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So, I finished reading Sense and Sensibility yesterday, and I have to say, I greatly prefer the movie. I had first seen the movie years ago and loved it, and always meant to read the book, but never quite got around to it. Same thing with Pride and Prejudice. When I first read Pride and Prejudice a while back, I absolutely loved it, since it seemed to be as wonderful as the mini-series, only there was more of it. I was expecting more or less the same experience with Sense and Sensibility, only I hadn't quite realized how much tweaking Emma Thompson had done to the story. I spent much of the book wanting to hit various characters in the face with a brick, and wanting to shake Marianne until candy came out.
Completely unrelated to the above, I went to the doctor today for my yearly physical, and was explaining the phenomenon I've been experiencing the last several months in which I experience weakness, lightheadedness, and sweating when I raise my arms above my head for extended periods of time (I hadn't ever noticed it much before until I started, um, having to blow-dry and style my hair every morning). The doctor thinks it may be a condition called "subclavian steal," and is going to refer me to a vascular surgeon to get it checked out further. What will likely happen is that the vascular surgeon will inject me with some sort of contrasting medium and see what my arteries look like. I feel sort of vaguely worried about this, and yet fascinated at the same time (can I watch, I wonder?). My mother-in-law has this and is evidently fine, so it's not like it's the end of the world or anything, but the information available on the internets seems rather...dry. And not even remotely aimed at patients. Anyone else out there have this condition/know something about it/etc.?
Completely unrelated to the above, I went to the doctor today for my yearly physical, and was explaining the phenomenon I've been experiencing the last several months in which I experience weakness, lightheadedness, and sweating when I raise my arms above my head for extended periods of time (I hadn't ever noticed it much before until I started, um, having to blow-dry and style my hair every morning). The doctor thinks it may be a condition called "subclavian steal," and is going to refer me to a vascular surgeon to get it checked out further. What will likely happen is that the vascular surgeon will inject me with some sort of contrasting medium and see what my arteries look like. I feel sort of vaguely worried about this, and yet fascinated at the same time (can I watch, I wonder?). My mother-in-law has this and is evidently fine, so it's not like it's the end of the world or anything, but the information available on the internets seems rather...dry. And not even remotely aimed at patients. Anyone else out there have this condition/know something about it/etc.?