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Same day/out-patient surgery is generally, in my opinion, much better than being stuck in the hospital for weeks recovering, but it's still surgery with all the inherent risks and most of the usual hassles. I hope that everything goes smoothly for you and that your hand is much better in next to no time Ysne58. Don't let them stick you with needles more than they absolutely have to. ;)

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I wish I had one day patient surgery when I was in hospital late May 2011 for having gall stone, but I was forced to stay at the hospital for almost a week.  I was lucky though since I could get daily permissions before the surgery and go back home to my apartment for a few hours.

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That's pretty cool that they let you go home for a few hours each day before the surgery, I've not encountered that before with any hospitals. The last few surgeries I've been involved with (I had one about 6 years ago, my wife's had a couple since then, one of our sons had one about 3 years ago...) were all outpatient procedures and there simply was no comparison to the last in-patient surgery I'd had before that. Hospitals really do seem to be the worst place in the world to be when you're trying to recover. They're cold and sterile feeling, but actually riddled with germs and disease because you're surrounded by sick people in large quantities and the folks who come touch you have also touched all those other sick people.

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That was because I lived a couple of blocks away from the hospital, but every daily permission I had I have to take a cab if not then the nurses and my doctor wouldn't let me out of the hospital.

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Ok, living within a few blocks of the hospital I suppose would make a difference, though having to hire a cab each time would certainly serve as a deterrent for me. Would it not still have been okay with them if you'd had a friend or family member driving you instead?

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Yes it would but the problem was back then and still is.  My friends in my home town doesn't have a car and besides my family doesn't live in my home town they live in the region though but in different places.

 

I didn't pay much for the cab because it was hospital transports which is financial sanctioned.

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I can certainly understand if you didn't have any friends who had cars and your family wasn't nearby enough to help, but to me friends and family are people who are supposed to help anyway they can when you need them, and vice versa. :sigh:

 

Cabs for hospital transportation is financially sanctioned? :confused:  I'm going to assume you're not in the same country as I am, because I really don't know what that actually means.

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My mother had a pacemaker put in and ended up in the hospital for several days last fall because the doctor knicked a lung and it collapsed.  So yes, I definitely know how badly things can go wrong for what is supposed to be same day.

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Cabs for hospital transportation is financially sanctioned? :confused:  I'm going to assume you're not in the same country as I am, because I really don't know what that actually means.

What I mean was that cabs has a discount for hospital transports, so that you doesn't need to pay much and this how it works in Sweden.

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@Ysne58: Well, I think I can safely say that we're all hoping you won't encounter any of those sort of complications this visit and that you'll be essentially in and out as scheduled. Best of luck with the procedure itself. :)

 

@Leonardo: Ah, now I understand completely. We don't have that sort of thing going on here and I had no idea where you were. I think our country could stand to adopt a few ideas other countries use like that, but at the same time, I don't really want our country going quite as socialistic as it'd probably take to get the small perks like that into effect. I still think that family should've been willing to try to help you out, but in their absence, at least the doctors were willing to let you have a break from the hospital ahead of time and the cabs weren't too expensive.

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Yeah how did it go?

 

I hope the surgery was over in no time and there were no complications afterwards.

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It's scheduled for Monday, February 25th.  I got some books in the mail today, that I plan on reading next week, hopefully that will keep me distracted while it's healing.

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Oh, I was thinking it was like today or yesterday.. in that case, just be sure to let us know how it went once it happens. ;)

 

 

Hey, on another topic, I can't seem to find it, but hadn't y'all complained awhile back about some issue with Oblivion/Skyrim not playing nicely under Windows 8? Anyone got a link to what the solution was, or just recall what it was in fairly simple terms? My son's asking me and I can't recall mainly because it didn't matter so much to me as the game I played Oblivion on at the time has Windows 7, though it might matter to me shortly because my new box that I'll be installing all my games to soonish has Windows 8 on it too. :sigh:

 

He apparently is in the middle of reinstalling Oblivion completely because the game was CTDing if he tried to enter a new area and he couldn't save if he'd walked/run a few steps because he could no longer access the menu, so he's asking me to find out how to drastically reduce the number of CTDs he experiences and how to make saving/loading speeds faster.. anyone? I can play go between if y'all need other info via email or something.

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Simple solution - buy an OEM Windows 7 disk and format the HDD.

 

AKA - Purge the unclean OS.

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As of today I have officially started uni.  Although, as it turns out the first week is a bit of a party designed to make you comfortable with your new venue.

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Simple solution - buy an OEM Windows 7 disk and format the HDD.

If you want to be able to play Skyrim then follow his advice. :thumbsup:

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Simple solution - buy an OEM Windows 7 disk and format the HDD.

 

AKA - Purge the unclean OS.

 

If you want to be able to play Skyrim then follow his advice. :thumbsup:

 

Are you serious? Skyrim really won't play on Windows 8 at all? What about Oblivion, that's the bigger concern for him (and me) by far? :shocked:

Though it is amazing what I'm finding as I reinstall my old games onto my new computer is and isn't incompatible with Windows 8. Some of the older games that had issues with Vista/Windows 7 seem okay with Windows 8's compatibility mode while some of the fairly new games that were written for Windows 7 and are okay with Vista, in other words that shouldn't even need compatibility mode, seem to have issues with Windows 8 even with compatibility mode.. I'm fairly floored by it and am having to literally install everything I've got and wait to see for each one. :crash:  :throw:

 

 

As of today I have officially started uni.  Although, as it turns out the first week is a bit of a party designed to make you comfortable with your new venue.

Congrats on the new school. :celebration: I found that myself at most four+ year schools here too, the first week is basically intended to be orientation so the teachers expect students to have trouble finding classes/books/etc and go really light while administration does everything they can to convince you that you didn't waste your money choosing their school, and the other students do what they can to take advantage of all of it. :rolleyes: Enjoy it while it lasts.  ;)

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If you want to be able to play Skyrim then follow his advice. :thumbsup:

 

 

Now go back and like the post.

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A guy who I used to go to school with died two days ago in a motorcycle crash.  My sympathies only extend so far as he crashed while being pursued by police.  And for that  matter, it happened in suburbia, a short distance from my home (not the college I'm staying at, which is hours away).  Oh, and he was 16, on a learners motorbike licence.

 

Everyone, of course, is rushing to abuse the police and an investigation against them has been launched, but I'm not quite so sure about the 'it must be everyone but the victims fault' mindset that's immediately taken up whenever something like this happens. 

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So, Australia isn't so different from California is what you're saying?

 

Sucks that the guy died, but yeah, when you go out in a blaze of... whatever... while being chased by the cops? It's hard to generate sympathy.

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