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PBJ is the way to go. That or Eggos.

You can talk, but fish won't listen. Teleportation

I love a manual transmission. There's just this feeling of total control when you wrap your hand around that stick...

There is no "normal." The true dividing line is between those who have diagnostic codes, and those who do not - yet.

Yeah, unfortunately, there are a lot of people who either don't get into the system, or are "lost to follow up" (that's such a nice little euphemism). And the people who are stuck in denial are the ones I don't see.

Which? Why bipolar people don't take their meds, or diabetics who think they're cured? Either way, it was a response to Still Me, not you.

Well, hey! Nice to see the panda!

Oddly enough, in all my years of clinical practice, I've never had somebody who's bipolar tell me that they didn't need their meds - I've heard a lot of complaints about side effects and cost, and people not taking them for those reasons, but not that they didn't need them (unless they were manic). You know who says that they don't need their meds, and that they're cured? Diabetics who've had bariatric surgery. And they're usually "sane."

Well, good. She may have a cookie, too.

Oddly enough, when I was given the (thankfully erroneous) diagnosis of ovarian cancer, my first reaction was panic. Not at the thought of death or suffering, but of all the paperwork...I didn't have a will, couldn't find my health care proxy, had to do FMLA stuff, didn't have a POA...Death would be a lot easier if it weren't for the paperwork.

Indeed, Kenny.

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." (Isaac Asimov)

Yeah, I know what you mean. Since they became cigars, they're just not the same. I don't think it's just the paper; it's like they have fewer cloves. The Bali Hai's are better, but they still aren't what they used to be. Edit: the draw is harder, too, actually more typical of little cigars than cigarettes.

Oh, fuck.

We do miss him. I haven't played slap-the-perv in weeks.

The radiologist would be the best person to read it; sometimes, a second opinion might be required (that is, of another radiologist) for insurance or workman's comp. It depends on what the MRI shows. If you need to be referred, though, you may have to go through your primary; I don't know if chiropractors in NJ can refer, or if your insurance will cover his referrals.

Only as regards his or her interpretation of the MRI. Not in regard to the final diagnosis, treatment, or your chiroparctor's utilization of the information provided by the radiologist.

After s/he does an official reading, s/he will send both a report and a disc to the chiropractor. Your chiropractor may look at the images, but, unless he is pathologically arrogant, will also read the report and defer to the radiologist''s reading. And before you tell me that your chiropractor can read MRI's, I'm sure he can - to an extent. I can read xrays. I can tell you whether you have pneumonia or heart failure, whether you have a punctured stomach or intestine or are just full of shit (yes, that does show up on xray), or whether your neck is broken, among other things. But you would be ill-advised to take my conclusions - or your chiropractor's, since neither of us have done a four-year residency in radiology, and because neither of us does continuing education on it in the amount that a radiologist is required to.

I have absolutely no impulse control.

He's not going to read it. At least, you'd better hope he doesn't. The radiologist (who is a real doctor) is going to read it.

Not so much any more. When AIDS first started showing up, and they didn't have really effective screening tests, blood and blood products were a problem. Now, not so much. The Red Cross screens for HIV and various and sundry types of hepatitis, and so do private companies like the ones that produce blood products like clotting factors and Rhogam.

I'll keep the cats.

Thanks for reminding me - my granddaughter just turned 7, and I have to make sure that my daughter still has her copy. It may be a couple of years, but it's best to be prepared.

You can catch it from a man, you can catch it from a woman, or you can catch it from a needle. You don't need any statistics to know that. And statistics aren't much protection.

What do statistics have to do with mode of transmission? You can catch it from a man, you can catch it from a woman, you can catch it from a needle. (Not, of course, that you'll ever have to worry about it; celibacy does have its compensations.)