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Glad, sorry to hear about your assistant. It's really a testament to some people that they can live with something like that and just... keep living life day after day, with humor intact. When you said "fun," I thought about another lady I knew in my childhood who had scleroderma, my childhood bf's mom, who babysat for me often and drove me to and from school for awhile. She was disfigured, including her face, but had a great sense of humor about it. E.g., when she coached our elementary cheer squad, she would do the routines with us and joke and say, "You guys clap your hands flat, not like me." Her hands were rounded and stiff from the disease. She lived to about mid 60s, too. As you may know, autoimmune conditions are a leading cause of death for women under 60.

I've read some things about the particularly bad covid illness that happens in people with autoimmune diseases, and also how covid causes autoimmune conditions in people who weren't dx'd autoimmune before covid. Any increase in pro-inflammatory cytokines when there is already a long-term heightened immune response seems really detrimental. Rest easy, fun assistant. Thanks for remembering her here.
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glad: You're very welcome.💟
I am sorry to hear about your assistant.
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Becky: Prayers that all goes well for your upcoming move.💛
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Becky, I'm so glad surgeries are over and done with. Now to prove the surgeon wrong, I think!

I'm glad you're going to be near your son, although I know you'll miss Maine.

You postive attitude is an inspiration to me.
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glad - So sad about your former assistant. She did very well living as long as she did and being fun to be around.

ali -what a great example that gal was.
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Happy Chinese New Year, all, and thanks for mentioning it, Bundle. I like reading about the CNY.

Geaton, it's a shame about the guy from your church.

Just an aside: My friend's mom with scleroderma died when I was 3 years out of high school -- 1996. It was bugging me because I remember her saying that she had already lived past her expectancy, and this was when I was a kid. She was 43 when she passed. She was obviously disfigured when she was 30-35yo, when I was closest with her. She had to drive with gloves on her round hands because they couldn't grab the steering wheel. She was an important person and figure in my young life. Golden, agree she was a good example of not letting disability or life expectancy get you down.

Just procrastinating here with this post and share. AC and memories of my cheer coach are much more fun right now than doing this durn school assignment. x
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hugs, alibobali :).
i like being called "bundle" :).
or "bundle of joy" :).
it makes me smile every time.

i'm getting so used to it (i only use this name, here on the website) --- that now several times, while writing to my family/friends, i almost signed off, bundle of joy :). haha.

wishing us all a great day today!! :)
over here snow everywhere. i'll now roll down the hill into town.
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Barb, I'd love to prove the surgeon wrong. We'll see how it goes. I have a bunch to learn in rehab. how to move from bed to chair, etc. This is the one time being on dialysis is lucky. One rarely has to pee. I talked to NH home I'm going to in Illinois about my dialysis. My tech has to go for some training at the NH even though she will be working for me and one other client.
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i'm thinking about our non-helping siblings...

i wonder...
mayyybe some of them - are - actually waiting for the elderly parents to die.

(i'm talking about elderly parents who're doing ok. i'm not talking about elderly parents who're in pain, towards the end, and for compassionate reasons you might think maybe they prefer to die).

i say this, because it's very weird how some of these bad siblings don't say, "thanks helping-sibling!! thank goodness you saved the situation! another emergency, you saved their life! i'm so relieved they're alive!!"

(please understand, a non-helping sibling might have hundreds of reasons why they don't show appreciation --- or why they don't express enthusiasm when their parents' lives are saved).

i'm saying that - some non-helping siblings - might be waiting for the elderly parents to die. in other words, no wonder they don't show appreciation or enthusiasm.
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BOJ, I had two brothers, a niece and a nephew who did nothing to help. When my dad was critically ill for a number of months, they would even drive my mom after dark. And the hospital he was in part of the time was in a high crime area. I talked to my dad's doctor and had him admit my dad to a hospital in a better area. And they nothing but cause trouble when my mother was older.
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Becky, glad to know that you're looking at this as a learning experience. My DH is ispired by your lack of self pity. I thank you for that.
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Becky: I know that you'll miss your New England. I do as well. But you have a great, super attitude and I admire it. Hugs and love sent.💚
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Somewhere Barb posted about the strange and over the top threads created lately. There have been plenty. Another thing I have noticed is some people creating threads are obviously looking and hoping to find different responses than they are receiving (their desired answers). Some will even try to challenge to a point, then POOF they are gone.
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I got my pneumonia shot today, and that sucker HURT !! I have all the others so I think I am done for a few years!
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Pam Z, Must be shot day. I got the shingles vaccine and my flu shot today.
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Becky, when I got my shingles shot it laid me out for a day. Hopefully it won't affect how you feel tomorrow...!
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Becky: Just checking in on you tonight. How are you doing? Praying for you.
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I'm tired of jackasses pointing to the lack of pandemic restrictions throughout much of the USA as being desirable.
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cw ...and then there is Saskatchewan with lowered restrictions and bursting at the seams hospitals. Hard to understand.
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I have a sore arm from my shots but feel fine. I'll be happy to get out of the hospital and moved.
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dear becky :),

sending lots of warm encouraging hugs to you!!
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Saskatchewan has an 81% vaccination rate. So exactly why is the hospital there bursting at the seems with such a large percentage of the population being fully vaccinated? Perhaps the vaccines are not as effective as the claim thus the need for continuous boosters. Or the adverse events from vaccinations are sky rocketing. Or maybe people are so scared of covid that they are overwhelming hospitals for any symptoms they fear means they have covid.
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Even with increased capacity Sask has less than 150 ICU beds for the whole province and Canadian hospitals tend to run pretty lean even in normal times so it doesn't take much of a surge to overwhelm the system. Plus I expect that there are pockets with very low vaccination uptake.
But somehow I doubt that is what you really wanted to know sp19690.
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So even though you know that they have an 81% vaccination rate you still believe vaccines keep people out of the hospital. Keep on believing that.
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You have made your opinion abundantly clear sp19690, that and a toonie will buy you a cup of coffee. There is only person arguing here, all I said was that I was sick and tired of hearing the minority shouting down the majority.
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sp - apparently there are equal numbers of vaccinated and unvaccinated people in hospital in Saskatchewan.

Doing the math, with about 80% vaccinated, the rate of hospitalization of the vaccinated is much lower than of the rate of hospitalization of the 20% unvaccinated.

Your chances of being hospitalized are much lower if you are vaccinated.
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cw, is the press reporting that the surge in hospital admittances is due to covid-primary patients? Because if they're not saying this is the case, then it could be from non-covid sick people who are delaying going in because they fear getting covid while there � and then some are getting covid (Omicron) secondarily after being admitted into the hospital. When it comes to statistics, a lot of clarification has to happen. FYI my son who works in the Mayo lab says Omicron is blowing through the staff there now (no deaths, no hospitalizations) but he also said he's heard there may be another variant that is 50x more contagious than Omicron. And then there's this: "Johns Hopkins University study finds lockdowns only reduced COVID deaths by 0.2%" (source: abc news) The people who are shouting to "follow the science!" should stop suppressing the science and scientists who don't align with their political party's unscientific narrative.
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.... what part of sick and tired of the loud minority turning every comment into a debate are you not hearing? I'm also sick and tired of walking on eggshells afraid to raise my own voice, the more we've allowed our voices to be silenced by the bully mob the more emboldened they become...
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Geaton they will continue to keep pushing variants to keep the booster money train going. And if there is a more dangerous strain coming out it may very well affect the vaccinated more since each vaccine weakens the immune system because of the spike protein response.

As to CWillie getting tired if the minority shouting down the majority that made me LOL since the entire world has been shouting down reasonable holes in the entire covid, mask wearing and vaccine hysteria that us happening. One such instance is the fact that the CDC is now saying cloth masks do not offer protection from covid and tge reason the govt started giving free k95 masks. What have people been doing for 2 tears wearing those cloth masks? Why with the number of vaccinations increasing are hospitals still overwhelmed? Either the media is lying by omission of the truth - which is a strong possibility since they received govt money in 2021 or something else is going on.

When you have a country like canada that is 80% fully vaccinated and cases and hospitalzations keep going up a reasonable person might want to stop and question the official narrative. Yet they seem to be doubling down on the vaccination frenzy and fear. The real question is what is in those vaccines that they want to inject even 6 month old babies with them now.
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No one is bullying anyone. If that were the case i could argue I feel bullied every time someone tells me this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated - which it's not. Or every time someone tells me that the vaccine will prevent hospitalization - which it doesn't.

I feel bullied when my job tells me if i dont get vaccinated by X date that i will be fired.

I feel bullied when I can't go into a restaurant or other place of business without showing my vaccination papers as is the case in some states and countries. I feel bullied when I question the official narrative and my posts are deleted or censored.

I feel bullied when the media keeps blaming and demonizing the unvaccinated as the reason this pandemic is still around. When the truth is that this virus spreads just as freely and easily among the vaccinated.

Should I go on?
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