So I heard the Moo-slime Major who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood is paralyzed from the waist down. I hope he's complete as opposed to incomplete like I am. My injury is at the T12/L1 level of my vertebra (T=thoracic, L=lumbar) and I am incomplete, so I have some function below my level of injury. That is why I can walk although, I'm spending more time in my wheelchair as I get older. If this jihadist dipstick is complete (as is my fondest wish)he will be confined to a wheelchair. Right now, he is prolly in a lot of pain. If one of the bullets fractured any of his vertebra, he'll need surgery to fuse his spine and rods installed to stabilize his spine.
I had my T12/L1 vertebra fused. I also had rods installed. When I awoke from surgery I was in unbearable pain. I did not know the human body could endure that much pain. I was on a morphine pump. Every time I needed a dose, I pressed a button. Unfortunately, there was a lockout on the pump, so I could only dose myself every 15 or 20 minutes. Morphine gave me nightmares. I was really happy when they changed me over to Demerol. I loved Demerol. It didn't stop the pain, I just didn't give a shit. And every time I closed my eyes, I saw multi-colored animals on my eyelids. Think purple elephants with pink polka dots.
So I hope this dude is in severe pain. I hope he's allergic to morphine. I hope he's allergic to Demerol.
His body is in spinal shock which means that other things are going on other than paralysis. There is prolly some internal bleeding.
I'm gonna give a little lesson on paralysis here. It involves the 3 B's and an S. The 3 B's are blood, bowel, and bladder. The S is skin. Let's take them in order.
Blood. He will have circulation problems below his level of injury. I had to wear special compression hose when I was at Shepherd Center. They're a bitch to get on. Because of the circulation problems, there is a chance of blood clots. As such, I had to have heparin (an anti-coagulant)shots. They give them to you in the abdomen.
Bou felt one of my feet while we were at Eric's and remarked about how cold they were. That's due to bad circulation. We crips do not have good temperature control below our level of injury. Cindy the cute quad I go diving with, has to be wrapped up in towels between dives as she gets really cold. Quads have an awful time with temperature regulation.
We also sunburn much easier below our level of injury and of course, we don't feel it. When I dive, I have to ensure that there is no gap between my booties and my wetsuit. I got a real bad sunburn in that area a few years back.
Bowel. He will be unable to take a crap like a normal person. To take a dump, he'll have to shove a finger up his butt to stimulate his bowel or, he'll have to use a suppository. Because of the direction of the large intestine, using the left hand (which as a Moo-slime he has to do) will only make it harder. For the first few weeks of his rehab, nurses or techs will have to do this for him. Still wanna be a rehab nurse? On the upside, he has no feeling in his butt, so a rectal prostate exam by a doctor won't bother him. He also won't feel anything when he gets raped in prison.
Bladder. He will be unable to pee. Right now, he has an indwelling catheter up his penis. Eventually, he will start intermittent catheterization. When he needs to pee, he'll get to ram a catheter up his willy. He'll have to do this four times a day, or more if he ingests a lot of liquids. Or, they'll give him a superpubic catheter. That requires surgery. They'll drill a hole and put in a permanant catheter right into his bladder. Either way, he'll be subject to urinary tract infections. Hopefully, he'll eventually get one that's resistant to antibiotics. Be still my beating heart.
Back in the early part of the 20th Century, spinal cord injured patients died of renal failure. That was before someone thought of putting a hollow tube up the urethra to drain the bladder.
Skin. This one is the biggie. Did you know that Christopher Reeve died of a skin sore? Yep. It got infected and was resistant to every antibiotic they tried.
As an aside, for those of you who don't believe in evolution, how do you explain those pesky little germs that develop a resistance to antibiotics? That is evolution in action.
You may not notice this, but when you sit or lie down, your body is moving. It may be just little twitches, but it is moving. This doesn't happen with spinal cord injured people. As such, if we don't do weight shifts, we get skin sores. That's one of the many reasons paras have to develop upper body strength. A para does a weight shift by putting his hands on the wheels of his chair and pushing his body up. He holds this for at least 30 seconds.
When I was at Shepherd, we had patients who came from other hospitals who had bed sores. That was because the nurses at those hospitals didn't periodically roll the patients over. Please let Major Jihad get bed sores.
Anyway, these patients had to be put on prams, which were long stretcher like things with big wheels. I have two funny pram stories.
My doctor was in a fast food drive through down the street from Shepherd. Right in front of him was one of his patients in a pram. He had rolled down from Shepherd and gone through the drive through.
Another patient, used to roll over to the Piedmont Hospital gift shop and steal greeting cards to give to his favorite nurse. As my nurse friend Cindy (I met her when I was a patient at Shepherd) said, "Hallmark. When you care enough to steal the very best."
Back to skin. We have to have special cushions on our wheelchairs to prevent pressure sores. They ain't cheap. The best price I found on a Jay Cushion, which I use, was $250. Roho's (air filled) are about the same.
When we do get skin sores, they are subject to infection, and the poor circulation doesn't help the healing. We have that in common with diabetics. I got a bodacious sore on the instep of my right foot. I had to go on hardcore antibiotics for that. When one goes on hardcore antibiotics other neat things happen like massive diarrhea.
Hey GOC! Thanks for sharing.
The diarrhea can be prevented by taking Lactaid or Culturelle. Remember this if your doctor ever puts you on hardcore antibiotics. You'll thank me for this later.
So let's see. Here is what I wish on Major Jihad. I want him to experience excruciating pain. I want him to get a urinary tract infection that goes septic and causes renal failure. I want him to get bed sores. I want him to have circulation problems, maybe even a blood clot that causes a stroke.
Is that too much to ask?
Posted by denny at November 16, 2009 01:33 PMCouldn't happen to a better person.
Posted by: RiverRat on November 16, 2009 04:52 PMFrom your lips to God's ear.
Posted by: ATG on November 16, 2009 04:55 PMYeah, that sounds like loads of fun.
But what I really want is to see him hung by having his wheelchair dropped out from under him.
And then I want the body hung from a street light pole in front of the nearest mosque or jihadist embassy or diplomatic mission.
And I want that body guarded by very grim-eyed and well-armed marines until it rots and the bones fall apart.
I care nothing for Hasan.
I want the warning for others.
I'm dreaming, I know.
Posted by: DJMoore on November 16, 2009 06:11 PMThanks for sharing all those crappy details, Denny. I hope he gets all of them, then is miraculously cured, then immediately gets them all again, over and over again. He can be the groundhog crip.
Posted by: TomR on November 16, 2009 06:11 PMYou’ve assisted my understanding on the subject which is usually a hard to tackle subject, and not a lot of people can do this with the ease that you seem to. Thank you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyuUyN5RVTI
I think it's a shame that we will be wasting thousands of dollars in surgery and other medical expenses on this POS--especially since, hopefully, he will be put to death! I just can't see any reason to waste tax dollars keeping some scum that killed 13 people alive. Give him enough pain killers to keep him lucid for the trial, but don't waste any money on the surgeries!
Posted by: John on November 16, 2009 06:28 PMYou must be a giant of a man to keep your spirit. Cripes, I piss and moan about my arthritis, but will not do that anymore after reading this post. Take care!
Posted by: Hermit on November 16, 2009 06:29 PMI dealt with most of the above problems with my mom. I hope that son of a bitch endures 1000 times the agony mom experienced over her lifetime.
Posted by: kerrcarto on November 16, 2009 06:31 PMI can only hope that your wish is granted to this
rectum wipe.
Why would anyone want to see a man suffering so to receive the death penalty? Let him suffer.
Posted by: Juan Paxety on November 16, 2009 07:05 PMSurely one of the virgins will poke him in the ass.
Posted by: Daddy-o on November 16, 2009 07:15 PMI think they should do every bad thing they can come up with for that a*hole. Maybe a battery acid IV for him.
Scientist were testing a new kind of drug in England a couple of years ago. It made all of your pain receptors fire. It felt like the person was on fire. Maybe should get some of that for him.
Denny - great post on so many levels. sorry you went through all that shit. This does however make me believe that karma is coming full circle in short order to this POS
Posted by: patrick on November 16, 2009 08:22 PMIn response to John-
I whole-heartedly agree with you. It pisses me off that the GOVERNMENT(a.k.a. the U.S. taxpayer) is paying for all his medical care after he kills innocent people, when I have to have fundraisers and other benefits to raise money to send me to GERMANY for surgery, just so I don't end up crippled! Fuck that. Sorry for the language, but that's really the simplest way to say it!
Denny......
Every once in a while , I feel a little twinge of self pity that I had to have a Kidney removed & must have 6 month interval cat scans for at least the next 4 year`s.... Oh & that Prostate Radium seed implant thing which was of a secondary concern to the Kidney issue.
When you so clearly state what you have & continue to face it is a sobering recognition I do not really have it so bad. I have a great deal of admiration for you & how you deal with adversity ....my hats off to you & I hope your wishes come true for the Soldier of Allah.
Posted by: dudley1 on November 16, 2009 08:59 PMThank you for this post on so many levels.
Posted by: Bou on November 16, 2009 09:53 PMJust a comment on evolution: you can't seriously believe that the human race is evolving; proof of my theory of human devolution is all around us.
Posted by: Max on November 16, 2009 09:57 PMDon't worry, ObamaCare will finish the slime off.
The libtards say we got to cut back somewhere and crips have to go first along with geezers because they're a drain.
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Oops. Wait a minute.
I just remembered. The terd is a Muzzie.
This makes him more important than other people and gives him special rights. No limit to what we have to do to kiss the rag-heads.
Never mind!
Posted by: Zak on November 16, 2009 10:19 PMSo, he changes his name to Hassan bin Wakin'
Denny, you really addressed several questions I had about Major Muzzie's condition.
I told the wife that he's gonna prolly be in acute pain for some time. We can always hope. Wait till his mullahs won't get near the putz because he uses the "clean" hand to prime the pooper.
My worst medevac in Nam was night medevac when a six-by rolled over on a full load of Grunts. They only had a pair of stretchers so most guys got carried to my bird on air mattresses. Lots of crush wounds, smashed bones and such. Lots and lots of pain for those poor guys. I have lost sleep every since (1969) worrying and wondering what happened to those guys. Did they recover? Did they live? Hurts to think about it.
You can take it, Denny, and manage to enjoy Delamain Vesper Cognac, and live a lucid, productive life.
The medics will have to dope this worm to the hilt. That suicidal religious nut wanted to die. He thought he would be shot, and get his reward for killing infidels. He's not ready to live, suffer, and go to 1/3 of what you've been through. They better keep a watch on him if they want him to face trial.
Posted by: Claudia on November 16, 2009 11:35 PMFor the first time, I'm hoping that Obamacare actually passes, because a system like that would probably give this guy the sort of torture he deserves. Too bad we can't just have Obamacare for terrorists and Congressmen and other unworthies.
Posted by: TalkinHorse on November 17, 2009 12:32 AMI do hope that they'll exclusively use Bacon Fat supposotories on him?
And let's make sure he's got some nice Jewish doctors and nurses around, too. Wait, let's make that a nice female Jewish doctor. Urologist, natch. One with a very mean and snarky sense of humor.
By the way, Denny. What kind of foods would make ol' ASSan more miserable than his usual halal fare? Nice bowl of extra greasy chili, maybe?
Oh, and his five prayers a day? Fuck with the cloks. A LOT.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Thanks for the insight on your condition Denny. In spite of it all you are still a pretty active SRF.
Posted by: Daryl on November 17, 2009 07:23 AMDenny- my hats off to you for how you deal with your condition. I can only hope I'd have the intestinal fortitude to face it half as well.
OT- Billy Ray in Cowtown- I wasn't one of the guys you mentioned but you have my thanks. I'll never know the names of the guys who flew my medevac but I appreciate all you guys on those missions.
As has been stated by others, after reading of your ordeal I best believe that I'll stop whining about my aches and pains.
This useless sack of Mooslime crap is (sadly) only the tip of the proverbial iceberg (assuming that St. Algore allows the media to report that icebergs do still indeed exist!) of the pathetic bending over backward to never be critical of Islamic Terrorists who have the sole goal of killing us.
We must "understand them"...not "rush to judgement"...blah blah blah. If the US had these douchebags running the country back in 1941, we'd all be speaking Japanese and working at Sony!
I say, let the men and women of Ft. Hood have at him.
Posted by: John Galt on November 17, 2009 09:30 AMThey need a firing squad to execute this radical islamic POS! let the soldiers at fort hood blow out his brains like he intended to do to us!! HE IS A TERRORIST! they need to let 13 soldiers, for each of the brave young americans he killed, to let him have it!
Wow, Denny, awesome post.
"Still wanna be a rehab nurse?"
That question is thought-provoking. How many medical and legal professionals will have to weigh their morality against their professional oaths/commitments - possibly setting aside all that they believe on a daily basis, because they are required to care for this POS?
Posted by: Harper on November 17, 2009 12:27 PMDenny, I notice you didn't mention smell and taste. Right after my surgery to remove a spinal cord melanoma, everything smelled and tasted horrible. The residual nerve damage (partial hemiparesis) has greatly reduced my sense of smell and taste and was wondering if you had the same problem.
May "Major" Hasan (piss be upon him) be afflicted X10 with a combination of all he has INflicted on others.
I got just a VERY small taste of what this must sorta be like when I had my stroke...I partially lost control over my sphincter muscles, & ever since, when I gotta go-Either job-I GOTTA GO. Been Mucho Fun lots of times. The Gastric Bypass surgery I had in Feb kinda aggervated it, too. No pain, everything works-Maybe TOO well. But trust me, yr Plumbing is one thing that you DON'T wanna have troubles with. I feel for ya, Denny. Maj Abdul Abulbul Amir- When you get to the Promised Land, hopefully sooner rather than later, may your 72 virgins turn out to be Virginians, namely my redneck brothers from right over the line in SW Virginia...THEY'LL take REAL good care of you....Mbwahahahahaha...-Unca Sandy
Posted by: Sandy G. on November 17, 2009 03:21 PMPast Your Eyes - I also got smacked in the face and broke my nose and got a concussion. I figgered that the broken nose might have been the main thing that affected my loss of smell and taste. Things didn't taste bad, they didn't taste at all. That's actually an advantage when you have to eat hospital food. It was about two months after my accident that my sense of taste returned.
Posted by: Denny on November 17, 2009 03:40 PMI have an enormous amount of respect for you, Denny.
You didn't mention the emotional and mental impact of suffering from these types of injuries. But you bounced back just fine. As a matter of fact, you're more active than most of the people I know who don't have spinal cord injuries.
You know, these imbeciles you log on here just to insult you could actually learn a lot if they would shut their liberal mouths.
You the man, Denny. You the man!
Posted by: Marksman2000 on November 17, 2009 09:21 PMOr actually, I meant "these imbeciles WHO log on here."
It's not like you want them around--except for a good laugh every once in awhile.
Posted by: Marksman2000 on November 17, 2009 09:23 PMI feel bad for you, I don't know (if I ever did) what put you in the chair, but I don't feel any pity at all for Hasan. Oh, and BTW, good job shooting to wound to the folks in TX.
I wish you had written this about a month ago, before my doc put me on massive ABs...it was better than being sick, but not by much.
Posted by: theodore on November 17, 2009 09:56 PMMarksman2000 - The main emotion I felt was for the people who were injured much worse than I was. As for me, I chose to get on with my life and to do what I was able to do. I know people who are not as badly crippled as I am who have given up. Not me. And look at my friend Cindy, the cute quad. I have an awful lot of admiration for her.
"The purpose of life is to live, not to exist." - Jack London
Posted by: Denny on November 17, 2009 10:46 PMDenny, you are so right. Disabilities suck! I worked with many veterans who had undergone amputations, paralysis, and more. If only more people understood what it was like, compassion wouldn't be so scarce. I did have a horrible thought, though; since he was in the service, will he become a ward of the Veterans Administration? God forbid! If anyone doesn't deserve it, it would be him.
Posted by: Denise on November 18, 2009 02:53 AMDenise- this clown's a perfect candidate for a DD. That would make him in-eligible for any benefits due veterans.
Posted by: Inbredredneck on November 19, 2009 09:20 AMWhat they oughta do is clone the bastard... then give the clones to the families of the people he killed.
"You have one month to do with this cloned POS whatever you like. Then return the body to us."
[I didn't come up with this - it's from a short story by Terry Bisson called "Macs" in which he envisions this sort of punishment for Timothy McVeigh.]
In the real world? Let the SOB suffer for a while... then kill his sorry, murdering ass.
Posted by: Elisson on November 19, 2009 01:27 PM