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Catching up!
Hey. I have surgery in the morning. Pretty minor, but it IS surgery. Outpatient, with a normal "don't work" period of 2 days, and a "no exertion" period of like 6 weeks.
I should be giving all my games another pass this evening, but I make no promises for the next day or two.
What is it? An umbilical hernia repair. Surgeon says I have multiple hernias right there together. All I know for sure is the general practitioner who referred em to the surgeon had it right when he said it looks like I'm going to give birth to a Titleist.
Was at the hospital from about 0730 till about 1615. Home. reasonably awake, and medicated. The entire area over the hernia and belly button is under s bandage I'm not supposed to touch until Saturday, so all I know is I have some ugly looking injuries from where the laparoscopic entry points were on my left side. Not as limited in my movements this morning as I thought I would be, which is good. Abdominal muscles are a little tight, though. Don't think I can blame them. I figured they would be a LOT more mad than they seem to be.
@Adair: I hope your recovery is swift.
Does Blake's torch allow us all to see inside the cabin?
Does Blake's torch allow us all to see inside the cabin?
From 15' away inside a doorway, not really. Next round, it will provide enough illumination to act normally, but for now, you will have the blinded condition against creatures more than 5' away. Unless you can generate your own light source.
I know that Tatanka is delayed because he asked a question in Discussion, but I generally hold a 24 hr rule for posting during combat situations. That is if your grouping in initiative is up, you have 24 hrs to post something, or i will either delay or DM-PC you. That's just to keep things flowing when we are waiting on individual actions.
Especially since I am so slow in responding these days, 24 hrs may stretch on. I will try to keep to the same standard...
In critical situations, I may suspend the 24hr rule to give a player a life or death chance to save themselves...
The clarity is appreciated.
Fine by me.
Understood. I apologize for any delays on my part. Schoolwork has been catching up with me recently.
Ran out of time tonight to advance yoru combat, but you will be first up tomorrow.
Would it be possible to close the door to the room that the other spider is in? Asking ahead of time so that I have a better idea of what to do on my turn.
It's possible, but I think it acts before you do, so it may not be in the same place.
Fair. I was just wondering.
I may not get to post again before Friday evening.
I was a bit puzzled by Adair's action, but i think I figured out that his first Medicine check was to Administer First Aid, which failed, keeping Blake unstablized. He second check was Treat Wounds which actually restores HP. Does that sound right?
Typically, you couldn't just repeat a check because you failed, but these are technically different checks using the same skill.
If I am wrong about that, LMK but would suggest you utilize the name of the skill check you are attempting while we are all still learning rule set and how to interact inside it.
You are correct.
I ALMOST followed the recommended guidance, too, though I called out the first as to stabilize instead of as first aid. I did call out the second as to treat wounds.
Yep, I figured it out, so it was close. I am enjoying exploring the new rules as we go.
I'm getting the hang of it a bit. I think. ;)
Would Tatanka know roughly how common it would be for other Novans to know Common enough to write out a threatening note?
Novan's speaking, reading, or writing in Common is not unheard of though it is also not the norm as of now. There may be one or two in every trible with a skill like that.
Hey. Real life.
I live in a 3 generation home.
This last weekend, both of the youngest generation (one is 2 the other just had her first birthday) got sick. So did their mom. Monday so did their dad. Somewhere in there, grandma got sick, too. Now I'm sick. At least the youngest seems to be over it.
If you need to bot me to keep things moving, please do.
I'm sorry, but I'm not even managing to focus to play spades on my phone right now, and that's amazingly brainless.
All the best, Adair.
The generic post to share before attempting to recovery post:
So, I got the flu. Not really over it, yet, but past the worst of it.
I went to get tested to verify it was flu, and the care providers went down the "better safe than sorry hole" a might to far, in my opinion.
Standard questions, designed to check for other, deeper concerns/problems, right? "Do you have any tightness in your chest?" "I've been coughing for about three days at this point, yes, I have a tightness in my chest!" So, they stopped everything about verifying the flu in order to check for a heart attack. Thing is, my fever had just started to break, and I was not only DRENCHED in sweat, but I was still actively sweating that hard. They couldn't get a good EKG read because the contact stickers wouldn't. Stick, I mean.
They called an ambulance and transferred me to an ER, to make sure I wasn't having a heart attack. The ER team was focused on EXACTLY one thing, for obvious reasons. First thing they did different? They took that super medical tape and taped the sensors down. EKG told them almost immediately that there was no heart attack going on. I was still in that ER for nearly 15 hours . . ..
IV fluids. Roughly 2.4 liters of fluid pushed into my system. Breathing treatment. Seems when I arrived in the ER, my O2 saturation was around 82. They started to admit me in order to watch my O2 saturation levels, but after I sat in their ER for that long without any further dips, they accepted it might not still be required and discharged me instead of continuing to wait for a room. Having an asthmatic wife means we have a nebulizer at home, and that helped sell the release, too. Still spending more time asleep than awake, for now.
Missed a couple of Santa gigs the family had lined up. Went to a photoshoot with a family yesterday. I was there for about 10 minutes, just needing to sit and smile, but I stumbled into the house when I got home, completely exhausted. I'm supposed to go get caught in a neighbor's house tonight. Very worried about going. Just as worried about denying their kids.
Ouch! I wish you a swift recovery.