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Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:46 pm Why do my nurses never look like Kate?

Holman wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:30 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:46 pm Why do my nurses never look like Kate?

The nurses I know all talk about trying to look plainer at work so that patients won't behave as inappropriately to them.

“I don't think I fit the type of actress Michael Bay had met before,” Beckinsale recalls of the Transformers filmmaker in a new interview on The Graham Norton Show. “I think he was baffled by me because my boobs weren't bigger than my head and I wasn't blonde.”

“I'd just had my daughter and had lost weight,” Beckinsale explains, “but was told that if I got the part, I'd have to work out. And I just didn't understand why a 1940s nurse would do that.”

Even after Bay presumably spent hundreds of hours staring at the actress during filming and post-production, he still was not able to acknowledge the actress's looks.

“When we were promoting the film, Michael was asked why he had chosen Ben [Affleck] and Josh [Hartnett], and he said, 'I have worked with Ben before and I love him, and Josh is so manly and a wonderful actor',“ Beckinsale said. “Then when he was asked about me, he'd say, ‘Kate wasn't so attractive that she would alienate the female audience.’”

MonkeyFinger wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 5:08 pm … night.

Freyland wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:02 pmI'm still very much on the idea that you need a longer course of treatment, and probably should be via an IV. I would also like to see the ESR trend downwards. In any case, as I have said before, if things start going off the rails within a few days of stopping the antibiotics, then you really need more aggressive management.

• My new PCP wants to refer me to a Rheumatologist to get the ESR issue checked out. They performed an additional test - I want to say something like ASA or ACA and they think I may have an auto-immune thing going on.
• The Ophthalmologist dialated me and her only thought was that my retinal nerve's surrounding looked a little abnormal and she wants me observed for Glaucoma.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:52 amAnd arthritis?..Wow. Not sure what left field that came out of but I have it in my shoulders and it started around age 44.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:52 amHow does a swollen eyelid that clears up with antibiotics turn into glaucoma?

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:06 am

Freyland wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 1:02 pmI'm still very much on the idea that you need a longer course of treatment, and probably should be via an IV. I would also like to see the ESR trend downwards. In any case, as I have said before, if things start going off the rails within a few days of stopping the antibiotics, then you really need more aggressive management.

To follow up on the last doctor visits and tests...

• My new PCP wants to refer me to a Rheumatologist to get the ESR issue checked out. They performed an additional test - I want to say something like ASA or ACA and they think I may have an auto-immune thing going on.
• The Ophthalmologist dialated me and her only thought was that my retinal nerve's surrounding looked a little abnormal and she wants me observed for Glaucoma.

I'm 41 and doctors are talking about Glaucoma and Arthritis. No one's talking about an infection anymore. I've been off antibiotics and ibuprofen for days now and the swelling hasn't returned, but I did have a brief spasm of pain in the morning over the weekend. That "black dot" is all but invisible and may be a figment of my imagination now.

I don't have the appointment set up to see the Rheumatologist yet, but will check with the doctors where I work to see if I've accidentally established a baseline for Glaucoma that we can refer back to. When we set up new equipment, I'm usually the test victim and I have had yearly eye exams since I started working here.

Freyland wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:49 amThe test to which you refer is an "ANA" or anti-nuclear antibody test. Without going into boring details, the presence of this antibody is seen in a wide-variety of auto-immune disorders. If sufficiently elevated, it is definitely a flag for a present auto-immune disorder or a future auto-immune disorder. Was the ANA abnormal or are you still waiting on results?

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:29 pm

Freyland wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:49 amThe test to which you refer is an "ANA" or anti-nuclear antibody test. Without going into boring details, the presence of this antibody is seen in a wide-variety of auto-immune disorders. If sufficiently elevated, it is definitely a flag for a present auto-immune disorder or a future auto-immune disorder. Was the ANA abnormal or are you still waiting on results?

I believe they said the the ANA was abnormal but couldn't determine what it might mean, thus the Rheumatologist referral.

stessier wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:31 pm I think it is more impressive that someone took this



and turned it into this.

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:52 pm For grins, I looked up my old high school yearbook on Classmates.com. Darn, that brings back some memories. I was in the Computer Club, and they mainly play crappy computer games there. I think I went to one or two programming contests, and that's about it. In fact, I think that's the only time I appeared somewhere OTHER than my class picture.

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:25 pm

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:52 pm For grins, I looked up my old high school yearbook on Classmates.com. Darn, that brings back some memories. I was in the Computer Club, and they mainly play crappy computer games there. I think I went to one or two programming contests, and that's about it. In fact, I think that's the only time I appeared somewhere OTHER than my class picture.

Hold up...Classmates.com is still an actual thing? How?

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:52 pm For grins, I looked up my old high school yearbook on Classmates.com. Darn, that brings back some memories. I was in the Computer Club, and they mainly play crappy computer games there. I think I went to one or two programming contests, and that's about it. In fact, I think that's the only time I appeared somewhere OTHER than my class picture.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:23 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:25 pm

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:52 pm For grins, I looked up my old high school yearbook on Classmates.com. Darn, that brings back some memories. I was in the Computer Club, and they mainly play crappy computer games there. I think I went to one or two programming contests, and that's about it. In fact, I think that's the only time I appeared somewhere OTHER than my class picture.

Hold up...Classmates.com is still an actual thing? How?

I just looked it up yesterday and thought I'd look up my old high school class. I put my info in and then they asked for money, so I quit.
Now I'm on their spam list even tho I "unsubscribed".
Joy

Weight Watchers has unveiled a slimmed down version of its name, rebranding itself WW, in what it says marks "the next stage of the company's evolution".

The company says the new name reflects its development from focusing on weight loss to overall health and wellness.

But the chief executive was unable to explain what the letters WW stood for.

Mindy Grossman said they did not stand for Weight Watchers or "Wellness that Works", a phrase the company has trade marked, but were simply "a marque".

"That marque represents our heritage and history and what we are going forward," she said.

Paingod wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:39 am NPR's running a story on the cost of life-saving helicopter flights... and how the cost is completely unregulated. The average they've gotten from bills people have sent them was around $40,000 and insurance might pay $12,000 of that... leaving you with a $30,000+ burden. The pricing is completely arbitrary, too. One person might get charged $15,000 while another is charged $55,000.

$12,000 would be a fair-market value and profitable if there wasn't a glut of competition. Apparently, in this market, more competition drives prices up as they have to spread operating costs over fewer patients. To compound the problem, more than half of the flights they make are done for Medicare/Medicaid who only reimburse them $6,500 and they can't go after the patients to fill in the blanks... so they roll that cost right over to everyone else.

So ... I don't ever want to have to get flown anywhere to save my life. Yes, I'd agree to it - but I'd hate myself for it too.

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:11 pmedit: I do like the concept of a toddler fight club though.