It’s a heartbreaking Vine that I need in my life and so does the world. But I cannot find it for the life of me! I am not too well versed with Vine, so I don’t know if some Vines were lost forever when they shut down. If that is the case, I’ll forever be the only one quoting this particular one. Please help!
If this gets a lot of attention, I will show my patient directly and set her up with an account on here so she can talk directly with you all. So, for reasons I won't go I to, this patient of mine has an incomplete spinal cord injury, and is unable to stand, or hold herself upright at all. She has nowhere to go from my facility, her option is really a nursing home or a shelter (yes, hospitals will discharge you to a shelter, provided it is handicap accessible and you are independent enough with your activities of daily living). She is, understandably, feeling very depressed, very alone, and she feels that there is a lack of resources for young people with spinal cord injuries to talk with others who are experiencing this. I tend to agree. For at least a half hour everyday we scour the Internet for online support groups for this- for active, vibrant communities about spinal cord injury and living independently post SCI. We've found a Facebook group that lead us to a new series called "Push Girls" on Sundance about women in wheelchairs, but she just needs to know, she needs that level of personal experience, strength, and hope. I have been trying to figure out a way to help her, and honestly I think Reddit could help...I am asking now for your experience, strength, and hope to share with this young girl. If you are a SCI or If you are close with someone who is...if you know of resources I may have overlooked, if you just want to tell her that she's awesome, please do! She does have the Internet, and Netflix, if anyone has movie or television recommendations for her, as well. She's a bright and funny young woman who needs some positive thoughts and some options right now! She is willing and motivated to keep working, keep pushing herself, but insurance doesn't have the ability to keep her for long-term intensive therapy, and that's what she needs (and what she won't get from a nursing home). She is on state-funded insurance that does provide for her to stay at this facility until her IV antibiotics are up, but she is really on her own. I think it is doubly difficult because she is 25, and not willing to give up all her independence...nor do I think she has to. Anything that anyone of you can think of - support groups, advocacy groups, ANYTHING at all, please help us out!
*MASSIVE TRIGGER WARNING - talk of Anthym being in severe condition, talk of very invasive treatment. As a mother, this was extremely hard to sit through and type out. Please be cautious that that is very, very traumatic.*
*I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes. I just sat through 45 minutes of this and typed it out very fast as I went. Karissa goes back and forth between days, but I made it as chronological as I could. My thoughts are periodically in italics*
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- She begins by saying that she's going to share her testimony because everyone is asking about it. duh, you posted a picture of your kid in a c collar and then went MIA
-She spent 19 days in the hospital
-The day before the basketball game, she had a slight fever. Karissa was going to take her birthday pictures but decided against it because she could tell she wasn't feeling well.
-Friday night (the day before the game), Karissa was bathing Anthym and noticed her neck slouched over and thought that was weird.
- Saturday morning, she woke up fine in her crib. Laughing, smiling, being baby, you get it.
-They went to the basketball game and Anthym lost all control of her muscles. She couldn't hold her head up, couldn't use her legs, her face drooped. Karissa said she, "thought it was weird."
- AND THEN THEY WENT TO LUNCH AND NOT THE HOSPITAL
-Anthym wouldn't make eye contact with Karissas mom. Kept looking up. Said it was really scary and then said, "so we went to eat lunch." I fucking cant with this woman.
-Karissa said she couldn't eat. probably because your fucking kid was very obviously having a serious medical issue
-She decided to take Anthym to urgent care who then sent her to the children's hospital.
-She then goes on a mini rant about how urgent care tried to blame her sickness on them not vaccinating and said they thought she had tuberculosis
-They did a spinal tap and Karissa said it was the worst experience of her entire life.
-Karissa prayed over Anthym during the spinal tap and while nurses were holding her child down.
-Karissa said that one of the men holding her down had Anthyms face smooshed into his belly, suffocating her. She tried to get him to back off by saying she wasn't breathing, but they wouldn't listen.
-They finally moved Anthym's head and she had passed out. They immediately gave her
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"It sounded reasonable at the time? Perhaps mistakes were made?" - Unknown Senior NCO (Suspected Iron Fence), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
"You know what? I don't wanna know," Unknown Command Sergeant Major (Suspected Hamburger Kingdom), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
"Get out of my office, you lunatic," Unknown Colonel (Suspected Vodkatrog Empire), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
"There is a point where we needed to stop and we have clearly passed it but let's keep going and see what happens," Every goddamn Private ever in every goddamn species ever.
"I HATE YOU ALL SO MUCH! I WOULD SHOOT EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE FUCKING HEAD AND GIGGLE MY ASS OFF FOR A PINT OF PISS AT THE PUB!" - Unknown Company Commander's Friday Safety Briefing (Suspected Bongistan), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
"That went well, don't you think, sir?"
"Oh my God in Heaven, what's wrong with all of you? This is why we can't have nice things!" - Radio Net conversation, Unknown (Suspected MechaKrautLand), Age of Paranoia, Pre-Glassing
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The blue spark reached the clouds and vanished, pulling Legion's intellect and awareness with it. He found himself swirling and rolling as he sped down a tube of data, thousands of bluish sparks joining him as he swept through the datalines.
He was suddenly spit out into a room. He felt the bluish spark get yanked away from his fingers as he landed, butt first, on a bunk. He didn't look around, held perfectly still, using his peripheral vision to get a good look at his surroundings.
Legion was sitting on a bunk in what was obviously a thirty-two man open barracks bay. Around him bunks had bluish sparks hit the carefully tucked and tightened sheets, flickering for a moment to show a Terran male sitting on the bunk, hands on his knees, waiting.
Through the windows was a low-rez sky and unoptimized bushes.
Well well well, where have I found myself? he asked himself, still holding still. He closed his eyes, checking his digital code. The system had dropped him into the area without running a full scan, so even his barely hidden code was intact and waiting for use.
You see me now, a veteran of a thousand psychic wars, he quoted.
Inside of himself code blocks slid back, code loaded into his brain, fitting neatly in the sections that had b
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
A couple of days ago I posted a thread here regarding my experiences working at different hotels throughout my 20s. I wasn't a job-hopper, well maybe I was to a lesser extent, but I decided to look for a new job with better prospects as soon as my old contract ended to pursue more professional experience. Some people seemed to be interested more in the paranormal elements which were only mentioned briefly and asked if I could share more. So I guess why not? I hope this doesn't seem too much like one of those r/nosleep stories as I tend to think more critically in English than in Indonesian, so the flow throughout this whole post may at some points seem a bit 'polished'. If you read my previous posts, you would know it's just how I put thoughts into words.
Okay now the stories. The weird occurrences in room #325 weren't the only supernatural incidents that had ever happened to me while still working in the hospitality industry. But it was one of the most memorable because it was my first time ever working at a hotel. It is believed that every hotel must at least have one room which is purportedly haunted. Some believe because a hotel has many rooms it is possible for some of these rooms to be left unattended for a relatively long period of time that a lonely-ass sad ghost decides to occupy it. Some believe it is the result of the owner looking after a 'being' for good luck and this being demands a special room for itself. Either way, it doesn't diminish the spooky and surreal quality to this belief.
Here are some scary experiences I had while I was still working at these hotels throughout the years. Most are my own personal experiences, the rest are my friends'. The scariest would probably be a toss-up between stories #2 and #4. But I would like to start off with more stories about room #325.
- THE SPIRIT IN ROOM #325
So if you read my previous post, you already know about this particular room. It's the haunted room at this hotel I was working at. My colleagues had 'warned' me about it. After going through a month of intensive training, I was finally ready to be in charge of the night shift all by myself. I was nervous but also ecstatic, like a rescue animal finally deemed capable of being released back into the wild. The day before my first night shift, one of my colleagues took me as
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I'm handy with a lot of stuff, and I like to try new things, but my main job is a software developer. My father built his garage when I was about 6. He built a 24' wide and 28' long 2 story garage and it was the biggest garage in the area. So many projects done in that garage over the years. So I wanted to build a garage of my own. The timing was perfect with the work from home shift, I could work on the garage during the day, and work on my job during night.
But I wanted mine to be bigger.
I got the local building codes and learned that I could go 35' high. So I planned a 24' wide, 44' long, 35' high building. The first floor would be 12' high, then 8' 2nd and 3rd floors, with a 5:12 roof. AKA, big. But because my property is oddly shaped, I needed a variance to build 12' off the property line. And because of that, they limited me to 26', or only 2 floors. I was angry, so I said if I'm limited to 2 floors, I'm going to make them as big as possible. Thus, 2x 12' floors.
As per the mods request, here's a detailed account to my experience thus far. If you take away ANYTHING from this, I think the biggest takeaway I had was the floor joists. If you're building multi-story, look at that section.
Starting out, my buddy broke out the survey equipment. Since the height of the ground was not exactly level, the footer depth requirements were different. Minimum 12" deep, 2' wide footer for 12" block, which would be the first 3 courses of block. Scraped away the topsoil, but we don't have topsoil, just clay, so that wasn't bad. Bought a 24" bucket for my 70 year old backhoe, gave it a tune up, and set stakes. Pulled string and that would be my guide to dig. Getting square was also important.
Set rebar in the footer hole, and brought in 10 yards of concrete. I bought a bobcat quick attach plate off ebay, found a pair of pallet forks, and made my own forks. That was really helpful to move all the block to exactly where I needed it. Survey equipment out again, found my 4 corners, and laid 2 courses of block. Took the 2 diagonal measurements and it was off square by 3", so I had to tear it down and take more measurements. Second time, measurements were dead on. Pulled string, and I had my line.
Got bag of lime and cement and a load of sand. Half bag each, 15 shovels of sand, mix it up, add water until good consistency. Then laid block all around. 3 course of 12" block for below grade. Since the original plan was 35' high, and I had a l
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They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
