Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
Harvey and Gladys Goldman are getting ready for bed. Gladys is standing in front of her full-length mirror, taking a long, hard look at herself.
"You know, Harvey," she comments. "I stare into this mirror and I see an ancient creature. My face is all wrinkled, my boobs sag so much that they dangle to my waist, my arms and legs are as flabby as popped balloons, and my butt looks like a sad, deflated version of the Hindenberg!"
She turns to face her husband and says, "Dear, please tell me just one positive thing about my body so I can feel better about myself."
Harvey studies Gladys critically for a moment and then says in a soft, thoughtful voice, "Well there's nothing wrong with your eyesight."
Services for Harvey Goldman will be held Tuesday morning at 10:30 at Beth Israel Synagogue.
He's not. He's sharing it with me. 
It's very appropriate for today, Feb. 2.
My very own ground hog did NOT see his shadow today. Winter is over here! LOL
My very own woodchuck is resting comfortably for eternity in his shallow grave.
He dared nibble my rose, so I snipered him.
Pretty, but not for long...;)
Hi grannie. I didn't get my invitation to the pool party yet. It must have gotten lost in the e-mail. LOL
GOOD DAY TO ALL
Dead man's pals furious leg sent to wrong family
BY CARRIE MELAGO and BRIAN HARMON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friends of a dead Long Island man whose amputated leg was accidentally sent home to the family of another man who died at the same hospital were stunned and disgusted yesterday by the screwup.
"How the hell does that happen?" asked Paul LaGrasse, who worked with Jim Jordan as a guard at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead.
Jordan of Calverton, was 82 when he died Jan. 13 at Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead. A diabetic, his leg was amputated as doctors tried to save him, cops said.
But how the limb ended up being sent home to the survivors of Paul Runyan was still unclear yesterday.
The state Health Department requires amputated limbs be removed from a hospital and destroyed within 10 days. Yet Jordan's leg lingered in the hospital morgue for three weeks, and somehow wound up in a freezer with the cadaver of Runyan, 77. Runyan, whose arm was amputated just over a week ago, died of cancer Friday.
Jordan, who retired in 1981, lived with his longtime companion Tootsie Gatz. Neighbors said she moved to a nursing home.
Runyan's relatives remained devastated by the gruesome discovery inside a plastic bag they thought contained their loved one's last change of clothes.
"We're just thinking about my father-in-law right now," said Runyan's daughter-in-law Andrea of Center Moriches, L.I.
The hospital and Sinnickson's Moriches Funeral Home, which is run by Lee Sinnickson, spent yesterday blaming each other.
Hospital spokeswoman Nancy Uzo said "it is possible" that Jordan's leg and Runyan's body ended up in the same refrigerated drawer in the hospital morgue.
When the morgue's three drawers are occupied by cadavers, workers place limbs with the bodies, she said.
Apparently, a funeral director mistakenly took the plastic bag holding the leg and handed it over Monday to Runyan's family, sources said.
"We don't know how they would think that the bag was [Runyan's] belongings," Uzo said. "Personal belongings are put into bags clearly marked with the person's name."
The funeral home owners said hospital workers led the funeral director to believe the unlabeled bag paired with Runyan's remains held Runyan's property.
"The bag was in the drawer with the [Runyan's body]," said Thomas Sinnickson, an attorney and the brother of the funeral home owner.
Neither hospital nor funeral home officials could say who actually removed the bag from the drawer.
Originally published on February 2, 2005
At least NH has some sun.
You should make that one into your Christmas cards, it's so pretty.
Let's face it, good service in this country has gone to hell.
Hey there, we just put the heat to the pool again.
My niece is coming on Sat for ten days, and even if it's in the 70's, she'll be loving it and will use the pool. My daughter Dyan and her son will be coming the first week in March. I am busting my 'you know what's' around here trying to get things in better order.
It got so chilly that I had to call off all the dancing girls and guys. Maybe we'd better wait until warmer weather, lol.
I'd better get a couple weeks vaca out of these six months or else..;)
NULLY.....Don't you love "Everything is Relative News!"
One Day they tell it one WAY.....
The next DAY the another WAY!
Treat Diabetes Early and Aggressively -Experts
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors need to check patients for diabetes if they even suspect a patient may have the condition, and start using drugs to treat it right away, according to new guidelines released on Wednesday.
An estimated 90 percent of all patients diagnosed with diabetes are not controlling it enough to prevent heart disease and other complications, the experts at the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (news - web sites) said.
At-risk patients, such as the overweight, should start getting screened at 30. If they show poor control of blood sugar, they should go on drugs right away, the two groups said.
"Numerous studies have shown that significant cardiovascular disease develops years before the onset of diabetes," the groups said in a statement.
A measure of glucose control called A1C should bring back a result of 6.5 percent or lower, the groups said. Fasting glucose should be 110 or below and a two-hour glucose challenge test should come back 140 or below.
"Patients with diabetes are often in denial," said Dr. Jaime Davidson, an endocrinologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and chairman of the guidelines conference.
If a family doctor or primary care doctor suspects a patient may have diabetes, even a young patient, he or she should test immediately, Davidson said.
And a fasting glucose test is no good, he said. The patient should undergo a two-hour glucose challenge to see how well his or her body controls blood sugar.
Insurance companies may balk at paying for the tests, but they shouldn't, Davidson said.
"It is cheaper to pay for that today than to pay for the first heart attack," Davidson said in an interview.
The groups acknowledged that diet and exercise can stop a person from becoming diabetic, but said most patients fail.
"Lifestyle is essential. But in the real world it doesn't really allow us to get a patient to target," said Dr. Harold Lebovitz of the State University of New York, who chaired the writing committee.
"Doctors have big hearts and patients come to them to say 'Give me another chance. Give me a diet. Give me another three months,"' Davidson said.
But he said damage can occur during those three months. "We prefer to get them on target from day one and keep them there," he said.
abetics also need to see their doctors often. "If they are diabetic, one time a year is not enough. Because in that time, something is going to happen."
An estimated 20 million Americans have type-2 diabetes and one-third do not know it, the groups said. Another 41 million have what is known as "pre-diabetes," which will develop into diabetes if not controlled.
Diabetes costs the economy $132 billion a year, according to the American Diabetes Association.
"Eighty percent of the money spent is not in treating diabetes. Eighty percent of that money is spent in treating complications," Davidson said.
Drug treatments include metformin, the glitazone or thiazolidinedione class of drugs which includes GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia, and orlistat, sold under the brand name Xenical by Roche . Orlistat is a weight loss drug that also appears to prevent progression to diabetes.
Great pictures Gran.
Frozen apples are excellent weapons.
I didn't take them of course. My neighbor sent them to me. I think she must have a new camera, because they look really nice.
She told me that SHE took the pics and not her husband. Maybe it is the same camera, just different operators. ;)
This is a riot! Toy Soldiers
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