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So glad to hear you're making progress and they're easing up on the meds a little. That Cumiden is tricky stuff to dial in and it's easy to go overboard with it. The fewer meds and people tinkering with the dosages the better for sure!
Well, it's about time to update this again, I gave Brian some time....
First, the antenna is not up. The tree deal fell through, and the roofers that were next door ignored me. Even a house gutter guy turned me down. So I'm looking for a handyman now.
Things are finally getting beaten into submission here in the fixer's lair, the front room almost looks like it should, and I can almost make it to the bench. A few ct-f9191 clutches have come in for fixes, been fixed at a temporary table, and returned in great shape.
The A/C guy forgot to cement closed the hole in the wall where the refrigerant, control and power lines went through, and a month later it was discovered by my brother as he strung a new RG-6 cable across the basement for me. (Daylight? Do I SEE DAYLIGHT??? WE don't want no steenking daylight down here!!!) He was back pretty quickly for the hot season, and closed it up. He was also persuaded to set out traps and bait just in case something got in.
And FINALLY, for those that have been following things, at the start of the month I wore a continuous heart monitor (holter) for 24 hours to establish certain facts. The results are in, and there were NO instances of Atrial Fibrillation in that 24 hours, thus my regular Doctor has allowed me to stop taking the blood thinner Cumiden (aka warfarin and RAT POISON), and because of that, I can FINALLY get the home health care nurse visits to monitor the cumiden's effects and adjust the dosage terminated!!! (they WERE nice ladies tho...) ALMOST ALL of that damned dr. gupta's "gotcha's" have been overcome. Now to this oxygen thing (i'm "hooked" on oxygen??) and a Pulmonologist...
See if you can find a ham radio club locally and explain your situation. I know guys who put up complete tower systems free for hams who can't do it themselves.
DaWoofer
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Great idea. Even the airwaves if equipped.
Keep up the good fight Mark.Sounds like your getting things dialed in after the "Gotcha's" incident.Hope your recovery and your spirits continue to rise. Heck, who knows, maybe you"ll be back at the bench even ahead of your own thoughts presently. It'll be a great day for the AK family and Pioneer lovers across the globe!
Great idea. Even the airwaves if equipped.
Keep up the good fight Mark.Sounds like your getting things dialed in after the "Gotcha's" incident.Hope your recovery and your spirits continue to rise. Heck, who knows, maybe you"ll be back at the bench even ahead of your own thoughts presently. It'll be a great day for the AK family and Pioneer lovers across the globe!
petehall347
the brandy coffee man
i don't know about satellite tv over there .but over here we get free sat .a dish can be mounted almost anywhere if facing the right direction ..its south here .. trees aren't good in front of them for sure .. i have had mine on a tripod ..an lpg gas bottle and other places ..now its on my workshop out of the way ..
just a thought if free sat is available over there ..
just a thought if free sat is available over there ..
Antenna is up my "lawn guy" did it as a favor, since it's not his usual business.
got several suggestions for an update.
Yesterday I went to the pulmonologist. Got the official okey dokey to go on room air during the daytime, no more dragging an O2 tube around the house behind me!!!
That means:
I can send back the huge H tank of 24 hours emergency power blackout oxygen supply they put in the house - 5 feet tall and gawd only knows how many PSI of pure oxygen....
put it this way, the physicist in me abhors the pressure inside of the thing (2 to 3 thousand PSI) (inside of a house/ living structure)
the chemist inside of me abhors the reactivity of that much pure O2 in one place. (inside of a house/ living structure)
In a fire that would be one HELL of an explosion.
AND NOW I CAN GET IT OUT OF MY HOUSE.
as well as other things that can now also go....
so, yesterday was a milestone I had been anticipating for quite some time.
and
about two weeks ago, the NEW Dell laptop that I had been using in the Hospital(s) developed a dead Ethernet port.
After the usual servicing by remote attempts, it was determined that it needed to be sent in.
Thus my work in fixing the OLD laptop that died while I was in the hospital was quite fortuitous (dead hard drive replaced)
and I set that one up to use in the interim. ( remember I carped about "computer problems" in a few posts?)
Dell service replaced a daughter board that serviced the connectors on that corner of the laptop.
when it came back, the Ethernet port worked fine, but the USB ports on either side of it didn't.... :tears:
The Costco concierge service must have sent a lightning bolt through Dell, I had service supervisors out the wazoo on the case...
turned out the NEW daughter board's usb controller chip(s) were so new Windows did not yet have the drivers for the chips in Windows
but they did have them available for download, so after they were installed, the USB's were back up and running, better than ever...
BETTER THAN EVER????
Yup, the old USB ports were USB 2.0, the new USB ports are now 3.0 !!!
better than ever .....
Yesterday I went to the pulmonologist. Got the official okey dokey to go on room air during the daytime, no more dragging an O2 tube around the house behind me!!!
That means:
I can send back the huge H tank of 24 hours emergency power blackout oxygen supply they put in the house - 5 feet tall and gawd only knows how many PSI of pure oxygen....
put it this way, the physicist in me abhors the pressure inside of the thing (2 to 3 thousand PSI) (inside of a house/ living structure)
the chemist inside of me abhors the reactivity of that much pure O2 in one place. (inside of a house/ living structure)
In a fire that would be one HELL of an explosion.
AND NOW I CAN GET IT OUT OF MY HOUSE.
as well as other things that can now also go....
so, yesterday was a milestone I had been anticipating for quite some time.
and
about two weeks ago, the NEW Dell laptop that I had been using in the Hospital(s) developed a dead Ethernet port.
After the usual servicing by remote attempts, it was determined that it needed to be sent in.
Thus my work in fixing the OLD laptop that died while I was in the hospital was quite fortuitous (dead hard drive replaced)
and I set that one up to use in the interim. ( remember I carped about "computer problems" in a few posts?)
Dell service replaced a daughter board that serviced the connectors on that corner of the laptop.
when it came back, the Ethernet port worked fine, but the USB ports on either side of it didn't.... :tears:
The Costco concierge service must have sent a lightning bolt through Dell, I had service supervisors out the wazoo on the case...
turned out the NEW daughter board's usb controller chip(s) were so new Windows did not yet have the drivers for the chips in Windows
but they did have them available for download, so after they were installed, the USB's were back up and running, better than ever...
BETTER THAN EVER????
Yup, the old USB ports were USB 2.0, the new USB ports are now 3.0 !!!
better than ever
.....
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No tag along tank AND an outdoor antenna, looking good sir
Yes, that traveling tank cart they set me up with for outside of the house travel is/was a horror
If I wanted to design something more difficult to use, so as to discourage anyone who had to use it from traveling, I couldn't have come up with anything worse...
(and I can be a pretty evil guy when I want to - good thing I don't LIKE to stray into the dark side)
Bad enough, Then they made it TWICE as heavy by adding a second tank, which if only ONE tank is loaded in, makes it horribly unbalanced.
climbing stairs and using it as a walker/ 4 corner cane - fuhgedabouddit... just wide enough in stance that it won't fit stably on a step at all, so both it AND you are unstable.
then stick out metal posts front and back that will snag anything as you try to slide it into a car, across the seats, and make the wheels large enough to impede their insertion into a rear seat footwell of a car to get the tanks as low as possible in the vehicle.
I could go on, but Darth mark is rising, gotta pound a stake through him again....
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KentTeffeteller
Gimpus Stereophilus!
Thanks for your perspectives on what you dealt with. Home beats hospitals.
Great news on all fronts, Mark. I was wondering about the O2 situation. Please "holler" should you need anything.
BTW, I've had similar experience with the Costco Concierge folks. It should be a model for how customer service should be handled, IMO. Sorry you had to go through the ordeal, however.
BTW, I've had similar experience with the Costco Concierge folks. It should be a model for how customer service should be handled, IMO. Sorry you had to go through the ordeal, however.
Onward and upward!:thmbsp:
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