Some Personal Notes Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of my quadruple bypass surgery. Feeling nostalgic for New York University Hospital, I went to visit my mother who has been in the Hospital for four weeks now. Several days ago, her neurologist had the brilliant diagnosis that she has Myastenthia Gravis. Turns out, not only is this true, but after four days of medication my mother can speak almost like normal. I'm sending a case of Platypus Peter to the doctor! Being around hospitals reminds me that my hands have become arthritic. I have seen some of the greatest minds in the Arthritis racket and all they can propose are health store supplements which The New England Journal of Medicine swear don't do a thing, or major surgery which will keep me in casts and pain for months and which might do nothing for me. Ouch, my hands hurt! The biggest problem posed by my hand pain is that I have trouble taking out corks from bottles (and am not convinced that screw caps are the second coming of Jesus Christ) and I cannot hold a cell phone to my face for an extended period. So, I walk around with a bluetooth headset. Which leads me to two more perplexing questions -- (1) why can't someone invent a bluetooth headset which works in the streets of New York and blocks out noise (all these units are meant for suburbanites in their cars) and (2) isn't there a way to turn off the annoying flashing blue light so that I don't look like an extraterrestial or social misfit? Not that there's anything wrong with being a social misfit.
Good god. All these medical challenges (I'm happy to hear about your mother!) and you're sitting around whining about your phone????
Where are your priorities?
What could be more important?
i for one, have great disdain for misfits.
bee sting therapy works for arthritis. and i've got a source for bees.
What type of therapy is that?
you could probable google bee venom therapy. it honestly works. I think it helps the body create cortisone.
I'm signing on!
i think that annoying blinking light on the bluetooth attachment is imperative as it notifies others that you are in fact using one of these things, and not merely wandering the streets of NY talking to yourself. Not that there's anything abnormal about walking around NY talking to yourself.
Try the Sony-Ericsson HBH-610a. It cuts down on a lot of the background noise and has a light that blinks so people will think that you're carrying on an important conversation with important world leaders. I've heard that this has become "the" accessory this season among people who are big in the bee venom therapy game.
i wouldn't have believed it myself, but my wife, r.n. and m.p.h. degreed, who fell on a sidewalk both hands out (caught a "kitten heel" whatever that is) and was told after 5 months that surgery was the only answer - and it sounds the same as what you described - went to an accupuncturist and got substantial relief. |