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7193. arkymalarky - 12/9/2007 5:42:47 PM And it occurs to me, everyone makes money with the angiogram--the hospital, an anesthesiologist, etc. So they want me to have a more expensive, more invasive procedure--it's not a money-saving issue with them. They will be out an extra $650 if I have to have both, they would be out much more if I chose only the angiogram and didn't need a stent. 7194. wonkers2 - 12/9/2007 6:07:22 PM Arky, your suggestion that hospitals and doctors are motivated by money is most unkind. Corporate Leeches 7195. arkymalarky - 12/9/2007 6:13:34 PM Haha! Don't quote me until after they're through poking on me.
I'm still mad about the clinic not bothering to make sure I knew I wasn't supposed to go Friday. So I've expended two sick days and a lot of grief over a 20 minute procedure. But most of us choose to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous medical systems than fly to others we know not of. 7196. wonkers2 - 12/9/2007 6:21:55 PM My doctor tends to order CT scans at the slightest provocation. And, until recently, whenever I was in his waiting room around lunch time, the drug reps arrived with box lunches for all. I've gigged him about being bribed by Big Pharm and when I saw him last week he said he'd put a stop to it. He said the huge Christmas goody basket was from a patient. 7197. arkymalarky - 12/9/2007 7:52:28 PM Who happens to be a drug rep? ;->
That's one thing I really like about my GP and the one before her who died in Sept. Wish I could say the same about my gynecologist, but he made himself obsolete after giving me a full hysterectomy, and then I just wouldn't cooperate on the high doses of hormones he was trying to force on me. Wonder how he's doing these days. 7198. judithathome - 12/10/2007 1:08:32 AM Last time I went to the doctor, two weeks ago, I was kept waiting for 45 minutes while FOUR drug reps swanned in and out like they were at a luxurious retreat. 7199. judithathome - 12/10/2007 1:09:21 AM Glad you're doing the less invasive procedure, Arky. Keep us posted! 7200. arkymalarky - 12/10/2007 3:09:40 AM Oh that would really make me mad.
I'll let y'all know as soon as I find out! 7201. judithathome - 12/19/2007 6:56:02 PM My Name Is Lisa 7202. wonkers2 - 12/19/2007 7:48:00 PM I watched the entire video hoping I'd get the point. Precocious pre-teen girl whose mother is drugged out? Alcoholic? Early Alzheimers? Mentally ill? All the above? 7203. judithathome - 12/19/2007 9:46:17 PM Not an alky...my guess is, Azheimers.
It's something to think about. Lots of older women having babies these days...certainly lots of older men are doing so with younger women. A grown child of parents afflicted with that disease is somewhat prepared for it but a kid? Say that woman had that girl at age 43...the girl looked about 13. How can a 13 year old cope with early onset of Alzheimers in a mother of 56? That aged woman ought to be closer to her grandmother than her mother in age. And she looked like a single mother, too.
I just posted it because it was thought-provoking and the people on the forum from whence I cadged it were impressed with it. 7204. wonkers2 - 12/20/2007 12:32:02 AM Well, it held my attention to the end. 7205. wonkers2 - 12/20/2007 12:58:53 AM It's frightening to think of a woman that young having Alzheimer's. I know it does happen, but I've been under the impression that onset is more often in the 70s and 80s. My mother died at 87 having had increasing dementia or Alzheimers for about three years. Pretty much the same for my wife's mother who died at 89 as I recall. They both became difficult to deal with toward the end. 7206. judithathome - 12/20/2007 4:30:55 PM Have you seen "Away From Her"?
7207. arkymalarky - 12/23/2007 2:50:19 AM The hardest part of everything I'm doing is exercising. I hate it. I walked two miles on the treadmill today and I'm determined to do it every day, then add stuff I like to do but don't have the built up energy for right now, like aerobics. 7208. arkymalarky - 12/23/2007 2:52:50 AM I don't know if I told about this before, but we now have an exercise room. We have a very nice weight machine with a stepper, an exercise bicycle, a treadmill, a mini-tramp, and a tv with a dvd player for exercise videos. We have less than $100 in the whole thing. 7209. arkymalarky - 12/23/2007 2:54:26 AM I told a friend at work I'm waiting for Bob's sister to give up her elliptical/clothes rack. 7210. thoughtful - 12/24/2007 4:26:11 PM Glad you're sticking with it Arky. I know treadmill inside even with tv is extremely tedious for me. Fortunately I'm able to walk outside and dealing with the ever-changing sky and the temperature and the wind and the sounds while listening to a book on tape is sufficient distraction for me to actually find the walks enjoyable.
The video of Lisa above is really amazing. I think the mother clearly has some kind of dementia, most likely alzheimers with the inability to keep track of time, identify people who are close to them, forgetting common names of words and so on. There are many children who for various reasons are forced to be more responsible than the parents who brought them into the world. A sad situation. I can only imagine being in Lisa's shoes, scared to death to ask for help for her mother lest she be forced into some awful foster care situation...yet terrified of what she'll find someday coming home from school...that her mom's accidentally burned the house down or something. Very sad. 7211. arkymalarky - 12/24/2007 6:33:49 PM Thanks, Thoughtful. We have a beautiful one mile loop on our property that Bob has really made into a great, even, clean trail--he walks three miles a day. When I get my allergies back under control I will do it some except when it's too hot. For now, with it getting dark so early and me not being a morning person, the treadmill works well and I walk with varieties of steps to peppy music videos. That stops the boredom and gets me moving more in the same amount of time and miles than plain walking would. 7212. Magoseph - 12/24/2007 9:41:55 PM The actresses in the video "My Name Is Lisa" are excellent.
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