Comments on: Brandon McCarthy is out of the ICU. And is peeing a lot. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:30:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: indaburg http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-362552 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:04:39 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-362552 That’s a wonderful outcome. I’m happy to hear your granddaughter is a little pistol. :-)

Hmmm. I may have rethink nursing career paths. I do love babies. And the not having poop flung at my head sounds enticing.

]]> By: jackrabbit56 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-362417 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:51:15 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-362417 My granddaughter was born three months early, weighing in at two and a quarter pounds at birth. I have nothing but the greatest admiration for all that the staff of the NICU does for the care of their patients. She’s now 18 months old, walking and talking up a storm. Those first months she spent in the NICU were hard on her parents and us, but were instrumental in her development. My thanks to you, cur, and to all the nurses who so selflessly give of themselves to help others.

]]> By: vikesfansteve http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361990 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:46:50 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361990 Dr’s like to check your pee to see if there is blood in it, which is a side effect of surgery if you have stomach or intestinal problems. Especially if you are taking blood thinners to prevent clotting. Lots of people who go in for brain or heart surgery find out they also have ulcers or stomach cancer or a bladder infection from the catheter because they have blood in their urine caused by the blood thinners.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361934 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:05:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361934 Speaking mainly of the premies, many people think it is heart breaking but our success rate is excellent compared to adults. Our patient population is perfect: compliant, no life style issues, always take their medicine exactly as they have to, never hurl feces at you (that’s, like, the best one), and, most important, prematurity isn’t a disease state. Its just being born early. Most of what happens, that which you have to treat, is as a consequence of care, rather than a disease process. The infants of drug addiction are…issue laden, I agree. Its is VERY difficult not to judge and I usually can’t manage it, BUT when you find out some of the social histories around the mothers, well…lets just say there’s often some horrific circumstance attending the drug abuse. I find that very difficult.

]]> By: indaburg http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361893 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:45:00 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361893 Yay, no double post. :)

NICU. That has to be heartbreaking. My only travel into the NICU occurred for a couple of months as a student, and I had to constantly resist the urge to punch some parents in the head for doing drugs while pregnant etc. I was scared of hurting the tiny babies with their translucent skin. They just look, and are, so fragile. I’ve mostly done ER (I watched too much TV and thought it would be fun), a little GI (all butts look the same), and now I just do triage nursing.

]]> By: nothanksimdriving123 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361845 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:33:38 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361845 The best part of the era when chamber pots were in vogue was in the morning when the chambermaid would open the 2nd or 3rd floor window and heave the contents out into the unpaved street below, where it blended in nicely with the horse droppings. Ah, the aroma, and the importance of wearing a wide-brimmed hat.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361800 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:45:38 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361800 Hi ‘burg: I replied to your comment over an hour ago but it never posted. Ordinarily I could give a crap about that (plus if you try again both comments get posted so you look like a pillock) but since you’re a colleague, it just wouldn’t do not to try again, so to Pluto with the risks of a double post….

Anyhow, I’m in NICU these days. Spent some long months in emerge and an even longer year in joint replacement/orthopedics. Saw enough head injuries to last me a lifetime. These days my specialty/masters is long term feeding issues in the very preterm or those born with prolonged periods of being NPO (surgical needs etc).

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361691 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:05:30 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361691 Awesome indeed. No more tripping over the dog.

]]> By: indaburg http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361660 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:42:09 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361660 Right on, cur. What’s your nursing specialty?

]]> By: indaburg http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361657 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:40:26 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361657 For the terminally lazy, you can also use one of these:

http://freethumbs.dreamstime.com/113/big/free_1134254.jpg

It’s what we give the patients in the hospital.

]]> By: bigleagues http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361654 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:35:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361654 Have you ever toured one of those old historical type joints that have the original chamber pots as part of the historical display?

Yeah, well, they still reek.

]]> By: stex52 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361646 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:27:58 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361646 I go with Cur on this one. I hope it is Brandon. I know of two cases of traumatic brain injury (these were strokes, but same general issue) where the person who came back was not the person who went in. If Brandon is still acting like Brandon, that is a very good sign.

]]> By: ajcardsfan http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361623 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:52:03 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361623 A part of me really hopes it was Amanda that made that tweet, just because everybody needs a spouse with a good sense of potty humor (Even though it made me laugh either way)

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361617 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:46:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361617 They’re giving him diuretics to limit the fluid accumulation in his body. Among other things, this keeps his intra-cranial pressure low. Of course, he can’t exactly get out of bed and go to the john; besides the change in pressure from standing and lying might be dangerous, he’s probably real dizzy right now. So its the bucket. One of the best things so far about this twitter business and McCarthy is the evident return of his sense of humour. The risk in brain injury is loss of the fundamental personality traits that make up that person. Seems like Mr. McCarthy is his old self.

]]> By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361612 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:43:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361612 For the most part I use it just to track my favorite writer’s, and when they post new articles. Occasionally you get to be part of an awesome conversation that wasn’t available before twitter, like when Harry Pavlidis was discussing McCarthy’s pitching, with McCarthy himself (specific pitches thrown, what count/batter, etc).

then there’s the trash like that Rangers blog guy who kept linking the vid of McCarthy getting hit to his wife, and his misogynistic BS he was spouting at her…

]]> By: proudlycanadian http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361613 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:43:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361613 That IV drip goes right through you fast.

]]> By: redguy12588 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361607 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:37:52 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361607 How did chamber pots ever go out of style? Peeing without getting out of bed would be awesome.

]]> By: beefytrout http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/10/brandon-mccarthy-is-out-of-the-icu-and-is-peeing-a-lot/comment-page-1/#comment-361604 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:35:45 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=211278#comment-361604 I rarely understand the point of Twitter, but in the case of Brandon McCarthy, it makes perfect sense.

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