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GreatwhiteNorth

GreatwhiteNorth

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curious2garden said:
Cortisone reduces your immune response, that's how it reduces swelling etc... So actually this kind of secondary infection is expected.
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Actually the hand surgeon @ the VA told me it was a steroid combined with a numbing agent.
I never actually saw the name of what they used but it felt immensely better within a day or two and lasted for months with no ill effects I can discern.

I guess it's likely it might have been cortisone - I'll investigate further.
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
Actually the hand surgeon @ the VA told me it was a steroid combined with a numbing agent.
I never actually saw the name of what they used but it felt immensely better within a day or two and lasted for months with no ill effects I can discern.

I guess it's likely it might have been cortisone - I'll investigate further.
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We usually used Depo-Medrol with Marcaine. Those injections are usually without side-effects but stuff happens occasionally and infection would be one you'd watch for.
 
ovo

ovo

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ran some water for small sample. the second round always has more. here's the 25micron at rinse 1 and 2.
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tangerinegreen555

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Found out yesterday the bottom layer of a 2 layer tile floor contains asbestos. So I did extensive research last night, talked to a few friends, and dug up my old asbestos safety manuaIs from work. We had annual asbestos training there required by OSHA...but I never paid attention to it until now, as I never had to deal with it at work much.

Old floor tile asbestos can't release fibers into the air unless you grind, saw, cut or break it. As a precaution, you mist it down to minimize dust in case you fuck up. Most of it stuck to the top much newer layer that is not asbestos...

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Another 12 hour tedious day...some of it didn't just come right up like the pics above...had to super gently tap a wide scraper under some of them to get them up intact and unbroken. 1959 Armstrong Corlon and Excelon tile contain 6.4% to 10% asbestos depending on color...
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Some of it was Goodyear vinyl that doesn't have asbestos in it...but you don't know till you get it up and flip it...
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I only broke 3 tile out of hundreds... danger is my middle name.

Actually...the asbestos in a vinyl matrix is not in the high danger zone like insulation or pipe wrap. I wouldn't be doing if it wasn't safe... most was layed over sticky black tar...but water damage from 3 inland hurricanes, a blown hot water tank and a toilet supply line leak made this a lot easier...half done, back at it tomorrow.
 
tangerinegreen555

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Went out and picked up 4 boxes of 55 gal. drum liners and a big ass trowel for floor tile extraction. There is no perfect tool for removing 1959 asbestos floor tile...but the ones I used yesterday weren't as big as the tile, this might work better.

All I have to do is not break them...hoping bigger removal tool might work faster.

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note the dreaded asbestos tile in the background...have to go slow not to break or I'd already be done.
 
whitebb2727

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Aeroknow said:
Sounds pretty lame huh?
Although the orthopedic who shot me up in my hand, the second time, said it wasnt related, my RN sister said it's possible to get a bacterial infection elsewhere in your body from the injection. I googled it, and sure as shit, there it was.

A week or two after the injection, my knee swole up. I was kneeling down tending to some clones and my knee popped. I felt it ooze within. The bursa sack exploded. I needed antibiotics to finally get better. It fucking hurt like hell
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My wife got mrsa and had several places on her leg and abdomen the size of a golf ball cut out. She is so tough she packed the wounds daily herself instead of home health.

It came back in more places and she cried because they wanted to cut her all to pieces. I went to an old man I know that is a medicine man. He gave some root that we would make a paste and apply to the spots and bandage. It killed it out.

Be careful. I used to get those shots but it caused a lot of scar tissue.
 
Aeroknow

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whitebb2727 said:
My wife got mrsa and had several places on her leg and abdomen the size of a golf ball cut out. She is so tough she packed the wounds daily herself instead of home health.

It came back in more places and she cried because they want to cut her all to pieces. I went to an old man I know that is a medicine man. He gave some root that we would make a paste and apply to the spots and bandage. It killed it out.

Be careful. I used to get those shots but it caused a lot of scar tissue.
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That sucks dude!!
Yeah, lots of bad stories about them cortisone shots for sure.
My dad played baseball and had shit loads of shots in both his elbows. No bad stories from him, but they say you aren't supposed to get that many of them. He ended up having surgery and never needed them ever again. Both me elbows are jacked with tendinitis. I fear that would be my best option, but good luck getting insurance to cover it.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Aeroknow said:
That sucks dude!!
Yeah, lots of bad stories about them cortisone shots for sure.
My dad played baseball and had shit loads of shots in both his elbows. No bad stories from him, but they say you aren't supposed to get that many of them. He ended up having surgery and never needed them ever again. Both me elbows are jacked with tendinitis. I fear that would be my best option, but good luck getting insurance to cover it.
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I've had both knees scraped. I don't think it helped much.
 
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