Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-02 Thread Frank Wimberly
I got the flu about 10 days ago. I contacted my PCP by email and he did the diagnosis based on a list of symptoms I told him about. I complained that I had no appetite. He said, "You don't need to eat, you need to drink." Even after all this time I still don't feel 100 percent. I lost 6 or 7

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-02 Thread Roger Critchlow
There was a hacker news item this morning about maintaining hydration and chronic illness: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(22)00586-2/fulltext those who exceeded 142 mmol/l of serum sodium in middle age got sicker more often later in life. It's the first

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-02 Thread glen
I think a mobility checkup would be more useful than blood tests. See if you can stand on one foot for 10 seconds. Spin you around and measure eye wobble. Measure joint angles in a sit-to-stand test. Etc. Strength and reflex tests would also be useful. I *suppose* cognitive testing trends

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-02 Thread Marcus Daniels
The last time I went in for a wellness check, the doctor seemed annoyed that I was there. I left, humiliated. But it has been a while, and I am wondering what it would take to actually learn something from a checkup. Is there some standard package of broad blood tests and/or MRIs that would

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-02 Thread glen
Ha! Yes, anime is a good thing. But the difference between drawing as a hobby and feeling the need (or parents feeling the need) to "sell" the drawings is something else. (By "sell", I don't mean for money.) Re: health in context - Yes, and I feel a bit bad ranting about this young successful

[FRIAM] keep getting mice.

2023-01-02 Thread Gillian Densmore
Another surge of mice Q: For all of Dismember i've had nothing but an ongoing trickle of mice. what the is going on here? Is anyone else having mice issues as well? -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St.

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-02 Thread Gillian Densmore
Hey! anime is a good thing. Or at least that's what I tell myself with guilty pleasure anime like HighSchool DXD. :P now back to you glen and your rant. So what you're saying is: what the actual [redacted]? It's down to lipservices to fix the issue of people going postal or snapping in some other

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-02 Thread glen
I've mostly been neutral about "the holidays". But as I age and my productivity tanks, I look upon all the little "reports" we get from friends and family with increasing sadness. It used to simply feel odd that "The So-and-so Family" year end report talked about how little Bobby has taken his