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Just replaced a thru the wall freeze proof hydrant. AGAIN!

Had an ancient one give up on me back in the spring.
Went to get one and they had made in the USA for $38 and Chinese for $28 I think.
Bought american better right?
Damn piece of excrement developed a pinhole in the copper tube of the main body. Clearly a metal contaminent issue.

Bought Chinese this time.
 
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The Cromwell said:
We need food replicators so we could just dump weeds in them and get good stuff to eat out.
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Indeed Bob...actually that Bindweed is supposed to be good for the body, has anti-cancer ingredients in the weed-plant. Guess it depends on which category to put the green nuisance plant. Rich-Lannie hate um, other people buy um....:)
 
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The big domestic morning glorys are psychoactive.
Used to watch bumble bees suck on em a while then crash and just buzz in circles on the ground for a while.
Then maange to get back vertical and fly some and right back to the morning glory blossom :)

Humans are a lot like bees?
 
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The Cromwell said:
The big domestic morning glorys are psychoactive.
Used to watch bumble bees suck on em a while then crash and just buzz in circles on the ground for a while.
Then maange to get back vertical and fly some and right back to the morning glory blossom :)

Humans are a lot like bees?
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Learn something each day.....:giggle:
 
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Dang, did everyone take off for the weekend?
 
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I'm relaxing. After a hard weekend of work, my back gave out. By the time I got feeling back in my legs, they hurt like hell throughout the night. It'll be a while before I can trust them.
 
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Hi guys! Nothing new here. I've been researching different topics (health related) and I'm overwhelmed. I'm trying to figure out if numbness in my toes is related to my medication or a vitamin deficiency.
Have a good night.
 
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Rich hasn't been here because he was in the hospital all day Saturday. No idea how we're going to pay the ambulance bill, which will be substantial, but hey, he needed to go. I'll let him fill you in on all the details when he's up to sitting in front of the computer again, but he's back home now, and getting better, little by little. And me with no driver's license and not having driven in 14 years, got to drive his big truck all the way to Sturgis to pick him up and I didn't even get arrested. Good thing there aren't too many cops around here. (I didn't forget how to drive, I'm a good driver, just a little out of practice...)
 
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Lannie said:
Rich hasn't been here because he was in the hospital all day Saturday. No idea how we're going to pay the ambulance bill, which will be substantial, but hey, he needed to go. I'll let him fill you in on all the details when he's up to sitting in front of the computer again, but he's back home now, and getting better, little by little. And me with no driver's license and not having driven in 14 years, got to drive his big truck all the way to Sturgis to pick him up and I didn't even get arrested. Good thing there aren't too many cops around here. (I didn't forget how to drive, I'm a good driver, just a little out of practice...)
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:hug: (and give one to the curmudgeon on my behalf when you have time!)
 
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Lannie said:
Rich hasn't been here because he was in the hospital all day Saturday. No idea how we're going to pay the ambulance bill, which will be substantial, but hey, he needed to go. I'll let him fill you in on all the details when he's up to sitting in front of the computer again, but he's back home now, and getting better, little by little. And me with no driver's license and not having driven in 14 years, got to drive his big truck all the way to Sturgis to pick him up and I didn't even get arrested. Good thing there aren't too many cops around here. (I didn't forget how to drive, I'm a good driver, just a little out of practice...)
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Yikes! I hope he's feeling better!
 
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Lannie said:
Rich hasn't been here because he was in the hospital all day Saturday. No idea how we're going to pay the ambulance bill, which will be substantial, but hey, he needed to go. I'll let him fill you in on all the details when he's up to sitting in front of the computer again, but he's back home now, and getting better, little by little. And me with no driver's license and not having driven in 14 years, got to drive his big truck all the way to Sturgis to pick him up and I didn't even get arrested. Good thing there aren't too many cops around here. (I didn't forget how to drive, I'm a good driver, just a little out of practice...)
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Lannie...please tell Rich I'm rooting for you both....!
 
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OHH NO!
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Oh yes... had a really nasty kidney stone in the right kidney. I actually started hurting Friday morning, but I made it until just after noon before I had no choice but to fall on the bed and pass out. It didn't hurt too much as long as I stayed lying down, but the minute I stood up, I got severe pain and my bladder did it damnedest to empty right then and there. Back to bed. Then fever started (hot enough to make the sheets wet with sweat, then cold enough to shiver so hard I looked like I was on a vibrating machine). Lannie tried to get me up Saturday morning, but my body was not complying. I think it was noonish when she finally managed to get me awake enough to be semi-coherent. Now I have to give five gold stars to her because ever since Friday night, she has done evening and morning chores (cows, cow milking, horses, chickens, feral cats) ALL BY HERSELF. I have been totally unable to contribute in any manner until tonight when I managed to take out the garbage and feed the feral cats, at which point I was sufficiently dizzy to almost fall over. Anyway...

By Saturday afternoon, the pain was so bad and I was passing out so often, Lannie thought I was gonna die, so she dialed 911 and the ambulance showed up and took my ass to the ER at Ft. Meade VA (Sturgis, 75 miles from here - and why the hell does the suspension on the battle-tank ambulances have to be so stiff that every bump feels like they drove in the ditch?) Anyway, one of the ER nurses nagged me (again and again) to pee in the bottle and all the time I was waiting for her to bring me a bottle, but she had already placed it between my legs - now how the hell was I supposed to see it down there? Anyway, when I finally did pee in their bottle so they could do a urine test on me, I obviously passed the stone. It hurt to pee it out, but after it was out, the vast majority of pain subsided. The ER doctor asked the CT scan girl to come get me and do my head and lower abdomen, then after she brought me back, he asked her to do a couple chest X-rays. When that was all done, the doctor told me that, as far as he could see, there was not a single thing wrong inside me except for a few gall stones. I told him that I have had those since 1998, so what is causing these extra symptoms (passing out, dizziness, throwing up, etc.) and he said I probably had the flu compounding the kidney stone. I told him I doubted that because the last time I had the flu was 1967, so he had a nurse ram a swab up both nostrils to test which kind of flu I had (the test came back yesterday and I do NOT have the flu). Lannie and I pondered what was left (the nice doctor never did make his courtesy call back) and have decided that the chemical imbalance of the kidney stone might have over-driven the balance of various chemicals in the gall bladder and I am simply having a short term reaction where too much bile is spilling into the duodenum (nausea, vomiting, dizziness), so I stuffed some herbal capsules that should restore the balance and we'll know more in a week or so.

Until then, I do not know how I can manage to stay up this late, but I'll give it a shot.
 
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Draconigena said:
Oh yes... had a really nasty kidney stone in the right kidney. I actually started hurting Friday morning, but I made it until just after noon before I had no choice but to fall of the bed and pass out. It didn't hurt too much as long as I stayed lying down, but the minute I stood up, I got severe pain and my bladder did it damnedest to empty right then and there. Back to bed. Lannie tried to get me up Saturday morning, but my body was not complying. I think it was noonish when she finally managed to get me awake enough to be semi-coherent. Now I have to give five gold stars to her because ever since Friday night, she has done evening and morning chores (cows, cow milking, horses, chickens, feral cats) ALL BY HERSELF. I have been totally unable to contribute in any manner until tonight when I managed to take out the garbage and feed the feral cats, at which point I was sufficiently dizzy to almost fall over. Anyway...

By Saturday afternoon, the pain was so bad and I was passing out so often, Lannie thought I was gonna die, so she dialed 911 and the ambulance showed up and took my ass to the ER at Ft. Meade VA (Sturgis, 75 miles from here - and why the hell does the suspension on the battle-tank ambulances have to be so stiff that every bump feels like they drove in the ditch?) Anyway, one of the ER nurses nagged me (again and again) to pee in the bottle and all the time I was waiting for her to bring me a bottle, but she had already placed it between my legs - now how the hell was I supposed to see it down there? Anyway, when I finally did pee in their bottle so they could do a urine test on me, I obviously passed the stone. It hurt to pee it out, but after it was out, the vast majority of pain subsided. The ER doctor asked the CT scan girl to come get me and do my head and lower abdomen, then after she brought me back, he asked her to do a couple chest X-rays. When that was all done, the doctor told me that as far as he could see, there was not a single thing wrong inside me except for a few gall stones. I told him that I have had those since 1998, so what is causing these extra symptoms (passing out, dizziness, throwing up, etc.) and he said I probably had the flu compounding the kidney stone. I told him I doubted that because the last time I had the flu was 1967, so he had a nurse ram a swab up both nostrils to test which kind of flu I had (the test came back yesterday and I do NOT have the flu). Lannie and I pondered what was left (the nice doctor never did make his courtesy call back) and have decided that the chemical imbalance of the kidney stone might have over-driven the balance of various chemicals in the gall bladder and I am simply having a short term reaction where too much bile is spilling into the duodenum (nausea, vomiting, dizziness), so I stuffed some herbal capsules that should restore the balance and we'll know more in a week or so.

Until then, I do not know how I can manage to stay up this late, but I'll give it a shot.
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Happy to hear it's only stones. Still, sorry you had to endure the suffering.
 
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Like I've said in the past, I wish I lived closer, even 500 miles closer....my ass would be there helping you and Lannie until you get back to just hurting from other things.
 
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Happy to hear it's only stones. Still, sorry you had to endure the suffering.
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Not the first time, unfortunately. Had to have laser surgery back in 1999 (or was it 2000?) on the right kidney (too big to pass out) and again ... ummm... four years ago? on the left kidney (this time they used a sonic disruper and the stupid bastard used settings to high, too many pulses, and he failed to focus the beam, so he turned my stomach into raw blood). My "outpatient surgery" had me in the hospital for five days. I would have sworn there was no pain that could ever make me cry like a baby, but that asshole managed it.
 
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Not the first time, unfortunately. Had to have laser surgery back in 1999 (or was it 2000?) on the right kidney (too big to pass out) and again ... ummm... four years ago? on the left kidney (this time they used a sonic disruper and the stupid bastard used settings to high, too many pulses, and he failed to focus the beam, so he turned my stomach into raw blood). My "outpatient surgery" had me in the hospital for five days. I would have sworn there was no pain that could ever make me cry like a baby, but that asshole managed it.
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That is fucked up. Like you, I have ZERO faith in what some call.... the medical community.
 
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Draconigena said:
Not the first time, unfortunately. Had to have laser surgery back in 1999 (or was it 2000?) on the right kidney (too big to pass out) and again ... ummm... four years ago? on the left kidney (this time they used a sonic disruper and the stupid bastard used settings to high, too many pulses, and he failed to focus the beam, so he turned my stomach into raw blood). My "outpatient surgery" had me in the hospital for five days. I would have sworn there was no pain that could ever make me cry like a baby, but that asshole managed it.
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May you outlive the asshole.
 
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Draconigena said:
Oh yes... had a really nasty kidney stone in the right kidney. I actually started hurting Friday morning, but I made it until just after noon before I had no choice but to fall of the bed and pass out. It didn't hurt too much as long as I stayed lying down, but the minute I stood up, I got severe pain and my bladder did it damnedest to empty right then and there. Back to bed. Lannie tried to get me up Saturday morning, but my body was not complying. I think it was noonish when she finally managed to get me awake enough to be semi-coherent. Now I have to give five gold stars to her because ever since Friday night, she has done evening and morning chores (cows, cow milking, horses, chickens, feral cats) ALL BY HERSELF. I have been totally unable to contribute in any manner until tonight when I managed to take out the garbage and feed the feral cats, at which point I was sufficiently dizzy to almost fall over. Anyway...

By Saturday afternoon, the pain was so bad and I was passing out so often, Lannie thought I was gonna die, so she dialed 911 and the ambulance showed up and took my ass to the ER at Ft. Meade VA (Sturgis, 75 miles from here - and why the hell does the suspension on the battle-tank ambulances have to be so stiff that every bump feels like they drove in the ditch?) Anyway, one of the ER nurses nagged me (again and again) to pee in the bottle and all the time I was waiting for her to bring me a bottle, but she had already placed it between my legs - now how the hell was I supposed to see it down there? Anyway, when I finally did pee in their bottle so they could do a urine test on me, I obviously passed the stone. It hurt to pee it out, but after it was out, the vast majority of pain subsided. The ER doctor asked the CT scan girl to come get me and do my head and lower abdomen, then after she brought me back, he asked her to do a couple chest X-rays. When that was all done, the doctor told me that as far as he could see, there was not a single thing wrong inside me except for a few gall stones. I told him that I have had those since 1998, so what is causing these extra symptoms (passing out, dizziness, throwing up, etc.) and he said I probably had the flu compounding the kidney stone. I told him I doubted that because the last time I had the flu was 1967, so he had a nurse ram a swab up both nostrils to test which kind of flu I had (the test came back yesterday and I do NOT have the flu). Lannie and I pondered what was left (the nice doctor never did make his courtesy call back) and have decided that the chemical imbalance of the kidney stone might have over-driven the balance of various chemicals in the gall bladder and I am simply having a short term reaction where too much bile is spilling into the duodenum (nausea, vomiting, dizziness), so I stuffed some herbal capsules that should restore the balance and we'll know more in a week or so.

Until then, I do not know how I can manage to stay up this late, but I'll give it a shot.
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Oh shit Rich, sorry to hear this my friend, sending good vibes and hope it passes soon.
 
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