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  • How are you doing?

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  • I've got an exciting week going on.

    Got to work with some great animals today. I gave a baby squirrel a bubble bath. I fed and cleaned a diamondback terrapin. Got to feed 3 young owls and a Red-shouldered hawk.

    Afterwards I went out for a belated birthday lunch with my favorite clinic coworker. She got super sick on her real birthday, so I took her out for lunch today. We don't normally get too much time to talk at the clinic, so we ended up having out for 4 hours.

    Came home and replaced my ancient router. Got a Flint 2 and flashed it with OpenWRT. My old one lasted me 10 years when I looked it up, so I got my money's worth out of that one. I've been having to reset it every day or so.

    Made homemade curry udon (made the noodles and curry from scratch). Super tasty. I love the texture of homemade noodles.

    Going for a quick getaway for 3 days. I usually plan trips, but the wife is spearheading this one, so I'm curious to see what she has planned.

    I got 3 new CPAP masks coming to try. Very exciting! 😄 Trying to improve my nasal breathing and mask leak is driving my nuts with my full face mask.

    And then next weekend is the clinic's open house event. I have 2 tables I'm running. My owl table will have life sized replicas of all 8 owls of our state. I made plushies of the 2 most common owls. They are approximately life sized premade plushies I got, and I opened them up and stuffed them with beans to bring them to their correct weights. People can hold them since they can't touch our animals. I'm also doing a table on DIY animal houses for people's yards. It's going to be a stressful fun, as it's freaking with privacy 2000 strangers, but I love teaching people about our wild pals, and it will raise a heap of money for our center.

    So a lot going on, but all things I actually enjoy for the most part. I've been having a fairly difficult year, so I'm really looking forward to a big block of fun.

  • What are your favorite fun facts about animals?

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  • That's why that's just fantasy 😄

  • What are your favorite fun facts about animals?

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  • You can see a good portion of the back of many owls' eyes if you look in their ears.

  • What are your favorite fun facts about animals?

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  • And one arm is used especially for octopus sexy time. (hectocotylus)

  • Let's both take a look

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  • i think patients have to advocate for themselves, otherwise they will leave in under 5minutes if you dont say anything.

    This feels like the best advice moving forward. As long as I keep talking, the docs seem to listen, but as soon as I run out of questions, session is over!

  • Let's both take a look

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  • My doctors are nice for the most part, but do seem much more rushed than years ago. All our medical facilities have been consolidated under 2 huge regional hospitals, so we have a duopoly at this point, so we get what we get.

    My wife started working at one a year before they got bought out (they were our last independent provider) and there were many immediate changes to do more with less.

    It's somewhat efficient, as my visits now seem to go, "how are you feeling and what do you want from me?", which if I know is ok, but if I just know I'm sick, I feel I either get a blanket of tests to do a shotgun approach on diagnosis, or I get given a medicine with not always as much time to go over pros, cons, or basic questions as I'd like. It feels much less personal and closer and closer to just doing telehealth, which again is fine for when I know what is wrong and what I need, but losing that difference is disappointing to me.

    Many of my docs seem disappointed as well, since the turnover is huge, especially back a few decades. I used to have the same doctors my whole life until maybe the last decade, and now I'm lucky to see the same person for a second year.

  • Federal judge dismisses human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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  • I wonder how much of that 1.8 billion weaponized legal persecution fund they're gonna give him!

    *Crickets *

  • What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot.

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  • I was just reading about this earlier this week in writing a post on how rat poison kills animals beyond the intended rodents and how/why it is treated with vitamin K. Rat poisons block the liver from metabolizing the Vitamin K into blood clotting agents. So it sounds like these babies are going through the same experience as something that's gotten a fatal dose of rat poison. We at least should have the intelligence to get the readily available cure. Such as shame...

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • That's their loss. I'd laugh. 😄

  • Venison chili & cornbread

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  • And $4/lb feels like a screaming deal right now for some free-range, grass fed, cruelty free (compared to factory farmed meat) protein.

    I grew up on near as much deer meat as I did beef, so I do miss it when I don't have any around.

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • I assume most folks using that expression are not using it in a deep spiritual manner, so it probably does. Saying it also usually makes people feel at least a smidge better after venting those feelings, so you may inadvertently also be a little more blessed. 😇

  • Venison chili & cornbread

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  • I never thought about unclaimed deer! I will have to remember this tip next time I have an unsuccessful hunting trip...

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • Bless you is a great example. I don't think most people say things like bless you or God gave you the strength to be literally religious, they're just a spiritual person's way of being polite.

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • I was just working on a post sharing some pics by one of my favorite photographers and wrote a little something along these lines.

    They praised God for the opportunity to get these very unique photos. While I'm not religious, and to me, the photographer did all the work following this bird forever, through long hours of darkness and cold, waiting patiently day after day, honing his craft.

    And that is a good enough reason for praise from me. But he felt a blessing from outside, and I can appreciate that for him. Did he think providence put him and this bird together? I don't know if it went that deep. Maybe he was just glad this animal existed, and he is here to experience it, and this moment could have randomly happened for anyone, but instead it happened to him.

    Whatever the reason, his beliefs led him to experiencing something amazing. I could just call that inspiration, while he attributes it to his beliefs. Does it make a difference to either of us what the other believes? Nah.

    If people aren't proselytizing at me, they can believe in what they please. When most people say they were glad God gave you the strength to do something, they're just being happy for you from their perspective. They probably have no idea what your beliefs are, that's just their default and the words that come to their mind to congratulate you. You should kindly take their words with the intention they were spoken with, not necessarily a literal meaning. Jumping to being offended just makes conflict where there wasn't any, and that would make you the disrespectful one most likely.

  • Top Democrats Demand DOJ and IRS Answer for Trump 'Taxpayer Shakedown' and 'Super-Pardon'; “Never in American history has a president pursued corruption this brazenly or on such a colossal scale,” wr…

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  • I mean, yeah, the slush fund is bad, and his name came up a few times in the Epstein files, and he's needlessly killing tons of people around the world extrajudicially, and if it stopped there, a regular look would suffice. But have you seen these gas prices?! If I was a less gracious person, I'd be tempted to say he is on his way to a full brow furrowing at this rate!

  • Top Democrats Demand DOJ and IRS Answer for Trump 'Taxpayer Shakedown' and 'Super-Pardon'; “Never in American history has a president pursued corruption this brazenly or on such a colossal scale,” wr…

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  • I demand Schumer give a stern look over his glasses!

  • Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?

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  • I think it is very hard to teach to a general audience at an intermediate level because that grey area between noobs and experts is so vast.

    I have had a lot of interests I've tried to learn about on my own, and it is usually pretty easy to start out from nothing, since everything you get exposed to is new, and you feel an immediate acquisition of knowledge or skill.

    Then at the expert level, you're interacting with people that should all have a high level of existing knowledge, and you don't need to worry about the audience coming into a presentation with wildly different degrees of understanding.

    For a place like a museum that is usually designed to cater to a general audience, keeping things simple is simply going to appeal to a larger potential group of people. This is something I can lose sight of myself in talking with people about subjects I enjoy. They either aren't into it as much as I am and can only stay engaged so long, or I need to do a lot of talking to find out where their current level of experience is before I can start really elaborating.

    If you can find staff that is willing to be engaged at a museum or whatever place you may be at, talking with them can really help you get a lot more out of things, whether that is to ELI5 or to go deeper into the subject. I've had people be able to explain different things to me in art museums or historical reenactments, and I've talked to lots of zookeepers and rehab workers to learn more about their captive breeding programs, animals that may not be currently out for display, training and education programs, or about various laws and regulations when working with animals that would bore 99% of a general audience. I love when people ask me about things at work or at events, because there are usually so few people that actually want me to really talk about some of the specialized things I know! Most people working these places will have a passion for what they are doing and may really appreciate having someone to share that with.

  • How do you live knowing that there is no meaning in life?

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  • Murderous birds*

    What? Oh... More for me then!

  • Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it?

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  • I'm glad you sound to be feeling better!

    I still don't really understand the how or why to any of this, and I can't say it's something that I feel actively working in any way, I just feel a bit better overall.

    Both my total testosterone tests came back under 200, so I can only imagine that has at least seen a healthy bump upward.

    I wish I had a better understanding of things, my primary doc has been willing to give me whatever tests and all that, but has just been "try it and let me know how it goes" more than anything. The specialist explained a bit more, but she's off having a baby now, so I feel I'm kinda on my own. I guess I'm fine with not knowing the how and why as long as it works and my blood test comes back fine, but I feel all my docs have been kinda lacking in helpfulness this year.

    Between the androgel and CPAP though, I feel leaps and bounds better than I did 3 months ago, and I feel I'm still getting better benefits each week from both still.

  • Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it?

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  • I got a lot of medical tests done early this year. I was passing out at work and while driving. I couldn't concentrate, I couldn't motivate myself to participate in my hobbies or to take care of the house, etc. I felt week and tired all the time. I was worried my anti-depressant had stopped working and that I was going to get in an accident and die.

    I took a sleep test and found I had severe apnea, waking or stopping breathing 70 times an hour. Got on PAP therapy and it made a big difference to me first thing in the morning, but I was still crashing in the late afternoon.

    Doc had ordered a ton of bloodwork, including various tests for testosterone levels. My man parts have never given me issue, so I didn't think anything of it. I associated testosterone replacement as the snake oil stuff others here are mentioning, people wanted to get swol, or just vainly attempt to recapture their youth.

    Turns out, at my peak, I have 1/3 or less the testosterone of a normal male. And that's first thing in the morning when it's at its highest level. I was nervous about trying it as it can have serious side effects, mainly from thickened blood, but the doc said if I don't like it, no biggie coming off for the most part. I opted for the gel to get a daily small dose instead of the biweekly shot and have a peak and a valley.

    My depression is back to normal being treated with a SSRI, I feel more confident again, I am participating in things I like doing, I'm taking better care of myself and my house, and I'm not falling asleep at work, the car, or right when I get home anymore. It's pretty cheap medicine, and I just run it onto my upper arms and shoulders and make sure my wife doesn't touch those spots for a few hours.

    I thought it was BS, but it seems to really be helping. In a few weeks I'll have my first blood results after treatment and see how it is going for real, but it's making a big positive improvement in my life and it's keeping me safe.

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    How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths

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