[Magdalen] Prayer pats unhappy gut

Fri Dec 23 19:10:22 UTC 2016

An upset like this should not be going on for an extended period of time.
Please get some medical follow-up, and get a second opinion. It sounds like
your MD has given up, which, if you need intervention, will delay you
getting the help you need. I am very concerned about this. Please do good
to yourself!

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:09 AM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Susan
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:51 PM,  <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Now THAT would make sense Jay. I haven't been doing anything or going
> >
> > > anywhere unusual but now that I think of it I have had something like
> > this
> >
> > > before, many years ago - I don't recall any specific treatment but it
> did
> >
> > > go away.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > I do feel a bit better this evening, after a day's rest, with plenty of
> >
> > > fluids, paracetamol and antispasmodics.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Thanks everyone for the pats and encouragement re colonoscopy. I'm
> fairly
> >
> > > certain my medical aid will pay for it and may even reward me for doing
> > it.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Sally D
> >
> > >
> >
> > >
> >
> > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 at 6:00 PM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> >
> > >> I it's been going on for 2 weeks, Sally, it's most likely NOT a virus.
> > You
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> live in a part of the world where parasites are endemic; has anyone
> > thought
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> to test for that? Probably not. My mom had giardiasis once and only
> the
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> fact that she had recently returned from Colorado made her doctor go
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> "Oopsy, let's check for that on the off chance...." and her test was
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> positive. You might go back and suggest a parasite check. But
> otherwise,
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> good for you on scheduling the c-scope. I don't have to have another
> one
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> until 2022, yay!
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Charles Wohlers <
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > And I've finally started the ball rolling on getting a colonoscopy
> >
> > >> myself.
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > (My doc has to send the GI doc paperwork).
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> >
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > I've done the blood-in-stools test for some time now - infinitely
> >
> > >> simpler,
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > cheaper, and less invasive than colonoscopy. Only it needs to be
> done
> >
> > >> every
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > year. My last one was positive, therefore a colonoscopy is called
> for.
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> >
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > Chad Wohlers
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > Woodbury, VT USA
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > chadwohl at satucket.com
> >
> > >>
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> > >> >
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> > >>
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> > >> >
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> > >>
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> > >> >
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > -----Original Message----- From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 10:02 AM
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Prayer pats unhappy gut
> >
> > >>
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> > >> >
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> > >>
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> > >> >
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> > >>
> >
> > >> > I'm a big fan of that particular preventive
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> >>>>
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> >>> screening, as it actually includes removal of some tissue that
> could
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > be pre-cancerous. Lowers your risk right then and there, and of
> course
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > 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
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > fashionable, as it were, incidents of colon cancer in the U.S. are
> > down
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > something like 35% (or so, going from verbal memory).  I'm back in 5
> >
> > >> years
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > due to a couple benign biopsies taken.  And I don't care what anyone
> >
> > >> says,
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > sedative or not (I swear they just pretended to give me something, I
> > was
> >
> > >> so
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > alert), it IS relatively painless.  Not like the "opposite" variety
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > (cystoscopy).
> >
> > >>
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> > >> >
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > Tell your doc, Sally, to start recommending it like we do.  He might
> >
> > >>
> >
> > >> > become famous.
> >
> > >>
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> >
> > --
> >
> > The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> >
> > you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> >
> > land of Egypt.
> >
> > Leviticus 19:34
> >
> >
>