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Feb 19, 2021 13:11:40   #
badbobby Loc: Humble Texas
 
Able Man wrote:
I "Feel for You"... I've got a lense implant in my "sight-eye", cataract removed from both... Artificial left hip (that's a "TOTAL", upper & lower hip replacement... Hell, the hip was done 21 or 22 years ago!!!)

hey Able
you should change your name to 'Bionic Man'
LOL
have a great day Able

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Feb 19, 2021 14:56:53   #
Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
 
badbobby wrote:
hey Able
you should change your name to 'Bionic Man'
LOL
have a great day Able


Yeah, badbobby... I've ALSO been LITERALLY DEAD TWICE!!! (My one doctor was reading "my chart" one day... lowers it a bit and says to me: ¿¿¡¡What ARE YA... Some kind of a TERMINATOR!!??

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Feb 19, 2021 15:23:30   #
Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA
 
Able Man wrote:
Yeah, badbobby... I've ALSO been LITERALLY DEAD TWICE!!! (My one doctor was reading "my chart" one day... lowers it a bit and says to me: ¿¿¡¡What ARE YA... Some kind of a TERMINATOR!!??


That's interesting to me Able. I also died a few years back and was on life support for about a week. What was your experience like? Pneumonia and a. fib did me in, how about you?

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Feb 19, 2021 15:27:39   #
Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake
 
Spiritof27 wrote:
That's interesting to me Able. I also died a few years back and was on life support for about a week. What was your experience like? Pneumonia and a. fib did me in, how about you?


I think that's a question most folks would like to know, what's it like to be dead?

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Feb 19, 2021 15:41:23   #
Smokey2 Loc: San Diego
 
I used to visit a bar where darts were a big thing. NOBODY could beat Ben. Then Ben was missing for
a while and I asked, where's Ben. Oh he is getting his cataracts taken out. I didn't want to play darts
with him AFTER he could see.

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Feb 19, 2021 15:50:49   #
Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA
 
Ivey wrote:
I think that's a question most folks would like to know, what's it like to be dead?


Well I got no news to report, good or bad. I remember dying, yes I really do, but then I remember becoming conscious again about a week later. Seemed like it was instantaneous to me. The dying part was very relieving, I was under a lot of stress from not being able to breathe, and then everything inside of me and the world around me just sort of collapsed into a point of darkness. Like a pupil closing. And I remember thinking that I was dying and that it certainly wasn't bad at all. Kinda disappointed when I woke up that I hadn't had any reunions or anything like like. But if that's what dying's like, that's not so bad - I'll take it.

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Feb 19, 2021 16:04:31   #
DozerDave Loc: Port Orchard Wa.
 
Spiritof27 wrote:
Well I got no news to report, good or bad. I remember dying, yes I really do, but then I remember becoming conscious again about a week later. Seemed like it was instantaneous to me. The dying part was very relieving, I was under a lot of stress from not being able to breathe, and then everything inside of me and the world around me just sort of collapsed into a point of darkness. Like a pupil closing. And I remember thinking that I was dying and that it certainly wasn't bad at all. Kinda disappointed when I woke up that I hadn't had any reunions or anything like like. But if that's what dying's like, that's not so bad - I'll take it.
Well I got no news to report, good or bad. I reme... (show quote)

Did you have an “out of body” experience...🐟on

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Feb 19, 2021 16:45:20   #
Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA
 
No but I wished I could've when about a day later I let loose all the crap I had been holding for a week and wasn't able to get myself to the bathroom. A young and beautiful nurse came and cleaned me all up, which under the right circumstances could have been a delightful experience, but in this case I was just mortified. Please just let me go back to being dead.

No. Nothing like that. Just a big black hole, no sensory information at all and no dreams. One minute you're concious, the next you're not, then you are again. And a week's gone by.

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Feb 19, 2021 16:56:15   #
FourchonLa. Loc: Fourchon Louisiana, South Louisiana
 
Spiritof27 wrote:
No but I wished I could've when about a day later I let loose all the crap I had been holding for a week and wasn't able to get myself to the bathroom. A young and beautiful nurse came and cleaned me all up, which under the right circumstances could have been a delightful experience, but in this case I was just mortified. Please just let me go back to being dead.

No. Nothing like that. Just a big black hole, no sensory information at all and no dreams. One minute you're concious, the next you're not, then you are again. And a week's gone by.
No but I wished I could've when about a day later... (show quote)


Well I for one am glad you cheated the grim reaper. You bring the literal meaning to being full of it to the stage. 😁😁😁

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Feb 19, 2021 17:34:26   #
Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake
 
Spiritof27 wrote:
No but I wished I could've when about a day later I let loose all the crap I had been holding for a week and wasn't able to get myself to the bathroom. A young and beautiful nurse came and cleaned me all up, which under the right circumstances could have been a delightful experience, but in this case I was just mortified. Please just let me go back to being dead.

No. Nothing like that. Just a big black hole, no sensory information at all and no dreams. One minute you're concious, the next you're not, then you are again. And a week's gone by.
No but I wished I could've when about a day later... (show quote)


Sprit, I'm sorry to hear of your death but my wife and I got one hell of a good laugh of your resurrection.

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Feb 19, 2021 20:12:07   #
Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)
 
Spiritof27 wrote:
That's interesting to me Able. I also died a few years back and was on life support for about a week. What was your experience like? Pneumonia and a. fib did me in, how about you?


Booze, beer & wine WITHDRAWAL... Broke a rib, which in turn, punctured my right lung ... That was the first time; Iwas alive still, in the back of an ambulance upon departing my house, got about 1/2 way to the hospital (they told me) y the guy in the back of the meat-wagon/ Me, told the driver he needed help NOW {because I had "flatlined"} (they said); so, the ambulance driver pulled over onto the "apron" of ¡¡A Cemetary Driveway!! (Ya can't MAKE this shit up) Between the 2 men, they got me alive & "stabilized" enough, to get to the ER... Woke up 3 days later with a total of 7 tubes and hoses running in and out of me!!
The 2nd time, came about 3 years or so, later... No withdrawals, this time... I was "under full steam"... My apartment Manager told me that I was dead, laying on the icy sidewalk within the apartment complex... They called EMS, ... They (apparently) were in no big hurry to get me to a real-live doctor, because, even though I lived within a 3 minute ambulance ride, from a hospital; I woke up (again) 3 days later, at a hospital that's probably a 10 or 12 minute ambulance ride from there. Again, with the tubes and hoses, but, fewer, the 2nd time around. (That collapsed lung, the first time, required 3 small hoses, just to drain, inflate and deflate the lung{I GUESS}).
SO...Twice dead, Able Man... They say that "3rd time's a charm"... ¿Don't they?
As far as me remembering anything WHILE dead... Nope.

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Feb 19, 2021 20:19:35   #
Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake
 
Able Man wrote:
Booze, beer & wine WITHDRAWAL... Broke a rib, which in turn, punctured my right lung ... That was the first time; Iwas alive still, in the back of an ambulance upon departing my house, got about 1/2 way to the hospital (they told me) y the guy in the back of the meat-wagon/ Me, told the driver he needed help NOW {because I had "flatlined"} (they said); so, the ambulance driver pulled over onto the "apron" of ¡¡A Cemetary Driveway!! (Ya can't MAKE this shit up) Between the 2 men, they got me alive & "stabilized" enough, to get to the ER... Woke up 3 days later with a total of 7 tubes and hoses running in and out of me!!
The 2nd time, came about 3 years or so, later... No withdrawals, this time... I was "under full steam"... My apartment Manager told me that I was dead, laying on the icy sidewalk within the apartment complex... They called EMS, ... They (apparently) were in no big hurry to get me to a real-live doctor, because, even though I lived within a 3 minute ambulance ride, from a hospital; I woke up (again) 3 days later, at a hospital that's probably a 10 or 12 minute ambulance ride from there. Again, with the tubes and hoses, but, fewer, the 2nd time around. (That collapsed lung, the first time, required 3 small hoses, just to drain, inflate and deflate the lung{I GUESS}).
SO...Twice dead, Able Man... They say that "3rd time's a charm"... ¿Don't they?
As far as me remembering anything WHILE dead... Nope.
Booze, beer & wine WITHDRAWAL... Broke a rib, ... (show quote)


Cat has got 9 lives they say maybe you got some feline in you.

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Feb 19, 2021 20:47:10   #
USAF Major Loc: Sea Bright, NJ
 
Robert J Samples wrote:
When you pass 80, you never know just bionic you are, or will become! Some of these procedures may just save your life!

For instannce, I sustrained an eye enjury in the first grade, almost lost the left eye, but reoverd with a scar on the lens. Much later, taking a physical for flight training for the USAF, they truned me down and would not give me a flight contract. It could have easily kept me out of the Hanoi Hilton!

Just a random chance, not what I wanted, but what I got. An Optometrist told me in my 50's to lie down as flat as I could, look just over my eyelid and what could I see? Well I could see very plainly, he then said when I had my cataracts removed later in life, it would restore my vision by taking off that scar! It did, but too late for a flying contract! Not only that but i have two titanium knee joints and still cant walk very well. Just Sayin....RJS
When you pass 80, you never know just bionic you a... (show quote)


The USAF is short about 2000 pilots. They've lowered height requirements to encourage more women to apply but have yet to accept laser corrected lenses! I don't get their reasoning.

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Feb 19, 2021 21:42:50   #
Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA
 
Huntm22 wrote:
Well the eye doc told me today that my MRI showed no optic nerve damage - yea! Wants to do a new procedure for my glaucoma. He’s getting the new equipment in in a few days to do the procedure. It stretches the drain in the eye before they insert the stint. I came home and researched it!!! Sure don’t want to screw up my eye. Everything I could find was about 99% positive. I told him I would be investigating the procedure and he thought that was great. He is one of the top eye surgeons in the Intermountain area. He will do the cataract at the same time. About a four hour procedure for doing both. YeeHaw.
Get the knee scoped next Thursday.
Yup getting older is sooo much fun.
Well the eye doc told me today that my MRI showed ... (show quote)


About a year and a half or two ago, I had a procedure done on my eyes because I was on a Glaucoma watch with 15+ pressures in my eyes. they did a laser treatment where they went after the outlet drain in the back of my eyes and my pressures went down to 8/9 and continues to stay there.

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Feb 20, 2021 01:19:00   #
Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA
 
FourchonLa. wrote:
Well I for one am glad you cheated the grim reaper. You bring the literal meaning to being full of it to the stage. 😁😁😁


I try.

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