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Dec. 15th, 2024 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettCelebrating. Minimally-invasive best-case surgery!
Reading. I have almost finished Decoding the Heavens (Jo Marchant). I have been EXTREMELY INDIGNANT about an explanation of isotopes that blithely asserts that thulium-170 has an extra proton (!!!), and am consequently doubting the reliability of basically all of the other science -- but I have also been merrily wandering off and skimming bits of the internet on the topic, so hey, I will at least concede that I am having fun.
Watching. Comfort rewatch of half of The Old Guard on Tuesday evening, before bowel prep solution kicked in and I retreated to the bathroom...
Eating. FIBRE. I AM ALLOWED FIBRE AGAIN. I HAVE PANETTONE. I HAVE FRUIT WITH SKINS ON. I HAVE EATEN SEEDS AND NUTS AND BROCCOLI.
Hospital food remarkably edible, on the whole.
Ottolenghi almond & orange cake with chocolate ganache.
Exploring. A lot more of the innards of the Royal Free Hospital than I had previously investigated, including the theatre level (though I was in Theatre 1, which means there was a lot more of it I didn't get to see...), PACU (just around the corner), two (of four) wards on the seventh floor, Clinic 9 on the first floor ("am I really supposed to be coming back in 48 hours to have the stents I was told would be in situ for 6 weeks removed???"), and then a chunk of the lower ground floor including the waiting area for ambulatory A&E, SDEC ("Same-Day Emergency Care"! had not previously met!), Emergency Imaging (passing via the doors to Resus; contained a mobile scanner with its long long neck painted to resemble a giraffe), and divers corridors and toilets.
Making & mending. Muscle???
Growing. Also muscle and skin and such??? But also: I got A LOT of manure delivered to the allotment site, and managed to move a fair bit of it around onto Plants, Misc on Monday. And can expect to be back to shifting it much sooner than I'd dared hope, given the minimally-invasive etc!
Observing. A jay, on our way to hospital. Flocks of birds from the window at 7 North.
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Date: 2024-12-15 11:37 pm (UTC)I have had a hard time commenting on/reading your recent posts because my brain did a thing (and is continuing to do a thing), but I'm so glad it was all minimally invasive and I've been thinking of you. ♥
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Date: 2024-12-15 11:37 pm (UTC)All the best with the muscle etc mending and growing. Hoping yesterday’s concerns are now less of (hopefully not at all) a problem.
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Date: 2024-12-16 12:07 am (UTC)Don't know if the nice slide from minimally invasive to manure was intentional--if so, cheers.
(Wasn't the Royal Free one of the first epidemics of ME/CFS/PVFS?)
Any book which leads to intriguing rabbit holes is worthwhile! I'm thinking of you a lot these days as I listen to Marcia Bjornerud's memoir Turning to Stone. The contrast between the billions of years in geology's ambit and the just-yesterday novelty of much of the science is dramatic.
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Date: 2024-12-16 04:11 am (UTC)I am SO GLAD FOR YOU. <33333
Ottolenghi almond & orange cake with chocolate ganache.
As per my comment above. That sounds wonderful.
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Date: 2024-12-16 04:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-12-16 07:18 am (UTC)Hooray for fibre!
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Date: 2024-12-16 09:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-12-16 12:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-12-16 01:48 pm (UTC)Heeee. So glad to hear it was the best-case scenario!
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Date: 2024-12-16 06:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-12-16 07:57 pm (UTC)🌾 [rice grain; used on The Hands of the Emperor discord as rhyming slang]
Date: 2024-12-17 10:18 am (UTC)(December 14 2024 article out of UC Berkeley re: Ubrogepant in endometriosis)
Via
Nociceptor-to-macrophage communication through
CGRP/RAMP1 signaling drives endometriosis-associated
pain and lesion growth in mice
Victor Fattori1
*, Tiago H. Zaninelli1,2
, Fernanda S. Rasquel-Oliveira1,2
, Olivia K. Heintz1
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Ashish Jain3
, Liang Sun3
, Maya L. Seshan4
, Daniëlle Peterse1
, Anne E. Lindholm4
,
Raymond M. Anchan4
‡, Waldiceu A. Verri Jr.2
, Michael S. Rogers1
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