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24689. jexster - 11/29/2008 10:22:50 PM Need we remind you Arky.you also thought he'd vote for Obama
But yeah I thought for sure he'd be here with the story that the Supreme Court has scheduled a 12/5 conference re: appeals of dist ct decisions throwing out two crackpot citizenship suits. I guess his crush on Piglin was more serious than I had thought...
Well unlucky in life and love..been there..I guess I'll just have to soldier on with a stiff upper lip...be satisfied with Wonkers..sigh 24690. judithathome - 11/30/2008 3:35:27 AM Well, the play WAS about Scientology and starred children, who no doubt had not a clue about the subject...one kid played Tom Cruise and had sock puppets on each hand: one for his wife and the other for his daughter.
It was hysterical and afterward, we told each kid what a stellar job they'd done.
Then the six of us met up with 5 other friends and family for dinner at our favorite Italian place...great day and great evening!
24691. JJBiener - 12/1/2008 3:52:00 AM Greetings Friends and Neighbors. I just dropped in to invite you over to BarackObamaRevolution.com. I recently started writing a column for them called Dispatches from the Beach. My first post concerns recent events in Mumbai. Hope you enjoy it. 24692. arkymalarky - 12/1/2008 4:05:13 AM Hey JJ! Great to see you! I'll check it out. Happy holidays! 24693. JJBiener - 12/1/2008 4:53:49 AM Greetings Friends and Neighbors. I just dropped in to invite you over to BarackObamaRevolution.com. I recently started writing a column for them called Dispatches from the Beach. My first post concerns recent events in Mumbai. Hope you enjoy it. 24694. JJBiener - 12/1/2008 4:56:43 AM Hi Arky, sorry about the double post. I don't know where it came from.
How are things in your neck of the world? 24695. magoseph - 12/1/2008 9:21:00 AM Here's your link, JJ! 24696. wonkers2 - 12/1/2008 2:57:50 PM Good to see you, JJ! Will check out your column. 24697. arkymalarky - 12/2/2008 1:21:37 AM I'good,JJ. Dropped internet at home and am missing interacting here as much, but rl's going well. 24698. jexster - 12/2/2008 2:50:22 AM How are things in your neck of the world?
I think JJ meant your neck of the WOODS Arky
 24699. arkymalarky - 12/2/2008 4:22:31 AM Woods, world...it's the same thing around here. 24700. wabbit - 12/2/2008 4:27:05 AM Hey JJB!! 24701. robertjayb - 12/3/2008 1:48:08 AM Dave Barry Gift Guide 24702. jexster - 12/4/2008 1:25:47 AM Back from SF Homeless Connect. I am a "navigator" ..I take clients after the docs see em, get them to the follow up appointment station and then to the appointment within the week.
Today I got all the superwackos but one takes the prize. The guy looked for all the world as if he were in horrific pain all over. So I take him around the corner to the main city poor folks clinic for "urgent care". The supervising bitch goes off "they have doctors over there what do you want us to do with him"? That sends the homeless guy ballistic..babbling rambling threatening violence. I calm both down and volunteer to go back and check with the medical discharge unit ....They call confirm every bureaucratic thing...
He comes back...yelling..finds ME. Says they yelled at him and threw him out. Wants to go to the hospital in an ambulance. I get social worker (so fed up by that time, she wanted to tell HIM to call 911..paramedics on call at the event)
He'd apparently refused treatment...She calls a team of paramedics including a hunky blond and hot jew boy who kept flirting with me. I wanted to feign heart failure, get mouth to mouth so I lurked. Three paramedics worked on this guy for half an hour then somehow their Capt gets called over.....they refuse to send him to the hospital...police come..throw the guy out ..
Or so I thought..
He comes back...he kept telling em to ask me about the various depredations he'd endured...see for some reason I was the only person there he felt was on his side...BAAAD
Comes back..asks for my name as a witness in his crusade for justice..can't give..he leaves..this is about THREE HOURS on mind you.
As I am leaving, there he is..another team of paramedics is wheeling him out as he triumphantly bellows I think at me "I am goin to the hospital dude!!!"
PS ..lots of these people want to either go to jail or best of all to General Hospital...
Well he won....there are a million ways to game the system.. 24703. arkymalarky - 12/4/2008 4:02:33 AM Had a long post about the tragedy of mental health care in the US, but lost it. 24704. jexster - 12/4/2008 4:54:53 AM I know how ya feel Arky! You oughta seen me drooling over that hot paramedic Jew Boy.....mental health in America baby 24705. arkymalarky - 12/4/2008 5:12:36 AM Hardehar. Thing is, that poor man you were trying to help needs other medical attention he's obviously not getting. My parents' yard worker is probably about to go to the pen as a middle aged man who's been borderline functional for years. Had he been helped he wouldn't be in this state, yet that won't be considered in his sentencing. 24706. jexster - 12/4/2008 5:29:40 AM So does the guy that brought his pet RAT to the veterinary care area..The dogs went APE
24707. arkymalarky - 12/4/2008 5:50:25 AM Hey, I used to have two pet mice. 24708. judithathome - 12/4/2008 5:04:56 PM My son was taken by ambulance yesterday to the ER downtown...he usually goes to the one nearer his home but the medical officer at his work was afraid to send him there because of his medical history and figured he'd get better care downtown.
Three hours of him violently puking and his blood pressure going out the roof and they finally gave him some meds to control the nausea...a CT scan showed no neurological event...they're thinking it's vertigo. (Which the medical officer at work suspected and told the ambulance guys four hours before the "brilliant" team downtown came up with it.)
After 5 hours being there and Keoni showing up and Leslie throwing up for a solid 3 hours in the ER, I asked if he was going to be there overnight; they assured me he would be transferred to a room ASAP although there were 15 people ahead of him waiting for a room. (This must be the sick season...this hospital covers a nearly 4 block area.)
So I get the number from the ER lady and tell her we're going to eat and I will call to get his new room number so I can come back in the morning. She assures me that's the best plan as he is zonked on anti-nausea drugs, anyhow.
We are in two cars and after a harrowing drive across town (I am slightly night blind) to eat, we get home and I have 5 messages from Leslie telling me they've discharged him and he's in the lobby of the ER waiting to come home.
I send Keoni to collect Leslie and since his house keys are at work...along with his truck and jacket...Keoni brings him here to get the extra house key but decides there is no way he's taking him to his house...he guides him inside...the poor guy is STILL throwing up and can't walk unassisted...I fix him a bed on the den couch with a bucket next to it and he has been asleep since 9pm last night.
Keoni went out and got his three prescriptions filled...and guess what the side-effects are? Nausea and dizziness! And his diagnosis: vertigo and hyper-tension.
It's 30 degrees out and I have no clue how I'm going to get a 6'2" 202 pound guy out to the car and into his house...plus he has no jacket. And he's a size or two bigger than either Keoni OR me...surprise...and it's literally freezing outside.
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