All Creatures Great and Small

Just Push The Call Button if You Need Anything Mr. Hutchins

This is like saying, "I'm from the IRS and here to help you," or "Join the Navy and see the world," 

or what the highway patrolman says after giving you a moving violation, "Have a nice day," or a 

relative who at the annual Christmas party says, "Let's do lunch."

Have you recently had an opportunity to just push the CALL BUTTON?  Well, I have and I always hear, "I'll let them know."   And, that's it...  yes, you do get a fairly quick answer to your just pushing the call button and if I as every asked a question on a survey as to how quickly were you answered once you just pushed the call button...  I would have to say really fast man...  but, what you need to be asking was how fast did a nurse come into your room...   and, that is predicated totally upon how you rank...  that is to say whether or not you are:

• Urgent
• Critical
• Handicapped
• Priority
• Low Priority
• About to be released

During my stay here University of Tennessee Hospital, I have been urgent, critical, and priority.  It all started 5 days ago when I went to the ER because the UTI meds were not bringing down a 103 degree temperature....   and expected to be given some additional meds and then sent back home in about 4 hours...   BUT...  I went into heart failure, kidney failure, and extremely low blood pressure that the specialists thought was coming from an unknown source and took precautions that it might be COVID.  However, my body responded quickly and perfectly so it was not COVID and was informed I was staying in the Hospital until they could identify the source and remove it from my body.  My infection was staph but they do not know the origin.

I spend a day in ICU where I continued to improve and given a room with a view on the 7th floor or heart floor where I will remain until being released.  I will probably be he here 7 or 8 days before I am released and it could be 10 days....   regardless of when,  I will be required to return to the Hospital on a daily basis to have an antibiotic administered via IV for 2 additional weeks.

INTERMISSION VII

In Case i Don't Post Anything Over the last Couple of Days: This Is The Reason

I was seeking out the services of a Physical Therapist and was experiencing s profound in my lower back and decided to see the doctor at the Clinic.  All of my problems could be attributed to a Urinary Tract Infection and I never experienced anything quite so painful.

 I am talking a couple of days off.

THIS and THAT

You Know I'm RIGHT...

All Creatures Great and Small

 

The Aftermath of Recent Events

The COVID-19 Pandemic Hit USA

The US Economy Shuts Down

The Killing of George Floyd

The Black Lives Matter Movement

Defund Police Departments

Reopening the US Economy

These are the issues that the General Public must deal with going into the 2020 Presidential Election to take place in November.  The General Public, not the Mainstream Media or the Political Polls, must decide in the privacy of their own homes, apartments, or wherever they live which Presidential Candidate is the best choice to take this country forward...  and, I am not that confident that it will be a matter of just voting along Political Party lines....  that is to say that Trump has his good and bad points and Biden has shifted more liberal and progressive than he first appeared to be.

AMERICANS MUST DECIDE:

1.  Do you want your taxes to increase?

2.  Do you want to defund the police?

3.  Do you want a Socialistic Government?

4.  Do you want to rewrite the US Constitution?

5.  Do you want a GREEN NEW DEAL?

6.  Do you want Economic Equality?

7.  Do you want to limit Corporate Profits?

I Need This T-shirt...

What Are The Odds

The SQUAD

REMEMBER THESE FACES...

The Squad is the informal name for a group of four women elected in the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections, made up of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

These four newly elected members of Congress want to create a:

• NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM FOR THE USA
• NEW GOVERNMENT SYSTEM FOR THE USA

Of course, most of America is ignoring these 4 ladies and their opinions but the MAINSTREAM MEDIA is spinning their ideas as the CORE IDEALS of the Democratic Party and that Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House has NO CONTROL over these 4 ladies at all...

IN essence, they was an economic system where everyone basically earns the same amount of money and therefore has the same opportunities as everyone else...  so that, everyone earns $100,000 or $150,000 regardless of what they do...

This way, minorities no longer have to struggle economically and can wear fancy clothes, own luxury cars, be given the same size home that everyone else has, and own a vacation home either at the beach or in the mountains.

1. This would make education irrelevant
2. This would make experience irrelevant
3. This would make technical skills irrelevant
4. This would make athletic skills irrelevant
5. This would make musical skills irrelevant
6. This would make acting skills irrelevant

NOW, as far as the new government is concerned...  well, we first have to demolish the old form of government which would mean abolishing the US CONSTITUTION and the BILL OF RIGHTS, the AMERICAN FLAG...  for starters...   but, I am not sure how that would impact our military branches, our Coast Guard and our National Guard.

We already know that there is a movement underway, endorsed by COLLEGE PROFESSORS to take money away from the police and give to POOR COMMUNITIES...  This would elevate the POOR COMMUNITIES into WELL-TO-DO COMMUNITIES and there would not longer be a need for the police.

HOWEVER, the 4 ladies have over-looked ILLEGAL DRUG SALES, PIMPS and WHORES, and HUMAN TRAFFICKING that is rampant all over the USA especially in many of these communities that these 4 ladies want to transform...

I doubt very seriously if the MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL or the RUSSIAN MAFIA or the JAPANESE YAKUZA really gives a damn about what these 4 ladies want.

BUT HEY...  this is just one man's opinion....

And, I have not yet touched on CAPITALISM and the growing popularity of LEGAL MARIJUANA...

2020 Election

I'm Not Sure What I Am Around the House

I used to call my electric drill an electric drill and I used to call my cordless drill a cordless drill...  but, apparently, I have been wrong all these years because my drills are not just drills they are DRILL DRIVERS...  and, when I went looking for an impact drill today in Lowe's I was informed that I was not looking for an impact drill but an IMPACT DRIVER...   and, I could either get a 1/4 inch impact driver or a 1/2 inch drill driver of which they were out of stock, leaving my choices rather limited.

It would also appear that they no longer (and I could be mistaken here) a variable chuck that accommodates all sizes of drill bits from 1/4 to 1/2 but you get a quick release chuck that either holds the 1/4 inch bit or the 1/2 inch bit; however, there is a holder (adapter) that my Lowe's Customer Service Buddy failed to mention that allows the user to have a 1/2 inch drill bit operating in a 1/4 inch drill...

I am not a handyman around the house and I never wanted to be a handyman around the house like my father was and my sister's second husband still is...  I understand that as a handyman around the house, one can save "tons" of money on home repairs and refurbishing but I just never wanted to be that kind of guy...  my first wife was ok with that but my second wife is not...  hence the need to buy an impact drill...  I mean driver...

I have tried to explain to her over and over again that,

• I am not a carpenter
• I am not an electrician
• I am not a plumber
• I am not a brick layer
• I don't repair lawn mowers, vehicles, washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, or microwaves...

HOWEVER, I can build her a damn computer

because I trained as a PC Technician for two 

years but it has been so long since I build one, 

I doubt if I remember much.