So we were paticularly happy to get a chance to relax and enjoy a great meal. And all the staff and the owners were really happy to see us back. They all came over to greet us.
We started out with a cocktail as I had a Cuban Collins which is a lemonade like drink with a delicious Cuban rum and the girls had "Incognito Cosmos" which is the same as regular Cosmo but they like to be a little pretentious. I mean this is a mid-priced Italian restaurant in New York City so they try and up their game to attract a nice clientele. They seem to be doing great considering what their rent must be and I have to say I am impressed with how they go about their business.
While we were enjoying our drinks I ordered the wine and the appetizers. They had a nice full bodied Tuscan varietal which they decanted and put on the table to breath. Then they sent over a Margarita thin crust pizza as an amuse bouche as the chef's gift to us as we looked at the menu. I ordered the prosciutto and pears and the Gorgonzola walnut salad and a double order of the mini-meatball appetizers. All were sublime.
Then we ordered the main course. Both of the girls were doing no carbs so they went with the filet mignon. Lisa had it with Bearnasise sauce and Melissa had it with the peppercorn sauce. I repeated myself as I am want to do by getting the goat cheese ravioli in the tomato balasamic vinegar sauce. The sauce is so delicious that you can't believe it. I ordered a plate of fries as a side dish. When the waiter asked if I wanted ketchup I said no. You see I dipped the fries right into the sauce. It was unbelievable! So good!
We opted to not have desssert as we had really put on the feedbag and just had a final after dinner drink.
Then back home to sleep before another busy day today.
Living well is the best revenge.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 257 of 257I first had a flexible sigmoidoscopy (sp?), where they don't sedate you and only do either a fourth of the colon or a foot of it. Since I looked on the computer, I knew what a polyp looked like and when one showed up on the TV, I said: "There's one!" They told me to be quiet.
Then I had the full colonoscopy and had a very mild sedative and watched the whole procedure. Almost had a panic attack when I saw what I thought was a large tumor and once it got closer it looked like a vagina. I'm not shitting you, then the nurse said: "there's your appendix."
When they snip the polyp off, on the screen appears what looks like a cable similar to an odometer cable with a noose sticking out the end. When they snip the polpy off, there's some blood but no pain because there's no nerve ending in your colon.
Dr. AllenS
I love how or conversation is going in several different directions at the same time, hysterical confusion, hahaha.
Very Twitteresque
Wow. We went East to pick up our son, and it's kinda, sorta looking as if it's more likely than not that we'll be picking up a house. Just, wow.
Allen, I was put under deep sedation because of the Endoscopy, you seriously cannot be awake during that procedure.
Freshman 15?
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Maybe that such of season is nigh?
I forgot to say why they sedate you during this procedure. When there's nothing in your colon, it colapses, so they had to insert air into you, and I was told to expect a feeling like "gas pain". Well, that hurt like hell. I thought something had gone terribly wrong.
I can hardly wait for my next one. Pfft.
If you only have a colonoscopy next time, tell them that you want to take the tour.
It's every ten years now if it was normal Allen.
The VA says every 5. Between both procedures, I had 5 polyps.
I looked up Endoscopy. What opening did they use for this?
Ah yes, that's why Allen.
Alle, do you go to the VA in Tomah? My sister just retired from there.
Allie, I was under the impression it was every 5 irregardless.
I go to the VA in Minneapolis. It's 60 miles. Tomah is almost 200 I think.
They told me ten if nothing is wrong, hmmm, wonder if it's a new guideline to save money.
This seems about perfect timing for Troop to come back with more dinner descriptions!
Good morning! How are we all this bright Friday morning?
Everything okay with your bowels and such? Got enough chocolate (and someone to apply it on you, depending)?
Most importantly, is everyone happy this morning? It looks like the dark clouds of conflict parted yesterday and after that big group hug happiness abounds here in TYland.
Ta ta for now, and here's hoping we all get laid this weekend.
Read that last sentence in a Rodney Dangerfield voice.
If someone would get the stuff to taste like beer, it wouldn't be so bad.
I heard someone say that to mix it with vodka and after a while you don't care.
They told me ten if nothing is wrong, hmmm, wonder if it's a new guideline to save money.
No. It is normal. I had mine over 10 years ago and that's what they told me. Wait for at least 10 years.
OK. It's unanimous. I'll also wait ten years.
Allen, only if It was completely normal, but you had polyps, so follow your docs schedule.
Woah. Allen. Don't take the advice of anonymous commenters on the internet. I was told to wait 10 years because there were no problems or polyps. My husband is to go every 5 years.
Trust your doctor's advice. Your health is too important.
Yes Michael, we all love each other, well don't WE? we should cause we is good folks !
We should have a virtual bacchanal! Complete with decadent chocolates and cake, how does that sound to us? The ladies can wear grapes in their hair and filmy flimsy white garments, the guys if course in togas, with their manly hairy legs showing an Althouse nightmare, well the man leg part anyway, I'm sure she'd enjoy the wine.
Sorry for deletions way too many spelling errors, need coffee.....
How about another lovely topic like digital rectal exams.
I learned a lot about medical procedures via working many malpractice cases. Going back to what Titus was talking about @ his conference. The younger and the more successful you are the more "defensive" medicine is used. That means ALL THE TESTS POSSIBLY NEEDED. Babies and small children get the most "defensive" medicine. The reason is quite simple, the potential damages. If you're a child, and you die, chances are pretty good the'll be a malpractice lawsuit, warranted or not. A child's primary damages, the amount of money that child would have earned in his/her lifetime, is enormous. That doesn't include the always iffy punitive damages[doc was flagrantly wrong]. So, if you take a conservative figure of just 30k a year from age 22-65[43years] you got almost $1.3 million in ACTUAL damages in the bank. Realize this is a conservative, simplified figure.
As long as you're working you will receive defensive medicine to varying degrees. If you're a high earner you'll get more defensive medicine than if you work in fast food. What we all have to realize is that as we get older we pass through a dangerous area from defensive medicine to indifferent medicine. The docs are under the constraints of Medicare billing and you are simply not a big liability. Let's say you're 70 years old. Your life expentency is ~10 years and you have no earned income. Medical resources are, like virtually everything, limited. They are allocated primarily based on the threat of lawsuits. Obamacare did not even touch tort reform because the biggest donors to Dems are trial lawyers.
Sorry for taking so much of your time. I've had a lot of coffee.
Wait. Allen, DBQ - You sure about the timing? The guy I use said to ahve one each time I get the oil changed in my car.
Oddly enough, his office is in an oil change place.
I think I'm just inclined to, y'know, die.
Nick, you are right on the money with your analysis, I wish Obamacare wouldn't be such a dog.
Michael, we can get two lube jobs for the price of one we use our car mechanic as our Gastroenertologists.
Blake, after I vomited up half of that vile stuff, I almost said screw it, I'd rather die.
Gastroenterologist.
Wow! Lots of different directions here.
First: Thank you, MamaM.
Second: Thank you all for the reminder that I'm probably due for my first preventive look-see at 49, huh? I will get right on that.
Third: I am taking your wishes to heart, Michael. Hahaha! Girls weekend up north.
Oh, who am I kidding? Chocolate will have to be the thrill for the weekend.
*sigh*
Oh, and best wishes on the house, rcommal.
Nick that was exactly what the seminar was about.
The rich, with great insurance, and in excellent health all want the imaging exams they don't need.
The poor, who have no insurance and who may have other diseases and who likely need the exams, don't receive them.
tits.
Titus, I figured as much. I just wanted to give some details so people, particularly us aging ones, know the score. They may have already but it's more cold blooded than many might realize.
Balls[my version of your "tits"].
It is very sad and scary how many well-intentioned people believe that adding more government and more bureaucracy into our health care system helps the poor get better care.
The system we have now is not perfect, either. I wish we could undo a lot of what the government alone has caused as far as health care is concerned.
I'm afraid we can't undo this. And the people who will suffer most are the poor and the elderly. How bitterly ironic, since the people pushing more government claim to champion them.
One of my co-workers confessed to feeling sick as our company's owners talk about who gets to stay and who doesn't in our facilities.
But what choice do they have? The gov't ties their hands at every turn, in whatever wiggle room is left, they're gonna wiggle.
But the government cares, Blake!
I just saw a documentary about a dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei.
All I can say is: The Chinese government REALLY cares. And demonstrates its caring by making people vanish.
@rcommal: Didn't you just finish rehabing an old house? You down for another?
@Titus,
Let me take your statement about the health care of the rich and poor and restate it in a logically equivalent way:
The poor get basic health care, while the rich are able to buy more than that.
Now, what do you see as the problem there?
I personally live quite frugally, though comfortably enough. I sock away as much money as I can as a cushion against something terrible happening. If the time comes when I feel the need to tap that stash in order to buy the best health care I can, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that?
Concern for the poor is all well and good, but not when it induces utter policy stupidity.
One thing you'll notice as you spend more time hanging out at Mathematica is that those people wouldn't be pulling down their lavish total comp if they weren't able to find lots and lots of policy problems for the feds to solve--using their analysis. Instead, they'd be teaching at some 3rd-rate colleges getting five-figure salaries. They're sucking at the federal tit just as much as any bureaucrat.
Chip, I never said where I work.
Also, chip, I don't have much concern for the poor-I hate to admit that, but it doesn't cross my mind much.
And lastly, the employees I work with would definitely not be working at a third rate college. Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and Yale Phd's don't work at Bunker Hill Community College.
Also, there are many other public policy companies in Cambridge other than Mathematica. Like Abt, RTI, Robert Woodhouse, Urban and many of the universities like Tufts and Harvard have public policy institutes.
They are filming a movie right on the corner of my street. There are like 50 trailers here and the lights are all on and I can see cameras everywhere....at 12:15. I guess that is when they film this crap. It is a movie starring Sandra Bullock Melissa McCarthy. It is called The Heat.
No sighting of either of them but the entire block is blocked off and the police are everywhere.
The locales here are so whatever. They don't give a carp.
Taylor Swift is "going steady" with Connor Kennedy and she is buying a house right in the middle of Kennedy Compound. Price tag: 4.7 million.
Welcome to Mass Taylor!
Titus, I respect the fact that you didn't say anything untrue about where you're working. And don't worry, I won't tell anyone outside of this blog.
But...is there really an outfit called Robert Woodhouse? I'd guess that you meant Robert Wood Johnson, except that you'd never really forget a name like that.
Robert Wood Johnson.
How do you know about these companies?
I worked as a flunky at a place sort of like those right out of college.
Robert Wood Johnson
That's a remarkably suggestive name in modern slang terms.
That's why I couldn't believe Titus would blow it.
Taylor, run don't walk. Life for Kennedy women always ends in tragedy, heartache and alcoholic stupor...and that is if you are lucky.
You think that's suggestive, what about his brother Richard? That guy had a hard time.
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