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There was a bit of an issue in the cyber neighborhood yesterday - Twitter went down for quite some time - and it wasn't due to maintenance, at least not planned maintenance! Seems there was a "distributed denial of service" attack launched by someone who ... are you ready for this? Was attempting to silence a lone Georgian blogger who criticized the Russian conflict. You can read more about it [HERE]. I'm using a UK news source so y'all *know* it's true!
So ... I was a little surprised of how odd I felt not being able to "connect" with folks on Twitter (I follow primarily news sources and people I know). It's not like I couldn't have sent an email, or visited a web site, but somehow that just isn't the same. And before anyone makes any smart ass remarks, yes! I badmouthed Twitter (and FaceBook) and now update both regularly. Jay was right ... just this one time though ...
There was a bit of an issue in the cyber neighborhood yesterday - Twitter went down for quite some time - and it wasn't due to maintenance, at least not planned maintenance! Seems there was a "distributed denial of service" attack launched by someone who ... are you ready for this? Was attempting to silence a lone Georgian blogger who criticized the Russian conflict. You can read more about it [HERE]. I'm using a UK news source so y'all *know* it's true!So ... I was a little surprised of how odd I felt not being able to "connect" with folks on Twitter (I follow primarily news sources and people I know). It's not like I couldn't have sent an email, or visited a web site, but somehow that just isn't the same. And before anyone makes any smart ass remarks, yes! I badmouthed Twitter (and FaceBook) and now update both regularly. Jay was right ... just this one time though ...
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I spent yesterday afternoon, with Cam, at a Sports Medicine Clinic. He suffered what appeared to be a mild lower back injury a couple of weeks ago. I took him to our family Doc, she prescribed an anti-inflammatory - and told us to come back in a couple of weeks if it wasn't better. At Monday's practice, Cam aggravated the injury again.
After determining this was a hyper-extension back injury, the doc ordered a full set of x-rays. Apparently it is not uncommon to see small fractures of the vertebrae in this type of situation.
The good news is that there weren't any obvious injuries visible in the x-rays. Space between the vertebrae looks good. There weren't any clear fractures. The "hmmm" side is that it looked like one of his vertebrae might be pushed forward about 1 mm, and because of that, the doc has ordered a bone scan. They'll inject him with radioactive dye, make him sit for 3 hours, scan him for an hour, and produce 3-D pictures of his glowing bones.
There is a possibility of a stress fracture - or soft spot - in Cam's spine. Now, I'm not terribly concerned about this - definitely not in full-out panic mode. I realize that, because football is such a physical sport, whenever there is an injury, doctors will want to err on the side of caution, and that is what this is really all about.
So, today I'll be navigating my insurance plan, seeing what hoops I'll need to jump through to make this happen. It's a rather expensive procedure and the doc told me I might get some resistance from the insurance company depending on our coverage level. Who knows? Maybe next week I'll be posting about the wonders of implementing a National Health Care Plan!
Pffftttt! Nahhhh ....
Has anyone ever seen one of these before? The place we had to go for Cam's x-rays was also an Urgent Care Clinic. You know, one of those minor injuries/illnesses - night and weekend hours kind of places. In the lobby was a GIANT fish tank (seems to be a requirement of doctor's offices these days) and?? Yep! It's a prescription vending machine.
I have no idea how this thing works, but it was the first time I've ever seen anything like it. Anyone have some change? I'm thinking I'll order up a dose or two of Valium if we ever go back there!
*Poor picture quality disclaimer - these were taken with my 2-year old, 1.3 mega pixel LG Chocolate phone*
I spent yesterday afternoon, with Cam, at a Sports Medicine Clinic. He suffered what appeared to be a mild lower back injury a couple of weeks ago. I took him to our family Doc, she prescribed an anti-inflammatory - and told us to come back in a couple of weeks if it wasn't better. At Monday's practice, Cam aggravated the injury again.
After determining this was a hyper-extension back injury, the doc ordered a full set of x-rays. Apparently it is not uncommon to see small fractures of the vertebrae in this type of situation.The good news is that there weren't any obvious injuries visible in the x-rays. Space between the vertebrae looks good. There weren't any clear fractures. The "hmmm" side is that it looked like one of his vertebrae might be pushed forward about 1 mm, and because of that, the doc has ordered a bone scan. They'll inject him with radioactive dye, make him sit for 3 hours, scan him for an hour, and produce 3-D pictures of his glowing bones.
There is a possibility of a stress fracture - or soft spot - in Cam's spine. Now, I'm not terribly concerned about this - definitely not in full-out panic mode. I realize that, because football is such a physical sport, whenever there is an injury, doctors will want to err on the side of caution, and that is what this is really all about.
So, today I'll be navigating my insurance plan, seeing what hoops I'll need to jump through to make this happen. It's a rather expensive procedure and the doc told me I might get some resistance from the insurance company depending on our coverage level. Who knows? Maybe next week I'll be posting about the wonders of implementing a National Health Care Plan!
Pffftttt! Nahhhh ....
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Has anyone ever seen one of these before? The place we had to go for Cam's x-rays was also an Urgent Care Clinic. You know, one of those minor injuries/illnesses - night and weekend hours kind of places. In the lobby was a GIANT fish tank (seems to be a requirement of doctor's offices these days) and?? Yep! It's a prescription vending machine.
I have no idea how this thing works, but it was the first time I've ever seen anything like it. Anyone have some change? I'm thinking I'll order up a dose or two of Valium if we ever go back there!
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