I found out the Hard way that has a flavor in it with in my grasp nearly 24/7.
I was feeling poorly so I went to a “Doc in the Box”- (Patient First))
They told me that my sugar was low & I need to lay down while they gave me a bag of liquid w/ salt in it! They also told me to drink more liquids with electrolytes in it.
@Lynnerizer After my two month nap, when I was learning how to swallow again, I got put on a thick liquid diet. Thin orange juice sounds SO much better than the thick orange juice I was given. Also… I will never consume cream of wheat again
@capnjb
Oh jeez, that’s awful! My guy went through the same thing after HIS thirty day nap! He hated having to use those thickening crystals/powder. But hey, the alternative, the risk of aspirating would only lead him back into another long nap/nightmare!
On the brighter side… Nothing lasts forever, thank goodness both of you are on the other side of it!
@Lynnerizer I went through two different bouts of pneumonia during my coma. One in each lung. I remember before I left the ICU and went to a different floor to start my recovery, they said they needed to remove the fluid from my right lung. I couldn’t walk again yet, so they wheeled me into a room and helped me sit up on a hospital table.
graphic warning for the faint of heart
Then the doctor came in with a needle that looked like it should have been used on a horse. He walked around behind me and put it in my back, through my ribcage and into my lung. I was used to pain at this point, but it was certainly different sensation than anything I’d experienced previously. They pulled probably a cup or two of fluid out of that lung. Knowing what it’s like to know what it feels like to have a needle slide between your ribs… and feeling your lung get punctured, intentionally, is something I wouldn’t mind forgetting
@capnjb@Lynnerizer
I’ll file that away as one of those things I don’t want to have happen to me (on your recommendation). Sort of like the needle punch biopsy of my prostate (my recommendation).
@capnjb
Yeah, I’m with you on that one! Forget away…!
Much different than yours but I have one of those horse needle stories myself, I swear that thing was a foot long!
I was 12 years old and in the hospital for at least a week already with one grossly swollen and painful foot & leg. In trying to diagnose me and they were needing to get spinal fluid checking for spinal meningitis. My mother was insisting on staying in the room with me even though the Drs were asking her to wait outside. Rather than starting even MORE of a scene and getting me worked up, I needed to stay calm and very still, they gave in having her stay on the other side of the room and just ignored her. After all, I was just a kid and they knew it was out of love and concern she wanted to be there.
Everything was going smoothly and as I was feeling the long needle slowly coming out of my back we heard a loud SMASH - BOOM - BANG, mom had fainted smashing into the empty bed and side table while watching that humongous needle coming out my back! I remember as everyone else in the room (nurses and other assistants) ran to help my mom the doctor saying in a smug voice “I told her she didn’t want to see this”!
Not one of my mom’s best moments and I’m pretty sure her embarrassment outweighed the physical pain.
I hadn’t thought about that in years, and now, almost 50 years later, it’s nice to be able to look back and laugh!
@Lynnerizer Needles don’t bother me at all anymore. As I started my recovery, the phlebotomist (that’s a fun word ) would draw blood at 4:30 every morning. And she’d always start by saying, ‘this might sting’. In my head I’m thinking, bitch, you’ve been doing this every day for the last two weeks… kind of sure I know what to expect
Having blood drawn has never bothered me and I used to be a hard stick. They ALWAYS had a tough time and would dig around looking for veins! Gained 50 pounds and now my veins are bulging! They tell me it doesn’t usually work like that but it is what it is!
On the other hand, I’m about DONE with these darn insulin injections! Nothing like getting stung by a bee 3-4 times a day because THAT’S what it feels like to me!
@kittykat9180@Star2236 You’ve got to be careful to swap out charcoal filters before the saturate, or they start dumping what they’ve absorbed. That goes for charcoal prefilters on a HEPA unit as well. (I had one of those get saturated long before the particulate filter was in need of replacement and … phew!)
@Mehlachi I have to say other than the needle part it’s very effective. And you generally can’t just walk in to a place and say I’d like the IV drip-of-the-day, please. Common in many sports.
Apparently on things like Tour-de-France which are incredibly grueling, it used to be common to finish the day with an IV in the team bus on the way back to the hotel. Lance Armstrong who we know was involved with other less-than-legal doping was speaking about this; he says they now have a no-needle (meaning no IV ever) throughout 3 weeks of racing. He understands why but said it seems like an over-reaction and damaging and potentially unhealthy for the riders depleting themselves over that much time and distance often in extreme heat.
I grab what plants crave. BRAWNDO!!!
@yakkoTDI Its teh ecomony. stoopid
A hydrant, of course.
Iced tea!
I found out the Hard way that has a flavor in it with in my grasp nearly 24/7.
I was feeling poorly so I went to a “Doc in the Box”- (Patient First))
They told me that my sugar was low & I need to lay down while they gave me a bag of liquid w/ salt in it! They also told me to drink more liquids with electrolytes in it.
Fiji water is my go to.
Only because I can’t keep water down my VERY MUCH watered down orange juice is my go to these days.
@Lynnerizer After my two month nap, when I was learning how to swallow again, I got put on a thick liquid diet. Thin orange juice sounds SO much better than the thick orange juice I was given. Also… I will never consume cream of wheat again
@capnjb
My guy went through the same thing after HIS thirty day nap! He hated having to use those thickening crystals/powder. But hey, the alternative, the risk of aspirating would only lead him back into another long nap/nightmare! 
Nothing lasts forever, thank goodness both of you are on the other side of it! 
Oh jeez, that’s awful!
On the brighter side…
@Lynnerizer
I went through two different bouts of pneumonia during my coma. One in each lung. I remember before I left the ICU and went to a different floor to start my recovery, they said they needed to remove the fluid from my right lung. I couldn’t walk again yet, so they wheeled me into a room and helped me sit up on a hospital table.
graphic warning for the faint of heart
Then the doctor came in with a needle that looked like it should have been used on a horse. He walked around behind me and put it in my back, through my ribcage and into my lung. I was used to pain at this point, but it was certainly different sensation than anything I’d experienced previously. They pulled probably a cup or two of fluid out of that lung. Knowing what it’s like to know what it feels like to have a needle slide between your ribs… and feeling your lung get punctured, intentionally, is something I wouldn’t mind forgetting
@capnjb @Lynnerizer
I’ll file that away as one of those things I don’t want to have happen to me (on your recommendation). Sort of like the needle punch biopsy of my prostate (my recommendation).
@capnjb
Yeah, I’m with you on that one! Forget away…!
Much different than yours but I have one of those horse needle stories myself, I swear that thing was a foot long!
In trying to diagnose me and they were needing to get spinal fluid checking for spinal meningitis. My mother was insisting on staying in the room with me even though the Drs were asking her to wait outside. Rather than starting even MORE of a scene and getting me worked up, I needed to stay calm and very still, they gave in having her stay on the other side of the room and just ignored her. After all, I was just a kid and they knew it was out of love and concern she wanted to be there.
I remember as everyone else in the room (nurses and other assistants) ran to help my mom the doctor saying in a smug voice “I told her she didn’t want to see this”! 
I was 12 years old and in the hospital for at least a week already with one grossly swollen and painful foot & leg.
Everything was going smoothly and as I was feeling the long needle slowly coming out of my back we heard a loud SMASH - BOOM - BANG, mom had fainted smashing into the empty bed and side table while watching that humongous needle coming out my back!
Not one of my mom’s best moments and I’m pretty sure her embarrassment outweighed the physical pain.
I hadn’t thought about that in years, and now, almost 50 years later, it’s nice to be able to look back and laugh!
@Lynnerizer Wow… that must have been a sight!
@Lynnerizer Needles don’t bother me at all anymore. As I started my recovery, the phlebotomist (that’s a fun word
) would draw blood at 4:30 every morning. And she’d always start by saying, ‘this might sting’. In my head I’m thinking, bitch, you’ve been doing this every day for the last two weeks… kind of sure I know what to expect 
She was lovely, though.
@capnjb
Thanks, I needed that!
Having blood drawn has never bothered me and I used to be a hard stick. They ALWAYS had a tough time and would dig around looking for veins! Gained 50 pounds and now my veins are bulging! They tell me it doesn’t usually work like that but it is what it is!
On the other hand, I’m about DONE with these darn insulin injections! Nothing like getting stung by a bee 3-4 times a day because THAT’S what it feels like to me!
Mountain Dew Code Red is all I drink. My intestines love it.
@xenophod And the doc running the colonoscopy will be impressed.
Fizzy water via Drinkmate
Tap water when it tastes good, filtered when it don’t.
Water from my refrigerator filter.
@kittykat9180
My boyfriend argues that it’s the same water as what comes out the faucet but I can taste the difference.
@Star2236 it goes through a charcoal filter, it’s gotta be slightly different.
@kittykat9180
Oh I know it is.
@kittykat9180 @Star2236 You’ve got to be careful to swap out charcoal filters before the saturate, or they start dumping what they’ve absorbed. That goes for charcoal prefilters on a HEPA unit as well. (I had one of those get saturated long before the particulate filter was in need of replacement and … phew!)
@Star2236 @werehatrack my refrigerator tells me when it’s time to be changed.
My 64 oz. water bottle (usually filled with filtered water from my fridge).
I probably drink more tea than anything else.
@RichSPK I have a cabinet full of teas.
IV drip
@Mehlachi I have to say other than the needle part it’s very effective. And you generally can’t just walk in to a place and say I’d like the IV drip-of-the-day, please. Common in many sports.
Apparently on things like Tour-de-France which are incredibly grueling, it used to be common to finish the day with an IV in the team bus on the way back to the hotel. Lance Armstrong who we know was involved with other less-than-legal doping was speaking about this; he says they now have a no-needle (meaning no IV ever) throughout 3 weeks of racing. He understands why but said it seems like an over-reaction and damaging and potentially unhealthy for the riders depleting themselves over that much time and distance often in extreme heat.
@Mehlachi @pmarin
like this?
@Mehlachi @pmarin
@chienfou Good grief!
@pmarin
@chienfou JFC! (But it’s Vegas, where everything is for sale, so I shouldn’t be surprised.)
@pmarin @werehatrack @kyeh @Mehlachi
Before COVID they used to do this service on a bus that ran up and down the strip.
/youtube Dr Strangelove Buck Turgidson distilled water and pure grain alcohol
Myself