Pump motor runs. Do I need to check the fuse ?
Maybe it’s the water fuse?
What I did today -instead- of Rocketry.
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Maybe it’s the water fuse?
Verifying it runs means you already have checked the fuse. No need to check it again.Pump motor runs. Do I need to check the fuse ?
Same here in the finger lakes region. Wineries have been here for decades, breweries and distilleries are popping up. And most of them have tasting rooms.
Epoxy.
We have two wineries here In Pahrump. Yes, in the desert. They have a few acres of vines. So, they must be getting the grapes somewhere else.
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Spent the afternoon in the ER with a relative with extremely high blood pressure. It's amazing how 190/X can get you to the front of the triage line. 
Hopefully the MRI and CT come back clean since the prime suspect is a minor stroke. Fortunately, they passed the stroke triage test with flying colors.
Hopefully the MRI and CT come back clean since the prime suspect is a minor stroke. Fortunately, they passed the stroke triage test with flying colors.
Fingers crossed.
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I'm glad to hear s/he's OK. I hated the beta blocker I was on for years, though I didn't know that it was the cause of my troubles until I was taken off of it – in favor of a calcium channel blocker – for a different reason. The calcium channel blocker worked better for my BP too, and that also wasn't the reason for the switch.
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First followup since surgery. All hardware looks good (and there is a lot of it, yikes) and bone bits are in the correct positions. If I play nice with no load bearing for 5 more weeks I should have a good hip to start PT with. Ribs and collarbone are all looking on the way to good also.
Unfortunately, as the rest of the pain and swelling has deminished it’s become clear something is wrong in my left knee also. Everything is consistent with a torn meniscus. Near term, the treatment course is the same, rest and anti-inflammatories. If that doesn’t work then a shot, and if that doesn’t work surgery on the knee. That would suck, but it isn’t a shattered hip, so I’ll deal with that if and when the time comes.
Its becoming increasingly likely my long course triathlon days are over as even in the best recovery case 40+ mile running weeks are going to wear the hip out quickly given the cartilage damage that nothing can be done about. However, all the doctors tell me that they see no reason I can’t return to 7-10k mile years on the bike again, just need to get through the rest period. Given how things have gone, baring a setback (knee surgery), I may still be able to race the L’etape this July. My goal will certainly change from top 10% to “just stay in front of the sag wagon”, but I may still get my alpine race.
I also now have all the x-ray and CT scans before and after...WOW! It is amazing what a skilled surgery team can rebuild, and also, I'm never getting through a metal detector again.
Edit: Note that I'm actually really happy with this visit. My fear going into this was the hip wasn't healing properly, and it is healing properly. Everything else is a relatively minor problem.
Unfortunately, as the rest of the pain and swelling has deminished it’s become clear something is wrong in my left knee also. Everything is consistent with a torn meniscus. Near term, the treatment course is the same, rest and anti-inflammatories. If that doesn’t work then a shot, and if that doesn’t work surgery on the knee. That would suck, but it isn’t a shattered hip, so I’ll deal with that if and when the time comes.
Its becoming increasingly likely my long course triathlon days are over as even in the best recovery case 40+ mile running weeks are going to wear the hip out quickly given the cartilage damage that nothing can be done about. However, all the doctors tell me that they see no reason I can’t return to 7-10k mile years on the bike again, just need to get through the rest period. Given how things have gone, baring a setback (knee surgery), I may still be able to race the L’etape this July. My goal will certainly change from top 10% to “just stay in front of the sag wagon”, but I may still get my alpine race.
I also now have all the x-ray and CT scans before and after...WOW! It is amazing what a skilled surgery team can rebuild, and also, I'm never getting through a metal detector again.
Edit: Note that I'm actually really happy with this visit. My fear going into this was the hip wasn't healing properly, and it is healing properly. Everything else is a relatively minor problem.
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I met three of my smoking Buddies down at the common gazebo for a couple hours since it was in the mid-60s.
This was day number 8 for my wife who got Covid virus... yesterday on day 7 she was still testing positive but was feeling a lot better so we've been making a heroic effort to stay 15 ft away from each other. I've been wiping everything down with Lysol disinfectant spray, using paper towels instead of the standard dish towel, spraying down the microwave handle and buttons every time we use it. Unbelievably I have had zero symptoms, if I've got it, and I'm not going to do a test until I have a symptom show up. with my immune system highly screwed up since my body started destroying itself, it's kind of crazy that I have not gotten it.
FWIW, I'm pulling for ya (as I'm sure everyone is) and I think about ur recovery every time I get on TRF.
If the knee ends up with surgery it's usually 1 of 2 things: meniscal repair which is better long term, but is another few weeks of not beating weight on that knee OR a partial meniscectomy which is super easy in the short term (like I didn't even need crutches after a couple hours) but long term, especially with high impact stuff like running (was running a little and volleyball for me), it will wear out and then the articular cartilage on the ends of your femur and tibia will start to wear then it turns to crap quickly.
There's a sorta 3rd possibility, a bucket-handle tear. They'll operate on those pretty quickly so the torn piece hopefully doesn't die. I doubt they would even consider it for you right now tho, so it would likely develop into one of the 2 situations that I already mentioned.
FWIW, I've had all 3 of those surgeries and a meniscal transplant (cadaver obviously). I've also had 4 articular cartilage repairs (3 on left, 1 on right) across 2 surgeries which were also a few weeks of not bearing weight.
I guess what I'm saying is, if u have any questions, hit me up. I am of course not a medical professional however
Got under my Jeep GC and removed the washer pump from the reservoir. Access was through the left wheel well. Unclipped pump and extracted filter. Seemed to be clogged with some sort of plastic or cellulose fibre-like substance. Hit it with some flux remover and a brush to clean it up. Washed out the reservoir and refitted the pump and all is well again.
Just taken our cat Dexter to the vet to have a couple of sarcomas cut out. Will get his teeth cleaned at the same time.
started saving the 3.500 images in my Imgur account onto my desktop PC. On page 5 of 50
And by "through the rest period" do you mean the current period of radical rest plus the full course of PT, or at least until the doctor and therapist agree on giving you the green light? Please be careful.
While I was reading Chris's post and say just this much:
Ooh, Ken bought a new night vision camera. And got a really great shot!
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I got the biopsy result. Negative, all normal. There was virtually no doubt and no reaon to worry, but it's good to be certain.
Cat is recovering from the operation to remove some sarcomas. Going to pick up shortly.
I appreciate the concern. I assure you I'm not doing one thing in this process that the orthopedic surgeon doesn't explicitly approve. That goes for weight bearing now, driving (still a no), PT intensity when that starts or returning to riding (certainly on the trainer well before outside). I am 100% invested in the next 20 years over the next 6-12 months. I asked "Any reason I won't be able to ride 1000 miles a month when this is over" and the response was "only if you don't listen to what we're telling you during recovery."
I think the most useful thing in dealing with all of this was the Ironman I did in October. It was a brutal 94 degrees, and I knew about 60 miles into the bike that I had to pull back, or the heat was going to end my race. That was really hard to deal with after training 15h a week for almost 2 years with the goal of going under 11h, but it was reality, physically that just wasn't possible for me in those conditions. I learned to meet myself where I am and be ok with it. In a lot of ways that's where I am now, physically I just don't have it, so I need to control what I can (got an ice pack on my knee now), stay within myself, and I'll get there as soon as I safely can.
Took my wife to the VA clinic for a test. Almost fell asleep while waiting. Watched YouTube videos from Ukraine and from Tahoe. They are buried in snow. Seriously buried. And flooding at lower elevations. I'm glad we only got rain and snow in the mountains. And played with the kitten/cats. One of the girls will walk up to us and stretch up our legs. So much as saying pick me up. She likes to be carried around. These kittens like to have their belly rubbed. Never had a cat that wanted it's belly rubbed. Usually they will scratch or nibble on you. Here are the two girls. Nebula and Gamora. I didn't pose them.![20230119_022346[1890].jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/rocketryforum/data/attachments/475/475132-ce75a9ec1808714bbe8e265535cea706.jpg "20230119_022346[1890].jpg")
Do your cats like to sleep in the sinks?
I have a cat who like to have her belly rubbed (occasionally) because she'll then scratch and nibble on you. It's how she like to start when in the mood for roughhousing. (Not much scratching; mostly she keeps the claws in while making the scratching motions. Mostly.)
My wife is still testing positive on day 10, still felling bad. She took a short walk yesterday to get out and came back to find her blood oxygen level at 85.
I saved 180 photos from my Imgur account to the PC, on page 8 of 50. (60 photos per page). My screen saver goes through a slideshow of all the pics which I love. I still haven't got the Plugable unit putting out anything from the DVI port. I ran their diagniostics and sent the file to them to analyze. I struggle with computers. My friend says that you have to try to fix verything yourself as if there's no one else on Earth to help you.
I saved 180 photos from my Imgur account to the PC, on page 8 of 50. (60 photos per page). My screen saver goes through a slideshow of all the pics which I love. I still haven't got the Plugable unit putting out anything from the DVI port. I ran their diagniostics and sent the file to them to analyze. I struggle with computers. My friend says that you have to try to fix verything yourself as if there's no one else on Earth to help you.
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Watched the snow fall..
Waiting for the snow plow to come by.. (boys & big trucks..)
this gives you an idea of how the city [Montreal] deals with snow!
Waiting for the snow plow to come by.. (boys & big trucks..)
this gives you an idea of how the city [Montreal] deals with snow!
Good report!
Now.... CONTINUE to behave and give the bones AND connective tissues plenty of time to heal properly before you reinstate the "doing stupid shyte" routines! No really.... don't re-injure yourself or set back any of the healing processes. Get well! Be well!
spent most of the day trying to get audio out of the newer PC I'm using and to get the microphone to work I ended up having to plug an HDMI cable into the back of the PC and that got the audio coming out the stereo but I plugged the microphone in and it would not work and said it was not connected which it was and it's a known working new microphone. I got on the support line and it never did get resolved because he said there would be a new alert come up saying to click on the download file and run it. That was an hour ago and it still hasn't come up so he wanted to get off the pc with me I guess to go to another call so I have no idea whether what he did is going to resolve the problem or not. I really have a love-hate relationship with computers
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You are a very wise person. I don't mean that in as a joke or anything like that, I mean that you have a very good understanding of what life is all about and you phrase your statements in a way that really puts that into perspective. I need to figure out how to rewire my brain to think the way you do about the Ironman and your current recovery path and apply it to my daily life.
Sandy.
Do you know if it's a dedicated microphone port or a combination headphones/microphone port..? Sometimes they aren't compatible
