Apr. 3rd, 2021 12:18 pm
About medicine
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oakfarmI got this thing, an orthotic device, from my health care centre.
The diagnosis is morbus de quervain, inflammation in the thumbs tendon sheath. Apparently it’s an inflammation that is quite common in women after childbirth or in connection with menopause. So I guess I need to add I got it from snow shoveling. Manly!
Then this is a corner of my kitchen table.
What I have planted is not plants for a garden. For this summer my plan is to grow nothing but beans outdoors. What I have planted in the cut-in-half-oat-or-almond-milk-cartons are seeds to houseplants. Including seeds for a palm called Chilean wine palm (Jubaea chilensis). I thought it was cool. Chilean wine palms apparently can survive -16 C (should be 3.2 F). Now it can get much colder here in the winter, so I’m not going to plant a field of palms. And about the name. One can make wine from the sweet sap of the Chilean wine palm. I don’t think that’s that special. Sap has sugar in it, everything that’s sweet can be fermented to alcohol. Meaning every tree that has sap is a wine tree - if you’re desperate enough?
Then I can shortly mention that I have restless legs syndrome, we have that in the family, and last night it kept me from sleeping. You know they actually recommend exercise before bed against restless legs. I said it before and I say it again, the joke is, what happened to western medicine? It used to be all about pills, injections, surgery, now they just tell you to exercise.
Last fall there was an article asking if the pandemic response really makes a difference. The writer pointed out that countries in Central and East Europe were praised for their fast and hard responses on the pandemic. Still those countries, by that fall, had the same number of deaths per capita, as the US and Brazil, countries where the leader was accused of denying the pandemic. Yeah that was perhaps six months ago. Now, crazy enough, some of the mentioned countries - Czechia, Hungary, perhaps more - today have more covid-19 deaths per capita than the US. Wonder if anyone has any idea of what to make of that?
The diagnosis is morbus de quervain, inflammation in the thumbs tendon sheath. Apparently it’s an inflammation that is quite common in women after childbirth or in connection with menopause. So I guess I need to add I got it from snow shoveling. Manly!
Then this is a corner of my kitchen table.
What I have planted is not plants for a garden. For this summer my plan is to grow nothing but beans outdoors. What I have planted in the cut-in-half-oat-or-almond-milk-cartons are seeds to houseplants. Including seeds for a palm called Chilean wine palm (Jubaea chilensis). I thought it was cool. Chilean wine palms apparently can survive -16 C (should be 3.2 F). Now it can get much colder here in the winter, so I’m not going to plant a field of palms. And about the name. One can make wine from the sweet sap of the Chilean wine palm. I don’t think that’s that special. Sap has sugar in it, everything that’s sweet can be fermented to alcohol. Meaning every tree that has sap is a wine tree - if you’re desperate enough?
Then I can shortly mention that I have restless legs syndrome, we have that in the family, and last night it kept me from sleeping. You know they actually recommend exercise before bed against restless legs. I said it before and I say it again, the joke is, what happened to western medicine? It used to be all about pills, injections, surgery, now they just tell you to exercise.
Last fall there was an article asking if the pandemic response really makes a difference. The writer pointed out that countries in Central and East Europe were praised for their fast and hard responses on the pandemic. Still those countries, by that fall, had the same number of deaths per capita, as the US and Brazil, countries where the leader was accused of denying the pandemic. Yeah that was perhaps six months ago. Now, crazy enough, some of the mentioned countries - Czechia, Hungary, perhaps more - today have more covid-19 deaths per capita than the US. Wonder if anyone has any idea of what to make of that?