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Post by **Arcadia** » October 13th, 2008, 8:45 am

good to know about you! an orange candle for you, friend!

Post by **sooZen** » October 13th, 2008, 9:01 am

Kurt...a week can be a long time when waiting for answers. My heart is with you and wishing and hoping only the best news. Please do keep us informed. This forum can be the best support group one can have!

Post by **Doreen Peri** » October 13th, 2008, 10:19 am

wow.. a week?

i'm very surprised. I've designed 3 different websites for 3 MRI centers ... well they were run by the same people .... but they all offered film & test results sent to your doctor in 24 hours. anyway... just saying.. seems a long time...

hang in there...

as sooZ just said, we're all hoping for the best news

Post by **Artguy** » October 13th, 2008, 10:27 am

Those are private centres. We have those too, very expensive. This is at a hospital covered by gov't insurance. I don't want to get into a political debate over social health care as opposed to private. They both have their pro's and cons...

Post by **Doreen Peri** » October 13th, 2008, 10:37 am

ok... didn't want to debate, no

of course not!

i am not familiar at all with how canada's social heath care system works but i am very happy to hear you have it!

we don't have any such system here in the US and it is sorely needed!

all the best, kurt! please keep us posted as we are waiting patiently with you and truly care very much!

Post by **stilltrucking** » October 13th, 2008, 11:25 am

I had some long nights while waiting for my results, hardly ever lose any sleep worrying about anything anymore, but I tell ya I was having trouble keeping up with my favorite hobby. Some nights I was very grateful for my virtual freinds here on studio eight.

I got an electric candle going for you kurt, best I can do till I find some wax ones I know I got somewhere.

Hope I am not bumming you out. When my sister got her MRI the lab tech said to her "I will pray for you." The first thing that entered her mind was

"it's all over now baby blue" dylan

It really put the dread in my sister's heart. LIke oh god what did she see?

I won't pray just think positive thoughts about miracle machines. And hope all will be well. Amazing quantum mechanical machines that light up the brain's secretes, I am sure they will find that cricket in your skull.

best wished
jt

Post by **Doreen Peri** » October 17th, 2008, 7:41 am

thinking of you kurt.

please let us know how you're doing.

Post by **Artguy** » October 17th, 2008, 8:18 am

Same old...yesterday my wife, Lorraine, noticed the left side of my face to be slightly swollen....will be in touch with a doctor today.

Post by **judih** » October 17th, 2008, 12:25 pm

alright, it'll be good to speak to a doc. i take it he's a good guy.
keep us posted

Post by **Doreen Peri** » October 17th, 2008, 1:10 pm

Good, yes! Go see the doctor about the slight swelling. Sinus infections can cause facial swelling and also ringing in the ears and vertigo. (just guessing of course but seems to fit) The doc will figure it out!

Thanks for keeping us posted, Kurt. Hang in there. You're in good hands.

Post by **Artguy** » October 19th, 2008, 1:53 am

Thank you all...I have just had my first sane day in awhile...went out in the woods and painted...took a bunch of pain killers..went to my opening at a new gallery ...very new york scene...after party food ...gallons o booze so here i am alone ...2am...deflating... Lou Reed singin Street Hassle... more booze...wish I had a joint...good friend and fellow artist spoke the first honest words I have heard in years....

Post by **judih** » October 19th, 2008, 3:03 am

ah, sanity

painting in the woods, numbing the pain
your opening, lou reed, honest words, booze
= first sane day
how beat is that?

portrait of kurt done in swirl style, blended edges, aura on high

Post by **stilltrucking** » October 20th, 2008, 6:20 am

New A proust cookie for me. A very happy time in my life.
Autumn of 1959, College Park maybe my last sane day.

Artguy
Sitting here at work thinking of you and my

Baby sisters experience with her MRI a couple

Years ago.

Sitting here believing in doctors who practice

zen [sic] and the art and science of the maintenance of life.

I sit here and wait for the phone to ring here at The Rosewater Foundation and know I will have to drag my consciousness away from this text box and answer the phone and be centered on the caller's needs. I take a deep ragged breath and think about a comment brooklyn at litkicks made about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I am not sure what he meant about Plato; it seems to me that the book was really about Motorcycle Maintenance. The bit about the motorcycle shop of the unenlightened motorcycle mechanics who were butchering his bike.

From my sister's experience I can say that happens down here in HMO clinics.

Wishing you well
and wishing we had lost the war of 1776. Who knows how it would have turned out. Maybe there would have been no need for a civil war to end slavery? If we had lost, we could all be Canadians now and have national health insurance, god forbid.

in cyberpalship
Jt

Post by **tarbaby** » October 20th, 2008, 6:30 am

She is a smart woman kurt, but she never asks the doctors any questions, so many clerical mistakes made in those clinics, wrong tests ordered, test results misfiled, refiled and lost, no communication between different specialists, and she so meekly going along with it. It all dragged on for months and months till they all agreed nothing was wrong or nothing else needed doing.

I hope you are an interested particpant, nothing like a sane day now and then to help you stay observant.

jt

Post by **mousey1** » October 20th, 2008, 3:15 pm

Oh I'm sorry to hear of your health concerns. I hope it turns out to be something easily rectified. I'm thinking good thoughts that you'll be back to normal in short order. I'll keep an eye out for your 100% recovery.

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