What did you do WITH your Ranger today?

[AzScorpion]

Nothing out of the ordinary lol.
Drove it to work and stopped by Brookshires for the weekly grocery shopping run.

You have the AC on at 75*

I'd be freezing. lol

Sponsored

 

[Ranger Mel]

You have the AC on at 75*

I'd be freezing. lol

On auto mine came on at 70* yesterday. It was around 65* out. I thought it was a little weird.

 

[AzScorpion]

On auto mine came on at 70* yesterday. It was around 65* out. I thought it was a little weird.

Probably why I don't leave mine on auto because I'd be constantly changing it. lol I leave mine off until it's in the mid to upper 90's (unless it's parked in the sun) and even then it's not bad with the dry heat here. When we were in AR (and back in MA) I'd sometimes have it on when it was in the 70's because the humidity was so thick you'd be sweating just standing still!

 

[Ranger Mel]

Probably why I don't leave mine on auto because I'd be constantly changing it. lol I leave mine off until it's in the mid to upper 90's (unless it's parked in the sun) and even then it's not bad with the dry heat here. When we were in AR (and back in MA) I'd sometimes have it on when it was in the 70's because the humidity was so thick you'd be sweating just standing still!

Yeah, I don't do humidity.

 

[Doc]

Mostly recovered. Lingering fatigue has been annoying. Things that shouldn't can wear you out and it doesn't have a rhyme or reason to it sometimes. Very weird. It can take up to a couple years or so to see what the recovery will be. I used to be able to just go and do things most of the day and be fine. It's like I have to pick and choose for the day if I want to feel like I'm close to 100% for that activity. Even then my endurance has suffered a lot. I can still ride my fat bike and mountain bike and still feel pretty strong doing it but I might be done for the day. I lift weights but do half of what I did before GBS as an energy saver. I can still be functional but if it requires too much effort I really rather just sit down. The other symptoms like the ataxia are all gone. My hands aren't quite 100% in strength but they are pretty good. I put a couple rounds through a Desert Eagle 50 AE at work a couple weeks ago and that was fine. Shooting my 1911 10mm last summer was okay but not like it was. I need to try it again here soon since I think it's better. I wasn't paralyzed or intubated like a friend of ours was last summer so I'm very fortunate there.

I’ll be in the same boat in a few years. I’ve had back issues for as long as I can remember. Went too hard playing hockey growing up, working construction since I was 16, and being too stubborn to ask for help… I’m paying for it now, two torn discs in my lower back that are always bothering me. Docs say I’m too young for surgery but at this point, it’s beyond healing by itself. They just keep telling me to “take it easy”. If only I didn’t have bills to pay!

wtf is wrong with the doctors, I never heard of a patient being too young for back surgery hell they do it on babies. I don’t know how old Tiger Woods was when he when he had his first back surgery, but he was pretty young and he plays golf now anyway, I wish you a quick recovery. Perhaps you can get them to inject some Marcaine and solumedrol for the time being, anyway, I wish you the best on that I have an L1 and L2 disc problems. I’m waiting for an orthopedic consult. drink some Dos xx beer or Tecate and then you’ll feel better if you drink enough

 

[Cabose-1]

Well i had a super super strange oddity after 26600k miles. It just stalled.

No check engine light. I was pulling out of my neighborhood. I thought, i turned my ass off. But the dash said put in park to turn on vehicle. This pic was taken after it happened.
Super weird. No clue what happened. It just stalled at the stop sign.
Seems just fine now.

 

[Ranger Mel]

Well i had a super super strange oddity after 26600k miles. It just stalled.

No check engine light. I was pulling out of my neighborhood. I thought, i turned my ass off. But the dash said put in park to turn on vehicle. This pic was taken after it happened.
Super weird. No clue what happened. It just stalled at the stop sign.
Seems just fine now.

Computers sometimes have brain farts and need to reset. Hopefully that's all it was. Any updates overnight?? Who knows.

 

[TxOTRRanger]

You have the AC on at 75*

I'd be freezing. lol

Yeah, that's my happy medium for the thermostat whether I have the heat or the AC on.

 

[IdahoRanger]

 

[AzScorpion]

Well i had a super super strange oddity after 26600k miles. It just stalled.

No check engine light. I was pulling out of my neighborhood. I thought, i turned my ass off. But the dash said put in park to turn on vehicle. This pic was taken after it happened.
Super weird. No clue what happened. It just stalled at the stop sign.
Seems just fine now.

 

[TxOTRRanger]

Well i had a super super strange oddity after 26600k miles. It just stalled.

No check engine light. I was pulling out of my neighborhood. I thought, i turned my ass off. But the dash said put in park to turn on vehicle. This pic was taken after it happened.
Super weird. No clue what happened. It just stalled at the stop sign.
Seems just fine now.

Eli, you just got ROADKILLed lol!
In truth, hopefully it was a software update as Mel mentioned.

 

[gfitzge2]

Mostly recovered. Lingering fatigue has been annoying. Things that shouldn't can wear you out and it doesn't have a rhyme or reason to it sometimes. Very weird. It can take up to a couple years or so to see what the recovery will be. I used to be able to just go and do things most of the day and be fine. It's like I have to pick and choose for the day if I want to feel like I'm close to 100% for that activity. Even then my endurance has suffered a lot. I can still ride my fat bike and mountain bike and still feel pretty strong doing it but I might be done for the day. I lift weights but do half of what I did before GBS as an energy saver. I can still be functional but if it requires too much effort I really rather just sit down. The other symptoms like the ataxia are all gone. My hands aren't quite 100% in strength but they are pretty good. I put a couple rounds through a Desert Eagle 50 AE at work a couple weeks ago and that was fine. Shooting my 1911 10mm last summer was okay but not like it was. I need to try it again here soon since I think it's better. I wasn't paralyzed or intubated like a friend of ours was last summer so I'm very fortunate there.

Glad to hear. Sounds like you are dealing with the after effects in a good way. Like one of my therapy ladies said to me.

"Just live your life. Listen to your body and do what you can do."

 

[gfitzge2]

Well i had a super super strange oddity after 26600k miles. It just stalled.

No check engine light. I was pulling out of my neighborhood. I thought, i turned my ass off. But the dash said put in park to turn on vehicle. This pic was taken after it happened.
Super weird. No clue what happened. It just stalled at the stop sign.
Seems just fine now.

 

[Ranger Mel]

Glad to hear. Sounds like you are dealing with the after effects in a good way. Like one of my therapy ladies said to me.

"Just live your life. Listen to your body and do what you can do."

That's the plan. Turning 60 in a couple weeks probably doesn't help me feeling energetic!

 

[ScarzRanger21(2.0)]

wtf is wrong with the doctors, I never heard of a patient being too young for back surgery hell they do it on babies. I don’t know how old Tiger Woods was when he when he had his first back surgery, but he was pretty young and he plays golf now anyway, I wish you a quick recovery. Perhaps you can get them to inject some Marcaine and solumedrol for the time being, anyway, I wish you the best on that I have an L1 and L2 disc problems. I’m waiting for an orthopedic consult. drink some Dos xx beer or Tecate and then you’ll feel better if you drink

wtf is wrong with the doctors, I never heard of a patient being too young for back surgery hell they do it on babies. I don’t know how old Tiger Woods was when he when he had his first back surgery, but he was pretty young and he plays golf now anyway, I wish you a quick recovery. Perhaps you can get them to inject some Marcaine and solumedrol for the time being, anyway, I wish you the best on that I have an L1 and L2 disc problems. I’m waiting for an orthopedic consult. drink some Dos xx beer or Tecate and then you’ll feel better if you drink enough

What I’ve been told by a couple docs is that with back surgery, there’s a higher chance something can go wrong or your body doesn’t respond the way they intend. That’s a risk with any operation but I guess it’s worse with your back just because of how invasive the operation is.

Because I’m only 33 and have a pretty active lifestyle, they don’t think it’s smart to do anything yet. I’m always in pain but so far, it’s semi-tolerable most of the time. Every now and then I’ll take an awkward step or move the wrong way and it feels like someone stuck a hot knife in my spine. Shooting pains up and down my back, weakness and tingling in my legs, can’t walk, hurts to breathe, sneezing or coughing feels like someone detonated a grenade in my back… Fun stuff lol

One of my coworkers in his 40s had an operation done a while ago (not sure what his issue was) and he hasn’t walked right since. He’s scheduled for another surgery to see if they can correct whatever they didn’t do right the first time. They called it a “roto rooter”? No clue what that means, not sure if I want to know lol

Sponsored