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Upcoming Hospital Stay - Need Book Recommendation (Vanity)
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Posted on 12/06/2016 6:28:58 PM PST by Veggie Todd

After surgery, I'll be in the hospital for about five days. Not sure how much lucid time I'll have, but I want to take a good book. I like Nonfiction, History, Autobiographies, and of course, America.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: books; fiction; nonfiction; reading; vanity
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To: Veggie Todd

If you’re interested in politics:
Scorched Earth by Michael Savage
By the People by Charles Murray

Good non-political non-fiction
Dave Ramsey’s Entreleadership (entrepreneur leadership)
Extreme Leadership (about the Seals and applying their lessons to life)
Retire Inspired by Chris Hogan
The Millionaire Next Door
How to Fail at Almost Anything by Scott Adams

Decent recent scifi
Discovery by Karina Fabian, an order of rescue nuns in space, some end up on a ship en route to study a likely dead alien space ship


61 posted on 12/06/2016 7:02:36 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Veggie Todd

God And Churchill


62 posted on 12/06/2016 7:02:58 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( I would LOVE to have my old "substandard" insurance back. It didn't cost $1300 a month.)
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To: Veggie Todd

Enhanced Interrogation by James Mitchell.

Good luck on your surgery and recovery


63 posted on 12/06/2016 7:03:01 PM PST by ladybug56 (Trump 2016)
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To: Veggie Todd

The Skystone by Jack Whyte. Phenomenal weaving of fact and fiction to create the best alternate telling of the Arthur myth. Starts w/Romans in England at the fall of the Roman Empire. 7 or 8 books in the series. I re read it frequently.


64 posted on 12/06/2016 7:04:54 PM PST by 1malumprohibitum
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To: Veggie Todd

The Shack, by Paul Young, originally edited & published by my good friend, author Wayne Jacobsen along with Brad Cummings.


65 posted on 12/06/2016 7:05:27 PM PST by Arlis
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To: caver

He made a good Scrooge, too!


66 posted on 12/06/2016 7:06:30 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

My typical night in the hospital (single room) with continuous bladder irrigation and occasional clothing requiring manual removal with a plunger.

every 2 hours, manual blood pressure, temperature.

2 AM

Replace one of two saline irrigation bottle as empty, each one every 2.5 hours.

Empty irrigation drain bag, every 45 minutes

Loud talking in hallway, every 30 minutes

Loud talking from nurses station, depending who comes in, aye last every 45 minutes.

Sorry, this is the only time we can do your chest X-ray 4:05.

Heels clanking down the hall way, twice.

sugar reading 10:30 PM

Thyroid medication 5:15 AM

Manual irrigation 1:15 and 4:20

If I close for, loud clicking upon opening, every time each of the above occurs.

Urine overflows catheter change bedding 2:30 AM

Remote slides down bed and hits me in head 3:27.

I’m sure I am missing something.

Then there were the days I was in a double room.

26 days out of 40, 4 admissions, almost killed me from lack of sleep.


67 posted on 12/06/2016 7:07:00 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Blood draw for the lab)
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To: Veggie Todd

Prayers for your speedy recovery!


68 posted on 12/06/2016 7:07:06 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: morphing libertarian

occasional clotting


69 posted on 12/06/2016 7:08:15 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Blood draw for the lab)
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To: Veggie Todd

Get a Kindle Fire, load it with a couple of dozen books (a lot of World War I stuff is free since it has fallen out of copyright), so you have a variety of books and genres. Add on some game apps.

A lot easier to manage and keep up with your place than is a print book. And the variety helps if you want to shift between deep and shallow depending on your level of concentration and the impact of medication and pain.

Add a small back up battery charger ($15 or so) so you don’t have to worry about juice between having folks plug it in for you.


70 posted on 12/06/2016 7:09:13 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Veggie Todd

I wonder if there is a. Basic surgery for Dummies book?


71 posted on 12/06/2016 7:10:28 PM PST by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: Veggie Todd

John Keegan's The FACE of BATTLE

72 posted on 12/06/2016 7:10:43 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Veggie Todd

A 5 day read in short spurts? I like those bathroom book type readers. Quick short stories of little known information. I think it’s called “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.” Something like that or a collection of letters. I’ve been reading stories from soldiers in WW1. They are quick and insightful.

Why not bring a tablet or computer and read the internet??? I was stuck in the hospital for a week and would have gone insane with boredom without my laptop.


73 posted on 12/06/2016 7:11:08 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Veggie Todd

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. One of the best books I’ve every read.

https://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption-ebook/dp/B003WUYPPG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1481080494&sr=1-1&keywords=Unbroken


74 posted on 12/06/2016 7:13:43 PM PST by cmt21
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To: Veggie Todd

BEST. HISTORICAL. FICTION. EVER...

Agincourt, by Bernard Cornwell.
https://www.amazon.com/Agincourt-Bernard-Cornwell/dp/0061578908

I have recommended it to numerous friends, and they have all loved it.

Best of luck. Hope your procedure and hospital stay go well.


75 posted on 12/06/2016 7:14:50 PM PST by Toad of Toad Hall (nunquam minus solus quam cum solus)
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To: Veggie Todd

This would be a good time for an audiobook.


76 posted on 12/06/2016 7:16:08 PM PST by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: Veggie Todd

Any of the many biographies of George Washington:

Washington - by Douglas Southall Freeman is a good one.

Washington - The Indispensable Man - by James Thomas Flexner is wonderful.

And God bless and keep you through the surgery and the recovery!


77 posted on 12/06/2016 7:16:22 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Veggie Todd

“Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell” by Tamara Wilhite; it is conservative science fiction in the style of Heinlein but more realistic


78 posted on 12/06/2016 7:16:42 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Veggie Todd

https://www.amazon.com/Yeager-Autobiography-Chuck/dp/0553256742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481080753&sr=8-1&keywords=chuck+yeager+autobiography


79 posted on 12/06/2016 7:17:13 PM PST by chasio649 (Donald Trump is not the president we need, he is the president SJWs deserve)
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To: Veggie Todd

Not ‘light reading’ at all; but a book that you can jump around in, and may become hooked on, for later reading:

Guy Murchie, ‘The Seven Mysteries of Life’:

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Mysteries-Life-Exploration-Philosophy/dp/0395957915


80 posted on 12/06/2016 7:18:55 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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