What I did today

jon f mn

Well-known Member
Spent the day at the UofM today for my semiannual checkups. Along with seeing a bunch of doctors and doing a bunch of tests, this is the glass coffin they put me in to see if I'm dieing. They put you in and seal the door,it makes a shoooop sound just like on tv. Then they hook up the air compressor and pump up the pressure to 140psi or so, while they try blow your eyes out of your skull through your ears. The whole time the opperator lady sits there filing her nails with a smirk on her face telling you to breath normal while your chest colapses from the pressure as she watches the line on the graph get closer to the red line that says "dead". Just before you hit the line she cuts the compressor and throws the valve psheeewww, for an emergency blow and relieves the pressure, laughing gleefully. Just about the time you think you can take a breath she hooks up a vacuum and starts trying to suck your eyes out through your ears while telling you to breath normal, while smileing gleefully and filing her nails and watching the line go down to the red line below that says dead.

When they are all done, if you didn't croak, they say "see, your not dieing". If you croak, they say "see, we told you you were dieing" and they tell your family that they never saw you because you never showed up for your appointment.

Its just a coincidence that every time that happens the Chinese restaraunt down the street has kung pao chicken on special for the next two weeks.
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Too funny! Better than Seinfeld used to be! Perhaps you should take up writing.

Hope your NOT "checking out"... and that all test results will be good.

You and Mrs. jonf have to enjoy a lot of years on that there place in the country you just bought!!
 
I tried to read it to the wife but I was laughing so hard I had tears running down my face, that was great!
 
If you don't make it, you can have my favorite epitaph on your tombstone: "See, I told you I was sick."
 
Because it's tractor related! See 3 years ago I was on $10,000 a month in prescriptions alone and still near death. I had been seeing doctors from 3 different hospital systems trying to find the problem and no one could figure it out. As a last resort they sent me to the nice folks at the U of M in Minneapolis. There a very nice lady surgeon who was going to do my 5th surgery to keep me alive saw the real problem right away, she was the only doctor in many dozens I've seen and the only one at the U of M that had ever come across my problem, a disease that only one in a million people get. If she hadn't known what I have I am sure that I would be either dead, or nearly so, but I certainly wouldn't be working and enjoying my tractors now. So this is tractor related because without it there would be no tractors for me, and no daily funny for the rest of you.
 
There has developed on this site quite a "family". I, for one, am delighted to read about the lives of this group. Whether it be weather/disasters, ailing parents, success stories, travels, it just doesn't matter. The more we understand what's happening with others in other parts of the country outside of our own little "world", the better.
 
I'm with Mike M ........ something's missing from your story. At least something to let us into the ballpark.
 
I don't know what they call the machine, but it's a "lung function" test. It graphs how much air I can take in and blow out to test and track the damage to my lungs. It applies all different kinds of pressures to see how you react.
 
What fun! A few years ago I had to go in for an MRI because I could not shift the tractor. Well I am laying in this coffin that covers half your body. Well the upper half is in the coffin and the lower half is out. I start thinking about the two cute technicians running the machine and they keep telling me not to move. Yea right!
 
Been in that machine as I have copd and emphysema. Didn't think it was so bad. Showed up on the insurance bill as $3500 for the tests. I take two inhalers but must be something different as it only costs about $600 a month before insurance.
 
I bet my son had at least one of those as part of his on going health issues. He did mention something that was like a phone booth.
 
(quoted from post at 13:24:39 09/07/18) And all this time I thought they caught the stray cats for that special.

Chinese restaurant a few blocks over has a sign that says "We no see your cat. Stop asking."
 
They would probably have to knock me out to put me in there. I never had much problem with claustrophobia (sp?), and who knows why, but I do now.
 
That there was near as fun as the, post cancer, check up cat scan with dye contrast I had about two weeks ago. The cute little lab tech stuck me with a needle for the IV contrast, missed and pumped all the contrast fluid into my arm muscle, or lack there of, especially made my lower arm look like Popeye's arm. Hurt like all get out. "We can do it again", she said. "On the other arm!". No thank you. If you need it redone, call me back in a week. It only took 3 days for the arm to get back to subnormal.
 
(quoted from post at 10:35:58 09/07/18) When I read that I was wondering why he came to Michigan for the test.
Same here. :lol: :lol: Go Blue (we're a Wolverine family, me, wife and all 3 daughters graduated from there)
 

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