thescreensavers
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alkemyst
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so are you a gun grabber too, how about premarital sex?
We get it you have alcoholics in your family...most adults can handle alcohol properly.
DUI related accidents are still EXTREMELY rare in the scheme of things but a great revenue generator and way to lobby votes.
I would sue ATT for free cell/data for life on a family plan if it turns out to be their fault. I'm not usually pro-litigation, but this kind of shit could cost lives.
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I'm positive I dialed correctly. I've got the call log on my phone to prove it. And I tried three times. My mom got two calls of interest today. First, the sheriff called with the results of the guys blood tests. His BAC was .222. .222! Almost three times the legal limit!
Second, the guys insurance company called and wanted details on why I was transported to the hospital. My mom generally doesn't think before she talks when she's upset and told the adjuster, "I've got some goddamned pictures showing EXACTLY why he was transported to the hospital. Go mom! Then, as an amazingly shocking parting thought, the adjuster just wanted us to know that the defendant states he was sure we turned into him. Jesus. The lady must've looked at the report just long enough to get our phone number off it. Comical. I'm heading to my first day back at work and I'll cook up a Paint drawing when I get there...
Second, the guys insurance company called and wanted details on why I was transported to the hospital. My mom generally doesn't think before she talks when she's upset and told the adjuster, "I've got some goddamned pictures showing EXACTLY why he was transported to the hospital. Go mom! Then, as an amazingly shocking parting thought, the adjuster just wanted us to know that the defendant states he was sure we turned into him. Jesus. The lady must've looked at the report just long enough to get our phone number off it. Comical. I'm heading to my first day back at work and I'll cook up a Paint drawing when I get there...
Quiksilver
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The gallery linked to in the OP has the updated crash photos. You can see clear as day that the impact occurred in our lane.
EDIT: Also added a really crude Paint approximation of what happened.
EDIT: Also added a really crude Paint approximation of what happened.
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Added a Paint drawing to illustrate what happened.
I'm not a graphic designer. And my MacBook's trackpad is a bitch and a half to use in virtualized Windows 7.
I'm not a graphic designer. And my MacBook's trackpad is a bitch and a half to use in virtualized Windows 7.
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I was going to attempt to sneak in a post detailing the roller coaster ride that last week turned into but the Percoset caught up to me and I'm way to sleepy. Long story short, tomorrow will be my 6th day in the hospital dealing with a lacerated spleen that took 5 days to surface. I'll update you all in the morning when I'm not so wiped.
What a mess.
What a mess.
Whoa, spleen injuries are no joke.
And.. the nerve of the adjuster! I'd have somehow found a way to reach through the phone and strangle them.
911 has to be configured correctly for each sector on a cell site.
That sector you were on obviously has a DT (Data translations) issue where it is not configured in the switch.
Enhanced 911
If I was working at AT&T (at current time I am not) I would have it corrected in a few minutes once have all the information.
Oh and glad you and family are OK.
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I see alot of stupid people acting like its the iPhones fault. Thats like blaming your computer for not having 10GBs down on a 768Kbps DLS line.
Basically, call ATT and threaten they shit out of them till you get a manager.
Basically, call ATT and threaten they shit out of them till you get a manager.
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Alright, so here?s what happened after I finally made it back to Minneapolis a day later than I had originally planned:
Checked into the hospital on 06/25 and was released 07/01...
After getting back to my sister?s place and being mauled as usual by her three kids, I settled in for the night and got some sleep before catching a ride into the city with my brother in law the next day. Tuesday and Wednesday go off largely without incident. I even stopped taking the pain medicine I had been prescribed Wednesday afternoon. I woke up on Thursday of last week, and for the first time felt fine. My shoulder wasn?t sore and most of the scrapes and bruises had faded completely. I got to work at 3 and still felt perfect ? I was pretty excited to finally be back up to snuff. Then at about 5 PM, I got this crazy sharp pain that started in my upper left abdomen. I?d never felt anything like it before. The weird part about it was that whenever I?d get a wave of pain in my stomach, my left shoulder would just throb too! The best way I could think of to describe it was to tell people it was like an egg was hatching inside my shoulder and had nowhere to go. I toughed it out for around 30 minutes and then decided that I wasn?t in the middle of your ordinary stomach ache and needed to go to the hospital. Luckily, my friend (and the morning dispatcher at our job) had stopped by to work on his car and offered to finish my shift for me.
I got a ride to the hospital and went to the ER right away. The lady who admitted me rushed me in because she was pretty sure I was bleeding internally. At the time, I really didn?t think it was that big of a deal. I figured I?d go in, they?d X-Ray me, tell me what was wrong, give me a pill, and then send me on my merry way. Wrong. After waiting for hours, telling countless interns what was wrong and finally getting a CT scan, they ER doctor finally comes back and tells me that I had a small laceration on my spleen. Not only that, but there are some people that are lucky enough to have the blood vessels that feed their spleens come into the organ in groups. You guessed it ? I was one of those people and this had just gotten a whole lot more serious. Needless to say, they couldn?t do the procedure I needed at that hospital so I was loaded up into yet another ambulance and carted off to the University of Minnesota Medical Center located literally right across the Mississippi from where I was.
When I got there, they set me up in the ER, took more blood and then told me that my hemoglobin levels were dropping really fast and I needed this particular operation NOW. This is when they started giving me the first 2 units of blood. I had gone from a 10.5 level when I checked in to 8.4 before being transported, and finally they called the doctors in early at the second hospital when my levels reached 7.3. All in the span of around 6 hours. I can?t remember what it was called but basically, they half put me under, entered my vascular system through my right femoral artery and then found their way by X-RAY all the way to the left side of my abdomen and the arteries that fed my spleen. Really amazing when I stop to think about it but it was still the most uncomfortable 90 minutes of my life. Basically, they stood there and dumped a bunch of junk into the arteries where they meet the spleen in an effort to clog them up and encourage the body to clot around them, thus stopping the internal bleeding. They wouldn?t give me any painkillers nor would they give me anti-nausea medicine so I sat there in excruciating pain, feeling like I was being filled with water, and wanting to puke everywhere and just get it over with.
After the operation, my hemoglobin levels didn?t rebound like they were supposed to and I was moved down to the ICU so I could be under closer observation if something did go wrong. They also gave me two more units of blood at this point. My lead doctor wanted to have me do the angio procedure again but the people in Interventional Radiology wouldn?t go for it because I had just been down there the day before. I was pretty glad to hear that ? LOL. Anyway, it meant that I had to sit under this stupid heating blanket for 12 hours in an effort to trick my body into thinking the stuff they had dumped in my arteries were infections and my body needed to clot around them. As much as it sucked, I guess it worked as the next day my hemoglobin levels stopped falling and actually climbed a little bit.
From here on out, it?s pretty much just a matter of my body absorbing both the blood that?s still in my abdomen and also breaking down and absorbing the parts of my spleen that lost their blood supply completely and are now in the process of dying and breaking down. The doctor said that?s where 80 percent of my pain comes from and will last for a few weeks. Great. I love riding my bike and since selling my truck 2 years ago is my only mode of transportation. It?s also going to be hanging from the wall of my garage for the next 6 weeks as soon as I can figure out how to get it home from work.
If I can think of anything more to add tomorrow, I?ll do so. Right now, I can feel the round of Percoset I just took kicking in so I know I don?t have much time left in me. Either way, I wanted to thank everyone for their concern again and with all this spare time I now find myself with, will definitely be getting ahold of AT&T to see what happened with my 911 access. Goodnight! My dad took a picture with my phone - I'll post it to the gallery tomorrow when I get out of bed and make it to my desktop computer.
Checked into the hospital on 06/25 and was released 07/01...
After getting back to my sister?s place and being mauled as usual by her three kids, I settled in for the night and got some sleep before catching a ride into the city with my brother in law the next day. Tuesday and Wednesday go off largely without incident. I even stopped taking the pain medicine I had been prescribed Wednesday afternoon. I woke up on Thursday of last week, and for the first time felt fine. My shoulder wasn?t sore and most of the scrapes and bruises had faded completely. I got to work at 3 and still felt perfect ? I was pretty excited to finally be back up to snuff. Then at about 5 PM, I got this crazy sharp pain that started in my upper left abdomen. I?d never felt anything like it before. The weird part about it was that whenever I?d get a wave of pain in my stomach, my left shoulder would just throb too! The best way I could think of to describe it was to tell people it was like an egg was hatching inside my shoulder and had nowhere to go. I toughed it out for around 30 minutes and then decided that I wasn?t in the middle of your ordinary stomach ache and needed to go to the hospital. Luckily, my friend (and the morning dispatcher at our job) had stopped by to work on his car and offered to finish my shift for me.
I got a ride to the hospital and went to the ER right away. The lady who admitted me rushed me in because she was pretty sure I was bleeding internally. At the time, I really didn?t think it was that big of a deal. I figured I?d go in, they?d X-Ray me, tell me what was wrong, give me a pill, and then send me on my merry way. Wrong. After waiting for hours, telling countless interns what was wrong and finally getting a CT scan, they ER doctor finally comes back and tells me that I had a small laceration on my spleen. Not only that, but there are some people that are lucky enough to have the blood vessels that feed their spleens come into the organ in groups. You guessed it ? I was one of those people and this had just gotten a whole lot more serious. Needless to say, they couldn?t do the procedure I needed at that hospital so I was loaded up into yet another ambulance and carted off to the University of Minnesota Medical Center located literally right across the Mississippi from where I was.
When I got there, they set me up in the ER, took more blood and then told me that my hemoglobin levels were dropping really fast and I needed this particular operation NOW. This is when they started giving me the first 2 units of blood. I had gone from a 10.5 level when I checked in to 8.4 before being transported, and finally they called the doctors in early at the second hospital when my levels reached 7.3. All in the span of around 6 hours. I can?t remember what it was called but basically, they half put me under, entered my vascular system through my right femoral artery and then found their way by X-RAY all the way to the left side of my abdomen and the arteries that fed my spleen. Really amazing when I stop to think about it but it was still the most uncomfortable 90 minutes of my life. Basically, they stood there and dumped a bunch of junk into the arteries where they meet the spleen in an effort to clog them up and encourage the body to clot around them, thus stopping the internal bleeding. They wouldn?t give me any painkillers nor would they give me anti-nausea medicine so I sat there in excruciating pain, feeling like I was being filled with water, and wanting to puke everywhere and just get it over with.
After the operation, my hemoglobin levels didn?t rebound like they were supposed to and I was moved down to the ICU so I could be under closer observation if something did go wrong. They also gave me two more units of blood at this point. My lead doctor wanted to have me do the angio procedure again but the people in Interventional Radiology wouldn?t go for it because I had just been down there the day before. I was pretty glad to hear that ? LOL. Anyway, it meant that I had to sit under this stupid heating blanket for 12 hours in an effort to trick my body into thinking the stuff they had dumped in my arteries were infections and my body needed to clot around them. As much as it sucked, I guess it worked as the next day my hemoglobin levels stopped falling and actually climbed a little bit.
From here on out, it?s pretty much just a matter of my body absorbing both the blood that?s still in my abdomen and also breaking down and absorbing the parts of my spleen that lost their blood supply completely and are now in the process of dying and breaking down. The doctor said that?s where 80 percent of my pain comes from and will last for a few weeks. Great. I love riding my bike and since selling my truck 2 years ago is my only mode of transportation. It?s also going to be hanging from the wall of my garage for the next 6 weeks as soon as I can figure out how to get it home from work.
If I can think of anything more to add tomorrow, I?ll do so. Right now, I can feel the round of Percoset I just took kicking in so I know I don?t have much time left in me. Either way, I wanted to thank everyone for their concern again and with all this spare time I now find myself with, will definitely be getting ahold of AT&T to see what happened with my 911 access. Goodnight! My dad took a picture with my phone - I'll post it to the gallery tomorrow when I get out of bed and make it to my desktop computer.
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