A WOMAN is suing a hospital after they amputated her legs because she sat with them folded for up to 12 hours while passed out drunk.

According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Shanna Hiles says her legs could have been saved if a doctor had not overlooked an acute medical condition "because she was drunk".

In a lawsuit filed by her lawyers, the 20-year-old claims she had passed out "seated on the floor with her legs tucked under her" while celebrating her birthday.

She remained in that position for up to 12 hours.

Once awake, Ms Hiles complained of pain in her lower legs and was taken to hospital.

Lawyers claim Ms Hiles had signs of a reversible condition known as "acute compartment syndrome", but was waiting six hours for another hospital transfer.

The Tribune-Review reports that the transfer began by ambulance, but a medical helicopter was dispatched while Ms Hiles was enroute because of her "deteriorating health".

Soon after arriving at the medical centre, Ms Hiles was diagnosed with acute compartment syndrome and had bilateral knee amputations because of damaged nerves, muscles and impaired blood flow.
(source)

It's things like this that really piss me off. I don't feel sympathy for irresponsible behavior and unrelenting stupidity. Apart from a frivolous lawsuit akin to suing the provider of a hot beverage for not labeling it as 'hot' or fat people shitting on the place they eat at and suing because the nutritionless fatty food they consumed turned them fat... what really irks me is this dumb bitch has the audacity to sue the very people who helped save her life from her own stupidity. Had they not amputated her limbs, they would've undergone necrosis and probably develop into an infection. It's people like her, unable to accept the responsibility of her own actions and the resulting outcome, that our healthcare costs continue to rise.

While I'm at it, how the fuck was she drunk anyways? No one is questioning why the paraplegic wonder was inebriated UNDERAGE? I guess the lawsuit won't go anywhere, it has no grounds to stand on  just kidding! It's all fun and games until someone loses a leg... ergh, I mean, eye  No, but seriously you should march over here to her myspace and tell her there is nothing funny about her situation. Well... it's not funny unless you pick her up and drop her down next to a kid with down syndrome.

Ready for surgery, got my trusty splatter guard shield! but PLEASE! don't sue the savior!

Sometimes, in order to accomplish something great... you have to sacrifice and be willing to become a hurdle for your loved ones to overcome.

Even if that means being hated.

That is what love is.

Just some random pictures (click on image to enlarge) before we get to the meat of the entry.

Assassin's Creed II

If we weren't all such perverts, this might not look so bad.

Guess that's why terrorists didn't really exist back then... not something you really have to hijack.

Chrisopher Walken!!

I don't have a witty caption here, so just laugh uncontrollably and pretend I said something awesome.

Diagram thing-a-majig. Also not witty, don't like it? then fuck you.

Serious-non-jokey-portion

Now that we got the ice breakers outta the way, it's going to get a little more serious right now. Just a little and I promise that while I will insert profanity and the usual idiosyncratic eric humor you've grown accustomed to, it will not be superfluous. Specifically, my stance on abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy... no, I'm kidding! No one gives a shit about that. It's our views of people. We're all guilty of it and it's really quite sad. There is no more room for it as there is for racism/bigotry, sexism or autoerotic asphyxiation (a.ka. simultaneously choking the shit out of yourself and your chicken or for the fairer sex, flicking your bean or rollin' your raisin). The goal of this is not to talk about the controversial concept of generally judging people, because we've all got that down quite easily. Oh nooooo, we're going to delve deeply into the topic of of a particular kind. The sad reality is that we all stereotype people, fairly or unfairly, often on their weaknesses where that is the worst place to judge people.

Apart from judging people prematurely being a weakness in and of itself, judging those on the failures or weaknesses in their lives is equally reflective of that... not to mention the subjective nature of it being counterintuitive. Perhaps the grade school bully in us demands that we judge others quickly and negatively, because milk money just isn't enough; finding faults and pressing is far easier than finding solutions. Take my older sibling for example - it's easy for me to say negative things about him (believe me, though our interactions may be infrequent... I am not blind to them). However, to see people not for their weakness but for their strengths - and to somehow make it grow into something so that they excel far enough to bring up those weaknesses. Now that, is something to be proud of. Back to the older sibling who ought to be the younger sibling; he is, for now, a person with aspirations but without drive. And you know what, while I can stand on top of a pedestal and look down on him as if I was staring at an ant below me stubbornly refusing to move before I zap him with a magnifying glass - the civilized adult in me just cannot bring myself to squish his itty bitty world.

Like an old bodybuilding adage; stimulate don't annihilate. Imagine for a moment what it would be like, to have people all around you being such a negative external influence - I'm not just talking about constructive criticism here becuase let's face it... people like being bullies. You exert so much energy defending yourself. Hiding from the next encounter. Hoping the next incursion will be painless. Wishing the hostility would end. Where do you find the energy to do what you need to do? Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying people need to be baby'd. Far from it. But there are positive ways to reinforce things and there are negative ways.

Even J.K. Rowling was a late bloomer; not that I would kid myself into the highly improbable possibility that he would create something that would generate billions. But I'm sure to people like Mozart (first composition at age five) and Bobby Fischer (winning chess championships at age thirteen), we would be easy targets of ridicule. Well, very short ridicule, before we tie them to the flag pole and demand their lunch money from them.

If you plant a seed into the ground and water it daily... and much to your dismay, nothing happens. You don't just dig the little fucker up. You figure out what is working and what isn't, because your goal is to cultivate it into a plant. If you dig out every seed that comes along that isn't working out immediately... eventually you will find yourself standing all alone in an empty field. And you know what? no one wants to fucking stand on dirt by themselves.

When you're alone, life can be dark and dreary.

Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

If at every juncture we give up... at what point do we succeed?

Eric Wong, is a non-licensed illegally practicing therapist/psychologist/blogger and is a senior phantom award winning writer for www.xanga.com/seige_jet

Some people take things way too personal and you know what... it amuses me. Granted it's not as thrilling as getting away with murder but thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless. Variety is the spice of life. Trolling unique and often times, maligned half-witted opposition brings a smile to my face. To make matters even more comical, usually those being trolled mistake determination for care. As if I give a shit about their dreary lives. Lets face it, nonsensical bullshit is entertaining. It's why people watch daytime television, even when it's devoid of any kind of point... much like the arguments they try to make.

You would think they could muster up an infintesimal amount of brain cells to just shut up and move on with their lives instead of feeding a troll, but the impulse of having the last word is a far too compelling human nature to ignore. Retaliation to provocation; we all succumb to that urge to respond.

Here's something I never understood; why people use a public forum for a private response. If you're addressing someone and you do not want others to chime in - logically you would message them in private. If your quarry goes to ground; leave no ground to go to. Like Captain Ahab spending years hunting the great white whale in Moby-Dick; the quest for vengeance can cripple you. I guess he [like some people] just didn't know when to quit.

I can sum up the entire Bodybuilding.com forum in a single picture...

Gentlemen seeking wives, there is nothing so foolish as marriage.

Women in their twenties and thirties today are desperately trying to solve their ‘how can I find a man to leech off of?’ problem.

If you marry, in an instant you will be condemned to 30 years of forced labour. It doesn’t matter how much effort you put in or how much you make, you’ll end up with a few dollars a day for yourself.

If you ever want to buy anything, you’ll have to seek permission with bowed head from your wife.

And they’ll just reject your requests anyway.

What’s left will go on the woman and the kid without so much as a word of thanks.

That’s the reality of marriage.

Rice:

Then: Took 1 hour three times a day using a pot

Now: Press a switch on a rice cooker

Washing:

Then: It all had to be done by hand with a tub and a washboard

Now: Press a switch on a washing machine

Bathing:

Then: Had to start and tend a fire to heat the water

Now: Press a switch on a heater

Cooking:

Then: Everything had to be cooked by hand

Now: You can get as much as you want of anything at a supermarket

Household chores are very light work now. With convenience stores and the Internet you have even less need of a woman.

Marriage and a wife used to be ‘necessities’ to a man. Now they are nothing more than ‘life’s bad debt.’

Men! There’s no reason whatsoever left to put up with the selfish demands of these women and their insistence on marriage!”

Japanese women are finding it increasingly more difficult to find men to marry. This current generation might see as many as 25% of females remaining single.

I know everyone loves pictures so I'll go the Hao going the Yosho route and post a pic of a girl.

If you're not going to be creative, you might as well do it with style... (or was that do it with a smile?)