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Well I'm glad the activity was not found to be serious. But obviously something was going on. While self diagnosis is not usually recommended searching the web for other with similar symptoms might reveal something.

How come i'm just seeing all of the preceding comments? I agree with what everybody said. i think i missed the rest of this thread because last week, i was staying over night at a nearby hospital after my daughter carted me off to the emergency room when i complained about "activity" in my chest and shoulders, the closest i could come to describing what i was experiencing. i got so frustrated when the staff kept describing me as being in pain, that my blood pressure spiked to a dangerous level. Once i settled down in the waiting room, distracted by the odd collection of other people waiting, i forgot about the nurse not understanding that it wasn't pain i was experiencing, but was simply - "activity", and when they finally took me in and started monitoring my blood pressure, it dropped way down. That, along with my EKG , blood work and Xrays showing nothing abnormal, I was ready to leave. Not so fast, old lady with Blue Cross federal workers insurance and Medicare. They weren't letting me go home. No sir. The doctor probably wanted to observe me more, because he seemed totally riveted when i told him that i have these episodes from time to time and they were like out-of-body experiences, where everybody's voices sounded faraway, and i felt like i had weights on my feet when i was walking. i don't know whether it was the psycho ward or not that they eventually rolled me into. Anyhow, to make a long story short, the next morning after enjoying a hearty breakfast in bed, and refusing a stress test and a flu shot, they let me go with blood pressure prescriptions as well as one for anti-biotics. I know my blood pressure will spike again when i get the bill. i'm lucky that my insurance and medicare will cover most of it but my premium will probably rise, considering that it is not unusual for an emergency room visit to cost at least 12 thousand dollars! Old age can be a bitch.

When all is said and done, black people are frustrated and resentful because white people are in power doing what black folks, themselves, would be doing if they had the upper hand. Nobody shares power because "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Whites seized power, overwhelmed blacks and to the victors go the spoils that include being in control, revisionist history, and entitlement, all of which blacks would've fallen heir to, and relished and enforced had they possessed the wherewithal to overwhelm whites. That's the ugly truth. And black folks will just have to learn to live with it, have to acknowledge that they are America's stepchildren, hungering for a piece of the pie but having to be satisfied with a few crumbs, while standing around endlessly droning about unity and being manipulated. (Apparently being entertained and having their interests catered to does not count as compensation.) and so it goes. And I don't know why people can't discern that the Kaepernick protest was always about the flag, a challenge to a piece of cloth to deliver on its promise of equal justice under the law to all of its citizens who are supposed to be free to exercise their first amendment rights by protesting when equal justice is denied. White people figured this out and it's eating them up to have to be in the position of implicitly denying blacks this right that black men also fought for, even as they were being lynched and denied the vote and segregated. All those whites pissing on themselves about this can only distort the message and resort to cloaking their racism in patriotism in an attempt to villanize the messengers. Yes, knee bending was ostensibly about the misconduct of white police but you can't separate this issue from racism. It's what racism is all about, and what this country and the flag are all about! i'll never consider bending the knee a failure because it shook up and angered hypocritical Americans. I'm done.

But, but, but... this is the same country that doesn't lower the flag; or make a lighted statement on an edifice when an unarmed citizen falls victim to a state-sanctioned execution. We have to pay closer attention to our natural laws, such as cause and effect. It's nipping at our heels and biting our azzes while showing it doesn't discriminate. This means we'll all fall victim even if we didn't contribute because we did nothing to change our course.

Folk are shook because this guy seemingly had it all together. Same with the "opiod crisis." Why are seemingly wholesome young people from middle class backgrounds and two-parent households more or less committing suicide? Whyyy? It's all tragic. But until people can point a finger to their own chest and say "I" am the miscreant. "I" am the junkie. "I" need therapy, it goes on. In the meantime media scrambles to place blame somewhere. These folks need to have the talk with themselves that goes something like, "Maybe I don't have it all together and need to examine why I don't."

Black people don't do things like this. The closest might be the DC sniper, but he killed far fewer people over a much longer period of time, and even he was an extreme outlier..

There is very little you can do to prevent this type of thing short of just making it illegal for an individual to amass so many weapons. Some people are good and others are evil. Most of us are capable to doing both good and evil things. What motivated this guy is unknowable. I doubt even he knew. Besides whatever reason this murderer's brain manufactured would not be rational--nothing justifies this behavior...nothing. Yes Mel, I think more respect for life, as a culture, may help make behaviors like this less likely. But I think our country will end before changing. We live in a gun culture. We live in a violent culture. Violence permeates all of our entertainment from videogames, to movies, to TV, to sports, and music. The country was created, forged, and is maintained with violence. We execute people, we bomb people by remote control, our police kill unarmed innocent citizens all the time, we have a military larger than the next 20 countries combined, our "leader" threatens to "totally destroy" another nation. Violence is how we roll.