Chiming in on the crappy day front, although for me it's just a cold and a headache. Somehow headaches don't feel like a "just" when I'm having one.
Megan, I hope the beer helps.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ouise - Feb 22, 2005 9:15:32 am PST #9889 of 10002
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Betsy HP - Feb 22, 2005 9:16:45 am PST #9890 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I went to my physical therapist, who pointed out that I'm walking around all slanted with my left shoulder up.
We did more exercises. Then she did my shoulder with the zappy electric thing: tape on electrodes, put an ice bag, walk away and leave me to twitch for 15 minutes. Anybody know what the zappy twitchy thing is? She calls it "ice and stim", if that helps.
Calli - Feb 22, 2005 9:16:45 am PST #9891 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm in that stage where I know what I want to do with the next 5-10 years of my life, but I'm not entirely sure how to get there from here. Very distracting.
P.M. Marc - Feb 22, 2005 9:16:56 am PST #9892 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
We're having an early spring on account of unseasonable warmth. This means things are blooming, pollen counts are up, and my already stuffed and irritated sinuses are even more stuffed an irritated. Joy.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2005 9:18:52 am PST #9893 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anybody know what the zappy twitchy thing is?
Electrical stimulation therapy is the process. I've never thought of the machine as anything other than a stimulator.
Jessica - Feb 22, 2005 9:19:34 am PST #9894 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Then she did my shoulder with the zappy electric thing: tape on electrodes, put an ice bag, walk away and leave me to twitch for 15 minutes. Anybody know what the zappy twitchy thing is? She calls it "ice and stim", if that helps.
My mom had it done (several times) after her car accident, but I forget what it's called.
P.M. Marc - Feb 22, 2005 9:20:19 am PST #9895 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Then she did my shoulder with the zappy electric thing: tape on electrodes, put an ice bag, walk away and leave me to twitch for 15 minutes. Anybody know what the zappy twitchy thing is? She calls it "ice and stim", if that helps.
Sounds like she was using an EMS unit.
Kat - Feb 22, 2005 9:21:22 am PST #9896 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
the machine as anything other than a stimulator.
A TENS machine?
Betsy HP - Feb 22, 2005 9:22:15 am PST #9897 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
No, not TENS; I asked. "Electrical stimulation therapy" worked in a Google; I couldn't find the thing before, and now I can. Thanks, all.
P.M. Marc - Feb 22, 2005 9:22:40 am PST #9898 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Betsy, was the stimulation for pain relief, or for muscle work?
The former would call for TENS, the latter for EMS.