For those of you following my hernia saga:
And on a completely different topic, MRI’s, pain and spreading the word;
today I had an appointment with a sports medicine doctor, to whom I was referred by my doctor. Not his fault. Can’t win ’em all.
Had never heard of an obturator hernia, and had less than 10 minutes to not find out about them. So as
played through my mind, I remembered a very helpful doctor who had performed radio-ablation on my ilio-inguinal nerve and had been inquisitive and imaginative, not to mention actually came to believe me that there was something mechanical wrong with me. So I have written to him, and attached the results of my MRI. And tomorrow I can go and pick up the physical scan on a cd, but who knows what software would be needed to actually get to see the pictures.
I had prepared myself before we went, knowing that if this doctor couldn’t help me, another one could. That is a lesson I have long learnt [learned for some of you modern readers, grump, ed.] but the actual moment of realiszation that one has waited in vain to speak to someone who simply is in no way the right person, regardless of their attitude, is grumpifying.
Back to throwing spaghetti at the wall. Just in case a world famous radiologist who specializes in obscure injuries that might be revealed by this MRI is reading my blog, here is a picture of the 2nd page of the results:
At least I am getting a thorough anatomy lesson! Makes trimming meat a whole new experience.
There, it is off my chest, speaking of busts. And in my case, I really don’t mean Dolly Parton. More like Dolly Spartan.
sorry to hear Xty. keep on keeping on. you are still making progress, no matter how glacial!
i played with my camera phone a little more, so check out the last posts on the prior thread.
oh, when i googled Dolly Spartan, this is what came up. i’m assuming you must be insinuating major underwire support. 🙂
Aren’t those adorable dollies? I searched too after I posted. They look super useful – the kind of thing you didn’t know you needed until you saw it, and now lust after.
Do you have Princess Autos in the States?
i have not heard of Princess Auto – so of course i had to look it up. it seems to occupy the same market niche as “Farm and Fleet”, a mid-western USA based discount chain that i mentioned to you before.
i’m going to be needing one of those dollies soon. the cacti pictures in the other thread were not photo-shopped. they are huge, and heavily armored. i will be moving next spring.
have to go missing for a while…
what condition my condition is in, haven’t seent this for awhile, stay on it Xty, your tenacity will bring results. hi all. carry on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3yhYYV5MQ
your videos still aren’t displaying correctly 44. what happens if you post the link all by itself? i always make sure they are separated by a space above and below.
freedom..maybe
[time machine at work]
coolness!
do you remember this song? 🙂 🙂 🙂
sorry. i must have jinxed it.
how about some 70’s? this song is totally groovy man. 🙂
Ok, i have backspaced over the profanity that my fingers typed in reaction to this turn of events… And i can’t even come up with an obligatory Haiku, instead- i’m thinking… big-picture, how do we beat the system?… we need a plan.
A doctor who is not an expert regarding the Xty Hernia is only going to make sure he doesn’t violate any insurance guidelines and dismiss you. We have to go to an expert on this particular hernia.
The big thing in the medical world is getting published or written about in a journal somewhere. So let’s find a Dr. who has recently been published regarding Xty hernias.
This also has to be a Dr. that you can go to, or is a part of whatever ‘system’ you are in.
If all we can find are published doctors outside the system, we’ll start there.
Then we don’t want to approach Dr. Expert as a patient, but rather as a writer, or researcher or similar.
The ultimate goal- We want Dr. Expert to be the one who thinks of how to work the system in order to get you fixed up.
I’m a big-picture person who is quite comfortable entering complex situations with no idea what i’m going to do until i do it. So i don’t have a plan for the details.
But, 1-finding a published expert Dr. and 2-approaching them as a writer/researcher, and 3-conning(need a better word here) them into wanting to fix Xty is sort of a start of a plan.. yes? no?…. (just trying to help)
True Grit (2010) is one of my all-time favorites. After seeing the great job Bridges did in True Grit, i watched Lebowski…. awesome movie, and that clip is hilarious. Especially the way the car hits and the front jumps up in the air,…. don’t know why i thought that was so funny.
Good morning
I think the trick for Pete and youtubes might be having the link stand alone on a line.
To test this, I am going back in time.
The time machine worked! Put those links on their own line, and maybe those wings can learn to fly
Derek re my belly-aching (haha)
Yes, yes and yes/also as patient. That is very much how I found the doctor in Montreal – once I had a very specific term to search, ilio-inguinal, I found a medical journal abstract boasting about cool surgical techniques at McGill University Health Centre. Then tracked down the researchers and my GP was able to refer me to someone who passed my file along to the right guy.
I have found some articles about obturator hernias, and I hadn’t gotten to the step of emailing authors. It might be in the radiology world too – finding recent information, really recent, is key too.
If we can find a Canadian doctor, I can get referred to them – somehow with my friend, tenacity. If American, well, we shall see.
But yes, I am like that too with complex systems – I assume that at some point it will all make sense to me if I dive in as if I already did understand it all. And thanks.
Good Morning!
Here’s a tune. At our age, it kind of makes me think…
three absolutely amazing actors…
The only high school friend of my hubby’s who didn’t find a day to quit that there drug just died.
I knew to run away.
i just popped in to play a song…
where is everyone? back to the 70’s. it’s the weather here. well, mostly. please make it stop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6PnsnBpQE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylT5lpvRR48 pre-kush attempt
..wonder what happens when i add a comment?
even more goofy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vvX6-d_JY
I was under the impression that wordpress did a few emoticons automatically, converting standard ones such as colon, parenthesis. Let’s try it 🙂
Edit: Yes. 😉 😀
2nd Ed: I’d be interested in seeing a list of these automatic wordpress ones.
Here we go…
😯
😈
now that was almost easy!
nice! 😎
TGIF!
It took me a while to figure out what to search for – smilies of all things. I kept trying to pretend I understood html and was looking for quick tags. Other than preview not displaying the code stuff, this seems to be working.
Or would if Pete put his youtube urls on a line all by themselves!
Drunken tv is hilarious – I love the girl on the right. Stoned tv tends to be a little on the dull side, but is a genre unto itself.
😳 😳 😳
😎 😎 😎
This turned out to be way more entertaining than I thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7PJZ864QTo
Now off to meet Mrs. O for a quick pre-swim brewski…
i can’t believe i watched the whole 12 minutes. if you get as far as the cat food, you will be hooked too.
i remember shot-gunning beers in college. the Pabst “silos” were our favorite for that. we would hold the beer can on its side and cut a perfectly round hole in the side next to the bottom. no shaking the can first, of course. you then could easily bring the can up to your mouth without spilling, position your mouth over the hole, and pull the tab. it was gravity feed, just like a beer bong.
waxing nostalgic, i searched for ‘Pabst silo’ and found this! freaking hilarious! 😎
http://onmilwaukee.com/bars/articles/drinkadaypbr.html
edit: i think you are now loaded for bear, 44.
still learning
skip down w/patience
😳 😎 😳 😎 😳 😎
i’m not sure if this is going to work. but if it does, it’s EO’s first face here.
we collide, we collude. 😎
Success!
Our 13 year stint as swim parents is over, but our girls are Conference Champs! Sectionals and State still to come, but our daughter is done. She swam well tonight, a three time winner carrying the junior varsity also to a conference win. 😮
Swim kids and swim parents are just the nicest people ever. It’s been a good thing.
congrat’s.
😥 😐 😐 💡 😆 😎 😳 😳 😛