What a week. Last night about 8:00 we are sitting in the living room,
checking the TV guide to see what we wanted to watch, when there was a
horrendous BOOM! I ran to the front door and saw a car sitting, rather the
worse for wear, in my neighbor's yard with a sheriff's car on the road
following the other car. Then I saw the top part of my indestructible
mailbox (the one with a 4 x 4 support post inside) lying on the ground about
8 feet away from the base and the newspaper section. Then I saw my dogwood
tree with about four foot high section of bark scraped off. About 10 feet
from it (perpendicular to the path of travel of the smashed car) the top of
an overrun pipe completely off the pipe! The top was solid cement 4 feet by
4 feet by about 4-6 inches thick! I will put pictures online and let y'all
know where to see them. If the car had not hit my tree, it would have ended
up in the bedroom of my neighbor's house. Ouch. The driver, no seat belt
of course, was sitting on the floor of the rider's side facing backwards. I
don't believe he was hurt too badly, but sure was stunned. It seems,
according to the sheriff's deputy (who was parked at the end of the street
where our street ends on a cross street) that the driver had come around the
corner way too fast and, when he saw the sheriff's car, put on a spurt of
speed and lost control of his car. Beautiful white 1993 Cadillac! All is
ok, except my poor neighbor's yard - big gouges in it - and he had just ...

This is where I insert .. "I told ya so" ..

http://doctor.medscape.com/viewarticle/496544

Who loves ya.
Tom

Jesus Was A Vegetarian!
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Man Is A Herbivore!
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DEAD PEOPLE WALKING
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And I hate 'Nerds on call'

My computer just returned from a two week 'sabbatical's.

I wanted my computer moved to another room, some more ram added and just a
general tune up. It was working well enough at the time.

The tech guy moved it all, and ran diagnostics. All good. Wanted to do a
tune up and increase RAM. OK.

Three hours later he is in the room with the computer mumbling and can no
longer get online.

Has to take it to the shop. Two days later we learn he walked off the job
after he took the computer in. And now it not only will not go online, it
will only operate in safe mode.

Great.

Next call, they need to reinstall windows. Great again. If that doesn't
work, they will need to format the hard drive.

Oh, goody. Just what I always wanted.

After two weeks, I have my computer back. Just like a brand new computer.
All my data is sitting out in limbo to be retrieved as I figure out what I
need and where it is. All my programs need reinstalled.

That would explain why interferon works .. so .. well .. ?
May explain the poor birth rates too.

http://doctor.medscape.com/viewarticle/496544

Interferon alfa is effective in suppressing bone marrow function in
chronic myeloproliferative disorders, but this treatment requires
multiple weekly injections.

"The complication rate was 67%% in untreated pregnancies vs none in
aspirin- or interferon-treated women"

Finally, one group of investigators reviewed their experience with 40
pregnancies in 16 women with essential thrombocytosis. There was no
difference in platelet counts in those pregnancies resulting in fetal
loss vs those resulting in a live birth. Spontaneous abortion during
the first trimester was the most common complication, occurring in 33%%
of patients. Overall, the complication rate was 67%% in untreated
pregnancies (18/27) vs none in aspirin- or interferon-treated women
(0/13).[38]

These data indicate that idiopathic erythrocytosis is not rare and
that phlebotomy alone is both necessary and sufficient to prevent
thrombosis in such patients.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVEohl3DuBE
She's sitting and farting on it - and look how happy and excited she
looks doing that. I got another image - this is myself, Elizabeth,
after I've just sat (and broke wind) into a cake. The smell lingered
for more than a minute. http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/404/cakesitting2kl3.jpg

Hi gang! Long time lurker, infrequent poster here. Just want to grumble
to people who understand.

Been dealing with DDD, Fibro for a dozen years or so. Also genetically
hypermobile, possibly Ehler-Danlos but no official dx. I've had ups and
downs, and the past few months have been *down*. Saw my rheumy in
February & saw him again yesterday. Things have not improved.

So, we are trying to shake things up. He's changed all my meds, and I
had to promise to stay on them for the next six weeks "no matter what".
That means even if I'm loopy, droopy, & poopy ;-) I have to keep taking
this stuff at this dosage. I'll see him again in July.

Mobic, Soma, Sonata, & Lyrica, anyone? I started the regimen last
night, and today I can function... if you call "wet noodle" functioning!
:-D At least I could get out of bed & drink enough coffee to get all
those pills down!