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Posted:
Apr 28, 2013 - 6:30am
hippiechick wrote:
Medicare for all!
Ummm, I don't know how to say this to you, but Dave has Medicare already. It ain't the panacea you seem to think it is.
hippiechick
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Posted:
Apr 15, 2013 - 7:14pm
ScottN wrote:
Yeah, and we have the greatest health care system in the world. If we ever had single-payer universal health insurance you might have to wait a month for test results. Yikes!
Medicare for all!
hippiechick
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Posted:
Apr 15, 2013 - 7:13pm
I was practicing my stand-up-straight in the mirror today, and I found something that shocked me, a lump right in the middle, between my breasts, on my sternum.
So before going into a total panic, I looked it up, and this is what I have:
The xiphoid process/ËzɪfÉɪd/, or xiphisternum or metasternum, is a small cartilaginousprocess (extension) of the lower part of the sternum which is usually ossified in the adult human. By age 15 to 29, the xiphoid usually fuses to the body of the sternum with a fibrous joint. Unlike the synovial articulation of major joints, this is non-movable. Much the way the first seven ribs articulate with the sternum, the cartilage in the celiac plexus joins on the xiphoid process, reinforcing it, and indirectly attaches the costal cartilage to the sternum. In newborn babies and young (especially slender) infants, the tip of the xiphoid process may be both seen and felt as a lump just below the sternal notch.
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Posted:
Apr 15, 2013 - 7:10pm
DaveInVA wrote:
Finally heard back from the allergy specialist's nurse today. The one I saw almost a month ago and they are just now getting back to me on the test results. My regular allergy Doc sent me to this guy to run some more focused allergy tests. I was positive for allergies to chicken and eggs when originally tested and was told to avoid other fowl like turkey and duck because the proteins are similar. The focused test separated those. Found I am also allergic to quackers but I CAN have turkey...(Until I develop an allergy to that also anyways). They had the test results for 3 weeks but said the doc was to busy to review them till now so they wouldn't give me the results sooner.
Yeah, and we have the greatest health care system in the world. If we ever had single-payer universal health insurance you might have to wait a month for test results. Yikes!
hippiechick
Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
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Posted:
Apr 15, 2013 - 7:06pm
DaveInVA wrote:
Finally heard back from the allergy specialist's nurse today. The one I saw almost a month ago and they are just now getting back to me on the test results. My regular allergy Doc sent me to this guy to run some more focused allergy tests. I was positive for allergies to chicken and eggs when originally tested and was told to avoid other fowl like turkey and duck because the proteins are similar. The focused test separated those. Found I am also allergic to quackers but I CAN have turkey...(Until I develop an allergy to that also anyways). They had the test results for 3 weeks but said the doc was to busy to review them till now so they wouldn't give me the results sooner.
If you can afford it, you should buy organic turkey, the taste is completely different. In fact, you should buy the least processed foods possible. There are all kinds of chemicals, etc. in processed foods.
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Posted:
Apr 15, 2013 - 6:49pm
DaveInVA wrote:
Finally heard back from the allergy specialist's nurse today. The one I saw almost a month ago and they are just now getting back to me on the test results. My regular allergy Doc sent me to this guy to run some more focused allergy tests. I was positive for allergies to chicken and eggs when originally tested and was told to avoid other fowl like turkey and duck because the proteins are similar. The focused test separated those. Found I am also allergic to quackers but I CAN have turkey...(Until I develop an allergy to that also anyways). They had the test results for 3 weeks but said the doc was to busy to review them till now so they wouldn't give me the results sooner.
Turkey burgers rock.So does turkey spaghetti and turkey chili and turkey tikka, and, and, and.
Turkey eggs possible? Your culinary skills would be greatly enhanced if so.
My Dad is looking into what we talked about before BTW,we just had a SNAFU that set his knowledge gaining stuff back a couple days,and we've got appointments the next 2 days.
DaveInVA
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Posted:
Apr 15, 2013 - 5:17pm
buzz wrote:
ok...i know someone's going to this eventually, so it may as well be me and it may as well be now.
Dave, I hope you understand and accept this in the spirit in which it is intended.
Here goes.
So Dave, which allergy came first? The chicken or the egg?
Finally heard back from the allergy specialist's nurse today. The one I saw almost a month ago and they are just now getting back to me on the test results. My regular allergy Doc sent me to this guy to run some more focused allergy tests. I was positive for allergies to chicken and eggs when originally tested and was told to avoid other fowl like turkey and duck because the proteins are similar. The focused test separated those. Found I am also allergic to quackers but I CAN have turkey...(Until I develop an allergy to that also anyways). They had the test results for 3 weeks but said the doc was to busy to review them till now so they wouldn't give me the results sooner.
ok...i know someone's going to this eventually, so it may as well be me and it may as well be now.
Dave, I hope you understand and accept this in the spirit in which it is intended.
Here goes.
So Dave, which allergy came first? The chicken or the egg?
DaveInVA
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Posted:
Apr 15, 2013 - 4:37pm
Finally heard back from the allergy specialist's nurse today. The one I saw almost a month ago and they are just now getting back to me on the test results. My regular allergy Doc sent me to this guy to run some more focused allergy tests. I was positive for allergies to chicken and eggs when originally tested and was told to avoid other fowl like turkey and duck because the proteins are similar. The focused test separated those. Found I am also allergic to quackers but I CAN have turkey...(Until I develop an allergy to that also anyways). They had the test results for 3 weeks but said the doc was to busy to review them till now so they wouldn't give me the results sooner.
They say you should not stop any med without talking to a doctor. Well screw that. How can one get off of a med like Cymbalta? I don't need it. I don't want it and I can't afford it. Advice?
yeah, you may need to taper off it or it might be unpleasant. good luck though!
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Posted:
Mar 15, 2013 - 4:47pm
 katzendogs wrote:
They say you should not stop any med without talking to a doctor. Well screw that. How can one get off of a med like Cymbalta? I don't need it. I don't want it and I can't afford it. Advice?Â
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call you docs office or your pharmacist, tell them you want to stop it, they will tell you how to do so safely and with minimum of adverse effects.
They say you should not stop any med without talking to a doctor. Well screw that. How can one get off of a med like Cymbalta? I don't need it. I don't want it and I can't afford it. Advice?
hippiechick
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Posted:
Mar 9, 2013 - 8:46am
fuzzy wrote:
Could a smartphone be the future of medicine?
Wow! Pretty amazing! Technology is incredible. I guess this will be the answer to health care reform, not all the ridiculousness that is going on now.
fuzzy
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Mar 9, 2013 - 8:31am
Could a smartphone be the future of medicine?
hippiechick
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Posted:
Feb 26, 2013 - 3:57pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Don't shoot me because I'm an idiot: I am definitely nearsighted so it's my readers that are + and that's the number I was thinking of. My Right is minus 1 and my left is minus .75. I guess. :shrug:
But the gist of your post still stands and I'll probably work toward your solution. Because getting back to the beginning of this conversation, it's amazing how beat up I can be after a day of not moving my eyes off this monitor. And it's a crap monitor now, too (don't ask).
So thanks, next time I'm in the eye doc's place I'll start the conversation with him.
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footnote: I was really convinced that that BS gunnars site was saying there was some magnification to their basic models and I think there is. This article agrees but also shreds the site far more than you or I did
I still might buy some if they come around woot.com again at $30.
Its all good since you got the gist of it. It still applies regardless.
One more thing, remember to blink your eyes. Force yourself to do it. Its the tears that replenish your eyes nutrients. Especially true for when wearing contacts, but also if all's you do is sit and stare. Too dry inside ? Check the humidity. Rewetting drops, you might have them already cuz of your contacts. They are good any old time.
Take a conscious blink break every hour or so. Turn away from anything bright and look at something dark and undefined and just blink slowly for a minute. You will be amazed.
And for $30 ? Go for it. You don't need an Rx pair with your actual scrip.
The real cost of them in materials can't be over $10.
So does turkey spaghetti and turkey chili and turkey tikka, and, and, and.
Your culinary skills would be greatly enhanced if so.
Don't shoot me because I'm an idiot: I am definitely nearsighted so it's my readers that are + and that's the number I was thinking of. My Right is minus 1 and my left is minus .75. 
I guess. :shrug: 
The real cost of them in materials can't be over $10.