🧑🤝🧑 / 🏡 You just got into your ride share with Uber. Are you comfortable or taking a different ride?
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By the way, this is another or those "WTH" things with me. I can get pulled over and ticketed because I'm wearing headphones and can't hear a siren. But, I can be 100 percent deaf and can drive all day.
Part of me hope this is fake considering I'll be Ubering a bit tomorrow. I would at least hope there's a "warning/note" with the driver once your ride has been assigned (though I have doubts.)
Part of me hope this is fake considering I'll be Ubering a bit tomorrow. I would at least hope there's a "warning/note" with the driver once your ride has been assigned (though I have doubts.)
Wearing headphones can be a distraction because you're concentrating on the music. When deaf people learn to drive they are taught to be aware of other clues that will tell them an ambulance, fire truck or police car is approaching. Your odds of getting a deaf driver are very small.
I've never seen a driver for Uber, or Lyft, with ear pieces. If anything, they're listening to their normal "stuff" from music, to news, to morning talk shows.
The inability to drive and speak English? Now THAT I've seen.
Did the Lyft guy show? More times than not, when the disparity is that big the Lyft guy will cancel.
It's a great option if you're in a situation where a driver is required...IE: hospital prodecures where they put you under. In some of the ones I've had over the last year I feel like I could have driven; easily. Yesterday. Uh, no.
And then there's the points of I don't like driving downtown, I don't like driving while downtown...hate the parking. I could drive and park, sure. It's 25 miles one way, and at gas prices that's what...$7 right off the bat. Parking if $5 for the first hour, a buck after that. I was there from 7-11. They offer valet parking: $10. IF I chose not to use a ride share? Okay, it would have saved me a tad over $20 yesterday...with everything I don't like.
A lot don't realize/consider how narrow everything is in down there. While it's never happened to me while driving, it has as a passenger and I can't tell you how many times I've seen people sideswiped downtown...people freak out in narrow situations and personally, I don't want to being the lane beside them as it happens.
I've never had a prodecure. Are they painful?
I could call it surgery, I suppose, since they are inserting stents. But, to me, even though I'm being put under, it seems like a procedure more than surgery. They are going through my throat to reach the digestive tract.
Now, I'm scheduled to have a hernia removed Thursday. I'm calling that a surgery since it's incisions and the like.
Painful? Not as much now as it was over a year ago. Yesterday was my 9th since the winter of '24. But early on? I was prescribed Demerol at 12, Oxycotin at 2, Demerol at 4, Oxy at 6, Demerol at ... No. I wasn't feeling much pain, at all.
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Good luck with the hernia surgery. I've known a couple of guys to have major problems with some kind of mesh used in them. Don't know if that material is still used or not.
I had a couple of wisdom teeth cut out before. I had to have someone pick me up afterwards. They carried me back to my car 5 minutes away and I drove 20 minutes back home. I felt like I had been drunk all night with no sleep. The gas was fun but the pain later was not.
I had a couple of wisdom teeth cut out before. I had to have someone pick me up afterwards. They carried me back to my car 5 minutes away and I drove 20 minutes back home. I felt like I had been drunk all night with no sleep. The gas was fun but the pain later was not.
It's not my first. I've had the mesh: no complications. This isn't. She's doing three small incisions; L, C, and R.
I can't think of the name of it right now because...
