I also had a cracked wisdom tooth and x-rays revealed that my mouth was too small (despite all advice received in childhood) to accommodate them. I had all four removed in one procedure, but received propophol due to my anxiety in clinical settings.
I apparently had a blast during the procedure, cracked up the dental surgeon by complaining about a neighbor, and had an interesting phonecall with my mother involving some bait and switch that I found hilarious at the time.
Recovery was uneventful, soups and gazpachos were great to keep fed and healing, and ibuprofen was only needed for a few days before the residual pain from the procedure was below threshold. It’s far better to take care of these things before they progress further, as you said.
Personally, I think it’s fantastic that you’re examining your language in this way. It’s certainly not ill-mannered, unsolicitous, infelicitous, or untoward of you to do so.
I struggle with making videos sometimes too, even though we have a pretty clear vision for our channel. I encourage you to put your stuff out there! You’ll find people who’d like to have those conversations with you and that can help to further define your content. It’s daunting for sure, but it’s been rewarding to build and find community by sharing what we’re passionate about. For us, it’s mostly garden related but there’s always an opportunity to show other aspects of who you are. If you’re worried about a theme, consider that your thoughtful take and genuine interest will be enough to bring folks to you, whatever topic you might decide to pour yourself into.
There was an interview I saw with a cancer researcher working with AI to improve cancer detection in early imaging - they’ve fed thousands of CT and X-ray images to their model, and have then gone back through the data when patients have had biopsies to confirm. This sort of high quality data and attentive follow up has the potential to provide such better screening for cancers and other conditions that patients could have additional months or years to address them.
This Saturday marks the annual get together for my mother’s side of the family, always held at my grandparent’s old house, which happens to be in the next town over from where my wife and I live (everybody else travels for hours). It’s always nice but stressful at the same time, with ~20 additional people who each have expectations of you. This week is all about making it look like we don’t have a million irons in the fire.
Nope, everything was burnt in. I did go around with a small round point nib to do the outline of the lettering, though. There’s some stain post burn, “golden oak” to bring some brightness and warmth back to the wood, and they’ll each get a urethane seal as well.
I’m working with a soldering iron looking one from wellington with a temperature control on the base. It’s not too bad, but I am curious to see what a more expensive model feels like.
Lots and lots of little circles, that’s the trick as I understand it. The nub that’s a short, even 45° wedge is usually what I lean on most for filling areas but I’m slowly expanding my skill. A lower temperature and twice as many tiny circles can get things really even.
I was using Jerboa for most things but using the progressive web app as well. Sync is my preferred method for browsing and commenting at this point, but I’m still using the PWA for mod responsibilities and submissions (though I think LJ expects to have submissions working soon and 🤞 mod tools aren’t far behind). It’s fair to say that Sync is my preference due to comfort but the amount of customization is what makes it so comfy in the first place.
Speaking as someone who’s had ovulsion fractures in both hips and spent a year in PT from a rotator cuff injury in my shoulder, get yourself some resistance bands. They’re great for low/no impact exercises, can be used for a wide variety of regimens, and take up next to no space when stored. They’re usually sold in incremental sets such as 2/5/10/20 lbs of resistance, so you can do things like using a 2 and a 5 lb band to get 7 lbs of resistance if ten is too strenuous. They’re inexpensive as well, but don’t cheap out on them because it absolutely sucks to have one snap on you. There are plenty of 15 minute workout videos available online to help you find the exercises that target what you want to work on, too.
My wife and I have what we call “bad communication days” from time to time, where each of us is stressed to the point that we’re less able to pick the right words for how we’re feeling or interpret things charitably. They suck, and I’m sorry that you’re in the thick of one (though I’m hoping that things will be better for you today).
Some things that have helped us keep our communication healthier in stressful events include
“X makes me feel” statements being rarely used. Instead of putting the onus of our emotions on the other with that sort of phrasing, we use “when x happens I feel y” to acknowledge that they’re our feelings about an event or statement and not something we’ve been forced to feel.
“Could you rephrase that, I don’t think I understood it the way you meant it” is something we both use when we feel ourselves getting elevated in conversation. It’s a more positive response than other options if there’s accusatory language, snide remarks, information that’s glosses over, or if we’ve just taken a statement really poorly and want to steer the conversation back to “respectful” territory.
Sometimes it takes us a few days to reach a point where we’re able to have the meta conversation about a previous one. That’s okay, and imho better to wait to have a truly positive talk than risk yet another bad one that’s based on rehashed fights. For us, that sounds like “we had a rough day the other day, but I’m at a place where I’ve been able to collect my thoughts so I can talk about them. I hope you’re getting there too, and I’ll be ready when you are. I love you.”
For what it’s worth, she works in a GI office and says that many of the practice’s patients that have this kind of procedure see improvements in their quality of life, especially if the condition hasn’t progressed to the point of an ostomy being needed. She’d like me to stress that she’s not a clinician and isn’t familiar with his case so she’s speaking in general, but we’re both hoping he and you will feel better soon.
The moviefone guy, when I’m on the phone. People are genuinely surprised I’m a person who’ll respond and not a practiced recording. I may have used the skill to avoid taking phone calls when working corporate jobs…
In text, I’m not consciously aware of influences that may be being channeled. Sometimes I’ll consciously choose “exasperated teacher” tone to type things out but that’s more a combination of all the educators I’ve frustrated over the years than one standout inspiration.
I hope I can offer some of my experience, if just for some flavor in the spectrum of how some people approach the lives of creatures which sustain some of us.
We raise ducks on our property - they’re wonderful for our gardens given our location, they help to sustain the pond ecosystems we have where we live, and due to the forestry industry in our area there aren’t many native nesting ducks to fulfill the roles they play. There are serious…population pressures… in duck society which makes some form of population control necessary for the health of the flock to continue. Rather than wild predatory action (which we protect against) taking a portion of them, we can manage the population in a way that keeps more of them living without suffering that can also help to feed our neighbors in town. Our goal is for them to be able to live the best life a duck could want, with one bad hour at the end.
I cannot express to you my sorrow any time any duck loses its life. There have been accidents as new mothers have reacted to the new lives around them, and injuries incompatible with life, which have been my responsibility to resolve with the least amount of suffering possible. It is heart-rending, and it crushes me.
We’re fortunate enough to have met other folks who have similar relationships and outlooks for the types of animals they raise. We’re even more fortunate that those people in our community can provide that food that comes from their management practices to us and our neighbors locally. There’s never been a better time for people to support the kinds of agriculture they agree with by connecting with farmers who share their values and are in their communities; I feel confident saying that we should all be doing that to the extent we can.
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/4af1a0cf-1c3b-4348-ad79-80122bacc2d0.webp this is me and Mira, the duckling I raised after his mother kicked him out of the nest. He came everywhere with me - to landscaping gigs, to the neighbors, on shopping trips where I could get away with it, you name it. Attempts to reintegrate him to the rest of the flock ended with peeping (eventually hissing) and running behind me to hide. His life was cut short during an outbreak of avian influenza and I still get emotional about him years later, and I have that level of attachment to all of them.
Thank you, you’ve given me a really fun topic to bring up when we see a bunch of my family in a few weeks (several of them are doctors and nurses). I wonder if other hormonally regulated ranges normalize in similar timelines even if the ranges are further apart in the segment of the population that has been measured, or if there’s a greater period of “in between ranges” in those cases. (I’m unfamiliar with the difference in ranges in your given example, and frankly others too. There’s a reason I’m not in the medical field.)