Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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#87,026
Persian Vol said:
This seems as good as time as ever to mention that I have completed residency as of yesterday. As of today I am a free man. I don’t know what to do with my hands.

I’ll start my career as an attending in August. It felt like a lifetime ago I was posting on this forum as a Pre Med early in undergrad.
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Congrats! Lots of sacrifice, and work to get yourself here. Where do you hope to work? What's your specialty?
 
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MemphisVol77 said:
@DinkinFlicka @PEPPERJAX @Orangeslice13 @bamawriter

I fully support this derailment.

I think @bamawriter is correct in surmising that at it's core, punk originated out of apolitical anti-authoritarianism. I also think @DinkinFlicka is correct in that it quickly became critical of establishment authority, which couldn't be expressed without it's political influence. I think it happened in continuance.

Punk died in the early 2000's for me. Internet file sharing de-necessitated most of the grass roots movement. Bands didn't have to rent a studio, produce their own physical media, and go club(dive sh!t holes) touring to be heard anymore.......

Punk didn't gate-keep on social media when I was coming up. If you didn't want the nazi-punks, the ska-punks, the skate-punks, or whoever at your shows, then you just beat the sh!t out of them.
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Did you go to shows at the mercury theater when it was still open in market square? I saw tons of bands there back in the day. Pretty sure it is a multi level bar now.
 
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Persian Vol said:
This seems as good as time as ever to mention that I have completed residency as of yesterday. As of today I am a free man. I don’t know what to do with my hands.

I’ll start my career as an attending in August. It felt like a lifetime ago I was posting on this forum as a Pre Med early in undergrad.
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Well done.

It is called “practicing” medicine for a reason. Always be learning. I hope you make a lot of money, and I hope you don’t care about any of it because your focus is on bettering the lives of your patients.

In fact, I bet if you can stay patient focused, you will make more money then you ever feel you need.

All the best,

RW
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Did you go to shows at the mercury theater when it was still open in market square? I saw tons of bands there back in the day. Pretty sure it is a multi level bar now.
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I don't think so, all though it's hard to be 100%. I was far from straight-edge. I caught a bunch of shows at the Antenna Club, Barristers and saw a few of the bigger shows (NOFX) at the New Daisy.
 
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C-south said:
Glad he’s doing well. Obviously I had a mass on my lung. Just had a cough for an extended period that wouldn’t go away, went to doctor for an appointment on an unrelated issue and he did a chest xray. Anyway it took 4 biopsies and after the 3rd they were leaning towards lymphoma. Still they needed a better biopsy so they did a vats procedure but by the time pathology came back with the result I was on life support. The lymphoma I have is called gray zone, kind of a combo of Hodgkins and non hodgkins. First chemo I received I was still on life support, it was called abvd and initially worked. After I woke up I was in bad shape with critical illness myopathy. Lost about 75 pounds. Couldn’t move, talk, eat or anything. Gradually started getting a little better. Went through multiple rehabs and left hospital in mid March of last year on a walker. Started up chemo again, this time R Chop. Did about 4 rounds and did a scan. Results were mixed but they ruled it was progression. Almost immediately they set me up for a more extensive chemo. It was called EPOCH R. Was admitted to inpatient oncology for about a week long drip and a blood transfusion. This was right before Memorial Day and I felt good until that 2nd day out of the hospital and it was the worst I had ever felt. I made it through all that and did another scan and still wasn’t getting the results we had hoped for. My doctor set me up with another oncologist to get a 2nd opinion so we do another biopsy just to verify everything and she gets me on the immunotherapy with intentions of doing a stem cell transplant. Those two drugs are brentuximab and opdivo. The next scan there were drastic improvements. I was feeling great up until the first of this year and I guess the treatment started messing with me, weakness and bad neuropathy. In February they dropped the brentuximab but I’m still doing the opdivo. The rest is in the other post. Lol. Sorry, I would’ve broken it down into paragraphs if I knew I was gonna ramble.
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I hate you’re going through that. Has the chemo made you sensitive to cold? My brother couldn’t stand to open the fridge and couldn’t drink anything below room temp for a long time.
 
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hog88 said:
Jackwads coming into the no-wake ramp area pulling a surfer.
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Yep…. That’ll do it. One day I watched a big group of kids on a pontoon in the back of Cedar Creek going in circles. They were standing up on the back sun deck and jumping off over the freaking motor. Just stupid.
Left there and went to the ramp at Davis Corner and watched two teenagers come hauling ass into the no wake zone. I thought the throttle was stuck they came on so hard. They dropped it about 15 yards from the dock. Then when they were trying to trailer it they didn’t have it backed in far enough and the kid just kept throttling it up more and more. His dad would have kicked his rear end if he saw what he was doing
 
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Carl Pickens said:
I hate you’re going through that. Has the chemo made you sensitive to cold? My brother couldn’t stand to open the fridge and couldn’t drink anything below room temp for a long time.
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I haven’t did chemo in over a year but for the most part I was really tolerant of it. I did 1 round when I went on life support with a 2.5 month break due to my deteriorating and 4 or 5 rounds after that starting in mid March last year. It saved me initially and I guess just stopped working. The last chemo I did was a week long constant drip and it didn’t hit me until the 2nd day out of the hospital. I was struggling to breathe and do anything else for about 2 weeks. Since last June, and seeing another doctor, I’ve been doing immunotherapy and I was feeling great for the longest but after about 6 months I started feeling the sides effects. I could tell I was getting weaker no matter how hard I was working out. Started getting neuropathy and stumbling around and fell a couple times. The immunotherapy consisted of 2 drugs, Acedris (brentuximab) and opdivo. My doctor dropped the Acedris in February and I’m feeling a little better. I’ve definitely gotten some strength back and the neuropathy isn’t as bad. I was having to do bloodwork before every infusion but since dropping the one drug I just do it every other infusion. They had planned doing a stem cell transplant but since I’ve responded well to the treatment they decided we would hold off. Even though I was going to use my own they said it would be a pretty rough experience. It may happen eventually though.
 
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Tonight I was getting ice cream with my wife and her family, and I was unknowingly blocking the entrance to the stairway, and I hear an “excuse me” from this guy along with his wife trying to get through. I turn around and I see that it’s U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock.
 
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