower labor rate and ultimately lower GP, but I made sure to print off my performance sheet for this YTD before I left. For fleet I was at $760,779.xx YTD with an average $1130.43 average per RO (total 673 vehicles) and a GP of 55.45%. I calculated it out and at this rate I would have finished the year at a little over $1.1mil. I checked all previous years and that would be a record for that particular category.
Laying all of that out, I just don't buy the narrative he gave me. I could be a great performer but still be ruining the reputation of the shop with poor customer service, and that would be a valid reason to get rid of me, but that was never the case. I did so well because I work so well with people and the customers trust me and my honesty with them. There was never anything that I solely did that put the shop in danger, but he surely made it sound that way. He even tried to blame losses from theft and vandalism to vehicles on me!
Last Friday, the day I got laid of, and before I met with my boss, I had a feeling something was up and I felt like it had to do with the manager. I think he called it in on me and told the owner that he couldn't work with me anymore, and instead of making it about a personal matter that could easily be resolved with some conversation and apologies they made it about something else that sounded more termination worthy. Even the techs that I have talked to agree with this. They are pissed off and think the manager is being a bitch about it. Funny thing, is with him being from Chicago, he always stated how sensitive people are in the PNW because he would say all kinds of offensive things and people would mouth off back to him and he'd say they were too sensitive. I mouthed off to him and he gave me the silent treatment for the entire week... like a bitch.
I know that was long, but I needed to rant about this. The good thing is that I actually feel good and I'm not falling into a slump, but just trying to figure out what I want to do next and if I want to change careers at this point.
Damn man sorry to hear that.
Guy sounds like a ****er anyways.
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Guy sounds like a ****er anyways.
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Appreciate it. He is a ****er and it was becoming more apparent as time went on. Never saw myself staying at this job forever because the owner is impossible to deal with and aside from this I was getting to the point where I was starting to look for another job as I felt two years was long enough. I knew it would be a good place to work and would be good on my resume as a launch pad for getting my foot in somewhere else for more money and a better environment. The place is known for people walking out on the job because they can't take the owner's antics and mood swings. The only good thing was that he was hardly ever there.
Planning to stay in the service writer realm?
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No worries brother. You've obviously been dealing with a bunch of shit, and I'm sorry you're as knee deep in it as the rest of us. However, I have a feeling you're going to find a better opportunity in the very near future.
After crashing Wed - Fri last week I'm up for a conversation.....and it sounds like you have some extra time on your hands. lol
Considering applying for the city police where I live and trying that route once again. I live in a nice small city with low crime. Has that small town feel and the residents are very invested in the city and fairly conservative so I think it would be one of the few good places to actually be an officer now days.
Cars have been my passion since I was a kid so I love working around cars, but I feel like the other side of me misses being in the field and training and it is something I was good at so I also feel like it is a calling I shouldn't let go of and maybe need to get back into. Policing is obviously entirely different than military but it's just that realm I long to be in.
I appreciate it, and I agree. Things have always worked out so I am not worrying about it and not letting it get me down. Hope you're feeling better. I'll shoot you a PM!
It's been my experience sometimes crap like this seems to happen for a reason, stability knows how to lull you from taking that jump and making a change, but these types of events force you to move.
Hopefully things are stable enough in the meantime that you can really contemplate your next steps and end up on a path or with a company/career/place that was much better than before.
Hopefully things are stable enough in the meantime that you can really contemplate your next steps and end up on a path or with a company/career/place that was much better than before.
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