Much ~ma for you, vw. I hope you found the most compassionate and competent care, and that you are resting comfortably now.
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laura - Dec 31, 2006 4:49:45 am PST #8145 of 10004
Our wings are not tired.
sj - Dec 31, 2006 4:52:36 am PST #8146 of 10004
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Breathing-ma and quick-ER-ma, vw.
vw bug - Dec 31, 2006 5:00:36 am PST #8147 of 10004
Mostly lurking...
Well, I loved my first doctor, but when he went off shift, I got idiot doctor, who prescribed me 20 days on steroids. AFTER I'd told him that prolonged steroid usage causes me to get myopathy.
Of course, my doctor is not reachable, because of the holiday, so I have no idea what to do.
SailAweigh - Dec 31, 2006 6:53:51 am PST #8148 of 10004
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Take the drugs until you get ahold of your regular doctor. Anything is better than nothing at all. How soon after you started taking them the last time did you start having problems?
beth b - Dec 31, 2006 6:54:57 am PST #8149 of 10004
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
How long does it take for the myopathy to hit? I wonder if a few days of care and steroids will be enough to get things under control again?
vw bug - Dec 31, 2006 6:56:21 am PST #8150 of 10004
Mostly lurking...
How long does it take for the myopathy to hit?
It takes a couple of weeks. I'm planning on doing the "normal" taper that we usually do, instead of what the doctor prescribed. I'll double check that with my PCP as soon as I can get ahold of her. That will only be six days, rather than 20!
SuziQ - Dec 31, 2006 7:59:15 am PST #8151 of 10004
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
blows nose
This darned cold is still trying to kick my tush. We are packing up and heading down to Marina (near Monterey) for the night. I had wanted to party 2006 away, but I'll be lucky to be awake for the tolling of midnight.
Not sure if I'll be online later....so my best to the buffistas. May 2007 bring much joy and may 2006 go out with a whimper.
askye - Dec 31, 2006 9:01:49 am PST #8152 of 10004
Thrive to spite them
((vw))
I went grocery shopping today and my god! it's horrible. I'm trying to avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup at all costs and it's nigh impossible. The bread I could find (that looked tasty) were some multi grain buns for $3.
I'm doing the You on A Diet thing features on Oprah and the author talks about using canned peaches and orange slices packed without syrup. I couldn't find it in my grocery store. I need to start getting my ass up on Saturdays and seeing if the farmer's market is any cheaper.
DCJensen - Dec 31, 2006 9:10:33 am PST #8153 of 10004
All is well that ends in pizza.
Yeah, there's even HFCS in Diet Orange Crush.
askye - Dec 31, 2006 9:23:59 am PST #8154 of 10004
Thrive to spite them
I've found it in salad dressing, crackers, it's the second or third ingredient in Powerade and Gatorade. I had to pay a small fortune to find juice that wasn't filled with it.
The people going after transfat should be going after HFCS as well.