Information and opinions on health from zasu at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3683/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3683/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/3683/index http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/3683/17006/weekend-home Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:41:00 -0500 zasu Hi All, Well, Arnold and I drove down from Montreal, to spend the entire Thanksgiving weekend with our dearest friends, Susan and Tony, who live in Little Neck, New York. This is in the borough of Queens in New York City.  Visiting with them is always a trip down memory lane for me as they live just blocks away from the house in which I grew up. They had 23 people in their home for Thanksgiving dinner, and believe it or not,... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/3683/17006/weekend-home http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/3683/15197/er-pain-meds Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:31:00 -0400 zasu I was appalled Thursday night while watching the TV program, ER.  I am not one of those folks who takes my television viewing seriously, but in this case I really became incensed. In one scene, an elderly man suffering from chronic severe hip pain due to a condition that could only be relieved via replacement surgery was explaining his situation to the doctor on his case.  He told the doctor that because he was uninsured due to... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/3683/15197/er-pain-meds http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/3683/14305/hoping Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:01:00 -0400 zasu I am very new to this group. This is actually the first sharepost I have endeavoured to compose.  I have been so inspired and motivated by what I have read by our other members that I decided to take the proverbial dive. I have been living with chronic pain since my teen years. I was sent from specialist to specialist with no concrete determination of the cause of my pain.  It was even thought that I might be suffering from... http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/3683/14305/hoping