@cpenned Your nephew craves mech keyboards so we headed over to the thrift store where we finally found his ideal one … ☺️ we cannot let him know about mini-mechs.
Thanks to Winston (names have been changed to protect the guilty), Class 4B will be dedicating a significant part of their E-learning day to working the United States upward on the Popcat leader board. Every time my 9 yo finishes an assignment, he earns 300 more pops...
After last year’s drama about receiving 50% book gifts, 9yo instituted a “no books” ban. This morning he greeted me with the observation that he had come downstairs to realize “you have disrespected me and bought two books anyway this year,” like the godfather that he is.
Back in 1692, obscure Dutch artist A Boogert produced a one-off, hand-painted, 900 page catalogue of every conceivable colour, complete with handwritten, detailed advice to artists on how to create them. Now available online, see
https://t.co/DIYUAPIv7R
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but some of us are sitting in a room without the overhead light on because we don’t like overhead lights. The number of times people have helpfully turned on the light for me and I wait for them to leave and turn it off again… 😂
‘I was raised to be so strong that when I awoke after a failed overdose, I hoisted my body up, kicked the remains of the vodka-pill concoction I had consumed under my sweat-soaked bed, and in a daze, found myself in my university library.’
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@DavidWeiss9 @UthredSonofBob The quotation marks suggested to me that she is responding to actual descriptions *others* are using to describe the communities directly impacted by this tragedy. I wondered *which* Brooklyn was impacted too when I first heard the alert…
PreCovid, micro-clots mostly affected patients with anti phospholipid syndrome (related to autoimmune disease), a diagnosis more common in women. The diagnostic process is cumbersome and time intensive - requiring a repeat test (several months apart) if markers are found.
1. Why don't we have diagnostics yet for #microclots? It's simple test that could provide a biomarker for millions. Every patient in research setting has these detected.
This should be priority #1. Easy to do & immediate implications for treatment. Current absence is a failure.