Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For the record, my grandmother with actual Alzheimer's continued to ace the MoCA tests long after we had taken her keys and checkbook away. Not all mental deficits are revealed by those tests.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

This 100% was the entire goal of the Citizens United ruling.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

So this is a nonfiction work about the author's actual experiences as a teenager? Yeah we really need to stop pretending teenagers are innocent little flowers who never encounter stuff like this (that they often don't understand and have no one to talk to about)

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago

These women have valid fears of risking their careers by speaking up, but go off I guess

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is why antimaskers are extra fucking dumb. We were always fairly certain all the cardiac effects we've seen in people right after a Covid infection were because of the virus, but they chose to go out there and throw themselves in front of the train anyway.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Oh no, phenylephrine definitely has effects. It's just that decongestion isn't one of them. Intravenous phenylephrine is sometimes used in critical care hospital settings to deliberately raise a person's blood pressure:

https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/phenylephrine-neosynephrine

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm absurdly good at not speaking in my native Appalachian accent, opting instead for a sort of "generic midwest." Unless I'm tawking to ma day-ed-dy, n' then all bets is awf."

My sister and I cover so well and so often that none of her four children who are literally being raised in Charleston, West Virginia has even a trace of our accent.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

The irony that phenylephrine intravenous is actually effective at maintaining blood pressure in people who are trying real hard to die on ya. (Our ICU uses it sometimes.)

https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/phenylephrine-neosynephrine

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Preach. I hate the shit, it makes me feel shaky, but god damn does it work.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

How dare you! I would NEVER!!

(Unwanted cookies on the other hand, fair game ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 44 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Am nurse. Can confirm. Scrubs is right about a LOT of things

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

That's a nice looking Nebelung you got there. They're such beautiful cats

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