Posts by Scully

Please ask them about Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) for your pain management. You may need more than an every 4-6 hour pill to keep you comfortable.

PCA can involve morphine, demerol (meperidine), fentanyl, hydromorphone (Dilaudid) given via IV. You can have a continuous dose or not (usually they start you with a continuous dose and wean you off) along with a button that you can press periodically (usually set for a 5-minute lock-out) for additional pain relief. The pump keeps track of your requests and and the amount of medication you receive. Your nurses should be assessing your pain scores at least every few hours to ensure that you have adequate pain control.

I hope you start feeling better soon.

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School District forbids deaf 3-year-old's name sign because it "looks like a weapon"

by Steve_C in

i'm shaking my head at the utter ridiculousness of this.. .

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/school-asks-deaf-preschooler-change-sign-language-name-191629255.html .

three-and-a-half year old hunter spanjer, who is deaf, signs his name by crossing his forefinger and index finger and moving his hand up and down.. to his family, friends and those who know the signing exact english (s.e.e.

Scully

So, I guess they feel that the sign for the letter "H" looks like someone waving a gun? They clearly have no clue about deaf culture.

That is really insensitive to this boy's identity, both in terms of his name and as a deaf person.

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Why Is My Sister Accusing Me Of Apostasy? (new guy here)

by HelpMeBelieve in

hello, maybe i am gambling by posting a thread here at your website.

i don't know what an apostate really is and why someone is removed from the watchtower for this sin.. .

i have a sister in visalia california who is telling all my brothers and sisters "he is an apostate, our schizophrenic brother said so!".

Scully

People who focus on and berate the perceived failings of others are usually hoping that in so doing nobody will notice their own shortcomings.

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ABOUT TERRY

by Quentin in

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friends

terry was admitted to the hospital yesterday.

he has a severe case of cellulites which has affected his neck glands.

his face and neck are very swollen.

Scully

Terry, my very best wishes for a speedy recovery. Please get well soon.

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Seductive Poison

by SophieG in

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friends

i don't know who on the board recommended it, but i just finished it in a day.

riveting read.

i had seen the documentary about the jonestown massacre years ago and deborah laytons book kind of brought out a different perspective as someone waking up and trying to escape.

Scully

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How big of a deal is Kingdom Hall Weddings ?

by Pitchess Co-Gen in

has you all know i was engaged to another lady before i married my wife, but part of the reason my ex and i broke up was because we couldn't get a kingdom hall wedding.

to make a long story short why is it such a big deal ?.

Scully

They won't allow unbaptized people to use the KH for a wedding. If you are approved to use the KH for your wedding, it's kind of a signal to every JW attending that the couple is In Good Standing™, and both of them are Baptized™ JWs.

The JW Ministers™ who perform marriage ceremonies for JWs are not obliged to officiate for anyone who asks them to do so. They have been known to refuse if instructed to do so by the Body of Elders™. And it can be for reasons of Public Reproof™, Private Reproof™ or just because they have an axe to grind against the bride or groom or either family.

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Feel the Goddamned Love

by AK - Jeff in

my mil of 38 years - who has not spoken to me for the 9 years since i left her cult - died on sunday.. today, as a favor to my sil who has spoken to me very rarely, for the same reasons, over the same period of time, i was moving some personal items to her home from the nursing home.

in this instance i guess it is ok to speak with me - if i have a strong back and a conveyance that aids her needs at the moment.. anyway, in the parking lot of the apartment complex where she lives, while we are moving in those items, guess who shows up?

five or six of my old 'best friends'.

Scully

Jeff,

How can that behaviour not make you want to go running back to the JWs? I don't get it.

Well, actually I do. It's kind of funny, in a pathetic sort of way, how it backfires on them - with you, your wife and any bystanders who are thinking "WTF??"

Sorry about your family's loss. Such as it is. When they have refused to be part of your life for almost a decade, it's kind of like all the mourning has happened already - they killed you guys off emotionally because of their stupid cult - and now you have to deal with the burial.