The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[the_bird]

Really sorry to hear that.

 

[paulthenurse]

Just heard a crazy stat on the tube. Tory Krug is the longest tenured Boston athlete without a championship. Wow!

 

[day_trippr]

Lol! Only in Boston does that make sense

 

[paulthenurse]

They hate us cause they ain’t us.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Yooper like hits. The question is: why are you wearing no helmet?

https://twitter.com/Buccigross/status/1133200052120379392?s=19

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

^^^ check that out.

 

[day_trippr]

Appropriate payback for Krug being mugged at the other end of the ice...

 

[smurfjuice]

Agreed

 

[Melana]

So sad to hear about Jeff. Effing mosquitoes.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Just because Paul had mentioned it over the last few days.... I wanted to let folks know that Jeff passed away this morning.

I don’t know how well folks on the thread knew him (if at all) but he was a helluva brewer and a tremendous guy.

In a lot of ways we lost him years ago when he got sick as the incident took away the person we all knew... but that doesn’t make today easier in any meaningful way.

I know it’s cliche to say but... hug the people you care about often. If you do already... do it even more... it can all go away in a blink of an eye.

Cheers.

 

[paulthenurse]

Sad day.

I went over to Good Sam last week and sat with him for an hour or so. He was semiconscious but I said “Hey Fuller, it’s boring as hell here, how about I go get us a couple of beers?” And he mumbled “Ya.” The nurse and I looked at each other and I don’t know who was more shocked, me because he answered me or her because she was horrified at the idea of me giving him some beer.

He’ll be missed.

 

[nhwrecker]

That does suck. I met him once a few years ago at a Masstoberfest, but remember hearing you guys talk about what a great brewer he was. Amen to what Brian said - and Melana - mosquitoes really do suck.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Gentlemen,

My condolences go out to you for the loss of your friend. Always a tough time...

 

[Dland]

My condolences as well.

If it is not too forward a question, did Jeff suffer form a mosquito born illness?

 

[paulthenurse]

He got eastern equine encephalitis about eight years ago after a family camping trip somewhere local. His body survived the initial illness but his mind was never the same afterwards. Mind boggling to think of a guy as big and full of life as him to be taken out by a f’ing mosquito.

They’re not going to do a wake/funeral, that would be too tough for the family. They’re planning some sort of celebration of his life sometime soon. He’s going to be cremated and his ashes spread at sea over a big chum slick once the tuna are in. I think that’s a tremendous idea, he’d get a big kick out of it.

 

[Dland]

That is a tough one. I get that about no service right away, have seen that in my family and recently a close friend were it was just too tragic. Many months later a celebration of life type memorial is a little easier for everyone to take, and probably how most people would rather be remembered.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I didn’t know him, I just haven’t been brewing that long, but to hear of those circumstances, my heart goes out to his friends and family. Remember the good stuff to ease the pain.

 

[HoppyDaze]

He got eastern equine encephalitis about eight years ago after a family camping trip somewhere local. His body survived the initial illness but his mind was never the same afterwards. Mind boggling to think of a guy as big and full of life as him to be taken out by a f’ing mosquito.

That's heartbreaking and horrifying...I've never even heard of that.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

That's heartbreaking and horrifying...I've never even heard of that.

Fahkin' ticks and mosquitoes you have to be careful about around here. Altho EEE? How are you gonna keep away from getting bitten by a bug?

 

[HoppyDaze]

Vaccination?

 

[paulthenurse]

DEET

 

[paulthenurse]

We don’t think about it around here because in the United States we have pretty good mosquito control. Worldwide, mosquitoes are among the deadliest animals out there, responsible for almost 1/2 million deaths annually from malaria alone. Zika, dengue fever, chikungunya, yellow fever, EEE round out the list.
All are deadly, all are mosquito borne and all are rampant throughout the world.

Slather on the Off, boys and girls. And plant flowers in your birdbath, standing water is mosquito breeding ground.

 

[paulthenurse]

To answer your question about vaccinations, there are vaccinations for a lot of these. You can get a vaccination for yellow fever, you can get a vaccination for dengue. We don’t give them here because those diseases aren’t prevalent and giving unnecessary vaccinations and medications carry their own risks.

I don’t recommend vaccines for yellow fever or Dengue or a host of other things, unless you are traveling to an area where they are prevalent. If you are I absolutely recommend the vaccinations. For what it’s worth I’d get vaccinations if I went to any third world country. You know, all the warm ones we like to go to in the winter.

I am not your primary care provider and in fact none of you people know for certain that I really am a nurse practitioner, so my advice is worth what you paid for it. I’m just a guy on an Internet chat board. Talk to your own PCP/ travel clinic.

 

[paulthenurse]

CDC. gov has a really good section on travel recommendations. Worth browsing thru when you’re planning a vacation.

 

[bob1852]

I’m just a guy* on an Internet chat board.

*fat guy

 

[day_trippr]

There's no vaccine for it. Come to think of it there's no vaccine for pretty much any mosquito-borne disease. Crap.

I met Jeff quite a few years back at a Masstoberfest. Jeff is a big guy - he surely had a couple inches over my 6' 4" height and a few pounds as well. I imagine before he was stricken he could kick some serious ass if he had a mind to. So seeing him wheelchair bound and battling neuro stuff was sobering AF. So sad...

 

[paulthenurse]

*fat guy

I initially wrote "drunk guy" but edited it just in case the chief cook and bottle washer of the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Medicine happens to be a home brewer.

There's no vaccine for it. Come to think of it there's no vaccine for pretty much any mosquito-borne disease. Crap.

I met Jeff quite a few years back at a Masstoberfest. Jeff is a big guy - he surely had a couple inches over my 6' 4" height and a few pounds as well. I imagine before he was stricken he could kick some serious ass if he had a mind to. So seeing him wheelchair bound and battling neuro stuff was sobering AF. So sad...

I only knew Jeff for a few years. Its not like we were best friends or hung out a lot. His close friends were Cape and FW. They are the guys I feel bad for. He was their close friend What I have been able to do over the past few years is help his wife with connections and resources. It's what I do professionally and I was happy to do it for a family I know. I would not have talked about Jeff and his illness publicly except his wife has always been adamant, dare I say militant, regarding getting the word out about this dreadful disease, this often inadequate health care system and the devastating effects of a random gobsmack from hell on her and her children and how much she wanted Jeff to be the best he could be.

Did I just say I felt bad for Cape? What the hell is the ABV of this beer?

 

[paulthenurse]

*fat guy

Down 45 pound since the start of the year, Trout Whisperer. A statistically insignificant amount, I know, but it sounds like a lot. Truly throwing pebbles off Mount Everest.

But just to keep in practice and to help get this thread back on track and stop it from sounding like the podcast I listen to on the way to work, "Puscast" an infectious disease doc talking shop... GFY.

 

[Dland]

That's right, I'll make beer and you fellers can get worked up about sports. Life goes on.

Been swimmin in the "endless pool" more lately, sure helps sleep at night to have actual workout, as opposed to just lumping stuff around all day.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]