Gasol chokes in the clutch at the FT
RMJon23
in the clutch, but sheesh.
Also: way to let Benoh Udrih waltz in for an uncontested layup. Twice.
RMJon23
Whoa! Pau tips it in w/.4 left to tie it in the first OT! to cap a 7-0
run to come back and force a 2nd OT. LO has 5 fouls, but I think he
needs to step in NOW.
mayner
wrote:
>I know a new multi-million $ contract doesn't mean you also get cooler
>in the clutch, but sheesh.
>
>Also: way to let Benoh Udrih waltz in for an uncontested layup. Twice.
That guy always has good games against the Lakers. Shannon came to
play and that's a good thing to see.
Silk_Wilkes
We can trust that it won't happen too many times when it comes to
Pau. How do you feel about Andrew's performance? His bump in salary
was much larger.
RMJon23
Andrew has really been a drag, esp the last 9 games or so. But
recently, when I heard he had an upper-respiratory infection to top
off his asthma, it made sense: I have asthma, and if I get a nasty
cold or the flu I usually get a nasty infection where I can barely
breathe for about 2 weeks: the albuterol doesn't help. You just have
to wait it out, drink a lot of fluids, sleep as much as you can. Your
lung capacity seems like it gets cut in half at least. Therefore you
feel very lethargic: oxygen isn't getting delivered to your muscles.
You hope there's an antibiotic that still works on this...crud. (A
fellow asthmatic friend who's a very funny guy calls the excess crud
blocking your breathing "lung butter." Gross, I know!) You know the
feeling of trying to suck a milkshake through a blocked straw? Your
every moment is like that...if Andrew has anything even close to this,
I totally understand his bad performances of late.
And then again I think he's still very mentally immature. I doubt he
knows how to handle the money and women on the road. Or in LA, for
that matter.
Alson Wong
>
> Andrew has really been a drag, esp the last 9 games or so. But
> recently, when I heard he had an upper-respiratory infection to top
> off his asthma, it made sense: I have asthma, and if I get a nasty
> cold or the flu I usually get a nasty infection where I can barely
> breathe for about 2 weeks: the albuterol doesn't help. You just have
> to wait it out, drink a lot of fluids, sleep as much as you can. Your
> lung capacity seems like it gets cut in half at least. Therefore you
> feel very lethargic: oxygen isn't getting delivered to your muscles.
> You hope there's an antibiotic that still works on this...crud. (A
> fellow asthmatic friend who's a very funny guy calls the excess crud
> blocking your breathing "lung butter." Gross, I know!) You know the
> feeling of trying to suck a milkshake through a blocked straw? Your
> every moment is like that...if Andrew has anything even close to this,
> I totally understand his bad performances of late.
When the symptoms last more than a few days, it's time for some prednisone
and maybe some caffeine.
RMJon23
>
> - Show quoted text -
>Sorry to Laker fans for changing the subject so radically!<
I've gone to my MD begging for Pred when I had this and they give me
some antibiotic instead. Clearly there are different views on giving
"pred tapers." I once had a doc who gave me pred for 5 days, building
up, tapering off over only 5 days, and it seemed to really alleviate
the agony of lung inflammation following a cold. Another Dr. found out
I was going on vacation and asked if I wanted to take pred for 3 days,
in case there was something in the environment (in Europe) that might
aggravate asthma and put a dent in my vacation. Then last year I
begged my latest MD to give me pred and he shook his head and
prescribed antibiotics. Maybe I'll get a new doc?
VicXnews
b00842...@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
Barb's been on and off Decadron so many times I'm an expert at steriod
tapering...the hard part is getting >.75mg from a 4mg tab
Alson Wong
>
> I've gone to my MD begging for Pred when I had this and they give me
> some antibiotic instead. Clearly there are different views on giving
> "pred tapers." I once had a doc who gave me pred for 5 days, building
> up, tapering off over only 5 days, and it seemed to really alleviate
> the agony of lung inflammation following a cold. Another Dr. found out
> I was going on vacation and asked if I wanted to take pred for 3 days,
> in case there was something in the environment (in Europe) that might
> aggravate asthma and put a dent in my vacation. Then last year I
> begged my latest MD to give me pred and he shook his head and
> prescribed antibiotics. Maybe I'll get a new doc?
Antibiotics are commonly prescribed for acute asthma, despite the lack of
convincing evidence that they are of benefit in most cases (the same holds
for "bronchitis"). Asthma involves both bronchospasm (tightening of the
airway muscles) and inflammation. Albuterol relieves bronchospasm but does
nothing for inflammation (neither do antibiotics). A couple of five-day
courses of prednisone per year is no big deal, but frequent use should be
avoided. A better alternative if you anticipate being in an environment that
may trigger symptoms is to use a steroid inhaler regularly like QVAR or
Flovent. People who use a peak flow meter to monitor their asthma are
sometimes given a supply of prednisone to use for episodes that do not
respond adequately to albuterol.
I mentioned caffeine because it is a bronchodilator like albuterol and can
be of some benefit.
RMJon23
Caffeine - two strong cups of Germanic-black coffee after a steamy
shower - always helps my breathing for about an hour-90 mins when I
have an infection. I am on inhaled corticosteroids normally, and
consider them a miracle drug: once I started on them I have been able
to have a "normal" breathing life ever since, something I never had as
a kid.
The MDs I've run into take one look at my handkerchief and immediately
think "that's a diagnostic right there" and I go on antibiotics.
So the H1N1 really scares me. I've still not been able to cop the
vaccine. I've read a few reports that it's - H1N1 - really rough on
asthmatics over 35 yrs old (which I am).
Alson Wong
>
> The MDs I've run into take one look at my handkerchief and immediately
> think "that's a diagnostic right there" and I go on antibiotics.
It's not necessarily a diagnostic. The inflammation caused by asthma can
cause a productive cough or purluent sputum, just as inflammation can cause
purulent nasal discharge with allergies.
> So the H1N1 really scares me. I've still not been able to cop the
> vaccine. I've read a few reports that it's - H1N1 - really rough on
> asthmatics over 35 yrs old (which I am).
Influenza in general can be bad for asthmatics, which is why they're a
high-priority group for the vaccine. Two of my asthmatics were hospitalized
with influenza symptoms in October. H1N1 was rampant then, but I haven't
seen much influenza the past few weeks. Seasonal influenza usually starts in
January and peaks in February. So far almost all of the influenza this
season has been H1N1; we'll see if the usual winter outbreak is seasonal or
another round of H1N1. My guess is that it'll be the seasonal influenza.
I got the live H1N1 vaccine as soon as it became available in October. I was
seeing 10-20 people a day with flu symptoms and I was worried that someone
would cough in my face and infect me. I've had the seasonal vaccine every
year since 1996. In 1995 I got influenza while I was in Singapore the day
before I was to fly back home. On the flight back we had a layover in Tokyo
that turned into an overnight stay because our plane was damaged. All I had
to wear was a T-shirt and pants since the rest of my clothes were in checked
baggage. I had a high fever and severe body aches for four days, and I told
myself that I'd never go through that again if I could avoid it.
I keep track of influenza activity on the CDC Web site:
mayner
Great. Now everyone will mistake his face for the basketball. :-(
Huang Gang
freethrow hitting the front of the rim = sure sign of fatigue
RMJon23
Maybe fatigue, but Kobe played what? over 96 mins in 2 days and he
still sinks 'em. Could also be nervous tension. Who knows, really?
Anyway he redeemed himself in my eyes with the tip-in w/.4 left in the
first OT.
So Pau felt the adrenaline in his nervous system, his breathing
probably became a bit too shallow, his muscles tightened a bit and he
bricked two crucial FTs. I understand what it is to feel constricted
and "as if I were choking."
I just wish I made 1/10 of the $$$ he makes!
OTOH, we Laker fans are such spoiled bitches, when you think about
it....