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Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments this week. Tweed <-- bad mood now >Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments >this week. > >Tweed <-- bad mood now As a friend of mine calls it, "The Big Squeeze." Purrs for all to go well. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical > appointments this week. > > Tweed <-- bad mood now Purrs for clear results.  SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >> Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >> Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Purrs for clear results. Thanks, Adrian. Tweed > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments > this week. > > Tweed <-- bad mood now Ouch indeed! Purrs for everything to go smoothly and for you to recover quickly. Joy > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical > appointments this week. > > Tweed <-- bad mood now Purrs for the results to be negative. Jill >> Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >> Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Purrs for the results to be negative. Thanks, Jill, I hope so. Tweed > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > Pre-op assessment Thursday. Purrs for it to come back all clear! > My cup runneth over with medical appointments this week. So to speak. :) Joyce > > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > > Pre-op assessment Thursday. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > So to speak. :) <g> One day I hope it will all be over. That my next operation will be the last. Tweed > > > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. Thanks! I am 50 next year and is this is what I have to look forward to! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > Thanks! I am 50 next year and is this is what I have to look forward > to! They are uncomfortable for a lot of women, but I have never minded them, myself. It feels like a lot of pressure, but I don't have any pain. So not everyone finds them miserable. I hope you're one of them! Joyce >> > > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Ha us men have to get prostate exam nothing like another man saying bend over snapping a rubber glove on lubing his fingers up with some cold a@@ stuff forgive the pun Than using 2 fingers to go where Capt's Kirk famous saying comes into play. Than trying to make jokes as he is doing it or make idea conversation. While in your head you are screaming come one get it over with you are tickling my tonsils >>> > > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > While in your head you are screaming come one get it over with you are > tickling my tonsils Well, the ladies also get the bimanual pelvic exam. Ask your wife or girlfriend. Sometimes the men get mammograms. A former coworker is on a cholesterol reducing drug that has the side effect of gynecomastia. You can't differentiate the lump from cancer by a physical exam, so he had to go to the women's imaging center for a mammogram. Yes, a man can get breast cancer. As he told it he got a lot of funny looks from the ladies in the waiting room. Things turned out OK for him. I just wondered how they could squeeze out enough tissue to put on the plate. I noticed my cat was making frequent trips to the litter pan Sunday and I took Spotsie to the vet's yesterday for an overnight stay in order for them to get a good urine specimen. She had a lot of bacteria in her urine and therefore is on Clavamox for the next 10 days. She had one of these sick spells several years ago and came through OK. She's about 12 years old and nine-and-a-half pounds, a spayed, dilute tortoiseshell tabby. She has a peach-colored spot on the top of her head, which gave her her name. Bud <snip> > I noticed my cat was making frequent trips to the litter pan > Sunday and I took Spotsie to the vet's yesterday for an [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Bud Lots of purrs for Spotsie, Polonca and Soncek ><snip> >> I noticed my cat was making frequent trips to the litter pan [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Lots of purrs for Spotsie, > Polonca and Soncek Spotsie is feeling better. After only a couple of days on Clavamox she stopped straining and her urine looked better, although it is hard to tell after it has hit the litter. She has a few more days of Clavamox before she goes back to the vet for a followup urinary exam. She is not a hard cat to pill. I give her the medicine just before I put her food down in the morning and evening. I put a picture of Spotsie's spot on alt.binaries.pictures.animal a few days ago. Bud >>> > > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > conversation. While in your head you are screaming come one get it over > with you are tickling my tonsils Ever had a smear test? I'm not sure if it's called that in the USA. Cervix scrape for suspect cancerous cells. Of course you haven't. Think yourself lucky for having a prostate test instead. Tweed >>>> > > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >>> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Tweed We have some test just as bad won't go into details makes me cringe just to think of them just making a joke for the other ;-) > Ever had a smear test? I'm not sure if it's called that in the USA. Cervix > scrape for suspect cancerous cells. Of course you haven't. Think yourself > lucky for having a prostate test instead. Pap test. Great invention, saved a lot of lives - and something I tend to put off until the point I'm saying with that nervous giggle 'Well, I thought it was about time I had one' and the doctor (or her receptionist, if I'm making the appointment) points out in a carefully neutral voice that it HAS been X years since the last one. They have an unfair advantage on the date, since they have my chart and know exactly when the next one is due. During one period of my life, it seemed to me my doctor was scheduling one on each of the (quite rare) occasions I visited her, just as though it was 'Oh, that's Cheryl, better test her while she's around.' And, ummmm, it is not really a good idea to have one in a teaching hospital since there's a good chance that the person you just agreed to have perform it has a lot less experience giving them than your own middle-aged GP has had. SignatureCheryl >> Ever had a smear test? I'm not sure if it's called that in the USA. >> Cervix [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > have perform it has a lot less experience giving them than your own > middle-aged GP has had. One positive thing about my hyster is that I will never have to have one again!! Tweed >>> Ever had a smear test? I'm not sure if it's called that in the USA. >>> Cervix [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Tweed My mother was told that she still did have to have them. Joy >One positive thing about my hyster is that I will never have to have one >again!! Hate to tell you this, Tweed. If you've had a hyster, they still take a smear from the vault ie where the cervix used to be. Weirdest smear ever taken belonged to a hospital I worked at (they kept it to completely confuse know-it-all docs). This woman insisted it was her "right" as a woman to have a smear test when she wasn't offered one. The reason she wasn't offered one was that prior to some fairly major surgery, she had been male! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> > > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > > Thanks! I am 50 next year and is this is what I have to look forward > to! Yep! They are keeping a special eye on me because of my ovarian ca, I shouldn't grumble really. The machine could easily be used as an instrument of torture! There's a fine line between "enough pressure" to get a good reading and too much which was slightly exceeded yesterday. Very pleasant radiographer who was expert at avoiding any embarrassment while handling the parts she needed to. Tweed awwww....<hugs> Lily & her mama SignatureIrulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments > this week. > > Tweed <-- bad mood now >Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments >this week. > >Tweed <-- bad mood now Anyone remember this blast from the past? (reposted without permission, email addy munged): ********************************************** Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.anecdotes Subject: OT Humor?: Power Outage From: Cheryl <jlhshadow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 18:17:30 -0500 -------- (forwarded to me, this is not a personal account) I know my memory's fading. I actually kept my mammogram appointment. I chose a seat next to a man and his wife in the waiting room. Both the chairs and conversations were so comfortable that before long I'd totally forgotten why I was there and asked the man. "So...what are you here for?" Talk about a show stopper. Dead silence, just as "Nurse Ratchet" announced my name in her best baritone voice. I thought, "Great..a name to match the idiot." I rushed past the giggles and hurried after the angel of no mercy. Rounding the corner, I was met with, "Hi! I'm Belinda!" This perky clipboard carrier smiled from ear to ear, tilted her head to one side and crooned, "Allll I need you to do is step into this room right hereee, strip to the waist, thennnn slip on this gown. Everything clearrrr?" I'm thinking, "Belinda...try decaf. This ain't rocket science." Belinda skipped away to prepare the chamber of horrors. Call me crazy, but I suspect a man invented this machine. It takes a perfectly healthy cup size of 36-B to a size 38-LONG in less than 60 seconds. Also, girls aren't made of sugar and spice and everything nice...it's Spandex. We can be stretched, pulled and twisted over a cold 4-inch piece of square glass and still pop back into shape. With the right side finished, Belinda flipped me (literally) to the left and said, "Hmmmm. Can you stand on your tippy toes and move in a tad so we can get everything?" Fine, I answered. I was freezing, bruised and out of air, so why not use the remaining circulation in my legs and neck and finish me off? My body was in a holding pattern that defied gravity when we heard, then felt, "zap!" Complete darkness. "What?" I yelled. "Oh, maintenance is working. Bet they hit a snag." Belinda headed for the door. "Excuse me! You're not leaving are you?" I shouted. Belinda kept going and said, "Oh, you fussy puppy.... the door's wide open so you'll have the emergency hall lights. I'll be righttttt backkkk!" Before I could shout "NO!", she disappeared. And that's exactly how Bubba and Earl, maintenance men extraordinaire, found me, half-naked and parts of me dangling from the Jaws of Life. After exchanging polite, "Hi, how's it going," type greetings, Bubba (or possibly Earl) asked, to my utter disbelief, if I knew the power was off. Trying to disguise my hysteria, I replied with as much calmness as possible. "Uh, yes...yes, we did, thanks." "You bet, take care," Bubba replied and waved good-bye as though we'd been standing in the line at the grocery store. Two hours later, Belinda breezes in wearing a sheepish grin and making no attempt to suppress her amusement, she said. "Oh, I am soooo sorry! The power came back on and I so totally forgot about you! And silly me, I went to lunch. Are we upset?" And that, Your Honor, is exactly how her head ended up between the clamps... ****************************** Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com >>Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >>Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > bruised and out of air, so why not use the remaining circulation in my > legs and neck and finish me off? Ah, this is SO funny. That's pretty well what it was like, except for "put your arm up here and your face against this x 2." There has *got* to be a better way of doing this. It will need a woman doctor to invent it. Tweed > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments > this week. > > Tweed <-- bad mood now Ouch. Many purrs for hurting mammal area and for the assessment. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki http://www.lifestorywriting.com/manogram.jpg SignatureChristopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. . Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments this week. Tweed <-- bad mood now >Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments >this week. > >Tweed <-- bad mood now I know what you mean! Hang in there. It has to stop eventually! Did my mammogram in June, and it was fine. May yours turn out the same. Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) >>Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >>Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> > I know what you mean! Hang in there. It has to stop eventually! You would think so, wouldn't you? However at my pre-op assessment yesterday they told me that the Leicester hospitals (3 of them) have to save several million pounds before next May and as a result the ward that I was due to stay on will be closed in the next couple of weeks. They were hoping I would be suitable as a "day case" which they can still do. It means going into hospital in the morning, having your operation and coming home the same day. I'm not okay for a day case - I could have told them that myself - so at the moment the situation is that I will have to start the process all over again. I have to be referred to another hospital, see another consultant, get a new date for my operation and have a brand new pre-op assessment (ECG, all the lot..) For some reason my blood pressure was up in a mega way!! 140/100. Nursie said I will take your BP again after your ECG and if it's still up I will give you a letter for your doctor. She took it again after my ECG, and it was 151/101. I tried to explain that this always happens when I'm in hospital but she wasn't convinced so I had a letter to deliver to my doctor today. It was exactly the same when I was in hospital for my eye operations. My blood pressure set off the panic monitor. It's on the normal scale when I am well and living quietly at home with my cats and chickens. Sigh. I have an appointment on Tuesday to have my BP checked and no doubt I will have to attend often. From previous experience of pre-operative panic, I know it will only gradually come down. I'm not aware that I am worrying excessively, but obviously my body is. > Did my mammogram in June, and it was fine. May yours turn out the > same. Thanks. I am probably at higher risk but the last one was okay *before* my Ov ca. I am shutting my eyes on looking on the internet about where it can spread afterwards. I did enough surfing when I was diagnosed to scare me almost to death. Tweed > <glsummer@neptunelink.com> wrote in message >> You would think so, wouldn't you? However at my pre-op assessment [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > (ECG, all the lot..) > For some reason my blood pressure was up in a mega way!! When they pulled that on me a day before my ear surgery was first scheduled, not only did my blood pressure go up, it stayed that way for quite some time. The ten month delay in getting the surgery, in addition to my own losses and inconveniences cost my insurance close to $3,000 in repeated preoperative testing. And in that time the cost of the surgery as well as the cost of the implant device went up too. Still make my blood pressure spike to think about it. It cost me the chance to see my brother before he died or even to talk to him. And it cost me a trip to Newfoundland with the cousins. Jo > You would think so, wouldn't you? However at my pre-op assessment > yesterday they told me that the Leicester hospitals (3 of them) have to save > several million pounds before next May and as a result the ward that I was > due to stay on will be closed in the next couple of weeks. That's horrible. I hope that it doesn't cost anyone health-wise as a result of having to delay their surgeries. Is a "ward" just referring to a floor of the hospital with individual rooms, or is it just one big room? I guess I gripe too much about health care costs here, but the *care* I have received has been second to none. I would be fuming if I was scheduled for surgery and got put off like that. Sherry > I tried to explain that this always happens when I'm in hospital I get it myself and the proper term is "white coat hypertension" ie you're tensed up because you're in hospital and when you see a doc then your blood pressure shoots up. The only time fpr me it wasn't a problem was when I went for a knee injury so I didn't anticipate having my BP done and when a nurse did it as routine I wasn't tensed up and the result was slightly on the higher side of normal but still normal, which it has been since I was 19 and first had it done and didn't expect it then either Lelsey Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> I tried to explain that this always happens when I'm in hospital > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Lelsey And even the furkids are subject to it. When Jake was last at the vet and his heart rate was so high, the doc left the room for a while so Jake could calm down and we could get a more accurate reading. I mean what do they expect when they take their temperature and then check their pulse? Jo > And even the furkids are subject to it. When Jake was last at the vet and > his heart rate was so high, the doc left the room for a while so Jake could > calm down and we could get a more accurate reading. > > I mean what do they expect when they take their temperature and then check > their pulse? LOL! Exactly. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >> I mean what do they expect when they take their temperature and then check > their pulse? Especially given where they take a cats temperature!!! I wish I'd had a camera for the look on poor Dunzi's face when they had their first vet visit just after we got them! It was like "OUCH!!!" Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> I tried to explain that this always happens when I'm in hospital > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Slave of the Fabulous Furballs It's also known as "white coat syndrome". My sister gets it so badly they don't even take her BP at the doctor's office any more. She has a machine to do it at home. Speaking of BP, I noticed something that I thought was strange yesterday when I had a stress test, the time where they inject you with something when you think you can go just one more minute. Before they started the test, my BP was 158/72. At the end of the test, it was 180/65. A few minutes after the test ended, it was 150/80. I thought it was strange that the upper and lower numbers went up or down opposite each other. Joy A big hug for you, Christina! You must really need it. Elisabet >>>Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. >>>Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > >Tweed > You would think so, wouldn't you? However at my pre-op assessment > yesterday they told me that the Leicester hospitals (3 of them) have to save [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > said I will take your BP again after your ECG and if it's still up I will > give you a letter for your doctor. <snip> I'm so very sorry to hear that. Lots of purrs, hugs and best wishes, Polonca and Soncek >> I know what you mean! Hang in there. It has to stop eventually! > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > >Tweed {{{{{Tweed}}}}} That really sucks. The worst part is always the waiting and the not knowing. Here's hoping they get it together and get things speeded up for you. Ginger-lyn Home Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) > Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish. > Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments > this week. > > Tweed <-- bad mood now Lots of purrs and best wishes for the results to be negative. Hugs, Polonca and Soncek |
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