Imponderables: Ball And Chain by nvghostrider

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Imponderables: Ball And Chain

POSTED BY: NVGHOSTRIDER
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 05:03
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Monday, August 18, 2008 12:48 PM

Hmm that's an interesting point Rugbug, but hey if it's elective it can wait right ( I am so kidding right here) but I agree that you ought to be asked to address your part in your health situation before they address it medically. I have a friend whose wife( who by the way is truly loony tunes) has had several knee replacement surgeries and has all kind of physical ailments requiring massive medical care...almost everything is totally due to the fact that the woman weights 350 pounds and refuses and has always refused to eat any vegetable of any kind. She drinks two 12 packs of DrPepper a day and eats things like 6 cups of mashed potatos with 3/4 a pound of hamburger in gravy on top. When ordering a burger she will scrape the lettuce and tomato off. It drives me nuts. She refuses to even so much as take a short walk to anything because it's a " strain on her health" She even had gastric bypass and lost 150 pounds, but because of her eating habits she put it all back on..I mean come on... fix or try to fix what you did first then start bugging the doctors
I'm not skinny and definitely need to lose weightbut I do try to eat healthy and when my blood pressure was a bit higher I worked out more and stoped salty foods and such..bingo it was lower.

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Monday, August 18, 2008 1:09 PM

FREELANCERTEX

ok, how can you honestly drink TWO 12 packs of soda a day?

i can drink 2 glasses at the MOST, but....thats just...i don't know.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:00 AM

EMMARIGBY

Quote:
Originally posted by MSB:
hey England's nice( or at least better than what we have now)

The National Health Service is still quite contraversial in this country, due to a general underfunding and understaffing which often leads to perceived poor conditions and long wait times. I still remember reading an opinion poll a while back in which people voted almost unanimously in favour of it as a concept. It does lead to some awkward issues, such as local authorities having to decide what treatments should be freely available and which are not 'cost effective'. The only way to divide up limited finances to to do a rather grim cost-benefit analysis of what standard of living improvements are worth the money. I was reading Terry Pratchett's opinions of the choice of viagra over alzheimer's medication just this morning:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1046151/Terry-Pratchetts-ang
er-life-changing-Alzheimers-drug-available-NHS.html

The wait times have been getting better. I was working for them a few years ago and our hospital was meeting the new 18 week waiting period targets. The main problem facing the hospital at that point was keeping the staff when they could be making at least double in the private sector. Often nurses have to recruited and shipped in from abroad and then there is public backlash about scary 'foreigners' who often have poor English.

Oh dear, I'm waffling to avoid doing my work. Sigh! Better get back to it.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:03 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Good morning Ponderers.

Sorry to drop the conversation but this may be one of the last Imponderables threads before D*C. So what we are going with as a title is:

Imponderables: Road to Atlanta (Pt1)
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=34583

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