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Skriven 2014-12-13 09:16:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 RH> Some people like being told what's wrong with them, what is to be
 RH> done, etc and just accept the doctor's word as truth. Those people are
 RH> probably his patients.

I wonder if the treatment failure rates of that population
differ from those of the rest of us.

 RH> There's no lack of primary care doctors in this area, just problems
 RH> finding primary care doctors who would take our insurance. For a
 RH> while, we were going down to Raleigh but when she retired, we found the
 RH> group in Wake Forest we're with now. Steve does a lot of his care thru
 RH> the VA but I don't have that option.

In my case, as the insurance is very powerful and also owned
by the hospital, it cleaves all those gordian knots with ease.
But why an area that churns out even more doctors than it does
musicians should have a shortage of the former and a glut of
the latter, that's sort of beyond me.

 ML> Today I needed to catch a bus at 0550, but I don't have a
 ML> working alarm device - so ate a quite large amount of
 ML> chocolate to disrupt my sleep. I did get the visual
 ML> distortions, but interestingly the migraine did not come.
 RH> Interesting that the migraine didn't come. Maybe if you'd had one more
 RH> piece of chocolate, it might have.

Hypothesis - when my brain had something else to focus on,
the pathogenic aspect got at least temporarily crowded out.
The next day I had to catch a shuttle at 0524 so did the
same thing. Apparently I overdosed, as though the aura came
and the migraine did not, I woke up at 0200 rather than 0500.
It seems that this is becoming a less effective way of coping.

 I don't have the visual indicators
 RH> that I'm getting one, just a bad headache that keeps getting worse
 RH> until it reaches a full blown migraine.

I get the pulsing jagged colored lines that look sort of
like cartoon lightning bolts - my cue to mend my ways post
haste if not sooner.

 RH> Do you have a (smart) cell phone? Even some of the not quite fully
 RH> smart phones have an alarm clock feature--check it out.

Fully smart? I have one that's almost fully stupid - it
does virtually nothing except make phone calls, and it's
so old the numbers are worn off they keys. It doesn't even
reliably receive calls, though on the one occasion when I
needed to use it the other day, it performed, so as far as
I am concerned there's no need to replace it.

The computer has a nifty alarm clock feature, only it doesn't
have sound any more. I like silence except in these relatively
rare situations.

Michael's Chinese pasta agli-olio con peperoncini
cat: mine, main
servings: 1

3 oz thin pasta
- Chinese egg noodles work well or else
- you can use vermicelli or capellini or
- lingue di passeri piccole, etc.
2 Tb olive oil
1 lg garlic clove, minced
1 ts crushed red pepper
s&p
parsley, minced

Cook pasta al dente according to package directions.

Saute garlic in oil until fragrant; then remove from heat and
add red pepper. Put drained pasta directly into this sauce and
toss vigorously, adding salt and pepper to taste. Serve with
some minced parsley on top. Sometimes I add the parsley with
the garlic; then it gets crisp but is not green any more. I
strongly prefer crushed red pepper to either ground or fresh
in this dish. Fresh tastes too vegetably, the ground tends to
burn on contact with the oil and gets bitter, plus it makes
you sneeze. This way, the whole seeds toast up nicely and
give a sesame-like flavor.

M's note 15 years later: cook pasta just under al dente and
put it into the sauce while both are still boiling hot. Add
an ounce of stock or broth and serve when the noise abates.

M's note even later: double the garlic and triple the hot pepper.

M's note even later: a splash of white wine in the ounce of
stock would be good but of course is completely optional.

Posted to NCE 23 May 98


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