I've been there. At this stage, it's frustrating and a weight on the mind. But it won't be for long.
My advice would be this: be ruthless. Detach yourself from it and get rid of it. Anything that's not genuinely important, personal or highly sentimental, just get rid of. Once you pick something up and start thinking of it's potential usefulness in the future, you'll make an excuse to keep it. Then you're right back to square one. Yes, it's a tricky one at first but once you start, you'll get on a roll. With selling, except for the things of significant value, you'll find most things can't really be sold without a bit of hassle.
I sold a few things on eBay and used the rest as a great way to 'pay it forward', often throwing in loads of 'bonus items' to friends and family. In the end I just started throwing the rest away and took great pleasure in taking ALL of the remainder up to the local skip and tossing it over the side. All I'm left with now is a backpack and a guitar that's with me right now and a few 'special possessions' that are with my folks. I did this at the turn of a new direction in life and it's amazing how cleansing the whole process is.
Once you start, it actually becomes fun.Just do it and don't look back. You're moving on and looking ahead in life, you'll soon forget about it once you're on the road, trust me.
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Scott - I'm actually pretty ruthless as it is with getting rid of things - friends and family actually ask me to come over to help them get rid of stuff as they know they won't part with things on their own! haha AND, the BEST thing - I'm really thinking in terms of - if we DO move to Oz, is this worth shipping all the way over there? It's amazing what isn't worth it!
When John and I moved in together we had two of everything, and we ended up calling a women's shelter to donate everything to them... if I wasn't going to make money from selling everything, then I at least wanted to know I was helping women and children in need... and it felt really good to donate so much and things that were practically brand new. There really is something to the "pay it forward" thing...
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My advice on the sorting: Start one room at a time, and divide things into piles: keep, sell and give away. Then you can take the give-away stuff to the salvation army (or wherever) as you go so it's not cluttering up your house. Try to sell lots - you'd be surprised what people buy!! And when you're done, you can always take it to goodwill. I agree - be RUTHLESS.
The only things I kept were very good pots, extremely expensive books that I'll use for my PhD, the clothes I'm taking with me, photos and other sentimental stuff (not much tho!) and my bed (it's brand new). All other furniture etc. GONE!!!
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You've got to really think like a minimalist and fight the urge to keep everything. In the end, it's more exciting looking ahead towards your trip than to look back on relics of your past.
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Tips & Warnings
Give good descriptions of your stuff
Don't ask for too much money. Sure you paid a lot for it, but now its used, and it's just in the way. $20 times a lot of sales is a lot of money.
Group some like items together. If you have a small cooler and a large cooler, people might buy them both.
Don't let people in your house to snoop around, and when they come to pick up what you're selling, put it outside. No need to have them poke through your garage.
Cash only
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Colonoscopy sedation and amnesia
http://blog.geekwithfibroids.com/2006/08/11/amnesia-from-anesthesia-my-experience-with-conscious-sedation/
Found this section from the above Wikipedia link most interesting:
One benefit of Midazolam (Versed) as it’s used in a clinical setting, is its ability to sedate a patient without causing unconsciousness. For this reason it is often used in a number of invasive, but relatively less painful procedures such as colonoscopy.
Midazolam also induces temporary amnesia following administration (and sometimes very minor retrograde amnesiac symptoms are reported), which is beneficial for the person to whom it has been administered prior to what would otherwise be traumatic emergency procedures, but has led to its abuse as a (very rare) “date rape” drug, sometimes in combination with alcohol. Importantly, in memory studies, participants under the influence of midazolam are unaware that their memory is impaired (Merritt, Hirshman, Hsu & Berrigan, 2005).
jerry Says: November 2, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I would never consent to amnesia drugsand have seen way too many people who were traumatized by uncaring or just plain dumb doctors who squirt in high doses of midazolam (versed) so that they can do a colonoscopy more quickly adn to hell withthe patient. I recently had all of the symptoms of colon cancer, but couldn’t find a GI doc to do a colonoscopy without sedation. I ended up in the ER, still refusing colonoscopy because of the sedation; then I met a nice young woman GI doc who listened to my versed rant and agreed “I wouldn’t consent to Versed myself; it’s a terrible drug”..I’ll do your colonoscopy without it. A
fter the prep, I ended up in the endo suite, ready to go; she asked permission to have some fentanyl (painkiller) ready…when I balked at this the nurse handed me the syringe (2ml/100mcg) that was hooked up to the IV and told me that I could give it to myself if I didn’t trust them (she knew I worked in the hospital and was credentialed to administer narcs)….this disarmed me totally, the the doc related how many patients were abused during colonoscopy with Versed and everyone was on my side. The doc went slowly, talked me thru the exam and it was easy. No amnesia, no versed freaky side-effects and even the biopsies were painless. One huge advantage to sedationless colonoscopy (besides no amnesia): you can’t get your bowel perforated if you are unsedated; the doc told me that an unsedated patient will feel the pressure and warn the endoscopist long before perforation happens.
Propofol sedation (heavy duty) increased the perforation risk a lot because the patient is really out. And if you think that I hate drugs, I do not. After the exam, I had some cramps from the air that the doc had to introduce into my colon; when I couldn’t fart, she suggested painkiller, I agreed and she squirted in the fentanyl in the syringe that I had been holding in my hand (forgot it) and I was totally blasted in minutes. She repeated the dose later and told me to take a nap.
http://colonoscopyblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-conscious-sedation.html
I do remember being wheeled into the room for the procedure, the IV starting, and then.......I was asking "did they find anything?""No," the nurse replied kindly, "did you know this was the fourth time you've asked?"I didn't. I noticed I was lying in bed in the recovery room, and ... hey, how did I get dressed?
http://www.usnews.com/health/blogs/on-health-and-money/2008/10/21/would-you-rather-be-out-for-your-colonoscopy.html
http://freeideasblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/long-post-versed-midazolam-for.html
Check out versedbusters for honest patient reviews of this drug; also askapatient.
Found this section from the above Wikipedia link most interesting:
One benefit of Midazolam (Versed) as it’s used in a clinical setting, is its ability to sedate a patient without causing unconsciousness. For this reason it is often used in a number of invasive, but relatively less painful procedures such as colonoscopy.
Midazolam also induces temporary amnesia following administration (and sometimes very minor retrograde amnesiac symptoms are reported), which is beneficial for the person to whom it has been administered prior to what would otherwise be traumatic emergency procedures, but has led to its abuse as a (very rare) “date rape” drug, sometimes in combination with alcohol. Importantly, in memory studies, participants under the influence of midazolam are unaware that their memory is impaired (Merritt, Hirshman, Hsu & Berrigan, 2005).
jerry Says: November 2, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I would never consent to amnesia drugsand have seen way too many people who were traumatized by uncaring or just plain dumb doctors who squirt in high doses of midazolam (versed) so that they can do a colonoscopy more quickly adn to hell withthe patient. I recently had all of the symptoms of colon cancer, but couldn’t find a GI doc to do a colonoscopy without sedation. I ended up in the ER, still refusing colonoscopy because of the sedation; then I met a nice young woman GI doc who listened to my versed rant and agreed “I wouldn’t consent to Versed myself; it’s a terrible drug”..I’ll do your colonoscopy without it. A
fter the prep, I ended up in the endo suite, ready to go; she asked permission to have some fentanyl (painkiller) ready…when I balked at this the nurse handed me the syringe (2ml/100mcg) that was hooked up to the IV and told me that I could give it to myself if I didn’t trust them (she knew I worked in the hospital and was credentialed to administer narcs)….this disarmed me totally, the the doc related how many patients were abused during colonoscopy with Versed and everyone was on my side. The doc went slowly, talked me thru the exam and it was easy. No amnesia, no versed freaky side-effects and even the biopsies were painless. One huge advantage to sedationless colonoscopy (besides no amnesia): you can’t get your bowel perforated if you are unsedated; the doc told me that an unsedated patient will feel the pressure and warn the endoscopist long before perforation happens.
Propofol sedation (heavy duty) increased the perforation risk a lot because the patient is really out. And if you think that I hate drugs, I do not. After the exam, I had some cramps from the air that the doc had to introduce into my colon; when I couldn’t fart, she suggested painkiller, I agreed and she squirted in the fentanyl in the syringe that I had been holding in my hand (forgot it) and I was totally blasted in minutes. She repeated the dose later and told me to take a nap.
http://colonoscopyblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-conscious-sedation.html
I do remember being wheeled into the room for the procedure, the IV starting, and then.......I was asking "did they find anything?""No," the nurse replied kindly, "did you know this was the fourth time you've asked?"I didn't. I noticed I was lying in bed in the recovery room, and ... hey, how did I get dressed?
http://www.usnews.com/health/blogs/on-health-and-money/2008/10/21/would-you-rather-be-out-for-your-colonoscopy.html
http://freeideasblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/long-post-versed-midazolam-for.html
Check out versedbusters for honest patient reviews of this drug; also askapatient.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Here we go
For the day of fasting on Thursday, I've bought jello and soup broth. I will also drink coffee and maybe a soda.
I made my jello Wed night, and premixed Moviprep 1st batch. put it in the fridge.
Thursday, ate a good breakfast without fiber. Got to get thru the workday on jello, coffee, soup broth. and a can of soda. Chewing gum.
more jello around 3:30pm. maybe broth before driving home around 4pm.
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Tonight around 6pm, start the moviprep. Probably won't want to eat much.
Ginger ale. chewing gum.
process might take 2-3 hrs. Mixup 2nd batch moviprep and refrigerate it.
Go to bed.
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Will have to getup early Friday around 4-5am and do another moviprep.
Drive to doctor around 8:30am for procedure.
I made my jello Wed night, and premixed Moviprep 1st batch. put it in the fridge.
Thursday, ate a good breakfast without fiber. Got to get thru the workday on jello, coffee, soup broth. and a can of soda. Chewing gum.
more jello around 3:30pm. maybe broth before driving home around 4pm.
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Tonight around 6pm, start the moviprep. Probably won't want to eat much.
Ginger ale. chewing gum.
process might take 2-3 hrs. Mixup 2nd batch moviprep and refrigerate it.
Go to bed.
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Will have to getup early Friday around 4-5am and do another moviprep.
Drive to doctor around 8:30am for procedure.
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