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[KnottedYet]

Giving up caffiene? NO. Give up running? OK.

Just leave me the caffiene!

Glad you're tracking this one down, Lise. (I keep seeing PVC and thinking "polyvinyl chloride")

[Lise]

Giving up caffiene? NO. Give up running? OK.

Just leave me the caffiene!

Glad you're tracking this one down, Lise. (I keep seeing PVC and thinking "polyvinyl chloride")

I just did a search, and appearantly they're called VPBs (ventricular premature beats) nowadays. (You know health care. Gotta change up the abbreviations every so often ) I found a good patient ed handout...and...can't figure out how to attach it here. Anyways, basically said what my anatomy text said. Not dangerous unless you have a weak heart muscle, can be annoying. My doc said that exercise can *help* them, so keep on. They certainly are not *helping* me exercise!

I wonder if this is a consequence of 13 years of the crazy life in midwifery...18 years in obstetrics (5 as a nurse before becoming a midwife). Too many jolts of adrenaline to the heart.

[winddance]

I think of pipes. Shows you how much I know.

Lise, I'm glad you're tracking this one down, too. There are lots of things that you can do without lots of other things, but hearts are important. Take care of yourself!

[Nanci]

Doesn't this make you want a baby???

[Lise]

um, it's a baby what? Having seen Milly's baby pictures, I'm thinking pigeon (a good guess with Nanci, anyways!) I saw a picture of a newborn baby panda--very pink and bristley.

Gooood news--I got 7 hours of sleep here in the call room! Not one page. I woke up several times to look at the clock, as usual, but I slept in between, and was horizontal the whole time. YAY! I'm going to see some ladies who had their babies yesterday, and then I'm off at 10. Performance Bike, though not the greatest shopping experience, *is* just down the street from the hospital. I'm going to go see what the tail end of their sale looks like.

See y'all later...

[betagirl]

Giving up caffiene? NO. Give up running? OK.

I agree totally.

So I'm reading about this foiled terror plot in the UK, and have to laugh at the pictures of Heathrow on CNN.com and the "chaos". Has anyone ever flown out of Heathrow? It always looks like that. Nothing travels smoothly or quickly through there. CDG in Paris is worse. Those are probably stock photos.

I also have problems with the "death on an unimaginable scale" comment. 20 planes, 300 people each on average is 6000. Yes that's 6000 too many. But I surely think if you read a little history of countries in, say, Africa you can imagine more than 6000. I'm sure more than 6000 people have been killed in Iraq.

Sorry, political rant over. I just can't stand the sensationalism of these news stories. Would I fly to London today? Absolultely. I have some ziploc bags.
My friend just told me they're going to have "milk testers". I wonder if Napoleon Dynammite will be there. "This one tastes like the cow got into an onion patch."

[Bicyclette]

I just read that too - about the milk - I read that if you're taking milk for your baby you have to have someone who will sample it.

Would I fly to London today?? NO!!! but then I won't fly anyday if I don't have to - I hate, hate, hate to fly - not because of terrorist incidents but because of crashing - I'm abdolutely phobic - so much so that my husband and I are discussing a transatlantic cruise for the next time we go back to the states

[Trekhawk]

I just read that too - about the milk - I read that if you're taking milk for your baby you have to have someone who will sample it.

Would I fly to London today?? NO!!! but then I won't fly anyday if I don't have to - I hate, hate, hate to fly - not because of terrorist incidents but because of crashing - I'm abdolutely phobic - so much so that my husband and I are discussing a transatlantic cruise for the next time we go back to the states

I was just reading the August copy of National Geographic and they have an interesting article on Ways to Go. Its stats on what holds the greatest chance of ending your life (macabre I know). Well Bicycling accidents are in there but they dont really rate much higher than Air/space accident. Here are a few of the stats.

Bicycling accident 1 in 4,919

Air/space 1 in 5,134

Pedestrian accident 1 in 626 (beware crossing the street)

Lightning 1 in 79,746

Falling 1 in 218

Fireworks discharge 1 in 340,733 (your pretty safe on the 4th of July)

Drowning 1 in 1,008

This little stat was at the top of the article "Total odds of dying, any cause 1 in 1"

Check the article out - some of the stats did suprise me.

[Trek420]

betagirl, I agree totally. And .... I always question the timing.

"My friend just told me they're going to have "milk testers"."

Alrighty, "you're flying with some French wine? Some British Ale? Step to the side, I have to try that. It's for Homeland security precaution of course"

Nanci, uh, no, that doesn't make me want to have kids but it is cute.

Off to pump the tires, got my shorts on, might as well ride to work.

[DrBee]

And .... I always question the timing.

I had the same thought.

[DrBee]

Nanci - Perhaps that's a face only a mother could love...or you, of course.

[Nanci]

I found a bird exactly like that laying in the middle of the road when I lived in Minnesota. I _thought_ it was a pigeon of some sort, but wasn't sure. The guys that were fixing our house after the tornado said it was a baby Great Blue Heron!!! I'm sure...That was my beloved Dil_bert_, who was with me only till Christmas of that year, the worst year of my life.

I won't give up caffeine, even though it occasionally makes my eye twitch for two weeks at a time...

[Trek420]

fishdr "I had the same thought"

This is so cool that sometimes we think the same thoughts.

I had a nice bike to work .... right up to the last block with a verbal encounter with a snotty whiner of a jaywalking pedestrian.

So my good mood is broken, till I log onto TE There now, I feel better. Now I'll get to work and Mallot, have a chat but you don't have to proove anything to anyone, spin your own spin.

[dachshund]

betagirl, I agree totally. And .... I always question the timing.

Thank you - that was the first thing that came to mind. The day after an anti-war candidate won, we have this sensational news and the warning levels at their highest. I suppose it could be a coincidence.

"Now, kids, don't forget to be afraid."
OK, I've filled my political quota for the day. That's enough, Amy...

[maillotpois]

"Now, kids, don't forget to be afraid."

Perfect!! Exactly right.

I will say I am glad our vacation next week involves camping in the woods instead of airport lines....

Well, Lise, I guess this PVC thing is being managed/investigated okay - but the whole chest pain business really concerned me. It's one thing to have your heart do some wonky things - but when it causes pain, that seems a bit odd.

I have finally traced the cause of my chest pain (other than the emboli) - it is Tuesday spin class with BEN. Any other spin class I have been fine with really bringing the effort level down, as I suspected that it was a high HR that led to chest pain the following day. Well, with Ben's spin class it is really hard to bring the level down. I know it's self-directed, etc. but he's just super intense and really motivating. SO I either have to skip Tuesdays or have a little chat with him explaining my bad self and why I won't be sweating as much.