TG_Alibi

This happened to me when i was buying my first car. it got to the point where I was yelling at the salesman to give me my keys back. They threatened to call the police because I was making a scene. I told them to go ahead because they had stolen my keys. Fuck that place.

Yeah...that was ten years ago. I'd like to think I'm much wiser now.

Also have over ninety 10-codes memorized though they are not really allowed to be used anywhere anymore, but some older officers find that a hard habit to break.

Why? And what has replaced 10-codes?

I also suffer from spontaneous pneumos. I can pretty much self-diagnose at this point and when I walk into an ER and say "collapsed lung" they have a chest tube in within 20 minutes. I had a pleurodesis (sp) and now I only get the bubbling feeling and ~5% collapse. The surgery was done to both side of my chest at the same time and the recovery was agonizing, but at least I don't have to have any more chest tubes!

Fun fact, these are not caused (directly) by smoking and generally happen to tall skinny white males and also 18-25 year old women during menstruation. In my case, they are a symptom of Marfan Syndrome, which also affected Abraham Lincoln.

They had to do a pigtail on my left side a few years ago, before I had corrective surgery. The on-call pulmonologist was a complete dunce and after failign miserably for a half hour in the hospital room, took me down to the CT scanner so he could see what he was doing. By that time, the local had worn off and despite my screams and flailing, he did nothing about the torturous pain he was putting me through. I found a new pulmonologist and have her cell phone number, just in case.