Posted on 07/01/2014 6:12:22 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday July 1, 2014
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
Yawp [yawp, yahp]
-vi
1.to utter a loud, harsh cry; to yelp, squawk, or bawl.
2. Slang. to talk noisily and foolishly or complainingly.
-n
1. a harsh cry.
2. Slang. a. raucous or querulous speech.
b. a noisy, foolish utterance.
[1300–50; Middle English yolpen; akin to yelp]
no importa [noh eem-POHR-tah ]
-phrase it doesn’t matter
No importa si llegamos tarde.
It doesn’t matter if we arrive late.
Thank you. Hornqvist was one of my favorite players. I would yell “Everybody play like Hornqvist!!!” night after night. He plays all out every single game, never gives up, never looks tired, and now he’s a Penguin. I am sad. Those are great pics of him and of Shea. I may name my next dog Shea Weber just because he’s a favorite too. But it will have to be a big, scary looking dog.
I guess I don’t know anyone like that and that’s why I find the attitude ridiculous. The posters on that thread both referenced relatives they considered hypochondriacs and mentally ill and so, as I said, they are painting with a very broad brush in that regard. Annual physicals with the attendant blood work are just prudent healthcare.
well it looks, in the comments, that they are looking for someone in N’ville to feed them Neal Newz, so if you see anything esp pix, you should probably post on their blog!
It makes sense to keep track of something like you have, and it probably isn’t enough radiation to harm you, anyway. Most of the ones they advertise are a series of scans, just for the hell of it, so it seems like that would multiply the radiation for no real reason. Everything is a choice, but I would think there would be a disclaimer on those ads like there are on the ones for drugs, etc-but there is no such thing.
2nd opinions are important, nay, necessary. I had a doctor who nearly killed ME a couple of years ago with a mis-diagnosed pulmonary embolism after a gall bladder surgery that I am still not sure that I needed. Allowed me to walk around with it for a month before she looked at her records and realized that the doctor who had subbed for her had read the wrong X-ray. I was operating on one and 1/2 lungs. No wonder I was short of breath.
After that, it was just a comedy of errors as she tried to get a new reading and then tried to dissolve the clot. (I’m allergic to iodine which is in the dye they pump into you for some of the tests.) Pumped me so full of warfarin that I was then in danger of bleeding to death. A new doctor got me put straight, thank heaven.
I should have sued her, but I’m not the suing type.
One day I found myself in the pharmacy as I went to pick up a prescription for Prednisone (to counter the iodine allergy). I was called to the pharmacy counter by the loudspeaker and found myself in a 4 way conversation between the hospital, the doctor, and the pharmacist. The hospital is refusing to schedule my test because there isn’t enough time for the Prednisone to take effect. The dosctor is insisting that I go forward with it, no matter what the hospital says. The pharmacist is whispering to me, “Get a lawyer.”
We finally agreed to postpone the test another day. Of course I reacted badly — broke out in hives right on the X ray table. The nurse looks at me and warns, “Don’t EVER allow them to order this test for you again.” Then they decided that I needed a “nuclear scan” because there was no iodine involved. That scan showed the blockage (clot) in the upper left lobe of my lung and treatment could begin. Of course this idiot doctor went too far with the blood thinning meds and I began to hemorage internally.
That’s when I sought another opinon — mostly because my doctor was starting to get nasty to my face because my case was starting to get complicated. (Blood tests every week with a change of prescription every week to keep my blood between a 1 and a 2 on their INR test. My last test with this dopey doctor was 10. Had I fallen, or cut myself, I might have bled to death.)
The nurses at the hospital were all whispering to me to “get another doctor; get a lawyer”.
There are good doctors out there, but there are many more who are just incompetent. After all, half of them are at the bottom of their class!
He’s a good guy. Named after Herb Brooks.
I’m surprised SG hasn’t mentioned the Neal trade.
Say what you will, at least we won’t have the same guys next spring losing playoff rounds.
I’ve never seen one of those ads.
You probably got your dose of radon growing up anyway. ;-)
the Caps twitterverse is giving a pretty universal thumbs down to Orpik, as too old, and getting too much $. we have very little confidence in the new GM and think he’s pretty much a McPhee clone, since he WAS hired by him.
I have. I don’t like it. He’s excited to be coming here. I didn’t want to lose Hornqvist.
The new young Sabres GM is really putting his stamp on the team…
Did xshub happen to wonder, like I am, if the SCOTUS is really setting Obama up on the recent Hobby Lobby decision. They are saying that these closely held companies can rely on the same “accommodation” that religious groups are supposed to have. (That is, the magic insurance fairy that supplies contraceptives free of charge.)
Then next year, they will knock that accommodation out and watch the entire thing crash.
It’s nuts out there. Iggy to be an Av. I was hoping we would land Stastney, but no luck. We have needed a center for a few years now.
I’m not sure that Obamacare really hinges on this backdoor bailout to Pfizer, aka the Fluke mandate.
True. Let me re-phrase. This entire contraceptive mandate will collapse. Without having decided the merits of A, they let B rely on A. Later, they yank A out.
The case in the DC circuit now about only having subsidies for policies bought on an exchange “established by the state” will collapse the entire thing.
They are usually on late at night, and I saw them on FXX or Fox movie channel, I think. They sound like those lifelock ads to me-the ones that say get this now or you could lose all your stuff, etc, and then the supposedly reasonable price posted on the screen with the phone #.
You could be right on those.
Of course it is all up to the very strange and confused Justice Roberts now isn’t it.
He could just rewrite the statute again.
If only we had a branch of gov’t that could fix language problems in statutes, huh?
My commitment to natural living was made when I was in my late teens, but I do believe that if one wants to have every test, exam, intervention, take all the drugs on the market, stand on their head in a centrifuge, or whatever that is their choice-they have the right to that, just as I have the right to my lifestyle choices. We don’t ever need to impose our beliefs and lifestyle on anyone.
But others should not pay for our choices-that is why I believe we need cafeteria style insurance, not Obamascare-don’t want the dessert-don’t buy it, want a helping of Viagra-go for it, but pay for it with your co-pay...
I’ve read a couple of articles this AM that say the mandate will collapse over the SCOTUS decision-I can’t really see that from the explanations-am I missing something?
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