Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

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DavidOck

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@bigbells , this one's for you!

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That makes a lot of sense. A body only needs so much rest and that includes multiple/long naps. In my case though, by body starts to protest if I've been in bed for more than 6 hours. I gotta get up even if I'm still tired. A short nap, even if it's only 5 minutes and never more than 30 minutes in the afternoon fixes the afternoon slump and I'm still ready for bed at a decent hour. Somewhere I read that an afternoon nap should never last more than 20 minutes. Not sure why 20 min., but I know that if I should zonk out for an hour or more I wake up groggy and not at all happy for the rest of the day and seem to really wake up when it's time to go to bed. Of course a glass of wine before bed does wonders.
Dang Janet that's pretty good. We go to bed about 10:30 every night get up at 5 or 5:30 then take a nap from about 7-8;30 in our recliners and we are good for the day. So I guess that is about 8 hours a day. Dog is on our schedule and then has her own from there. Likes to lay on her pillows in the front window from about 8- 9:30 guarding the house from the pesky squirrels and quail and doves.
 

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Ginny went to her pain management appt yesterday. Sounds like this doc a Dr. Ghassen Nemri was a total idiot. She told him she has to take 2 Hydros to get the same effect as one. He didn't even read the 25 page forms she had to fill out. This guy one of his first questions was what kind of insurance she had and then started recommending injections into the nerve she has that is being pinched. He wasn't worried about the fentanyl at all even though that is the one she wants to reduce. She took the operative report from her stomach sugery and read the first line she told him she was picking up one of her Rxs that day and he wrote her another Rx for the same thing. The one I went to knew everything about me and had obviously read all the papers our PCP sent him. What a waste of time for her. The place she went to was obviously a pill mill. So now she has to go back to the PCP and tell her what this idiot was all about. She is also going to give her the Rx he wrote for her. Oh and he had to ask what kind of insurance she had even though she filled out the forms and had to have her cards scanned in when she checked in.
 

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Another thing I've noticed is that these docs from the Middle East are all in the money making sides, Pain Management, Weight Loss Surgery, Cancer Treatment. It's crazy.
I gotta say tho some of them are excellent docs like the Cancer doc that gives me the iron and my heart surgeon who is excellent both are very caring and really follow up on stuff others are just in it for the $$$$
 

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Another thing I've noticed is that these docs from the Middle East are all in the money making sides, Pain Management, Weight Loss Surgery, Cancer Treatment. It's crazy.

I gotta say tho some of them are excellent docs like the Cancer doc that gives me the iron and my heart surgeon who is excellent both are very caring and really follow up on stuff others are just in it for the $$$$

Sorry Pat, but now I'm just sooo frickin' puzzled at dis point... especially in light of your near unbelievable survival saga thus far! Not all 'geographically/racially ethnic' doctors are equal, including our own 'American' physicians...

Hopefully your not 'bouncing'!!!

BTW, at least two very kind/caring mid-East professionals aided in my brides continued 10 year survival; beyond her American neurologist's prognosis of 6-12 months! No blame, just gratitude/appreciation!!!

Dang those Nautilus heads are getting expensive. Didn't see any under 10.99 for 5 except China.

Yes, I continually monitor dat item. Must say dat in recent history, da source is drying up and da grand $ales of a few months ago are near non-existent today.

Thankfully, I took advantage and do not foresee, in my near future, duplicating my feeble failing attempts at 'coil wrapping/wicking'. If it comes to dat, I do know where to go...
 
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BTW, at least two very kind/caring mid-East professionals aided in my brides continued 10 year survival; beyond her American neurologist's prognosis of 6-12 months! No blame, just gratitude/appreciation!!!
 
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It might have something to so with the ones in Weight Loss surgeries. The very top surgeons in that field are Middle Easterners and these guys are good there is one in WA state and one in CA they are both by far the best but will not even talk to Medicare people. This is a shame. Sure I have a guy who can make a change in mine but these guys could completely revise it but won't even talk.
 

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Iffy you just get too damned put out by little stuff.
You just get offended too easy.
Your just too thin skinned.

You should know me well enough I don't mean anything by it thats just me. You always think I'm going to the darkside or something.

Our dearest Pat,

You could be correct in your evaluation; although via my supporting, admiring and encouraging posts I would have hoped I would have been judged to a lesser 'guilt' in your mind. So be it...

Regardless, I do know via our porches, you have been and are, not only a living 'medical miracle', but also an unbelievable and revered inspiration here. But that should not cloud the eyes of those here that truly care so much for you! Ergo, my previous post...

If I've offended you in ANY way, you have my most humble and sincere apology! Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa... <... still care!>
 

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It might have something to so with the ones in Weight Loss surgeries. The very top surgeons in that field are Middle Easterners and these guys are good there is one in WA state and one in CA they are both by far the best but will not even talk to Medicare people. This is a shame. Sure I have a guy who can make a change in mine but these guys could completely revise it but won't even talk.
I think this guy-- who has a reality show on the subject, finances much of his patients' expenses from the revenue from the show. Meet My 600-Lb Life’s Dr. Younan Nowzaradan, gastric bypass surgeon extraordinaire They certainly aren't the kind of people who would have good insurance or family resources.

He even does reversals.
 
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