[flyfish]

Another annoyance: loud drug warnings in the news and then very quiet "oh, I guess we were wrong" retractions, like in the case of

Naproxen

Flyfish

[Aaron T]

Getting a moving violation for "Making a U-turn in a business district."

The thought of going to traffic school or suffering increased insurance rates.

[Wilfrid1]

Friday night working, as ever to clear up a mess which has nothing whatsoever to do with me. Might as well fucking snow.

Interestingly, I just had a couple of heart starters at the fabled Jimmy's Corner, finest bar in New York, so I am going to be - as Cabby would say - quite feisty this evening.

[whippedkeptboy]

No cold beer. No worries, slap a couple in the freezer. What's that, the baby's crying? Off to the rescue! Ah, all better, that only took a half hour of rocking, better check the old email while I have a chance. Wow, the Internet's really interesting and all, isn't it? Pop pop. Bang bang. What the foosh was that? Oh fishsticks! No cold beer. (Repeat to fade.)

[tanabutler]

Orik, on Mar 4 2005, 11:31 AM, said:

Isn't chiropractor bulgarian for quack?

Anyway, it'll go away in a few days, whether you do anything about it or not.

Chiropractors are great for back and bone things. I wouldn't go to one for cancer, but anyone who dismisses them out of hand for what they are good at, clearly is missing information and experience.

They aren't quacks.

And all back pains don't right themselves as easily as others. I know whence I speak.

[MyKong]

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Isn't chiropractor bulgarian for quack?

orik--

everyone is of course entitled to see a chiropractor and to their views. But I would never go, even if my life depended on it.

Tana--please don't be so equally dismissive of those who don't trust chiropactors. It is the same side of the coin. How one pursues medical treatment is an entirely personal choice.

[Cathy]

MyKong, on Mar 5 2005, 09:38 AM, said:

everyone is of course entitled to see a chiropractor and to their views. But I would never go, even if my life depended on it.

Tana--please don't be so equally dismissive of those who don't trust chiropactors. It is the same side of the coin. How one pursues medical treatment is an entirely personal choice.

So well said. Thanks, My.

[tanabutler]

MyKong, on Mar 5 2005, 06:38 AM, said:

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Isn't chiropractor bulgarian for quack?

orik--

everyone is of course entitled to see a chiropractor and to their views. But I would never go, even if my life depended on it.

Tana--please don't be so equally dismissive of those who don't trust chiropactors. It is the same side of the coin. How one pursues medical treatment is an entirely personal choice.

I make a distinction between medical (disease requiring treatment) and other problems with spinal alignment, and stuff like that. The chiropractors I knew spent years in college, and I just cannot think they're quacks. They don't make bunky claims to cure all ills, which would be quackery, but help the body align itself. There is a correlation between the way the nerves run through the body, and pain resulting if that course is disrupted (pinched nerves, etc.). Seeing a chiropractor, to me, is like making the bed smooth, without wrinkles.

While I do understand the notion that chiropractic treatment is not a substitute for a medical doctor, if you've a severe illness or infection, but that is distinct from seeing one when your back is out.

[Kikujiro]

I strongly suspect that I should once and for all get out of what I laughably pretend to be 'doing'. OTOH, I did that once already and They Pulled Me Back In. Also, I have no idea what else I could now do. At my age, &c. Also, I seem to have food poisoning.

[mongo_jones]

Kikujiro, on Mar 5 2005, 12:04 PM, said:

Also, I seem to have food poisoning.

i am glad to see you are following forum policy and not connecting this directly to ngatti's chicken in bile sauce.




(ngatti, i keed, i keed)

[clb]

Kikujiro, on Mar 5 2005, 07:04 PM, said:

I strongly suspect that I should once and for all get out of what I laughably pretend to be 'doing'. OTOH, I did that once already and They Pulled Me Back In. Also, I have no idea what else I could now do. At my age, &c. Also, I seem to have food poisoning.

Get well soon and think about the rest then.

clb

[beans]

My sticking gas peddle.

If I don't tap it from being at a dead stop at a light, it will stick hard enough to make my tires peel out.

Must buy WD40.

[akiko]

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There is (or was) a School of Osteopathy somewhere not far from the bottom of Charing X Rd where you have a chance of an emergency appointment - I seem to remember a boss of mine doing that years ago when his back suddenly went as we were meant to be driving down to South Wales. I'll do a bit of digging now to see if I can find details. I'm not convinced that osteopathy will help this, I suspect time is the healer, but you never know.

V, this was so sweet of you. . I couldn't get into the school of osteopathy on friday so I went to get Acupuncture in the meantime. But I did go to see them yesterday and I found them, enlightening and relieving.

I'm still in pain, but not as much and the environmental consultants are supposed to come see me today about my office. Apparantly, I have been sitting wrong for the entire time I've been at this desk and it threw the balance of my back off (I had been compensating for the fact that I'm hunched over my laptop) and when I went to correct it, my back freaked out. The part of my spine that had been acting as "the balancer between the top and lower parts) was already stressed out and then I did this. It couldn't do its job anymore and my lower back just went.

[MyKong]

Where I am living the people keep the thermostat way toooo hot, at 75 degrees. I am burning up, damn my northern european heritage.

Then I read a certain story on the front page of NYT and my blood boils.

[GG Mora]

Colleague whose ADD is greatly amplified as a deadline approaches. I've gotten no less than 12 e-mails this morning, with replies and resends and misnamed files and attachments with no explanation. I finally e-mailed back that he should save all changes until the end of the day and send me one e-mail with a punch list and all relevant attachments.

My head hurts.