Robot knows best!

Another exciting Saturday night at Casa de Curt. Actually, I'm heading
out to a local restaurant for their Greek night tonight. Bottle of
Ouzo in hand. But I was watching Lost in Space <http://www.imdb.com/
title/tt0058824/> on DVD and the Robot offered a quote that rings true
for me, apparently:

"Except for a slight tingling sensation in my rotor, I am
functional."

The orthopedic surgeon went over my MRI with me recently and offered
that there's no tear.

I reacted to this news with mixed emotions: "So, you're saying I'm a
sissy?"

I mean, it's good that there's no tear but then what am I crying
about? The good doctor offered that I should simply stay the course
and that if things don't improve that he could dig in there to look
for a spur or some other reason for my complaint.

Several hundred dollars to my health care provider later and that's
that. Okay.

Back to the ouzo! I'm actually more interested in coffee and baklava,
but the I promised the one waitress I'd return with the BYOB action.

Wishing everyone an excellent weekend. TGIF (plus one day)!

--
Curt

"Curt" <curtjames@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Another exciting Saturday night at Casa de Curt. Actually, I'm heading
> out to a local restaurant for their Greek night tonight. Bottle of
> Ouzo in hand. But I was watching Lost in Space <http://www.imdb.com/
> title/tt0058824/> on DVD and the Robot offered a quote that rings true
> for me, apparently:
>
> "Except for a slight tingling sensation in my rotor, I am
> functional."

Wow.. if you had only watched this movie BEFORE the MRI.

> The orthopedic surgeon went over my MRI with me recently and offered
> that there's no tear.

Maybe they switched your MRI with someone else

> I reacted to this news with mixed emotions: "So, you're saying I'm a
> sissy?"
>
> I mean, it's good that there's no tear but then what am I crying
> about? The good doctor offered that I should simply stay the course
> and that if things don't improve that he could dig in there to look
> for a spur or some other reason for my complaint.
>
> Several hundred dollars to my health care provider later and that's
> that. Okay.

That just sucks. Well... have another doctor look at the MRI results. I had
a situation where one doc would look at my echocardiogram results and not
see anything, then I take the VHS of my echo to another doctor and he
spotted all sorts of things. So get a copy of the results and take it
elsewhere?

Richard

> Back to the ouzo! I'm actually more interested in coffee and baklava,
> but the I promised the one waitress I'd return with the BYOB action.
>
> Wishing everyone an excellent weekend. TGIF (plus one day)!
>
> --
> Curt
>

Richard wrote:
> "Curt" wrote

> > <snip> I was watching Lost in Space
> > <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058824/>
> > on DVD and the Robot offered a quote
> > that rings true for me, apparently:
>
> > "Except for a slight tingling sensation in
> > my rotor, I am functional."
>
> Wow.. if you had only watched this movie
> BEFORE the MRI.

Exactly! Coulda saved me fifty bucks in co-payments.

> > The orthopedic surgeon went over
> > my MRI with me recently and offered
> > that there's no tear.
>
> Maybe they switched your MRI with
> someone else

Diabolical, but definitely a possibility. The one technologist
looked... shifty.

> > I reacted to this news with mixed
> > emotions: "So, you're saying I'm a
> > sissy?"
[...]

> That just sucks. Well... have another
> doctor look at the MRI results. I had
> a situation where one doc would look
> at my echocardiogram results and not
> see anything, then I take the VHS of
> my echo to another doctor and he
> spotted all sorts of things. So get a
> copy of the results and take it elsewhere?

Maybe. But I think I'll simply suffer in relative silence.

Or, hey, in the spirit of sissies everywhere, I can just whiiiiine
about it here.

[...]

--
Curt

"Curt" <curtjames@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Richard wrote:
> > "Curt" wrote
>
> > > <snip> I was watching Lost in Space
> > > <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058824/>
> > > on DVD and the Robot offered a quote
> > > that rings true for me, apparently:
> >
> > > "Except for a slight tingling sensation in
> > > my rotor, I am functional."
> >
> > Wow.. if you had only watched this movie
> > BEFORE the MRI.
>
> Exactly! Coulda saved me fifty bucks in co-payments.
>
> > > The orthopedic surgeon went over
> > > my MRI with me recently and offered
> > > that there's no tear.
> >
> > Maybe they switched your MRI with
> > someone else
>
> Diabolical, but definitely a possibility. The one technologist
> looked... shifty.

It can happen

> > > I reacted to this news with mixed
> > > emotions: "So, you're saying I'm a
> > > sissy?"
> [...]
>
> > That just sucks. Well... have another
> > doctor look at the MRI results. I had
> > a situation where one doc would look
> > at my echocardiogram results and not
> > see anything, then I take the VHS of
> > my echo to another doctor and he
> > spotted all sorts of things. So get a
> > copy of the results and take it elsewhere?
>
> Maybe. But I think I'll simply suffer in relative silence.

No need to suffer in silence.. have another doc take a look if it doesn't
get better.

> Or, hey, in the spirit of sissies everywhere, I can just whiiiiine
> about it here.

True! Or.. you can do what I do. When they can't see anything on MRI or
xray, go fuck it up even worse. Make it so bad that they can finally see it
on imaging!

Richard


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> Curt
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