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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Epilepsy / October 2003VNS DOWNER!!!!!
Howdy! I'm gonna' have my VNS turned on (again) this Wed. The real implications, music wise, didn't hit me until I was sitting in church today listening to the choir (we have an outstanding one!) No more choir, no more SPEBSQSA (barbershoppers), no more chorale, no more folksongs in the park and no more Doo Wop! Sometimes epilepsy's a bitch!  SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com First time it wasn't so bad because I didn't know what was gonna' happen to my voice. Ignorance is bliss! SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > Howdy! > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Sometimes epilepsy's a bitch! Dave what about putting the magnet over it while you do singing so your voice stays the same? I haven't had voice change on mine so not sure, but know a of a few who did have the voice change and sing in our church choir and they turn it off for the service and then turn it back on after the service. JSut a thought I know it may not work for you, but trying to figure something out! I was curious if you don't mind sharing, why are you having it turned back on? I am at the point where I might have mine turned off for a while just to give myself a break and maybe by doing that and turning it back on it could help the seizures again. Again just a thought not wure if it is the best! Take care and sending good healing thoughts your way! Ann Howdy Ann! Sort of tough to do the choreography when you have your hand on your chest. Tough to accompany yourself on an instrument too! re: Turning it back on... It was turned off in 2001 because it didn't do anything. Since that time I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea and am currently using a cpap machine. Sleep is one of the very BASIC variables involved with epilepsy. Now that there has been a change in one of the variables I'm gonna' see if it makes a difference in my seizure control. Besides -- I like to piss & moan a lot! :) SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > Dave what about putting the magnet over it while you do singing so your voice > stays the same? I haven't had voice change on mine so not sure, but know a of [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > seizures again. Again just a thought not wure if it is the best! Take care > and sending good healing thoughts your way! Ann > Besides -- I like to piss & moan a lot! :) Dave, Here's to hoping that you're awake when you do that! :-P Jedi and Son Howdy! Awake when I piss & moan, eh? Well maybe for one of them anyway! (Let's see how perverted you are, you pick which one!) SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > Besides -- I like to piss & moan a lot! :) > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Jedi and Son Dave, Another use for Duct Tape... Mark > Howdy Ann! > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > care > > and sending good healing thoughts your way! Ann > Howdy! > > I'm gonna' have my VNS turned on (again) this Wed. Wossat then? Mary Howdy Mary! Wossat what - VNS? The Vagus Nerve Stimulator... a pacemaker for the brain. I've got a page about it on my site SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > Howdy! > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Mary > Wossat what - VNS? > > The Vagus Nerve Stimulator... a pacemaker for the brain. > I've got a page about it on my site Ah! Thank you, I had heard of it, just didn't recognise the abbreviation. Mary > > > Howdy! > > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > > > Mary Howdy Mary! If you don't like Vagus Nerve Stimulator we can always go with the Visiting Nurse Service ! (USA) SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > Wossat what - VNS? > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > > > Mary > Howdy Mary! > > If you don't like Vagus Nerve Stimulator we can always go with the Visiting > Nurse Service ! (USA) OH! Here they're called <looks round and whispers> District Nurses ... shhh We weren't allowed to say that as children! At least we thought we weren't because every time adults said that the <District Nurse> had called somewhere they did it in hushed tones! A bit like stocking tops ... The days of innocence! Mary > > > Wossat what - VNS? > > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > > > > > Mary Howdy Mary! Stocking tops?? For me it was those "garter straps!" I knew that the bottom button went on the stockings but I never could never figure out what the top button was attached to. (Am I even close?) SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > Howdy Mary! > > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > > > > > > > > > Mary > Howdy Mary! > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > (Am I even close?) No idea. You must remember that I live here and you live, er, there. If I'm right. Here, garters are rings of elastic which hold knee length socks up, there are no buttons on them. The tops of the socks were folded over the garters. Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts had a little green ribbon on the garters which hung below the sock tops as part of their uniform. There are (or were when I subjected myself to such torture) buttons on suspenders - which I suspect are more like our garters where you live ... Here they were part of corsets, roll-ons, pantie girdles or (believe it or not) suspender belts. As for top and bottom buttons, I'm completely lost. You obviously had a far more enlightened childhood than I did. But did you wear a liberty bodice? Perhaps I've gone to far, is there a nanny on this ng? Mary Mary Howdy Mary! Well... I'm afraid that you totally lost me with your hush-hush reference to stocking-tops! SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > Howdy Mary! > > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Mary > Well... > > I'm afraid that you totally lost me with your hush-hush reference to > stocking-tops! Boy! Putting Dave off his train of thought - must be a first :-) Mary > > > Howdy Mary! > > > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > > > Mary g'day mary, i always thought garters were those frilly little elastic things that the groom pulled off the brides thigh and threw to a bunch of drunken bachelors at a wedding, sort like when the bride throws her bouquet to a group of desperate spinsters. pablo > > Howdy Mary! > > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Mary > g'day mary, > i always thought garters were those frilly little elastic things that the > groom pulled off the brides thigh and threw to a bunch of drunken bachelors > at a wedding, sort like when the bride throws her bouquet to a group of > desperate spinsters. Yes, that's the - shall we say - ceremonial type. In that case they have no real funtion, i.e. they don't hold up socks or even stockings. I don't think there are many desperate spinsters around these days, do you? Mary no i suppose not. as the song says "girls can get it any time they want" pablo > > g'day mary, > > i always thought garters were those frilly little elastic things that the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Mary > no i suppose not. as the song says "girls can get it any time they want" Being a maiden is not the same thing as being a spinster. Mary depends on which definition of spinster you're applying spinster - an unmarried woman - a woman beyond conventional marriage age both are right :) i guess it's just like our raging debate on "epileptic" the definition and the connotation can be very different. pablo > > no i suppose not. as the song says "girls can get it any time they want" > > Being a maiden is not the same thing as being a spinster. > > Mary Howdy pablo! Don'cha just LOVE semantics? (Obviously some of us do!) SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > depends on which definition of spinster you're applying > spinster - an unmarried woman [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Mary semantics? they were a rock band in the 60's weren't they ;) pablo > Howdy pablo! > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > > > > Mary Howdy pablo! Naaaaaaa.... That's the sort of things that got me into trouble when I was a kid! SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > semantics? they were a rock band in the 60's weren't they ;) > pablo [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > > > > > > Mary Dave ©¿©¬ <dave@_nospam_howdydave.com> wrote >Howdy pablo! > >Don'cha just LOVE semantics? Beware - I was always told it can give you epilepsy or make you go blind. SignatureMalcolm Howdy Malcom! If it makes me go blind I guess I'll just have to handle my lamictal / increased libido problem by using brail, eh? SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > >Howdy pablo! > > > >Don'cha just LOVE semantics? > > Beware - I was always told it can give you epilepsy or make you go > blind. "Dave ©¿©¬" wrote: > Howdy pablo! > > Don'cha just LOVE semantics? > > (Obviously some of us do!) Just don't ever refer to anybody as "a semantic". That's pretty insulting. They must be referred to as a person who "has ???"<g> Bob > Dave ©¿©¬ > "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > > > > Mary > > Howdy pablo! > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Just don't ever refer to anybody as "a semantic". That's pretty insulting. > They must be referred to as a person who "has ???"<g> ? Semantics is a noun, not an adjective ... Mary > Bob > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > > > > > Mary > > > Howdy pablo! > > > Don'cha just LOVE semantics? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Semantics is a noun, not an adjective ... > Mary So above sentence wasn't a semantic correction then? G. (Quicksand! Get me Out of here!! :-< ) > > > > Howdy pablo! > > > > Don'cha just LOVE semantics? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > So above sentence wasn't a semantic correction then? G. (Quicksand! Get > me Out of here!! :-< ) ISTR something about not digging to get out of a hole :-) Mary > > "Dave ©¿©¬" wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Semantics is a noun, not an adjective ... and yet another good reason not to use it.<g> Bob > Mary > > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > > > > > > > Mary > > > > Howdy pablo! > > > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > and yet another good reason not to use it.<g> Ain'cha glad it ain't a VERB? > Bob Howdy Bob! See that? We just cured half of epileptics in the world (the females) of their epilepsy! SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > Mary > > > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > Mary > See that? We just cured half of epileptics in the world (the females) of > their epilepsy! Er - are you referring to me, sir???? Mary Howdy Bob! If "a semantic" is not proper then, by using the proper word structure of the English language, I guess we'll have to say: "A semantic" = "A person who happens to have seman" Do you REALLY want me to say that? :)) SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > Howdy pablo! > > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > > > > > > > Mary Howdy! That's just in case we have any readers who have a primary language other than English! And Bob... I'm shocked! You make a statement like that and don't have the balls to come right out and say it! :) SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > Howdy Bob! > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > > > > > > > > > Mary "Dave ©¿©¬" wrote: > Howdy! > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > And Bob... I'm shocked! You make a statement like that and don't have the > balls to come right out and say it! :) It's always nice to leave something to the imagination. :-) Bob > -- > Dave ©¿©¬ [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > > > > > > > > > > > > Mary > "A semantic" = > "A person who happens to have seman" > > Do you REALLY want me to say that? :)) What's seman? Mary > > "A semantic" = > > "A person who happens to have seman" > > > > Do you REALLY want me to say that? :)) > > What's seman? the singular of semen perhaps? :-> pablo > Mary > > > "A semantic" = > > > "A person who happens to have seman" [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > > Mary Howdy Mary! Only if he hasn't had any shore liberty for a long LONG time! SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > > "A semantic" = > > > "A person who happens to have seman" [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the singular of semen perhaps? :-> > pablo Um. I can't think that semen can be singular. Or plural. But how would I know! Mary > > Mary Rumour has it that on Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:02:21 +0100, "Mary Fisher" <mary.b.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> said: > > > > "A semantic" = > > > > "A person who happens to have seman" [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > But how would I know! NO COMMENT! <g> > Mary > > > > > > Mary > quite > > > > > > contrary >> Um. I can't think that semen can be singular. Or plural. >> >> But how would I know! > >NO COMMENT! <g> Well, you can't have two semen can you, only two samples of semen? But then, on the microscopic scale we all started off as a SINGLE sperm swimming in amongst TENS OF MILLIONS. And the one thing we can all be proud of is that, out of so many sperm swimming furiously towards their goal .... we were the fastest! It's not size that matters, it's speed :) SignatureMalcolm > >> Um. I can't think that semen can be singular. Or plural. > >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > It's not size that matters, it's speed :) But semen is only the carrier - the medium - for sperms to live in ... I can't bring myself to say that semen ARE the carrier ... Mary > > >> Um. I can't think that semen can be singular. Or plural. > > >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Mary Howdy Mary! If you knew some of the rat-hole ports of call that there are in the world you wouldn't have any problems saying that semen are carriers -- carriers of all sorts of aweful little buggers and social diseases! BTW: Shouldn't that be semen ARE the carriers? (See my Maritime site!) :) SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > > >> Um. I can't think that semen can be singular. Or plural. > > > >> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > BTW: Shouldn't that be semen ARE the carriers? (See my Maritime site!) :) g'day dave, i'd have to say i agree with you but let's not going to quibble over sementics ;) pablo "Dave ©¿©¬" wrote: > Howdy Bob! > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Do you REALLY want me to say that? :)) I guess the devil made you do it.<g> Bob > -- > Dave ©¿©¬ [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > > > > > > > Mary > depends on which definition of spinster you're applying > spinster - an unmarried woman > - a woman beyond conventional marriage age Well I'm English and have never heard of the latter definition. I suspect it's an antipodean one. Mary g'day mary i don't know, but it is in the oxford dictionary pablo > > depends on which definition of spinster you're applying > > spinster - an unmarried woman [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Mary Howdy Mary! At what point does a maiden become a maid: 25, 30, 35, 40, 45? SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > no i suppose not. as the song says "girls can get it any time they want" > > Being a maiden is not the same thing as being a spinster. > > Mary > Howdy Mary! > > At what point does a maiden become a maid: > > 25, 30, 35, 40, 45? The words are interchangeable in my experience. Unless you're thinking of a serving maid of course ... in which case she can be any age. Then there's cricket ... oh no, I'd better not go there. Mary > > > no i suppose not. as the song says "girls can get it any time they want" > > > > Being a maiden is not the same thing as being a spinster. > > > > Mary Dave ©¿©¬ <dave@_nospam_howdydave.com> wrote >Howdy Mary! > >At what point does a maiden become a maid: > >25, 30, 35, 40, 45? Once she's made it with someone. Dave, have you no understanding of the birds and the bees today? I know it's Sunday morning, but... SignatureMalcolm > Dave, have you no understanding of the birds and the bees today? I know > it's Sunday morning, but... Sunday mornings are very good for birds and bees. Mary > I don't think there are many desperate spinsters around these days, do you? Was I ever surprised when Allan and I met with the minister who would marry us in Montreal. Filling out the paperwork, he wrote for Allan, Batchelor, and for me, Spinster. We had a good laugh. I wasn't desperate - I was still a youthful 29. Liz Hi Denotative, Connotative, Operational. Does any one know what the spinster / bachelor equivalent for the word "phallic" is? There is a very legitimate one but it appears in the language less often than the words "male spinster". Don't worry, I'm not trying to be salacious, just continuing a thread, I hope. By the way, a friend of mine just earned her Masters degree. She told her husband he would have to start calling her by her new academic title. He demurred, "Yes, Dear. I will as soon as you start calling me 'Bachelor'." <<?>> > > I don't think there are many desperate spinsters around these days, do you? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > desperate - I was still a youthful 29. > Liz > > I don't think there are many desperate spinsters around these days, do you? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > desperate - I was still a youthful 29. > Liz Being a spinster is nothing to do with age. Mary > Being a spinster is nothing to do with age. I know - the mention of age was a comment on 'desperate'. Liz > > Being a spinster is nothing to do with age. > > I know - the mention of age was a comment on 'desperate'. Age has nothing to do with desperation. Not that you said what kind of desperation ... Mary > Liz Howdy Mary! I think that there are probably more desperate spinsters around these days than there ever were before. You must remember that "spinster" is the correct name for "bachelorette". (That and the population explosion don'cha know...) Desperate for WHAT? Is a totally different issue! SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com > > g'day mary, > > i always thought garters were those frilly little elastic things that the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Mary > Howdy Mary! > > I think that there are probably more desperate spinsters around these days > than there ever were before. You must remember that "spinster" is the > correct name for "bachelorette". (That and the population explosion don'cha > know...) Well, here in old fashiones (huh) UK very many women don't WANT to be married. They want to keep their independence, whatever that is, so they live with a 'partner'. Until they get a new one. It's a form of serial monogamy. > Desperate for WHAT? Is a totally different issue! A deperate spinster suggests that she wants a husband. She could get a 'partner' any day. I think it's a shame, this use of the mundane 'partner'. 'Lover' is far more romantic, 'paramour' even moreso. Mary Howdy! Just got back from the Epilepsy Center. They turned me on (a good lookin' PA and a good lookin' representative from Cyberonics.) It seems that they have decided that these days they don't have to send as much current through a persons system as they did a couple of years ago. While I may be a frog for 30 seconds and normal(?) for 5 minutes after that; at least I won't be a frog in pain! SignatureDave ???? "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" http://www.howdydave.com Sorry about the duplicate in the I AM AN EPILEPTIC thread. > Howdy! > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Sometimes epilepsy's a bitch! I'm soo happy to hear that Dave. I got my VNS implanted a couple of months ago from Cyberonics and I absolutely love it. It has done wonders for me. My seizures are very in control now and I don't get scared going out anymore. |
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