Clodfobble, my primary care physician is an osteopath (DO) and, comparing our two pregnancies, the one where my wife was getting regular adjustments was a far more comfortable experience for her. Unless you just love your MD, a DO is like a doctor and chiropractor all in one.

I agree Flint. I go to a practice that started when I was old enough I told my mom I didn't want to go to a pediatrician anymore, and two docs had just started their DO practice. I've been going there ever since, though it has grown to a few offices and many more DOs. I swear by them, whether it's a back problem, the flu, or personal issues.

The real problem is I was brought up with a healthy dislike/distrust of doctors. If it's not bad enough to need a specialist, I don't bother. I can't recall ever having a primary care physician, and I've never even heard of a DO before. BUT, having researched the symptoms of thoracic vertebrae problems, I am quite convinced that's what's wrong with me. And joy of joys, I managed to find a chiropractor who could see me today! I am ridiculously excited about the possibility of having my back popped--I haven't been able to do that to myself in months!

A DO is a doctor with a healthy dislike/distrust of doctors. And, they will pop your back.

A DO is a Doctor of Origami. They can fold you into all kinds of shapes.

What Flint said, and...

Here is an article about DOs. A couple good points:

:lol:

My wife is going to a conference in Miami for 4 days...I hate her.

I ate too many easter eggs :greenface

I did that too once, Ducks.

Then I found out you have to peel them.

it's not easter yet ducks. You should save the bellyache till Sunday. ;)

Yeah, but my good clients have been bringing in eggs for me.

Peel them?

are you doing an...actually, I might just start a thread instead of having a conversation about something else in this one. You know how touchy some people can be. lol

Lack of cellar time due to life interference is what's upsetting me. Need to get myself a new job, so I'm heading out to a temp agency tomorrow to see what's available...and just as I decide to do that, my car also decides it's thinking about blowing up...so my dad is also taking me out for emergency car shopping, my college loans kicked in earlier than they told me they were going to, and when I attempted to use the "easy and quick online payment option" I got a notice in the mail a few weeks later saying I had "insufficient funds" (WHICH WAS HIGHLY UNTRUE) and my bank consoled me by telling me "oh, that just happens sometimes"

Pleh. I hate growing up.

On the upside, things with the new boyfriend are going great! Oh, and I got my hair done again...maybe I'll take some photos when I have some downtime.

Holier-than-thou Europeans are irking me today.

Hypocritical bigots need to realize that bigotry is bigotry, no matter who you're raping with your judgment stick.
"You're American? You're white? You're a male?
Well, then it's my duty to inform you that the world is a Very Big Place, and, until you renounce your country and join our imaginary international brain-orgy, I'm afraid you're no better than a monkey driving a pickup truck."
"But I didn't - "
"Shhh."
"- even say anyth -"
"SHUSH."

When was the last time one of those arrogant little shits visited Georgia to expand their cultural horizons?
Fuck them. Fuck them in the eye.

[/end rant]

Try NOT to vomit on your interviewer

sry Zippy that happened to me years ago. We were walking along a busy highway(my daughter and I) and saw a puppy on the other side. she said"oh how cute", called him and BAP that was it. freaked her out for a long time. You just need to remember that it was quick at least

I hope you mean the puppy.

yes HLJ the puppy :eyebrow:

ARRRRGGG my internet connection has been going out every hour or so all day, then coming back 5 minutes later really F'ing up my cellar time

Hope it works out, Ducks. :(

Thanks Clod.

Ive been procrastinating about symptoms for a few days now, but the up-yuckie this morning and sore boobs has me worried.

Feels like about this time last year I had the same dilemma.

Im peeing on the stick tonite.

Yes? No? The boobs is always worrying..... don't keep us in suspenders....

:fingerx: :comfort:

Boobs are a killer symptom
Good luck

All good:D

3 minutes of pacing and BINGO, one little blue line.

Thanks guys.

That's a long 3 minutes.

:)

Whew! :D Yay!

In any job there comes the point at which the job stops being the great thing you signed up for, and starts to suck. This can be for any particular reason.

The point has now been reached, For me, usually this happens after six months, but this time it happened after 10 months.

The pattern in my life is that I will now start being less and less happy until I'm downright depressed. This period lasts up to the two year mark in the job, at which point I leave for another company.

Rinse and repeat
until life complete

Really? Because my cycle is 6mo. to a year. The current job is ending any second now. After only 3mo.'s this time. Lucky UT...lucky.

I am depressed and now insane.

I'm supposed to be looking for a new one right now...heh. Back to it..

I'm sick - again. I had to cancel plans for this weekend that I was REALLY looking forward too because I don't want to infect anyone....except my co-workers that is.

Ducks, good to hear about the single line! I have been there before!

my nose has been bleeding for abiout half an hour now... :( I think it's nearly stopped but I'm well pissed off at this point.

Actually being up the duff wouldnt bother me at all, its being up the duff to someone who dumped me that would blow dog balls.

"Up the duff" is a new one on me. I like it!

It can't possibly be :eek: -the board's been swamped with Brits and Aussies for the last two years..... :lol:

Usually, my ex sis-in-law who lives in NZ, tells me some of the better phrases. I rarely get to use them in conversation around here; most of the people I hang around barely grasp the local vernacular. :) But she never told me that one. I think it's great.

So, it means "preggers" but what is the origin, or why does it mean that?

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/397300.html

sorry, I appear to have misplaced my beloved dictionary of euphemisms, so here's a little something I googled.

Wow!

What I find really interesting about that, Monster, is that slang describing pregnancy is derived from male, not female physiology. That's fascinating. The last vestiges of the medieval concept of conception perhaps? The idea that the woman just houses/provides a fertile bed for, the male seed which then becomes a child.

Not upsetting as such...but, I don't want to start a whole new thread when there's a handy pre-made thread here:

I finished with D. It wasn't working. Unfortunately, in the three months it's taken for me to feel sure about that he has started to fall in love with me.....so...long story short, I've hurt a good friend quite badly. But hey.....can't know 'til you try can you? Trouble is, I agreed to give take a bit of time and talk again see if I still felt the same way, only, there's a bunch of really serious contentious politics shit going on in the party and a big meeting tonight (some of you will know about the complaint I made against a fellow member? the final meeting is tonight) so....we've talked pretty much every day about party business....he's totally fighting my corner at the moment so I feel guilty that actually i really wanted just a couple of day not talking to him...is that mean?

I said to him, let's talk once this hellish week is done with. He agreed. So...now i'm in limbo. As far as I am concerned the relationshhip is over...but til we've closed it properly the atmosphere is weird. He offered me a lift back from a meeting last night and I said I had already sorted a lift out (with my ex and best friend J).....he was really hurt. I just couldn't bear the thought of a car journey whilst this is all still floating about.

Anyway...that's where I'm at. To cap it off I feel sick with tension abotu tonight's meeting. Tonight we vote whether to send the matter to the national party for them to investigate and deal with. What they do with it I don't much care. I want him on record in our party as being a bully....as there being enough evidence to convince the local party that something's amiss. The panel that's reporting on it feel there's a case to be answered. Now it's all down to number. By my maths, if all my people show and all his people show we've got a 14-13 split.....with two unknowns (not in either camp) which could swing it either way.

If he gets away with this he is going to be fucking insufferable. The meeting is going to be ...contentious. Not looking forward to it....just want to go to bed with a smoke and a good book.

Well, looks like things have cleared up with your friend J.... That's good news right?

Oh yeah. Me and J are fine. Glad things are back on an even keel there :)

Well...we won the vote. The matter has now been referred to the national party to look at. What they decide to do with it almost doesn't matter. The best he can hope for is for the complaint to not be proved ... what he can't get from them is proof of innocence. Essenitally, whatever happens from this point there is a cloud over his record within the party: not because I complained, but because an elected panel of three members found there was a case to answer and a meeting of delegates to the general committee heard from complainant and subject and arrived at the conclusion that there was enough there to warrant referring it to national......basically, if he does this again his 'victim' has something they can point at to say he has been implicated in such behaviour before. He is no longer untouchable and with a blemish-free record at the local level. Whatever the national party finds...every step along this route is held in the local party minutes as a permanent record of events.

Yay Dana! :D

Really pleased re the Party outcome, really sad to hear about you & D.
If we're both still singlr when I hit 40, fancy trying the other side for a while ;)

*grins* honey if I was taking a bus to Hebden, you'd be my first choice as travelling companion :P

I'd forgotten that euphemism - made me bray with laughter

btw (wrong thread entirely HIJACK ALERT) I saw Son of Rambow the other night (on a free ticket from Heat :))

It's a lovely, lovely film. I laughed out loud, I leaked tears quite badly.
Didn't even recognise Jessica Stevenson (my ideal woman) until the second scene she was in, I was believing in the film so much.

It was good & short, nice & loud (Cherry's top two requirements for a good film) and I was so sucked in I barely even wanted to kill the threesome in front of me who must have wandered in by mistake because they carried on their conversation intermittently throughout the film.

Go see.

(directed at Dana because it's a Briitish film that might not get wide release in the US)

After an hour of bleeding this morning I ended up in the urgent care. Nosebleed stopped after about two hours, but the respite was short.... Five hours later I'm home and miserable and there's nothing stopping it happening again. The doctor was so incompetant it's untrue. I'll be going somewhere else when it starts again and have an ENT contact for monday because the doctor thinks he may have left a bit of cotton up there :rolleyes:

Wtf monster?!
Too much aspirin? High blood pressure? What?

neither. blood pressure is awesome, don't take asprin. The stuff was leaking out of my tear duct ffs. I was crying blood. And spitting out great clots.

They put these inflatable plugs in which was totally not awesome. then decided they weren't working and took them out again. which was more than a little unpleasant and painful. They wanted to pack with cotton after that and I just said no. That doctor was so incompetant and also sexist that if it bleeds again I'll go elsewhere to get it packed. He wanted to give me loads of painkillers even though it didn't hurt and a 10 day course of antibiotics because the plugs they put in were "forign bodies"

I'd rather die at home with dignity, to be honest

I'll be happy to take those painkillers, monster. :)

Hope they're able to figure out what's up soon!

yeah -he offered me Vicodin for a bit of discomfort that passed as soon as they had finished inserting and inflating the deformed tampon up my nostril. I shoulda taken it and sold it on the black market.

Shit, monster, that sounds horribly distressing. You feeling any better yet?

Not particularly. However the doc said cold drinks are good and I'm just about to have one, so I'm sure I'll feel lots better soon ;)

However let me tell you blood coming out of your eye is not very nice if you wear contacts, although might have been funky for Halloween :D

(also managed to orchestrate some tidying of the kids rooms which didn't involved me bending and lifting too much, so feel mildly more productive).

thanks all for the sympathy :)

After having enough of the pizza place I was working for--and not having found a real job yet--I applied to work at a new restaurant/pizza joint run by a member of St. Louis foodie royalty. I got hired, and based on my conversation with the owner's wife (who is running the business side of things), I will be working there full-time and making as much as I did at the old place.

Well, last week we had an employee meeting, and I looked at my schedule--13 hours this week, 19 next week. Well, that sucks, but the place is just opening, so it could be tough in the short-term. Plus I can always pick up hours at the old place until things pick up at the new place.

Then they told me how much I'm gonna make...essentially, it is $2 an hour less than what I make now. I told them that at the rate things are going, I'll have to find a new job by the end of April; they told me they would try to figure out a new wage.

Today, I was supposed to have POS training from 1-4. I got there, and the general manager told me that it had been canceled, and they forgot to call me.

While I don't think anything that's been happening has been mean-spirited or malicious, it seems like God is telling me not to work for these guys. So I'll go look for a new job tomorrow.

Sheesh monster - how are you feeling today? I always wondered what it would be like to cry blood.....now, I don't really think I want to know. :)

Sycamore - I agree, I think there is something saying RUN THE OTHER WAY! Good luck on the job hunt.

As for me.....I. am. still. fucking. sick.

Absolutely nothing after Monster's tale. Blech!
Hang in there.

I thought she was kidding about crying blood in that other thread. Holy crap! Monster, I hope you found out what in the hell is going on today!

On the other hand, you might be a Catholic Saint.
:)
Hope you are feeling better today.

Gee, thanks guys:D. Well Dr Incompetant (who has been calling nightly to check I'm still alive and not planning to sue) had decided that the only reason it could have stopped bleeding after 2.5 hours and a failed plug attempt was because he must've left some stuff up there that was stopping the flow, so I needed to see the ENT bod on Monday for foreign body removal. He kept trying to force feed me painkillers and antibiotics and wanted to plug it again in the meanwhikle. i ran.

saw the ENT bod yesterday morning. She said no foreign body, no sinister reason for the bleed -just extra bendy nasal passages and and extra long extra dry winter. She cauterized it. So now -after a winter with no colds and no flu in this house, I'm sniffling away and sore as fuck, plus I look like I've been stuffing blueberries up my nose. Well yesterday it was blueberries, today it looks more like licorice. But no more bleeding so far. yay *sniff*

9 and a half more goddamn days. Not that I'm counting, or anything.



Yes I am. And it's actually 9 and a half more days plus about 2.5 goddamn hours. Goddamnit.

Could be worse.

1) could have happened six weeks ago (our swim coach just gave birth, wasn't due til mid May -thankfully both doing fine)

2) mysterious time-travellers could appear and take you back to pre c-section days.

OK, neither is likely, but still...... ;)

(Waiting is teh suxxors)