It's the VA. They won't let him stay one second longer than necessary. I am not going to try for sooner, as lung surgery is way too difficult and hard to recover from without knowledgeable help.

Of course once he's out of ICU he'll have one of his seven laptops there. Yes, the internet works, yes he has chargers. He goes nowhere (except maybe ICU) without his computer/s.

Medical opinion nowadays is to favor moving patients on and out quickly. It clears beds for new patients needing major procedures.

You should propose moving husband out ASAP, make some inquiries first, he may need more delicate care than usual for a few days at home.

Fasting, yes, I am on intermittent fasting and notice improvements. In hospital there is a problem, meal times provide some diversion from the boredom. Try to get a laptop in, fully charged, check the internet connection works, I think some hospitals can do this.

Excellent!! I will share the sentiment when appropriate.

It is, indeed. Courtesy of the remake of the A-Team movie (at least that's where I heard it first).

was to bid them AMF...is that as in Adios MF'r

We met Maria and spent a little time with her on one of our LC cruises. She's a lot less cordial in person (or she was back then) than what you see on YT. It's been several years, though - perhaps she has improved her public persona, and she's definitely quite knowledgeable.

If you follow Maria Emmerich... You are in good hands... Live Long, and Prosper!

Oh, we will plan. We are definitely planners. He already does either a regular fast or a sardine fast for 2-3 days each week. As far as the omelet, we really don't care about the price :-) Not sure he can get it in the hospital....but we don't really know for sure he is going to have the very invasive surgery yet. We are hoping the Zephyr valve surgery will solve the problem (if it does, we can fly again if we can get up the courage to), in which case he'll be coming home same day or next day, which is easy to deal with. He just won't eat.

Since it's just the two of us, we eat some really strange meals, but tonight - can't wait. Standing rib roast, with Maria Emmerich's browned butter steak sauce. And maybe some deviled egg dip to go with it.

Make arrangements to bring your own.
Also, as long as he has some normal weight on him, I recommend FASTING after surgery. Let the body repair itself. You don't need a bunch of external calories. Your body knows what to do (Notice that dogs don't eat when sick). Digestion takes about 30% of your metabolism.

Personally... All of my blood markers improve, the more I fast. Obviously, there are diminishing returns...

Either that, or bring him in a Nice Steak. I prefer home cooked meals.
If I didn't care about the price, I will order a 9 YOLK omelet (the whites bother me), with some cheese cooked in.

Good Luck. But PLAN ahead, and have alternative plans. Contact their cafeteria, and figure out what they can do for him.

FWIW, what they feed you via IV (when you can't eat) is probably the most toxic stuff. It's literally seed oils and glucose. And the seed oils go rancid when exposed to light, so they store them in CLEAR plastic IV bags... LMAO. You can't make this up!

I quit my job as an industrial automation technician January 6th of 2023. The company didn’t really do anything except virtue signal masking but after watching everyone get paid twice as much for not working as those of us who were “essential” and actually DID work through the pandemic I decided I’d had enough of the system. Wasn’t really my employer’s fault but….the government made it not worth my time too work and generate GDP and tax revenue anymore. Now I work for myself. My services are scalable. Despite the lies being told by the MSM about the economy I can see the disaster with my own eyes. I cashed my 401k out and paid off everything. If I had done it a year earlier I would have had 40% more even after penalties. The whole point is to provide me a place to live after retirement right? Well it just provided that.

My husband is looking at a very serious/dangerous surgery after the new year. His main concern for the time in-hospital post surgery? The food. The food they serve in these places is absolutely inconsistent with healing, proper blood sugar, and even LIFE. It's hard to even call it FOOD. Will be curious as to how that all falls out, as I will be the one who gets to plug the gap between the garbage served there, and actual food he will eat. (He's not picky about flavor, serving conditions, anything like that, but if he doesn't consider it to be food fit to eat, hoo boy, they'll be hearing from him.)

Interesting, my daughter's high school boyfriend (very, very American) is a cardiac intensive-care nurse and his wife is also a nurse of some specialty. They take short contracts all over the US (at this point only US) and are enjoying traveling the country and making tons of money. I suppose that means they took the jab. I hope they aren't any of those who were affected. I stay away from conversations about the jab with people who I want to remain friends with. Friendships are (to me) not worth losing over this ridiculous thing that is basically all over anyway. For now.

What about Filipina nurses? Are they no longer a thing? They were, actually, pretty good, I understand. My husband and I employed one as a remote website admin for a few years while she was training as a nurse. Last I heard she had graduated, went to AbuDhabi, worked for a while, married an Englishman, and moved to England. We have heard nothing since then.

Heck, I'm scared to fly - for the first time in my life (we don't fly anyway because of a medical condition my husband has). But my son is starting again to fly for business, and I'm scared silly. The pilots are all babies and under-trained, and if they are older, they are subject to dying behind the wheel, with no forewarning!

Well, I think we all know what caused that. But even stranger than that....my husband was reluctant to interview in a certain company's job fair, because that company had rejected him out of hand about 8 years ago, indicating (though not saying out loud) that he was too old. They were hiring all new kids fresh out of school.

Enter last May, when I basically forced him to go to this job fair, because nothing else was on the horizon at the time. NO one was there interviewing, and so he got the attention of all the interviewers. Before NOON the next day, he had received and accepted a job at a level and pay rate that we are still having trouble believing! But it's definitely true. They paid for the move, all expenses associated with selling our house, all expenses associated with buying our new house, and here we are in Tucson, happy as a hot, desert clam (if there is such a thing).

He did ask at one point, why they were hiring old folk such as him, and HR said they had made a mistake hiring all those newbies straight out of school with zero experience.

So, that had nothing to do with the jabbity-jab except for 1) those who took it and were seriously injured or died, or 2) declined to take it and lost their jobs. And now they are in serious need of people who know what they are doing -and those people are becoming increasingly hard to find. Incidentally, my husband turned 72 in July and he's nowhere NEAR the oldest new-hire.

So sorry to hear about your daughter-in-law. A case of medical malpractice if I ever heard of one. So sad.

Our formerly christian local hospitals are in a similar predicament: they've gone from being charitable organizations (literally run by nuns) to for-profit businesses with CEO's making millions per year. And predictably, they've gone all in on lobbying (and have the governor in their back pocket) and they've actively persecuted via lawsuit or otherwise anyone who criticizes them - especially anyone who objects to their power. They went after Doctor Ryan Coles and basically cut off his diagnosis business. (Coles was one of those who was pointing out the surges in cancer and other maladies as a result of the COVID "vaccine" treatments.) They also assisted our governor in going after a political rival (Ammon Bundy) and have sued him into bankruptcy and hiding. Keep in mind that these were hospitals who converted entire wings over to COVID wings which sat un-unused for a year, fired nurses and doctors who wouldn't get the shot (again at the Governor's order), and cancelled thousands of necessary surgeries and treatments. They are medical tyrants.

In June 2021, I informed my boss that after 17 years with them, I would be retiring end of June 2022. (I thought about that later, and I actually gave him 26 consecutive occurrences of 2-week notices...). But as my company was a huge gubmint contractor, everyone had to be fully vaxxed by January 14, 2022. Left me with four choices, three of them being to resign (nope), get vaxxed (no freaking way that was gonna happen), or let them fire me (not a real option). So I chose option four, which was to bid them AMF six months earlier than I planned. I think that makes me part of the Big Quit, albeit a very small part.

L i n k ...

Yes, have no fear, new nurses are here and some may even be trained and speak English. Of all those millions of God-knows-what denizens from Schiff holes that the Puppet-In-Chief's Obamamnable Marxist handlers let in, there's bound to be a few experienced midwives and wet nurses among them and these days some of those birthing persons may even come with a pair of balls.

Maybe they've gone Galt.

Kinda frightening I’ll admit. I can only imagine the NTSB reports of the future:
“We have concluded that Southworst Airlines flight number 666 was brought down by a mixture of white supremacy and climate change. It had nothing to do with the diversity hire failing to fasten the gas cap. If there wasn’t white supremacy, that needed to be combatted, the airline would never had hired them in the first place so that makes it all white people’s fault.”

You know that’s coming soon to a cockpit near you.

We must ask ourselves if each trip is really necessary.

I understand it's never been easier to get an airline pilot job, too. Thankfully I'm flying less and less...

The MSM even has a name for it. "The Big Quit". Makes me smile whenever I hear it.

You think? I had one from Africa, one from China and one from India? When I asked how did you find your way here? They all said 'Better Jon'. They may be in for a shock shortly once they learn about this 'almost' Communist country. N

I count myself proud to be one of the guys that “disappeared”.
The system is irredeemably broken. Let’s hasten it’s demise
.One competency crisis at a time.

American's and America doesn't do well with vaccine mandates. But, don't worry. They won't stop until they get full submission. There's a shortage of good employees all over. My firm and the others can't find a good engineer with experience. Only recent grads. Makes you wonder, "What made all those guys with 10 to 20 years of experience disappear?"