There's a female tennis player named Karoline Sprem!

[Gogi]

I'd like to hear Keith do a report on her ... Sper....emmm ..Sprem.




:evilgrin:

[CC]

1. Some one best record it

if he does....:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[tatia_s]

2. in my lab we use

something called "Sonicated Salmon Sperm" (yes, it is actual salmon sperm) and I'm always flubbing the name and calling it "Sermon Spam".

:dunce:

~tatia

[CC]

3. Ok I am going to bed

before I completely ruin my computer screen. :spray::rofl::rofl:

BTW thank you both for making a day of medical tests that was a real downer end on a very happy (funny) note.

[Berry Cool]

4. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Keith brings up the point that

this player's name could be as tough to approach as an injury report about a guy's "bulging disc."

[gkhouston]

6. hope they come out well

I went through a round myself a while back and they never did figure out what it was. Seems to have gotten better, so what the hell. :shrug:

[CC]

7. Thanks, I am getting used to

the hurry up and then wait for weeks only to go to the nest test. So far they have found nodules on my thyroid. After looking up stuff, should be the first test they do when anything goes wrong and they can't figure it out. Nothing I've read is very scary statistic wise so in wait and see mode. Course I live in the middle of no where and seems each test is at a different place and they keep getting further and further away. Can't complain since a traffic jam to me is waiting for 5 cars to go by before I can cross the highway or being stuck behind a buggy.

[gkhouston]

8. well, if you're in "hurry up to wait" mode then they probably

didn't find anything too scary on the first round of tests, so that's probably a good sign. Still, the waiting's not fun. :hug:

[CC]

9. Like I said I'm not too worried,

would just like know eventually and quit being tired. On the too serious, I don't think it is, so far looks like an over active thyroid with nodules. The reading tends toward no big deal and common. But have to say, having dealt with the SO having Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) three times now, even when it is serious it is a hurry up and wait forever. To the point that the first time when it was all new the doctor had to say a month or so wait before treatment wouldn't kill him. Course the second time the same doctor had to tell the idiot man that 6 months or so before telling anyone he had another lump could of killed him. But he is a very good, very straight talking doc and now considers the NHL to be a chronic disease and not a terminal one.
The worst part right now is it is keeping me from being able to commit to the NYC trip that I want to go on so much.:grr:

[gkhouston]

10. wow, when Mary had NHL it wasn't like that

she went in with an low-grade fever of unknown origin and an intermittent cough and started chemo 13 days later. At the time, the hospital she went to had billboards around town with the slogan, "It's time for some answers." Mary thought they should have changed their slogan to, "We don't fuck around."

Sorry you're so bushed; I know all about fatigue. I've got Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroiditis and have gone through many hypo periods and even a brief hyper period after the munchkin was born.

[CC]

11. Sorry to hear that about you and

I should of come to you with questions. I always feel like hyper should give me more energy.
On Mary, I think they would of scared me even more had they done that to Terry. The calm did help calm me. Though it is good to know they don't mess around some places. Now the second time Ter had NHL I was so mad at him for not telling anyone he had a lump that I didn't have room for fear. That was in March 99 and the doc told Terry if he did chemo they might keep him alive until Christmas. The doc was mad at him too and bluntly honest. He was also very happy he was wrong. Terry responded better to chemo than they thought he would. Its been more than two years now (longest between bouts so far) so crossing fingers the rituxin worked better.

[gkhouston]

13. Two years is encouraging

damn, we need a finger-crossing smiley. My personal experience with being hyper was that the fatigue was just as bad as with hypo, but you sleep very little instead of far too much. It's a miserable existence, dragging yourself around, but at least you get things done.

[Gogi]

12. Glad I gave you a laugh, CC!

I've been through the "we don't know what it is" testing maze myself. Felt like a damned guinea pig!

[gkhouston]

5. Didn't Cheese take a course in "Sermon Spam, and How to Avoid It"

at the seminary? ;)