Patient: "Six months on the statin and I'm climbing the stairs like my father did at eighty."
Doctor: "Atorvastatin, wasn't it. Forty milligrams."
Patient: "Twenty, then you doubled it in March."
Doctor: "And the LDL's down to 2.6. That's a proper result."
Patient: "I can't carry the shopping in one go."
Doctor: "Aches are usually mild and usually settle."
Patient: "Six months."
Doctor: "We could drop you back to twenty."
Patient: "And the number?"
Doctor: "Would climb. So we'd add ezetimibe to hold it."
Patient: "That's two."
Doctor: "If that won't hold it, the injectable. Fortnightly, into the stomach."
Patient: "Three."
Doctor: "For the pain, naproxen."
Patient: "Which does what?"
Doctor: "Irritates the stomach. Omeprazole covers that."
Patient: "Five."
Doctor: "Long term that drags your magnesium and B12 down, so we'd replace both."
Patient: "Seven. To fix the legs of a man who walked fine in January."
Doctor: "January is when we found the cholesterol."
Patient: "Nothing hurt in January."
Doctor: "Nothing was being treated in January."
@bekahj I do that when they fly past me like they are more important and Get stopped at the next light. I LOVE to pull up next to them and do that Every single time.
I can’t stop watching this. You can literally see the exact second this poor dog realizes he’s safe.
He’s shaking, covered in scars and stitches, and instead of pulling away, he just leans into her like he’s been waiting his whole life for someone to show him what kindness feels like.
That little head tuck into her shoulder broke me.
That’s not just a dog. That’s a soul learning what love is.
Whoever this vet tech is, you’re a hero.
This is what humanity should look like. ❤️
🚨 JUST IN: X has just rooted out a Chinese bot farm of 200,000 THOUSAND accounts influencing American politics, with hundreds of them running an influence operation against the construction of data centers in the US
The posts claimed that AI data centers "drive up household electricity prices" and "strain the grid"
"Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense."
"We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy."
Good! Purge them all! @elonmusk
.@ElonMusk : “The amount of indoctrination happening in schools and universities is far beyond what parents realize. Kids today are having a completely different experience than we did.” God bless Elon for calling this out.
A man saw a dog trapped on the far side of a river and just swam for it.
No gear. No waiting for someone else. Crossed the water, got the dog, brought it back.
Most people would have filmed it and kept walking. He got in the water.
That is the standard.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! X just revealed they discovered a network of 200,000 Chinese influence bot accounts
Many of them posing as AMERICANS to shape AI, energy, and data center policies
President Trump warned about this just last month: “Other nations are trying to get us to SLOW DOWN and they are spending a LOT of money on propaganda, on press PR, trying to convince everybody that this ISN'T a positive thing”
Looks like he was right.
Dolly Parton says she once went through a period so dark, she understood why people turn to drugs and alcohol.
“Yes, I went through a bad period of time back in the ’80s when I was going through the change. I was having some female problems, family problems, emotional problems, and I was overweight. I didn’t feel good about myself at all, so I got myself in a pretty bad bind.”
“I understood at that moment how people get on drugs, how people get on alcohol, and how people can commit suicide. I didn’t do that because I kept praying, holding on to God, and hanging on to my friends.”
“No business thing has ever been able to get me that depressed. It has to be something very personal, either family or something during that middle-age change of life, when your hormones and everything are different.”
“I did have a very hard time, but God, praying, friends, and just trying to hang on helped me. Being Dolly, just being me, I thought, ‘Hey, either get off your fat ass and do something about it, or go ahead and blow your head off.’ And I thought, ‘Nah, I ain’t gonna do that.’”
“I believe God meant for me to go through that so I could completely feel for other people about everything.”
Elon Musk: “A friend is someone that supports you in difficult times… Fair-weather friends are useless. Everyone likes you when the chips are up, but who likes you when the chips are down?”