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A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
We're going back to the ER. -
A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Just a little update. We went to the MSU Neurology Department this morning and talked to the woman there in charge of referrals. The hospital had not contacted MSU about my wife, which is just fantastic. The woman was very concerned and apologetic and assured us that she would get us in very soon but she had to get a hold of Alison's records first. We should hear from her later today. Meanwhile, Alison's co-worker/mentor called just as we got home and it turns out she is good personal friends with Dr. McCoy (insert joke here) one of the doctors at Sparrow hospital that saw Alison and admitted her on Monday. She told Alison that she would call McCoy's wife and find out where he is and get him to call us, since Alison's symptoms are worsening. The numbness has moved into her lips, her tongue, and her chin and are spreading across her face into the right side. Also her left leg is starting to feel awkward. We may have to go back to the emergency room, although that seems pointless. Hopefully Dr. McCoy will call soon. We are also going to call her primary care physician and let him know about the worsening symptoms. -
A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Actually I did do a google search and found a post from some woman on a forum that described almost the exact same scenario my wife experienced. Check it out: http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/forum_2/G...p--Doctors.html I mean, that's almost exactly what happened and is happening to my wife. She mentions that one neurologist thought it might be a vitamin B deficiency (iron). My wife was anemic during her pregnancy until she started taking an iron supplement. Maybe she should start up again. One of the replies to that message mentions the dental work idea as well. So who knows? So far it seems it could be four things: MS, a pinched nerve or out of place vertebrae, iron deficiency, or metal poisoning. Of course it could be none of these things. -
Man, once you go white, nothing else is right!
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A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
The way the doctor phrased it is that there was a "spot". He didn't say where it was. He also wanted to get a second opinion because, as he put it, if they were to take an MRI of everyone in the room, we'd all probably have abnormalities. Monday we are going to drive to the MSU Neurology Clinic and not leave until they give us an appointment, prefferably within the next 24 hours. -
A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Thank you all for your warm thoughts and well wishes. We will keep you informed as things progress. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. Alison Wife of B3er -
A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
We have told them about the metallic taste. The main doctor she had while in the hospital just looked at us like, "Yeah, so?" We also told them about the huge bruise on her right butt cheek that she got when she slipped on the stairs about three weeks ago. They didn't seem to think that was anything, either. The chiropracter thought that the fall could've caused some spinal misalignments but she wants us to have more tests before she does any work because if it's something really serious then she could actually make it worse. So far, I think the vertebral artery test was pretty revealing. It could be a couple of vertebrae that are out of whack in the upper spine. Or it could be the first signs of MS. Who knows? It's all up in the air. Thanks, everyone for the replies and also the PMs. I appreciate it. -
A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
She just had the metallic taste, which is now gone. At first we thought this whole thing might've been related to the fact that she just had all her amalgams taken out about a week before these symptoms appeared. I've read articles about mercury poisoning and there are some studies out there that show that amalgams lose mercury (which is why they shrink and have to be replaced after awhile) and also that drilling them out can cause mercury vapor to escape. But none of that has been confirmed by the ADA and the metallic taste is gone. Also, I was just talking to my sister who is a physical therapist and she said the test that the chiropracter performed is called a Vertebral Artery test. I guess it's the vertebral arteries, not the carotid, that supply blood to the brain. She also said the thing that's probably hanging up the doctors is that everything is on her left side. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, but it controls the right side of the face. In other words, it should be the right side of the face and her left arm, shoulder, etc, not "left" everything. Weird. She is having a lot of pressure/dull pain today and more wooziness. -
A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Thanks, Leeway. The position doctors sometimes put you in is awkward, am I'm sure everyone knows. They are the doctor, you are the patient and they know what's best and you feel strange questioning them. Anyway, the problem now is that we are in limbo. We don't have a doctor. The doctor that was seeing her at the hospital told her that he specializes in strokes and couldn't do anything more for her and wanted her to see the doctors at the MSU neurology department and they aren't calling us back. So what the hell? -
A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
I forgot to add that on Monday as the symptoms came on in the morning, she had a metallic taste on the left side of her mouth. It was gone by Tuesday and has not returned. She also just told me that the doctors asked her about arm spasms, which she was not experiencing while in the hospital. But she said that yesterday and today she has had some where she'd be holding something and all of a sudden it would just fly out of her hand. I'm getting really worried now and I don't know why we have nothing scheduled until Wednesday. I'm about to drive her back to the emergency room or something. -
A little medical advice, please...
Jim Alfredson replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
I have no idea what our insurance covers. But I do want to get some second and third opinions. That's kind of what the chiropractic visit was for. She was very nice and explained everything very well whereas the doctors at the hospital don't tell you anything. I should say that Alison's cousin works as a radiologist technician at the same hospital we were at and she looked at Alison's chart (with my wife's permission) and could only decipher that the doctors had written something about an abnormality on the lower left part of her brain. What this means, nobody knows. Like I said, they don't tell us anything. To say I'm wary of doctors is an understatement. My mom was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died a month later, after the doctors reassured us that they could treat it with surgery and chemo. I'm pissed off that no one has called back from the neurological department. If this is a tumor or something, isnt' time of the essence? -
So Monday morning (November 8th) my wife woke up at 6:00am, her normal time, with a bloodshot left eye. She didn't really think anything of it and proceeded to do her morning routine and go to work. That day she had an appointment with a new doctor, a consultation to determine if he will become our family doctor. The appointment was at 1:00pm. Starting around 11:00am that morning, my wife started having dizzy spells while sitting at her desk at work. Then a numbness/tingle sensation started in the left side of her face as well as a dull ache behind her left ear. By noon it had traveled into her left neck and down her left shoulder and into her left arm. She drove herself to the doctor's office (not a good thing) and after doing a small checkup on her and listening to her symptoms, he told her she must go to the emergency room but obviously she couldn't drive. So she calls me at around 2pm and I gather up Zora and head to the office to pick her up (getting a cop after me in the process... no ticket... he was pissed when I told him I didn't have time for him!) We go to the emergency room, wait for three hours to get admitted, and finally get to see some doctors. By this time the numbness is just steady but not spreading anywhere else. Long story short, they kept her in the hospital until Wednesday (Nov. 10th) and ran a series of tests including a CT scan, EKG, an MRI, and an ultra-sound of her neck. They really haven't told us much except that she didn't have a stroke (I guess post-pardum strokes are more common than people know) and that they were not ruling out MS (multiple-sclerosis). She has another appointment this coming Wednesday to get an Evoke Vision Response test. She was also supposed to get an appointment with the Michigan State University neurological department. We've called them several times to set something up and no one has called us back. Yesterday we went to a chiropractor, just in case it might be a pinched nerve. She did a simple test where she asked Alison to follow her fingers with her whole head (instead of just her eyes, like the doctors in the hospital did what seemed like a thousand times). She started by moving her fingers so that Alison rotated her head to the left. Then she lifted them in the air so that Alison was looking left and back, up towards the ceiling, over her shoulder. Then she asked her to count backwards from 20. Alison missed the number 11 and when she turned her head back, had a massive dizzy spell that lasted a few minutes. When the chiropractor did on the right side, Alison didn't miss any numbers and had no dizziness. That's as far as the chiropractor went and told us to get some more tests done. It seems obvious to me from that test that something is wrong with her left caritod artery, the artery that runs up to the brain in the neck. That's what the ultrasound on her neck was for, but I have no idea if they just checked the external artery (which you can see and feel through the skin) or the internal. The dizziness seems to be caused by not getting enough blood to the brain. I suppose it could still be a pinched nerve or an out-of-line vertebrae in the lower neck that is causing the muscles around to swell and affect the caritod artery. But we just don't know. I feel like the doctors are looking for one thing (MS) and are stuck on that and not really looking for anything else. It could be that, but the neck test seems pretty substantial. Why didn't the doctors do a test like that? I guess I'm just looking for advice, or maybe someone here has had a similair experience. The symptoms are not worsening, but just staying the same. Although the dull pain behind her eye is back today and there is numbness again in her left cheek and under her tongue, which had not been there since Monday. Ideas?
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Yes. So what? The result is the same.
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Do they have a schedule online or did you hear that he would be on somewhere?
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On what?
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Hm... it's 8 o'clock here, but we're on daylight savings time. Perhaps they are too and I missed it?
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I'm off to try and record it!
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It's not the babe thread, but . . .
Jim Alfredson replied to Bright Moments's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
I asked her to put on some Jimmy Smith and come sit next to me and she started taking her shirt off. Damn... -
What channel on Sirius is this?
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Record it.
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"To me" don't count. If it's the same thing, why did the Beastie Boys go to the trouble of getting a license? Because that's what the law says they have to do. The law is silly. It's no different than quoting someone in a book or using other pieces of art to make a collage or quoting a melody or lick in a solo. Well it is different. It's taking a piece of a copyrighted recording and using it for your own gain. How about of some millionaires sampled something you recorded and it was a hit and it made millions and you got nothing. Are you saying you wouldn't have a problem with that? No, I wouldn't have a problem with that, as long as they gave me credit. With credit, chances are that a lot of the people that bought the record would dig into my music as well. Now, they have to change the sample they are using enough so that it doesn't resemble my music. The rule with collage in the art world is that as long as you alter something 30%, it's yours. For instance, MC Hammer using Rick James' "Superfreak" for his hit "Can't Touch This"... he should definately pay. There is barely any difference between the music of Superfreak and what Hammer rapped over. On the flip side, all the samples that the Beastie Boys used on Paul's Boutique... there are so many going by so fast, mixed together in a big "gumbo" that it's a totally different entity. To have to get permission by law to use a half second sample of something is ridiculous. If you copy the tune outright and then put your own words to it, that's a different story. It would be akin to quoting someone in a paper versus copying someone's thesis and only altering the opening paragraph.
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"To me" don't count. If it's the same thing, why did the Beastie Boys go to the trouble of getting a license? Because that's what the law says they have to do. The law is silly. It's no different than quoting someone in a book or using other pieces of art to make a collage or quoting a melody or lick in a solo.
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Ok.
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Chuck, despite the common analogy, songs are not children. A child is a human being and using a human being's likeness without his/her permission is totally different that using a half second sample of somebody's song. To me sampling is no different than lifting a bass line from a tune (such as Steely Dan taking the bass line from "Song For My Father" or Organissimo taking the drumbeat from The Meter's "Handclapping Song" for Clap Yo Hands).
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Two words: "Cherokee." Two words? How exactly does sampling stifle creativity? There will always be people creating music from standard instruments. Sampling is just another instrument that you can use.