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[DakotaCelt]

Vibes to Druxy...

[Cillaliz]

DR Cillaliz - I like your library arrangement.  Just be careful moving all those boxes - books can be backbreaking!

Thanks Ginny.  I'm moving them in bankers boxes (the smaller ones not the long ones) and am using my luggage cart to move the boxes where I can, so it hasn 't been too bad. It's meant several trips because the cart can't handle too much weight, but that's better than a broken back!

[DakotaCelt]

Job Vibes to Elmore

[Cillaliz]

Thanks Dakota

[TCB]

On a sad note, Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and "Davey and Goliath" died in his sleep Friday at age 88.

Gumby was my introduction to clay animation, and it fascinated me as a child, and still does even today.

Why doesn't that surprise me

[TCB]

Jennifer, do you have any control over which doctors you see?  I was very lucky I knew the reputation of the practice of the surgeon on call.  If I hadn’t wanted him to do the surgery I had the option to get someone else, not that that would have been easy under the circumstances.

I'm not sure.  Do you mean for a surgery or just for general care?

For general care you can choose any doctor you like. In a hospital setting i'm not sure. I've only been in the hospital once. And they sent me to the hospital that specialized in the field I needed.

It's actually sort of weird because this was when i had a migraine and the clinic would not believe me and give me the medication. The hospital was across the street. But instead of seeing me there they took me in an ambulance way across town. I believe it was because that was where they had a neurology department.

it makes sense they wanted you seen by a specialist.  is that now on your record for approved medication.  i have a friend who occasionally needs to go to emergency for a shot of pain killer to stop a migraine.  she now knows which hospital carries the pain med she likes.  it is odd the other hospital near her doesn't carry it.

it sounds as if in a situation like mine you would be sent to an orthopedic hospital.  wherever you ended up for the surgery would you have an option to request a different surgeon?

there are insurance plans here that don't give you options.  remember when elmore couldn't switch from the idiot doctor?  if i don't use one in my plan i pay more for the services.

I've only had 2 migraines in my life. And i haven't had one since i has the hospital episode (around 10 years ago).

I don't really understand why the clinic would not give me the meds. Frankly i should have gone back to them after and had a few words with them. Because apparently the final diagnosis was that was what i had had.

I was throwing up and i had pain in my head. I told the doctor that i had had a migraine before. But i could not find the pills from the time before.

Instead of giving me the meds (i knew the name) he sent me across the street.

re: your question about your situation. I guess it depends if it's a surgery that you have to have right away.  I don't know if you have the option of requesting a different surgeon. If there is one at the hospital you are at who can do the surgery why would you want a different surgeon? I guess if you knew specifically of a different surgeon and they were available then you could ask.

I have always based that decision on how good looking the surgeon is, and whether or not you could see his chest hair over the top of his scrubs.

[Laura]

Good evening. That is all.

[TCB]

It will be good to have all those books out of the house, I'll have more storage space for other things

Good, because Ginny's mom needs some extra storage.

[Jrand74]

Gumby scares me.

My brother Kent entered a contest on the local Three Stooges Show - and won a life size Pokey the Pony....with those crazy spring loaded feet......we had it for MANY years.....

[Jrand74]

Thanks to DR DRUXY for the lovely package I received today.  I am sure I shall enjoy the tomes!

[Jrand74]

I watched the last hour of John Doyle's version of COMPANY on PBS......I have the CD and the DVD....and I always have the same reaction.....I have to go listen to the OBC to remind myself how good the show really is.

I liked SOME of the people, but hated Hated HATED the staging with the cast playing the instruments.

Now I am watching FLYING DOWN TO RIO......

I had 17 consultations today - which is enough for anybody.

[Jrand74]

I liked DR JOSE's punchline.

Temperatures down to ZERO tonight!  And work tomorrow.

[Jrand74]

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[TCB]

Thanks to DR DRUXY for the lovely package I received today.  I am sure I shall enjoy the tomes!

I thought you ordered books?

[TCB]

Cilla, great photos of the new office!

Congratulations on the birth of DN Violet.

[TCB]

T.O.D.


Lobster
Scallops
Lobster
Oysters
Lobster
Clams
Lobster
Prawns
Lobster

I have never been that fond of crab.

[Jane]

Jennifer, do you have any control over which doctors you see?  I was very lucky I knew the reputation of the practice of the surgeon on call.  If I hadn’t wanted him to do the surgery I had the option to get someone else, not that that would have been easy under the circumstances.

I'm not sure.  Do you mean for a surgery or just for general care?

For general care you can choose any doctor you like. In a hospital setting i'm not sure. I've only been in the hospital once. And they sent me to the hospital that specialized in the field I needed.

It's actually sort of weird because this was when i had a migraine and the clinic would not believe me and give me the medication. The hospital was across the street. But instead of seeing me there they took me in an ambulance way across town. I believe it was because that was where they had a neurology department.

it makes sense they wanted you seen by a specialist.  is that now on your record for approved medication.  i have a friend who occasionally needs to go to emergency for a shot of pain killer to stop a migraine.  she now knows which hospital carries the pain med she likes.  it is odd the other hospital near her doesn't carry it.

it sounds as if in a situation like mine you would be sent to an orthopedic hospital.  wherever you ended up for the surgery would you have an option to request a different surgeon?

there are insurance plans here that don't give you options.  remember when elmore couldn't switch from the idiot doctor?  if i don't use one in my plan i pay more for the services.

I've only had 2 migraines in my life. And i haven't had one since i has the hospital episode (around 10 years ago).

I don't really understand why the clinic would not give me the meds. Frankly i should have gone back to them after and had a few words with them. Because apparently the final diagnosis was that was what i had had.

I was throwing up and i had pain in my head. I told the doctor that i had had a migraine before. But i could not find the pills from the time before.

Instead of giving me the meds (i knew the name) he sent me across the street.

re: your question about your situation. I guess it depends if it's a surgery that you have to have right away.  I don't know if you have the option of requesting a different surgeon. If there is one at the hospital you are at who can do the surgery why would you want a different surgeon? I guess if you knew specifically of a different surgeon and they were available then you could ask.

I have always based that decision on how good looking the surgeon is, and whether or not you could see his chest hair over the top of his scrubs.

then ben casey was your ideal surgeon?

[Matt H.]

I watched the last Chantal Akerman film in the box set: LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA, and it was the best film in the set. Quite intriguing study of a filmmaker loving her nomadic existence and coming into contact with a series of strangers, friends, and family who represent qualities she's fleeing from by making and screening her films all over the world.

Helmut Griem (from CABARET and THE DAMNED) is heartbreaking as a divorcee longing for companionship and Jean-Pierre Cassel is in it, too, as an ex-lover of the director.

[Matt H.]

I watched the last hour of John Doyle's version of COMPANY on PBS......I have the CD and the DVD....and I always have the same reaction.....I have to go listen to the OBC to remind myself how good the show really is.

I liked SOME of the people, but hated Hated HATED the staging with the cast playing the instruments.

I have it on Blu-ray, and it looks great, but that doesn't make me like this staging any better. However, I love the show so much that I had to have what will probably be the only home video version we're ever likely to get.

[Matt H.]

Is there an echo in here?

[Cillaliz]

Cilla, great photos of the new office!

Congratulations on the birth of DN Violet.

Thanks TCB!!

[Matt H.]

Once I got my work project out of way, I continue with ROME. I finished the first episode of the series (where the gorgeous Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson rescue Caesar's stolen eagle statuary). I went back and turned on the pop-up facts and rewatched some of it with the pop-ups turned on.

[Matt H.]

I also watched episode 2 where Pompey basically plots to have the people turn against Caesar, and it sort of backfires.

I watched this one with the pop-up facts turned on from the beginning. Lots of informative stuff about the Roman legions and politics and civic matters that I knew nothing about (or if I ever did know it, I've forgotten it.)

[Matt H.]

I didn't watch any of the bonus featurettes on disc 1 (there were only two episodes on the disc). I figured I could go back some other time and watch anything else that might be in the set. Right now, I'm just interested in revisiting the episodes since it's been several years now since I first saw them.

[Matt H.]

And with Chantal Akerman now completed, I have tomorrow free and clear for myself. No decisions yet about what I'll watch, but it'll be a movie of some kind plus more episodes of ROME. I have tonight's CASTLE rerun to watch while I eat lunch, and one more episode of BETTER OFF TED on the DVR.

[TCB]

Jennifer, do you have any control over which doctors you see?  I was very lucky I knew the reputation of the practice of the surgeon on call.  If I hadn’t wanted him to do the surgery I had the option to get someone else, not that that would have been easy under the circumstances.

I'm not sure.  Do you mean for a surgery or just for general care?

For general care you can choose any doctor you like. In a hospital setting i'm not sure. I've only been in the hospital once. And they sent me to the hospital that specialized in the field I needed.

It's actually sort of weird because this was when i had a migraine and the clinic would not believe me and give me the medication. The hospital was across the street. But instead of seeing me there they took me in an ambulance way across town. I believe it was because that was where they had a neurology department.

it makes sense they wanted you seen by a specialist.  is that now on your record for approved medication.  i have a friend who occasionally needs to go to emergency for a shot of pain killer to stop a migraine.  she now knows which hospital carries the pain med she likes.  it is odd the other hospital near her doesn't carry it.

it sounds as if in a situation like mine you would be sent to an orthopedic hospital.  wherever you ended up for the surgery would you have an option to request a different surgeon?

there are insurance plans here that don't give you options.  remember when elmore couldn't switch from the idiot doctor?  if i don't use one in my plan i pay more for the services.

I've only had 2 migraines in my life. And i haven't had one since i has the hospital episode (around 10 years ago).

I don't really understand why the clinic would not give me the meds. Frankly i should have gone back to them after and had a few words with them. Because apparently the final diagnosis was that was what i had had.

I was throwing up and i had pain in my head. I told the doctor that i had had a migraine before. But i could not find the pills from the time before.

Instead of giving me the meds (i knew the name) he sent me across the street.

re: your question about your situation. I guess it depends if it's a surgery that you have to have right away.  I don't know if you have the option of requesting a different surgeon. If there is one at the hospital you are at who can do the surgery why would you want a different surgeon? I guess if you knew specifically of a different surgeon and they were available then you could ask.

I have always based that decision on how good looking the surgeon is, and whether or not you could see his chest hair over the top of his scrubs.

then ben casey was your ideal surgeon?

Exactly, until McSteamy and McDreamy came along. 

[Cillaliz]

Did anyone feel the earthquake off of Eureka, CA?   

[TCB]

Once I got my work project out of way, I continue with ROME. I finished the first episode of the series (where the gorgeous Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson rescue Caesar's stolen eagle statuary). I went back and turned on the pop-up facts and rewatched some of it with the pop-ups turned on.

You know I didn't see one person wearing a toga when I was in Rome.  However, I did see two men in kilts at Safeway.

[TCB]

Did anyone feel the earthquake off of Eureka, CA?   

Perhaps that is why Jose felt dizzy earlier!

[Matt H.]

I guess I'll head downstairs now and go to bed. Supposed to be another killer chiller tonight. Brrr!

Good night!