From: jmfbahciv on
JosephKK wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:24:36 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote:
>
>> Androcles wrote:
>>> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>> news:4B5266A5.C29D3EF6(a)earthlink.net...
>>>> Androcles wrote:
>>>>> I was fully conscious, just in agony. Doc asked me if it was the worst
>>>>> pain I'd ever experienced.... I said no, I had a shattered ankle with
>>>>> bone
>>>>> protruding in 2002 and a nurse immobilised it, but it came a close
>>>>> second.
>>>> I sat through almost three full hours of Oral Surgery without any
>>>> painkiller, while in the US Army. The surgeon wanted to know how I kept
>>>> from passing out.
>>>>
>>> Eventually the morphine put me to sleep, but I don't believe it does
>>> anything for real pain.
>>>
>> It depends on the pain source. Morphine works for some things; other
>> kinds of drugs work for other kinds of pain. Talk with a hospice
>> nurse if you're really curious.
>>
>> /BAH
>
> S&*(, damn, f&(*! If i had my brain in gear properly once, i would have
> known that without having to be told. I do know enough about various
> pain / pain blocking brain receptors to have seen it.
>
> Metaphorically smacks self on forehead. I just hate having "Damn, that is
> so obvious" moments.

<grin> Self-immolation is not required, though. I didn't know this
until I did talk with hospice nurses.

/BAH
From: Tim Williams on
<osr(a)uakron.edu> wrote in message
news:d0f47687-cc6b-437d-9eb4-19b09e3d905e(a)c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> Since the sensor is in the mouth ... how did they make the readout
> electronics for the CCD so it didn't latch up?

Simple... do you have your tetanus shots? ;-)

Tim

--
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From: JosephKK on
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:28:52 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote:

>JosephKK wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:24:36 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote:
>>
>>> Androcles wrote:
>>>> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:4B5266A5.C29D3EF6(a)earthlink.net...
>>>>> Androcles wrote:
>>>>>> I was fully conscious, just in agony. Doc asked me if it was the worst
>>>>>> pain I'd ever experienced.... I said no, I had a shattered ankle with
>>>>>> bone
>>>>>> protruding in 2002 and a nurse immobilised it, but it came a close
>>>>>> second.
>>>>> I sat through almost three full hours of Oral Surgery without any
>>>>> painkiller, while in the US Army. The surgeon wanted to know how I kept
>>>>> from passing out.
>>>>>
>>>> Eventually the morphine put me to sleep, but I don't believe it does
>>>> anything for real pain.
>>>>
>>> It depends on the pain source. Morphine works for some things; other
>>> kinds of drugs work for other kinds of pain. Talk with a hospice
>>> nurse if you're really curious.
>>>
>>> /BAH
>>
>> S&*(, damn, f&(*! If i had my brain in gear properly once, i would have
>> known that without having to be told. I do know enough about various
>> pain / pain blocking brain receptors to have seen it.
>>
>> Metaphorically smacks self on forehead. I just hate having "Damn, that is
>> so obvious" moments.
>
><grin> Self-immolation is not required, though. I didn't know this
>until I did talk with hospice nurses.
>
>/BAH

Well fiddle-dee-dee; i have already risen from my own ashes. >8-))