Smoke Inhalation

[snagged in outlet 3]

20 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

 

Woah, now there's a 300.00 word !   🎓 

I bet Phil's doctor couldn't even pull that one out 👍

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[BilletHead]

38 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

 

Woah, now there's a 300.00 word !   🎓 

I bet Phil's doctor couldn't even pull that one out 👍

            It's called expanding your vocabulary and being interested in adding to our knowledge base. Daily I read or find something I know nothing about. I can't hardly stand to not try to understand things so with the world at your fingertip and the world wide web available I look things up. I bypass all of the tinfoil hat and guessers then compare reliable sources. Then my brain gets the knowledge. Problem is my brain is getting full and beginning to overflow. If you don't use it, you lose it and now I have lost some of that stuff.  

   Now to a funny. Pat gets so mad when I can come up with answers for random stuff. How do you know that? Then she doesn't believe me, so I send proof of it to her by text.  Then there is when we are driving along and I hear something or out of know where I think of something I want to know like in right now. Since I am driving, I ask her to look it up. I get the stink eye from her but 99% of the time she will get me an answer.  

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, BilletHead said:

I bypass all of the tinfoil hat and guessers then compare reliable sources.

 

Ok, but 90% of the time you're GUESSING who the RELIABLE SOURCES are.  

[tjm]

I did have to look that up, I knew what it was and how   they can be irritating, but could not recall the nomenclature. I did spend a lot of time reading dictionaries and encyclopedias as a child and remember odd words or bits of information at times, but it's been a couple of decades since my total recall slipped away.   I have always thought that those benzenes were likely more of a cancer hazard when smoking tobacco  than the nicotine was, but that was just an uneducated guess, and as far as I know hasn't been studied.  I've thought for a long time that my brother's lung cancer and that of his wife, was caused by the smoky old wood stoves that they always kept. 

[ness]

I don't know if there is any connection, but your symptoms sound very similar to a friend of mines. He was simply blowing leaves and twigs and dust and whatever into a pile in his back yard. No fire. He inhaled something and it really knocked him for a loop. He had a nasty, nasty cough for a couple weeks and skipped coming over for a Christmas Day visit. He sounded terrible, and I was very worried for him. He eventually went to the doctor and I think he got some steroids to knock it out. He doesn't have any existing respiratory issues that might have explained it. Just cleaning up stuff and got pretty sick. 

[Phil Lilley]

3 hours ago, ness said:

I don't know if there is any connection, but your symptoms sound very similar to a friend of mines. He was simply blowing leaves and twigs and dust and whatever into a pile in his back yard. No fire. He inhaled something and it really knocked him for a loop. He had a nasty, nasty cough for a couple weeks and skipped coming over for a Christmas Day visit. He sounded terrible, and I was very worried for him. He eventually went to the doctor and I think he got some steroids to knock it out. He doesn't have any existing respiratory issues that might have explained it. Just cleaning up stuff and got pretty sick. 

Yep - sounds like what I had.  I'm 80% better.  Still have some congestion in my chest I'm hacking up.  Had a pretty hard workout this am and did good.  Playing ball in the morning.... we'll see how that goes!

[fishinwrench]

5 hours ago, tjm said:

  I've thought for a long time that my brother's lung cancer and that of his wife, was caused by the smoky old wood stoves that they always kept. 

 

I had a neighbor that would immediately jump up and run to the other side of the property if I lit a cigarette....... But every other evening you could find him standing in his back yard, over his burn barrel, poking & stirring it with a stick while he burned his trash.   🙄

[Terrierman]

14 hours ago, BilletHead said:

                There are hundreds of abandoned barns coons call home in each county. They may not crap where they sleep but they don't go far from the sleeping area to do it. Like in just a few feet. They are nasty critters.  Ask @Terrierman. He used to hunt them with Jack Russels in barns and abandoned buildings. 

I've seen kitchen sinks in abandonded houses overflowing onto the floor with coon crap.  In a hay barn they'll pick a corner or three and fill them up.  They are the chewingest, food destroyingest cutest little monsters God created.

[jdmidwest]

19 hours ago, tjm said:

 

I don't know if 'coons mess in their dens or not, but I have observed den trees having six or more of them in the same hollow, and I have seen in the snow that over a four week time span that in one den only a single coon came out after the third week, went about three feet from the tree, pooped and returned to the tree; so they must either pee in the dens or be capable of holding it in for weeks. They will poop in the feed storage  bin that they are eating  out of. Anyone who has ever mucked out a barn knows that horses, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens ect. all poop where they sleep and I think the "most critters don't poop where they sleep"  wisdom is a Disneyism to support anthropomorphism. I can't recall ever seeing a nest or den that wasn't nasty. 

Possums will crap on a newly found food supply to cover smell so others like coons will not find it.  I hate catching them in a trap, they make a mess.

[Phil Lilley]

I think I'm gonna live. I still have a little bit of rattling in my lungs, but it's not too bad. I played two hours of basketball this morning and my energy level is pretty good. Being sick really makes you appreciate feeling good after it has passed.