Couch 238: Appreciating Small Progress Couch

Today's beat me.

I have come to find Quordle much easier than Wordle. I wonder if it's because each turn provides more information, exponentially. Does that work out mathematically? Can anyone count and add up?

I didn't get along with quordle.

Not playing any of those. Im running out of time!

Artie, so glad to hear the h made it thru!

It really depends on the day for me. And I think I need a better Quordle strategy (Lost shared one with me that I think I need to actually try!) I'll sometimes get 3 or 4 letters of a word and get hung up on trying to figure that out, then have only, say, 4 guesses left for the last 3 words. But yes, you do get more information (that reminds me, I haven't done today's!)

ETA: Got it with 2 unused guesses!

Back home. A bit worse for wear emotionally though.

I find Duotrigordle (32 Wordles, 37 guesses) much too easy. It just takes a long time.

I am now popping my Quordle cherry. ETA: popped, with two guesses left.

In my first attempt at Duotrigordle just now, I got 25. But I think I'd do better on my next try, now having a better sense of how it works.

I have become one of those whiny people who complain when the temp erature goes below 20 degC. I grew up with snow darn it.

Did you also walk miles to school in blizzards, like stopdog and ex-hankster?

I'm glad you got home. Take care of yourself!

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Uphill both ways -don't forget

Were there Yeti lurking behind the snowbanks too?

Hey seriously i remember trying to walk in one morning when the ice was like 2 inches thick everywhere.

And now we have covid to brag about. "Yeah i once stayed home for 3 months with no toilet paper!"

Did they give you meds? When i had my weird stroke, there were no meds left to give me - i was already on all of them - so they had me start taking aspirin.

My t had offered to come pick me up and take me home, but he lives waaaay the other side of town, so i was like, "Naw, a taxi can get here faster!" You think you wait forever for that day, but when it comes, I just wanted to get home and make myself a canned chicken sandwich.

Exhankster probably had mastodon.

I didn't have a stroke, but my BP at one point was 220/140 which is definitely in Danger Will Robinson territory. I felt normal during all this. They gave me something I can't remember the name of in an IV. When they discovered the elevated cardiac enzyme, they game me aspirin to chew and moved me back to the actual ER. At some point, they started giving me oral BP meds, I think while I was still in the ER, which are also what I now have a prescription for.

This all started when I went to the dentist to get a crown done and they took my BP and it was sky high. After about 20 minutes or so of me saying I felt fine, they went ahead and did the crown which took 3 hours or so (they make the crown on site, so there was a lot of waiting). I thought maybe I should go get my BP taken somewhere else in case it wasn't just a faulty BP monitor at the dentist, so I went to an urgent care where I waited another 45 minutes or so while they saw a bunch of people getting Covid tests and some girl with a hurt finger before me. And yes, I told them it was in the 220 range when I checked in. Finally saw a doctor there and she said they couldn't do anything in office and told me I needed to go to the ER and was talking about strokes. Even though I've been both actively and passively suicidal at different points, stroke was something I never even considered. If I couldn't work anymore, I think I'd just be done at that point. So I drove to the ER. Told them I was there for high BP and showed them the paperwork from the urgent care and I still had to wait although it was probably only 15 minutes this time. They stuck me in a room right behind the intake desk and I heard another finger injury get taken straight away for vitals, so I'm now convinced finger injuries are the key to getting seen quickly. Seriously, you'd think they'd at least take my BP before sending me off to the waiting area.

When we took my mother back to the hospital, we spent about 4 1/2 hours waiting in the ER waiting room before even getting annER bed, despite the fact they were supposed to have a hospital bed ready for her. Mostly I remember holding an obviously very ill if not dying woman in my arms to try to keep her warm while all manner of people with all manner of ills, many apparently minor, were seen before us.

I get those cases are easier to deal with, so they want them out of the way. But still. Plus when urgent cares are available, as they are around here, people need to use them for those minor injuries.

The system is broken, @@. I'm so sorry, it's messed up and you shouldn't have to deal with it.

I'm glad you're home and that it wasn't a stroke, NP. I am really surprised that the hospital didn't take you back immediately considering the hip BP. When I had an elevated heart rate, they checked that basically as soon as I got there, then sent me back. However, it was at like 7 a.m. on a weekday and there were few people there, so that could be why. Though it felt like I had to wait forever (in reality, a couple hours) for the doctor to update me on what they thought was going on, in part because they got a lot busier, plus had to wait for my bloodwork results.


And @@, I'm also really sorry you had to deal with that.

For lunch. I had mastodon for lunch.

Regarding high blood pressure, I just want to point out that most people with high blood pressure feel absolutely fine. You don't feel it much, even if it's bad for you.

The only time I've been to the ER, there weren't lots of people, though we do have a similar problem to the US with people going there for minor stuff. Especially with their kids, they get worried about a fever and immediately go to the ER. However, I felt really bad when waiting in that ER, since I actually didn't want to be there. My friends saw me have a panic attack and although I had taken medication to calm down, they insisted on me going to the ER, where the discussion with the doc was like "we can't do anything for you" and me going "yes, I know, please tell that to the people outside, I'm feeling absolutely fine". I felt pretty bad for "blocking" the ER, even though it was mostly empty.

Where I am, a lot of people have MediCal. They flood the ER because there are only a few Urgent Cares that accept insurance and because hospital is free. However, ambulance and severe situations get priority. Everyone else is first come, first serve.

I'm glad you're back home, NP.