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Vinny Valenti
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Yep. 10-year-olds should not even have "a catheter story", but there it is. Scared me straight, and I wasn't even crooked!
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 06 June 2026 at 12:05am
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Mark McKay
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Robin Taylor:Congrats on being cancer free Mark Mckay!
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Thanks!
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John Byrne
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Zounds! Just passed three thumb sized blood clots. Now evacuating normally. Amazing what the human body can do to hurt itself!!
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | 4
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Maybe that’ll mean you can go home soon.
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John Byrne
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Any time I feel ready!
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Vinny, in general that's a hell of a story! Education has really changed a lot since the days when we were kids. A kid gets a ball to the back of the head, we automatically put them in a concussion protocol these days. I feel like any adult who works in education and inherently takes the "kids are faking/liars/can't be trusted" stance needs to change occupations yesterday.
And to be fair it's even something I still see today, like when a kid with obvious mental illness deregulates to the point of disassociation and starts just lashing out and behaving erratically, there's always someone at work who speculates that it's "attention-seeking behaviour." Ugh.
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Vinny Valenti
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | 7
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For the sake of brevity, I did leave out the fact that a week or so before the incident, I fell in the school yard and bonked my head on the concrete, also. That time I felt a bit dizzy but I shrugged it off - so maybe I still had a bit of the brain scramblies going on when the second bonking occurred.
I remember an episode of THREE'S COMPANY where Jack hit his head and became a new personality with no memory of it. That really happened to me!
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Evan S. Kurtz
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A few years back I was teaching 7th and 8th grade, and had a kid who’s probably a textbook case of borderline personality disorder. Anyway, she hit another girl upside the head and gave her a concussion, maybe a couple of months after that girl had previously received a concussion. The offending student refused to take accountability for what she did, saying stuff like, “well she already had a concussion so it wasn’t my fault.” I finally got through to her by informing her that if the victim had still had a concussion when she’d been struck in the same part of the head, it could’ve straight up killed her. Concussions are no joke.
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John Byrne
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True. My mother fell and cracked her skull on the ice while we were skating when I was about 10. She was bedridden for weeks, and after she was altered.
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James Woodcock
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My dad had already had a stroke.
Long time after, and when he was starting to get mobility back, he went in
his kitchen, fell and cracked his head.
Went to hospital where he made a recovery. Was due to be released after a
few days.
Something changed as he was being readied for release and he passed
away.
Never, ever, take a crack to the head for granted.
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Brian Miller
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One of my dad’s longtime friends had cancer. Don’t remember what kind,
but it was expected that he only had 2 or so years left. He maintained that
cancer was not going to “get him.” He was doing well with his fight and after
about 8-10 years he slipped and fell in his kitchen and hit his head on the
countertop in his way down. He was right. Cancer didn’t get him.
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Dave Kopperman
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I coincidentally had my second colonoscopy last Friday. It’s debatable if I’d bother with it if I weren’t a married man - not to say that my wife insists I take care of myself, but I feel a sense of responsibility to do so more because of the commitment.
I don’t have any particular anxieties about outcomes (I find an average drive to Newark Airpot several factors more terrifying). And the anesthetic blackout is downright fascinating. But the prep is admittedly pretty godawful.
Oh, a benign polyp. Same as my first five years back (on New Years’ Day 2021)!
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