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Things could be worse. My hematologist and vascular surgeon are that kind of Dr. where you know immediately that you're in good hands and can trust them.

anticoagulation may have been restarted too soon.

I'm really sorry to hear that.

Who said I had bleeding? Read my initial post again. I clearly said that I had a massive blood clot. What is a thrombus, but a blood clot? I don't know about you, but I try to stay on topic as much as possible when I post to a thread.

It was one of the best experiences of my life - making myself sit down and study eight hours every day whether I wanted to or not. I knew two weeks before that I was going to be successful.

I never said that I was a victim of malpractice. I was relating my story for whatever use it might have been for the OP - to give him an idea that a bad outcome doesnt mean that under the law you have been a victim of malpractice. I had a bad outcome yes, one which was foreseeable and preventable. The only reason it wasnt malpractice was that the treatment offered, however inadequate, was "reasonable" at the time. It wasn't just the specialist at Stanford who told me I should have been treated differently - doctors within the organization providing the treatment have told me that they would have used thrombolysis in that circumstance.

Of course there was an adverse outcome. Because they didn't follow the original treatment, they discharged me with the deep veins in my leg and my pelvis obstructed with clot. There was a a time window of two weeks or less in which the clot could have been treated with thrombolytics. They squandered that, virtually guaranteeing that I would have lifelong circulatory problems in that leg. Flash forward to twenty years later, the venous outflow in that leg is 15% of normal and I have venous insufficiency - injuries which were all foreseeable and preventable if they had acted as they had originally intended to. Once again, Unicorn, you have embarrassed yourself by trying to sound authoritative regarding something you know nothing about. You don't know anything about the law of torts and I doubt whether you know much about vascular medicine - PCP's usually don't.

Of course, I know that. One of them even explained it in terms of the case's investment value.

20 years ago, I experienced a massive blood clot - it went from the back of my knee up the leg into my femoral vein, into my iliac veins and into my vena cava to the level of my kidneys. They were dumbfounded, no one had seen anything like it. The original treatment plan was to transfer me to a larger hospital that had a good vascular lab and dissolve the clot using thrombolytics. Everything was put in motion for the transfer and suddenly, someone at the receiving hospital put the brakes on, saying that the risk level was unacceptable, it couldn't be reliably managed. So, they put me on a blood thinner and discharged me. Weeks later, I went to the Stanford Vascular Center for a second opinion. The doc I saw at Stanford just shook his head and said , "THEY couldn't manage the risk, but it WAS manageable." Of course I was furious. I talked to three malpractice attorneys and none of them thought I had a case. They said "you're alive, you still have use of your leg, a judge would probably throw this out of court." They all said that the treatment had been "reasonable." They agreed that treatment with thrombolytics would have been optimal, but that the law didn't require that you have "optimal" treatment. The treatment only needed to have been "reasonable."

I'm thinking of learning to play blues piano. So far, the only thing I have done is buy a book called "The first 50 Blues Songs" and play the first couple of pieces. I'm more interested in blues improv and there is a bunch of goog tutorials on you tube that I have played with.

Passing the bar exam. Whenever I'm faced with a new challenge that I'm not sure I can handle, I always remind myself. "This is like the bar exam, of course you can do it."

Great stuff doesn't make you sleepy or spaced out.

I haven't hired since pre-pandemic. I toy with the idea, but, so far, haven't been moved. I have often complained about the selection of men available in SF. That seems to have changed - there is a lot to choose from now.

Exactly.

Life often requires us to manage our expectations if we are going to be happy. As a horny gay teenager, I was attracted to the studly, handsome hunks that I saw in ads in GQ and Esquire. I just assumed that life would be like that - one hunk after another. And when I started to get out and around in the gay community, I saw that there are a lot of that kind of man in our community and I chased after them. The thing is, as has been noted, that kind of man is usually attracted to men of the same type, so more often than not I was frustrated and disappointed and I felt sorry for myself because I couldn't find a boyfriend. Bit by bit, I began to realize that I was looking for a fantasy, not a boyfriend, and my view of what I found attractive in a man began to expand. The more it expanded, the less lonely I was.

I'm not really concerned about an Uber driver's looks - I just want a ride. If he's nice-looking, it's icing on the cake.

Last weekend in Seattle, one of my drivers was a handsome young guy from Eritrea - very engaging.

I have only started using Uber, first time was in July in Las Vegas. I was there for four days and didn't want to rent a car because I knew I was pretty much going to stay put. I installed the Uber app on my phone and started using it. I had to wait a long time for the first ride - 15 minutes or so. But after that it was painless. I went all over the place just with Uber. I know it cost me way less than renting a car. After my hip surgery, I wasn't allowed to drive for six weeks, so I used Uber any time my husband wasn't able to drive me. It was painless - never had to wait for more than a couple minutes for a ride. I was in Seattle for business last weekend - same story - fast, painless, cheap. Car rental companies have to be taking notice of this phenomenon.

I have to be careful with products to be used close to the eye, like under eye creams. Nearly all of them give me blisters underneath the eyes. Yes, I dont go any closer to the eyelid than the edge of the lower orbit and they still do. A couple months ago, I got a HURON under-eye stick. I was persuaded by their advertising claiming that their products don't have any bad ingredients. Believe it or not, I am able to use this without getting any irritation or inflammation in my lower lids. It does improve the appearance of my lower lids - a little. It feels good applying it.

I was in the army in June 1971. It was in early June of 1971 that I was posted to Heidelberg Germany, where I spent nearly 3 years. When we first got there, we were assigned to a replacement battalion until orders were generated for our permanent duty assignment. The replacement battalion was located in an old German army base called Gutleut Kaserne in Frankfurt, close to the train station. It was an incredibly bleak place, resembling a prison, that we couldn't wait to get out of. When I went back years later, Gutleut Kaserne had been transformed into upscale condos.

A restaurant opened in my neighborhood and they served just one thing - Shabu-shabu, made with either wagyu beef, chicken or vegetarian. The beef Shabu-shabu was insanely good - I could have lived on it. They didn't make it tho - they folded very quickly. I guess the menu was a little too narrow

Nine months on a cruise ship? No thanks.

I got mine in late August at Kaiser - just in time for my hip surgery. Kaiser has been nothing short of amazing through the pandemic. They really pulled it together. Reminded me of the way they care for troops in the military.

What about Dubai? There's a Saudi on IG who keeps inviting me to Dubai. I doubt whether it will ever happen - there's been no offer of a plane ticket.