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Post by OziRiS on Jul 1, 2015 8:11:16 GMT
Today I learned..... I may have Angina. That sucks! Any hope of improvement?
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 1, 2015 8:18:47 GMT
Today I learned that while refinishing a coffee table in a house with a shedding dog, it's a good idea to be extra pedantic with the vacuum cleaner.
While applying the third coat of lacquer, I notice hair. Try to take it out of the the wet lacquer, but no dice. It's been there since at least the second coat.
Back to sanding.
I wish I had a garage for this type of thing...
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Post by the light works on Jul 1, 2015 15:39:26 GMT
Sunday I learned that there is a pedestrian who has enough awareness of his surroundings that when he was going to cross a side street with someone signalling to turn into it (across traffic) he checked to see if there was oncoming traffic that would prevent the person from turning into the side street anyway; before he crossed.
the bad news for the rest of you is he is in my hometown.
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Post by the light works on Jul 2, 2015 2:21:25 GMT
heard this on the radio today. DISCLAIMER: this was an entertainment show, and is not an actual proposal of any kind.
he suggested that if anyone in America wants a tubal ligation or a vastectomy, we provide it for free AND pay them $1000.00 unless they are a drug addict, then we pay them $5000.00
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 2, 2015 10:01:00 GMT
heard this on the radio today. DISCLAIMER: this was an entertainment show, and is not an actual proposal of any kind.he suggested that if anyone in America wants a tubal ligation or a vastectomy, we provide it for free AND pay them $1000.00 unless they are a drug addict, then we pay them $5000.00 So, he basically wants to stop child birth in America...?
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Post by the light works on Jul 2, 2015 13:33:46 GMT
heard this on the radio today. DISCLAIMER: this was an entertainment show, and is not an actual proposal of any kind.he suggested that if anyone in America wants a tubal ligation or a vastectomy, we provide it for free AND pay them $1000.00 unless they are a drug addict, then we pay them $5000.00 So, he basically wants to stop child birth in America...? more to give people who either don't want kids, or who are done having kids an incentive not to accidentally have kids. - biased towards people who have a good chance of not being in a good position to raise kids.
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Post by the light works on Jul 6, 2015 17:37:41 GMT
minor legal oddity of the day: Oregon law defines a tree as a residential structure.
the relevance of this is if you do tree maintenance for a living, you will need to have a residential contractor's license, regardless of whether the tree is associated with a house, or with a business.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 6, 2015 23:51:13 GMT
Today I learned why my neck, upper back and left shoulder have been hurting so much for the past 5 weeks that I've practically been unable to use my left arm for more than 5 minutes out of every hour and I haven't been able to sleep more than 2 hours straight at a time.
I have a partially slipped disc in my neck (between C6 and C7 for those interested in that kind of thing).
Recovery prospects?
Too severe for a physical therapist or chiropractor to be able to immediately do anything about, but not severe enough for surgery = many many months of rehabilitation training
Not where I pictured myself at 31...
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Post by Antigone68104 on Jul 7, 2015 0:34:45 GMT
Sorry to hear that.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 7, 2015 1:01:07 GMT
Thanks. Worst thing is it happened only 4 weeks into a new job. I've been on sick leave longer than I've worked for the company now. Once they heard the recovery prospects, they reacted like the Air Force did back in 2012 when I was making a long recovery from a work related knee injury. "Sorry, we can't wait that long. We'll have to replace you." Can't say I blame them. At least I'm eligible for workman's comp while I recover and the company's insurance will eventually be paying for my physical therapy, pain medication and so on as soon as the paperwork goes through.
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Post by the light works on Jul 7, 2015 3:11:56 GMT
Thanks. Worst thing is it happened only 4 weeks into a new job. I've been on sick leave longer than I've worked for the company now. Once they heard the recovery prospects, they reacted like the Air Force did back in 2012 when I was making a long recovery from a work related knee injury. "Sorry, we can't wait that long. We'll have to replace you." Can't say I blame them. At least I'm eligible for workman's comp while I recover and the company's insurance will eventually be paying for my physical therapy, pain medication and so on as soon as the paperwork goes through. bummer for everybody.
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Post by silverdragon on Jul 7, 2015 6:48:14 GMT
Today I learned why my neck, upper back and left shoulder have been hurting so much for the past 5 weeks that I've practically been unable to use my left arm for more than 5 minutes out of every hour and I haven't been able to sleep more than 2 hours straight at a time. I have a partially slipped disc in my neck (between C6 and C7 for those interested in that kind of thing). Recovery prospects? Too severe for a physical therapist or chiropractor to be able to immediately do anything about, but not severe enough for surgery = many many months of rehabilitation training Not where I pictured myself at 31... Ow ow ow ow ow ... I know that feeling. To start, get it "slipped" back in. This hurts hell over hades multiplied by an angry Asgard, but its the start.... Then get it MRI scanned, to see what the damage is. The get back to the surgeon and ask what the future is. They may not be able to "save" the disk, they may be able to do a micro-discectomy to re-shape the disk, they may be able to do something. However... Time and rest. After the disk has been repositioned. Do NOT exercise it..... Ot it will pops back outs again wonts it?...
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 7, 2015 8:25:02 GMT
Today I learned why my neck, upper back and left shoulder have been hurting so much for the past 5 weeks that I've practically been unable to use my left arm for more than 5 minutes out of every hour and I haven't been able to sleep more than 2 hours straight at a time. I have a partially slipped disc in my neck (between C6 and C7 for those interested in that kind of thing). Recovery prospects? Too severe for a physical therapist or chiropractor to be able to immediately do anything about, but not severe enough for surgery = many many months of rehabilitation training Not where I pictured myself at 31... Ow ow ow ow ow ... I know that feeling. To start, get it "slipped" back in. This hurts hell over hades multiplied by an angry Asgard, but its the start.... Then get it MRI scanned, to see what the damage is. The get back to the surgeon and ask what the future is. They may not be able to "save" the disk, they may be able to do a micro-discectomy to re-shape the disk, they may be able to do something. However... Time and rest. After the disk has been repositioned. Do NOT exercise it..... Ot it will pops back outs again wonts it?... As I said, it's been deemed "not severe enough for surgery", so unless I want to pay for surgery myself, that ain't happening. I've had good experience with an alternative treatment method called Bowtech. I tried it with a previous back injury and it did wonders, so I'm trying that again. I'm not expecting miracles, but it might at least get some of my nerves back in place so I can use my left arm properly again. Even if it doesn't work, it's a gentle form of treatment, so it won't damage me any further. A chiropractor or physical therapist can do some serious damage if they do something wrong, because they try to force the body back into place. Bowtech is a series of "pinches and grips" on specific points along the nerves and arteries that stimulate the autonomous nervous system in an attempt to make it go from a stress state - fight or flight - to a recovery state, effectively making the body do all the work itself. I know, it sounds like Reiki massages and all manner of other oogie boogie treatments, but I've felt the effects on my own body and I know it works. I have the X-ray images to prove it. I had a stretching injury from early childhood that made my spine almost completely straight, giving me constant pain. I have X-rays from when I was 9, 15, 22, a year before the first Bowtech treatment at 27 and another from a month after the treatment at 28. The last two were taken by my chiropractor who'd been helping me with the chronic back pains for about two years. He called me after I'd cancelled two appointments to ask why. "Don't need them. I've been fixed." He got curious and asked if he could take another X-ray, just to see if there was physical evidence, or if it was all in my head. I agreed. After all, I'd been as skeptical as he was before I actually tried it and if it hadn't been for the fact that it was my paramedic friend who recommended it to me, I probably never would have. No doubt about it. My spine had begun to find its natural curvature. He was absolutely flabbergasted! I wasn't. I'd felt my spine move during the treatment, so I knew right away it was working. Here's hoping it might work again...
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Post by silverdragon on Jul 7, 2015 8:32:57 GMT
Who by?.. ask for a second opinion.
I have read what you put... your back is out of shape, it may not be 100% ok, you may have some problems there, I am verging towards the signs of caution, I dont want to hear you have ended up like me with severe osteo-arthritis and chronic problems that re-occur every now and again.
In saying all this, I hope you recover.... I hpe my paranoia is just that. In the same way I hope they send me home with a pack of Rennies to treat chronic indigestion and say there aint nowt wrong with my tick-tock, and the pain in my chest is just trapped wind?....
Take care of your Back, its the only one you get, and a lifetime of pain is there... Well... For life?.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 7, 2015 10:08:42 GMT
Who by?.. ask for a second opinion. I have read what you put... your back is out of shape, it may not be 100% ok, you may have some problems there, I am verging towards the signs of caution, I dont want to hear you have ended up like me with severe osteo-arthritis and chronic problems that re-occur every now and again. In saying all this, I hope you recover.... I hpe my paranoia is just that. In the same way I hope they send me home with a pack of Rennies to treat chronic indigestion and say there aint nowt wrong with my tick-tock, and the pain in my chest is just trapped wind?.... Take care of your Back, its the only one you get, and a lifetime of pain is there... Well... For life?. Unless there's no other way around it, I'd actually prefer not to have surgery. With the injury being where it is, the slightest f***-up by the surgeon and I'm a quadroplegic for the rest of my life. Which won't be very long from that point on. I'll make sure of that. I'd rather have use of my limbs and be in constant pain than live out my next 30-40 years in a wheelchair, unable to even feed myself. For the first time in my life (and hopefully also the last, because they're not that good), I'll quote Cypress Hill and say: I ain't going out like that.
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Post by the light works on Jul 7, 2015 14:47:17 GMT
I have a beef with the branch of physical therapy who claim that taking a "the floggings will continue until morale improves" attitude towards musculoskeletal problems. It seems to me like the same theory as beating your kid until he no longer resents you.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 7, 2015 15:08:23 GMT
I have a beef with the branch of physical therapy who claim that taking a "the floggings will continue until morale improves" attitude towards musculoskeletal problems. It seems to me like the same theory as beating your kid until he no longer resents you. It makes no sense at all. Forcing the body to do stuff it just can't do is usually the reason you got the injury to begin with. Physical therapy is supposed to work with the body, not against it. Speaking of working with the body instead of against it, I just finished the first of three Bowtech sessions less than an hour ago. Before we started, I could barely turn my head 30 degrees to the right and could do less than 10 to the left, my neck and left shoulder were in constant pain and my left arm was tingling all the time, leaving me with reduced sensation and mobility all the way down to my fingertips. After the session, my neck only hurts in certain positions (can't touch my chest with my chin yet, but I'm almost there - two hours ago I had to bend my entire back to look down). I can turn my head almost 60 degrees to the right and about 45 to the left and my shoulder has full mobility again. It hurts to move it in certain directions (straight out to the side and up still hurts like hell), but at least I'm able do it now. Two hours ago it could only go forward until almost straight in front of me. Any other direction was impossible, because it went straight to my neck and into my head for instant headache. The tingling in the arm is almost completely gone. There's still a little in my upper arm and shoulder, but at least I have normal mobility and sensation in my hand again. Science is slowly catching up, figuring out why Bowtech works and once it's fully accepted as a treatment method, chiropractors will be obsolete and unemployed within 10 years.
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Post by the light works on Jul 7, 2015 15:28:39 GMT
I have a beef with the branch of physical therapy who claim that taking a "the floggings will continue until morale improves" attitude towards musculoskeletal problems. It seems to me like the same theory as beating your kid until he no longer resents you. It makes no sense at all. Forcing the body to do stuff it just can't do is usually the reason you got the injury to begin with. Physical therapy is supposed to work with the body, not against it. Speaking of working with the body instead of against it, I just finished the first of three Bowtech sessions less than an hour ago. Before we started, I could barely turn my head 30 degrees to the right and could do less than 10 to the left, my neck and left shoulder were in constant pain and my left arm was tingling all the time, leaving me with reduced sensation and mobility all the way down to my fingertips. After the session, my neck only hurts in certain positions (can't touch my chest with my chin yet, but I'm almost there - two hours ago I had to bend my entire back to look down). I can turn my head almost 60 degrees to the right and about 45 to the left and my shoulder has full mobility again. It hurts to move it in certain directions (straight out to the side and up still hurts like hell), but at least I'm able do it now. Two hours ago it could only go forward until almost straight in front of me. Any other direction was impossible, because it went straight to my neck and into my head for instant headache. The tingling in the arm is almost completely gone. There's still a little in my upper arm and shoulder, but at least I have normal mobility and sensation in my hand again. Science is slowly catching up, figuring out why Bowtech works and once it's fully accepted as a treatment method, chiropractors will be obsolete and unemployed within 10 years. it is not so much about forcing it to do what it can't as insisting that physical therapy must be painful to be effective.
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Post by silverdragon on Jul 8, 2015 6:29:42 GMT
Good.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 8, 2015 10:49:00 GMT
I think you might want to check out Bowtech (or Bowen Technique Therapy - same thing, different name - long story) Some of the best therapists in the world are in the UK. Many of them teach the Danish therapists. Just make sure you find a therapist that doesn't mix and match different kinds of alternative treatments. Some seem to think that the more different things they can mash together the better, but most of the Bowen teachers discourage it. Not because there aren't other treatments that work for certain things, but because to become truly good at Bowtech/Bowen Technique requires almost as much knowledge of physiology as being a licensed masseur, physical therapist or chiropractor does. Mix too much stuff together and you never truly get to grips with one type of treatment. Find someone who has chosen to ONLY specialize in Bowen and won't stick needles in you or do weird magnet therapy or something like that. Here's the website for the official UK Bowen Association: www.bowen-technique.co.uk/Almost at the bottom of the page is a "Find Bowen Therapist" button where you can search for therapists in your area. If you do decide to try it, expect some results during the first session, but don't expect miracles. Those usually take 3-5 sessions Okay, you probably won't get any miracles, but if you find a good therapist you can get some truly remarkable results that no doctor could have ever given you. I suspect they might be able to help relieve some of your leg and back pains. Maybe not permanently, but after a few treatments you might just need a session once a month to keep you going.
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