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Topic: Organ at Loew's Jersey.
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Gerard S. Cohen
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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 11-30-2007 02:55 PM
Stephen, I'm sorry to learn of your health problems. I've always been impressed by the long distances you often travel to experience the very best of film presentations, and I wish you speedy recovery and an end to your headaches.
I seldom got headaches, and when on rare instances one developed, one or two Ibuprophen pills would cause it to disappear in at most a couple of hours.
But recently I've been having sinus headaches on the left side,
especially since the steam heat has come on with colder weather.
One night I thought to try the saline spray mist that comes in pocket size (and larger) metal cans in any drug store. They produce a fine mist when inserted into one nostril at a time, and clear the sinus and nasal passages on application, without any drugs, since they consist only of pure salt water and compressed air as propellent. Used over the sink or basin, the relief was most welcome. Sometimes a simple solution works best.
I speak only of my own condition, and don't mean to diagnose yours. I hope you will overcome your distaste for doctors, since as we grow older we often need their expertese.
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 11-30-2007 04:12 PM
Thank you Gerard.
I would have been at a film show on Monday evening at he Sheffield Library Theatre, but I wasn't well enough to go this year. This was for an event that's held each year, towards the end of November, and again between Christmas and New Year. The show finishes at about 22:30, and there are no trains to London at that time, so I get the morning coach up from London, spend a few hours in the City, go to the film show in the evening, then wait on the streets of Sheffield until 01:45 the following morning, when the overnight coach leaves for London, arriving at 06:20, just in time for me to get to work afterwards, but I really didn't feel that I could face doing that at the moment. The theatre no longer has any film equipment installed, they bring in a portable 16mm Marc 300 machine for it, but I did manage to buy some 35mm spools that they had left over last year. London to Sheffield is probably about 250km, quite local really; I've met people at Bradford that have come over from New Zealand!
I've not seen anything like those sprays here. I've spoken to my line manager, and also the health and safety officer at work, the radiator which is so hot that it burns my skin if I touch it, and is only 25cm or so away from me when I'm sitting at my desk certainly makes things worse, as does the cold air blowing around my head when I have to open the window because of it. As I walk under the 'curtain' heaters inside the main entrance doors I can feel a 'pulse' of pain in my head. I've arranged to move away from my desk until this gets cleared up, which has helped somewhat. It goes off overnight, generally starts to come back about mid-morning, and then gets gradually worse during the day. I normally have to work late on one evening per week, and I've managed to get them to let me drop that for the time being as well, but there's a cost implication there, as I don't get paid overtime, but the person who is covering for me does, so it's costing them extra money while I'm not doing it. They are sympathetic, but I think they will soon insist that I go to the Doctor.
It's not really that I dislike Doctors as such, I just don't like the idea of medical treatment; I hate being touched, which they have to do to take pulse etc., I know I'm going to be told that I'm overweight, and my blood pressure is much too high. To be honest, although it's not likely, I suppose that I fear the possibility that I might be told that it's something serious. I know lots of people who have suddenly dropped dead, including another one recently, of about my age, and while the idea of that, in itself, doesn't worry me to much, the idea of knowing about it in advance does somewhat. I'm pretty sure that whatever is wrong with me at the moment isn't serious, but there is a certain worry in the back of my mind. Then it involves thinking about the insides of bodies, which is something I prefer not to think about.
My Doctor doesn't do appointments; you just have to turn up at the surgery and wait your turn. I was going to go a few days ago, but it had been particularly bad the previous day, and I hadn't got to sleep until about four o'clock. After that I overslept, and by the time I got to the surgery the waiting room was packed, including lots of screaming children, and I just couldn't face a long wait with that, so I came out again. I'll probably try again on Monday, it will be almost seven weeks by then. If I get there early I should get seen almost straight away.
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Gerard S. Cohen
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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 11-30-2007 11:02 PM
I know the crowded waiting-room scene. My sister's MD has his nurse schedule many patients at the same appointment time, and then calls them according to their order of arrival or the urgency of their complaint. So I ask for the first appointment of the day and arrive before the doctor arrives, to reduce waiting time, since my sister is in a wheelchair and I have to schedule her travel with the municipal Access-A-Ride van with hydraulic lift a day in advance. Now we're switching her to a neurologist who works by individual appointment only, next door to my wife's office. He changed my sister's medications with remarkably beneficial effect.
I work with my wife, a pediatrician, and we work by appointment only, encouraging patients to telephone in advance. We can usually schedule an appointment the same or the next day if
the child is sick; for a routine checkup, within a week. I'm not an MD, so I do the billing and have relinquished most other duties to a young bilingual student by training her to handle reception, filing and most office duties. She's now in college (at my alma mater) and can multitask and communicate much better than I can. (I'm a pensioner of 30 years of teaching and 26 of projection, both union, so this is my third career.)
In pediatrics many parents arrive with infants in strollers and other kids in tow, so we have a large waiting room; nontheless we try to minimize waiting to avoid transmitting disease from patient to patient and to give maximum attention to each with a minimum of kid's vocalizing.
So my goal is to keep the waiting room as empty as possible and the waiting time close to zero. But would you believe some people consider a packed waiting room as an indication of a doctor's excellence? (Not so much in pediatrics, where our patients tend to appreciate not having to wait in a roomful of coughing and crying kids.)
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 01-26-2008 12:02 PM
Any more news of how the organ is? How often is it likely to be used in future.
I've been 'unretired' from the projection room for just one day, and I'm working a fairly short shift for a Saturday, about ten hours; my health doesn't seem to be improving, but I thought I would be ok to do just an odd late evening, as I would have a late start. Yesterday the main breaker on the supply at the College came out; not unusual, we're heavily overloaded, but this time we brought out something on the other side of the substation, so we had to get the power company, EDF, in to get the supply back on. This didn't happen until late last night, so we all had to go in at about 07:30 this morning to get the UPSs, servers and the telephone system back up, so my short day has turned into a 15 hour one. So far, my head isn't too bad, I just hope it stays that way for the last 4.5 hours or so.
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