This collection of entries is from July 09, 2003.
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You know, Carol & I were talking after the show last night and we realized there weren't enough beds. Big Brother invented the Bed Pass. The "exes" were given a Bed Pass that would allow them to claim any bed they chose, kicking someone out of their bed,m forcing them to sleep... elsewhere. Think "bed sharing". The first Luxury Challenge to open-up the locked Hot Tub involved bathing suits, slime, and having someone else removing the slime off your body and putting it in a container that's on a cantelever that will raise a box revealing the key to the lock. Another convoluted challenge with a lot of touching of bodies. Still a lot of scheming among the original houseguests to get rid of the exes. On Day 3, it's time for the Head Of Household (HOH) competition. Iy has to do with "kneelers" and "sitters", where the kneeler is in an odd position, kneeling on a trigger that will dump fish chum on their sitter if they move off.
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Carol has a friend that's been a coworker of her's ever since she started at her company. They sit across from each other. They go to WeightWatchers together.
For a while now, the coworker has been having some very odd neurological problems. Her doctors recognize that there is something wrong, but were stumped about what it could be.
Her problems have gotten increasingly severe.
Finally, one night, her husband rushes her to a hospital - they can't stand it any longer. They happen to hit the ER during a time when a neurologist is there on rotation. He was concerned and brought in a number of other neuro-specialists and they convinced her that they will work with her until they could identify what was going on.
The coworker had been doing her own research and she was worried that it could be MS - Multiple Sclerosis, though she didn't have some of the symptoms.
The doctors ruled it out. But they did finally come up with the diagnosis:ALS, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (often called Lou Gehrig's disease).
She's married and in her 30's. And now she has ALS.
Let's just say it was not a good day in the office when the staff found out.
What do you say? What do you do? What can you do?
It was soooooo nice to see everyone back on the road from their 4th of July vacations. (Of course, I'm being facetious). Monday was fine, yesterday wasn't bad, today we have a nice sunny morning (for a change) and everyone is out and moving slow. Great.