What the camera reported and the doctor, with assistance, addressed:
Advice to self: don’t ride in a car for 5 hours after colonoscopy — you might just spend some time in rest stops and on the side of the road vomiting!
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Links for the day
BONUS TRACK
I’m taking the next few days off for a meditation retreat. Talk to you next week.
BTW, here’s the list of books I promised you last week — see if you can figure out what they are:
Random image of the day — my wife when I first met her at summer camp:
My wife more recently, the glassblower:
Up next: my grandfather’s map!
Real women wear lab coats
Thanks to Lynn and hygienists at the office of Dr. Pugh, D.M.D.; Cindy, Dori, and Dr. Kostrzewa, M.D. (general otolaryngology) at North Alabama ENT Associates; Anita Giles, M.S., CCC-A, at Physicians Hearing Center.
My teeth and gums get a full bill of health.
HOWEVER, MY HEARING NEEDS ASSISTANCE!
On this new adventure, with the (re)discovery of a “cookie bite” inherited hearing loss (see chart below for example) and, after age 50, almost deaf in some frequencies (moderate hearing loss 50-60 dB in 500-4000 Hz range), I am investigating the possibility of amplifying the sounds around me with hearing aids.
I am familiar with tinnitus from personal experience, which tells me my brain is probably interpreting lack of audio input as random noise.
I am familiar with the brands Beltone, Miracle Ear, and Siemens from experience in my family with hearing aids.
Now, I get to choose not only the level of technology I want but also the exteriour colour choice.
I familiarize myself with new brands such as Phonak and Oticon.
I read material online from “neutral” sources such as Consumer Reports and Hearing Loss Association.
Now that I’m a member, I peruse the AARP website for advice on hearing aids.
All while the spectre of the medical procedure called colonoscopy raises its snakelike camera head over me.
Happiness is hearing a pin drop.
I don’t think colonoscopies cure situational depression/anxiety. What about hearing aids?
Regulatory news
The government announced new plans today to ban all home/office cleaning products — disinfectants, toilet bowl cleaners, insecticides, herbicides, dishwashing detergent, clothes washing soap/powder, floor waxes, fly/wasp traps, facial/skin cleansers, baby wipes and more on a list of over 1 million products — in an attempt to eliminate autism within one generation.
Businesses across a wide range of industries have threatened to sue the government.
People with no incidences of autism in their families have filed complaints, saying they have used cleaning products judiciously and will continue to do so.
Religious leaders have praised the government’s general intent and offered holy water as a safe alternative to concerned parents.
Survival of the fittest…
…or the most economically viable, whichever is most interesting.
A young man in his mid-30s told me that getting tattoos is addictive. Yes, it hurts but that’s part of the attraction.
A bus driver who takes a bus down a neighbourhood lane at 45-50 MPH in a posted 25 MPH zone is attracted to keeping a job and delivering students on time.
Both are risk takers.
Sitting here and typing sentences is risk-free. How the words and sentences are arranged, then posted onto the Internet for reading on the World Wide Web of interfaces has a higher risk.
Hypertext transfer protocol.
How many of us pay attention to our methods of communication?
Are they pain-free? Risk-free?
- Shouting across the street to a neighbour.
- Tapping a code on a downspout to a friend in a flat three floors up.
- Spray-painting a message on a freeway bridge.
- Sending a letter in the mail.
- Satellite signals.
- Words “carved” in the foam of a head of beer.
- Written in ink on the back of a bus seat.
- Missiles launched across geopolitical borders.
Should the risks you take cost you more to participate in a society with low risk takers?
Fast/bad bus drivers, for instance — how many buses have recording devices that monitor not only the behaviour of the students but also the driving habits of the person behind the wheel, matching GPS data to posted speed limits to the speed of the bus at the time, stopping distance/slowing speed to intersections, how many times the driver has to take eyes off the road, etc.?
Do people with tattoos have a higher rate of communicable disease infection than non-tattooed people? Higher rate of addiction to destructive behaviour?
Do bloggers take more or less risk than people who do not blog?
Is there a correlation between being a team player and survival of the fittest?
Can you be one and not the other, yet the most economically viable person on the planet?
Up next
Up next, entertainment news…
In a recent off-camera, post-interview, ad hoc hominem about his career, Will Smith admitted his dream would be to remake “Six Degrees of Separation” with his son and introduce the ultimate taboo, a “banned in 100 countries” topic into mainstream cinema.
Upon hinting of this, the ultraconservative watchdogs of mass media added “After Earth” and any other film starring Will Smith to its boycott list without caring what the films are about, even if they’ll be more cotton-candy sequels quickly forgotten by absent-minded filmgoers who can’t tell you the plot of the last movie they just watched five minutes ago, let alone who starred in them.
Up next, a review of the animated short film about a young child chained to a table making New Balance shoes just so a comedy troupe can make fun of the people who buy them without knowing they’re directly funding child enslavement, entitled, “Atlas shrugs at his weight on the New Balance scales.”
Up next, down the elevator to the NeXT computer museum…where a computerised labyrinth traps the human population and manipulates their lives for our entertainment news “up next” segments.
Paying for your overweight, suicidal, smoking, drinking, drug-abusing neighbour’s insurance policy?
Show: Me, the Money
Life seen from the point of view of the masses, which are obsessed with CEO pay.
Life seen from the point of view of the masses, which are obsessed with how real life works.
If you don’t know that money makes the world go around, get out of the math and sciences (and, rich gods forbid, the liberal arts) and get a real job.
Is your insurance provider driving your healthcare professionals out of business?
In Tennessee, a microcosm of the bigger national healthcare cost readjustment debate is taking place, as depicted here:
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