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    From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 5 16:49:49 2025
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that makes
    life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the MRI
    they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 5 12:25:37 2025
    On Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:49:49 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that makes
    life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the MRI
    they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    I hope you can solve that problem. You cannot give up riding. I've had
    balance problems for many years due to inner ear damage. I had trouble
    riding two wheelers, trying to maintain stability by supplementing my
    messess up ears with visual.

    Then I found the Catrike. I'll never give up riding.

    --
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    Soloman

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Wed Feb 5 11:59:43 2025
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    That's quite a long delay.

    There are independent MRI services, typically prompt and
    $400~700 cash, rather than waiting a month and billing
    someone else for the same service at $2500~$4000 through The
    Medical Racket.

    https://radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/locations-by-city/mri/oakland-ca-mri/

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
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  • From Shadow@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 5 15:05:16 2025
    On Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:49:49 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that makes
    life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the MRI
    they would do nothing to treat that.


    I did advise you to go to an ER. They do still exist in the US,
    despite Trump? Must be free, since they are for American citizens with
    medical emergencies ....

    What you described can progress very rapidly so an ER is safer than
    waiting for an out-patient with a neurologist. And you definitely
    should not be driving, you are a risk to others.


    I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    Probably just ordered a regular MRI, not the "special" TK MRI.
    []'s
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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Wed Feb 5 12:18:37 2025
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?


    None of us know what is actually wrong (although Mr Shadow
    probably has better intuition) and none of use know what to
    do about it.

    We all wish you well and exhort you, seriously and strongly,
    to go to an ER immediately. And it would be best to have
    someone else drive.

    Don't ignore those very serious symptoms. Please.

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to Shadow on Wed Feb 5 12:15:22 2025
    On 2/5/2025 12:05 PM, Shadow wrote:
    On Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:49:49 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that.


    I did advise you to go to an ER. They do still exist in the US,
    despite Trump? Must be free, since they are for American citizens with medical emergencies ....

    What you described can progress very rapidly so an ER is safer than
    waiting for an out-patient with a neurologist. And you definitely
    should not be driving, you are a risk to others.


    I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    Probably just ordered a regular MRI, not the "special" TK MRI.
    []'s

    What is a "TK MRI" ? Web search was unhelpful.

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Wed Feb 5 13:20:42 2025
    On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:18:37 -0600, AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?


    None of us know what is actually wrong (although Mr Shadow
    probably has better intuition) and none of use know what to
    do about it.

    We all wish you well and exhort you, seriously and strongly,
    to go to an ER immediately. And it would be best to have
    someone else drive.

    Don't ignore those very serious symptoms. Please.

    +1

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Wed Feb 5 18:20:51 2025
    AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 12:05 PM, Shadow wrote:
    On Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:49:49 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I
    have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't
    know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the
    only thing other than my wife that makes life worth living. According
    to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT
    scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck
    that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But
    without the MRI they would do nothing to treat that.


    I did advise you to go to an ER. They do still exist in the US,
    despite Trump? Must be free, since they are for American citizens with
    medical emergencies ....

    What you described can progress very rapidly so an ER is safer than
    waiting for an out-patient with a neurologist. And you definitely
    should not be driving, you are a risk to others.


    I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    Probably just ordered a regular MRI, not the "special" TK MRI.
    []'s

    What is a "TK MRI" ? Web search was unhelpful.


    Lost me as well, I’ve had a few MRI’s plus threatened with a Functional MRI luckily the Doctor decided that this was her own medical curiosity than a medical need!

    Roger Merriman

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  • From Shadow@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Wed Feb 5 15:33:46 2025
    On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:15:22 -0600, AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2/5/2025 12:05 PM, Shadow wrote:
    On Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:49:49 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that.


    I did advise you to go to an ER. They do still exist in the US,
    despite Trump? Must be free, since they are for American citizens with
    medical emergencies ....

    What you described can progress very rapidly so an ER is safer than
    waiting for an out-patient with a neurologist. And you definitely
    should not be driving, you are a risk to others.


    I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    Probably just ordered a regular MRI, not the "special" TK MRI.
    []'s

    What is a "TK MRI" ? Web search was unhelpful.

    An MRI desined(sic) and programmed by a "Tom Kunich".
    I also had trouble finding any references. Why I recommended the
    regular one. Or rather, recommended an ER. Let them decide what is
    best, an MRI or a CT scan.
    Could be something as benign as side effects of
    medication(self or prescribed) or as bad as a mobile blood clot. That
    could progress very quickly.
    And I'm off. Bad no-break. Overheating and cuts off. Probably
    just needs a new battery.
    []'s
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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to Catrike Ryder on Wed Feb 5 19:20:29 2025
    Catrike Ryder <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:18:37 -0600, AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I
    have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't
    know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the
    only thing other than my wife that makes life worth living. According
    to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT
    scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck
    that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But
    without the MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they
    did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?


    None of us know what is actually wrong (although Mr Shadow
    probably has better intuition) and none of use know what to
    do about it.

    We all wish you well and exhort you, seriously and strongly,
    to go to an ER immediately. And it would be best to have
    someone else drive.

    Don't ignore those very serious symptoms. Please.

    +1

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman


    Indeed if the symptoms are, remotely as he’s posted that’s definitely A&E sort of job.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From Frank Krygowski@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Wed Feb 5 22:21:37 2025
    On 2/5/2025 1:18 PM, AMuzi wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability.
    I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't
    know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is
    the only thing other than my wife that makes life worth living.
    According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see
    from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery
    in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls
    balance. But without the MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I
    wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?


    None of us know what is actually wrong (although Mr Shadow probably has better intuition) and none of use know what to do about it.

    We all wish you well and exhort you, seriously and strongly, to go to an
    ER immediately. And it would be best to have someone else drive.

    Don't ignore those very serious symptoms. Please.

    Agreed.

    --
    - Frank Krygowski

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 8 19:14:06 2025
    On Wed Feb 5 11:59:43 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    That's quite a long delay.

    There are independent MRI services, typically prompt and
    $400~700 cash, rather than waiting a month and billing
    someone else for the same service at $2500~$4000 through The
    Medical Racket.

    https://radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/locations-by-city/mri/oakland-ca-mri/




    Typically the damage has already been done and about all they can do is prescribe blood thinners which I am not convinced is a good idea since a stroke is a brain bleed and thinner only expand that. So they explained to me that yes, I had a stroke and
    then could not tell me how much damage was done and how much recovey I might expect.

    I think that is was odd that I had the stroke sitting around at home with lowered vital signs and not on a ride where you would expect them to be elevated. Right now it feels a bit odd walking, I am easily unbalanced so I remain within range of something
    I can grab onto if I do lose my balance, not that I've needed it but just in case. My wife took my car keys and won't let me drive and she is three times more dangerous a driver than I am. She takes turns too fast and too wide and scares hell out of the
    oncoming traffic.She typpically drives too fast, approaches stop signs and lights until she had to brake hard to stop and is generally unobservant. And she won't let me drive. She also gets lost easily and needs Google directions. How can you get lost
    when all you have to do is turn left and follow the road?

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 8 18:58:25 2025
    On Wed Feb 5 12:18:37 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?


    None of us know what is actually wrong (although Mr Shadow
    probably has better intuition) and none of use know what to
    do about it.

    We all wish you well and exhort you, seriously and strongly,
    to go to an ER immediately. And it would be best to have
    someone else drive.

    Don't ignore those very serious symptoms. Please.




    I wen't to the local stroke center and went through their whole process. Really all they could tell me is that I had a stroke quite some time ago and one again recently. That explains the constant dizzyness in the past wheich I thought caused by the
    medication. As for the recent one all they could say was that I had the stroke and that I would probably regain enough function to ride again probably after a month but possibly as long as a year. But I have a large empty industrial parking lot a block
    away that would allow me to ride about and practice to see what funjction I have regained. Since I am about to fihish the Merak and the Idol that will be handy.

    Believe me when I say that I have a very strong dislike of hospitals after 3 days in one. In a place where you should be able to get some rest, you are kept awake nearly all of the time with noise and taking of vital signs. And ALL of my vital signs ae
    better than normal since I exercise so much.

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Sat Feb 8 21:20:26 2025
    cyclintom <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Wed Feb 5 12:18:37 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I
    have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't
    know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the
    only thing other than my wife that makes life worth living. According
    to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT
    scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck
    that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But
    without the MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they
    did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?


    None of us know what is actually wrong (although Mr Shadow
    probably has better intuition) and none of use know what to
    do about it.

    We all wish you well and exhort you, seriously and strongly,
    to go to an ER immediately. And it would be best to have
    someone else drive.

    Don't ignore those very serious symptoms. Please.




    I wen't to the local stroke center and went through their whole process. Really all they could tell me is that I had a stroke quite some time ago
    and one again recently. That explains the constant dizzyness in the past wheich I thought caused by the medication. As for the recent one all they could say was that I had the stroke and that I would probably regain
    enough function to ride again probably after a month but possibly as long
    as a year. But I have a large empty industrial parking lot a block away
    that would allow me to ride about and practice to see what funjction I
    have regained. Since I am about to fihish the Merak and the Idol that will be handy.

    I’d still urge some caution ie does the risk vs benefit unless the bike
    needs to be ridden tested it can wait!

    Believe me when I say that I have a very strong dislike of hospitals
    after 3 days in one. In a place where you should be able to get some
    rest, you are kept awake nearly all of the time with noise and taking of vital signs. And ALL of my vital signs ae better than normal since I exercise so much.

    I have almost no memory of my only adult inpatient as well Post Traumatic Amnesia though so only islands of memory, of my time there, but yes
    hospital even if lucky enough to get a side room etc aren’t the most
    restful of places, one of the other reasons the move to get people home as
    soon as possible and be cared for in the community.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Sat Feb 8 15:54:52 2025
    On 2/8/2025 1:14 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Wed Feb 5 11:59:43 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    That's quite a long delay.

    There are independent MRI services, typically prompt and
    $400~700 cash, rather than waiting a month and billing
    someone else for the same service at $2500~$4000 through The
    Medical Racket.

    https://radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/locations-by-city/mri/oakland-ca-mri/




    Typically the damage has already been done and about all they can do is prescribe blood thinners which I am not convinced is a good idea since a stroke is a brain bleed and thinner only expand that. So they explained to me that yes, I had a stroke and
    then could not tell me how much damage was done and how much recovey I might expect.

    I think that is was odd that I had the stroke sitting around at home with lowered vital signs and not on a ride where you would expect them to be elevated. Right now it feels a bit odd walking, I am easily unbalanced so I remain within range of
    something I can grab onto if I do lose my balance, not that I've needed it but just in case. My wife took my car keys and won't let me drive and she is three times more dangerous a driver than I am. She takes turns too fast and too wide and scares hell
    out of the oncoming traffic.She typpically drives too fast, approaches stop signs and lights until she had to brake hard to stop and is generally unobservant. And she won't let me drive. She also gets lost easily and needs Google directions. How can you
    get lost when all you have to do is turn left and follow the road?

    Trouble is, there are unknown unknowns.

    Was your recent mini stroke from a brain bleed? Is it still
    seeping? Is there an aneurysm? How dangerous is it?

    Or was it from a clot? How big? Where?

    Or were your stroke-like symptoms caused by something else?

    I'm as hands-on as anyone about general medication, sewing
    simple wounds, setting simple breaks etc but your symptoms
    indicate a professional consultation with someone
    specialized and experienced in this area.

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From Shadow@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 8 19:18:24 2025
    On Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:14:06 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Wed Feb 5 11:59:43 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    That's quite a long delay.

    There are independent MRI services, typically prompt and
    $400~700 cash, rather than waiting a month and billing
    someone else for the same service at $2500~$4000 through The
    Medical Racket.

    https://radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/locations-by-city/mri/oakland-ca-mri/




    Typically the damage has already been done and about all they can do is prescribe blood thinners which I am not convinced is a good idea since a stroke is a brain bleed and thinner only expand that. So they explained to me that yes, I had a stroke and
    then could not tell me how much damage was done and how much recovey I might expect.

    Most strokes are not by blood vessels "bursting". Rather they
    are from the formation of blood clots on plaques of cholesterol that
    later move and travel down an artery until it's too tight, then they
    block it. Whatever is on the other side (brain tissue) dies from lack
    of oxygen.
    Taking a thinner like aspirin or warfarin prevents clots from
    forming. Though if you have an accident you will bleed a LOT more.
    And warfarin is annoyingly difficult to adjust to the right
    dose but it is preferable to aspirin in your age group.

    I think that is was odd that I had the stroke sitting around at home with lowered vital signs and not on a ride where you would expect them to be elevated. Right now it feels a bit odd walking, I am easily unbalanced so I remain within range of
    something I can grab onto if I do lose my balance, not that I've needed it but just in case. My wife took my car keys and won't let me drive and she is three times more dangerous a driver than I am. She takes turns too fast and too wide and scares hell
    out of the oncoming traffic.She typpically drives too fast, approaches stop signs and lights until she had to brake hard to stop and is generally unobservant. And she won't let me drive. She also gets lost easily and needs Google directions. How can you
    get lost when all you have to do is turn left and follow the road?

    Just got one of my cars back from the mechanic. Wife managed
    to hit a speed bump so hard the rear springs slipped. Sounded like I
    had a hardware store in the boot. And while the car was at the
    mechanic she hit the garage door with the other car.
    Why do women think that pumping the accelerator makes the ride
    more comfortable?
    And other riddles....
    []'s
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    We have a new policy - Google 2012
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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Sat Feb 8 17:16:53 2025
    On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 15:54:52 -0600, AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2/8/2025 1:14 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Wed Feb 5 11:59:43 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability. I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is the only thing other than my wife that
    makes life worth living. According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls balance. But without the
    MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    That's quite a long delay.

    There are independent MRI services, typically prompt and
    $400~700 cash, rather than waiting a month and billing
    someone else for the same service at $2500~$4000 through The
    Medical Racket.

    https://radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/locations-by-city/mri/oakland-ca-mri/




    Typically the damage has already been done and about all they can do is prescribe blood thinners which I am not convinced is a good idea since a stroke is a brain bleed and thinner only expand that. So they explained to me that yes, I had a stroke and
    then could not tell me how much damage was done and how much recovey I might expect.

    I think that is was odd that I had the stroke sitting around at home with lowered vital signs and not on a ride where you would expect them to be elevated. Right now it feels a bit odd walking, I am easily unbalanced so I remain within range of
    something I can grab onto if I do lose my balance, not that I've needed it but just in case. My wife took my car keys and won't let me drive and she is three times more dangerous a driver than I am. She takes turns too fast and too wide and scares hell
    out of the oncoming traffic.She typpically drives too fast, approaches stop signs and lights until she had to brake hard to stop and is generally unobservant. And she won't let me drive. She also gets lost easily and needs Google directions. How can you
    get lost when all you have to do is turn left and follow the road?

    Trouble is, there are unknown unknowns.

    Was your recent mini stroke from a brain bleed? Is it still
    seeping? Is there an aneurysm? How dangerous is it?

    Or was it from a clot? How big? Where?

    Or were your stroke-like symptoms caused by something else?

    I'm as hands-on as anyone about general medication, sewing
    simple wounds, setting simple breaks etc but your symptoms
    indicate a professional consultation with someone
    specialized and experienced in this area.

    I had a good friend who had an aneurysm. He called us at work on his
    day off because our number was the only thing he could remember. He
    didn't know is name or even know who he was calling, but we recognized
    his voice called an ambulance and got to his home. It took him over a
    year to get back to work.

    One day, years later, I was having double vision. He packed me up in
    the truck and hauled me to the hospital before I even got my computers
    turned off. Turned out that my issue was only stress. I was under a
    lot of pressure to get my software project finished while raising my
    two kids all by myself.

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From sms@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Sun Feb 9 00:08:12 2025
    On 2/5/2025 9:59 AM, AMuzi wrote:

    <snip>

    There are independent MRI services, typically prompt and $400~700 cash, rather than waiting a month and billing someone else for the same
    service at $2500~$4000 through The Medical Racket.

    https://radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/locations-by-city/ mri/oakland-ca-mri/
    Our Medicare Part B has a $225 deductible for an MRI. The provider is
    good about scheduling an MRI for serious issues like this, and they err
    on the side of caution. They get you in within one day.

    Not sure what Medicare Advantage plan Tom is on, and it's too late to
    switch for this year, so he should just pay for it out of pocket if his provider refuses to pay.

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Sun Feb 9 11:15:59 2025
    AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2/8/2025 1:14 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Wed Feb 5 11:59:43 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    Well, I just tried to ride and do not have any directional stability.
    I have3 an appointment with my Neurologist on the 26th. I really don't >>>> know what I am going to do if I cannot ride my bike. That really is
    the only thing other than my wife that makes life worth living.
    According to the ER last week, the magic bullet is an MRI. They see
    from the CT scan that I have at least a partial blockage of an artery
    in my neck that has to do with the part of my brain that controls
    balance. But without the MRI they would do nothing to treat that. I
    wonder what they did before I desined and programmed the first MRI?

    That's quite a long delay.

    There are independent MRI services, typically prompt and
    $400~700 cash, rather than waiting a month and billing
    someone else for the same service at $2500~$4000 through The
    Medical Racket.

    https://radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/locations-by-city/mri/oakland-ca-mri/




    Typically the damage has already been done and about all they can do is
    prescribe blood thinners which I am not convinced is a good idea since a
    stroke is a brain bleed and thinner only expand that. So they explained
    to me that yes, I had a stroke and then could not tell me how much
    damage was done and how much recovey I might expect.

    I think that is was odd that I had the stroke sitting around at home
    with lowered vital signs and not on a ride where you would expect them
    to be elevated. Right now it feels a bit odd walking, I am easily
    unbalanced so I remain within range of something I can grab onto if I do
    lose my balance, not that I've needed it but just in case. My wife took
    my car keys and won't let me drive and she is three times more dangerous
    a driver than I am. She takes turns too fast and too wide and scares
    hell out of the oncoming traffic.She typpically drives too fast,
    approaches stop signs and lights until she had to brake hard to stop and
    is generally unobservant. And she won't let me drive. She also gets lost
    easily and needs Google directions. How can you get lost when all you
    have to do is turn left and follow the road?

    Trouble is, there are unknown unknowns.

    Was your recent mini stroke from a brain bleed? Is it still
    seeping? Is there an aneurysm? How dangerous is it?

    Or was it from a clot? How big? Where?

    Or were your stroke-like symptoms caused by something else?

    I'm as hands-on as anyone about general medication, sewing
    simple wounds, setting simple breaks etc but your symptoms
    indicate a professional consultation with someone
    specialized and experienced in this area.


    From his other post would seem he was an inpatient for 4 days? so while as
    ever he’s vague hopefully he’s had appropriate care, noting that brains don’t heal as such, though hopefully he’ll get back to the bike at some point.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to sms on Sun Feb 9 09:10:53 2025
    On 2/9/2025 2:08 AM, sms wrote:
    On 2/5/2025 9:59 AM, AMuzi wrote:

    <snip>

    There are independent MRI services, typically prompt and
    $400~700 cash, rather than waiting a month and billing
    someone else for the same service at $2500~$4000 through
    The Medical Racket.

    https://radiologyassist.com/facility-locations-rates/
    locations-by-city/ mri/oakland-ca-mri/
    Our Medicare Part B has a $225 deductible for an MRI. The
    provider is good about scheduling an MRI for serious issues
    like this, and they err on the side of caution. They get you
    in within one day.

    Not sure what Medicare Advantage plan Tom is on, and it's
    too late to switch for this year, so he should just pay for
    it out of pocket if his provider refuses to pay.

    We agree on the urgency and the relatively small expense.

    Yet and all, going through The Medical Racket does generate
    huge billings, even when you do not personally pay all of
    that, and delays are more the norm than immediacy.

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 16:49:14 2025
    On Sat Feb 8 21:20:26 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    I have almost no memory of my only adult inpatient as well Post Traumatic Amnesia though so only islands of memory, of my time there, but yes
    hospital even if lucky enough to get a side room etc aren?t the most
    restful of places, one of the other reasons the move to get people home as soon as possible and be cared for in the community.




    Two nights of 8 hours of sleep certainly helped though my balance is still questionable.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 17:04:56 2025
    On Sat Feb 8 15:54:52 2025 AMuzi wrote:

    Trouble is, there are unknown unknowns.

    Was your recent mini stroke from a brain bleed? Is it still
    seeping? Is there an aneurysm? How dangerous is it?

    Or was it from a clot? How big? Where?

    Or were your stroke-like symptoms caused by something else?

    I'm as hands-on as anyone about general medication, sewing
    simple wounds, setting simple breaks etc but your symptoms
    indicate a professional consultation with someone
    specialized and experienced in this area.




    They were very careful that I not see the actual pictures of the stroke. There was a clot in the main artery in the back of the neck But that might have been there since my initial brain injury since the blood flow is completely bypassed with the
    surrounding arteries.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 16:57:14 2025
    On Sun Feb 9 07:58:12 2025 John B. wrote:

    You might want to read something like https://www.brainwellmedical.com/stroke/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInOiI16-1iwMVtCODAx0c4yixEAAYASAAEgK8l_D_BwE

    Just so you know what you are talking about.




    John when and where did you get your medical degree so that you have even a clue what you're talking about? I worked in the medical business for 50 years including designing and programming the MRI that revealed the stroke. That you are continualy
    talking about things that you know nothing about should embarass a thinking person.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 17:11:49 2025
    On Sun Feb 9 11:15:59 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    From his other post would seem he was an inpatient for 4 days? so while as ever he?s vague hopefully he?s had appropriate care, noting that brains
    don?t heal as such, though hopefully he?ll get back to the bike at some point.




    3 days, but I hould recover enough to ride. Bicycles balance themselves so I only need to get to the place where I can point them properly.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 17:08:47 2025
    On Sat Feb 8 17:16:53 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:

    I had a good friend who had an aneurysm. He called us at work on his
    day off because our number was the only thing he could remember. He
    didn't know is name or even know who he was calling, but we recognized
    his voice called an ambulance and got to his home. It took him over a
    year to get back to work.

    One day, years later, I was having double vision. He packed me up in
    the truck and hauled me to the hospital before I even got my computers
    turned off. Turned out that my issue was only stress. I was under a
    lot of pressure to get my software project finished while raising my
    two kids all by myself.




    I am of the opinion that I will recover enough to ride. My fallback position is a catrike.

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Sun Feb 9 18:28:45 2025
    cyclintom <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun Feb 9 11:15:59 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    From his other post would seem he was an inpatient for 4 days? so while as >> ever he?s vague hopefully he?s had appropriate care, noting that brains
    don?t heal as such, though hopefully he?ll get back to the bike at some
    point.




    3 days, but I hould recover enough to ride. Bicycles balance themselves
    so I only need to get to the place where I can point them properly.


    If you want hope, I and other disabled cyclists find it much easier to
    cycle than to walk, my balance is much happier on a bike than it is on foot particularly around town, though I’d certainly need to be mindful of hill walking and my capacity to do so.

    Bike is largely as I was.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Sun Feb 9 18:31:53 2025
    cyclintom <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat Feb 8 21:20:26 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    I have almost no memory of my only adult inpatient as well Post Traumatic
    Amnesia though so only islands of memory, of my time there, but yes
    hospital even if lucky enough to get a side room etc aren?t the most
    restful of places, one of the other reasons the move to get people home as >> soon as possible and be cared for in the community.




    Two nights of 8 hours of sleep certainly helped though my balance is still questionable.



    I slept for weeks be that in bed occasionally being woken by my wife
    checking I wasn’t alive, ie heart beat, or on the sofa where I drifted in
    and out, luckily my wife was able to work from home as I wasn’t safe to be left alone.

    I’d strongly suggest taking it easy ie rest before trying anything too adventurous doesn’t sound too serious and sounds like recovery to be able
    to ride is likely.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 14:12:30 2025
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:08:47 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sat Feb 8 17:16:53 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:

    I had a good friend who had an aneurysm. He called us at work on his
    day off because our number was the only thing he could remember. He
    didn't know is name or even know who he was calling, but we recognized
    his voice called an ambulance and got to his home. It took him over a
    year to get back to work.

    One day, years later, I was having double vision. He packed me up in
    the truck and hauled me to the hospital before I even got my computers
    turned off. Turned out that my issue was only stress. I was under a
    lot of pressure to get my software project finished while raising my
    two kids all by myself.




    I am of the opinion that I will recover enough to ride. My fallback position is a catrike.

    No balancing required. They're slower uphill, but faster downhill. In
    my opinion, Catrike is the best trike. Made in the USA.

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to Roger Merriman on Sun Feb 9 14:14:58 2025
    On 9 Feb 2025 18:28:45 GMT, Roger Merriman <[email protected]> wrote:

    cyclintom <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun Feb 9 11:15:59 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    From his other post would seem he was an inpatient for 4 days? so while as >>> ever he?s vague hopefully he?s had appropriate care, noting that brains
    don?t heal as such, though hopefully he?ll get back to the bike at some
    point.




    3 days, but I hould recover enough to ride. Bicycles balance themselves
    so I only need to get to the place where I can point them properly.


    If you want hope, I and other disabled cyclists find it much easier to
    cycle than to walk, my balance is much happier on a bike than it is on foot >particularly around town, though I�d certainly need to be mindful of hill >walking and my capacity to do so.

    Bike is largely as I was.

    Roger Merriman

    I managed pretty good on a diamond frame until I looked away from
    where I was going.

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 23:09:20 2025
    On Sun Feb 9 18:31:53 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:
    cyclintom <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat Feb 8 21:20:26 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    I have almost no memory of my only adult inpatient as well Post Traumatic >> Amnesia though so only islands of memory, of my time there, but yes
    hospital even if lucky enough to get a side room etc aren?t the most
    restful of places, one of the other reasons the move to get people home as >> soon as possible and be cared for in the community.




    Two nights of 8 hours of sleep certainly helped though my balance is still questionable.



    I slept for weeks be that in bed occasionally being woken by my wife
    checking I wasn?t alive, ie heart beat, or on the sofa where I drifted in
    and out, luckily my wife was able to work from home as I wasn?t safe to be left alone.

    I?d strongly suggest taking it easy ie rest before trying anything too adventurous doesn?t sound too serious and sounds like recovery to be able
    to ride is likely.




    I have my fingers crossed. I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but that is memory and
    mine sucks.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 23:11:29 2025
    On Sun Feb 9 14:12:30 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:08:47 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sat Feb 8 17:16:53 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:

    I had a good friend who had an aneurysm. He called us at work on his
    day off because our number was the only thing he could remember. He
    didn't know is name or even know who he was calling, but we recognized
    his voice called an ambulance and got to his home. It took him over a
    year to get back to work.

    One day, years later, I was having double vision. He packed me up in
    the truck and hauled me to the hospital before I even got my computers
    turned off. Turned out that my issue was only stress. I was under a
    lot of pressure to get my software project finished while raising my
    two kids all by myself.




    I am of the opinion that I will recover enough to ride. My fallback position is a catrike.

    No balancing required. They're slower uphill, but faster downhill. In
    my opinion, Catrike is the best trike. Made in the USA.




    Over the years I've looked at every recumbent and the catrike is really the only viable recumbent.

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 16:09:58 2025
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:09:20 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I have my fingers crossed.

    It seems to be working. Your typing, spelling and grammar error seem
    to have decreased since you started typing with your fingers crossed.

    I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but that is memory and mine sucks.

    It must be horrible not being able to remember things you that you
    don't recall doing. That's almost as horrible as remembering things
    that you didn't do in the past.

    --
    Jeff Liebermann [email protected]
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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  • From Shadow@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 10 10:39:59 2025
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:09:58 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:09:20 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I have my fingers crossed.

    It seems to be working. Your typing, spelling and grammar error seem
    to have decreased since you started typing with your fingers crossed.

    LOL

    I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but that is memory and mine sucks.

    It must be horrible not being able to remember things you that you
    don't recall doing. That's almost as horrible as remembering things
    that you didn't do in the past.

    That would be classic confabulation:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation>

    Check out signs and symptoms and see if it reminds you of
    anyone.
    []'s

    []'s


    --
    Don't be evil - Google 2004
    We have a new policy - Google 2012
    Google Fuchsia - 2021

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to Shadow on Mon Feb 10 17:44:20 2025
    Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:09:58 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:09:20 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I have my fingers crossed.

    It seems to be working. Your typing, spelling and grammar error seem
    to have decreased since you started typing with your fingers crossed.

    LOL

    I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but
    looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming
    task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but
    that is memory and mine sucks.

    It must be horrible not being able to remember things you that you
    don't recall doing. That's almost as horrible as remembering things
    that you didn't do in the past.

    That would be classic confabulation:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation>

    Check out signs and symptoms and see if it reminds you of
    anyone.
    []'s

    []'s



    I did question this and other symptoms before but folks said he had always
    done this, he fits a certain stereotypical brain injured man.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 10 19:37:51 2025
    On Mon Feb 10 07:33:45 2025 John B. wrote:

    Yup, I remember you thrilling us about stories how you questioned
    "Queers" to find out how they got sick.

    Ah well, I guess that could be called the Medical Business.




    John, I remember you thrilling us about how important it was to be a crew chief on an obsolete bomber and then refusing to tell us what you actually did working for that support subcontractor.

    I never once claimed to be impoirtant. People who left letters of recommendation for me did. Interviewing queers was a two week job between engineering projects aimed at ending AIDS and was designed to discover why queers contracted AIDS without blood to
    blood contact. The results were inconclusive to science but it did leave Liebermann claiming that AIDS was not a homosexual disease because 10 times more strsight people had it than homosexuals.

    And yet, after my thermocyclers ended HIV in the blood banks this shrunk to only a homosexual disease.

    You live in this little world of your own like Liebermann wishing to be importsnt rather than simply living your life. Being important is nothing but a waste of time. i would like you styanding next to God and telling him that crew chief story. Or
    Liebermann telling God that I really didn't have over a million dollars in investments.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 10 20:05:39 2025
    On Sun Feb 9 16:09:58 2025 Jeff Liebermann wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:09:20 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I have my fingers crossed.

    It seems to be working. Your typing, spelling and grammar error seem
    to have decreased since you started typing with your fingers crossed.

    I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but that is memory and mine sucks.

    It must be horrible not being able to remember things you that you
    don't recall doing. That's almost as horrible as remembering things
    that you didn't do in the past.




    Well, I have the advantage of actually having done things in the past whereas you spent a small fortune on tuition so that you could change ink jet printer cartridges.

    Jeff, give up, a fucking nobody that has never accomplished one single thing in his life cannot insult a real working engineer.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 10 20:11:08 2025
    On Mon Feb 10 17:44:20 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:
    Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:09:58 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:09:20 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I have my fingers crossed.

    It seems to be working. Your typing, spelling and grammar error seem
    to have decreased since you started typing with your fingers crossed.

    LOL

    I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but
    looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming
    task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but >>> that is memory and mine sucks.

    It must be horrible not being able to remember things you that you
    don't recall doing. That's almost as horrible as remembering things
    that you didn't do in the past.

    That would be classic confabulation:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation>

    Check out signs and symptoms and see if it reminds you of
    anyone.
    []'s

    []'s



    I did question this and other symptoms before but folks said he had always done this, he fits a certain stereotypical brain injured man.




    I suppose that you can so easily explain away recommendations of people working for universities and Laurence Berkeley Labs? You can so easily explain away the programming of the poison gas detector that the army used in Iraq? Or the communications
    adapter tha is still on the International Space station?

    Talking about brain damage is just the speed of people that are manual laborers.

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025
    cyclintom <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Mon Feb 10 17:44:20 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:
    Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:09:58 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:09:20 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I have my fingers crossed.

    It seems to be working. Your typing, spelling and grammar error seem
    to have decreased since you started typing with your fingers crossed.

    LOL

    I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but
    looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming
    task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but >>>>> that is memory and mine sucks.

    It must be horrible not being able to remember things you that you
    don't recall doing. That's almost as horrible as remembering things
    that you didn't do in the past.

    That would be classic confabulation:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation>

    Check out signs and symptoms and see if it reminds you of
    anyone.
    []'s

    []'s



    I did question this and other symptoms before but folks said he had always >> done this, he fits a certain stereotypical brain injured man.




    I suppose that you can so easily explain away recommendations of people working for universities and Laurence Berkeley Labs? You can so easily explain away the programming of the poison gas detector that the army
    used in Iraq? Or the communications adapter tha is still on the
    International Space station?

    Talking about brain damage is just the speed of people that are manual laborers.


    Brain damage isn’t and often doesn’t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and often they can still do the big things, it’s running the house and so on
    that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie
    the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 11 16:12:27 2025
    On Tue Feb 11 08:40:46 2025 John B. wrote:
    On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:37:51 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 07:33:45 2025 John B. wrote:

    Yup, I remember you thrilling us about stories how you questioned
    "Queers" to find out how they got sick.

    Ah well, I guess that could be called the Medical Business.




    John, I remember you thrilling us about how important it was to be a crew chief on an obsolete bomber and then refusing to tell us what you actually did working for that support subcontractor.

    What's with "obsolete". The squadron, one of two squadrons in the
    world to be established solely to monitor the communists ands active
    until 1968 - with much of it's work still classified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6091st_Reconnaissance_Squadron

    The following aircraft were uses

    RB-29 Superfortress
    RB-50B Superfortress
    RB-50G Superfortress
    RB-45C Tornado, 1954
    RB-57F Canberra, 1965?1968
    C-47 Skytrain, 1954?1968
    C-119G Flying Boxcar, 1954?1968
    C-130B-II Hercules, 1961?1968
    EC-97G Stratofreighter, 1963?1968


    I never once claimed to be impoirtant. People who left letters of recommendation for me did. Interviewing queers was a two week job between engineering projects aimed at ending AIDS and was designed to discover why queers contracted AIDS without blood
    to blood contact. The results were inconclusive to science but it did leave Liebermann claiming that AIDS was not a homosexual disease because 10 times more strsight people had it than homosexuals.

    And yet, after my thermocyclers ended HIV in the blood banks this shrunk to only a homosexual disease.

    You live in this little world of your own like Liebermann wishing to be importsnt rather than simply living your life. Being important is nothing but a waste of time. i would like you styanding next to God and telling him that crew chief story. Or
    Liebermann telling God that I really didn't have over a million dollars in investments.


    Well, of course I can't speak for God, but you are a constant liar so
    who is going to believe YOU?
    --
    Cheers,




    Funny how you have a list of the most preposterous aircraft in the world - a flying
    BOXCAR (which was nothing more than what it was called) and yet you never heard of the Strategic Air Command ir Tacticak Air Connand. Wikipedia is a wonderful thing for people your age.

    Really John, I'm not knocking the B50 which was nothing more than an improved B29, but air reconasance missions were really not that necessar4y as Russia and China were recovering from the war.

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Tue Feb 11 10:41:07 2025
    On 2/11/2025 10:12 AM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Tue Feb 11 08:40:46 2025 John B. wrote:
    On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:37:51 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 07:33:45 2025 John B. wrote:

    Yup, I remember you thrilling us about stories how you questioned
    "Queers" to find out how they got sick.

    Ah well, I guess that could be called the Medical Business.




    John, I remember you thrilling us about how important it was to be a crew chief on an obsolete bomber and then refusing to tell us what you actually did working for that support subcontractor.

    What's with "obsolete". The squadron, one of two squadrons in the
    world to be established solely to monitor the communists ands active
    until 1968 - with much of it's work still classified.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6091st_Reconnaissance_Squadron

    The following aircraft were uses

    RB-29 Superfortress
    RB-50B Superfortress
    RB-50G Superfortress
    RB-45C Tornado, 1954
    RB-57F Canberra, 1965?1968
    C-47 Skytrain, 1954?1968
    C-119G Flying Boxcar, 1954?1968
    C-130B-II Hercules, 1961?1968
    EC-97G Stratofreighter, 1963?1968


    I never once claimed to be impoirtant. People who left letters of recommendation for me did. Interviewing queers was a two week job between engineering projects aimed at ending AIDS and was designed to discover why queers contracted AIDS without
    blood to blood contact. The results were inconclusive to science but it did leave Liebermann claiming that AIDS was not a homosexual disease because 10 times more strsight people had it than homosexuals.

    And yet, after my thermocyclers ended HIV in the blood banks this shrunk to only a homosexual disease.

    You live in this little world of your own like Liebermann wishing to be importsnt rather than simply living your life. Being important is nothing but a waste of time. i would like you styanding next to God and telling him that crew chief story. Or
    Liebermann telling God that I really didn't have over a million dollars in investments.


    Well, of course I can't speak for God, but you are a constant liar so
    who is going to believe YOU?
    --
    Cheers,




    Funny how you have a list of the most preposterous aircraft in the world - a flying
    BOXCAR (which was nothing more than what it was called) and yet you never heard of the Strategic Air Command ir Tacticak Air Connand. Wikipedia is a wonderful thing for people your age.

    Really John, I'm not knocking the B50 which was nothing more than an improved B29, but air reconasance missions were really not that necessar4y as Russia and China were recovering from the war.

    Well, the Pentagon and the IRS extracted taxes to pay for
    each and every one so someone thought they were good ideas.

    Amazing the they didn't consult with you before writing
    purchase contracts.

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 11 16:22:29 2025
    On Tue Feb 11 08:25:24 2025 John B. wrote:
    On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:11:08 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 17:44:20 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:
    Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:09:58 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]> >> > wrote:

    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:09:20 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I have my fingers crossed.

    It seems to be working. Your typing, spelling and grammar error seem >> >> to have decreased since you started typing with your fingers crossed. >> >
    LOL

    I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but
    looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming
    task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but >> >>> that is memory and mine sucks.

    It must be horrible not being able to remember things you that you
    don't recall doing. That's almost as horrible as remembering things
    that you didn't do in the past.

    That would be classic confabulation:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation>

    Check out signs and symptoms and see if it reminds you of
    anyone.
    []'s

    []'s



    I did question this and other symptoms before but folks said he had always >> done this, he fits a certain stereotypical brain injured man.




    I suppose that you can so easily explain away recommendations of
    people working for universities and Laurence Berkeley Labs? You can so
    easily explain away the programming of the poison gas detector that
    the army used in Iraq? Or the communications adapter tha is still on
    the International Space station?

    Talking about brain damage is just the speed of people that are manual laborers.

    Can you "so easily explain away...

    " recommendations of people working for universities and Laurence
    Berkeley Labs", THAT HE SAYS recommended him??

    Or THAT HE SAYS worked on a poison gas detector?

    Or THAT HE SAYS worked on something for the space statement?

    Or THAT SAYS has millions in the bank.

    Or THAT SAYS almost anything?




    OK John, what do you know about programming? You seem to have the idea that the communications adapter was something special when it was far more trouble writting the manual to NASA sytandards than designing and programming.

    Likewise, had the physicists given me the proper formula for how the poison gas detector worked it would have been a 2 week programming job rather than a 3 month drag where I finally had to work the proper formula out for myself. And damage my lungs in
    the process.

    And it must really hurt you that I have a million plus in the back so that you have to exaggerate it for effect. Because all of my investments are now in funs and bonds, I'm now only making $10,000 a month. But I'm only spending #3,000 a month.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 11 19:13:07 2025
    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:
    cyclintom <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Mon Feb 10 17:44:20 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:
    Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:09:58 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]> >>> wrote:

    On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:09:20 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I have my fingers crossed.

    It seems to be working. Your typing, spelling and grammar error seem >>>> to have decreased since you started typing with your fingers crossed. >>>
    LOL

    I thought that I was employed to build one of the initial MRI's but >>>>> looking into the science it was probably more likely a programming >>>>> task. I do not remember ever working with super-conducting magnetc but >>>>> that is memory and mine sucks.

    It must be horrible not being able to remember things you that you
    don't recall doing. That's almost as horrible as remembering things >>>> that you didn't do in the past.

    That would be classic confabulation:

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation>

    Check out signs and symptoms and see if it reminds you of
    anyone.
    []'s

    []'s



    I did question this and other symptoms before but folks said he had always >> done this, he fits a certain stereotypical brain injured man.




    I suppose that you can so easily explain away recommendations of people working for universities and Laurence Berkeley Labs? You can so easily explain away the programming of the poison gas detector that the army
    used in Iraq? Or the communications adapter tha is still on the International Space station?

    Talking about brain damage is just the speed of people that are manual laborers.


    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on
    that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on.

    Roger Merriman


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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 11 19:16:00 2025
    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on
    that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on.




    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only weakness I seem to have is balance.

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 11 14:23:56 2025
    On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:16:00 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and >> often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on
    that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie >> the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on.




    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only weakness I seem to have is balance.

    But why?

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Tue Feb 11 19:28:30 2025
    cyclintom <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and >> often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on
    that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie >> the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on.




    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only
    weakness I seem to have is balance.


    Good to hear, though I’d note that cognitive assessment is something that takes weeks but doesn’t sound like you required that anyway.

    Sounds recoverable unlikely to 100% but on the whole sounds doable from my experience and others like me at least.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to Catrike Ryder on Tue Feb 11 20:44:01 2025
    Catrike Ryder <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:16:00 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and >>> often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on >>> that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie >>> the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on. >>



    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only
    weakness I seem to have is balance.

    But why?

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

    Stroke in the cerebellum would potentially do that, but the brain being as complicated and our lack of understanding of it, means it’s generally down
    to symptom being claimed/demonstrated.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From Catrike Ryder@21:1/5 to Roger Merriman on Tue Feb 11 15:55:51 2025
    On 11 Feb 2025 20:44:01 GMT, Roger Merriman <[email protected]> wrote:

    Catrike Ryder <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:16:00 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and >>>> often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on >>>> that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie
    the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on. >>>



    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only
    weakness I seem to have is balance.

    But why?

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

    Stroke in the cerebellum would potentially do that, but the brain being as >complicated and our lack of understanding of it, means it�s generally down
    to symptom being claimed/demonstrated.

    Roger Merriman

    With me, it's my ears, but my wife has dizziness when she looks up
    towards the sky. I have that issue to, so it adds to my balance
    problems.

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 11 21:28:36 2025
    On Tue Feb 11 14:23:56 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:16:00 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and >> often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on >> that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie
    the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on.




    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only weakness I seem to have is balance.

    But why?




    Thst seems to be the only agfa affected by the stroke.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 11 21:24:07 2025
    On Tue Feb 11 10:41:07 2025 AMuzi wrote:

    Well, the Pentagon and the IRS extracted taxes to pay for
    each and every one so someone thought they were good ideas.

    Amazing the they didn't consult with you before writing
    purchase contracts.




    Do you suppose that they should have consulted with me before they paid $600 for normal toilet seats? The B50 was nothing more than a B29 with larger more powerful engines. When the contract was let they ALREADY had the B52 being tested at Moses Lake and
    the B47 was active.

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to Catrike Ryder on Tue Feb 11 22:15:45 2025
    Catrike Ryder <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 11 Feb 2025 20:44:01 GMT, Roger Merriman <[email protected]> wrote:

    Catrike Ryder <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:16:00 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and
    often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on >>>>> that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie
    the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on.




    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only
    weakness I seem to have is balance.

    But why?

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman

    Stroke in the cerebellum would potentially do that, but the brain being as >> complicated and our lack of understanding of it, means it’s generally down >> to symptom being claimed/demonstrated.

    Roger Merriman

    With me, it's my ears, but my wife has dizziness when she looks up
    towards the sky. I have that issue to, so it adds to my balance
    problems.

    --
    C'est bon
    Soloman


    That’s both in the ears or rather the Vestibular system which does most of the balancing, and significant part of that is the inner ear bits and bobs.

    Roger Merriman

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  • From AMuzi@21:1/5 to cyclintom on Tue Feb 11 18:43:22 2025
    On 2/11/2025 3:28 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Tue Feb 11 14:23:56 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:16:00 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and >>>> often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on >>>> that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie
    the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on. >>>



    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only weakness I seem to have is balance.

    But why?




    Thst seems to be the only agfa affected by the stroke.

    AGFA?

    acronymfinder.com was not helpful.

    --
    Andrew Muzi
    [email protected]
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Tue Feb 11 17:11:11 2025
    On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:43:22 -0600, AMuzi <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2/11/2025 3:28 PM, cyclintom wrote:
    On Tue Feb 11 14:23:56 2025 Catrike Ryder wrote:
    On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:16:00 GMT, cyclintom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Mon Feb 10 22:24:33 2025 Roger Merriman wrote:

    Brain damage isn?t and often doesn?t seem to impact folks perceived IQ and
    often they can still do the big things, it?s running the house and so on >>>>> that folks fail at, does depend on the job and how much leeway there is, ie
    the business will allow them to work less days or work from home or so on.




    After a complete examination by the local stroke center, the only weakness I seem to have is balance.

    But why?




    Thst seems to be the only agfa affected by the stroke.

    AGFA?
    acronymfinder.com was not helpful.

    AGFA is NAA (not an acronym). Try:

    Agfa-Gevaert Group
    <https://www.agfa.com>
    When my favorite camera used 35mm film, I preferred Agfa film over
    Kodak film:
    <https://mrleica.com/agfa-vista-200-review/>
    --
    Jeff Liebermann [email protected]
    PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
    Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
    Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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