Subj : Help For Mbr Resucitatio To : JIM HOLSONBACK From : Paul Williams Date : Thu Sep 28 2000 12:53 pm Hi JIM HOLSONBACK, hope you are having a nice day PW>> Hi JIM HOLSONBACK, hope you are having a nice day JH>Doing pretty well so far, thank'ee. Waiting on the 1st to get refills here. PW>>& spurs from C2 thru C8 (yeah, i got a spare c...) JH> I suppose having an extra is to be preferred to not having enough? ;-). Got me. I'd never heard of such in any of the medical training I've had. The one explanation I was given is that it's actually the T1 but it doesn't have the `ribs' coming out of it like everybody else. Not the first time I've pulled a fast one medically, I had 2 appendix which fooled one doc almost to the point of being fatal. PW>> Yep. Abt a yr ago I came down w/ some flu bug (lost 30lbs in a week) 88 JH>Unless you're mighty chunky, that's a _lot_ of dehydration in a week's Pre mctd I weighed 210, after it dropped to 140. (this was in '90) We'd finally got it back up to 175 and stable, then this.... JH>time. Sounds like tht bug must've also worked some other mischief while JH>it was there with you. Something sure did. Most I could put up w/ but you know how it is working on stuff. Half the time you can't see what you're working on so your hands become your eyes. As it stands I'm pretty well blind that way now. JH>coming along. So please Hang In There awhile. Good friend of ours was You do realize those 4 capital letters describe things to a `T'. ;> JH>diagnosed with SLE about 30 years ago, just before birth of her daughter. SLE (and related) seems to be on the increase these days. I've a couple of working theories and while they may sound totally outrageous, the evidence I've gotten so far seems to back things up. Short & sweet of it is expect to see an even bigger increase in the occurrence of autoimmune disorders like SLE, RA, and the like. JH>One good thing about the Internet is the volume of info available, and I Oh yeah. For most people the little pamphlets from the arthritis center do just fine, for me though... One of the few places I signed up w/ was Medscape. If I were still an EMT I could rack up a lot of CME credits off of that site alone. JH>about all the current info which is available even to the specialists. So, Due to some of the interests I have and the related tech rags I get I've been in a position to give my doc some info he might have not otherwise found. Doesn't help me much but it may just be the thing for another patient. Of the last couple of items one abt cochlear implants came out of an issue of `The Industrial Physicist' and another abt artificial nerve from `Electronic Week'. The july 24 issue of `Computer World' even had an article on artificial retina's. (oh geordie....) JH>I'm not surprised you know more about your condition than many physicians JH>whom you may visit. About 15 yrs ago, my wife had an unusual group of After the double appendectomy fiasco that kinda rammed home the point that I wasn't quite wired the same way as most. Back in '89 when we moved down here I had the rough equivalent of a 4th yr med student. (ye old gp) Went right into emt training almost the same month we landed. Score on the state exam was 89.96 JH>our med. insurance at the time. Nowadays, with the HMO we have now, I JH>suspect that a similar patient might _never_ get a definitive diagnosis. I figure I'm doing good to have gotten a diagnosis & good doc 'fore I finally got medicade. Even so it's a pain trying to get things done that need doing. My doc fortunately is one of those who works *with* his patients aot working *on* them. He's also willing to throw the `book' in the dumper when need be. (which in my case was like the 2nd visit) ;> As a result we've ended up w/ a mix of conventional & alternative therapy. (fwiw check artheritiscentral.com mine's rosenberg) JH>(I remember seeing today that some of these conditions typically take about JH>5 years for a firm diagnosis). (i.e. nothing like measles or chicken pox). I came down w/ mine in late '90 iirc, it wasn't until '92 that I got to see Rosenberg. At the time the best diag we had was advanced RA. The doc who tested & got that was surprised at the numbers that came back w/ me only in my early 20's. JH>On a bit lighter note - - to demonstrate how "silly" some of these Internet 88 JH>If you think I'm kidding, just give it a try after you get through laughing. Nope, I got the same thing when I was looking for some info on brain cancer. Got told I could find all I wanted on e-bay. ;> (who says you can't find anything on the net) };> JH>Anyways, Matt's prolly about to run me off for being too risque' and JH>off-topic, so if much more, he might put up with it in Tech-Chat. Well w/ all the tech stuff a few paragraphs above he might have let us live. ;> Still better safe than nuked. -=> Yours sincerely, Paul Williams <=- .... "Runs in the family... It's the only plausible explanation. - joost --- Terminate 4.00/Pro * Origin: Hi ho, hi ho, it's hand grenades I throw! (1:387/770.5) .