krys

none of the above are working. The old one is really shot. I doesn't know it has an A dirve anymore, and everytime I try setting up the software for the exdternat hard drive it fails. That old one may be totally shot. I'm going to have to resort to FTP or CD's and I don't want to use that many of them just to transfer stuff! Rats

Real men wear suspenders and eat quiche!

I'm so sorry Plots. Please accept my condolences too. I wish I could have known her, it seems we could have been good friends. krys

No problem Long Gone...I understood you.

It is only today that I realize that I should not have posted what I did the other day. It is anecdotal evidence, there are no controls....and I can expect to be questioned about every frikkin detail by those who want to either support the idea or kill it. So - let me just say that I'll have nothing more to say here about my experiences or my numbers. They mean nothing and I won't respond any longer. Too bad...some have a genuine interest...but some only seek ways to squigggle in and choke off or discredit. I'm not giving anybody that satisfaction.

The alarm has to be the way it is in order to wake you up if there is a power failure. You need to get another supply of oxygen in that case. I have 2 sources of trouble and 2 different alarm patterns with the same alarm. (I hope that make sense). One is power interrupt....and the other just registers "trouble". It is in the "Owner's Manual" thata comes with the machine that warns about obstruction of the flow causing detrimental back pressure. I don't understand it, but I'm certainly going to follow the operating instrauctions lest I owe an insurance company the book value of this expensive machine! As far as my biological numbers.....Unless it causes you great distress, they make you sit w/out osygen for 10 - 15 minutes or so....then take the sample. I was sipping water most of the afternoon so I can't give you a time-result. I don't have any ABG numbers either....they never tell you! After the physical, I'll get copies of various tests....but I don't know about that particular one.

I hear you Excathie! One can really die from being pecked by a chicken. They have sharp pointy bills, you can bleed and eventually die. When you die...you are set free from the pain and suffering. But if a duck pecks you...it's bill at the most, it could bruise. You won't die from that...just forever and ever sustain more and more bruising....never to die and be set free. Since this pecking never ever ever ever ends, it's more like being pecked by a duck. I hope that makes sense....I wouldn't steal your thunder for the world.

There are times when posting on these forums is like being pecked to death by a duck.

oldies - you'll have to open a new one! I deleted most of mine yesterday.

#1 There was no deception I don't "do" deception! I like the water...I still use the water and I know, in my case it's not placebo. Here's how I know: I am scheduled for a full physical next week. In preparation for that, I have a battery of tests done. Two of them are in the Pulmonary Lab at the hospital. The technitian knows I hate the ABG's (Arterial Blood Gas) because sometimes the needle is quite painful - so she does this first! THEN the PFT (Pulmnary Function Test). When she ran the ABG she said something was definitey wrong because it was out of line with all the others, and if she let that one slide into the system, the insurance company would take me off oxygen! So, she ran the PFT. That takes about 40 minutes and I find it quite exhausting. By this time, when she did the ABG again, it was in line with the others. (BTW - I'm very pleased that there has been no decrease in function over the past 8 months) #2 My email was turned off I went to visit my daughter for 26 days. I can post from the web, and read my email from the web, but unless I turned it off my email box would have a Gig or so of spam in it....so I turned it off for the month. You have't heard from me regarding the corny keg because since I spent so much money at my daughter's, I have to wait for my next check to be deposited before I can do much of anything! #3. The backpressure IS an issue I did hold my finger over the hose and the alarm sounded. It is a shrill alarm that would wake the dead! I'm sure your engineers' calculations are correct, but I can't figure out a way to turn off the alarm, and considering how I can't stand the shrillness (hurts eardrum), I'll have to use another method or continue to purchase Penta Water. #4 I still think that attitude sucks. If you'd said that in the Political Forums, I would have no problem with it. That's what's expected over there. But here, in the open forum we are generally more polite than that...at least I like to think so. I've stood up for you here on this thread and in a few private topics. I'd like you to stay around. I think you could add a whole lot to several forums here...but that's only my opinion. #5 You need a thicker skin The "naysayers" here have lots to say in lots of places. You should see what some of them are doing to HCW on the LEAD thread in "About the Way". Lindaz and a few others manage to keep them in check most times...but I don't have the ability to use words like she does so I usually just wait it out.

I hope you have instant, Raf...looks like it was a drive-by.

Vickles - sometimes schools require parents to sit detention with their kids to make sure the parents are aware or things that are going on.

In my experience - sometime parents who cover for their kids aren't really doing it for their kids per se.....they're doing it to cover for their own inadequacies as parents. It's not so much to cover for the child, keep the child on track as it is to punnish themselves for something they think they didn't do....some shortcoming they perceive about themselves.

Well - - that attitude sucks! BTW - if any of you have an "oxygen generator" aka oxygen concentrator - don't hook it up like that because the back pressure will render your machine useless PDQ!

I think that is my all time favorite best film I've ever seen.

PT Excathie

I don't understand either. It makes me queasy too.

Take all the time you need HCW. As much as we want to hear it, we'll wait until you're ready to share what's on your mind. I'm very glad you have been breaking this up in installents, because I'm not sure I could absorb and process it all at once anyway. I've been on thee boards and Waydale before this. I thought I'd cleaned out all the "stuff" from the organization but I find more being cleared away with every installment you've posted. Every one of us has been used and abused by that outfit in one way or another whether we admit it or not. Your story sheds light on our stories and I'm very greatful for that. God bless your heart. krys

I cannot refute what Wikopedia and Zixar have stated. I feel an exorbitant amount of pressure. What I know is not quite good enough. Somebody will have time or inclination to Google every thought perhaps looking for discrepancies. I only know what I know...and I make no claims that I am an indisputable expert! I'd rather speak in terms of function rather than anatomy. Everything that goes on within our bodies must take place in an aqueous solution. Circulating systems are necessary to provide and maintain these systems within their operational norms (homeostasis). Cerebro-Spinal circulation is an entity unto itself which I know very little about. It serves the brain and spinal cord. The rest of the body is served by 2 circulation systems. One is closed...meaning completely contained within vessels. Blood is pumped by the heart out to the body via one main artery, called the aorta and travels through ever decreasing sized vessels. Eventually the vessels end up in capillaries. Capillaries are where all the exchanges take place...things out....things in...and they are one cell's thickness in size. The capillaries are spread into an area of the body called a capillary bed. (These are all over the place)on the other side of the capillaries, they join together into increasingly large vessels, and eventually into 2 large veins which empty into the heart. One vena cava comes from above the heart, and the other from below. Interstitial fluid is fluid between cells. Fluid - mainly an aqueous solution containing nutrients, hormones etc seeps out at the beginning of the capillary bed. This fluid bathes each and every cell. Each cell takes what it needs from this fluid, and empties it's products and waste products back into this fluid. Some of this interstitial fluid seeps back into the capillary bed but most does not, rather washes over layers of cells and is collected into vessels which are small blind ended tubes at one end where this fluid enters. This is part of the lymphatic circulation. This circulation system has 2 major areas of input. One from the interstitial cells and the other at the lacteals in the digestive system. It has no pump in and of itself. Lacteals exist in the villi to absorb the products of the digestion of fats and some fat-soluble vitamins. Water and fat don't mix well so this is how these materials are collected after digestion. [to be continued shortly]

Have a wonderful birthday Shell. But I know you're not 60! You're not a day over 33! If that old!!

I found lots of love and support in my twigs usually. Locally things were really good until around the mid '90's. At least where I lived. Also - I was married and with kids...so maybe that insulated me from lots of other foolin' 'round?

Good evening, Mr. Linder! Have a nice day.

Motorola WR850G It is connected to the cable, and my computer is conected to it via hardwire...and the other computer has a wireless connection. So I am assuming that both computers are protected. Is that correct?

I know that my IP adress is embedded in the email. If you're a law enforcement agency you can get the name of the person and addres from somewhere.... maybe that's why people maintain Yahoo accounts