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Firing Dr. Infectious Diseases
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sine_nomineFor reasons too long for my brain right now, I am in the process of firing Dr. ID.
It is unclear who has done the new antibiotics order but it is fascinating.
Disco all IV antibiotics:
Hooray! No more blowing out my veins on the daily.
Oral Antibiotic 1:
Black box for connective tissue disorder.
Lipedema is generally understood to be a connective tissue disorder.
Oral Antibiotic 2:
Anemia is #1 side effect and, in fact, is LIKELY with long-term use of the medication. FDA warning not to give to anemic patients or patients who recently received transfusion. I tick both boxes.
So. Many. Questions.
It is unclear who has done the new antibiotics order but it is fascinating.
Disco all IV antibiotics:
Hooray! No more blowing out my veins on the daily.
Oral Antibiotic 1:
Black box for connective tissue disorder.
Lipedema is generally understood to be a connective tissue disorder.
Oral Antibiotic 2:
Anemia is #1 side effect and, in fact, is LIKELY with long-term use of the medication. FDA warning not to give to anemic patients or patients who recently received transfusion. I tick both boxes.
So. Many. Questions.
(morning writing, crochet, f&f, cats)
May. 26th, 2025 07:05 amelainegreyWritten Sunday morning:
I think i am a little numb.
Thursday afternoon i started frogging (ripping apart) a sweater i had crocheted years ago. Ravelry says i started October 27, 2007 and completed March 15, 2015. I never wore it, and it was bulky and taking space in the closet. It took hours ... about one for each year i worked on it, ha! ... to pull it all apart. I wasn't quite done by midnight, listening to an audio book as i did the mindless work.
I took Friday off, brain dead. I had breakfast with my sister, then mostly went back to yarn stuff. We brought home Edward's ashes, and Christine and i discussed some things i could make with the forest green suede yarn. She wants a toque, and i could make Yuletide gift bags. I started on the bags, which i can make without a pattern. I continued the sitting around yesterday. I also finally mended a shirt of Christine's with a variety of visible mending and embroidery. I hope it remains comfortable: the fabric was very worn and fragile, and the applique patches i made were from a bulky yarn.
I am fascinated by what is coming back to me with crochet and what seems fuzzy
Late Friday night Christine heard from her sister D-- that B-- has declined more. He has a heart pump, and it alarms with low flow - which is what is happening as he dies. So it sounds like they have this challenge of when to turn it off, which will be the choice that it is time to die. "Most patients died within an hour of LVAD deactivation, and all within 26 hours." How much harder? easier?
The Rise of the Golden Idol (2024)
May. 25th, 2025 11:14 ampauraqueThis sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol picks up the story two centuries later, in the 1970s. The ancient idol is sought by a new cast of characters including corrupt cops, a New Age guru, and research scientists in the grip of cutthroat laboratory politics. This time it comes to light that the idol doesn't just hold the power of life and death, but also of memory—which, in the wrong hands, could be even more dangerous. (And could throw a spanner in the works if you happen to be a detective trying to figure out who knows what and how they know it.)
I think this game is not as difficult or as complex as Case, and other reviews have said the same thing. But I also have to wonder if part of what's happening is that we are getting better at playing these games. This is something I think about a lot—game difficulty isn't absolute, it's relative to player skill and genre knowledge. If you've played Case you're going to have insight into how these devs' minds work and how they construct their puzzles, not to mention other Obra Dinn-inspired deduction games have been cropping up (e.g. The Roottrees are Dead) which people may have played in the interim. Gameplay can only be new to you once, and if you play enough of a genre you're going to start perceiving a lot of puzzles and encounters as rearrangements of elements you've seen before. So is Rise too easy, or did we just git gud? Could be a combination of factors!
( Read more... )
The Rise of the Golden Idol is available on Steam for $19.99 USD. There's also a free demo.
I think this game is not as difficult or as complex as Case, and other reviews have said the same thing. But I also have to wonder if part of what's happening is that we are getting better at playing these games. This is something I think about a lot—game difficulty isn't absolute, it's relative to player skill and genre knowledge. If you've played Case you're going to have insight into how these devs' minds work and how they construct their puzzles, not to mention other Obra Dinn-inspired deduction games have been cropping up (e.g. The Roottrees are Dead) which people may have played in the interim. Gameplay can only be new to you once, and if you play enough of a genre you're going to start perceiving a lot of puzzles and encounters as rearrangements of elements you've seen before. So is Rise too easy, or did we just git gud? Could be a combination of factors!
( Read more... )
The Rise of the Golden Idol is available on Steam for $19.99 USD. There's also a free demo.
Nearly a week
May. 25th, 2025 07:39 amsine_nomineIt's Sunday, and here I am hanging out in the hotel...er... hospital. Diagnoses are cellulitis and massive anemia. Best thing to come out of this is learning how many types of anemia there are; this one has nothing to do with iron. Worst thing to come out of this is learning how not great my veins are. Couple that with an antibiotic that is acidic and the outcome is not ideal.
Lots of sleeping.
Oh, and here likely through at least mid week. Just asked for a visit from the Spiritual Care Team.
Sleep now
Lots of sleeping.
Oh, and here likely through at least mid week. Just asked for a visit from the Spiritual Care Team.
Sleep now
technical difficulties
May. 24th, 2025 10:21 ampauraqueSo I made the terrible mistake of trying to use the Manage Circle page to clean up subscriptions to journals that have been inactive for years, and the damn thing defriended at least a dozen people I did NOT intend. I've tried to go through and add everyone back, but if you're here and wondering why I unsubscribed or removed access, please tell me so I can re-add! Good grief.