[Magdalen] Prayer pats unhappy gut

[sally.davies at gmail.com]

Thanks Susan and Pub friends,

I'm definitely feeling better today and was able to make it to work, taking
care to keep the load manageable. The anti-spasmodic definitely
helped and I think I'd actually got more dehydrated than I realised -
running around the hospitals but not eating for fear of being caught in a
"Situation"!

i bought a pack of Ruby roasting veg for Christmas Dinner and some crackers
that promise explosions of confetti - the veg is basically butternut
squash, red onion and beetroot. I can also throw in some baby potatoes. Mom
is bringing a cooked gammon ham and I'll probably buy a tub of fancy ice
cream, that will be dinner.  The kids have a ready made lasagne to feast on
in the meantime and tomorrow I'll think about any other trimmings and maybe
some wine though Mom doesn't drink and with my dicky tummy I probably
shouldn't either.

We plan to go to Midnight Mass, me and Mom at any rate, will try to drag at
least one kid along.

So it's looking like a relaxed long weekend - South Africa has declared
Tuesday to be a public holiday as well to make up for Christmas being on a
Sunday,  so we won't be back to work until Wednesday.

When working with patients in hospital that's always a mixed feeling - I
need and appreciate the break but am also thinking of them and the hospital
staff who will be working as the long weekend stretches in front of them.

Sally D



On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 at 2:02 AM Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wishing you relief from your distress Sally.
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> Susan
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> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:51 PM,  <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Now THAT would make sense Jay. I haven't been doing anything or going
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> > anywhere unusual but now that I think of it I have had something like
> this
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> > before, many years ago - I don't recall any specific treatment but it did
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> > go away.
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> > I do feel a bit better this evening, after a day's rest, with plenty of
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> > fluids, paracetamol and antispasmodics.
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> > Thanks everyone for the pats and encouragement re colonoscopy. I'm fairly
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> > certain my medical aid will pay for it and may even reward me for doing
> it.
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> > Sally D
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> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 at 6:00 PM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> I it's been going on for 2 weeks, Sally, it's most likely NOT a virus.
> You
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> >>
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> >> live in a part of the world where parasites are endemic; has anyone
> thought
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> >>
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> >> to test for that? Probably not. My mom had giardiasis once and only the
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> >> fact that she had recently returned from Colorado made her doctor go
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> >> "Oopsy, let's check for that on the off chance...." and her test was
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> >> positive. You might go back and suggest a parasite check. But otherwise,
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> >> good for you on scheduling the c-scope. I don't have to have another one
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> >> until 2022, yay!
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> >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Charles Wohlers <
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> >> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
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> >> > And I've finally started the ball rolling on getting a colonoscopy
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> >> myself.
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> >> > (My doc has to send the GI doc paperwork).
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> >> > I've done the blood-in-stools test for some time now - infinitely
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> >> simpler,
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> >> > cheaper, and less invasive than colonoscopy. Only it needs to be done
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> >> every
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> >> > year. My last one was positive, therefore a colonoscopy is called for.
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> >> > Chad Wohlers
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> >> > Woodbury, VT USA
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> >> > chadwohl at satucket.com
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> >> > -----Original Message----- From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon
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> >> > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 10:02 AM
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> >> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
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> >> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Prayer pats unhappy gut
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> >> > I'm a big fan of that particular preventive
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> >> >>>>
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> >> >>> screening, as it actually includes removal of some tissue that could
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> >> > be pre-cancerous. Lowers your risk right then and there, and of course
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> >> > if there's anything of concern, best to catch it as early as
> possible.<<<
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> >> > Beat me to it Scott.  My doc said that since they've become more
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> >> > fashionable, as it were, incidents of colon cancer in the U.S. are
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> >> > something like 35% (or so, going from verbal memory).  I'm back in 5
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> >> years
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> >> > due to a couple benign biopsies taken.  And I don't care what anyone
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> >> > sedative or not (I swear they just pretended to give me something, I
> was
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> >> so
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> >> > alert), it IS relatively painless.  Not like the "opposite" variety
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> >> > (cystoscopy).
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> >> > Tell your doc, Sally, to start recommending it like we do.  He might
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> >> > become famous.
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> --
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