Here is a funny one my Dad (a nephrologist) told me about that happened a week or so back. So, a dialysis patient was called the night before by the lab since he had had blood work done the day before that came back abnormal. His potassium was over 6 so they had called him to tell him he needed to come in ASAP for urgent haemodialysis. The next day, the staff at the dialysis unit was greeted by the semi-panicked arrival of a man knocking on the door. When they opened it, there, standing halfway outside of the building, was the patient dressed only in an overcoat. Overcoat and slippers. That was it. No shirt, pants, or underwear. Hanging out for the world to see. There was a strong scent of alcohol on his breath and he tottered unsteadily while he explained that he had rushed in to get dialysis after he got the message left for him. Apparently he had been boozing up and was loaded when he listened to his answering machine. Fearing he would drop dead any minute, he rushed out to his car and sped in (luckily not killing anyone on the road) but had not found the time to don any clothing other than the slippers he was already wearing and his coat. The staff did not know what to do with him, and turfed him to the ER where his level was found to be 175 and he finally got his dialysis. I wonder if he was discharged in the same outfit he came in wearing.
I’m going to guess that his level was found to be 175 refers not to his potassium, but his alcohol level. :-)
Alcohol provides for so much entertainment in out lives. What would we do without it?
Please check your website… it seems to be infecting my work computer with Vundo every time I visit. (My personal laptop seems to be immune for some reason, maybe because of the built-in proxy, or maybe it’s got a better AV software…)
Shalom, I scanned my computer and site for the Vundo Trojan and it came up negative (with Vundofix) so I am not sure how you are getting it. Perhaps try to scan your registry. I found the link for the fix from a Wikipedia search for “vundo”.
The source of the problem appears to be coming from ad.yieldmanager.com. When I visited erstories.net from my home machine just now, the website attempted to load a .pdf file (three of them in fact) from that location into my browser; however I have it set to save .pdfs rather than load them, so it just wound up saving it to my download folder. Not sure what all is in there, but it seems to be what caused the problem at work. I can send you this .pdf if you want to check it out, but I doubt it’s something you intended.
Yes, please do. I have no idea what the hell that is.
Apparently the “yieldmanager.com” spycookie thing is on some of your computers. From what I have found – it can hijack your brower from any site – like even Yahoo.com – not just mine. Here is a fix I found if your OS is vista:
“With Vista, yieldmanager problem can be avoided if the site is blocked in Internet Options, Privacy tab, Sites. Just add yieldmanager.com to the list of blocked sites. Works with Doubleclick and others too. I do not know how to do this on other operating systems, or for browsers other than IE. Various advertising sites still try to add cookies, but they are blocked, preventing the problem. Good luck!”
A google search for it may also yield other solutions.
I have scanned my computer for it and I do not have it – I hope everyone gets this fixed!