Small Talk: 7th Floor Nurses Station

[dubbel zout]

43 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

Good luck with the preventative treatments @dubbel zout. That's a nasty infection.

17 hours ago, tessaray said:

Thanks. I feel lucky my MRSA was limited to my scalp and didn't cause more problems. This was during the worst of the lockdown, so hospitalization would have been tricky, to put it mildly. Dodged that bullet, thank goodness.

[WendyCR72]

@tessaray, sending good vibes for you and your husband!

And @dubbel zout, I'm glad your scalp is better. But continuing the preventative meds seems like a smart move.

[GHScorpiosRule]

In celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I gots me a different type of shirt:

Y’all may remember, during my surgeries and chemo, I’d gotten some that stated: Yes, they’re fake-My real ones tried to kill me.

I like this one too!

[PatsyandEddie]

Happy Easter to those who celebrate 🐰🐣 and a lovely weekend to those who don’t 🥰

[PatsyandEddie]

Oh no!!!!😢

Tina Turner: Music legend dies at 83 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/65669653

[JMO]

Does anyone else have this problem?  I switched from cable to YouTubeTV, which is my new way to watch GH.  Every other program seems to be fine, no discernible difference.  But for GH, I find that the background music completely overwhelms the voices, to the point where I feel a need to put it on mute and simply read the captions.  Any thoughts?

[ciarra]

I screwed up recording a day last week, and had to watch on Youtube.  It was awful.  Video lagging with what the characters are saying, a sudden closeup of a background wall, or someone's ear.  I don't know how to fix it, I just agree it was crap. 

[Grinaldi]

Pretty sure those are basically bootlegs. The sudden close ups are to trick the copyright police bots. Free and I can fast forward stupid Micharl unlike on On Demand. But it's a really unpleasant way to watch.

[ciarra]

When my recording doesn't work, or if it rains in Detroit and they take up an hour with weather, I have watched CityTV.  It's also a pain because the Amazon Web Services commercial gets stuck, and they run it through every commercial break. 

[Tenshinhan]

Just in case there's any confusion, YouTube TV and YouTube are two different things.  One is a subscription service for live television, and the other is for uploaded video sharing by users.

18 hours ago, JMO said:

Does anyone else have this problem?  I switched from cable to YouTubeTV, which is my new way to watch GH.  Every other program seems to be fine, no discernible difference.  But for GH, I find that the background music completely overwhelms the voices, to the point where I feel a need to put it on mute and simply read the captions.  Any thoughts?

You may have to switch the audio settings on your television or on your streaming device.  Maybe something like switching from Dolby Surround to PCM, or vice versa.  Just a possibility. 

[statsgirl]

This is an interesting thread from a striking writer explaining how the unions and guilds work

 

[GHScorpiosRule]

Why yes, I did order the glasses and iphone filter a month in advance! And it was SOOOO KEWL! Wish I had gotten a better photo lens so I could capture the 88% totality, leaving the clear delineation of the crescent!. But, Solar Flare!

 

[ciarra]

Apparently Covid is still a thing.  And it sucks.  Day 6.

[JMO]

Yes, it is, and with less information being collected about it, there's less to report out, making it harder to assess current risk.  Unless you've got a state or local health department providing information, there's only the CDC, which data is pretty broad. 

Here's the page.  https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home  You can use the map feature to try to narrow things down a bit.  I find ED visits, test positivity (this is only for people sick enough to have gotten formally tested in a medical setting) and wastewater positivity to be the most helpful.  

So sorry it got you, @ciarra.  Hope you turn the corner soon!

[GHScorpiosRule]

I shared this with most of you who were here and you were there to give moral support and comfort because I was alone, with my parents living abroad:

So...

Today marks 10 YEARS when I got my Breast Cancer diagnosis. I remember not reacting at ALL to the news, when my surgeon told me the results of the biopsy (which, by the way, I should have been given general anesthesia-"little discomfort" my ASS!), of the breast mass was cancerous. I thought: shouldn't I cry? or tear up? Or feel shock? I had a feeling it was malignant. I had already decided, even if it had been benign (GOD, what a word), I was going to have it cut out.

I remember thinking, just cut the boob, and I'll walk around with one, with no PROBLEM. That's how ignorant I was. I didn't know reconstructive surgery was covered by insurance. And I told her when was the earliest we could schedule the surgery? We then talked about implants vs. using my own body tissue. I opted for the former, thinking it would be less invasive, but most of y'all will remember I ended up having the expander taken out, because I kept developing pockets of liquid-meaning my body did NOT like having foreign objects in it. And that was just Saline to keep the shape of the breast during chemo. The plastic surgeon I went to was very nice and he and my breast surgeon work together. When they took my blood pressure, it was super high--so I guess while emotionally I didn't/couldn't react to the diagnosis, my body sure did!

Then I called my Mom (both parents live in India) to let her know and that I had scheduled the surgery for the following week.  Before I went to the plastic surgeon, who saw me right after.

They arrived in three days. And when I picked them up, that's when I broke down-in my father's arms.

So, 10 years. I'm here and I am relatively healthy (That stoopid Diabetes and all that preventing me from saying "TOTALLY" Healthy) and glad to still be here.

[dubbel zout]

So glad to hear things are going well for you, @GHScorpiosRule!