...dang good thing there's a treatment for this! Bummer that it can take a year or two to be rid of it, but so good that it doesn't impinge on life expectancy. I read it can be something one can get after cancer treatment, but has that been too long ago for that to be a factor?
Thanks for touching up my yesterday's post, listener. I am sure my cancer treatment and recovery were too long ago to be significant--- no drugs left in my system for the prednisone to interact with. And the effect of the prednisone was DRAMATIC. Not back to normal but getting back to it. Such pain or discomfort as remains seems to be normal for my degree of inactivity. I can get around (with cane or walker for safety's sake), can get up and down on things of variable heights with ease. I am not significant difficulty typing. That prednisone is the bitterest medicine I have ever taken, which fits the old idea that the worst tasting medicines are the most effective. I will take today's dose after breakfast (now in progress) with a spoonful of sugar followed by a glass of water. ------Alan
🎵"Just a spoonful of sugar and some med'cine go down..." 🎶
I hear you! The anti-viral medicine I have to take twice a day (for the rest of my life) is a maintenance dose of what is typically given for an active case of shingles. Since most people only ever take if for a week or so, they've never bothered to add a coating to the pills. So I get to swallow two bitter pills a day.
I have a hard time swallowing pills anyway, and find they're easiest to swallow with a spoonful of yogurt. The brain accepts it differently when it thinks you're swallowing food rather than liquid.
Are they capsules or tablets? My medicine is in tablet form, so virtually impossible to sugar coat myself. This morning's dose, with about a half spoonful of sugar and followed quickly with a drink of water worked for me. Once. ----Alan
"Vermont Governor Phil Scott said in a statement Tuesday that if there’s evidence Mahdawi is a security threat, the federal government should make that information known. Otherwise, he should be released. “What cannot be justified, is how this action was undertaken. Law enforcement officers in this country should not operate in the shadows or hide behind masks. The power of the executive branch of the federal government is immense, but it is not infinite, and it is not absolute,” Scott said."
I guess now we will have an opportunity to see how good Harvard's law school is. I remember recently Harvard being described as a hedge fund with a nice school attached. Stanford has essentially used tuition as a slush fund for a long time--- they could cancel it altogether. -----Alan
Making a selfish comment, today I realized something that was probably a prodromal symptom. It used to be that I could walk faster than my better half (due to longer legs); I had to make a slight effort to not walk away from her. For some time now she has been walking faster and faster relative to me. Then I walked after her shorter and shorter distances, stopping when it hurt. When it got to the point (not long ago) where I could only walk about ten feet without it hurting, I decided to call it a bad deal and quit. I attributed it to sloth. Now I get to call it a fancy new name almost no one has heard of. ------Alan
TPM quote of the day: [Click] “Canadians—40 million Canadians—are at a fever pitch right now. They’re willing to sacrifice. They’re patriotic, like patriotism I’ve never seen. We always say how Canadians are so polite. Well, they’re at a fever pitch right now and willing to do anything and sacrifice anything to protect their sovereignty.”
— Ontario Premier Doug Ford, in a conversation with David Frum.
Via Politicalwire.com [Click] “Chinese refiners are importing record amounts of Canadian crude after slashing purchases of US oil by roughly 90% amid escalating trade tensions,” Bloomberg reports. I wonder how much longer before China starts selling off some of its US Treasury Bonds. I thought I remembered hearing months ago that they had sold a small portion. Maybe they are waiting for a very effective time. ----Alan
Alan, I saw your post on the last thread and left a message there. But to continue...
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...dang good thing there's a treatment for this! Bummer that it can take a year or two to be rid of it, but so good that it doesn't impinge on life expectancy. I read it can be something one can get after cancer treatment, but has that been too long ago for that to be a factor?
Thanks for touching up my yesterday's post, listener. I am sure my cancer treatment and recovery were too long ago to be significant--- no drugs left in my system for the prednisone to interact with. And the effect of the prednisone was DRAMATIC. Not back to normal but getting back to it. Such pain or discomfort as remains seems to be normal for my degree of inactivity. I can get around (with cane or walker for safety's sake), can get up and down on things of variable heights with ease. I am not significant difficulty typing. That prednisone is the bitterest medicine I have ever taken, which fits the old idea that the worst tasting medicines are the most effective. I will take today's dose after breakfast (now in progress) with a spoonful of sugar followed by a glass of water.
Delete------Alan
"I am not HAVING significant difficulty typing."
Delete🎵"Just a spoonful of sugar and some med'cine go down..." 🎶
DeleteI hear you! The anti-viral medicine I have to take twice a day (for the rest of my life) is a maintenance dose of what is typically given for an active case of shingles. Since most people only ever take if for a week or so, they've never bothered to add a coating to the pills. So I get to swallow two bitter pills a day.
I have a hard time swallowing pills anyway, and find they're easiest to swallow with a spoonful of yogurt.
DeleteThe brain accepts it differently when it thinks you're swallowing food rather than liquid.
Are they capsules or tablets? My medicine is in tablet form, so virtually impossible to sugar coat myself. This morning's dose, with about a half spoonful of sugar and followed quickly with a drink of water worked for me. Once.
Delete----Alan
Could the U.S. Marshals arrest Trump officials for disobeying court orders? - Tuesday Update at end
ReplyDeleteTechnically, yes. This may be our only recourse short of a military coup. Article is from Daily Kos in March.
Republican Vt. governor says detained student activist should be granted due process
ReplyDelete"Vermont Governor Phil Scott said in a statement Tuesday that if there’s evidence Mahdawi is a security threat, the federal government should make that information known. Otherwise, he should be released. “What cannot be justified, is how this action was undertaken. Law enforcement officers in this country should not operate in the shadows or hide behind masks. The power of the executive branch of the federal government is immense, but it is not infinite, and it is not absolute,” Scott said."
DeleteNPR: Protesters were stun-gunned and arrested at Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall
ReplyDeleteDog finds and rescues toddler who spent night lost and alone in Arizona desert
ReplyDeleteGood dog! 🐶
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
ReplyDeleteUS IRS planning to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status
ReplyDeleteHarvard researchers fear canceling studies, laying off workers and euthanizing research animals under funding freeze
ReplyDeleteI guess now we will have an opportunity to see how good Harvard's law school is. I remember recently Harvard being described as a hedge fund with a nice school attached. Stanford has essentially used tuition as a slush fund for a long time--- they could cancel it altogether.
Delete-----Alan
Judge blocks Trump EPA from freezing clean energy funds
ReplyDeleteJudge Tanya Chutkan rejected the administration’s claim that organizations receiving clean energy funds engaged in malfeasance
Making a selfish comment, today I realized something that was probably a prodromal symptom. It used to be that I could walk faster than my better half (due to longer legs); I had to make a slight effort to not walk away from her. For some time now she has been walking faster and faster relative to me. Then I walked after her shorter and shorter distances, stopping when it hurt. When it got to the point (not long ago) where I could only walk about ten feet without it hurting, I decided to call it a bad deal and quit. I attributed it to sloth. Now I get to call it a fancy new name almost no one has heard of.
ReplyDelete------Alan
So, his has been coming on slowly for a long time?
DeleteSeems like it. I attributed the now recognizable prodromal symptoms to sloth mostly.
Delete----Alan
TPM quote of the day: [Click]
ReplyDelete“Canadians—40 million Canadians—are at a fever pitch right now. They’re willing to sacrifice. They’re patriotic, like patriotism I’ve never seen. We always say how Canadians are so polite. Well, they’re at a fever pitch right now and willing to do anything and sacrifice anything to protect their sovereignty.”
— Ontario Premier Doug Ford, in a conversation with David Frum.
---Alan
Via Politicalwire.com [Click]
ReplyDelete“Chinese refiners are importing record amounts of Canadian crude after slashing purchases of US oil by roughly 90% amid escalating trade tensions,” Bloomberg reports. I wonder how much longer before China starts selling off some of its US Treasury Bonds. I thought I remembered hearing months ago that they had sold a small portion. Maybe they are waiting for a very effective time.
----Alan
DHS threatens to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to host international students unless it turns over disciplinary records
ReplyDeleteWhaaaaatt?!!
Well, I hope the gadzillion lawyers Harvard has created can band together and stop this thuggery.
BBC: Why China curbing rare earth exports is a blow to the US
ReplyDelete-----Alan