I’ve never had any idea how to refer to most of my step-family. Parents and siblings are easy, but everything beyond seems super weird and awkward. Do I have a step-grandmother? Step-cousins?
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If my wife’s sister’s husband got out of a family zoom because of being ill I’d just think, ‘well played.’
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PEEEEEEAAAAAAAKKKKKK COOOOOVVVVVIIIIDDDDD
No you absolutely need to go. You need a monitor because if you’re going in and out of afib you’re at higher risk to have a stroke
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Totally normal outside of California. If nurses are taking this line they need to toughen up
The third category is not universally recognized.
Well if it’s not recognized by you, that would make it not universal.
Oxford English Dictionary counts all three as well.
No cardiologist would ever do it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the risk/benefit calculation for LFS in LA right now would be to just prescribe him some Pradaxa or something based on his Apple watch, and then have him come in after he is vaccinated for a full evaluation to determine if he has to remain on it.
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hard disagree, lots of people think it is magical
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the best Car Talk call was from a guy who ruined his brother-in-law’s clutch, and they immediately asked “is this your wife’s brother or your sister’s husband” (because if it’s your wife’s brother you have to do more to fix the situation since you have to live with your wife) and the guy was like “no it’s my wife’s sister’s husband”
“Oh, so this guy means NOTHING to you.”
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Have these guys not met the news media? “Skewing the perception of risk” is their lifeblood. It is literally the only reason local news exists.
I was going to ask this as well. There has to be something specific that has them off the rails completely.
Maybe a combined group of specifics. Or it’s just the average level of narcissism. But a lot of guesses I have heard (multi generational families, lots of people) don’t really explain it.
Nah likely his chadsvasc wouldn’t be high enough. Aspirin sure
I can’t tell if you are joking but ICU nurses here typically get 2 patients and complain if they are “tripled”. 5-7 ICU patients is completely insane from my limited understanding.
File the Aspirin under the “or something” that I mentioned.
Also, can’t they figure out his score without him going in?
5-7 icu is a lot worse but that’s not what that quote is talking about. California nurses limit their patients to four which is great in normal times but this is covid disaster time. It’s back to reality. Those numbers aren’t crazy for a normal day basically anywhere else.
Not directed at you but just humanity in general. Is six months too long for people to wait stuff out?
It is a different calculus when the end is unknown. But there is a significant probability it will be magnitudes safer in six months. People can’t do that?
Not going to lie in a general sense it is a total let down by humans.
Also makes me think the battle vs climate Chang’s is never going to happen. The likely required sacrifices required by humanity versus the clarity of resolution are much, much worse. So we are all just going to YOLO and end the existence of the human species.
C’est la vie!
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I’ve been taking low-dose aspirin per my primary care doc’s instructions.
I had to go to a wound care clinic connected to a hospital once a week for like six weeks several months back. I was pretty leery but at the very least I never once saw anyone there without a mask.
That being said I might be trying to find a cardiologist in say Northern California or something. But then you have to get there.
Given the current status of LA area hospitals I wouldn’t go near one unless I thought my death was iminent.
Of course it depends. Is cardiologist in a professional building in hospital grounds or directly connected to hospital. I literally had to enter through the hospital.