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Post by brutalis on Jan 7, 2020 7:19:46 GMT -5
Prayers and positive thoughts and hoping the doc's will alleviate your pain Kurt. Have faith and remain strong!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 7:27:58 GMT -5
If positive thoughts have any effect, and resonate throughout the universe as even some scientists have claimed, I send them to you, Kurt!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 9:52:48 GMT -5
I echo every comments so far and wish that 2020 will brings us good cheers and guidance ... wished you the best of everything!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 10:31:59 GMT -5
I don't know what to say Kurt. Hoping you get relief soon.
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Post by impulse on Jan 7, 2020 11:16:10 GMT -5
Hang in there, Kurt. Good vibes going your way.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 7, 2020 11:31:15 GMT -5
Cei-U! you need to take good care of yourself. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help out.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 11:51:18 GMT -5
echoing all the comments thus far, and adding to the positive thoughts being sent your way, Kurt.
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Post by Farrar on Jan 7, 2020 19:15:03 GMT -5
So sorry to hear this, Kurt. As hondobrode mentioned, there are medications that can help. And like everyone else here I will be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 8, 2020 0:16:14 GMT -5
Thank you, everyone, for the kind words and well wishes. As expected, I didn't get any definitive answers today other than confirmation that it is indeed peripheral neuropathy. Our next step is determining the cause, which will in turn determine the treatment. They took blood and urine samples for analysis today, and sometime in the next week or two I'll be visiting a neurologist for more tests. In the interim, I have a prescription for a painkiller that should help me at least get through the nights. Unfortunately, I can't take it during the day (it could make operating my chair dangerous), so I've been told to minimize where practical those activities that trigger and/or aggravate the pain. This means, alas, I won't be online much for the next month (though I will try to put the wrap-up thread for TDCCC together as soon as I can). Next month I go back to my doctor, at which point we'll work out a more focused treatment plan. He's hopeful we caught it early enough that there won't be any permanent, irreversible nerve damage. I'm trying to stay positive until then.
Cei-U!
I summon the cautious optimism!
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Post by Confessor on Jan 9, 2020 10:30:26 GMT -5
I posted this elsewhere in the forum, but I'm putting it here for a wider audience...
Talking of the rise of so-called geek culture in the mainstream (which we weren't), there's an insurance advert running on British TV at the moment that shows a guy in a call centre, and his dialogue implies that he is talking to the Marvel version of Thor about insuring his hammer. However, all the viewing audience hears is the call centre guy listing the magical properties of Mjölnir, with no mention of Thor or anything Marvel related, and it ends with the guy saying, "but if it always comes back, why do you need to insure it?" What's remarkable about this is that clearly the advertisers felt that most people would understand the reference and get the joke. Which I'm sure they do. But the fact that something as nerdy as the magical properties of Thor's hammer is now so widely known among the general populace of Great Britain that it can be used to sell insurance to the masses is really quite something. Geek culture sure has come a long, long way in the past two decades.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2020 14:35:26 GMT -5
My sister visited New York a little while back. She bought me back copies of The New York Times and The New York Post. They seemed like quality newspapers with proper news and analysis. Here we get lousy papers like the Daily Star!
Are any forum members New Yorkers? Do you read either paper? If so, do you have a preference?
I don't really read newspapers nowadays. When I glance at them in the supermarket, the front pages are usually about which soap star is having sex with who - or a headline that can be debunked in a matter of seconds. Maybe I was lucky with those two New York papers, but they sure seemed like a different quality (I realise the US probably does have an equivalent of the tabloid rags we have here).
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jan 9, 2020 14:39:04 GMT -5
I stopped reading the news after The Weekly World News went out of business.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 9, 2020 15:02:32 GMT -5
My sister visited New York a little while back. She bought me back copies of The New York Times and The New York Post. They seemed like quality newspapers with proper news and analysis. Here we get lousy papers like the Daily Star! Are any forum members New Yorkers? Do you read either paper? If so, do you have a preference? I don't really read newspapers nowadays. When I glance at them in the supermarket, the front pages are usually about which soap star is having sex with who - or a headline that can be debunked in a matter of seconds. Maybe I was lucky with those two New York papers, but they sure seemed like a different quality (I realise the US probably does have an equivalent of the tabloid rags we have here). I take the Times every day at home, a decision I made on Wednesday, November 9. I also subscribe on-line to the Boston Globe, Washington Post and our local daily. Grew up with the Times, the Post, the Daily News, Journal-American, the Herald-Tribune and other NY papers. (Where I discovered the funnies.) The Times frustrates me at times because it bends over backwards trying to assure everyone that it's being fair to all sides, and thus it gives op-ed space to the likes of whiny pontificator Brett Stephens and pulls its punches when reporting on Trump, who never lies, just "exaggerates," "hyperbolizes," or "misstates facts." Still, it is unbelievably comprehensive and by and large well written. (Though rare is the reporter even on the Times who knows the difference between "who" and "whom.") BTW, the NY Post used to be a reliable liberal paper with a long tradition of great columnists, from Murray Kempton to Pete Hamill. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought it; the result is the rag you see today. The Daily News, meanwhile, used to be the tabloid McCarthyite, crime-oriented rag in New York (Its most infamous headline: "Headless Body Found in Topless Bar"), but it has become much more moderate in the last 40 years or so. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 9, 2020 15:03:23 GMT -5
I stopped reading the news after The Weekly World News went out of business. The alien must have been a southpaw, just like Bill. He shoulda seen it comin'. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 9, 2020 15:18:40 GMT -5
My sister visited New York a little while back. She bought me back copies of The New York Times and The New York Post. They seemed like quality newspapers with proper news and analysis. Here we get lousy papers like the Daily Star! Are any forum members New Yorkers? Do you read either paper? If so, do you have a preference? I lived in the New York area for 31 years. The Times is the highest-prestige newspaper in the US. Compared to the Times, the Post is seen as almost as low as your Daily Star. Between the two is the Daily News, which was #1 in the New York market for a long time. The Times is now published in regional editions all across the country. At every opportunity, they remind people that USA Today was not the first national daily newspaper. We do have trashy tabloids. The best known are the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News. The latter has some comics people on its staff and can be a fun read for comics fans. |
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