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03-25-2024, 02:43 PM | #7812 |
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Scarred, probably for life, I tell ya.
Yes, I am a He-UUUGGE baby. I reminded them when I sat down that I was allergic to needles. They paid me about as much attention as my wife.
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03-25-2024, 02:54 PM | #7813 |
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03-25-2024, 03:02 PM | #7814 |
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When I was a starving college student in 1972-73 I got a construction job to augment my VA payments. It was with a building insulation company working on a new hospital. The insulation material was something called Zonolite made by W. R. Grace and Co. It was a dry dusty material that came in bags. This would be added to water in a mixer, and then dumped into a powerful pump which then sent the mix through a long hose to where a worker would shoot it onto the structural steel of the building.
No one ever mentioned the word asbestos, and I certainly had never heard of its danger at the time. Turns out Zonolite was nearly pure asbestos. My job was to operate the mixer and the pump, and tear open the bags and achieve the proper consistency of the mix before dumping it into the hopper of the pump. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust all day and my clothes were covered with it. Thank God I had the common sense to figure out that breathing in this stuff was not a good idea, so I would take a deep breath and hold it before tearing open a bag and dumping it, and would not breath until the cloud had blown away. When I got home I would take off all my clothes in the yard (we had no neighbors) and would beat everything out of them that I could. Never the less I had to have inhaled some of it over time. I did not hear about the danger of asbestos until about 5 years later, and worried from time to time for years if I was going to come down with asbestosis. It hasn't happened yet so I figure I'm good. I do consider myself very lucky though.
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03-25-2024, 03:13 PM | #7815 |
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He said it shouldn’t be as bad as when he removed remnants of roots from another tooth last December (without the Diazepam). It’ll be numb so shouldn’t hurt but I get tensed up and had a big problem with TMJ pain for weeks after that procedure. So trying to avoid that type of collateral damage but don’t think I need full unconscious. Guess I’ll find out soon enough.
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03-25-2024, 03:21 PM | #7816 | |
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There are towns outside asbestos mines where the instances of cancer and asbestosis are no higher than a normal town. And then there are towns near mines where the incidents are really high. A lot depends on the type of asbestos. Some is worse than others. I have a piece of the Berlin wall safely wrapped in plastic because it contains asbestos. Not taking any chances.
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03-25-2024, 03:39 PM | #7817 |
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03-25-2024, 04:24 PM | #7818 | |
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Glad to hear you remain unaffected by your exposure.
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03-25-2024, 04:29 PM | #7819 |
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You know you're old when you throw your back out blowing on your birthday cake candles, or when getting lucky means finding your car in the parking lot on the first try! How about when you start telling people you're "29 with a few years of experience"... repeatedly? And let's not forget, you know you're definitely old when your favorite songs are now elevator music. Oh, and those noises you make when getting up? They're not sound effects; they're your personal soundtrack!
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03-25-2024, 05:08 PM | #7820 |
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Up until recently I could get away with telling people I was forty-nineteen. Not any more.
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03-25-2024, 05:24 PM | #7821 |
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.... when getting carded at a bar at Chicago's O'Hare airport (where they card everybody) is the highlight of your day...
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03-26-2024, 10:55 AM | #7822 | |
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was much better when I had the originals installed. My dentist retired a couple of years ago and the new dentist and staff are much younger, up to date on the latest techniques and very organized. I could barely feel the injections (one per crown) plus could not feel any of the grinding, etc. The dentist kindly provided a clever prop to hold my jaw open. All in all, I was able to relax for the 1st time ever. My dentist installed porcelain crowns which I really like. And NO temperature sensitivity.
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03-26-2024, 02:31 PM | #7824 |
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^^^That's a funny thing about my Dad. He *never* swore at home. I got smacked once because I used the word "pissah," which is a Boston thing. Then one Saturday my Dad had to go into work because a gate around the property had frozen shut in a snowstorm. Since it was Saturday and no one else besides a mechanic would be there, he brought my younger brother and me along with him. There was a Dunkin Donuts shop right near his workplace and he promised us donuts if we went to help him. He had us go up into a control tower where he worked and told us to push the open/close buttons on the gate controller when he said to do so over the intercom. Then he went back outside to work with the mechanic on the gate. When they had freed up the gate, he told us to push the Open button, which worked fine and opened the gate. He told us it was working, good job, and all that. Then I asked if we could get donuts now. My brother and I then heard him say to the mechanic, "Do you believe this f**king kid? Always thinking about his stomach."
My brother and I sat there with our jaws on the floor staring at each other. Dad said the F-word!!!! We were stunned. Years later I met some guys who worked with my Dad who claimed he was a prodigious crafter of brutal language when he was mad at someone for screwing up. Something I never knew about my father.
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03-26-2024, 02:48 PM | #7825 | |
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My dad, on the other hand, would swear like a sailor no matter who was around him and no matter where he was. Was kinda funny, to tell you the truth. Obviously me and my two sisters had a very 'broad' vocabulary at a young age.
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03-26-2024, 04:09 PM | #7827 |
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Was nagging UncleWede about going to the dentist and being a wuss, now I’ve broken a tooth and have to go myself. Payback is a bitch.
Appointment is Thursday.
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03-27-2024, 04:06 AM | #7828 |
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When you see kids on the subway saying: “Call me.” By holding up their palm to their ear making a large phone slab shape. Imagine fingers extended to the ear if you will, like a slap approaching upside the head. For me… I usually extend the the thumb and the pinky making a handset. 📞
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03-28-2024, 04:19 AM | #7829 |
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You know you're old when...
... you`re right and everyone else is wrong
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03-28-2024, 02:57 PM | #7830 |
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That's ALWAYS been true
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03-28-2024, 03:04 PM | #7831 |
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...when you are skiing with your grandchildren and, while waiting in lift line, a guy says to me; "Wow, skiing with your grand kids. I can't believe you are still skiing at your age!". I didn't know whether to thank him, punch him in the jaw, or take him up on the hill and race him down!!. For the record, I thanked him.
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I was never a good skier but I always enjoyed doing it. I was once the only skier going up and down a black diamond slope at Sunday River in Maine. It was bitter cold, but I couldn't resist the chance to have the entire ski run to myself. The ski lift operator thought I was nuts.
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