May chitchat

[Virginia]

Agate, thank you for this information. I plan to print some of it out. This person has had the SPECT brain scan and is on Levodopa. The Neurologist says she is certain he has PD, so I guess he does, but I would like to keep this information for myself.

[agate]

I've heard that a resting tremor is Parkinsonism showing up more than 75% of the time.

I've also heard of people who have both MS and Parkinson's. Definitely no fun to have two neurological disorders at once, as Sunshine knows only too well.

[flatcap]

Their's another one called "intention tremor." That's even more fun.

This type of tremor makes it hard to do things like brushing my teeth. I had to get an electric toothbrush for that because I can't control my arm movement. I can hold onto a manual toothbrush just fine. It's when I start brushing that things go south. It's hard to explain exactly what happens, but suffice to say I do not want to knock my own teeth out.

There are a lot of other activities that intention tremor affects, such as trimming my toenails. Pretty much any activity that requires much dexterity is impeded. Writing by hand, for example. Just adding a tip to the bill at a restaurant, summing things up, then signing it is difficult. Or shaving. I have to use both hands for that and still have trouble.

Sinemet helps, but it is no panacea. I take 25-100 mg Carbidopa/Levopdopa ER three times a day, and tremor is still an issue. On top of that, because of fatigue, I often sleep right through the time I am supposed to take Sinemet. That doesn't help.

The entire business is an exercise in frustration.

[flatcap]

I happened to notice this today--it might be of interest:

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Interesting.

It's sort of the usual 'we don't really know how it works' type of development in medicine, but there's always hope...I guess.

It's hard not to be cynical about these things.

[flatcap]

EDITED TO ADD:

I'm wrong about the porkpie hat. It's a different style, apparently:

The crown of a porkpie hat is flat and round:


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[flatcap]

Caps vs. Hats vs. Berets

People have sometimes called my cap a hat or beret, but:

• A hat has a brim all the way around the crown.

• A cap has a visor (sometimes called a brim) only at the front.

• A beret has no brim (except in the case of a peaked beret, which has a short visor)

[agate]

Interesting! I make hats as a hobby but they are just crocheted hats and usually have no visor or brim.. Sometimes I put a visor on but not usually. I don't think of them as berets though unless they're in the beret style that is commonly called a beret, I think--but there aren't a lot of crocheted hat patterns in this style:

[flatcap]

Looks like a beret to me. (I didn't have to, but Google-search the image, and it immediately shows up as one.)

Anyone interested in berets should visit South Pacific Berets. You can buy almost any beret you might want there, but you don't have to in order to learn all about them.

I have considered adding a beret to my headwear collection and still might someday. Since I'm no expert and they are, I would no doubt get it from SPB.

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[flatcap]

...I make hats as a hobby...but there aren't a lot of crocheted hat patterns...

I'm sure you've looked at Etsy for crafts and patterns, but if you haven't you should. I found a couple of vintage wool fabrics on Etsy that made for wonderful caps.

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[flatcap]

I misspoke when I said caps have a visor (aka, "peak") only at the front.

I have this pic in my collection and still forgot all about this type:

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Laurel & Hardy in The Big Noise (1944)

[agate]

I was reminded of Sherlock Holmes and found this about the Sherlock Holmes deerstalkerl hat:

[flatcap]

So, I guess that one's a hat.

I've seen it called a cap before, but the video might be right.

[flatcap]

Smiley Test




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[agate]

Thanks for the link, flatcap! There are some nice images over there. And they seem to be free of problems with copyright, etc.

Trying one of them out:

If this stays on here and doesn't vanish, people will be seeing a cat from the smileys site flatcap just posted the link for.

On that site when I was about to post this image, there are these instructions:

Click the chosen picture and then click in the field under this line, and the picture code will be copied to the clipboard automatically. Use bb code at forums, html code to add a smiley to your web page, and url to get the direct link (for social networks etc.).

That isn't exactly what happened, though. Just thought I'd let people know. I don't think it was copied to the clipboard automatically, and bb code didn't work but the url code did work. Here's another, done the same way. But I highlighted the url that is shown in the window on the Website and copied and pasted it here, using the Image icon that shows up at the top of the message window here.

I can't recall exactly why I always do this when dealing with the Image icon, but I uncheck "Retrieve remote file and reference locally."

[flatcap]

I do the pretty much the same thing when uploading any image here. I have to because I haven't found another way to do it. I upload the picture to imgur, then grab the direct link so I can post it.

I also uncheck "Retrieve remote file and reference locally," although I don't know why. It just sounded like a good idea. LOL