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14th HooTooversary
Posted Nov 18, 2013
...and it's been far too long since I stopped in for more than a minute. I'd best get reading (and finish something I was writing, if I can find it under all the cobwebs). Hope you're all fine.
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Latest reply: Nov 18, 2013
Hootooversary!
Posted Nov 9, 2012
I just passed by 13th hootooversary yesterday!
Hope I don't suffer from latent triskaidekaphobia. 
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Latest reply: Nov 9, 2012
A Rose by any other name will still fit
Posted May 9, 2012
Decided to go for a change, so Spaceechik it is; still the same initials and still apropos for a space geek.
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Latest reply: May 9, 2012
Ruined in less than a mile...
Posted Mar 1, 2012
I had a doctor appointment yesterday. On the way up the handicapped ramp at the Medical Office Bldg, I almost fell, when my legs gave out. A security guard had seen that I was having trouble, and caught me before I actually fell and helped me to the ground. Then the fun began...
The cardiology department is at one end of a long block of hospital buildings, all part of the complex my health plan owns. Because, when the medical folk inside the office saw me sitting on the ground, they called an ambulance. That ambulance, which pulled up next to the driveway leading to the Emergency Room, could not go down the driveway the 250 feet to the ER because there was construction blocking the way. Instead, they had to go around the block, which was still less than a mile. Result? *I'm* fine, (I had low blood pressure -- for very briefly!), but I spent 5 hours in the ER, and will owe about 1/4 of all my remaining savings for the ambulance ride (if Medicare won't pay) and the visit. They could have had someone walk me in a wheelchair that 250 feet, and I would only have had to pay the $65 ER fee.
And people wonder why smart USians look at the NHS with envy...
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Latest reply: Mar 1, 2012
Not *quite* as scary and creepy as I thought.
Posted Jan 25, 2012
I had my first cataract surgery yesterday. The time waiting for the eye-drops to kick in took longer than the surgery. About 15 minutes? And it wasn't as much of a gross-out as I'd thought it would be, either. However, the headache afterwards? Oy! Now all I have to do is not lift anything, or bend over for the next week. Oh fun, experiments in putting on my shoes using my grab-tool...
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Latest reply: Jan 25, 2012
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