Minor victory thread

Squidleybits

Squidleybits

Eriol said:
Go to 2:13 in this one. Other stuff before that isn't related:


And just watch this whole one:


Salt is basically only bad for you if you are consuming MASSIVE amounts, or you're already sensitive to it. Consuming too LITTLE is even worse than consuming too much, regardless of if you already were sensitive.

So don't worry about consuming some salt. Your doctor appears to be well-informed (on that at least).
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I watched both. It's too bad that the study he quoted didn't include anyone with hypotension, but without that group there, I guess I can include myself in the normal group as I certainly don't belong to the high pressure group. I guess that I don't have to feel bad when I drive through for some of those bad, bad McDonald's fries that I love.

My doctor has recommended that I eat more salt on many occasions including when my pressure was dropping 20 points on standing and when I've mentioned that it's been super low at a treatment. More investigation was done to find out why it was dropping 20 points on standing, he suggested the salt as something that might help while I waited.

What I find odd is that I have a friend with high blood pressure and her doctors freak out over it and she is medicated for it and monitored constantly for it. Isn't low pressure dangerous as well? Not that I want any more medical things on my schedule.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Yes, low pressure is also a concern, mainly because your brain likes a good, steady supply of blood, but your brain is all the way up at the top of your body, and reliably getting blood all the way up there requires a certain minimum amount of pressure.

When you stand, you suddenly change the way blood is distributed in your body, and if you don’t have enough pressure to compensate and quickly refill your brain, you may experience syncope, much like a fighter pilot getting G-LoC from pulling an extreme-G maneuver.

—Patrick
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

Many little victories, mostly filtered out of the messes.

I haven't had any non-fleeting suicidal ideation since early April, and haven't drunk alone since the February breakdown. Things are better.

I have Friday through Monday off work, a Momocon membership, and crash space in the hotel room of a friends group that's been emotionally supportive beyond all my expectations.

Planning to go caving/trailing in Kentucky with a friend for a weekend mid-June, if I can afford my share of the cost. I haven't really been in contact with nature for too long.

While I still don't feel at liberty to discuss the situation that's been eating me this past half year, as of 5am this morning it's gotten better and worse. The direct stressors are gone from my physical life, but so is one of my cats (she's alive and well) and most of my emergency savings. Balances out to a minor victory in my head, anyhow.
 
Gared

Gared

PatrThom said:
Yes, low pressure is also a concern, mainly because your brain likes a good, steady supply of blood, but your brain is all the way up at the top of your body, and reliably getting blood all the way up there requires a certain minimum amount of pressure.

When you stand, you suddenly change the way blood is distributed in your body, and if you don’t have enough pressure to compensate and quickly refill your brain, you may experience syncope, much like a fighter pilot getting G-LoC from pulling an extreme-G maneuver.

—Patrick
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One way to fight against the effect when standing, if you've been sitting for quite a while, is to flex your butt muscles (the glutes, not the sphincter) really hard a couple times before you stand up. This can also work if you start feeling lightheaded while sitting or (especially for us panic attack sufferers) in the car.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Gared said:
One way to fight against the effect when standing, if you've been sitting for quite a while, is to flex your butt muscles (the glutes, not the sphincter) really hard a couple times before you stand up. This can also work if you start feeling lightheaded while sitting or (especially for us panic attack sufferers) in the car.
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And this is exactly what they tell fighter pilots to do, to bear down when doing maneuvers in an attempt to constrict enough to maintain pressure.

HUCKKKK!

—Patrick
 
Dirona

Dirona

The knitted blanket I started, like, 3 years ago to be a gift to Eriol 2 years ago is finally finished. I did in fact originally finish knitting it on time, but he requested a length extension, which I completed the other day and added on today. Phew!
 
Eriol

Eriol

Dirona said:
The knitted blanket I started, like, 3 years ago to be a gift to Eriol 2 years ago is finally finished. I did in fact originally finish knitting it on time, but he requested a length extension, which I completed the other day and added on today. Phew!
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Pics?
 
Eriol

Eriol

HCGLNS said:
So you are saying we could drop off that cat and they would not notice?
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We only have two, a white and a black. But you have TWO black cats. I'll bet we could drop Pandora off and given that you only see 2 of them at a time, you may not notice it's her until you see all 3 black cats in the same room at the same time.

Or the first time you try and pick her up and it "doesn't go well" for you. ;)
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Well now that I found out I'm entitled to faster Internet and did something about it:
Before: 60/6 (57.3/5.6 actual)
After: 100/10 (97.5/10.5 actual)
Eh, it's not an AMAZING change (we usually don't have more than 2 streams running, both SD), but I suppose it'll be nice for the folks who connect to my Minecraft server from the WAN.

--Patrick
 
IronBrig4

IronBrig4

I had an interview for an faculty position on Wednesday. They must have been impressed because they want me to deliver a sample lecture next Friday. Things are looking up.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the academic job market, it is pure SHIT right now. The typical full-time faculty position has several hundred applicants. Some of those applicants are just unqualified, but most are well suited to the job. The first round of interviews are usually with the top ten applicants. If there's a second round, it's with the top three or five. So I feel pleased to have just gotten this far.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

6:30 in the morning, I went to pour my first diet coke of the morning, and by reflex action I poured the whiskey first by accident. That'll get you going...
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

A little domestic today. Repaired the garden hose in back by putting on a new attachment connector. Old one's threading had gotten corroded and useless from the high levels of salt and minerals in the water.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

This morning, on the MRT ride to work, I stood in front of a beautiful woman who was positively bursting out of her top. It brightened up my whole day.
 
Cog

Cog

My aunt today went to Guayaquil to request a visa in the usa embasy. She is pretty excited about traveling and I'm happy for her. My aunt never married and spend her life taking care of my grandmother. Now that she passed away, she can finally live her life even if it's a little late.
 
TommiR

TommiR

Cog said:
My aunt today went to Guayaquil to request a visa in the usa embasy. She is pretty excited about traveling and I'm happy for her. My aunt never married and spend her life taking care of my grandmother. Now that she passed away, she can finally live her life even if it's a little late.
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I'm happy for your aunt. Hopefully she will have a nice trip to the US.

But.

While I am not an expert in immigration affairs, and certainly not in US immigration affairs, and am operating on the basis of the information you have shared in that post, I still wonder if she will get the visa.

Look at the facts. You say your aunt spent her life taking care of your grandmother. She is unmarried, so nobody in your country that she needs to come back to raise. A life of looking after another person probably means no stable job, or nothing truly gainful at any rate. Likely no significant property to mind. And now that your grandmother is deceased, your aunt's main task in life is no longer there.

Is there something that you are not telling us that would convince an immigration officer at the embassy that your aunt is actually going to come back instead of staying in the US as another illegal immigrant, that would make that officer even consider ever granting her a visa?
 
Cog

Cog

TommiR said:
I'm happy for your aunt. Hopefully she will have a nice trip to the US.

But.

While I am not an expert in immigration affairs, and certainly not in US immigration affairs, and am operating on the basis of the information you have shared in that post, I still wonder if she will get the visa.

Look at the facts. You say your aunt spent her life taking care of your grandmother. She is unmarried, so nobody in your country that she needs to come back to raise. A life of looking after another person probably means no stable job, or nothing truly gainful at any rate. Likely no significant property to mind. And now that your grandmother is deceased, your aunt's main task in life is no longer there.

Is there something that you are not telling us that would convince an immigration officer at the embassy that your aunt is actually going to come back instead of staying in the US as another illegal immigrant, that would make that officer even consider ever granting her a visa?
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I don't know? She is retired, has her pension and her own house. Even if she doesn't get the visa, at least she is trying to do something for her.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

TommiR said:
I'm happy for your aunt. Hopefully she will have a nice trip to the US.

But.

While I am not an expert in immigration affairs, and certainly not in US immigration affairs, and am operating on the basis of the information you have shared in that post, I still wonder if she will get the visa.

Look at the facts. You say your aunt spent her life taking care of your grandmother. She is unmarried, so nobody in your country that she needs to come back to raise. A life of looking after another person probably means no stable job, or nothing truly gainful at any rate. Likely no significant property to mind. And now that your grandmother is deceased, your aunt's main task in life is no longer there.

Is there something that you are not telling us that would convince an immigration officer at the embassy that your aunt is actually going to come back instead of staying in the US as another illegal immigrant, that would make that officer even consider ever granting her a visa?
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I, too, like shitting on people's hopes.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

It's the end of the school year, and I am exhausted and beat down and completely depressed. I mean just ridiculously messed up mentally.

The win? I just opened my Twitter page, and the tweet that I forgot that I had pinned made me laugh despite everything:

 
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