Yes I’m real, no I’m not participating via relay. I was on digest for the
first couple days till I had time to set up a folder and rules in outlook!
Wee! 
“Waving the rubber chicken above his head” (askIrisabouttheChicken)
I am on 500mg a day for the first two weeks and then I go up to 1000mg…
so far I only had the runs the first day, and the only other symptoms have
been a very mild upset stomach…
JM
Message: 22
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 00:34:01 EST
From: SRicha9391@…
Subject: Re: Good news…
In a message dated 2/13/2000 11:01:18 PM Central Standard Time,
wy236@… writes:
<< His name is Jim and he just started Glucophage, he asked me to ask you
lot
if any of you take it and what your results have been.
Iris
I take it Iris. I take 2000mg a day! I am going to loose some of this
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I got this post from another list I am on. I asked and received permission to
share it. I am sure everyone has been here at on time or another. Even I, who
thinks I am blessed to have diabetes!
Hi friends,
This morning, I feel like it really sucks to have diabetes. I got up
early this morning and left for the local blood drawing center where I
know ALL of the people who work there and got more blood work done for my
new doctor and a few other tests. No, today is just not a fun day to have
diabetes.
Over the past few weeks, I have been spending quite a bit of time alone.
I have needed it and will for a while longer. I realized just before
Christmas that instead of dealing with this disease, I have just pushed
it all to the back burner. I am angry at God for having this illness and
for it not just going away and staying away. I haven’t accepted the fact
that I have it really and there is a flood of emotions that I have been
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Happy(?) Anniversary to me! It was two years ago today that I was
finally correctly diagnosed in the hospital with Type 1 diabetes.
Valentine’s Day will never be quite the same any more.
Just a little down in Indy,
Connie
Has anyone noticed that ALL of the messages received from Marius today
are dated from as old as Thursday morning to as recent as early Sunday
morning! I would have never noticed it except that my messages are
sorted by order *received*. Is anyone else getting old messages from
him? Mine are date stamped with the time he sent them rather than the
time I received them. Maybe Prodigy is messed up, I don’t know. His
are the only ones I’m receiving delayed (and then not even in
chronological order).
Curious Connie
That was a good on SIR. It has almost made up for my lonely weekend with
“no one” on here.
GD
I went for my bi-weekly EPO injection today. The lab
tech asked if I had registered yet; yeah, about 1/2 hr. prior. She couldn’t
find it in the ‘puter. Then asked how to spell my last name. She had me as
Janet Hughes. I told her, no *s* it’s a *y.* She said it looked like Hughes
on the fax order and she had to add this to my standing orders. I asked why.
She showed me the paper. Now, I have 12 *-ologists* but NO Dr. Baxter. She
insisted. I said he is not my doctor. She said maybe I didn’t remember
seeing him. (Is that a complication of DM too??)
After a couple of phone calls the registrar came in and said it was her
screw-up. I asked if there was a way of cross-referencing a patient. They
said no. The lab tech told the dr’s. office I was adamant I was not his
patient. I felt I was insistent - but not to the point of adamant - YET!!
So, the lab tech who told me last time when I explained that after 49.5
years I have difficult veins and she should use a reg. syringe instead of a
vacutainer told me she’s the one they call when they can’t get blood,
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In case you get this caution about
breast cancer caused by antiperspirants, it is a HOAX.
Anti-Perspirants — Not a Breast Cancer Risk
Ed Friedlander MD
erf@…
I’m a medical doctor, board-certified in both anatomic and clinical pathology. I
operate the world’s largest free online personalized health information service.
I have received several copies of an inflammatory E-mail that is making rounds
right now (spring 1999). According to the anonymous author, “the leading cause
of breast cancer is antiperspirants.”
As I’ve noted elsewhere, life has taught me never to attribute to malice what is
adequately explained by stupidity. People like to believe lies that make them
feel morally and intellectually superior.
This particular one, however, is egregious.
Breast cancer is an ancient disease, and was very common in the descriptions of
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There are certain basic computer terms that you need to try to familiarize
yourself with, so that when you go to purchase a computer, you don’t sound like
just some random jerk. Instead, you’ll sound like a specific jerk
who memorized some terms out of a book.
HARDWARE - This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill
beer on it.
SOFTWARE - These are the PROGRAMS that you put on the HARD DRIVE by sticking
them through the little SLOT. The function of the software is to give
instructions to the CPU, which is a set of three initials inside the compu
ter that rapidly processes billions of tiny facts, called BYTES, and within a
fraction of a second sends you an ERROR MESSAGE that requires you to call the
CUSTOMER SUPPORT HOTLINE and be placed on HOLD for approximately
the life span of a CARIBOU. Software is usually accompanied by DOCUMENTATION in
the form of big fat scary MANUALS that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past
five years most of the “manuals” shipped with software produc
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A defending attorney was cross examining a coroner.
The attorney asked, “Before you signed the death certificate had
you
taken the man’s pulse?”
The coroner said, “No.”
The attorney then asked, “Did you listen for a heart beat?”
“No.”
“Did you check for breathing?”
“No.”
“So when you signed the death certificate you had not taken any
steps
to make sure the man was dead, had you?”
The coroner, now tired of the brow beating said, “Well, let me put
it
this way. The man’s brain was sitting in a jar on my desk, but for
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