Hi, having a pre-BBC “I have to speak into this what and I don’t get to see anyone?” meltdown. And a “How can you still be on my roof?” meltdown (Linda says we were told Aug 15 they were 60% done – guess they are doing 240% of the roof?).
I think there are a few other meltdowns I am having as well. So come back when my sanity is up and running. I will talk of nice things then perhaps….if I have had a lobotomy!
Or I will be my normal self again.
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Good luck, Beth! Not that you need it. I know you'll awe them.
I so want to come to your place and throw rocks at those idiots on the roof - big ones!
You'll do great at the interview. Woe unto the evil roofers! Hope they will be gone soon.
Sharon
You will do great!
Ah, stage fright. Lots o' fun. Red Skelton had it such bad stage fright that he threw up before every performance for his entire career.
Don't worry about stage fright, dear. Or rather, don't worry that you have it. You WILL do fine. Trust us on this, Beth; we're your family, we're sending positive thoughts, and as I said last night, the CBC techs will help put you at ease, and they'll make you sound fine.
And Dawn: the storm known as Hannah appears to be on its way well to the east of you, so I hope you're in fine spirits today, too.
Group Hugs!
Neil
I've got my fingers crossed for you to do well, but some how I think you'd do great even if they weren't crossed.
Good luck & I hope you have fun!
Thinking of you. Go knock their socks off!
(no pressure! ;))
I too am wishing you well.
Roofers - grrrrrrrr! Where did I leave that voodoo doll...
Thanks for the well wishes, I slept poorly - ironically the fire department choose this morning to test ALL the fire alarms in the building (seriously, I can't make this stuff up). I did talk, they were running late so for 20 minutes but it went on to 25; how much of that will be used, I don't know. They talk to several people in the program about language and how it is used. They seemed facinated so I hope I get to keep 10 minutes or so. I know they like to have at least six people or more on a topic so we will see.
Either way it is over and like having a day of the nerves running up to it, I am oddly exhuasted. The woman at the CBC in Victoria seemed facinated with me and we talked quite a bit so maybe they will use me too, who knows.
I did end up talking at the end about how the language was created for diagnostics but that diagnostics was made for men, and women, like in the Canadian Medical Journal article, Undercover knee, showed that men and women talking about the same pain; men were offered knee replacements twice as often, women were considered to have emotion problems. For hip and knee, the ratio went up to 3 to 1 - and that is the "undercover" patients who went to 67 different doctors used the exact same script. The problem is that diagnosis is set up initially FOR men, and then adapted for women, but as I pointed out (on air) that of the six definitive criteria for my disease, penile erectile dysfunction and problems with ejaculation are two of the six diagnostic criteria (I for certain reasons like NOT HAVING A PENIS, don't fit those criteria).
The same is true for pain, men have the classic TV heart pain with radiating down the arm (which will simply be referred to as 'aura of foreboding' by doctors - that is thier speak - you can say, "I am HAVING a heart attack" but the EMT will say, "aura of foreboding followed by chest pain"), in women it is just or more likely to have pain radiate to the back and shoulders during a heart attack. In the same way extreme pain in women can also show up as nausea (in both sexes but more often in women). Oh well. Either way it is over and I will be the nut from Canada squeezed between the nut from Scotland and the EXPERT from London.
Happy that it went well!
Well, I suppose that they know at hospitals what female heartattacks are like, problem is that we common people doesn't know it.... For instance I didn't know until people I know got it, like nauscea, dizzyness and pain that can be mistaken for stomachpain.
Anyway, good night, and try to ignore the bad handymen.
I hope there's a time we can hear it. Maybe on the internet? Happy to year you did well.
OK the roofers get a brief reprieve as I focus my curses upon the building owner and management. After all they had to approve the fire alarm testing.
Now what would be a fitting affliction...
Ooh - Whorfian theory (language influencing thought, and all that)? I love that stuff!
I'm glad it went well, and that you were fascinating.
I've seen the hysterical woman problems from a different perspective, though. The boyfriend's dad had a brain tumour and the doctors were dismissing it as diabetes, even though he was displaying low blood sugar symptoms whilst actually having high blood sugar(it was actually starting to get bad and noticeable about this time last year, having been slightly dodgy from about July). Even a psychologist can work out that that's not right, so why the doctors did nothing I do not know. Oh, yes, and they gave him antidepressants (2 different sorts), too. He was probably a bit depressed, what with being sick a lot, having lapses in memory, not being able to eat, getting majorly confused and the occasional bad headache, and we were hoping that anti-depressants would help, but they did not. Anyway, he died. (end rant).
Sometimes it's not language, it's just that medical people can be stupid. But I'll go with it being language sometimes or a lot of the time. Language can be very powerful.
I look forward to hearing what you had to say!
Yeah, I've seen my husband go to the doctor. I've been in the office with him. I've seen him whine. I've thought: who is this person with me? I've seen him come out with jaw dropping amounts of medications for minor ailments. Some of these medicines are bad for him long term. And yet in the past I've had trouble getting a damn antihistamine--an antidepressant was written instead! Even though I'm not the one who becomes acutely emotional about sinus issues.
Speaking of penises, as you also point out, why is it they never use female erectile dysfunction as a symptom of diabetic, heart, or spine malfunction? It can malfunction on women too. But in their eyes, hey, no penis, no problem.
Two women I used to know had heart attacks (both still alive as far as I know). One went home from work with "flu-like symptoms," slep all night and woke up with the elephant on the chest feeling. She went to hospital and was diagnosed with a heart attack.
One evening, the second lady (next-door neighbour to the first...) had symptoms of flu, thought it might be a heart attack, so went to the hospital and was diagnosed with flu. Went back and got the same diagnosis the next morning. Second evening, she went in a third time, and insisted on a more careful check. The doctors were horrified and embarrassed to realize they had misdiagnosed a heart attack twice.
Both these ladies were trained in first and and CPR, both knew "all the symptoms" of a heart attack. For a MALE. Now we know here that females present different symptoms for heart attacks.
Glad the interview went relatively well.
Zen hugs,
Neilsar0ngs1
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