A happy Lenten Rose #BloomScrolling

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 Never gets old

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

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 Some scenery from my time in the woods, disconnected from society. 

Lake of the Clouds with Big Carp River and fall foliage. September, 2023.

#michigan

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 Got a present from the OH today. And a brain candle because 🎃

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 Is it wrong that my take on this is that any cure for these diseases is REALLY bad for pharma, who make billions of dollars off medications to treat these conditions. So it will be smothered with every resource they have to make it go away.

I have Crohn's, so it'd be cool to have a cure. But I just don't believe it'll ever come to market.

https://scitechdaily.com/new-vaccine-can-completely-reverse-autoimmune-diseases-like-multiple-sclerosis-type-1-diabetes-and-crohns-disease/ 

 I've been listening to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" on audio-book because I like to keep it light.

In all seriousness, 1932-33 Germany vibe and 2023 US vibe are a little, uh, maybe too similar. 

 Went to Party City yesterday and discovered the “Sexy Freddy Krueger” costume is a thing 

 YIL a 12 year old can have an ovarian cyst rupture. Wut? 

And if the cyst is on the right side, looks a bit like the ol' appendicitis. Which is what you expect your kid to have, not OVARY PROBLEMS. 

By the time she got to the CT scan (9:30pm) her pain had subsided so the findings made sense. Got home at 11, had potato chips and dip for dinner, and she'll go to school late so she can sleep in a bit. 

 I’m in the ER with my kid (she’s ok) and I went out to get a Pepsi and the waiting room is packed. It wasn’t bad when we came about 4 hours ago. I mentioned it to the MD who’s the director of the ER and he was like it’s staffing. But not what happened right after COVID, when nurses burned out or died and there was a mass exodus. He was like we got nursing corrected and stable and now they’re laying nurses off because “we’re not making money” per the administration. 

I mean even this surprises me on some level but wow. Yay, corporate healthcare! 

 @f8e22a3d

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