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    Registered for CM Marathon

    it's now official, i faxed in my registration and transferred the entry fee. the marathon will be held december 27th, start time 4:00 a.m. i'm hoping for a 4-hour time, around 9 minutes/mile. should be done by 8 am, and in dunkin donuts by 8:30. only nine weeks left, and i'm a bit worried i...
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    Exercise Stress Test

    i've got my new meat valve, and think i'm fully recovered, and have started training to run a marathon in december. or maybe just the half, haven't decided yet, depends how training goes. i'm thinking i might have another echo and ekg done. no real reason, other than i just want to see what i...
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    Insurance Exclusion

    I've just been approved for health insurance, but due to my recent AVR and controlled high cholesterol, i have a 5-year moratorium. If no issues, then after 5 years, cardio is covered. But.....and here's the rider: ************************************************************ " * Exclude...
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    the latest email scam

    hi all, i just got an email from someone i'd not heard from in some time. the email subject was "who blocked you" and the text reads: "[email protected] invited you to check who has deleted or blocked you from their contact list on MSN Messenger." It's Easy, Secure and Free! Try it Now...
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    Walk to reunion?

    oh, man this looks sooooooooooo coool !!!! http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/none/longest-way-amazing-timelapse-video-one-mans-4500km-walk-across-china-040296 i wanna do this....any takers? how 'bout set the next reunion for someplace really cool, like nepal.
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    My personal health care plan

    Sometimes it works...this time it did! Last december, while re-balancing my portfolio, and lamenting the paper losses, i took the $10k that was earmarked for my surgery and bought into a mutual fund. At the same time i activated a new 0%-for-one-year credit card. Put all health related...
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    Applied for new health insurance

    my useless insurance policy is about to expire...(that's the policy that denied my avr claim because they don't cover cosmetic surgery, among other random reasons)...so today have applied for a new policy. this is a policy specifically designed for ex-pats in thighland, your basic major...
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    recovery - as seen on TV

    so i'm channel surfing, i've got 60 channels of strange thai programming, and really enjoying the booger network, and then they ran 'barbarella' and where was i???? oh yeah, came across some movie about a pro wrestler who has a multi-bypass. he's released from the hospital on the day he wakes...
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    scar at six months

    no shirt, tawdry or otherwise, can we make this one order of the tawdry pelt?
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    stop aspirin before surgery?

    guess this is the place to ask. i've got a tissue valve, taking 100mg aspirin daily. i'm planning on having a minor procedure done, excision of a morton's neuroma (painful pinched nerve between toes). just a one-hour quickie with a local anaesthetic. the doctor refuses to do this unless i...
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    it's raining in guangxi

    hello everybody. things are going great, have unloaded most of my furniture and appliances and have made enough for one year's rent in thighland. only about a week left.....in normal places i could leave now, but this is china. it takes time to prepare. like in, it takes days just to find...
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    insurance denial question

    this is an update from the below previously posted posting in a prior post. well, i finally got all my reports sent in, even the chinese ones. the insurer wanted to have their own translation done, which makes sense. several weeks later, i get two messages: 1) the translated documents have...
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    Leaving China

    back from a successful visa run to kunming. i now have thai and lao visas freshly stamped in my passport waiting for use. have returned to baise for the final two weeks of selling stuff and packing up what little i actually need. sold most of my furniture and appliances last night...
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    new clotting study

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8082692.stm Key to blood clotting discovered Scientists have discovered a molecular mechanism that is key to regulating the way blood clots. The team from Harvard University, writing in the journal Science, said the finding could help treat people who have...
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    learning to hate china

    this is really getting old. china seems to have a new mao up its collective pigu. yep, the internet censors are out in force. all blogs are blocked, youtube is blocked, email is blocked, forums are blocked, college websites are blocked, most circumventors are blocked. there are only a few...
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    dragon boat festival

    So today is ?Dragon Boat Festival,? and we have two days off to celebrate. What?s to celebrate on this traditional holiday? Why do we eat ?Zongzi? and watch dragon boat races? (?Zongzi? are rice pockets with a pork center, wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with thin vines, and then steamed...
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    OHS Recovery, Hollywood Style

    Just picked up a copy of Crank 2: High Voltage at the local video store. Mindless sex and violence, illogical, unrealistic. Just what i needed. Best 75 cents i've spent on a video since zombie strippers. From the back cover, our hero "...chev wakes up to discover his nearly indestructible...
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    Do-It-Yersilf Moving

    i'm getting bored here in china, think it's time for a change. will be finishing the semester in a month or so, visa runs out mid-august. what to do? i'm thinking thailand is the place. yes, there has been some unpleasantness lately, but i think pretty much restricted to bangkok. assuming...
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    2 Miles - Bestest Time Ever

    hit the track today and was able to reduce my 2 mile time. it wasn't exactly my best time ever - that would have been 18 years ago (~12:30) this was not only my fastest time since avr, but was also faster than just prior to surgery! pre-surgery, i was running two miles in around 15:30 while...
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    with two valves you get eggroll?

    oh, my. i just can't think of the proper expletive. just take 'em all, throw 'em in a blender and make a big 'ole four-letter-cocktail. what now you may be asking? it's a good one, really it is. had my consult today with a doctor in the cardiothoracic department up on the eleventh floor of...
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