Aquacel and Fictional Worlds of Choice

[gehayi]

After a battle royale to obtain the Aquacel AG for the leg--a battle mostly between my doctor, who thought of this as over-the-counter medicine and the Home Health place, who wanted medical justification for putting this on back order--I finally have the stuff a week later. FYI, Aquacel is not cheap. Fourteen sheets of it--I currently have six,

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[smurasaki]

I'm glad your leg is better. I wish it wasn't such a battle to get medical stuff, though. :( Sometimes real life is a pretty lousy world to live in, too.

On that subject... honestly, it's really hard to think of a fictional universe I would want to live in. Even the relatively shiny ones can have some pretty big downsides.

[gehayi]

Yeah, sometimes it is.

I could go for life in Star Trek. The medicine is outstanding and access to it is rarely a problem, the tech is decent (showers in spaaaaaace!), the Earth is at peace, humans actually get along with most species in the universe, and travel to different planets seems to be fairly common, even for civilians. And there's an atmosphere of exploration and discovery. Okay, yes, there are problems, but this world seems manageable.

[smurasaki]

Oh yes, Star Trek! One of the few universes where it's probably better not to be a main character. Well, unless you're a red shirt.

[lee_rowan]

One of my sister's dogs got mauled by several others and they had to do massive ICU at home--and she swears by a product that, she says, she would use on herself. I have NO IDEA if it's approved for human patients, but it wicks away moisture so a wound can heal. It's $90 a box... the sort of thing that a group of friends might order for someone?

http://coreaid.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=82

I agree with the Trek universe. That's one of the reasons I watch so little TV anymore. I want fantasy worlds that are better than this one, not ten times worse. "Edgy and dark?" Interesting to look at, maybe, but I wouldn't want to live there.

[gehayi]

You know, back when I was hospitalized, the hospital DID use something like Core Aid in a deep wound that has left a permanent three-inch pit in my leg. They packed it into the wound every morning and night. (The Kotex wound wasn't nearly as deep, thank God.) I don't know if that was what they used, but it looked similar.

I don't watch much TV because there's not much on. These are my choices right now. (Note--all these things are coming on at three in the afternoon. I'm skipping anything that started before that.)

Golf.
Motocross (which makes me think of the MotoKops in Stephen King's The RegulatorsCooking with Master Chefs

[lee_rowan]

Bruce Springsteen did a song about that lineup... "Fifty-seven channels and NOTHING ON."

I don' t know about packing a wound--they just put it on the surface to wick away the fluids and changed it regularly. The vets didn't think their dog was going to make it, and she probably wouldn't have with most people.

[sunnyskywalker]

STUPID HOUSE. If he didn't insult his patients right off the bat, they wouldn't clam up so much and might tell him things, which he could then use to make a correct diagnosis instead of sitting around with a whiteboard guessing and then half-killing someone with Random Expensive Treatment A to see if it works. Maybe patients wouldn't always lie if you weren't an ass, House! All the medical people I know say one of their most important diagnostic tools is listening and acting like trustworthy confidants. How are most of his patients not dead or permanently damaged by his treatments? The whole setup the show has with being a tough diagnostician in opposition to compassion or even faking good bedside manner is so absurd. (Also, does that hospital have differential diagnostics manuals? Seems better to look it up than just trying to remember what they learned in med school yonks ago. That leads to situations in which I find out I'm more familiar with rare conditions like chimaerism than the characters we're supposed to believe are experts

[rubygirl29]

I'm glad the leg is better, but sorry about ongoing medical issues. I don't have a ton of fandoms, and most of them are SCi-FI. My only problem with fandoms set in the past or even in the near past, is that if not for modern medicine, ( would be dead! As in from birth! LOL.

At least in most of my fandoms, I'd be alive, well-educated, and reasonably healthy! I'm not particularly timid, so I think I could be the librarian on Atlantis quite happily. As for DF ... I'd be interested to see what life is like in a world with magic and wizards, even with the dangers inherent in "meddling in the affairs of Wizards."

[gehayi]

My only problem with fandoms set in the past or even in the near past, is that if not for modern medicine, I would be dead! As in from birth! LOL.

Thank God for modern medicine!

At least in most of my fandoms, I'd be alive, well-educated, and reasonably healthy!

What ARE most of your fandoms?

As for DF ... I'd be interested to see what life is like in a world with magic and wizards, even with the dangers inherent in "meddling in the affairs of Wizards." I'd be all for living in a world of magic and wizards if it were possible to do so without a) being thought crazy, b) being killed or eaten by the monsters (I'd want something that could make them back off, in other words) and c)having to worry about the impact of magic on everything electrical in my house. Like the lymphatic pump. And the furnace. I've had to go without both for extended periods of time. It's not pleasant

[rubygirl29]

((nods)) Yes, you are so right about Marcone. I find him fascinating, complex, and I hope Jim never turns him into Harry's nemesis. I love their on again-off again relationship. I swear it sounds like they're flirting with each other!

As for the supernatural, I've worked in not one, but two libraries that are reputedly haunted -- and I once had a streetlight explode as I drove beneath it, and other dim when I pass, so maybe I already have some weird electical vibe going on! At times, Harry's world is not so out of the realm of possibility. :-)

And, boy, I would love to have some of Mac's ale!

[gehayi]

I swear it sounds like they're flirting with each other!

Oh, they're completely flirting. I'm not sure whether Jim is in denial about how flirtatious they sound or if he totally knows and is just mocking the whole ultra-heterosexual action hero thing. I'm hoping it's the latter.

I wish that Harry would stop threatening to kill Marcone, though. Because it's not a good idea. Harry's made the point ever since the first book that he's intimidated by Marcone. (I can just hear John Marcone if Harry ever admitted that to him. "Mister Dresden. You can command fire, wind and earth to obey your will, brew potions containing sunbeams and music, and annihilate buildings if you're in a bad mood...and you are afraid of me?Unfortunately, Harry's usual reaction when he's frightened is to get angry. And when Harry gets angry, he tends to lash out and try to be frightening himself. This does not work on most supernatural bad guys, but Harry continues to try to bluff his way through the poker game of intimidation anyway

[arseaboutface]

No amount of insane crush on various Stark men could convince me to inhabit the world of ASOIAF. No fucking way. Not even if Ned actually looked like Sean Bean, and that's saying something, because I really, really love Sean Bean.

[gehayi]

I understand exactly what you mean. That's not a safe world to occupy. It brings out the Rincewind in me. I love reading about it...but if I had to live there, I'd run in the opposite direction.

[sunnyskywalker]

Three hundred? Ack. I'm glad they at least ended up paying, and now you have it on hand if you need it, but what a frustrating thing to go through.

I'm so not cut out for living in fictional universes. I'd be eaten by dragons or absorbed by sentient gas clouds or something in about five minutes. Assuming I survived the childhood ear infections, if it's a low-tech world. Plus, if they haven't invented glasses, I couldn't see anything too far away, which would not help. I'd just have to hope I was in a predictable enough universe that I could survive by hiding under the table with the cowardly advisers.

[gehayi]

I'm so not cut out for living in fictional universes. I'd be eaten by dragons or absorbed by sentient gas clouds or something in about five minutes. Assuming I survived the childhood ear infections, if it's a low-tech world. Plus, if they haven't invented glasses, I couldn't see anything too far away, which would not help. I'd just have to hope I was in a predictable enough universe that I could survive by hiding under the table with the cowardly advisers.

You and me both! That sounds like a definite plan!