So what did you do today?

[MustangMike]

I try like heck to avoid taking any medications, as just about everything has some bad side effects.

Most of the time, I'd rather just suffer the pain. Trouble is, everyone wants a pill to cure them immediately!

 

[Daserlon]

No license plate on that old truck

Lol. Its there just covered in dirt. Its to the right of the back-up lights.

 

[full chizel]

Small note Regarding body joint pains. A couple weeks ago, I was in the Orthopedic clinic for hip & leg pain.
And I say: Hey doc, can we try the Methylprednisolone dose pack, instead of injections. The shots just seem to quit working after a couple days now.
The dose packs have always worked pretty well.
The DR tells me the Methylpred stuff has been recalled and the so the injections aren't the same stuff now (just plain Prednisone now).
Me: well how about the Methylprednisolone oral dose packs?
Clinic staffer: Can't get those either.

A week later, I'm in the drug store and catch a slow moment to ask the Pharmacist what they know of the recall/shortage? and when they might be back on the market.
Pharmacist just makes a funny face and steps into the racks then steps back out.
......Holding a large handfull of the Methylprednisolone dose packs.
Shrugs and says "we've got bunches of them"

Web search says the Methylprednisolone was found to be contaminated and pulled, back in March of 2018.
This coincides with the time when the injections seemed to lose their efficacy.

I've repeatedly asked these people for the names of what they inject me with.
and Get a non-answer every time.
Now I find out they dropped to a lower effect medicine and couldn't be arsed to inform me?

Yep, it's a CMC/Atrium facility.

If i’m getting injected with something i want to know WTF it is. If I don’t it ain’t going in. You guys might run away with this here comment but I'm sticking to my word

 

[Leerod83]

Small note Regarding body joint pains. A couple weeks ago, I was in the Orthopedic clinic for hip & leg pain.
And I say: Hey doc, can we try the Methylprednisolone dose pack, instead of injections. The shots just seem to quit working after a couple days now.
The dose packs have always worked pretty well.
The DR tells me the Methylpred stuff has been recalled and the so the injections aren't the same stuff now (just plain Prednisone now).
Me: well how about the Methylprednisolone oral dose packs?
Clinic staffer: Can't get those either.

A week later, I'm in the drug store and catch a slow moment to ask the Pharmacist what they know of the recall/shortage? and when they might be back on the market.
Pharmacist just makes a funny face and steps into the racks then steps back out.
......Holding a large handfull of the Methylprednisolone dose packs.
Shrugs and says "we've got bunches of them"

Web search says the Methylprednisolone was found to be contaminated and pulled, back in March of 2018.
This coincides with the time when the injections seemed to lose their efficacy.

I've repeatedly asked these people for the names of what they inject me with.
and Get a non-answer every time.
Now I find out they dropped to a lower effect medicine and couldn't be arsed to inform me?

Yep, it's a CMC/Atrium facility.

A few days ago I was reading an article on steroid injections( I've had several in my back) and now surprise surprise they think they may make joints worse. Mostly in the knee and hip that they can actually speed up the deteriorating. So be careful with them.

 

[dahmer]

My bil, 84, just died from a type of meningitis that mostly occurs in people after they receive a spinal steroid injection. He had his injection 3 weeks before he died.

 

[RI Chevy]

Very sorry to hear ...[emoji17]

 

[RI Chevy]

Yesterday I took this tree from this:
To this:

 

[Daserlon]

I ran the rental dozer for a few hours at work today. Its only got 675 hours on it.

 

[dahmer]

Love to have one of those to drag logs out.

 

[TreeLife]

Hurt my damn back. Rock is heavy man.

 

[Daserlon]

Love to have one of those to drag logs out.

Nah, you want something more like this.

 

[RI Chevy]

Cool unit!!!

 

[hoskvarna]

I’d like one of these

Sent from Hoskey Hills

 

[dahmer]

Nah, you want something more like this.
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Crap, can’t afford any of them. Guess I’ll keep using my Silverado.

 

[justoldsaws]

Bought myself a boat, my old little boat was too small for my family so i was due to upgrade
4.2m Bermuda with 40hp Merc 2 stroke and 55lb electric.

 

[MustangMike]

Those skidders all look nice … till ya check the price!!!

There is a reason I had a log dragger built for the back of my ATV!

 

[legdelimber]

If i’m getting injected with something i want to know WTF it is. If I don’t it ain’t going in. You guys might run away with this here comment but I'm sticking to my word

I had that outlook for most of my life. The last few years of having joints that feel a lot like a broken bone sorta gets a feller in the mood to just say go ahead and poke something in there to stop the pain.
The Atrium crowd has a near functional monopoly in the region (the southeast) so it's gotten tough to get to better office.
Tough for a Doctor to keep an independent clinic when one or two big outfits control admitting privileges for nearly everywhere.
But I've pulled things a bit off of the intent of the thread, So I'll try to quitmabitchin in it.

 

[Dub11]

Put a new roof on our old hunting cabin over the WE with relatives, delivering wood regularly now, and replaced the bolt on the splitter that connects the piston to the splitting head. It is 5 years old and has split about 100 cord, so I won't complain! Still starts easy and runs like a champ! It is only rated at 22 ton, but it goes through anything wood that I put in there, including large, tough Y s.

Better a bolt and some more expensive

No license plate on that old truck

Around here if you register them for 18m you won't need a tag out back.

My bil, 84, just died from a type of meningitis that mostly occurs in people after they receive a spinal steroid injection. He had his injection 3 weeks before he died.

Sorry to hear this and man I'd be looking in to that place, reminds me of that dirty compounding pharmaceutical company 10 years ago or so that was cutting corners that killed a bunch of people.

 

[460 magnum]

Yesterday I took this tree from this:
To this:

Did you climb it or use that ladder that's hanging on the fence

 

[RI Chevy]

Good observation.
Yes, I used that ladder. Only made a few cuts with it. I used a poke pruner with a saw while standing on garage roof for most the cuts...lol
I have zero experience climbing, plus I weigh too much...