Jump to content

Aaron

Members
  • Posts

    3,791
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Aaron

  1. In July of 2016, I became a dad for the first time. We had a little boy. His name is Lucas.

     
    About 5 days after we got home from the hospital, we got a phone call. The results of the newborn genetic screening showed that he potentially had cystic fibrosis.
     

    Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common fatal genetic disease affecting Canadian children and young adults. At present, there is no cure.
     
    CF causes various effects on the body, but mainly affects the digestive system and lungs. The degree of CF severity differs from person to person, however, the persistence and ongoing infection in the lungs, with destruction of lungs and loss of lung function, will eventually lead to death in the majority of people with CF.
     
    Typical complications caused by cystic fibrosis are:
     
    Difficulty digesting fats and proteins
    Malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies because of inability to absorb nutrients
    Progressive lung damage from chronic infections and aberrant inflammation
    CF related diabetes
    Sinus infections
    It is estimated that one in every 3,600 children born in Canada has CF. More than 4,100 Canadian children, adolescents, and adults with cystic fibrosis attend specialized CF clinics.
     
    After a week or so wait time, we were sent for a sweat chloride test, and it confirmed the genetic finding - he has delta F508 mutation cystic fibrosis. On the flip side of the negative, this is the most common form of the illness, and is the one that sees most of the funding, and will likely be the first one with a long-term solution. At present the drugs currently treating this condition are between 4 to 600 dollars a dose, 4 times a day. Yes. Between 300,000 and 800,000 dollars a year.
     
     
    Every year our CF foundation puts on a charity walk, to raise money for research.
     
    I am still coming to terms with the little dude having it, but it is slowly sinking in.
     
    With treatment there are a lot more people living with it for longer periods than they ever were, but there are still shortened lifespan and several different complications that occur due to the condition.
     
    I've attached a link for my "Team"'s page, and if any of you guys who'd like to donate could do so, it would be greatly appreciated and never forgotten.
     
    Thanks in advance guys, it means the world to me.
     
    If you need to donate in another manner, please feel free to PM me and I will get some details on how you can donate if you can't do it via the page provided, and you'd like to do so.
     

    Thank you again

     

    Please feel free to share the page link, but I please ask you refrain from sharing on facebook, at least until the second or third week of march, as we have not told a lot of people, or made a public announcement, just so far to folks we trust.

     

    Thanks so much guys.

     

    https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/mobile/mobileTeamPage.aspx?teamID=751538&langPref=en-CA

     

    20170226_194140_zpspnmb5ihb.jpg

  2. Cummins guy tried to program an ECM on a motorhome.

     

    Bricked it.

     

    Eventually, Cummins ate the cost of the ECM.

     

    Charged us $80 for the calibration "part" plus around $500 for programming and shit.

     

    I had to do all the R & R on the module, and point out the bench harness he was using was powering the J1939 pins. As in, feeding B+ to the network circuits. Yeah.

  3. Fuck Dorman and everything they make.

     

    If my options were fix it with dorman or have a non running vehicle, I'd be on the bus on my way to the shoe store.

     

    My boss insists we use the shit. I would say probably half or better of the dorman parts we use, I end up replacing again. Even their remote/fob cases are fuckin' junk.

  4. I am getting the impression that Ford is getting a lot of complaints from people firing the parts cannon at their 6.0 trucks, since i see a metric fuckton of guys leaving Ford stores, and the replacements are not very good a lot of the time.

  5. Mishmoto ones are junk and their warranty sucks balls to deal with.

     

    I've got a 2yr/unlimited FoMoCo one in it now. (Which has failed once already since May of this year)

     

    I've changed the body mount isolators, hogged out the upper radiator mounts to allow it to move around. We'll see what happens. I also dropped to a 10psi cap.

  6. I never used to sell stuff as hourly when I was hurt and a writer.

     

    It's "119.95 for that service sir" and leave it at that. Explain no further.

     

    I never booked anything guys could make flat rate time on as a waiting customer, especially since there was great big windows into the shop. Me and another tech smashed balljoints in an Econoline on the alignment rack one friday and checked and set the toe in something like 20 minutes.

     

    Advisor comes out and says put it back up and take the wheels off, put them on monday morning. customer is bringing his other car in tomorow for a LOF, and he looks out the window and sees the truck done he's gonna wonder why the bill says 5.1 hours or whatever it was. LOL. Apparently he'd dropped it off at 4:30 and we were outside smoking at 10 to 5.

×
×
  • Create New...