Room For All

[Northwind]

Well I've started the day on the run it seems. I lost more hair when I washed it. I'm debating taking my husband's beard trimmer to it. Alas. It's different a second time.

I heard from the program that will pay for the drug that I'll be getting to boost my white blood cells, specifically, my neutrophils. The woman was very helpful. Now we wait to see when I start it. I expect to hear from the clinic since I will have to inject it into myself. *gulp.

I was going to go to a knitting group this morning. I think my book needs to be finished. It's very good.

 

[Mendalla]

Hank Green of SciShow and various other YouTube channels (he used to be CEO of the company that produces them but stepped aside when his cancer treatment took priority) actually got a really nice head of hair when his grew back. Even did a SciShow segment on why the new hair was so different from the old hair. He was being treated for Hodgkins lymphoma.

I expect to hear from the clinic since I will have to inject it into myself. *gulp.

I have given intramuscular injections before (long story). Still, I am rather glad my diabetes has not, so far, required anything injectable. Having to jab myself for testing is bad enough given my longstanding issues with blood and pointy objects.

Hope this helps with the neurtophils. Wish I could magic a few your way but good vibes will have to do.

 

[Delightful Life]

Hank Green has come such a long way
And his bro and him are such adorable goofs :3

 

[KayTheCurler]

Oh and I am reminded of something a Brit expat told me aboot Britain to give an indication of what life is like there; compared to USA, most of the people in Britain are quite poor and thus have trouble dealing with shocks to resource availablity or use.

Its an interesting little country. Hope I can see it again someday.

Until the youngest generations, Brits seem to have been more capable of dealing with lack of resources. Those in North America were close to devastated by a wee bit of rationing. The Brits found ways to cope and the next few generations learned many skills around substituting, making do and mending.

 

[Delightful Life]

Until the youngest generations, Brits seem to have been more capable of dealing with lack of resources. Those in North America were close to devastated by a wee bit of rationing. The Brits found ways to cope and the next few generations learned many skills around substituting, making do and mending.

This guy also said that the various resources that were available for them are no longer available or rather are now illegal or more problematic

 

[KayTheCurler]

Well I've started the day on the run it seems. I lost more hair when I washed it. I'm debating taking my husband's beard trimmer to it. Alas. It's different a second time.

I heard from the program that will pay for the drug that I'll be getting to boost my white blood cells, specifically, my neutrophils. The woman was very helpful. Now we wait to see when I start it. I expect to hear from the clinic since I will have to inject it into myself. *gulp.

I was going to go to a knitting group this morning. I think my book needs to be finished. It's very good.

Sounds like a morning to do whatever you want to do. Even nothing at all if that appeals.

Feeling some trepidation about injecting your own meds sounds perfectly understandable to me. Also negative emotions about hair loss.

Cyberhugs.

 

[Carolla]

I will have to inject it into myself. *gulp.

How would Mr. Northwind feel about helping? If not, well, you got this girl!! Just one more step along the way.

 

[Northwind]

How would Mr. Northwind feel about helping? If not, well, you got this girl!! Just one more step along the way.

He asked if he needed to be there for the session with the nurse. I told him my friend's husband injected her drug and that it might be helpful for him to he there. He accepted that. He seems okay with it.

 

[Nancy]

Yay Mr. Northwind.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Until the youngest generations, Brits seem to have been more capable of dealing with lack of resources.

Agreed. I have family in England, whom I actively see regularly and talk to frequently. We do not come from a rich family. We are plumbers, small business owners (and I mean small, like 5 employees), emergency room nurses, occupational therapists, lighting guys. There's a new generation of toddlers upon us over there, and we'll see how they do, but my cousins and their children, seem to be resourceful people.

A bunch of it is a difference in attitude. Here, we think nothing of demolishing a perfectly good bungalow and putting a gross McMansion on the same lot. Over there, my cousin bought a 19th century home, which in the beginning was actually a tennis club, and gutted it, but rebuilt it from there without changing the exterior.

 

[KayTheCurler]

Yay Mr. Northwind.

Loving partners do so much for us! Good for Mr. Northwind.

 

[KayTheCurler]

Agreed. I have family in England, whom I actively see regularly and talk to frequently. We do not come from a rich family. We are plumbers, small business owners (and I mean small, like 5 employees), emergency room nurses, occupational therapists, lighting guys. There's a new generation of toddlers upon us over there, and we'll see how they do, but my cousins and their children, seem to be resourceful people.

A bunch of it is a difference in attitude. Here, we think nothing of demolishing a perfectly good bungalow and putting a gross McMansion on the same lot. Over there, my cousin bought a 19th century home, which in the beginning was actually a tennis club, and gutted it, but rebuilt it from there without changing the exterior.

My late sister and a couple of her kids live in Victorian row houses. No front yards, added on bathrooms at the back. Nothing fancy, but they cope.

 

[BetteTheRed]

My late sister and a couple of her kids live in Victorian row houses. No front yards, added on bathrooms at the back. Nothing fancy, but they cope.

My last uncle, who died last year well in his 90s, lived in the Liverpool council house into which he was born his entire life. No real front yard, a fairly long and narrow back yard, original outside toilet was attached to the house by a breezeway in the 50s, I think. Very steep set of stairs to upstairs rooms. Originally "pebble dashed" finish, fake-ish brick replaced it in the 90s.

They had food, family, somewhere warmish and cozy to sleep. That family council house held a hundred years of solid people, loved, fed and raised, not always to the same standards we expect today. My mother never forgot being banished from the dinner table by her father because she had (*GASP* red) nail varnish on...

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

This guy also said that the various resources that were available for them are no longer available or rather are now illegal or more problematic

Scarcity of illegal things sounds to me like a good thing.

 

[Redbaron]

Good morning! Inequity and revolution, cancer treatments, hair and injections, and the people who would administer the injections, all the other topics that came up and will come up, we discuss around the Coffee Cart, over tea, coffee and doughnuts. The coffee is, as ever, fresh brewed; tea water boiling; doughnuts are warm from the bakery. Come on when you can, join the conversations, indulge in a mug or cup, and a doughnut! All is ready, everybody is welcome!

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]

 

[paradox3]

Been wondering if those injections are painful @Northwind

Insulin injections are completely pain-free and don't bother me one bit. Flu shots and the like I find unpleasant but not horrible.

 

[Luce NDs]

Good morning! Inequity and revolution, cancer treatments, hair and injections, and the people who would administer the injections, all the other topics that came up and will come up, we discuss around the Coffee Cart, over tea, coffee and doughnuts. The coffee is, as ever, fresh brewed; tea water boiling; doughnuts are warm from the bakery. Come on when you can, join the conversations, indulge in a mug or cup, and a doughnut! All is ready, everybody is welcome!

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]

Expect gross elimination of a lot into the unseen ... avoided as dark? Forms the base of the poorly understood as few get right into it as rendered to left-Ova ...

 

[Jaebius]

Good morning! Inequity and revolution, cancer treatments, hair and injections, and the people who would administer the injections, all the other topics that came up and will come up, we discuss around the Coffee Cart, over tea, coffee and doughnuts. The coffee is, as ever, fresh brewed; tea water boiling; doughnuts are warm from the bakery. Come on when you can, join the conversations, indulge in a mug or cup, and a doughnut! All is ready, everybody is welcome!

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]

Will join in the fun

 

[Luce NDs]

And cause dissonance without even being aware of it ... what an OHM Eire ... denser than old gasses ... expressions?

A local Vet say anal glands are best treated ... therein the squeeze ... like a zit ... Zeta? E Z now ... ETa 'l bust ... the impression ... Zane? Likely myth ...

 

[Mendalla]

Flu shots and the like I find unpleasant but not horrible.

Depends who is giving, I find. I have had shots where I can't even feel it and shots where my arm hurt for days after. That's for both flu and COVID. There's two pharmacists at my pharmacy who do shots and one is definitely better than the other.