FailedOn my third driving test, I turned right out of the test centre, reached a pedestrian crossing, attempted to run over a little old lady, was prevented from doing so by the examiner grabbing the wheel, then proceeded straight back to the test centre.
The drive home was very, very quiet. I've never felt such a complete failure.
What have you failed at?
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chthonic, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 10:21)
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My mum's kidneysfailed Xmas Day. For those with a medical inclination, her creatin levels were 1,377; for those are not, these toxins are meant to be no more than 50 when you're healthy. By all accounts this is meant to be fatal, and she was in intensive care on my birthday four days later.
However, it is a testament to her sheer stubbornness that not only has she not lost consciousness once throughout, but has in fact been complaining about the 5-27 hour long bouts of dialysis ("no, I want a sub-clav or a femoral line, I'm not having a bloody jugular"). So technically she's failed to die as well as produce any urine, which I'm rather impressed with.
This next part is for every b3tan with a deadline and a ton of crap, especially in uni or college. I've just had a final year uni deadline, which against all expectation and bouncing around the country I've managed to meet. (It'd already been deferred once after she had a heart attack... her timing is impeccable.) Be assured, keep your faith; it is possible to keep going even when you think it won't happen. If anything, I seem to have done better work when scribbling in pencil next to a dialysis machine, just to be able to have a graduation day my mum can be there for.
No length or girth comments, unless you count the ITU tubes, but I've named her kidneys Milli Vanilli, as we're still not sure which one's dead or if the other will do the job it's supposed to.
Cheers.
(, Tue 9 Jan 2007, 8:25, Reply)
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