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Hey Blondee,

What language did you're folks speak before they came here to the great melting pot?....Did they come through Ellis Island, Angel Island, on the Mayflower or in the bottom of a ship in shackles...We're all immigrants....unless, of course, you're a Native American or Inuit.

I speak a few languages and had gotten called outta my office at any given time to translate in the ER or OR. If it helped to save someone's life and/or calm a family's nerves, that was cool with me.

It would be nice if everyone just spoke the king's English.

Cat

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Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN

Are we "SLOW LEARNERS" or what?

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

You might want to check with a cardiologist and see if you have mitral valve prolapse. From 40 on, I would get spells of feeling anxious or wanting to cry for no good reason that I could determine. It got worse such that I felt dizzy and was sure I was going to pass out, but never did. I thought it was an ear problem and saw an ENT. Nothing. My internal medicine doc sent me to a neurologist. Nothing. It got so bad and I was getting so agoraphobic that my next stop was psychiatry for panic attacks after over $1000 worth of lab work. Imipramine made it worse. It wasn't until this point that I really started to notice the palpitations and a heart rate in the 120s. Finally saw a cardiologist who said that this had all the signs of mitral valve prolapse even if it didn't show up on an echocardiogram. He said it wasn't uncommon in women of a certain age. He did a Holter and a stress test, too, and put me on low-dose atenolol (beta blocker). I've been fine since (13 years) save for a few short breakthrough episodes every few years. Exercise helps. Really limiting the caffeine is major (although I do cheat on chocolate). Being careful with OTC medications (no antihistamines) helps. Something other than Novocain at the dentist. Atenolol is an old drug, therefore generic and cheap. I didn't find it sedating, although that is a listed side effect. I hope you can get a definitive answer, because if you feel anything like I did, then I know it is unpleasant in the extreme.