What Annoyed You Today? (1 Viewer)

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A few things I remember from our wedding prep.
The sign behind the register at the bridal shop where we bought my wife's dress:
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR POOR FIT DUE TO PREGNANCY!

And listening to the bride and momzilla ahead of us at the cake shop demanding that the icing on their cake be the exact same shade as the printing on their invitations.
 
Once had a bride and mother say
" you will be redecorating the hotel before the wedding as the red clashes with our colour scheme !"
 
I had a supervisor, back when I was the young newbie in the branch, try to find "irregardless" in the dictionary. He got so mad, he threw the book at the wall, turned to me and said, "Are there two Rs in irregardless or one?" I was on his list because he had wanted the job for his son. This was a report to the regional manager he hoped to impress. I caught the eye of the secretary with a frightened look on her face, and quickly said, "I'd use two."
Crisis averted.
 
I have not been run virus scans on my Windows 10 computer, but did run one a few weeks back and it found three virus programs. I decided to run the quick scans at least every other day and to run the complete scans if I was going to be out of the house for at least a few hours. But every time I ran the complete scans before leaving the house I came back some hours later to find that the scans were not only not yet completed but had gotten hardly any further along than where they had been when I left.

Then I did some research. It seems that a few years ago Microsoft introduced a new "sleep" feature that made the computer much harder to wake up. It turned out you sometimes had to touch the power button to get it to wake up. And it turns out that enhanced "sleep" feature ALSO TURNS OFF THE COMPLETE SCAN! What idiots! To get it to run a complete scan without automatically shutting down during "Sleep" you have to go into Settings and turn off the Sleep feature, or at least delay it to much longer. And when I did that, guess what? It started finding virus infections that are not found during the Quick scans.

I'd like to say that I can't believe that Microsoft would deliberately install a new feature that kills the ability to find virus infections, but in truth, it sounds just like them.
 
Expletive doctors at Bundy Base (state) hospital and one specialist.

Yesterday morning my son was taken to the hospital suffering from massive breathing problems and a low pulse rate (40bpm).

He had recently been to a specialist to find out why this breathing problem was happening on a minor scale but this time was a major problem. The specialist did a couple of tests that found nothing wrong so decided it was asthma.

Yesterday the hospital read that and so threw all sorts of asthma meds at him none of which did any good. They then added a heart med and he "came good" (tho still breathing very badly) so they said they would send his GP a letter saying he needed to be referred to a heart specialist and told him the wait might be three months.

Today - second verse same as the first except they actually wrote him a referral to the heart specialist but he has to make the appointment and he sent home at 15:00 instead of 17:30. They still predicted a 3 month wait for the specialist.

I have told his new wife (only married a month ago) that if it happens again get the ambos to take him to the private hospital next time because he has veterans health benefits and to make sure the doctors there know that he does NOT have asthma because two days on end asthma meds did absolutely nothing to improve his condition. While we visited him today his pulse rate alarm was going off, on average, every couple of minutes as his pulse fluctuated between 42 and 75 and they just kept remote cancelling the alarm which went off any time his pulse dropped below 50.

My wife and I have always found paying the $250 gap payment is well worth the money to go to the FSPH and they have three heart specialists on the premises so he will see one immediately if that is the problem.

If the doctors at base had half a brain this morning they would have read yesterdays treatment and realised that he does not have asthma and gone either straight to heart meds or better still looked for allergy indicators in his blood or elsewhere. Instead they read the specialists asthma diagnoses and immediately repeated yesterdays treatment.
 
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My wife who is a nurse says a hospital is one of the most dangerous places you can be in

Personal examples:

1. Years ago we took my father to the emergency room for a minor stroke. An EMT hooked him up to an IV that had a line completely full of air. My wife saw it and yelled at the guy to get a syringe so she could suck the air out of it before it killed him. The head nurse came in all pissed off because my wife was giving orders to her person then shut up when she saw the air in the line.

2. When my wife and I were dating I was in the hospital with septicemia and every evening evening my temp would spike at 103 and I would become delirious so they had me on a cooling/heating pad machine. My future wife came in to visit and found they had the machine set to HEAT. She grabbed a nurse who said she had never used the machine before.

3. I had a heart attack a few years ago and afterword had a stent implanted. Before the procedure my wife could see on the monitors that my blood pressure was on the low side of normal which is not normal for me. She tried to tell them that it usually runs the high end of mormal but no one would listen. Durning the procedure I started really feeling bad and could feel the sweat running off the back of my head and had to tell them "Hey guys, somthing's not right, I feel relly bad". There was a lot of people moving around quickly and I started feeling better. Afterward when I told my wife about it she said that my blood pressure probably crashed and they were not looking at it and they had almost killed me.

Morel: If you have to go into a hospital make sure you marry a nurse first
 
At one hospital they were puzzled why patients hooked up to a respirator in one room kept dying. Eventually they found out that the guy who cleaned the floors was unplugging the respirator in that room because it was the only accessible outlet where he could plug in his vacuum cleaner.

In another hospital they accidentally found out that they had switched the Oxygen and Nitrous Oxide lines.
 
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