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For two months, I saw patients in the Olive Garden parking lot. Oh so this is turning into that kind of thread. Yeah, after the flood of ought 5, our office was closed and I practiced out of the building's elevator for two weeks. It wasn't so bad seeing patients, but sometimes when the elevator hit ground, the snare would slip off the polyp so the colonoscopy took a little longer. I'm no medical professional, but that doesn't like my idea of fun. Going to have to stay out of elevators today because of you Jon.
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HAHAHAHA!!! That is just too funny! Did the patient wake up when you said "oops"?
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I think Jon's story was fictious. I doubt anesthesia would agree to put the patient out between floors seven and eight. That is if Jon uses anesthesia. I know they didn't with mine.
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I think Jon's story was fictious. I doubt anesthesia would agree to put the patient out between floors seven and eight. That is if Jon uses anesthesia. I know they didn't with mine. Bert, it may indeed be a figment of Jon's colorful imagination, or it may be the dark humor of exigent circumstances. Years ago one of my guys was pretty badly steam burned behind 1A boiler, and was stuck on the catwalk. Because we were along-side (the pier), they called the base EMTs. They showed up and attempted to render aid, but the federal safety rules were that he had to me immobilized on a stretcher before moving. There was no way that stretcher made the first turn on the catwalk, much less the vertical ladder out of the fireroom. It was probably 130-150 F behind the boiler, so the clock was ticking. The ladder was gummed up with all the "help" that had arrived, so the engineering duty chief, myself, and a couple of burly machinist mates went down the vertical escape hatch and popped out on the lower level below. As much as MMs and BTs ride each other, the chief gave the guys the nod, and these two wadded into the gaggle, and there was a fuss, but a minute later, the two emerged carefully carrying the burned man, and had him out of the space as fast as the chief and I could clear a path. Repair 5 (main spaces) had practiced carrying out guys with full gear on, so they made it look easy carrying a ~200lb man up the vertical ladder and out of the space. then they held him because the deck was so hot until the EMTs got their stretcher back out from behind the boiler. Then they carefully laid him back on the stretcher so that they would take him to the hospital. He was badly burned, but he survived. It's been almost 30 years, and the details are fuzzy, but I think it was MMs Suvboda and Armour; a giant swede from the upper midwest, and a enormous but quiet share-cropper's son from the south. What they did definitely wasn't in anyone's play book, but there was grim humor in how they wadded into that crowd in that tight space and came out with the burned guy. I am proud to have served with men like that.
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Well, the workmen for the office building came by this AM and told us that our AC Unit (Air Conditioning) is broken. Of course, today's expected high in NYC is around 105 degrees F. Not as high as in some locals, true, but still nothing to sneeze at.
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Yes but NYC has lots of other stuff with it like Humidity, Ozone, and lots of other crap mixed in with that "Air" down there... As you know, I know, we grew up down there.... 105 in NYC is just about unbareable and insane.... Close up shop and simply go home with a big "We're Sorry but the AC is Shot" sign on the door and message on the foward.... No NY'er worth their salt would begrudge you doing so on such an insane day....
Get the hell out of Dodge and just play catch-up next week when hopefully your building is fixed and so of the worst of this has passed... Be safe and stay cool....
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PS:
It hit 100 degrees even in the 'Cuse here yesterday and even in the much higher hills in the surrounding towns like Hamilton and Morrisville is was in the upper 90's...
It took me an entire weekend of work, reaching in over the Fenders, Radiator, and laying on the back arched the wrong way to remove the entire dashboard to even get to the HVAC housing buried behind the dash (Full Unit, side to side, with center stack and pass side airbag and glove box too) to allow access to the Evaporator (the cooling coils part of an AC system) core inside that HVAC system in the Old '98 ZJ Grand Cherokee....
But let me tell ya, with an hour & 15 minutes of driving each way to From Liverpool all the way out to Hamilton and Colgate to get my son to Goalie Camp all week, that Job was worth every dime of parts, time spent and every body ache during a week like this one... I'll never go without my AC again, that's for sure... I just restored the AC in our other same make and model Limited version I bought to one day replace this 212K mile ruster that is too stupid to know when to roll over and die... It just keeps coming back for more and more punishment. "Thank You Sir, May I have another???"
Love my 5.2 Magnum ZJ's and I really Love my AC.... yes Both AC's that is....
Paul
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Wow., It 100 up in Syracuse!? this is a serious heatwave.
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Leslie
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Get ready, another one is on the way. Yesterday felt like a fall day while I was cutting hay after work. Today and tomorrow while I am baling will be a different story. Time to bring out the old bandanna and freezer packs. I kind of look like a snarly biker with a tumor on his head. Glad the field is not by the road...may diminish the confidence my patients have in me as their doctor 
Leslie
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I don't think the people of Southern Indiana will ever loose confidence in a Doc with a Mule hitching post out in front of the office! I thought it felt a little cooler in Creston today, it was 92 at lunch time.
Tom Young, DO
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HAHA...Tom if I had a mule hitching post out front the people racing in and out of McDonald's would take it out the first day!
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