Did I mention I have been tense lately?
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
le nubian - Sep 11, 2012 11:24:16 am PDT #21742 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
-t - Sep 11, 2012 11:24:39 am PDT #21743 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Fight the power, pizza guy. Fight it with your hugs.
Ginger - Sep 11, 2012 11:59:34 am PDT #21744 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The main treatment for compression fractures of the spine is to inject bone cement to stabilize the fracture. This reduces the pain in most patients, including my mother. The Mayo Clinic did a double-blind study in which half the patients had a sham procedure with no cement. Both groups saw similar improvements in pain and movement. So either you have a huge placebo effect going on, or local anesthesia, sedation or being poked with a needle will reduce pain from compression fractures.
Zenkitty - Sep 11, 2012 12:24:06 pm PDT #21745 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I wonder how much pain reduction in these cases is attributable to the feeling of relief and being cared for that comes from someone listening to you, taking your pain seriously, and trying to help you. Especially in a culture where doctors spend on average 7 minutes with a patient, dismissing most of what they say as irrelevant, listening only for symptoms, and prescribing the same medicine they prescribe every time they hear those symptoms, which half the time doesn't work or has bad side effects. I know I've lost a lot of my faith in doctors over the last 20 years. I have chronic problems I'm not even bothering to go to a doctor with anymore, because I don't believe they'll even find anything wrong, much less be able to help. If I thought acupuncture or "Chinese medicine" or a dancing voodoo priestess could help my right ear, I'd be there with my wallet out. Because the doctor told me there was nothing wrong with it.So my symptoms... what? don't exist? I don't know. But it still hurts.
Cass - Sep 11, 2012 12:44:34 pm PDT #21746 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I wonder how much pain reduction in these cases is attributable to the feeling of relief and being cared for that comes from someone listening to you, taking your pain seriously, and trying to help you.
No small amount, likely. Just think of how much better you feel when people actually listen and take you and your experience in your body seriously. I'm not saying it takes the place of actual medicine but it can reduce stress.
Jesse - Sep 11, 2012 1:13:32 pm PDT #21747 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's why chicken soup actually helps a cold -- it really helps if someone makes it for you, because you feel cared for.
Consuela - Sep 11, 2012 1:50:38 pm PDT #21748 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Man, I love Charlie Pierce. Here's a long piece he did for Esquire: Life Under Romneycare.
Sheryl - Sep 11, 2012 1:55:57 pm PDT #21749 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Took my car in to the dealer for the 100,000 mile tune-up. Needed new front brake pads and some fluidics flushing, but otherwise in good shape.
msbelle - Sep 11, 2012 2:42:34 pm PDT #21750 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
For no one thing I love you all and this place.
Jesse - Sep 11, 2012 2:47:26 pm PDT #21751 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, msbelle! I got that dress from Target, and it's good! A little short on me, maybe, but good. It's the fake-belt one, right? Because I also got another one that was not so good, but now I get to go back to Target to return.