Scott Freeman

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    Browsing Posts published in November, 2007

    Me and about 10 other people bought this cassette back in the day. I think these dudes were Christians so they might be forgiven for the mullets.

    I’m not sure about the spaceship though. This was their minor hit “Everything You Are”

    It doesn’t get better than that.

    …I’m thinking about switching my blog host to blogger. I like WordPress and all but I’m just not design oriented enough to do much with it. I’m running 2.0.4. The current version is 2.3.1. .

    But the sheer thought of doing everything required to upgrade makes my head spin. And it’s long past time to change the look of my blog but wordpress is labor intensive. At least for me.

    Any thoughts from those with their own domains as to which way to go?

    October 2007 006

    If you are interested in any of these ties you can get them at the Goodwill on Hewitt Drive in Hewitt, TX. No more ties, baby!

    And for the record, I would have kept them all. The Good Wife is the one who tossed them.

    Tramadol is a synthetic, centrally acting analgesic agent with 2 distinct, synergistic mechanisms of action, acting as both a weak opioid agonist and an inhibitor of monoamine neurotransmitter reuptake. The 2 enantiomers of racemic tramadol function in a complementary manner to enhance the analgesic efficacy and improve the tolerability profile of tramadol. In several comparative, well designed studies, oral and parenteral tramadol effectively relieved moderate to severe postoperative pain associated with surgery. Its overall analgesic efficacy was similar to that of morphine or alfentanil and superior to that of pentazocine. Tramadol provided effective analgesia in children and in adults for both inpatient and day surgery. Tramadol was generally well tolerated in clinical trials. The most common adverse events (incidence of 1.6 to 6.1%) were nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, sweating, vomiting and dry mouth. Importantly, unlike other opioids, tramadol has no clinically relevant effects on respiratory or cardiov
    ascular parameters at recommended doses in adults or children. Tramadol also has a low potential for abuse or dependence. CONCLUSIONS: The efficacy of tramadol for the management of moderate to severe postoperative pain has been demonstrated in both inpatients and day surgery patients. Most importantly, unlike other opioids, tramadol has no clinically relevant effects on respiratory or cardiovascular parameters. Tramadol may prove particularly useful in patients with poor cardiopulmonary function, including the elderly, the obese and smokers, in patients with impaired hepatic or renal function, and in patients in whom nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are not recommended or need to be used with caution. Parenteral or oral tramadol has proved to be an effective and well tolerated analgesic agent in the perioperative setting.

    Apparently this is good stuff. Although it killed ODB. Just FYI.