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My process in total knee replacement has been...different. After waiting semi-patiently for 30+ months, I became annoyed and had my referring GP send a letter to the surgeon to inquire where I was in the queue. Hearing nothing after a week, I contacted my MLA and he sent a letter to the minister of Health. Four days later, I had a surgery appointment- April 25th. There was, of course, a process of assessment prior to the surgery. So, on April 18th, I presented myself at the hospital for the first assessment. My medical history was reviewed first by an intake worker, then a physiotherapist, and then by an anesthesiologist. The anesthesiologist noted that I had a heart murmur which was upgraded from minor to moderate two years ago by a cardiologist and at that time, I was told it was not acute enough to warrant medical intervention, The anesthesiologist at the hospital was concerned enough to order an urgent echo-cardiogram, so I return at 7:00 AM the next morning (Wednesday April 26th) and had it done. I. in error assumed that if there was any reason for concern, I would hear about it STAT, but the phone did not ring. I returned to the hospital at 7:00 AM Tuesday the 25th and the fun began. Long story short, it was a big letdown. After the whole rigamarole of checking in and having the process explained to me and being questioned repeatedly if I was really me, the anesthesiologist put in the IV lines, and it ground down to a halt. He looked at the chart, reviewed the data with the surgeon and decided that there needed to be a consult with a cardiologist. Apparently my heart murmur is a source of concern and has to be vetted before any anesthetic, general or spinal, can be administered. There is a chance anesthetics can induce heart attacks and/or death in people with moderate murmurs. Apparently doctors get all embarrassed if a patient dies on the table and there is a lot of paperwork, so they like to cover their b-asses. So now I am back home. Saw my GP the following morning and he listened to my ticker and could not understand the delay. He made a request for an urgent consult with the cardiologist who assessed my murmur initially as progressing from slight to moderate. He is not a surgeon but a step en route to surgery if needed. Apparently valve replacement surgery is no longer the only remedy- they are also doing where a tube (balloon valvuloplasty) is inserted in the groin (sounds like fun) and pushed up into the aortic stenosis to enlarge it. More fun. There is (sort of ) good news: while I was in Pre-Op, I was given some Good Drugs which should not have been dispensed, so even though I was a bit wobbly, I was sent home, at least partially on my insistence. I sort of drifted through the rest of the day and part of the evening and MY KNEE DIDN'T BOTHER ME A BIT!!! However, I had some difficulty both remembering where the bathroom was and staggering over to it. The annoying thing was that the ECK was in the file for nearly a week, but no one bothered to review it. Had they done so, and identified a concern necessitating a delay in the surgery, someone else could have had that surgery. A waste of resources. So, now we wait.

Yesterday Putin signed a decree that allows deportation of the residents of temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories if they didn't accept Russian citizenship.Russia will now consider such Ukrainians as "foreigners".Genocide of Ukrainians continues. moscoviaukrainelatest news

Your disgust ought to be reserved for those who have created this mess. That would be Cheveldayoff and those who hired him and have kept him way past his "best before date".

At worst, what you described and is shown in the video might be battery (unwanted touching). The PC party is infested with lawyers and if there was even a shred of actionable evidence, you bet your bippy they would have called the police.

New Report Reveals Senate Republicans Hid Evidence In Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Investigation In 2018, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) omitted key information from the committee’s report that cleared Brett Kavanaugh of the sexual assault allegations against him. The Senate report claimed that Kavanaugh had been a victim of mistaken identity in the Deborah Ramirez allegation, but The Guardian found that the person who was blamed for the assault on Ramirez was a high school senior and not attending Yale at the time. Via: The Guardian: Instead, Smith said it was a fellow classmate named Jack Maxey, who was a member of Kavanaugh’s fraternity, who allegedly had a “reputation” for exposing himself, and had once done so at a party. To back his claim, Smith also attached a photograph of Maxey exposing himself in his fraternity’s 1988 yearbook picture. The allegation that Ramirez was likely mistaken was included in the Senate committee’s final report even though Maxey – who was described but not named – was not attending Yale at the time of the alleged incident. .Brett Kavanaugh is the poison fruit from a corrupted confirmation process. The FBI has since revealed that the investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh was a sham, with the Trump White House directing the FBI to forward tips about Kavanaugh’s behavior to them.

Another one bites the dust..... Putin fired Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. "Butcher From Mariupol", which destroyed the city and killed more than 300,000 civilians without giving them an evacuation corridor.

A documentary on the Qanon/GOP political movement?

Better than having to visit him in the conjugal visitations unit.

It was stupidly tasteless but unremarkable among college (and high school) students and did not seem to have been targeted at vulnerable minorities. I am willing to cut him a bit of slack on that one.

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Birds of a feather....

ONE regrettable college party event and you try to generalize it?

Which would be a disaster for the CFL under any circumstances that I can conceive of.

I look forward to these and enjoy them but do not claim to represent everyone.

As our offspring mature and have lives with responsibilities of their own, we have to grasp every opportunity to keep in touch and be grateful.

I would bet the farm that if you spent the time to do the research, you would find the Cons have committed more such gaffes than the rest of the political parties combined.

Why wait? Christmas comes early sometimes.

The video clip supports Wab's version of events moreso than Khan's. On a related note, Khan deserves to be challenged about why he would join a party that has a long and sad history of racial and other intolerance.

Is Russia Covering Up an Assassination Attempt on Putin? A drone that crashed outside of Moscow earlier this week was packed with 17 kilos of explosives meant to take out Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new report. The German news outlet Bild, citing unnamed sources, claimed Thursday that Russian authorities are trying to keep the failed attack by Ukraine a secret. The alleged attack, according to Bild, took place on Sunday, when Russian media reported that a drone had crashed in a village not far from the Rudnevo Industrial Park, where the Russian leader was rumored to be planning a visit. It remains unclear if Putin really was meant to visit Rudnevo that day. Equally unclear is how, if there really was such an assassination attempt, Ukrainian authorities could have known the Russian leader’s movements. Yuriy Romanenko, a Ukrainian activist, had tweeted a day after the drone crash claiming there was much more to the story than that which had been reported. “Last week, our intelligence officers received information about Putin’s trip to the industrial park in Rudnevo. Accordingly, our guys launched a kamikaze drone that flew through all the air defenses of the Russian Federation and fell not far from the industrial park,” Romanenko claimed at the time. The claims come amid heightened fears in Russia of Ukraine taking the war to Russian territory after a series of drone attacks in recent weeks. Overnight Thursday, Russians in and around St. Petersburg woke up to the sounds of an explosion that reportedly left a massive crater at the site of an old thermal power station. The Investigate Committee confirmed the blast after residents of Russia’s second-largest city flooded social media with panicked messages about the blast. Investigators say the explosion in Pavlovsk, about 19 miles from St. Petersburg, was caused by an “unidentified device” at the site of an old, unused thermal power station.

Reported today that Justice Neil Gorsuch was involved with property sales to a company that he adjudicated 22 cases on while on the Supreme Court bench.

You're ruining it for the Cons.

The so called DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) are now selling frozen mice on their store shelves. It is indeed true that is impossible to comprehend the "greatness"of the Russian empire... latest newsrusso ukrainian warukraine

UK's minister of the Exchequer (Finance) yesterday stated that Brits need to get used to "being poorer". The Johnson-Rishi economic plan is working