StringTheory @ StringTheory @beehaw.org

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If you run into a financial ditch and don’t have emergency funds, contact the electric, water, medical, phone, credit card, etc. billing departments right away. Don’t wait until after you’ve already missed a payment or two! Jump right to it and set up payment plans. I helped a friend through a financial crash and was impressed how much leeway billing departments will give you if you reach out before you miss a payment.

The important thing is NOT to read the numbers and odds when/if it happens to you. Treatments are progressing rapidly, and odds are based on people receiving treatment 5+ years previously.

“Give people someone to hate, and they will follow you anywhere.”

(I don’t remember who said it, but it has proved true over and over again throughout history.)

Meanwhile those of us living in areas where there is rabies are cringing and shrieking “noooooooo, do not touch!!!”

If you forget your glasses all ya gotta do is enlarge the text size. Digital is pretty groovy.

Healthcare. So many of my friends working in healthcare are so profoundly burned out. Skipping meals and breaks because they have too many patients or that’s the only time they can do charting, coming in early and staying late to prep or chart or care for patients (because there are more patients than time to care for them).

When your staff is routinely getting urinary stones or urinary infections because they don’t have time to get a drink of water or go pee, something ain’t right.

Learned to drive stick when I was 12. You can get away with a lot when you live on a farm/ranch…

Citizens who can logically assess information in a systematic manner are less easy to control.

More young women are getting colon cancer, as well.

It is worrisome seeing the climbing rates of young people getting “old person” cancers.

I always feel my heart sink when someone maligns “welfare queens.” There is only one person among my friends who was ever on public assistance; and it was me. During months of chemo and surgeries I couldn’t work, and I was sucking off the government teat.

Red eyes and make-up wiped off his nose like he’s been crying, and a sulky expression..

Not at all tough. More like a young child who had a temper tantrum and is pouting.

If she won’t jump through that hoop, how many others will she refuse down the road?

“Taking this anti-rejection medication offends my conscience. These drugs are chemicals!”

“Getting an hour of cardio a day offends me, I should decide what activities I perform.”

“Being told to keep my BMI in the healthy range to keep my transplant healthy is offensive and is implying I’m fat.”

Transplant teams want compliant patients. Refusing a vaccine right off the bat means you are the non-compliant type who likely won’t be a success.

I have a friend with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. She’s a woman, has always been a woman, is married to a man, and has two adopted kids (AIS means she’s sterile). She has XY chromosomes.

Is someone going to walk up to her and say, “Sorry, ma’am, you’re male now”?

Her gender assigned at birth was female. She was raised as a girl, always identified as a girl, and had no idea anything was different until she started having health problems at puberty.

He knew he’d get motorboated, though…

I read BBC’s website. Reading the news is less upsetting to me than hearing it or seeing it. BBC has a mix of serious and fluff that is just right to keep me from getting overwhelmed.

And if the news from BBC doesn’t bother me, I’ll read National Public Radio’s front page.

(Aleksandr Dugin waves cheerfully from behind the shrubbery)

Yup. No worries. Still don’t like the idea of having worms.

It’s a Mars exploration vehicle!

• most people I know

Snyder Spindles are my favorite! https://www.snyderspindles.com/

Apple Watch “Breathe” app or any of the free slow-breathing/mindfulness meditation apps will do the job, too.

Or… breathe in for a count of 4, pause for a count of 4, breathe out for a count of 4, pause for a count of 4. Do that for 5 or 10 minutes.