24 Aug 09 05:11, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Yeup. 120/70 is the goal my doctor set for me. It's there now,
 RW>> unless I excercise some. Even then, it only goes to the 140s, which
 RW>> is normal.

 RN> The difference between those machines and the Sphygmomanometer the
 RN> doctors use must be like night is from day.  Surely they are subject
 RN> to some sort of calibration.

I've had them use both. My doctor in SD had one with two tubes filled with
Mercury mounted on the wall. I never did figure out how they read that
one. Using it also requires that they use a stethascope to listen to your
heart and count the beats while he also counts your heart beat while
counting the seconds with his watch.

The inflatable sleeve also has a stethascope that the machine uses
to count your heart rate.

I have no idea how they calibrate either one, but they surely must.

 RW>> She's been my doctor for the last 4 years. He's a newcomer by
 RW>> comparison, but I think, a much better doctor.

 RN> I've had this one for so long I'd hate to break in another.

That's what my dad said right after he got home from 3 months in intensive
care because his doctor screwed up. The only thing that saved his life was
my sister's vigilance and a helicopter ride to the University hospital in
Madison, WS.

All three of us advised him to find a younger, more knowledgable doctor,
which he did.

 RW>> My oldest daughter married a rosey cheeked Nebraska farmboy. His
 RW>> only saving grace AFAIC is that he's a good provider, working as a
 RW>> mechanic for Continental Airlines in Houston.

 RN> That doesn't hurt.  I sometimes think I chose the wrong path in the
 RN> workforce.

I sometimes thank my lucky stars that I chose to persue a trade before I
was too old to go back to school. That trade supported us for my entire
life.

 RW>> You'd have to pedal it pretty fast to do that. :o)

 RN> Something is wrong with Force's funnycar?

John Force pedals his car all the time, as do most of the drivers who're
always in the top ten. He taught his daughter how to pedal too.

 RW>> Nahhh. His mother would take it away from him and use it herself.
 RW>> I'll leave him enough to buy his own when he turns 25. By then a
 RW>> factory hotrod will be powered by hydrogen/electric...

 RN> Let's hope for his sake that the prices for those machines are
 RN> affordable.

They're building them now, so they should get cheaper as time marches on.


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