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 The Biosphere

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anongoodnurse
Jan 7 09:49
@Chris Feedback is always appreciated! I'm fine when it's cut and dry, but if it's borderline, I feel like I'm being a pest, which I don't enjoy. I will trust that you'll let me know when I've overstepped. :)
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 18:09
@BryanKrause Thanks for the feedback, @BryanKrause. I often feel a bit guilty when flagging, so thanks for letting me know that they're not inappropriate.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 14:13
and to desist in making comments encouraging a better approach to answers was raised because I find this line of self-defense out of line. I flagged as unkind and harassing. I apologize if I'm using flags inappropriately.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 14:12
@BryanKrause - I was asked not to engage inappropriately with user M_, and I respect that. Once again, I flagged a comment of his. I don't know what else to do; if you mods want to know what the community desires/expects, and flags help you to know that, the flag I raised on his comment to you to desist in doing both your mod duties (removing answers in comments)...
anongoodnurse
Dec 24, 2024 22:23
@AliceD et al. Happy Christmas to you mods, and I hope you have a wonderful year to come.
anongoodnurse
Dec 18, 2024 14:07
@uhoh - Sorry, I made a mistake. My mixing bowls are stainless steel. Apparently lye reacts with aluminum, so sorry!
anongoodnurse
Dec 18, 2024 12:23
And please let me know how it all turns out!
anongoodnurse
Dec 18, 2024 12:22
Let me know if you do. Have fun! You'll love the product!
anongoodnurse
Dec 18, 2024 12:20
Do you have any other questions?
anongoodnurse
Dec 18, 2024 12:20
Oh, and the soap will mostly be done in a day or two, but will be too soft to use. You can test for doneness (all the lye has been used) by touching it to the tip of your tongue. Lye stings. If it stings, wait a couple more days. The rest of the cure time is just waiting for the bar to get hard enough not to melt into goo on getting wet.
anongoodnurse
Dec 18, 2024 12:18
Freezer wrap is paper with a very thin coat of plastic (?) on one side. The soap won't eat through that.
anongoodnurse
Dec 18, 2024 12:16
Of any long, skinny box lined with freezer wrap, I meant to say.
anongoodnurse
Dec 18, 2024 12:16
Oh, cheap mold? Shoebox lined with parchment paper.
 

 Discussion between Lukas4235 and Brya…

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anongoodnurse
Jan 6 14:56
@Lukas4235 - If the "the heat producing system and heat dissipating system" were always "in balance", no one would ever have a fever. They are clearly not in synch, or "balance" as you put it. And that "imbalance" is normal with a fever. So, by your characterization, all fever is a systems failure. It just so happens that heat dissipation is more difficult than heat production. Beware of reductionism.
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 18:31
You, too, are a stranger on the internet.
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 18:30
I'm very far from ignorant, and I am not ridiculous. If you think anything in this argument is ignorant or ridiculous, look inward.
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 18:28
I don't "wanna" misunderstand you. I don't "wanna" misunderstand anyone. But I do believe my words are being twisted (is that because you "wanna" do so?)
Yes, fever can reach the category of body temperature called hyperpyrexia. It's still a fever. It's a very high fever.
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 18:25
@Lukas4235 - No. Unanimous means all, not most.
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 14:39
@Lukas4235
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 14:38
As I said, this weakens every statement you make, and in my case, it makes me unwilling to engage in a manner which takes a lot of time (writing a good answer.)
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 14:37
This doesn't include the many comments which have been deleted in which you use absolutes, and in other posts (deleted or not) in which you use absolutes.
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 14:36
-"**all the doctors I talk to and pharmacists** are certain that fever can get too high."
(How many is 'all' - have you spoken to hundreds of us? Or is it one? Two? Because I don't believe this is true of many professionals. In fact, I never heard this, **ever**, from anyone, until you stated this. (This is a true representation of my experience.)
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 14:33
-"...medical professionals still believe that a fever rises to hyperpyrexia if not treated with antipyresis." (I'm a medical professional and I don't believe that.)
- "...you are showing **no understanding at all**..."
anongoodnurse
Jan 4 14:30
You state you don't use absolutes. Just in this post alone (about hyperpyrexia):
- "When we analyze the literature we see unanimously that treating fever does not result in better outcomes." (You haven't read every study ever published...)
- "If I just ask without providing a context I´ll get the standard medical answer written **on every site.**" (Have you tried them all?)
- "I discussed with many other people and **they all were getting angry** hence my "warning". (Um, I've been following your posts. No one got angry with you. Not even me. You had a post deleted for giving medical advice…
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 23:41
And I don't know why you're complaining aboput me to @BryanKrause. He isn't responsible for my words or opinions or beliefs. He's not the only person trying to correct your statements.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 23:38
The absolutes, the twisting, the unsound arguments you make are the reason I don't want to engage further with you, and I won't answer your questions because I doubt that you'll believe me anyway.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 23:36
You are the one who stated that no fever could ever get too high, and therefore no fever needed to be treated, and for that opinion (and the equally invalid statement that no inflammation needs to be treated) your post was deleted.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 23:34
I never said that no fever requires treatment. You're twisting my words, and I don't appreciate it.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 23:33
because I don't know every doctor, every person or all the literature. I only know what I know. You use absolutes, which weakens your position. I have not changed my opinion(s) or my position(s). A temperature of 107.7 does require treatment in my opinion, and is an emergency. As I said, the only higher temperature I saw was in someone who was dead.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 23:29
@Lukas4235 _ I don't know what you're trying to prove. Infections can cause dangerously high fevers; the young woman with pyelonephritis and a temp of 107.7°F was an example of that. I'm not reversing my position. Most of the medical literature I am familiar with uses hyperpyrexia as elevated fever, though there is some crossover usage. I don't make absolute statements unless they're true: I don't say, "all doctors..." or "all people" or "all the literature",
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 20:49
Yes, I read that, and you have cherry-picked the one statistic that supports your assertion. The rest puts it into a more normal context.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 20:47
Another falsehood: "...exactly like I notice it"
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 20:46
@Lukas4235 = "In my experience... virutally everyone I talk to..." This is irrelevant. Do not mistake what you believe for truth. They are two different things, and when stating things as if beliefs were fact, the question loses meaning.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 18:31
We know that if we don't treat a fever, it will eventually "break" (most people know this). If we treat, we are treating the effects or cause of the fever. Any statement to the opposite is merely opinion.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 18:29
You state "... how medical professionals still believe that a fever rises to hyperpyrexia if not treated with antipyresis." That is simply and categorically untrue; if any physician believes that, they must be very, very early in their training. I have never believed that. One needs only to follow a few fevers to know that they wax and wane naturally. In hospitals, temperatures are taken all the time. Your insistence that we treat fevers all the time is just not true.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 18:22
With my own children, I only treated their fevers only if they were complaining of feeling bad; if not, they were given comfort foods, encouraged to rest, etc. So even if I'm the only person who approaches fever this way, that makes your absolute-type opinions incorrect.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 18:20
Most people I've interacted with don't think they'll die from a fever, or even that it will continue to rise if they don't treat it. Fever feels bad. It causes myalgias, which feel crummy. It causes chills which are uncomfortable, sometimes shaking chills (which are even worse). It is often accompanied by headaches, which are unpleasant. Most people treat fever because of the effects it has on our bodies, those that I listed, not because they're fever phobic.
anongoodnurse
Jan 3 18:14
@Lukas4235 - I don't want to argue with you, just want to point out that fact and opinion aren't the same thing. You state "In fever it is lowered just because. A healthy person thinks his flu fever might kill him if left untreated and lowers it just because." That isn't fact, though you may believe it. I see now that @BryanKrause has addressed this in part. You can't speak for all normal people just as you can't speak for all doctors and all patients (in your inflammation post.)
 

 The Playground

General discussion for parenting.stackexchange.com
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anongoodnurse
Dec 28, 2024 16:15
@RoryAlsop Thanks! We've liked similar shows in the past, so I'll look for the recommendations. My kids do audiobooks as well. I need to give it a try. :)
anongoodnurse
Dec 26, 2024 22:35
Can you tell I have eclectic tastes and too much time on my hands? Better than no time, though! Thanks for thinking about me!
anongoodnurse
Dec 26, 2024 22:34
@Stephie Knives out was a lot of fun! I'm no stranger to nerdy stuff either. The Good place was a little bit nerdy, but Wheel of Time, Game of Thrones (oh, I mess that. The ending was just too awful, though!), etc. Historical? I'm there. Good or funny murder mysteries, like Only Murders in the Building, Sherlock, Luther, The Fall (omg, that was so good!), almost anything Dickens (Bleak House and Little Dorritt, omg!) or Austen... Peaky Blinders...
anongoodnurse
Dec 26, 2024 08:36
Oh, @RoryAlsop, @Stephie - If you want something uplifting, playful, and surprisingly philosophical (in a very palatable and funny way), stream "The Good Place". How often is a show all those things? It's a delight. Do you have any recommendations? I have more down time than I need. I need new hips (ouch) and my mobility is limited. I should be reading books, but sometimes I just want to vege out. :)
anongoodnurse
Dec 26, 2024 06:11
@RoryAlsop - Wanting to be optimistic, I hope so too.
anongoodnurse
Dec 26, 2024 06:07
@Stephie - What a kind and thoughtful wish! I'm with you.
anongoodnurse
Dec 24, 2024 22:21
@RoryAlsop, @Stephie - Merry Christmas, you mods! Or as is said in GB, Happy Christmas, and happy new year to you both. I must admit I'm dreading the coming presidential term, but all bad things come to an end as well, so there's that. Peace!
 

 Discussion on answer by M__: Help in …

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anongoodnurse
Dec 28, 2024 12:54
Gosh, that was a disappointing update. And trust me, as a physician I know much more about Lyme Disease (not Lyme's disease) than you do, not only having experienced it, but having treated people for it and having advocated for awareness of the possibility in any perplexing illness presentation. More than once, I diagnosed it in people who were misdiagnosed. Like the other famous spirochete, it's a great imposter.
anongoodnurse
Dec 24, 2024 22:46
Merry Christmas to you both, and happy new year! I hope it's a great one!
anongoodnurse
Dec 24, 2024 22:44
I stumbled upon this room by accident. Otherwise I'd have kept my skepticism to myself. (I also had anaplasmosis before my Infectious Disease specialist knew what it was. All I knew was that my neutrophil count was too low to permit me to work with sick people for a while. I figured it out when one of my dogs had the same illness.) It was live and learn, literally, having that farmette in the woods.
anongoodnurse
Dec 24, 2024 22:39
Having picked ticks or both genders and every instar off my animals, myself and my family, having contracted (I kid you not; I wish it weren't true) Lyme 8 times (the first was by far the worst) in 26 years, all my family and non-feline/avian mammals had it as well to a lesser extent, and having the first goat ever to be diagnosed with Lyme disease (according t6o Texas A&M), I'm also able to say I'm very familiar with the species. It does not look like a tick to me, either.
anongoodnurse
Dec 24, 2024 22:29
@M__ It's probably no surprise that I agree with @theforestecologist, but said nothing in the thread. I'm not sure it's an ixodes tick either, and (as was said) the answer is heavy on the not-a-bedbug topic and light on it's-a-tick evidence. Unlike you or theforestecologist, I have not studied insects methodically. However, I had a small farmette in the middle of 28 acres of woods which happened to be in one of the very worst hotspots for Lyme Disease on the East coast.