WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

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You would have been impressed at my smiling demeanour! Not a grumpy sound was heard from me!

Until I got home!

I think companies who don't pack things properly and safely should be shot. No discussion - just shoot them! Serve as some sort of discouragement to anyone else stuffing up packing!

Prince - dancing is supposed to be good for you! You need more exercise!

Olga, depends on what type of tree you were pruning. The dust from some exotic wood species (you say you were pruning) can be toxic and can cause skin and eye problems and/or respiratory problems. Wondering what you were pruning ...

Keeping good thoughts that your guess is wrong, Osso.

I presume it doesn't look like a freckle ...

In my experience, msolga, when the doctor sends me for blood, urine, ECG tests, et cetera, he sends me to the lab with a requisition, and those tests are done by a technologist, with the results going being sent directly to him to interpret. Don't know if there's a physician in between who reads the results, but don't think so. X-rays, though, are reviewed by a radiologist (a specialist physican) before being sent back to the doctor.

In Canada, in my experience, a patholgist is generally the medical specialist who determines cause of death.

I'll know soon enough or will storm the palace. I am routinely ballsy re medical matters, not used to being this constricted. Wait time is horrendo here. If nothing else, I'll march in on my eye doc - he both likes me and is smart as a whip and I presume could do the f/k referral to the dermatology folks.

Looks like a baby melanoma to me, but I hope I'm wrong.

Good for you, Osso!

You'd have the experience to know, better than most I hope you're wrong, too. But baby is good, right?

In our clinical lab, the owner, a PhD, M.D, did hear about results, had an eye out for the process. His PhD was in muscle physiology. The lab, after my time, became one of the world's biggie labs.

Same as you, McKenzie, pathologists I knew did pathology, as you say, cause of death and similar matters. Reading biopsy slides, and so on. Separate department from the main labs.

I did work at a lab for a while that was owned by a pathologist and a regular physician. We would never have called routine tests having pathology done.
I guess it's a language thing.

Right, she says.

I'm not sure of the correct name for this exceedingly fast growing shrub/small tree, mckenzie.
Locals call it "shiny leaf". You could call it a weed (I certainly would!) , but some people plant it in their gardens.
It is propagated via bird droppings from the berries.
This particular one was very well established when I moved here.
When I see a new one pop up in my garden I immediately pull it out.
They pop up everywhere!
Whether it is toxic or not, I honestly don't know.
But I have handled plenty of these (pulling them out) in the past with no problems at all.

It actually sounds like a very similar process here, except (after your GP has prescribed the tests), the technician at the "pathology clinic" (as we call it here) just takes the samples & conducts the ECG, etc, nothing more ... then the actual analysis takes place at the main "laboratory" .... which sends the results back to your GP.

How's the eye?

Eyes, Deb. Plural. Both.
They have cleared up remarkably well & quickly.
I taught today & not one child told me I looked like someone from some freak movie!

Jgoldman made me grimace today. Either he is very very bored or very very stupid.

Regardless, he is a sad sad little man.

my roommates b/f.

Not but a week or so ago, he decided he was going to keep a loaded gun in the house. Um.. hello dude. I have kids.

1) he does not live here. That is not his decision to make

2) how dare he think he does not need to ASK ME about something like that

3) I dont trust him with a gun to begin with. He is the type of person who would flash a gun just to show off, and make himself look BIG .. People like that should not have a gun.

I yelled at him and made my point about him and his gun. He isnt here when I am home now.
I got back late last night... and he was here. I despise him . He is rude, selfish, inconsiderate and arrogant.

He made me grit my teeth. Hell, i still am ..

Shoulda shot his prick off. That will teach him.

omg - did he remove the gun from your place though?

Hearing about how some people live their daily lives.

Oh yes he did. That very DAY. I was about to fly across the table and frankly kick his ass.

That was the dumbest thing I have ever seen anyone do, and the most self centered. There are kids here at the very least , that have not come in contact with a gun. They would need to know about it. Not to mention I also have 'my' teenager whos dad did NOT want that either. he didnt consider asking HIM either..

Just walked in, put it on the table and pretended to begin to brag.....

he is lucky.

I have no problem with guns. I really dont. What I hate are people like him who do not make that decision for anyone but themselves, and it is only to serve to boost a broken ego. Those gun owners are dangerous..

the way he behaves in this house when he is here.... ohhhh yeah. I would love to.

50 years old, acts like a spoiled rotten 5 year old . Im NOT kidding.. he even throws tantrums

"Kids" plural?

"my" teenager?

Did I miss something?