-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
 
 WC> for March as February is slated for a CMOS battery, A drive and
 WC> hard drive for the Pentium. I should start the prep, tear down,
 WC> work on the Pentium in a week or ten days as I need to manage my
 WC> time so as to not overextend and being an NEC nothing is easy to
 WC> get to so I'll have to strip it to the M.B. even going so far as
 WC> to remove it to look for the model number on the underside and
 WC> checking that 1 IDE male pin I recall being loose and perhaps
 WC> solder reflowing it.

 RJT> This is starting to sound a bit like the attempts at managing what I
 RJT> have to do here -- I made a list the other day,  nowhere near complete,
 RJT>  but what is there is all technical stuff and it's all stuff that I've
 RJT> been meaning to get to for some time,  but somehow I never quite seem
 RJT> to get around to it.  
 
The Pentium is a priority just now though it has been lingering 
on the back burner for some time.
The beginning of next month I'll buy the A drive and battery first,
install them and make certain I'm good to go there than run out
and snag a 60 Gig. drive to slap in it.

 RJT> Maybe putting in written form and organizing my
 RJT> thoughts a bit further will help me make it happen,  maybe not.

 I should make lists for the next day myself.
 Today's only chore is to bathe the dog which I used to do every two
 weeks, than became a month and just now four months because of my
 back. However now I'm waking up smelling like the pooch as he sleeps
 with me so it needs to be done. Short laid down hair indoor dog
 so he's not that bad.

 WC> That's what the political climate has fostered. Watched "On Death
 WC> and Dying" with Bill Moyers and a doctor dying of esophegous
 WC> cancer couldn't get adaquate pain medication at the hospital he
 WC> formerly worked in as an oncologist :-(

 RJT> Was that on his "NOW" show?  I started to watch that but
gave up after
 RJT> one episode in which he really went on a rant,  I couldn't believe what
 RJT> sort of crap he was spouting.  I haven't had the inclination to look at
 RJT> it since then.

Haven't seen NOW just seen it listed however "On Death and Dying"
was a separate and independent production not related to any ongoing
series. Show followed a number of terminal cases from late stage to
the end with patient consent. Seems these terminal patients 
wanted the option to die with dignity, voluntary euthanasia,
and were willing to go public with their very personal trageties
to work towards legalization. One large formerly active
fellow in Texas was reduced to having his wife having to feed
him and take care of personal needs but he was lucky, former 
farm veteranarian so he had what he needed to go when he choose
to no matter what the law had to say about it.
The heartbreaker was the nurse in Oregon suffering from terminal
cancer who having met all the requirements for being given
a barbituate cocktail and a dignified exit listened to
a plea from her daughter and waited until she flew in for one
last visit. By the time the daughter had flown in the woman could
no longer swallow and Oregon law had no other provision under
which the woman's wishes could be respected. She died nine days 
later having no quality of life in the interrum and denied
her very last wish.

 RJT> I've seen only one in recent years,  they ended up sending me a bill
 RJT> rather than submitting it to my insurance (I'm still letting them
 RJT> hassle that one out),  I never got any results for what I went in there
 RJT> for,  and the place where the practice was stood empty the last time I
 RJT> went by there.  I had one appointment with the guy that Nancy's seeing,
 RJT>  they said they were gonna try and get the records on what went down,
 RJT> I haven't heard back from them yet, and that was several months ago
 RJT> now.  It's a breathing thing,  it's seasonal, and related to weather as
 RJT> well,  which leads me to think allergy,  so there oughta not be too
 RJT> damn much difficulty in finding out and dealing with it.  We'll see how
 RJT> it goes from here...

I can relate to the breathing thing, up until 17 I was really messed
up with allergies, took the shots ect.
Been fine since than, seemed to help when I moved a thousand
miles once or twice and different pollens.
Another thing I did was QUIT SMOKING which was bringing back my
earlier problems with a vengence :-( Two years after quitting all
was well again.

 WC> If I *ever* see a doctor again I'm going to make him do a spinal
 WC> x-ray before anything else. Problem there being getting a clear one
 WC> as they position me in such a way I involuntarily shake from the
 WC> pain and pinched nerves, such was a major problem back in 95.

 RJT> A good radiologist is also hard to find.  I remember when I broke my
 RJT> collarbone in a car crash some years back the tech screwed up,  and had
 RJT> to do it over, while I was seeing only shades of gray,  and according
 RJT> to what I'm told turning various shades of green.  What pissed me off
 RJT> was that they billed for both of them!

Shoot Finn ran four series before he gave up.
The man's an orthopedic surgeon, you're in there for a severe 
spinal injury and he's no clue nor provisions to allow for the condition
making the positioning for the x-ray to be taken being a problem?
had it been possible to take the x-ray laying flat on my
back that was doable but might not have
revealed what he needed to see.
I've got the x-rays and only one is marginally readable.
The NMRI's came through clear enough though, in fact I went to 
sleep in the machine which the nurse said she'd never seen before.
 
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