Thanks so much for clearing that up for me. Now comes the fun part: hunting down a top-tier physiatrist the old-fashioned way—by calling up everyone I know and asking for a personal recommendation.
You can find them at the local pharmacy right by George Washington Square. They also carry them at the Paul pharmacy over on Under the Wall Street. I actually picked up a handy construction tip recently: if you’ve got woodworms boring into your woodwork, the best way to take them out is to inject the treatment directly into the wood using a syringe and a needle. So, I headed down to the drugstore, explained my little situation, grabbed two units, and managed to get rid of those pests for good. Honestly, the cost of the needles was peanuts.
Money isn't the issue; there's never enough cash to go around anyway 🙂 I was just reading up on bone scans. They really seem like a solid diagnostic tool. I’ll admit, though, I’m a little squeamish about any medical test that involves injecting radioactive tracers into my system. I've been following the skiing scene lately. It honestly baffles me why people rush straight for an MRI the second they take a tumble on the slopes.
To kick things off, you'll want to get a physiatrist's take on this to see what their specific recommendations are. From my non-expert perspective, I honestly think the best move would be to grab a CT or an MRI covering all the bones, joints, and whatever else showed up on those initial scans. I can't help but wonder if all this might actually be linked to my cycling.
Can those little bone fragments actually cause pain, and does that ache ever travel down into your leg? Is it something dangerous, even if it isn't a tumor?
So, here’s what my hip X-ray says: On a standard pelvic X-ray, there’s a small area of dense bone called an insula compacta located in the subcapital part of the right femoral neck, measuring about 10x6 mm. There are some minor arthritic changes in the sacroiliac joints, along with very slight narrowing of the joint space in both hips—though it looks a little more pronounced on the left side. I'm a 30-year-old guy.
Nicholas King said:I mentioned this in my first reply too: just type your text into a TextBox (if you don't like the border, just set the TextBox to have no outline). Once you do that, you'll be able to group everything together.
Thanks so much for the help. My internet connection is an absolute disaster right now. I managed to get everything grouped, but the logo doesn't look right anymore. It keeps cutting off part of the shape underneath the text. Plus, I've got shapes sitting right on top of my text. I tried moving all these shapes in front of the text and then behind it—I've been playing around with it forever—but nothing seems to work.
Nicholas King said:How did you write the text? Also, do you know how to group just the triangle and the rectangle?
I'm just working on a basic logo since I'm not really an expert in CorelDRAW. I managed to group the triangle and the rectangle—well, more of a square, really. I just selected both, right-clicked, hovered over the group option, and boom, it worked. I typed the text underneath the triangle, but for some reason, I can't get it to group with the shapes. It clearly isn't working the same way it did for those two. I used to do this stuff about five years ago, but I guess I've totally forgotten because I haven't needed to touch it in ages.
Nicholas King said:First, just pop that text into a TextBox. Once you've got that, go ahead and group all three objects together into one single group. After they’re grouped, you can set that whole group to be defined as an AutoText entry. From there, just type in whatever shortcut you assigned to those objects, hit F3, and voilà—you're all set! 🙂
I'm having a bit of a struggle here. The grouping option is completely greyed out for me. Any ideas?
Hey everyone, I could really use some help here—it’s getting a bit urgent! I’m trying to take a triangle, a rectangle, and some text and turn them into one single, finished shape. Ideally, I want to save it as Clip Art or something similar so I can just grab it as one object and scale it up or down without everything falling apart. I've already styled the triangle, the rectangle, and the text exactly how I want them. Could someone please walk me through what the next step is?
My mom’s doctor sees at least 70 patients a day. I know because she’s actually great, and when I showed up once with a referral, they told me to just swing by right before they close. The nurse logged my mom—well, me, really—as patient number 70, along with some other guy who walked in around 1:30 PM. At the local clinic where I went for blood work last time, I showed up at 7:30 AM and didn't wrap things up until about 9:25 AM. I finally made it into work around 10:30 AM. The very next day, I had to head back to the hospital for some specialized blood tests. It was pretty much the same deal; I arrived a little later, but I still finished up around the same time and ended up getting to work at roughly the same hour. If I were working for a private company, I’d probably be looking at a disciplinary hearing, since I missed six hours of work over those two days. On the bright side, hospitals don't even handle basic routine blood work anymore. Honestly, I think all of this should just be consolidated into one single stop.
melloworca6 said:I’m guessing they’ll handle the standard stuff—blood counts, glucose, cholesterol, and all that—right at the local clinics. As for the more specialized tests that need specific storage conditions, I assume those will still be sent off to the big hospitals or major labs.
Personally, I don't see any downside here, provided they actually get organized. If they set it up like it used to be—where the clinic has dedicated hours for blood work, a specific room for it, and nurses whose sole job is drawing blood rather than juggling five hundred other tasks at once—then I'm on board.
At the end of the day, if it's a choice between dealing with those massive crowds at the main metropolitan hospital—where you're stuck in a room with 200 people coughing and sneezing all over you (which is just lovely when you're pregnant and nobody gives you priority, at least in my neck of the woods)—or just having my primary care nurse do it, I’ll take the second option every single time.
I couldn't agree more. We really need to find a way to cut down these wait times. If a doctor is seeing somewhere between 30 and 40 patients a day, most of them—maybe only about ten or fifteen—actually need bloodwork done. A nurse can wrap up a draw and label the vials in maybe three minutes flat. If you’re the fifth person in line when you hand over your insurance card, you shouldn't be stuck sitting there for fifteen or twenty minutes. It just doesn't make sense. There are two main reasons why they’re switching to this new way of drawing blood. I’m pretty sure the traffic is going to thin out, but hey, only time will tell.
I honestly don't get it. When someone visits a specialist with first or second-degree hemorrhoids, why isn't surgery offered right away if things like ointments, suppositories, and diet changes don't do the trick within a month or two? I’ve started to wonder if they just want people to sink as much money as possible into all those different creams and treatments—which, let's face it, aren't cheap—only to end up needing surgery once they hit stage four. By then, the recovery process is way more brutal than if they had just dealt with it at the start.
Michael Diaz4 said:Magnets? Give me a break, just forget about it...
Look, when your doctor tells you that your hemorrhoids are only Stage I or II—meaning they aren't even worth surgery—and then hands you a prescription for ointments, creams, some cheap pills, some expensive ones, chamomile baths, tells you to stick to soft foods, avoid spicy stuff, and basically gives you a whole list of "lifestyle changes" that don't actually work... well, you start looking for other options. It's only human. Now this guy with those Quest Diagnostics magnets is out there on TV claiming they'll give you your money back if they don't work.
I recently came across this plant at a local health food store and picked up a pamphlet about it, so I was wondering if anyone here has actually tried it? Does it actually work? Apparently, it's supposed to help with all sorts of different ailments and general health issues.
You can absolutely live a full, long life with just one kidney—it’s totally doable to reach old age without any major issues. My grandma has been living without one of hers for over 30 years now, and she's doing just fine.
Jeffrey Garcia6 said:The tap water here in Washington, D.C. is perfectly safe to drink. Of course, that assumes your building's plumbing isn't a total disaster zone!
👍 You're absolutely right about that. One hundred percent.