Cell phone overload due to eclipse.

[bharvey2]

The appendectomy was the easy part of the whole ordeal. That only took a little 1/2 inch incision. I don't know that I can even find the scar any more. It was the operation that followed the appendectomy, by about a month, where they removed 18" of my bowel (aka Right Hemicolectomy), that the "sleep button" turned up. For that operation the incision was about 20cm long. They cut vertically and made a detour around my belly button. I guess the whole thing was suppose to really really hurt. So I had a "morphine drip". It kept the pain mostly bearable, but would get really bad at times. So there was a small button on the end of a wire that I could use, when things got bad. I just press the button and it would increase the dosage. 15-20 seconds later, I was out like a light. It worked fine for me. Years later my wife and daughter was given morphine in a hospital, but they couldn't handle it. The doctors had to switch to something lighter.

But the first thing I had removed after recovery, was that damn catheter. I was willing to put up with the pain of getting out of bed to take a leak.

1/2" ? That's the new wave style of doing things. I had mine out "old school". I tell people I had mine out via "cesarean" (and I've got the scar to prove it) though I can attest that that comment will illicit no sympathy from any mothers in the room. What I wasn't pleased with was the nurses getting me up to walk over to the scale when I got back to my recovery room because they needed to weigh me before they'd supply any pain medication. That wasn't fun. I told them the math was simple: My weight when I got to the emergency room minus one appendix.

With regard to panic and mayhem in the streets over the eclipse, it should only be a problem for the professional pearl clutchers and doomsdayers. Those with lives to lead will notice it got dark for a while and get back to business.

 

[WB5UOM]

Yup I had to babysit a ATT 3b2- 200 which ran the City/County MDT system ,along with a paging system and I was told to have a radio on 'this channel ,' so I could be called upon via radio if things went south..about 12:30am I too went home to bed

 

[BinaryMode]

I heard about this scare crap when I was about 17 during the time of the great History Channel era...

From ChatGPT:

The event you're referring to is known as the Battle of Halys, also called the Battle of the Eclipse. It took place around 585 BCE between the Medes and the Lydians in ancient Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, the battle was halted by a sudden and unexpected total solar eclipse. Both sides interpreted this celestial event as a sign to cease fighting, and they eventually negotiated a peace treaty. This event is often cited as one of the earliest recorded instances of humans interpreting natural phenomena in a historical context. However, modern historians debate the accuracy and significance of Herodotus' account. Some suggest it may have been a partial eclipse or even a fabricated story to add dramatic effect to the historical narrative.

If we have learned anything, it is these two facts:

1) Bipedal chimps will sensationalize EVERYTHING and ANYTHING and as an effect to induce menticide. It is such today on a day by day basis in print, radio, TV and Internet. We saw this crap with COVID-19...

2) Bipedal chimps CONSTANTLY repeat the past and Never seem to learn from it.