Birdgirl or any other smarties out there!

[halfassedjediknight]

What??? why cant we just keep things simple?

When something is moving, it's moving, when its not, its stopped.
Doesn't get much simpler really

I learned loads of these formulas at school (2 or 3 years ago) and have neither remembered any or for that matter needed any since leaving Einstein, Newton and Co. have got a lot to answer for LOL

Cheers

NCM

P.S. there is a little brewery in Hertfordshire that makes Newtons cider, bit of a coincidence or what?

yeah, an object at rest stays at rest. but still, theres more to it than just your finger wiggling. there is force, momentum, etc. and they all come into play on how everything moves. how gravity works. you spoke of newton, one of the greatest names in physics..maybe the greatest but whos to judge..he came up with gravity! insane!

go spin in circles whilst holding a bucket of water and relish in the fact that you are recreating the earths gravitational pull. its really amazing, its just hard to put into calculations.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Coelho is the fellow you want to ask about these questions. He knows his physics and gave me a very nice explanation for my galaxy-spanning iron bar.

[GraziLovesMary]

I need physics help! hahaha.

anyone with any tips on converting computations. i forgot all that stuff.

like velocity=distancextime or something, stuff like that. anything will save my life. my professor does not know how to teach and I dont get my textbook in the mail til like, next week so I need to find some crazy research somehow.

Help this poor student! I wanna cure cancer!

Dude go to the school store, and find the tall spinning stand with all the laminated study guides. The physics one has alot of the calculations all right there.

Physics isnt about remembering calculations like arithmetic, its about understanding. Study each concept on its own, read the material and try to visualize real life examples of what they are saying. Then come up with real-life scenarios in which you can see how the calculations and effects and vector quantities apply. By using both sides of the brain you are creating a more stable frame of reference, and physics will be much easier. I slept all through math classes my whole life, never even touched a calculus or Trig book before stepping into my College Physics course, but because he described every concept with a very real world approach, the calculations not only made sense, they fit perfectly.

[Distortion]

halfassed, become a cryptozoologist. If I had to be any type of ist it would have to be in cryptozoology

[wholapola]

I have a medical question-someone I know was diagnosed with neuropathy-the doc ordered some bloodwork with the following tests:

-Fasting B12
-ANA
-GM1 Ganglioside -IGg, Igm

what's he looking for?

I really appreciate your help and thanks.

[birdgirl73]

A fasting B12, or â??Schilling test,â?� looks at how well B12 is absorbed by the body. The patient fasts overnight and then has a vitamin B12 injection and takes radioactive-labeled vitamin B12 tablets. The amount of vitamin B12 that comes out in the urine is measured. B12 and folate deficiencies can cause certain types of anemia or neurological symptoms such as neuropathy.

The doctor may have also ordered fasting blood-glucose testing, too, to check for diabetes, which can also cause neuropathy (but usually only after someoneâ??s been diabetic for a long time).

The ANA test is an antinuclear antibody blood test that can detect certain autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.

A GM1 glanglioside test looks at the level of anti-ganglioside antibodies (AGA) to GM1 ganglioside in patients who have motor neuropathies.

IgG and IgM (along with IgA) are other types of immunoglobulin antibodies that show up in bloodwork when people have some sort of autoimmune disease or sometimes also other types of blood-related disease.

I was able to find out all this testing info on my school research sites. I'm not trained yet in what they're all used for, but it sounds like the doctor who ordered those tests was trying to nail down the cause of any neuropathy and rule out a vitamin deficiency or possible diabetes, then see if he could determine whether an autoimmune disease process such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus was causing your friend's neuropathy.

[Oneironaut]

Mmmmm....Smarties.....

[wholapola]

Thanks Birdgirl-hmm interesting..I should have given you more background on the patient to give you a better picture of what's going on...she's a 70 y/o very pleasant lady who was diagnosed with uterine cancer and was treated with a series of radiation and chemotherapy (Taxol/Carboplaitin) treatments. Prior to this, the patient had no signs or symptoms of neuropathy. The patient noticed that while undergoing the chemo treatments, her feet began showing signs of numbness and pain which traveled up to her calves as the treatments continued. We're trying to find out how and why this occurred and now that her treatments are concluded, how much feeling will return and to what degree.

The doc thinks it might be related to the radiation treatments and not the chemotherapy, but the patient insists this began with the chemotherapy. She has no history of diabetes. I'm trying to see how these tests correlate with her present condition.

Or is he checking for something else?

[snowblind]

the distance ones just remeber a triangal

m
________

d x v

cover up the one you want them either multiply or divide

is the one for pressure in a closed system

P1 P2
_____ = ______

A1 A2

dude they ain smarites there shit erm sherbert, like love hearts. fuck i love sweets. erm they aint smarties.

[birdgirl73]

Thanks Birdgirl-hmm interesting..I should have given you more background on the patient to give you a better picture of what's going on...she's a 70 y/o very pleasant lady who was diagnosed with uterine cancer and was treated with a series of radiation and chemotherapy (Taxol/Carboplaitin) treatments. Prior to this, the patient had no signs or symptoms of neuropathy. The patient noticed that while undergoing the chemo treatments, her feet began showing signs of numbness and pain which traveled up to her calves as the treatments continued. We're trying to find out how and why this occurred and now that her treatments are concluded, how much feeling will return and to what degree.

The doc thinks it might be related to the radiation treatments and not the chemotherapy, but the patient insists this began with the chemotherapy. She has no history of diabetes. I'm trying to see how these tests correlate with her present condition.

Or is he checking for something else?

Remember, I'm still a student and certainly not a full-fledged doctor yet, but based on the further information you provided above, it sounds likely that the doctor was ordering those blood tests up in your previous post to simply rule out other causes of neuropathy, such as an automimmune disease, and confirm that her problems are a result of the chemo and/or radiation.

Neuropathy after chemo and radiation is very common as is, they now know, a sort of intellectual brain fog, too. That brain fog is increasingly reported in patients who have heavy-duty chemo. It makes sense to me that the radiation could have caused her neuropathy since it would have been aimed at her pelvis and could ostensibly have affected the nerves that issue from the the bottom of her spinal cord and stretch down into her legs and feet. I'm not sure it matters a whole lot whether her neuropathy happened as a result of the chemo or radiation. That is, knowing which one caused it isn't going to change the fact that she has it now. With luck, those nerves will get better and heal up and she'll feel better. Nerve healing takes a lot of time. That'll be slow going, especially for someone who's 70. Hope she has a good recovery!