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Date: Thurs, Aug 17 2006 10:41 pm
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Jim Carter wrote:
As Jim suggested, check with the Civil Air Patrol. We are losing a lot
of our members who were flyers in Korea and 'Nam because of age and
infirmities.

Since you mention this, I'll ask....would a 20-something female fit in
at all? I've been thinking about it, and really am not afraid of being
the only woman (I work in the industry, and rarely see women) but I
always got a feeling it was an old boys club. True?


From: Emily
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:03:28 -0500


Since I've made postings alluding to my ratings, it's obvious to anyone with

any sort of knowledge of the FARs that I am at the very least 18.


That doesn't mean I'm in my 20's, but whatever.


Where did I say that you were/weren't in your 20s, but whatever?


I thought anyone would
realize that if a person has a certficiate, she's at least 17.


How could someone know what certificates you might/might not have from the post on usenet?

Emily wrote:
I've been running a 102 degree fever for the past two weeks and have
been so tired I can barely get to work. Finally made a doctor's
appointment (with a new doctor) today, but wasn't planning on getting in
the same day and had taken Tylenol for the fever...so no fever when I
showed up.

Long story short, he ordered some blood work, but told me he thinks that
I am depressed, since I have fatigue with no fever. He said that if the
blood work comes back normal, he's writing it up as depression.

Obviously he's an idiot, since 1) fatigue has so many other causes and
2) I don't have depression, never have. This is just a bogus diagnosis.

My concern is, if he writes this up in my medical records, do I have to
report it to the FAA? I'm really terrified of this.

NO, not unless it is really true. It takes more than blood work to
determine if you have depression. I takes an evaluation by a
psychological professional.

Michelle P

"Margy Natalie" wrote in message
m...
Allen wrote:
"Margy Natalie" wrote in message
m...

Montblack wrote:

("Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote)


Nothing personal, but you did imply you were twenty-something in a
previous post, found here in Google's archives:
http://tinyurl.com/jeyy4


BWAHAHA!!!! Busted!



( emergency landing in downtown Montreal ends well)

"Nah, happens here, too. I learned in driver's ed about streets getting
oily, but it rained a lot where I learned to drive and I never
experienced it.

First time it rained here, I took a corner too fast and spun out...it
felt like I was driving on a solid sheet of ice. Of course, being used
to driving in snow, it was easy to recover. Scary stuff!"

(Monblack here)
"...driver's ed..."

Hmm? I'm comfortable calling it "Under 30." Is 26 taken?

Next, we guess weight. g


Won't work Monblack, I can quote what I learned in Driver's Ed and that
was ... well, more than 30 years ago.

Margy (damned, now everyone knows I'm over 30)


Heh, since you had to be at least 14 years old to take Driver's Ed I say
that puts you well into the 40's :-)

Allen
Yeah, but who's counting :-). I hear 50 is the new 30! I figure the
older I get the cooler my toys get.

Margy


My mind still thinks it's 20, but it has a hard time convincing my body
:~(

Allen

Peter R. wrote:
Margy Natalie wrote:

Deer ticks you don't see. They are about the size of a pin head. I've
had two occasions with funny looking bites. They just treat with
antibiotics in case.


Margy, I think you are on to something with your recommendation. Here is a
list of potential symptoms of Lyme disease, which includes depression,
fatigue, and fever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Disease

Living in a heavily infested deer-tick area of upstate New York state
(thanks to the fact that the state still won't allow any type of hunting on
nearby state park land and the deer reproduce far greater than local
rabbits), I can relate a few tidbits of deer tick information from personal
experience:

1) A deer tick bite (assuming the tick is still not attached) will appear
as a bulls-eye type red mark in the area immediately surrounding the bite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lymebite.png

2) An engorged deer tick still attached to the skin will be much bigger
than a pin head. The tick's body, which will be the part above the skin,
will be grey in color and about the depth of a pencil eraser, but narrower
in width.

3) If you do spot a tick on your skin, all of the OWT about how to remove
them (touching it with a burnt match head, covering it with Vasoline, etc.)
are, in fact, fallacy and can result in the tick regurgitating its contents
back into your bloodstream. Definitely increases the chances of
contracting Lyme disease.

We have been most successful using a tick puller, which is a US 5$ plastic
set of wide tweezers that pinch the tick in the area just at skin level.
With a slow, gentle rotating and pulling motion, this tool will pull the
tick intact from the skin, as opposed to leaving the head behind, another
potentially dangerous side-effect of using an incorrect method. If you
don't have this special tool, a standard set of tweezers will work, but use
caution to not squeeze the body of the tick too hard.

You then should throw the tick into a plastic sandwich bag and bring it to
your local health department for Lyme disease testing, as well as notify
your doctor.

4) A fully engorged tick will eventually drop off on its own, usually after
only a couple of days, to then reproduce.

Somewhere I read that only about 1 in 100,000 ticks carry Lyme disease, but
I don't have a site.

--
Peter

Trust me ... only about 1 in 3 people get the rash. And since its now
been found that the ticks that harbor Borrelia burgdoferi are living on
some song-birds, the problem is spreading quickly.

I know because I have it. Its an absolute horror.

I've been sick for 2 and a half years, and the treatment, because I was
undiagnosed for 1 and a half years, is 12 to 18 months.

Needless to say ... no flying for me in a long while (since September
of 2003).

Check out:


http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Borrelia


TFP

"Sylvain" wrote in message
...
I am glad you aren't diagnosing me as paranoid, would have had to
report it on the ol' 8500-9 at the next medical :-)

Of course I'm paranoid... I'm firmly convinced that gravity is out to get
me...

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
Like a kid saying they're 6 1/2 years old. Around 40 you stop inserting
half
years into conversation. g

Nawh, you just stay with the decades... 40-something... 50-something...
60-something... really-****in'-old-something...

"Margy Natalie" wrote in message
m...
Yeah, but who's counting :-). I hear 50 is the new 30! I figure the
older I get the cooler my toys get.

Sounds like you need new batteries... dirty-old-man-grin

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
Like with all else GA-related, obey only those regulations you happen to
agree with.

And why should that be any different than anything else in life?

Emily wrote:
wrote:
Emily wrote:
snip

Have you had a Lymes test? I don't what part of the country you are in
but you should. Just to rule it out.

I don't think we have it around here, and I haven't seen a tick in
years, but it's something to keep in mind, I guess.

Emily et al:

The tick is called a deer tick, although it is now believed that the
primary vector for the tick itself is song-birds. The tick is also
only the size of a poppy seed when it attaches, and no bigger than a
sesame seed when it is done feeding. Quite small indeed.

If your symptoms persist ... get the test done, especially if you
notice any tingling sensations anywhere, or pain in your face, teeth,
or sinuses. For reasons not known many people with Lyme disease
eventually get mild sinusitis with considerable unremitting facial pain
that cannot be explained by the sinusisitis, or any dental issues that
might be present The best method for Lyme testing is via PCR (genetic
testing) which is done by iGeneX Labs in California.

Lyme (not LYMES) Disease is horrible, and hard to detect, diagnose, and
treat. I had to stop flying (and doing pretty much everything else)
quite suddenly 3 years ago because of it, and am now in treatment.
Because it went undetected by less than compentent doctors for over a
year and a half, my treatment will likely be 18 months long. I've
received antibiotics for 12 months and am now about 60% recovered.

If nothing else shows up in your normal blood testing, get this
particular test done! Don't listen to a doctor that says "there isn't
any Lyme Disease around here" or "you don't have a rash, so you can't
have Lyme Disease". I lived in a large city, never had a rash, and the
extent of my outdoorsiness amounted to the occasional fly-in to a grass
runway, and exposure to a house cat that was allowed to run in and
outside.

The Wikipedia entries are very good on the subject. Look up Lyme
Disease (of course!) and Borrelia burgdorferi (the spirochete that
causes the disease).

All the best ...

TFP

Pharmacy Techs are low paid, educated, smart people, who sometimes get
bored at work.

Walgreen's anyone? How about Target? Blue Cross? Wal-Mart?


BTW, it was a college roommate of a person I know - I don't work in the
industry.

But it did put a chill in me how readily accessible this info was,
especially now, with large computer networks....

Maybe big, better, security also comes with bigger, better, data-base
computer networks.


Montblack