[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;333353]What kind of operation did she need? Nothing serious, I hope.

And I suppose your shingles attack is behind you by now?[/QUOTE]Her knee replacement was infected and was coming loose. The old prosthetic was removed and replaced with antiseptic cement (so she can't use that leg). A 6-week course of IV antibiotics is now starting, after which she'll get a new knee, all being well.

Occasional minor itching in my shoulder blade but nothing serious now.


Thanks,

Paul

[QUOTE=ewmayer;333357]I hope your better half is able to "just say no to quack" reasonably soon, Paul.


Last summer I gifted my niece a Kindle, and used my laptop to free-download ~50 classic-books from PlanetPDF. I initially copied them to her e-reader, but since xmas have been enjoying the copies on my laptop - just started [i]Anna Karenina[/i]. Sorry, no free downloads of the [i]Twilight[/i] saga and such - literary drivel, tripe and pabulum all cost actual money.[/QUOTE]
I read Anna Karenina while working a miserable stint of programming in Pennsylvania. There was a used bookstore next door and I was going though as much of their stock as possible. I told the owner that Anna Karenina was pulp fiction. He agreed, however I meant that the intertwining stories put me in mind of the stylized story handling in the movie Pulp Fiction. His agreement was to the older, more dismissive term often applied to cheap fiction.

[QUOTE=only_human;333368]I read Anna Karenina while working a miserable stint of programming in Pennsylvania. There was a used bookstore next door and I was going though as much of their stock as possible. I told the owner that Anna Karenina was pulp fiction. He agreed, however I meant that the intertwining stories put me in mind of the stylized story handling in the movie Pulp Fiction. His agreement was to the older, more dismissive term often applied to cheap fiction.[/QUOTE]
The google translation of "pulp fiction", Криминальное чтиво, sounds suspiciously Tarantino-esque. 100 pages (of the 1700-plus in the e-reader-friendly PDF format) into AK I see no "Kriminalʹnoye" ... at least "noyet".

(You did mean "Karenina", not "Kournikova", right? ;)

Google has AI behind translator; it sticks to the contextually cöoccurring words* - this is indeed the infamously bad title translation, and this is how it is still referred to in the Russian discussions. I never watched it in translation. Must be horrible.

Since 1990s, I am sticking to the originals - it is better to misunderstand some phrase than have it definitely misunderstood for you by Russian movie hack-interpreters most of whom I wouldn't let shine my shoes. (I wear running shoes though. No need to be shined by unemployed Russian movie hack-interpreters.) I only have a bit of trouble following [I]Ran[/I] or [I]Det sjunde inseglet[/I] in original. ;-)

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[I]*is that a good New Yorker editorial style impression?[/I]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;333375]The google translation of "pulp fiction", Криминальное чтиво, sounds suspiciously Tarantino-esque. 100 pages (of the 1700-plus in the e-reader-friendly PDF format) into AK I see no "Kriminalʹnoye" ... at least "noyet".

(You did mean "Karenina", not "Kournikova", right? ;)[/QUOTE]She's beautiful but, alas, I meant the former. Now you've reminded me of another used book store owner, who told me that he fell in love with Bruce Willis' character's girlfriend in the movie Pulp Fiction.

This is also a true story.

[QUOTE=chalsall;333352]I am sincerely sorry.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=NBtarheel_33;333353]Nothing serious, I hope.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ewmayer;333357]I hope your better half is able to "just say no to quack" reasonably soon, Paul.[/QUOTE]
:goodposting:What they said.

[QUOTE=only_human;333379]She's beautiful but, alas, I meant the former. Now you've reminded me of another used book store owner, who told me that he fell in love with Bruce Willis' character's girlfriend in the movie Pulp Fiction.

This is also a true story.[/QUOTE]
I fell in love with Bruce Willis' character's cab driver!
Never mind his girlfriend. (She didn't correct him that they [I]actually [/I]speak French in Bora Bora. That's a killer in my book. Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.)

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;333383]:goodposting:What they said.[/QUOTE]What they all said. Paul, here's to you and yours keeping your spirits up. Hospitals are miserable places. My sweetheart spent over a month in one once but at least she got entertained by a media circus at a lake across the street where they had found an alligator in the pond. cf. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_(alligator)"]Reggie the alligator[/URL]

I brought my big cat, Wookie, to the vet yesterday, he's lost 8 pounds in recent weeks. I don't know how much I've spent already; I made a deposit of $1000 yesterday which was 75% of initial costs and that was before they sent some fluid to an oncologist today. I don't know what I am doing because I can not imagine any eventuality that I can afford (financially or emotionally). I've been broke for a long time (even more so since my sweetheart died). This sucks.

[QUOTE=Batalov;333385]I fell in love with Bruce Willis' character's cab driver!
Never mind his girlfriend. (She didn't correct him that they [I]actually [/I]speak French in Bora Bora. That's a killer in my book. Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.)[/QUOTE]That driver sure was something with those creepy/sexy questions.

[QUOTE=xilman;333351]SWMBO went into hospital on Tuesday for an estimated 6-week stay.

The operation went reasonably well but she had a bad reaction to IV morphine and spent almost 24 hours in post-op recovery before being moved to a general purpose ward.

Consequently she's in some discomfort though the nurses and quacks are doing their best.

Oh well.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C39kQoprfP0"]Sister Morphine[/URL]
When I had my eye operations, I woke up on an enormous high!

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJUpY5geWcU"]Sister Ray[/URL]
My doctoress Max failed to take a blood sample because she couldn't hit it sideways.

Hope these anecdotes give SWMBO and you some comfort!

David

[QUOTE=davieddy;333454][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C39kQoprfP0"]Sister Morphine[/URL]
When I had my eye operations, I woke up on an enormous high!

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJUpY5geWcU"]Sister Ray[/URL]
My doctoress Max failed to take a blood sample because she couldn't hit it sideways.

Hope these anecdotes give SWMBO and you some comfort!

David[/QUOTE]
Sorry for saying this in public Paul, but...

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxgvkzFVnNQ]Lady Godiva's Operation[/url]

Just inevitable.