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23436. judithathome - 1/21/2008 5:33:17 PM Keoni went to work this morning and sees the doctor this afternoon. He couldn't find his wallet and acted like a spoiled child. Not good at being sick, obviously. 23437. arkymalarky - 1/21/2008 6:12:05 PM Let us know how it goes, Judith.
Our little hospital is excellent, and their ER care is, as well, but it's the doctors that get me. You absolutely don't have a clue who you're going to get, and they're not from here. Bob and I each on separate occasions had doctors who were so excellent we asked about their private practices. Both happened to be from Little Rock. 23438. alistairconnor - 1/21/2008 6:39:19 PM When you said your ER doctors were "not from here", I thought you meant foreigners... this is pretty much uniformly the case here : French doctors won't work in ER for the crappy wages and endless hours on offer. 23439. arkymalarky - 1/21/2008 6:57:21 PM Hey, LR is as foreign as it gets. They're required to by being in that huge network of Baptist Medical.
My cardiologist was born in Bangladesh, though. 23440. arkymalarky - 1/21/2008 7:03:53 PM IOW, all doctors in that network have to work some amount of time in that network's ERs. It's probably a good system all around, because everyone does their share and no one gets burned out, but there are so many doctors in the network and they're such a mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly, that it's a grab bag if you go there. 23441. judithathome - 1/21/2008 7:59:07 PM Same here...and I'm not too confident in their abilities. Twice my son has gone to this very ER and been sent home by them with an incorrct diagnosis...once they said he had a pulled muscle in his leg and it turned out to be vascular blockage resulting in him almost losing his leg (!) and another time they said he had migraine...which 12 hours later turned out to be a stroke.
So I have no confidence that what they did for Keoni was any better but it's where our insurance pays to go so....I'll feel better after he sees our doctor this afternoon. That swelling in his lower abdomen hasn't reduced in size at all...even WITH all his high dollar antibiotics. 23442. wonkers2 - 1/21/2008 9:15:58 PM Time for one of the least enjoyable procedures--a colonoscopy? 23443. webfeet - 1/22/2008 2:06:16 AM One word, Judith: yogurt. And maybe garlic if its healing powers aren't too odious for your husband, or for you.
And maybe Calvados, come to think of it. Peel and core two apples, put a dollop of butter and light brown sugar in the cavity and splash with calvados and a little lemon juice. Then bake for 50 min at 350. Remove the apples, let them sit for a bit, and pour the juices into a saucepan. Add some cream, let bubble then pour over the apples. That should cure him.
23444. arkymalarky - 1/22/2008 4:52:26 AM Judith? Y'all okay? 23445. arkymalarky - 1/22/2008 5:45:59 AM I'm out for the evening, but I hope Keoni's okay. I emailed Judith too and haven't heard anything back. 23446. judithathome - 1/22/2008 9:10:19 AM Webs, we've been eating yogurt (with active cukltures) since Christmas...the good sort, not the flavored ones that taste like a dessert.
Keoni went to the doc today and learned his malady was caused by an mild infection run wild due to a weakened-by-the-holiday-crud immune system. He should be over this latest thing by the weekend with the help of the antibiotics he was given in the ER visit. 23447. judithathome - 1/22/2008 9:11:56 AM Arky, I wrote you back...did you not receive it? 23448. arkymalarky - 1/23/2008 5:02:43 AM I got it today, but I was at work all day and had to work a ballgame tonight. 23449. wonkers2 - 1/23/2008 5:44:35 AM That's good news, Judith. 23450. judithathome - 1/23/2008 4:10:01 PM We had brown outs yesterday, just as we do in the summer when it hits 105 and everyone hogs the air conditioning...electricity went out three times. And of course, this happens just as the rates go up and we're all getting screwed over by what they charge.
I guess people never heard of putting on sweaters. Of course, the reason so many people have to crank up the thermostat on a day the temps dip below freezing is due to so many living in houses with "great rooms" that have two stories of wasted space between the floors and ceilings...yeah, they look great and if you could figure out a way to teleport up to that stunning cathedral ceiling, you'd be toasty as hell. As it is, you're stuck on the floor freezing your kiester off... 23451. Magoseph - 1/23/2008 9:15:04 PM It's snowing now--again. It's by far the worse winter since I moved back up here twelve years ago. My bill for plowing is getting bigger every couple of days.
Right now, we have Hi: 16° and tonight Lo: -4°. It's a trial to go to town, shop for food and pick up the mail. Flexy can't go out for his daily walk in this type of weather--we both are afraid that he'd get a chill. He sits on the porch in plain light right now getting his vitamin D, screaming at one of his pals who doesn't seem to understand today's Market.
I'm so glad that finance and politic entertain him--he's not much for watching Grey's Anatomy reruns and old movies and since he doesn't want to stay alone, I'm now reading The Ambassador--again.
23452. wonkers2 - 1/24/2008 2:37:03 AM It's miserable here too, Mago. Almost enough to shake my belief in global warming. Please stop sending that bad weather aross Lake Michigan! 23453. arkymalarky - 1/24/2008 3:25:15 AM Remember, it's about weather extremes. When we went to CO last summer, they'd had the worst winter in their memory, and they've all lived up their 20-50 years. 23454. Magoseph - 1/24/2008 1:24:47 PM I'm reading The Ambassadors from Henry James, just in case you wondered which book I was talking about above. 23455. Magoseph - 1/24/2008 1:39:22 PM Wonks, it'll be still cold today: Hi: 8° Lo: 4°, but Friday, Saturday, and Monday will be much better, in the thirties.
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