with two valves you get eggroll?

[ChouDoufu]

oh, my. i just can't think of the proper expletive. just take 'em all, throw
'em in a blender and make a big 'ole four-letter-cocktail.

what now you may be asking? it's a good one, really it is.

had my consult today with a doctor in the cardiothoracic department up on the
eleventh floor of the "affiliated with the minorities medical college hospital."
was having some weather-related sternum issues, so had the basic 3-month
checkup redone just to be safe.

the doctor and i are discussing tests and advantages of tee vs. tte vs.
angiograms. you can get a tte done here no problem, have to go to the
big city for a toe, maybe even a bigger city yet for an angiogram. that's a
shame, i thought, would be nice to at least have other options here.

so he asks why i went to india for avr........

.................WHEN WE CAN DO IT RIGHT HERE.....

.............................just started last year.

oh, my. oh, my. oh, my. this is just so wrong on so many levels.

 

[Bina]

Don't let Eva see this thread......I don't think she got her free EggRoll with her double valve job.

 

[Freddie]

huh?
I don't get it.
One of two things: maybe its just too early for me to comprehend the egg roll question or I'm in to much pain and its effecting what I have left of my brain waves.
I'll come back later when things make sense.

 

[Mary]

You would have missed your two week's stay at the resort . . .

 

[Nancy]

I think I would have responded, "Really! I had no idea they did valve surgery here, that's great! I'll keep that in mind if it's necessary in the future." That way you don't have to get into any kind of critical discussion with your doctor whom you will need to be on your side.

I'd like a couple of eggrolls now please. Yum.

 

[Bina]

Take the least invasive test as a start....the TTE......and quit yer bitchin bout them egg rolls!

 

[ChouDoufu]

well, actually that's sort of how i handled it.......

oh really? golly, no one told me, and i had to go all the way to india. darn.
but at least all the doctors and nurses spoke english, very important for someone
in icu not to have language difficulties.

and would have been so convenient, too. you're just a ten minute walk from my
apartment. oh, and the chinese nurses are soooooooooo much hotter.

anyway, doc, i gots me a steak valve, which should last about 15 years or so. i'll be
sure to get the new, improved model done here. maybe you can do it when you
become head of thoracic surgery. and maybe i can speak good chinese by then.

 

[Lisa in Katy]

So, not quite advanced enough for TEE or Angiogram, but able to do valve replacement in a flash? Makes perfect sense to me! After all, the surgery's the easy part. Right?

 

[Tbone]

So, not quite advanced enough for TEE or Angiogram, but able to do valve replacement in a flash? Makes perfect sense to me! After all, the surgery's the easy part. Right?

Yes a serving of sarcasim with that egg roll please! Really now is it a valve or trick finger cuffs?

 

[Freddie]

I think I'm starting to catch onto this thread.

 

[ChouDoufu]

yeah, right, and i want a valve made by the same guys that make the socket
sets for harbor freight!!!

 

[Bina]

Good Morning, Freddie.

 

[Bina]

Chou, aren't you just curious what it feels like to be in their ICU and hooked up to their respirator?
Oh come on....where is your sense of adventure today?

 

[ChouDoufu]

miss bina, i've been in their emergency rooms. a friend's kid was lightly bumped by a taxi,
a wee scalp bleed, we got to the hospital but no gurneys, stretchers, wheelchairs. which
means i get to carry the 8yo smelly rat (guess who no likey kiddies) to the check in desk,
then to the payment desk, then to the check in desk again, then to the registration desk,
then back to the check in desk, and finally to the emergency room.

however, the only emergency was that the room had not been cleaned for years.
drifts of bandages and q-tips and 'stuff' under the tables, in the corners. the medicine
cabinet was stocked with a dozen bottles of saline solution and three boxes of ringers
lactate.

waiting in the room, but noone comes, so the kids mom has to go and hunt down a
nurse. well, the nurse confirmed that the kid had a bump on his head, so then we
went back to the check in desk to get a form to take to the go-to-another-building
desk, then i get to carry the kid half a block to the next building, and try several doors
before we find one unlocked, then we get to ride the elevators floor by floor until
we find someone that knows where to find someone who knows where we might want
to go to ask where we should go.

and then it gets interesting.....

 

[Bina]

Holy Smokes! Did you see Fred Flintstone and his lovely wife Wilma during your blast from the past?

 

[ChouDoufu]

you don't wanna know what i seen when i walked past the wards.

and no, i dinna see fred and wilma. we're not yet as advanced as bedrock.

 

[Bina]

Okay, pack your bags. Head for ThighLand.

 

[Ross]

okay, pack your bags. Head for thighland.

*lurking* *lurking*

 

[Eva]

Don't let Eva see this thread......I don't think she got her free EggRoll with her double valve job.

You are right!! Where is my Egg Roll???? I am hiring a lawyer after I check with other double valvers!

 

[Eva]

I think I'm starting to catch onto this thread.

Whisper it to me, Freddie, when you get it!!