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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / January 2005today's round of mri's are a done deal . . .
car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young man/son. same nice tech but lonnnng process. no wonder my neurologist wanted me to double my normal muscle relaxant dose, which i didn't. i wouldn't have been able to drive for 12 hours if i had doubled it, according to him. and i did have to drive myself. i don't do drugs and drive. i know what a car wreck can be all about. so, i just breathed into the spasms when they began three-quarters of the way through it, knowing i wouldn't have to endure them for long and the tech gave me breaks. wish i did have somebody else drive, though. i just got my first speeding ticket in over 30 years, on the way home on a back road with no traffic. my mind was preoccupied with the mri i had just had, like a real dummy, and i wanted to get home to deal with the discomfort. 11 over the speed limit. my fault. i earned that one :-( anyway, i see the neurologist again on next tuesday, on the eleventh and will find out the mri results then. kate Do you have any kind of medical appointment transport where you live? Granted usually you can drive but there is usually something available for those who can't. Every once in a while I have to remind myself we do have taxi service around here too. I prefer to drive myself but there are times. Jo > car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young man/son. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 > Do you have any kind of medical appointment transport where you live? > Granted usually you can drive but there is usually something available for [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Jo i have absolutely no idea if there is such a thing as medical appointment transport around here, jo. i suppose our local senior center would know. i'll definitely check into that. might need it sometime. thanks jo. ironically, i did think about a taxi, but that was this morning, just before i left. kinda late to pre-arrange for one, letting them know i had an appointment. otherwise, our taxi service seems to "get lost" before they arrive here. have used taxis before and learned that, by almost missing a flight. i really was ok to drive today, except that i was a little distracted on the way home. had i taken a busy or busier route, instead of the more rural back roads, it's doubtless i would have been paying more attention. hey, and nobody's perfect--- it was inevitable that i get a citation at some point in my life. i don't have a rigid need to be a flawless goody-two-shoes.<smile> it's just one ticket and a fine. and especially as nobody was hurt by my mental lapse, the ticket's a good reminder for me to pay attention. kate >> car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young man/son. >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 Jo Firey asked: >> Do you have any kind of medical appointment transport where you live? And Kate replied: > i have absolutely no idea if there is such a thing as medical appointment > transport around here, jo. They are required coast-to-coast and border-to-border by ADA. Same with school districts transporting disabled/handicapped students. They don't have to be free (usually not). My county contracted with the Red Cross, until it was discovered they were padding time and miles billing the county. Here, you have to get a letter from a doctor stating you are disabled/handicapped, and mail it to the operator of the system - not the county. > Here, you have to get a letter from a doctor stating you are > disabled/handicapped, and mail it to the operator of the > system - not the county. Works the same here, too. Seems to me it was a form about a dozen pages long, and the doctors charged anywhere from $30 to $85 to complete it. I applied for a three month temporary pass when I couldn't drive this summer, as they promised a two week turnaround. I got my pass two months later. I just love beaurocracy. Janet N. That is good to know! There are days I could use that service to get to doctor appt and I wouldn't mind paying for it. Janet R | Jo Firey asked: | [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] | disabled/handicapped, and mail it to the operator of the | system - not the county. kate, i agree a ticket is a very good reminder. you can be sure that i remember the limit on my street is 30 mph, not 42, since i had to pay $113. gwen > > Do you have any kind of medical appointment transport where you live? > > Granted usually you can drive but there is usually something available for [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 > kate, i agree a ticket is a very good reminder. you can be sure that i > remember the limit on my street is 30 mph, not 42, since i had to pay > $113. > gwen ohhhh, boooooy, gwenie---now, there are two of us lead-footed grammas on this ng! wanna race?<giggling> kate >> > Do you have any kind of medical appointment transport where you live? >> > Granted usually you can drive but there is usually something available [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 Gwen wrote: >> kate, i agree a ticket is a very good reminder. you can be sure that i >> remember the limit on my street is 30 mph, not 42, since i had to pay >> $113. And Kate replied: > ohhhh, boooooy, gwenie---now, there are two of us lead-footed > grammas on this ng! > > wanna race?<giggling> One morning while still with the PD, I was operating radar in a school zone (where our tolerance drops from 10-12 to 5 over). 5 minutes past the hour I nailed a fellow at 32 in the 25 zone. 15 minutes later I nailed a gal at 33 in the school zone. I was writing reports when it dawned on me that something was familar. Sure enough, I had caught hubby and the wife. For 33-35 years, I've always wanted to know what happened when they returned home from their respective employment. "HI honey," in unison, "guess what happened to me this morning?!" > Gwen wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > "HI honey," in unison, "guess what happened to me this morning?!" LOL! oh, that's funny, chief! i can just picture that!LOL when we were fairly newly married, butch got a ticket from air patrol. (they'd fly over the freeways and catch speeders and i knew it.) so, i asked butch when he started taking flying lessons and how come i didn't know about it. he thought i was serious and started to explain that he didn't have time to do that, that he really was at work and that it was an airplane that clocked him and yada yada. i let him go on and on, before i said, "well, obviously, the air patrol thought you were trying to fly," but i couldn't keep a straight face at that point. he knew he'd been set up and had.LOL kate kate > Gwen wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > "HI honey," in unison, "guess what happened to me this morning?!" Or both of them trying to be first to get to the mail for the next two weeks cause they weren't planning to fess up. I must have one of those faces. I get stopped once in a very great while, I don't get tickets. Last time I was stopped was near a school (not actual school zone) just after the kids got out. As I explained I was heading home cause my kid (grandson) was supposed to be home from school and wasn't and I wasn't paying attention to how fast I was going because I was anxious to locate him and I was sorry and thank you for stopping me because I really knew better and should have been paying more attention to my driving, etc. Jo sure i'll race you -- just not on my street! gwen > > kate, i agree a ticket is a very good reminder. you can be sure that i > > remember the limit on my street is 30 mph, not 42, since i had to pay [quoted text clipped - 87 lines] > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.827 / Virus Database: 564 - Release Date: 1/3/2005 > sure i'll race you -- just not on my street! > gwen not on freeman road, either.LOL what say let's pick a spot smack dab between us in the middle of the country and race to it? ready? set? varrrrooommm . . . varrrrooooommmm . . . (jest warming the ol' girl up) you say, "go!" whenever you're ready. kate (sneaky kate is gonna get to meet gwen afterall!<veg>) >> > kate, i agree a ticket is a very good reminder. you can be sure that i >> > remember the limit on my street is 30 mph, not 42, since i had to pay [quoted text clipped - 110 lines] >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.827 / Virus Database: 564 - Release Date: 1/3/2005 I surely hope your MRI experiences are over for a while and that there is some effective treatment ahead for you! Of course, I know you will still have other experiences that you manage to relate in your own unique way, giving us much amusement along with a bit of guilt for laughing so hard at your misfortune. You really do bring us so much enjoyment with your writing style! for those locks, see if you can find this sort of stuff at a local store http://www.usahardware.com/inet/shop/item/04220/icn/20-208397/barjan/v500.htm what we have is a different brand, in a green and white bottle, but I imagine they are all about the same. It's cheap and it's small enough that you can just keep it in your jacket pocket. That way you have it with you if you locks decide to freeze up on you when you're out running errands. It's happened to us. Oh, and a thought I just had about your interior ice. Do you ever run the a/c with the heater on? If you don't you might try that on the really wet days. It helps dry out the interior air more. We had horrible trouble with interior ice last winter because we rarely drove far enough to dry out the ice and snow we were treking into the car. We had to run the a/c a lot to help with that. This year, we so often are driving to places 15-25 miles away, we've been drying things out fairly well with the heater and haven't had any trouble yet. Also, I think Mike is finally trained to kick as much gunk off his shoes as he can before getting in the car!  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young man/son. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 >I surely hope your MRI experiences are over for a while and that there is > some effective treatment ahead for you! ***can you hear me echoing that? me, too. Of course, I know you will still > have other experiences that you manage to relate in your own unique way, > giving us much amusement along with a bit of guilt for laughing so hard at > your misfortune. You really do bring us so much enjoyment with your > writing > style! ***HEY! no guilt is allowed, you guys!!! if i didn't want you to laugh with me (and believe me, i was laughing at myself and how silly i looked to me), i wouldn't post it. i don't mind in the least having my inane approaches to life and living it, laughed at. life's just too absurd, sometimes, not to laugh at it. we're all just groping around the edges of challenging situations, sometimes in "peculiar" ways, before we discover we are right smack dab in the middle of them and wondering how we got there.LOL it's totally ok to laugh at the posts of my frantic antics, especially when i can step back and laugh too. it's not misfortune, sweetie, it's just life. i tried some graphite powder in the lock on my car today and on my key today. very messsssssssy, but it worked! this time.LOL btw, never touch your face after you've been squirting graphite powder into your locks. cuz, somebody is bound to mistake you for a commando! > for those locks, see if you can find this sort of stuff at a local store > http://www.usahardware.com/inet/shop/item/04220/icn/20-208397/barjan/v500.htm [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > locks decide to freeze up on you when you're out running errands. It's > happened to us. ***ohhhh, i'm definitely going to look for that! thanks, nann. > Oh, and a thought I just had about your interior ice. Do you ever run the > a/c with the heater on? If you don't you might try that on the really wet [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > much > gunk off his shoes as he can before getting in the car! ****turned mike into a gunk kicker, eh?<g> i have run a/c during the winter in my car, to keep the a/c functioning (needs less servicing that way), but not with the heater running too. didn't know you could do both at the same time. i'll give that a shot. thanx, nann! kate >> car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young man/son. >> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 > ****turned mike into a gunk kicker, eh?<g> i have run a/c during the winter > in my car, to keep the a/c functioning (needs less servicing that way), but > not with the heater running too. didn't know you could do both at the same > time. i'll give that a shot. thanx, nann! Heh, I actually heard it on the car guys eons ago. Just slide the temp up in the heat zone and punch in that a/c button. They highly recommend it for winter time defrosting. We've used it ever since. Having lived in Boston for a while, I know why they discovered this! Our last spring there our a/c died and we didn't trust anyone there to fix it. If we wanted to take the car somewhere, we had to travel together - one to drive and one to help keep the windsheild clear! SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > > ****turned mike into a gunk kicker, eh?<g> i have run a/c during the > > winter [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > car somewhere, we had to travel together - one to drive and one to help keep > the windsheild clear! I'm always amazed at how many people don't know this trick. Our first car was a 1976 Datsun, and the owners manual recommended doing this. I've done it on every car I've owned since then, with good results. SignatureAF I'm glad you made it through your MRI....and home safely! I'm glad the docs are watching over you. Janet R | car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young man/son. | [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 > I'm glad you made it through your MRI....and home safely! I'm glad > the docs are watching over you. > > Janet R thanks, sweetie. never a doubt about making it through the mri, well, maybe just a teensie weensie one. want me to go find it?<g> so far, this week, i'm feeling pretty good about this doctor. don't blink, though, i never know when they are going to have a "bad day" or when i'm going to have a "bad day".LOL kate > | car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young > man/son. [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > | Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 {{{{{{{{Kate}}}}}}}} DeeTee ________________________________ DeeTee and Bob Taggart http://www.marykay.com/dtaggart3 http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8fwov/ ________________________________ > car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young man/son. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 > {{{{{{{{Kate}}}}}}}} > > DeeTee gads, one of these days, i've gotta get a real hug from you! i just lubs ya to pieces. you coming to portland in june? kate > ________________________________ > DeeTee and Bob Taggart [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 Glad your MRI's are done for now. Hope you get the results you are looking for. Keep us posted to what you find out. Am thinking of you. SignatureLove and hugs to all Good thoughts coming your way too. Squirrely Jo > car was not frozen solid today, thanks to my very dear young man/son. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 ((((((((((((((((((((SJ))))))))))))))))))))) how you touch my heart! here you are commenting sweetly on my mri's, when i know you are concerned about your own. dear heart, you are what loving compassion is all about. thank you for being exactly who you are, jo. kate > Glad your MRI's are done for now. Hope you get the results you are looking > for. Keep us posted to what you find out. Am thinking of you. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.825 / Virus Database: 563 - Release Date: 12/30/2004 Thank you Katie, You couldn't change me if you wanted to. LOL ;-) I am always like this. Well almost always. ;-) SignatureLove and hugs to all Good thoughts coming your way too. Squirrely Jo > ((((((((((((((((((((SJ))))))))))))))))))))) how you touch my heart! here > you are commenting sweetly on my mri's, when i know you are concerned about > your own. dear heart, you are what loving compassion is all about. thank > you for being exactly who you are, jo. > > kate |
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