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An oven element's silent protest...?

Decimask — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:23:56 -0800

My electric oven's bottom element looks fine, but... ...it won't heat up. The broiler works just fine. My first job was in the hardware section of a store we lovingly refer to up here as Crappy Tire, so I've seen a few fried elements, and they tend to fail pretty catastrophically. But this is weird: not only is the oven's element immaculate, the backing plate it is still shiny and clean.

Note:

I've tried switching the 30amp fuses for the elements, and it made no difference

There's no evidence under the wiring plate on the back of anything smoking, shorting, etc.

Has anyone ever had an element fail without any sign like this?

multiple wierd symptoms.

misspat — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:50:41 -0800

you are not a/my doctor. EMT's, ER doc and my Dr haven't a clue. Have made appointments with a vast array of specialists. Body temp of 94 and other strange details inside About a week agowoke up around 8am threw up and passed out, repeatedly for several hours, mid afternoon I tried to get some gatorade, weak as a kitten, passed out. My last memory is sweating profusely, pillows were soaked through, some time later BF finds me unconcious. I was semi-concious until some time that evening. I remember bits of what followed. Like EMT trying to get IV started (I have veins the size of dental floss) they injected fluids and put a compression bandage over it and got the IV going just as we got to the ER (45 miles from home).Temp was 94, they used 5 different instruments before they believed it. BP 212/112, heart beat, don't remember exactly, the dr said it was unusually low. I felt very, very cold, but my face was burning hot. Sometime that evening I threw up for the last time, nothing but stomach fluids all day but that last time contained black olives I had eaten 7-10 days earlier...YECCCH. After lots of phenergan, IV fluids, a shot of Reglan, x-rays, ekg,
ct scan, etc. they sent me home.

I am on meds for: blood pressure, thyroid, allergies, gerd, but hadn't kept them down that day.They ruled out food poisoning.

Allergies to just about everything, had the skin test. Also allergic to band aids, eyedrops, lots of other stuff not on the skin test. plusTwo pages drugs I can't take. Pretty much have every allergy symptom you can name. Have oxygen at home used it that day. Also diagnosed with thyroid cancer, bladder cancer. Both under control, up to date on check ups. Periphreal neuropathy, degenerative disk disease, stenosis, fractures, bone spurs, spine totally FUBAR. Have had back trouble the last 2 weeks or so.

Had something quite similiar 'bout 4 years ago, it was like 10 months of flu, then it went away. Drs blew off the more unusual things like profuse sweating, low body temp, and said it was a virus.

Daily it takes all I have to drag myself out of bed and get going, then I'm good for 2-4 hours and my temp starts bouncing around from 95.6-99.9, and I feel like I am getting a bad case of the flu, I come home rest/nap and feel marginally better. Same routine the next day. Aspirin seems to normalize my temp, which in turn makes me feel a bit better.

Have appointments with neurology, rheumatology, GI, already see endocronologist, urologist. I am 63 yrs old, volunteer full time and don't have a stressful life, eat sensibly.

Anyone got a clue or suggestion?

Have you had a bizarre/sexual run-in with a celebrity?

liverbisque — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:56:24 -0800

I was recently in LA and had a strange run in with a well (-enough) known actor. I'm a native Californian and I don't consider myself too concerned with the goings-on of Hollywood, but this was just weird. The incident was so out there that I have to ask: Has anyone else had a bizzare run in with a celebrity? And when you met them/were run over by them/were propositioned for sex by them, were you starstruck at all, even if you don't consider yourself that kind of person (if you obliged them for sex, feel free to share that too)?