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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Happy Birthday @93boomer !
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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Willmark said:
Well gang, remember when I posted about my back? Turns out it's even worse than I knew.

Met with the doctor today to go over my MRI, turns out I also have a fracture in my back that has not healed since early June and won't until... you guessed it surgery. Time frame YTBD, my guess is late Spring.

So for those playing the home game?
* four bulging disks
* one spinal hernia
* one vertebrate shifted 7mm
* one vertebrate fractured

@TINKWINGS @MinnieM123 @Tiggerish @figmentfan423
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This is waaaayyyy more than what I was expecting you to hear from your doctor! Very sorry to learn that there are multiple issues going on with your back, and stunned to read that you may have to wait until late spring to get this resolved, via surgery. That's a long way away, not to mention what you've already experienced up to this point. :(

Is there any way that your doctor can get you on a waiting list for an earlier appt.? Having worked in a hospital, I can tell you that people cancel surgeries sometimes (for various reasons), and there may be a sooner opportunity for you to receive needed care.

In the interim, I hope various methods of pain management may help you. (Both Icy Hot and BENGAY may help other treatments in your program; but as you know, those topicals are still medications that enter your bloodstream, so go easy.)
 
Willmark

Willmark

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MinnieM123 said:
This is waaaayyyy more than what I was expecting you to hear from your doctor! Very sorry to learn that there are multiple issues going on with your back, and stunned to read that you may have to wait until late spring to get this resolved, via surgery. That's a long way away, not to mention what you've already experienced up to this point. :(

Is there any way that your doctor can get you on a waiting list for an earlier appt.? Having worked in a hospital, I can tell you that people cancel surgeries sometimes (for various reasons), and there may be a sooner opportunity for you to receive needed care.

In the interim, I hope various methods of pain management may help you. (Both Icy Hot and BENGAY may help other treatments in your program; but as you know, those topicals are still medications that enter your bloodstream, so go easy.)
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Don’t know yet, only found out late afternoon yesterday. Problem is with Covid going on I might have to wait it out for surgery.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Songbird76 said:
Well, the store sent the tablets to the manufacturer for repairs, so it did go through the manufacturer. It would do this weird thing....we recorded it on our phones. It would black out, but have this kind of a backlight effect, but wouldn't respond to anything. Like the blue screen of death, but it was like backlit black instead of blue. Since she was using it for some schoolwork, she had to be able to access it, but 9 times out of 10 it wouldn't turn on. She'd have to let the battery run down completely, then charge it, and then she could turn it on again. But to let the battery run down took a couple of hours, then you had to charge it up again. And every one of the Lenovo tablets had the same issue. We showed them the video and they had no idea why it was doing that. They figured the first one was defective, which is why they just replaced it. But when that one did it, too, and then the loaner did the same thing, AND the one came back "repaired" and still did it every time it was supposedly fixed, we just gave up and figured it was a bug in the Lenovo tablets. They were never able to explain what was happening and they couldn't get it to stop. It was a waste of money to have a tablet that she couldn't turn on 90% of the time, so we opted for Samsung. We had had good luck with our Samsung devices. She has an Acer laptop now and rarely uses her tablet anymore...she uses my husband's work ipad for drawing sometimes, though, because it has an apple pen with it, and the drawing app works really well with it. But she does more with her laptop and her phone than she does with the tablet.
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It must have just been a bad batch. That is highly unusual for them.

I'm the same way as your daughter. I use my Surface and my laptop. I have no use for a regular tablet. I've borrowed my mom's iPad, and I just have no use for the thing. I'd rather have my laptop, or my Surface that can be a laptop or a tablet. Lately I've been plugging my laptop into my setup I use for work to give it multiple monitors and a mouse and keyboard. And then I have my Kindle for reading.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Songbird76 said:
Well, the store sent the tablets to the manufacturer for repairs, so it did go through the manufacturer. It would do this weird thing....we recorded it on our phones. It would black out, but have this kind of a backlight effect, but wouldn't respond to anything. Like the blue screen of death, but it was like backlit black instead of blue. Since she was using it for some schoolwork, she had to be able to access it, but 9 times out of 10 it wouldn't turn on. She'd have to let the battery run down completely, then charge it, and then she could turn it on again. But to let the battery run down took a couple of hours, then you had to charge it up again. And every one of the Lenovo tablets had the same issue. We showed them the video and they had no idea why it was doing that. They figured the first one was defective, which is why they just replaced it. But when that one did it, too, and then the loaner did the same thing, AND the one came back "repaired" and still did it every time it was supposedly fixed, we just gave up and figured it was a bug in the Lenovo tablets. They were never able to explain what was happening and they couldn't get it to stop. It was a waste of money to have a tablet that she couldn't turn on 90% of the time, so we opted for Samsung. We had had good luck with our Samsung devices. She has an Acer laptop now and rarely uses her tablet anymore...she uses my husband's work ipad for drawing sometimes, though, because it has an apple pen with it, and the drawing app works really well with it. But she does more with her laptop and her phone than she does with the tablet.
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This tale reminds me of very shoddy and inept warehouse workers story a few years ago.
There was a time when some failures were so high in certain hardware, that warehouse workers were forced to send USED "repaired" laptops that were not fully repaired back to different customers. Thus keeping the damaged products circulating towards different clients like a revolving doors. The equipment never reaching the repair center because of demand.
It was quiet a few ago and I do not remember if this affected Lenovo, HP and Compaq brands. But they were brand equipment.
I bet they fired whoever had the great idea (aka idiocy) of doing that instead of actually fixing and cycling out the defective products.
Of course, they needed a darn online report with some leaks on some major online tech sites to force the company to accept the failures.
 

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