One-liners

Tron1982 · Apr 10, 2023

HomerJ · Apr 10, 2023

ubuysa · Apr 11, 2023

HomerJ said:
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My cousin had a heart transplant (this is 20 years or so ago) due to heart disease caused mainly by excessive smoking. Five years later he started smoking again. When we asked him why he said that the doctors had given him 5 years to live with the new heart, he said he'd now had that 5 years and he was going to enjoy whatever time he had left. Which wasn't that long as I recall.....

ubuysa · Apr 11, 2023

Martinr36 · Apr 11, 2023

Just a little update on the situation with my son because some of you have been pretty concerned. Thank you for that.
He's taken going to jail pretty hard. He's refusing all food, he's swearing and screaming and is highly unpleasant with anyone who comes near him.
He's graffitied the walls and is refusing to wear clothes.
As a family we're pretty united in our decision never to play Monopoly with him ever again. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

HomerJ · Apr 11, 2023

CountingDown said:
This is in the joke thread so presume it is meant as a joke...however, I know from previous experience that this happens more often than you'd think, albeit the smoking through a trache tube is a severe example.

I would say, having trained in the 90s, the patients wouldn't be outside...at the hospital where I trained and first worked, there was a smoking room behind the cafe in the main lobby of the hospital (I kid you not) and you would see a steady stream of patients and staff in and out of there...and, of course, every time the door was opened, there was a sudden strong smell of cigarettes in the lobby (luckily it was a very big lobby so only covered a small area but still). In the late 90s when they decided smoking indoors was not good, they created a smoking gazebo in an outside area....which was passed by everybody walking through the hospital so everyone could see all these health professionals standing outside in all weather doing what we would tell patients not to

And this isn't getting into when a patient wanted a cigarette and we would escort them outside so they could smoke....and then standing next to them having one of our own. And I still remember doing my mental health placement and spending most of my time in the smoking room as that is where most of the patients spent most of their time and was the only way to talk to them

sounds about right