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A_H_Amin wrote:Yup, he's called Mouse :)
We're suppose to ignore the fact that you call your cat Mouse? If that's the case, physics should lag at your place :D
ozone: By attempting to observe your cats jumping onto the same spot at the same time, you altered the results of the experiment. A classic quantum mechanics conundrum! It's when the wave nature of the cats, collapses to the particle nature or vice versa. Both can't be observed at the same time!! ;-)
Dragonaur wrote:You are correct!
ozone: By attempting to observe your cats jumping onto the same spot at the same time, you altered the results of the experiment. A classic quantum mechanics conundrum! It's when the wave nature of the cats, collapses to the particle nature or vice versa. Both can't be observed at the same time!! ;-)
Last night, I was sitting around fake chatting with the hockey puck shaped listening device in my kitchen when I said, “Hey Alexa, play the Quackcast Podcast” and would you believe it? In about ten seconds, I was listening to Oz, Banes, Tantz, and Pit right at my dining room table. Technology is pretty cool these days.
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:that's pretty cool 😁😁😁😁😁
Last night, I was sitting around fake chatting with the hockey puck shaped listening device in my kitchen when I said, “Hey Alexa, play the Quackcast Podcast” and would you believe it? In about ten seconds, I was listening to Oz, Banes, Tantz, and Pit right at my dining room table. Technology is pretty cool these days.
Migraines are living hell. -_- I so sympathize.
My new part-time job started this weekend. It's basically keeping trails and campsites safe and clean. I applied for a visitor center position too, but I feel like I hit the jackpot with this one (well, metaphorically. It's part-time, so pay is meh). Aside from a chore list and helping with events and things, I basically get paid to walk around in the forest (and drive UTV on wider trails). And it will be a lot of working alone in the evenings without much human interaction (aside from checking on campers when we have them).
I am trying to secure a second job. I've had no luck with retail places or the private sector before, but I'll keep trying. I'm actually in a very populated area this year, so I have all kinds of places I can get rejected from. Lol. (I also check county jobs and the half dozen local museums at least weekly. I'll pounce on an opening if they get one.)
Good luck UB!
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I'm sick at the moment and in somewhat of a dilemma…
Various medications take away the worst of the symptoms (fever, shivering etc), but those symptoms are the body's way of fighting off the infection.
Won't my illness last much longer if I suppress my immune system's reactions?
i.e. heating up the body to kill the infection, flooding mucal membranes to clear them out etc.
So that's my quandary: suffer and possibly get over it faster, or feel ok for now but be weak and crappy for days more.
You're mistaking the symptoms for the actual illness. The antibodies still do their job whether you have chills and runny nose or not. You'll still have enough mucus build up to feel the need to blow your nose which is enough to get out whatever your body is expelling.
Your immune system still works whether you've relieved the symptoms or not. The amount of time gained by feeling miserable is inconsequential to the time lost because you can't function. They've done blind studies about this and it's really not an issue.
I'm on a anti allergy med as well as one to clear my sinuses so I can breathe at night. I don't get the excess mucus symptoms but the cold does not last any longer. But that's my immune system. I usually get a 24 fever instead and ibuprofen and rest is all I really need.
From everything I have read that is a common misconception :(
The reason why so many infections and diseases have the exact same symptoms is because those are the crude ways in which the immune system tries to deal with them.
That doesn't mean you will get all the same symptoms every time or that those methods are even all that effective. If they go on long enough they can harm or kill you.
Honestly it's really up to you and how the cycle of illness works for you.
If symptoms persist after 72 hours I go to the doctor to see if the symptoms indicate a more serious ailment. I've been through this a lot and am well aware of how these things work for me ( and the wife) Ive had serious recurring flus where I didn't rest long enough and one infection built on another. Because I didn't rest long enough. I tried to function despite the symptoms. They weren't really relieved just enough to go back to work and not use up my sick time. MISTAKE.
The most important thing to do is rest. What you do with the symptoms is immaterial. It's bed rest and fluids and let your immune system do its job. The wife has a sinus infection right now because the best place to pick up an illness is in the hospital. Hand sanitizer exists for a reason. She needs rest. She has the time but getting her to slow down?
The last time I ran a fever longer than 24 hours I went to the doctor just in time to be told it had broken and it was just another virus. Having a good primary care doctor is great. Bed rest, ibuprofen and fluids. I know I'm sick from body aches, not sniffling. Sniffing is my normal condition because of allergies. I know how my body works. As for yours, do what you think is necessary.
Bedrest, fluids and your fever reducer of choice. If your other symptoms are too much get some over the counter relief. If not, rest!
I finished researching all potential secret Santa requests and garnering references for their characters. Granted that I'll have more to go on once the names are announced and handed to each respective assignment, but it usually benefits to take advantage beforehand in case of any unprecedented pitfalls ahead.
Apparently this rash that appeared last week, which looked to me like flea/chigger bites, is shingles. Since I spent a week on a different assumption (and sought to depest my home despite no other signs of infestation), it's far too late for an antiviral.
So now I just have to live with this painful little patch for however many weeks it decides to hang around. :P
(It never even occurred to me as a possibility. It's still talked about only as a disease of the over 60 year old set. But apparently more younger people get it these days.)
usedbooks wrote:Shingles is not uncommon. You usually get it when you're older if you had chickenpox as a kid. I think…
(It never even occurred to me as a possibility. It's still talked about only as a disease of the over 60 year old set. But apparently more younger people get it these days.)
Ouch. Sorry you went through that late in life. I had chicken pox at age 5. I don't remember it, but I have scars. It was nearly a decade before the vaccine was invented.
There's a shingles vaccine, but it is
1. Expensive
2. Only done for people over 60 years old (sometimes 50) and
3. Only about 51% effective.
Shingles used to be an old person illness because it appears when the immune system weakens. But our generation has managed to mimic the effects of old age through the power of stress. :P
My kid brother had shingles a couple years ago.
And any adult with shingles is dangerous for the few who never had chicken pox. In adults and teens chicken pox can lead to pneumonia and encephalitis though the vaccine is 90% effective if taken within 3 days.
Shingles vaccine may only be 51% effective for avoiding the infection but does lesson the symptoms and length of the illness. Try working in a senior facility with all these shingles sufferers running around and you've never had chicken pox.
Don't touch anything. However as a kid I was closely exposed to chicken pox at least three times. Back in the 1970s when a kid got it concerned parents sent their kids over that child's house to hopefully get it and get it over with. Three separate occasions and I didn't get it.
Roll cars, detached retinas, falling down elevator shafts, diverticulitis, sure – but chicken pox? Nope.
Yikes.
I've been in a rolled car. Got just one tiny scratch from broken glass. I've had kidney stones, regularly get migraines, dry socket after my wisdom teeth removal, a knee that hyperextends, really bad lady cramps… Pain is a frequent companion. (Never broke a bone though.)
Honestly, I'd have gone to the doctor right away for antivirals if I realized earlier, but I've been on a false but more logical assumption that it was some kind of pest infestation or allergic reaction. Random rashes are incredibly common for me. I unconsciously scratch holes in my own legs at night because they itch (have done so for years). I break out any time I hold one of my pet rats too. When a rash shows up in a location on my torso where I have gotten rashes before, I don't instantly think I have a viral infection usually seen in seniors.
Hahaha! Oh chicken pox…
It was on the last day of my second sail training voyage on the STS Leeuwin.
This girl was hugging everyone. I remember thinking that her skin was unusually marked but didn't really think much of it. I just thought she had bad skin. She was Vietnamese and had dark gold skin so the marks didn't stand out too much. She had no other symptoms.
Days later I was curled up on the floor wanting to kill myself because the pain in my head was so severe, coughs racking my body with a rolling, aching pain from my toes to my scalp and my skin feeling like a burning, itching nightmare.
But during the weeks I spent in bed recovering I discovered George Fraser and his Flashman stories, Piers Anthony and Xanth, and developed a love for many songs that I heard over and over on the radio… mainly Spoonman by Sound Garden, Positive Bleeding by Urge Overkill, Senses Working Overtime by XTC. Every time they'd come on it would feel like an event to me. XD
Traveling will get you. My sister got legionaire's disease in Japan and a couple other nasty infections in Korea.
My dad had dysentery in Nepal. It was so bad, he was briefly comatose.
Of course, you can get all those things in your own country, but something about travel makes us a lax on the hygiene and health. (And different places have their own customs and practices for containing infection. We can take ours for granted.)
I'd love to go to Nepal :)
I think travel puts you in closer constant contact with others and unfamiliar pathogens.
There are a lot of things our bodies are used to dealing with every day: our own gut flora, fungi etc… Often families or whole groups of people are in balance with the same little biotic biome.
When outsiders come into contact with it though it can cause issues.
Or even when our own goes out of balance…
There's not much research on that field right now but it IS a factor.
Just think cruise ship. A whole bunch of different communities of people with their communities of pathogens are in one confined place. Someone's common germ will get into someone else's food and give them a bought of diarrhea, nausea and vomiting because that particular germ is an interloper and doesn't play well with the existing communities of germs.
The whole idea of population resistance to certain pathogens as in that book Guns, Germs and Steel comes from that. Travel not only broadens the mind, it broadens the immune system too. My wife has gotten it twice on ships, whereas I had to go ashore to get mine. Fortunately the incubation period was just enough so I didn't get sick until I got home. Turns out my doctor knew precisely what it was because he had gotten it the year before when visiting the same locale.
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