Re: I'm back.
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:58 am
Pardon me for dissing your doctors, but it was pretty stupid of them to force you to play Jeopardy with them at such a difficult time in your life.
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Pardon me for dissing your doctors, but it was pretty stupid of them to force you to play Jeopardy with them at such a difficult time in your life.
What would you have me do instead? Pick before, when it didn't matter, or pick after, when it was too late. I think your comment was in poor taste.
Sorry. I made the comment in light of the fact that there is a TV show "Jeopardy", and in a jocular way I wanted to play on the word; trying to express that you had to sit down in front of the tv screen, and watch the show and try to outdo your doctors with answering a higher number of questions correctly than your doctors. My humour was lost there somewhere in the long line of lateral jumps in thinking that a person would need to make to get the joke part of the joke.BardoXV wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2019 3:34 pmWhat would you have me do instead? Pick before, when it didn't matter, or pick after, when it was too late. I think your comment was in poor taste.
Not a problem, I have often had that trouble of trying to make a joke on a forum on the internet, it isn't easy, my failed attempts will show that. I didn't really take your comment to seriously, as I treat almost everything on a forum lightly. BTW I used to watch Jeoprady but missed the joke.-1- wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:35 amSorry. I made the comment in light of the fact that there is a TV show "Jeopardy", and in a jocular way I wanted to play on the word; trying to express that you had to sit down in front of the tv screen, and watch the show and try to outdo your doctors with answering a higher number of questions correctly than your doctors. My humour was lost there somewhere in the long line of lateral jumps in thinking that a person would need to make to get the joke part of the joke.
So I was not dissing your plight, your mechanism and timing of the decision you needed to make. I was, instead, trying to make a joke. The fact that the joke was lost in my text, is certainly not your fault, and I do understand that it sounded tasteless unless someone got the joke -- which I see now how nearly impossible it was to get.
I apologize for the confusion and hurt my joke has created.
It's going pretty good, all things considered. I'm getting used to changing from batteries to the wall unit every night and vice-versa every morning. Also my wife is getting used to changing the dressing once a week, getting my numbers every morning and washing my hair twice a week as I'm not allowed to get wet as in swimming or a shower. It goes with the territory. It's a lot better than the alternative. The doctors said it was either the LVAD or I would last less than a week, so I chose the LVAD. The Accuchinch worked for about 3 weeks but I was too far gone for it to last for long.
I'm really sorry, Doc. That's hard stuff.BardoXV wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2019 4:04 amIt's going pretty good, all things considered. I'm getting used to changing from batteries to the wall unit every night and vice-versa every morning. Also my wife is getting used to changing the dressing once a week, getting my numbers every morning and washing my hair twice a week as I'm not allowed to get wet as in swimming or a shower. It goes with the territory. It's a lot better than the alternative. The doctors said it was either the LVAD or I would last less than a week, so I chose the LVAD. The Accuchinch worked for about 3 weeks but I was too far gone for it to last for long.
You're becomin' a cyborg. Preserve that brain, though, cuz that's where you live.BardoXV wrote:It's going pretty good, all things considered. I'm getting used to changing from batteries to the wall unit every night and vice-versa every morning. Also my wife is getting used to changing the dressing once a week, getting my numbers every morning and washing my hair twice a week as I'm not allowed to get wet as in swimming or a shower. It goes with the territory. It's a lot better than the alternative. The doctors said it was either the LVAD or I would last less than a week, so I chose the LVAD. The Accuchinch worked for about 3 weeks but I was too far gone for it to last for long.