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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 27 Jan 2015, 08:42 ---An IV has nothing to do with crippling a hand... It's a needle stuck on with tape. Trust me, you can still use it. You just need to be slightly careful not to pull it out by accident the way I did once. Talk about panicking.
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Exactly.
I remember I was once in hospital and the nurse had to remove the catheter for the IV from the back of my hand. Somehow the actual needle had bent and ended up tearing the back of my hand. I'm guessing she was a student nurse because she went off to get help and I was left just dabbing away the blood with the cotton pads.
Kinda funny then, hilarious now.
valkygrrl:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 27 Jan 2015, 08:42 ---An IV has nothing to do with crippling a hand... It's a needle stuck on with tape. Trust me, you can still use it. You just need to be slightly careful not to pull it out by accident the way I did once. Talk about panicking.
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Last time I had one I couldn't use my hand at all until it was removed.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: shrike1978 on 27 Jan 2015, 06:29 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 Jan 2015, 23:39 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Jan 2015, 23:33 ---Man these US american problems are so weird to us europeans.
Do you really not have any form of general unemployment insurance over there in the USA ?!?
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Yes, but it is subsistence-level only and only lasts for a few months at best. After that, you are considered willfully destitute and treated accordingly.
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Also, in many states, it can be limited further or completely eliminated if the employee was released for gross or willful negligence or other serious infractions. Faye's actions constitute a scenario that would limit her access to unemployment, but I don't think that Dora would actually do anything against her in that.
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And in some of those states, it doesn't even have to be gross negligence. The employer need only prove that the employee was breaking policy to deny them unemployment completely.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 27 Jan 2015, 08:51 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 27 Jan 2015, 08:42 ---An IV has nothing to do with crippling a hand... It's a needle stuck on with tape. Trust me, you can still use it. You just need to be slightly careful not to pull it out by accident the way I did once. Talk about panicking.
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Exactly.
I remember I was once in hospital and the nurse had to remove the catheter for the IV from the back of my hand. Somehow the actual needle had bent and ended up tearing the back of my hand. I'm guessing she was a student nurse because she went off to get help and I was left just dabbing away the blood with the cotton pads.
Kinda funny then, hilarious now.
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In my case I pulled the connector out for the IV, leaving the needle still in my hand. Basically an open hole straight to a vein. I was panicing trying hit the call button while trying to keep my finger over the end, wound up painting half the bed red...
eschaton:
I dunno how much Jeph is alluding to his own experience with alcoholism with Faye, but it's worth noting once again that Jeph. He had a very bad experience which served as a wake up call he had to quit. And then he decided to quit cold turkey, from what I can gather largely on his own. As far as I can tell, he didn't go into rehab. He didn't join AA. He had a few slip ups, but he's largely kept sober ever since 2011. There's no reason for him to make Faye's recovery similar to his own, but on the other hand, having gone through recovery, he knows that if you decide to make the change, you don't need all that external support pushing you. And I simply don't think it would fit the comic from a story perspective to continue to focus on Faye making terrible choices for a year or something.
The no AA thing I think is most important. Jeph is a pretty militant atheist, and you have to explicitly recognize your fate is in the hands of a "higher power" to be in AA. Jeph has said that if that's what someone needs to quit, that's fine. But he's also said he doesn't want to write a religious character, because he just feels religion is wrong. I think Faye has been established to be more blase/neutral about religion, but at the same time, I don't think Jeph would want to elevate a frankly religious organization in his comic, making people think that joining was a requirement if you want to stay sober.
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