Mostly this is me phoning it in, as it’s been a fairly exhausting if short — I didn’t drag butt out of bed till 11:30 — day.
two days ago the u-turn of the cold from hell became clear. It not only did a U-turn, it headed down and started making itself worse and worse and worse.
Today I went to the doctor. It was a long-waited appointment for another reason, but she looked into this too. Apparently besides my asthma acting up, my body decided this was an excellent time to develop sinus infection from hell.
So, improvements: I have found what was wrong with my CPAP and got it fixed. Needless to say being able to sleep solves a multitude of issues, though I seem to have some sleep debt I’m recovering from.
Also, the doctor gave me a couple of medicines to deal with the asthma (a new thing) and an antibiotic and prescription cough med. Also a different kind of allergy med. We’re going to hit it with everything on the market and probably some stuff extra too.
That’s what I’m doing to deal with my stupid health.
The walks will resume as soon as I am sure of not passing out.
Now the good news is today is the first time I COULD resume the long-postponed revision. And it’s still going well. Hopefully I’m better tomorrow and can spend more time on it.
Now various notes: on my promo post email, it’s started randomly dumping people in junk. If I don’t remember to check every week, it just erases them. So if you’re a friend, or even “just” someone hoping to be promoted or to get in touch with me for other reasons, ping again, and if you can ping me by another means, and I’ll look for it.
I’m trying to figure out how to publicize the upcoming book. Anyone wishing to volunteer as a stop in the blog tour (Not for two weeks, at least. it won’t be up for preorder before that) or who has some bright idea of how to promote, please let me know.
I think that’s it. Any other complaints? Requests? Thrown rotten oranges and peanut shells?
Let me know. And again, sorry to phone it in, but I’m not functioning very well.
Oh, and just as I start feeling sorry for myself, a friend has it much worse. Because some people can’t catch a break. Please Help Us With Medical Expenses.
We’re going to look at our finances tomorrow, and then I’ll figure what I can give. I totally understand these are my friends, not yours, but if you can, G-d bless you.
According To Hoyt 
Your “phone calls” are more interesting than some people’s best efforts. Take care of yourself (I mean it this time!) and give yourself a chance to recover
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There is an actual chance I’ll be okay by Monday.
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Hugs.
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I dislike my CPAP machine. But I dislike not breathing even more.
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I have a problem with opening my mouth when I’m on my back, and leaking badly. Tried a full-face mask, and resigned myself to not having a beard (the initial tests w/beard were horrible), but the biggest ResMed mask is too small, and it kept moving up to my lower lip, causing more leakage. And waking every hour.
Long term CPAP issue: If the sinus blood vessels get too dry, you can get nosebleeds. Had one a couple years ago, and probably dropped a pint and a half of the red stuff. Looked like the guest of honor at a Sam Peckinpah garden party. Doc at the post-ER followup said to a) keep humidity high, b) use saline spray, and c) try the Ayr nasal gel. My bleed was higher up than the gel would solve, but it’s cheap, and saline is dirt cheap. I go through a gallon of distilled water every two weeks.
I started late 1998, and the ResMed S9s are the third generation for me. They work. Got the clinician manual through the apnea board files, and set it up for my purposes. (No doc involved beyond a bare prescription. No supervision. I use the OSCAR program to monitor how I’m doing. Have bad clear-airway apnea, but my cardiologist says it’s not related to my heart issues. I sleep well enough–never wake up from the clear-airway.
Linklove: https://www.apneaboard.com/ Points to manuals and the OSCAR program. The fora can be helpful.
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All the CPAP issues I read about from all of you make me glad I qualified for and got the mouth piece instead. Sure it was expensive, especially twice (type matters). First one kept breaking. Insurance (medical) paid $1200 (max allowed) of the $1600 both times. (Insurance billed $1800, but got a discount on upfront payment, because neither provider had to bill insurance. Actually, couldn’t bill insurance because dental/orthodontics “don’t” bill medical. Rolls eyes. Obviously they do need to.) Second one I’ve had over 5 years now. First one last 18 months, grinding teeth, which I didn’t know I did (if I didn’t before, I do now), kept breaking it.
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I use the under the nose and over the mouth model. I get way over a year’s worth of use out of the mask, wiping down daily and washing it by hand each week. I rinse the hose out each week; but that needs to be tossed and replaced more frequently as you can’t really clean the inside of the hose. Only get leakage fromthe mask I get is if I roll over too far and end up pushing it off center. I go through one tankful per night, and haven’t had a single nosebleed problem from dry sinuses since I went on the machine. (Used to have them all the time, every winter before then.)
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I can’t have the mouth piece. i do qualify for it, and I’m only “mildly” apneaing, so it works.
Problem is I have very powerful jaws and grind them to pieces in three months. Eh.
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That is unfortunate.
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One of the supported medical advice I read during the covidiocy years was about preventing infectious ailments in general (not just Covid). A simple fix was to get vitamin D up to par, which apparently more than half of the population is significantly below the target levels. For a solid anecdotal data point of exactly one, I decided vitamin D is roughly the same cost as dirt (although Mracle-Gro Seed Starter Mix might be more expensive), and over the last couple of years, while those around me (family especially) would succumb to colds, severe colds, and even sometimes Covid, I’ve only been stuck with my springtime allergies. Is it because of my vit D? Maybe, but unlike many of the official measures advocated during that time, it’s generally beneficial and not harmful.
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Miracle Gro water retaining seed starter mix? No way in hell. They juiced the fertilizer so high last year it a) killed all the zucchini seeds, and b) killed or hurt half of our tomatoes. Some varieties like it, but nope. (Major problem last year. I bought a 5 gallon pail worth of pot mix from the local nursery.)
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We used it for several years with success, but last year was a disaster. [Wonders if some of the “Earth is overpopulated, especially by self-sufficient people” got involved in the company. Like the guy who bought a shitload of farm and ranchland…]
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Miracle Gro water retaining seed starter mix? No way in hell. They juiced the fertilizer so high last year it a) killed all the zucchini seeds, and b) killed or hurt half of our tomatoes. Some varieties like it, but nope. (Major problem last year. I bought a 5 gallon pail worth of pot mix from the local nursery.)
Used MG stuff and harvested nothing from the garden the last two years. Will not use MG again. It’s hard finding other stuff, though.
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I have had better luck using coconut coir. It works great for starting seeds but does need a little bit of diluted fertilizer once the seedlings get their first true leaves.
I use the pelleted Burpee Super Growing Pellets, nothing in it at all but coconut coir and they’re sterile so no damping off as long as it isn’t too humid. You can get them at Walmart even.
Miracle Grow soil has so many fungus gnats in it, I haven’t used it for years.
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We bought started seedlings from a nursery in Flyover Falls. They sell their potting mix in bulk, and I have a 5 gallon can waiting for starts. For the raised beds, I usually add a bag or two of Supersoil (now a Scott’s brand; they were bought out a few years ago) and the equivalent of our compost. No longer adding manure; we have a lot of compost. Our Just Plain Dirt is poor in organics; combination of volcanic ash and sea bottom clay. Life was interesting east of the Cascades over the kilo and megayears.
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I had been taking a “just in case” small D supplement in addition to a basic multivitamin. Sometimes I cannot eat well due to work, etc. Just trying to ensure basic uptake is adequate. Asked Doc to test for vitamin issues, and found I was just barely making minimum for D. Wow. With my usual diet and outdoorsy activities, should have not needed any supplements. Now upped the dose and am doing better.
Vitamin test bloodwork is not free, but also not terribly expensive. Asking your doc to check for you annual physical is often covered or at least can be somewhat covered.
Since I now have to avoid greatly any sun exposure that might burn, I will be keeping an eye on D levels.
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I used to count on sunlight for my D supply (work outdoors a lot, especially in summer shot short sleeved shirts), but I’m now on a medication (Lasix) that doesn’t play well with sunlight. So, 50 micrograms of D3 per day.
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I’ve been at 250 micrograms of D (2 5000 unit softgels) daily for years. ‘Regular’ colds seem to pass me by, as do most weird bugs. I don’t socialize much, so little exposure.
But I frankly hate sunshine – I burn almost as if I I had Northern European heritage or something.
Reading OGH’s Sword and Blood; feel much like a vampire does about sunlight.
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I should burn like hell, but barring some extraordinarily stupid events (rebuilding a motorcycle engine without a shirt. Outside in California), I either tanned slightly or freckle. The latter was when I was cycling all the time. Started in late winter and commuted by bike. The gradual increase in sun kept the burns at bay.
Same here. We’re at 4000+ feet and once it got warm enough, the long sleeved shirts got ignored. I’d get a damned good farmer’s tan. (Mowing the meadows is a 10 hour job, generally done over 2 days.) That would be pretty ouchy now, so long sleeved shirts and gloves. I even break out the hated sunblock cream. SPF 45. Works, but it’s greasy.
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Used to tan without burning as a child. Pre-teens that stopped. Cloudy day water skiing I got badly burned. Last time I went water skiing. Last time I didn’t have to worry about burning. Luckily not one to lay about in the sun.
Working outdoors was never able to get a farmers tan on legs or arms. Both timber jobs required safety hats and vests, long sleeves, and long pants. At best got tanned hands and maybe cheeks.
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I’m usually low on D and I supplement like crazy. Mediterranean. A doctor told me the only way I’d ever have enough D from the sun was if I became a barechested roofer in FL.
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Adopts innocent look. :)
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You’d certainly end up as a piece (whoops!) on Florida Man Fridays…
Caused me to recall that several years ago a bunch of go-getter college girls here started a pool cleaning company. Wish they were still in business; I promised $SPOUSE$ to have our (above ground) pool ready for action by May 1st.
On second thought…
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Second (Third? Move to table the motion on the tabled motion to reconsider?) supplementing vitamin D. In spite of the fearmongering it is actually pretty difficult to overdo D supplementing enough to matter. Also, there is apparently some synergy between supplementing vitamin D and vitamin K, so I take a combined supplement.
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Hmm, I’ll have to look at this. Too much vitamin K can cause me serious trouble (AFIB, so warfarin helps keep me alive). There wasn’t any apparent difference in clotting time when I went from 25 micrograms to 50, but having a clotting time 2 to 3X normal is a very good idea for me.
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Doctor just put in a referral for cardiologist for me because of heart murmur (that one is scheduled repeat test because he thinks it is louder), and now second referral for AFIB. Been having weird heart “thumps” at least since end of October (thought it was high elevation and long drive, apparently not). Not often.
Got a Kardia because I knew (I was right), that whatever was happening would NOT show up at a doctor visit, let alone a specialist visit. Doctor had me do in home heart monitor, where I pushed a button for it to record when something felt “off”. Lots of data. No AFIB. Didn’t record one during those 30 days on the Kardia either. Just had a full day of Kardia AFIB recordings. From about 8:30 AM, when I noticed, until at least 2:20 PM for the last recording. Finally went normal reading at 2:50 PM. Uploaded two scans to portal (one AFIB, one “undetermined” – all the files not needed, just get point across). Now just need to get an appointment …
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I had cataract surgery back in 2012. The first one was smooth, while the second was, er, interesting. We scheduled #2 a couple weeks after the first, but two nights before the procedure, our powerline transformer crapped out. Called Pac Power, they replaced the 12kV fuse, and we thought it’d be OK. Was until I drew a bit of a load, can’t remember what, but no power, 10PM, and at the time, no backup power for the CPAP. For me, zero sleep. The next morning, they swapped the transformer (told they had a bad batch around late 1990s) and I got to sleep, with whacked out timing.
Had the procedure, and the anesthesiologist said “You have AFIB”. My response, “OK, what’s AFIB?” Saw the FNP, then the cardiologist, then warfarin. Apparently, I had it for a while, but erratically. Certain events, like stress (“I hope it wasn’t squirrels eating the 220V line. That’s be horribly expensive.”) would trigger it. On rare occasions, I’d get chest pains–not like a heart attack, nor lung, but just in the heart. One reason why I left the local church (long, sad story).
There’s a procedure where a nerve that fires badly can be cauterized. The heart doc said it’s far too late for me, but if it’s caught early, AFIB can be stopped. One guy I knew had it, and it worked wonders for him.
Me, I take my warfarin, get INR (1/prothrombin time) tested every so often (5 weeks max, sooner if wonky), and watch out for foods that will screw up my INR. The vast majority have too much vitamin K. Cranberry might (maybe, jury’s out and procrastinating) cause it to increase, but the dose has to be high. Enough to help urinary tract doesn’t cause problems.
I miss spinach, but prefer to live.
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I had what I’ve come to recognize now as possible AFIB toward the end of October, but put it off to high elevation gain in 13 hours of driving (Willamette Valley over passes to Tetons and Jackson Wyoming). I don’t do long drives well, never have. Fast forward to now I’ve recorded exactly 3 instances of AFIB, 4 if counting the “possible AFIB” recording, since December. Usually an hour or two at most. Wednesday was a lot longer. Symptoms? Sitting on couch “doing nothing”/reading, and suddenly my Fitbit is recording “exercise”. Wait? What? Um, not! None at all in February when I had that device.
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—
Also known as “rat poison.”
Incidentally, Vitamin D is also being sold as rat poison now.
You know you’re tough when you take your daily dose of rat poison!
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My father loved to call it that.
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#SPOUSE gets really annoyed at me when I say that. Doesn’t always stop me, though. [VBEG]
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I had PVC (Premature Ventricular Contraction) they were surprised there was no AFIB with it. I did have the ablation[1] and it worked. Or worked for most conditions. If I exert a significant amount more than usual I can feel things starting again and that’s HINT (with a sledge…) to BACK OFF NOW. And keep up the magnesium, and a couple other things.
[1] Ever have an RF burn? Ever have an internal RF burn? While awake enough to feel it? Now that’s heartburn!
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Whee! Ain’t aging fun?
I have been diagnosed with PSVT – Paroxysmal Supra-Ventriculat Tachycardia. Having my heart decide that it’s time to run at 220 is pretty spectacular.
Under control with meds; haven’t had a session for over 5 years. Used to be able to stop it with lying down and meditation; the shift back into the 90s is profound.
Cardiologist offered ablation for that, I passed.
Y’know, we have to avoid discussions of bowel functions, or the place will be overtaken by us Old Foofs.
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Kardia has reported PVE and *SVE too. More days than the AFIB.
Yes. Will show that to the cardiologist too.
(*) Sinus Rhythm w/ Supraventricular Ectopy
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Might be worthwhile to research K2 as well. I’m taking it for its hoped-for effects on calcium. Chiefio over on wordpress did an interesting write-up on it a while back. Thought I read something about it not being as much of an antagonist to warfarin as K is, but didn’t try to nail that down.
Jim_R
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Very nasty. My father’s on it and they calibrated his dose to his Vitamin K and then he had to have them much EVERY DAY
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…and I note while averting my mental eyes the confluence of a white Mormon guy with a great rack working shirtless as a roofer in the great state of Florida.
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LOL
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You don’t see a whole lot of bare-chested women roofers because slipping and falling on an asphalt and grit roof gives you the worst kind of road rash on those nice soft squishy things. And picking grit out, and disinfecting, is painful.
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Worse than what sometimes happens to the idiots who ride motorcycles in shorts, no shirt, and flip-flops? I’ve seen a couple like that also wearing helmets. Go figure…
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Go figure. Wearing shorts, doing 80 down the highway, and have a big, friggin’, angry, murder hornet fly right up one pant leg. Yeah, that ends really well.
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Yep, especially when you leave the bike at 80.😒
From Ray Stevens’ “Speedball”:
“But all it did to her was to smear her lipstick. All over the highway.”
I caught a bumblebee once. I got stung, but it was through my jeans. Yeah, it was unpleasant, but I kept control of the bike.
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You can get pulled over and ticketed for no helmet. The rest is optional. See Lawdog’s description of Waldo: “Chrome Nazi helmet and a smile. Seems there were things flapping in the breeze God didn’t intend to flap.”
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You can in many (most?) states. But not in AZ. Here they figure stupidity is up to the individual, not to Nana.
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Same in South Carolina. As far as the Palmetto State is concerned, you can bash your brainbucket off the pavement at 90 mph or blow yourself up with fireworks, and it ain’t their problem. God bless South Carolina.
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Their excuse for helmet laws was always that other people would have to pay the medical bills for more-serious injuries due to not wearing helmets. My response to the hype was always, “Really? Since the primary cause of serious injuries in car crashes is head injuries, just as with motorcycles, does that mean that if you drive a car you should also be required to wear a helmet?” No reply, of course; sometimes a blank or dirty look.
Sauce. Goose. Gander.
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And BTW, except when I was an indestructible teenager in HS in Florida before helmet laws arrived, I’ve never ridden without a helmet.
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death rates actually increased in states that had helmet laws. DOT blamed it on not wearing a helmet. This was back in the 60’s or so. Seems people not wearing helmets tend to be more careful.
I have the report somewhere in my box room, so it might as well be on the moon. It came up when I was doing work on risks and was looking at other than financial risk.
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Helmets interfere with vision
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Full-face ones do, which was one reason I never wore them; open-face with a Lexan face shield suited me just fine, and allowed nearly full peripheral vision while keeping rain, bugs and crap thrown up by car tires out of my face.
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I always used a full-coverage helmet with a face shield, Just Because. I became a True Believer after Bugzilla exploded at 80+ MPH directly over my left eye.
Such events interfere with vision!
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NH is helmet optional.
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I remember reading in 2020(?) a CA doc saying hat his only patients with adequate Vit D levels were the ones taking supplements. Lots of time in the sun didn’t seem to be enough on its own.
I started taking extra C, D, and zinc. My one bout of Covid was a like a moderate cold; it lasted about three days, and the only that clued me in to take a teat was a lowgrade fever – I almost never run one, no matter the bug.
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My D level was super-low when the doc tested it. I started taking supplements, which brought me up into the bottom part of “acceptable”, but apparently there’s a limit on uptake from supplements, because increasing the dosage didn’t do anything.
You can buy D3 test kits on Amazon for about $45. You do the finger stick, drop it in the prepaid mailer, and they email you the results.
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My calcium supplements come with D as well
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Been told that Calcium requires vitamin D. All calcium I’ve seen specifically come with D3.
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Multivitamin once a day is doing something. I don’t think it’s just making expensive pee like Jerry Pournelle used to muse; but he still took them.
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I remember reading in 2020(?) a CA doc saying hat his only patients with adequate Vit D levels were the ones taking supplements. Lots of time in the sun didn’t seem to be enough on its own.
I started taking extra C, D, and zinc. My one bout of Covid was a like a moderate cold; it lasted about three days, and the only that clued me in to take a teat was a lowgrade fever – I almost never run one, no matter the bug.
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My problem was that I only get one cold a year. It moves in in late fall and hangs on till spring (till the allergy season starts). Nothing severe, just runny nose, stuffed head, and occasional coughing, maybe elevated temperature once in a while. Don’t know if I ever had the dreaded COVID (mild symptoms are about the same) and never did one of the test kits (useless because there would be no treatment anyway). A bright point was that COVID was supposed to deaden the sense of smell. Each day, my dear Kitten would deliver an olfactory test in her litter box. My sense of smell always worked just fine.
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$HOUSEMATE used to get a cough twice a year, and it seemed to only last 7 month each time…
It wasn’t quite that bad, but it seemed like it.
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…Like an old friend…
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I’m wondering – vitamin D is synthesized from cholesterol. We’ve been kept away from cholesterol for at least a generation or two now.
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I work nights in Minnes[now]ota. Sunlight? What’s sunlight? Yeah, been taking D3 for Ages. And (before 2020) zinc in Winter. Since then? Zinc (and quercetin) fairly regularly. Despite MANY around me coming down with WuFlu multiple times, I have YET to experience the symptoms. Not saying I’ve avoided infection, just that I’ve never yet been symptomatic. And if not symptomatic, no sense in taking any tests.
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I did get the Wu (later learned 2 coworkers worked while infected, both used my work pc … gee thanks), but since had been very illness free, until that whatever caught me a few weeks back. Additional D, C, zinc and airborne did a bit, but it just kept hanging on.
I think now, I’m getting a bit of allergy stuff that is causing a bit of sneezing and phlegm production, which I get far milder than when I was in Lousyana and Texas. But, fecking exhausted all the time.
Iz tired of being tired.
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We’ve never had Wuflu after PROBABLE bout in Jan 2020.
Since then? Not once.
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Yeah, me too, and I was SWIMMING in exposure.
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Added quercetin myself when the Great Scamdemic started. I’ve also had no symptoms of the dreaded plague. Multi, zinc, kelp extract, D3, E (I don’t do seafood), and B-complex are the rest of my regimen.
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Very early on in COVID19, there were observations that people with low vitamin D levels were more likely to catch it, and to have more serious symptoms.
A few months later, the Publick Health Authoriteez tried to get vitamin D reclassified as a controlled substance to be doled out only by prescription. This was around the same time they were calling Ivermectin ‘horse dewormer’ and preventing people from getting it.
How many lives might have been saved if the government hadn’t interfered? We’ll never know. How many guilty heads will roll? We know the answer to that, all right — ZERO!
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With more papers coming out on cancer chances from mRNA not-vaccines, official punishment may not be in play, but I find myself wondering if certain people are going to get private enterprise Romanian Christmas presents.
[Hums tune from The Mikado.]
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I wonder which side of the aisle has the longer lists of those who never would be missed.
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Ours. Because we don’t act, but wait.
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I fear that things don’t happen until they do.
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Though Col. Kratman contends the most recent election results put a lot of unpleasant reaction stuff that likely was in motion on hold, so the commies should be very very grateful the Kammie was such a loser.
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Yep.
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Yep, although they and their black-robed flunkies seem to be doing their best to turn that around. :-x
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Cancer and heart problems.
I know my aunt (technically aunt-inlaw) is pulling all the documents from her late husband’s heart problems after getting the clot shot. His doctors stated his heart problems, which killed him, were directly related to the covid shots. Aunt won’t start anything (not her first rodeo, they (uncle and her) sued, and won, the cause of youngest daughter’s death), but she definitely will join any class action should one start.
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Late BIL got a booster at the same time as a pneumonia shot, and it looks like the combination killed him. Nephew wanted to sue, but information and horrible legal logistics (halfway around the world) said nope, plus likely immunity for the providers.
I suspect (not going there with close relatives) that another nephew who beat cancer, but died after remission failed, was a victim of the clot shot. One of many parts of the family I stay in good relations with by not talking very often. (Hi bro! Happy XXth birthday! Haven’t talked in 5 years, but…) The relapse was devastating, and not a wound I’m willing to pick. If they figure it out, so be it, but not from me. Sigh.
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What about the 700,000 existing cancer patients denied the ongoing treatments they needed because “We have to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed during This Time Of Crisis!!” So they were ‘reserved’ for the vast hordes of critical COVID19 patients that…never showed up. Instead, people with cancer being successfully treated were just left to die.
Sooo many heads need to roll.
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IIRC, one of Larry Correia’s family got caught by that.
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I got a lightweight version of that when my knee was reconstructed in 2021. Around two hours worth of surgery, (Doc said it was like tying mop ends together), but there was no option to let me be admitted for an overnight postop stay. IIRC, the hospital was running at a mandated 33% capacity, presumably for the onslaught of Covid patients who didn’t show up, and there was no slack given. It worked out OK; the burly recovery nurse was able to manhandle me into the pickup, and a neighbor helped me get out and up the steps to the house. Loopy RCPete survived. The anesthesia drugs were impressive, but wow.
I still had to change the dressings and such, but things worked out OK. Still, not fun. (Our old Lab-Aussie Shepherd acted as the night nurse. She made her failing health support her until she knew I didn’t need her support. Including waking $SPOUSE if I wasn’t sleeping “right” in The Comfy Chair. I miss her.)
FWIW, it took 9 days from trauma to surgery. Saw the ortho surgeon 5 days after (Flyover County never had an excess of doctors, still doesn’t), and 4 days for preop, including stopping Warfarin and getting tests.
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I briefly wondered which of two songs you meant from the Mikado.
The obvious answer As Some Day it May Happen (AKA the List Song) and that is what I decided you meant.
Less obvious (but also apropos) is from the second act A More Humane Mikado known by its refrain “My object all sublime, I shall achieve in Time, to let the punishment fit the crime, the punishment fit the crime and make each prisoner pent, unwillingly represent a source of innocent merriment, of innocent merriment”
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My sole exposure to the Mikado is in the form of the Gilbert and Sullivan Weekend CD* from the D’oyly Carte Opera Company, and while it has the list song, it doesn’t have the other. Went with a friend to see The Sorcerer a lot of years ago, but beyond that and the movie version of Pirates of Penzance, I’m fairly G&S deficient.
The second song is rather appropriate, though.
(dot) Pretty much a Greatest Hits from a handful of operettas.
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I am familiar with G&S weekend collection (we had it on MONO LP when I was a kid, yes I’m old get off my lawn). The Sorceror is G&S first collaboration I think. The three most famous HMS Pinnafore, Pirates of Penzance, and Mikado are all worth seeing if there is a decent local production. Professional productions often try to modernize them and that rarely ends well. For a while in the early 2000’s they were all in vogue when the copyrights finally left the D’oyly Carte’s hands
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I put myself on high dose D as soon as I get sniffles. 9 times out of 10 it works.
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Hope you get to feeling better.
Forgot to mention yesterday that some people (and here I am quoting French relatives who say they are quoting Jacques Vallee) think the French ufology thing, both the more prominent “incidents” and the level of interest surrounding the phenomena, are government psy-ops, possibly originating with French CIA analogue.
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I’ve seen similar speculation, pointed at USAlien UFOs and our pet three letter agencies.
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Clown world is clown world, regardless of the language the clowns speak. :D
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Everyone: The French are very weird.
French CIA: We can make them weirder!
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What else would they do. They think weird is best. or even better WEIRD IS FRENCH. And they are as French as they can be.
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With respect to aircraft, possible misquote, but: “If it’s ugly, it’s British. If it’s weird, it’s French. If it’s ugly and weird, it’s Russian.”
I got cynical about the French at the start of security theater. Stop the old grandma, pass on the middle eastern guy. That and BLT. Excuse me, but in America, we actually cook the bacon. Ever wall a sandwich? Didn’t quite, but wanted to.
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Wait, I thought American security theater did that too? No excuse for the BLT, though.
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I had three trips to Bavaria three times post 9/11, and security theater got steadily worse as it went on. The first was in December 2001, and TSA was only slightly worse than the private security the airports had. The French exposure was in June ’02, after the shoe bomber (can’t remember the state of the security in March, though the people understood what a CPAP machine was from Xrays and a combination of poor German and charades. Munich security was a lot more polite and laid back than Frankfurt’s.
To be fair, DeGaulle airport had no lock on lousy airport food. 2001 SFO had a branch of Willow Street Woodfired Pizza. The original was about a mile from where I lived in San Jose, and the food at that place was great. Not at the airport. Ecch! Back many years ago (pretty sure 707s were still in airline service) it was possible to get a decent dinner at O’hare Airport. Haven’t been there since ’97, so I imagine it’s horrible now.
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Early British and Italian aircraft showed their designers had a blatant disregard for the concept of “aerodynamics.” At least the French acknowleged it, even if they were slapdash about applying it.
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Yup, that conspiracy theory about the Macrons’ marriage is so weird it’s practically All You Zombies without the time travel.
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Jacques Vallee! I forgot who I’d mainlined as a young kid. (We’re talking under 12.)
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Yeah, I’ve only read a couple of his books, but he was/is a favorite among the previous generation in the family. Whatever his failings, still smarter than a lot of the rest of the ufology crowd. There’s a story about someone eagerly telling Vallee about the alien city underneath Area 51, and he essentially shut them down by asking “where’s the sewer system?”
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It’s the mundane things that usually trip them up.
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And here we come to the bizarre situation that Jimmy Guieu, our kind hostess’ most recent subject in “Reading the Future of the Past”, Might have been affected by a DGSE psyop. I wish to complain to the Author, Sir now you are just mocking us without mercy.
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Or his whole writing career had been a DGSE psyop! Can’t rule that option out :)
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Gahh I would really prefer it if reality were NOT an over plotted Ken Follet orTom Clancy book…
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Need more coffee. 🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵
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You’re always welcome to do a guest post at the scuttlebutt. (can’t seem to log into wordpress for some reason.)
V/R
William Lehman
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Hopefully you have finally turned the corner!
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Prayers up for quick healing!
I have constant battle keeping my vitamin levels up because of malabsorption issues. It’s critical for my MS though. Since that has been addressed, and I’m taking care to eat my vitamins, my life has made a dramatic turn around. Completely chased the black dog back to the depths where he belongs.
Also, meat contains trace vitamins and minerals in a much more digestible form. The doctor that had me go vegan about killed me. He was a true believer though and did mean well.
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Thoughts and prayers, take care of yourself.
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I have been adjusting my meds and really don’t like myself right now. It is amazing how much the drugs that keep us alive screw up our minds.
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I hear you about the drugs and the mind.
Oh do I hear you.
Prayers up for a successful adjustment and a level at which you are healthy and happy!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Second that.
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Sarah,
If you have a book coming out, don’t forget Ace. Perfessor Squirrel will gladly post something on the Sunday Morning Book Thread. Just shoot him an e-mail with a blurb and book cover and he’ll put out the news.
Of course, you could always post sumthin on ALH….
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Sinus infections are sent directly from H.E.double tooth picks!
Had a time, a decade or so back, that I couldn’t get rid of them. Got so I could tell one was coming on, make the appointment and get in just as it was getting to the point of “yep antibiotics, again!” Bad enough that GP started talking surgery fix. No on that! Finally beat it.
Remember when kid was a toddler, from about 9 months to almost 3, same thing only ear infections. His kid doctor said he’d recommend ear drainage tubes because of the frequency. But every post follow up his ears were not only clear of infection but fully drained of the usual cause. Four to five -ish weeks later he’d be back with another ear infection (worked out to every 6 to 8 weeks between bouts). Finally outgrew the problem.
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Meant to add:
Hope the medication helps you clear up the infection and it does not come back.
Feel better soonest.
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Mine was tonsillitis, at least twice every winter until I was aroud six and got the damned things cut out.
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Strep for me, at least through grade school (6th grade back then). Last time it caught me, I was 20. Strep and tonsillitis. A *105 F temp got me read the riot act (like I had a thermometer, I just felt crappy). I still have my tonsils.
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From what I understand, they form a “first line of defense” against some types of radioactive fallout. Not much, but every little bit helps.
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(picture above)
“Hello Terran! I would like to discuss with you the warranty on your conveyance.”
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“The extended warranty on your planet has expired. “
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“It’s time to renew your Interdimensional Insurance policy to ensure continued coverage for intrusions from other universes.” :-D
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More ‘the Hyperspace Bypass construction will begin tomorrow’.
Oh, the Vogonity!
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“Hello, Mrs. How-t? This is Kevin with Medicare Services – Interstellar. How are you today? I am calling about the test kit you were sent for Venusian Three-Spot fever.”
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Dude.
I’m so wasted. (1)
I’ve been looking at that, and thinking about how (2) to make cloth that is iridescent and gold metallic.
For the moment, such textiles could be a way of signaling alien or space future.
(2) might be possible. You would have to make fibers, and weave fibers, but it might be possible. (3)
(3) Why is another question. (4)
(4) Which I also have answers to, but maybe a lot stupider ones.
(1) Had an episode of not much sleep earlier this week, and I am still impaired.
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on the marketing, have Trump say anything about the book and left will take the view and provide more oxygen the a half-dozen terraforming units. Voila, a best seller, a Pulitzer, a Hugo, and a lifelong stream of love, hate, and IRS attention. You can thank me later.
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No chance.
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About supplementing vitamin D with vitamin K: make sure you get vitamin K2. K1 is the plant form, while K2 is the animal form. While similar, K1 and K2 use completely different metabolic pathways in the human body. Both have their uses, but K2 is the one you want to use to see that vitamin D gets put to work in your body rather than winding up in fat storage.
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I had a longish comment warning people away from montelukast as a leukotriene inhibitor for the treatment of asthma. Zafirlukast is better, and safer, due to bad, rare side effects with montelukast, such as horrible nightmares and suicidal depression. I put my 2 cents in about this because you said “new medicines” for asthma without any specifics (understandable). Did that comment disappear, or is it in moderation?
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Oh. I think I have in the comments early, I had the suicidal depression side effect of montelukast. Sorry. No. this is a thing I never heard of, in inhaler. But i haven’t used it yet.
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Thank you. I didn’t know this existed. Montelukast made me suicidal and I only survived because I watch myself all the time, but it ate months of my life. I didn’t know about Zafirlukast.
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To make iridescent gold colored cloth I guess you could start with cloth of gold (made out of gold) then spray paint it with iridescent clear varnish, but why? (Also expensive, and stiff after you apply the varnish – just kidding!).
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