Monday, 9 January 2012

[fluffy]

I've always found the NYC subway to be one of the better-designed systems, but yeah it's kind of hard to know where you're going unless you... er... know where you're going. (It doesn't help that the stations are very inconsistently-designed, which is mostly because of the history behind how they were built to begin with.)

[Caravan Ray]

I've always found the NYC subway to be one of the better-designed systems

Yep - NYC is one of the better ones. Not as clean and comfortable as somewhere like Singapore, but is easy to navigate and quite "friendly" feeling on the trains. If you want stress - try Sydney. Or Jakarta.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I'd rent a car before I sat on a train with diseased people trying to infect me with zombie germs. I hate dislike mass transit.

[Caravan Ray]

I'd rent a car before I sat on a train with diseased people trying to infect me with zombie germs. I hate dislike mass transit.

I'd rent a brain before I sat in a car out on some clogged arterial in a suburban wasteland with a million other "individuals" trying to infect me with moron germs. I dislike hate driving.

[Caravan Ray]

Some may recall when I recently posted a photo of myself meeting the Prime Minister of New Zealand, while I was wearing a comical inflatable sumo wrestler suit.

If you don't recall that - you can see it at about 1:42 in this video I just did:

[youtube]S8KcZhvNdRc&context=C3217d63ADOEgsToPDskIlED4Xu6THRoWJNUOkp179[/youtube]

[RangerDenni]

Oh, you just did the video. That's why I hadn't seen it.

The Sydney trains are scary. My husband said "meet me at Redfern" I think it was 5 pm - and that he'd be in a blue shirt.

I panicked as a sea of blue shirts came pouring off the train and felt like a real hick.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Ha. Love the vid, John. Clever using commentary instead of actual video in your video. I chuckled several times. Especially at the end when you said, is this song still going, then used the opportunity to plug your wares. lol. Nice job.

[rone rivendale]

Update: Gave in to everyone around me telling me to go to the ER including all my bosses at work (got a whole 30 minutes of pay today).

After a bunch of tests and lab work I was told the same thing i was told in August, I have Anxiety attacks. This time however, they actually told me what to take for it. So I got a 15 day supply and I gotta go see a diff Doctor to get it refilled after that.

The good news is, my heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, blood sugar, white blood cells, etc all checked out as being perfectly healthy.

[RangerDenni]

I hope things do improve, Rone. I am glad all the other stuff checked out tho

[Caravan Ray]

The Sydney trains are scary. My husband said "meet me at Redfern" I think it was 5 pm - and that he'd be in a blue shirt.

Did you understand what it meant when your husband promised he would "get off at Redfern"?


(BTW: I lived at Redfern for 3 years. I alway got off there. Cool place. Go the Rabbitohs)

[Billy's Little Trip]

So I got a 15 day supply and I gotta go see a diff Doctor to get it refilled after that.

The first one is always free. Just one more American the governments pharmaceutical cartel got their greedy hooks in. But don't worry, when your kidneys start to fail, they have a pill for that too while you're waiting for a new one, which will require 10 more pills a day.

I really wasn't standing idly by waiting for your personal update. But since you forced it on me, congrats on your clean bill of health. Good luck, Mike.

[roymond]

I often do 60-90 minutes of work before work. Well, before getting the kids up and feeding them. Then work.

As for anxiety attacks...I had regular issues there for a while, and a couple emergency room visits. One can change your lifestyle only so much when you sort of love high pressure jobs. I'll have to mellow one day, but for now little pills are my friend.

[fluffy]

What'd you get, Rone? I've always found a bedtime Lorazepam to help somewhat although apparently there are much better things for during the day (and I have never taken it during the day).

[RangerDenni]

Did you understand what it meant when your husband promised he would "get off at Redfern"?

I learned later (sadly) that you are not meant to "get off" at Redfern, or anyplace else, until you have ..Gotten Off.. the train. It made the commute from Yagoona to Chatswood really intolerably long. (poor, poor me)

[RangerDenni]

I myself Benefit from medication on an occasional basis for what we are discussing. I think it is a good decision, for me. I take some other stuff too, which is why we are not seeing naked photos of me on the internet streaking across the White House lawn trying to convert the people to some new Gospel of True Song or something or other. I'm cool with it for now, or for however-long.

Just one more creepy post from me today.

[Caravan Ray]

Did you understand what it meant when your husband promised he would "get off at Redfern"?

I learned later (sadly) that you are not meant to "get off" at Redfern, or anyplace else, until you have ..Gotten Off.. the train. It made the commute from Yagoona to Chatswood really intolerably long. (poor, poor me)

Yagoona to Chatswood?!?! Wow - that is a nightmare trip. Still better on the train than trying to drive it.

Did you live at Yagoona or Chatswood?

I actually used to commute from Redfern to Yagoona every day. The train was always full of junkies commuting between The Cross and Cabramatta - via the Merrylands methadone clinic. Charming people. But at least living in Redfern meant that I was going in the opposite direction to most of the commuters, so the trains were never crowded.


-------EDIT:

No - correction - that was Yennora that was on the junkie express line to Liverpool, not Yagoona. That is on the Bankstown line. Always get those confused - I used to work in Yagoona too though. And lived in Bankstown. Until I got the good sense to move to Redfern.

[RangerDenni]

Did you live at Yagoona or Chatswood?

I actually used to commute from Redfern to Yagoona every day. The train was always full of junkies commuting between The Cross and CabramaRtta - via the Merrylands methadone clinic. Charming people. But at least living in Redfern meant that I was going in the opposite direction to most of the commuters, so the trains were never crowded.

-------EDIT

No - correction - that was Yennora that was on the junkie express line to Liverpool, not Yagoona. That is on the Bankstown line. Always get those confused - I used to work in Yagoona too though. And lived in Bankstown. Until I got the good sense to move to Redfern.

I stayed with Mike's family for a while. They live in Bass Hill and he worked in Chatswood at the Smiths snackfoods. He got free treats 'cuz he worked there and he gave me his Samboys and I'd eat them with lemon lime and bitters and when I had to go home I cried because I missed my boyfriend and my nice fizzy drinks and pies and Weetbix and Tim Tams and Napi San because I am clumsy and spill stuff.

Also Mike said (he's husband of many years now) that once while riding the train a drug deal happened over the top of him between two passengers sitting to his right and his left!

[rone rivendale]

What'd you get, Rone? I've always found a bedtime Lorazepam to help somewhat although apparently there are much better things for during the day (and I have never taken it during the day).

It's called Trazodone. It is usually meant as a sleeping pill but I was told by the lady at Wal-Mart that it can be used for Anxiety too. So hope it works.

[Caravan Ray]

What'd you get, Rone? I've always found a bedtime Lorazepam to help somewhat although apparently there are much better things for during the day (and I have never taken it during the day).

It's called Trazodone. It is usually meant as a sleeping pill but I was told by the lady at Wal-Mart that it can be used for Anxiety too. So hope it works.

!?!?!?!?!?

I assume you realise that shop assistants are generally not qualified to provide pharmacalogical advice. I hope you are actually seeing a doctor Rone and not just the lady at the Walmart.

[fluffy]

Presumably the lady at Wal-Mart is an actual licensed pharmacist who just works at the Wal-Mart pharmacy. Those ARE regulated in the US, after all.

Personally, the more I'm reading about diverticulitis, the more I'm coming to realize that what I've been experiencing is actually diverticulitis attacks and not anxiety attacks. The symptoms match perfectly. Which isn't to say that the diverticulitis attacks weren't also turning into anxiety attacks, because they were. But it seems like treating the diverticulitis will fix (or at least greatly help with) the anxiety too.

[rone rivendale]

Yeah, our Wal-Mart has a pharmacy. Not only that, but the medicine I got is on their $4 list.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I didn't know where to post this, so this looks like a good spot.