Text 19766, 75 rader
Skriven 2014-11-24 16:17:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: health again 325
============================
-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-20-14  22:26 <=-

 ML> Of course, I never saw that big of a deal in finding hair
 ML> in my food - though it's not my favorite thing to find, the
 ML> chance of catching something from it is slim to none; it's
 ML> just a grossout factor. Still, wild-haired valley-speaking
 ML> medical personnel are not what I want to encounter.

Not exactly... ;)
 
 NB>> Delayed reaction, perhaps...?  The body telling you it still
 NB>> needs downtime to finish healing, maybe, as well...?   Healing
 NB>> takes a LOT of energy... 
 ML> Suppose. Today I had to go take the bus half an hour up
 ML> to the courthouse to do some stuff, then half an hour
 ML> back (waiting at the bus stop 10-15 each way), and I
 ML> was totally wiped.

Not all that surprising.  Hopefully you are doing a bit better by
now...? 
 
 NB>> Ah.  They weren't talking about that, unless that is now called
 NB>> an implanted defibrillator...  Richard wasn't wanting anything
 NB>> implanted, either... but they were talking possibilities (from
 NB>> their point of view)... :)
 ML> They proposed an implantable cardioverter for me, which
 ML> is a fancied-up defibrillator that does more things
 ML> (which means that it's likely to go off more often,
 ML> something I don't really want - again, it seems like
 ML> micromanaging my body).

Doesn't sound all that appealing to me, either... if anything is going
to micromanage my body, I want it to be just me... ;)

 DD>> A resident told me that the current theory is that pain has much to
 DD>> do with blood sugar levels. When I pressed him further he admitted
 DD>> that he hadn't done more than hear the factoid. So, I dunno. 
 NB>> That's an interesting factoid, though.  I'd not heard that before,

 ML> Don't say factoid! It means something that is presented
 ML> as a fact but is false, in the same way that humanoids
 ML> and androids are not humans. When I started on this echo
 ML> 20 years and more ago, when we used the term, we used it
 ML> mostly correctly, maybe with a jocular edge (which might
 ML> have been a mistake, in retrospect, as it was part of
 ML> this not-caring mindset that is taking over everywhere).

I was using it partly in quotation, and partly in the context of what
gets thrown at me regularly... Richard accuses me of only giving him
factoids... by which he means facts that might as well be false, since
he doesn't see the context in which they exist.  In my context there,
the implication was that maybe it's true, maybe it isn't, but if true
after all, it could be explained into what I already knew... 

 NB>> though I have heard that stress can affect the blood sugar levels.
 NB>> curious to find out where that came from...  I know that pain can
 NB>> put up my blood Pressure levels, so maybe there's a pain/stress
 NB>> relationship that would account for both...?
 ML> No doubt - the systems are all related and interreact,
 ML> something that I discovered that the idiot resident docs
 ML> hadn't read in their books and hadn't yet figured out
 ML> on their own.

I think that the curricula here at URMS may actually have that sort of
thing taught early on... or at least by the time the med students become
residents, they seem to be getting the glimmerings of that... at least
as apparent by the ones that I was dealing with for MJ...  

ttyl          neb

... yogurt: oversized Petri where bacteria live, eat, have sex, & defecate

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail  Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org  (1:123/140)