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Christ follower, respiratory therapist, sleep specialist (RRT-SDS), lover of coffee, natural born chiller
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Gray-pril, the precursor to May Gray and June Gloom, has arrived.
16.04.2025 01:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#earthquake Wow! Itβs been awhile since Iβve felt a quake that big. Iβm shook, lol #sandiego
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The firings from the CDC and FDA are devastating. Just looking at how they gutted the medical device review part of the FDA. We already have an issue with medical devices not being appropriately scrutinized. Will we be able to trust any new devices going forward?
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Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldnβt do anything. βAre you feeling all right?β I asked her. βI feel all sleepy,β she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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βAll 48 cases involve individuals who have either not received the vaccine that protects against measles, mumps and rubella, or whose vaccination status is unknownβ
www.houstonchronicle.com/health/artic...
βWitnesses who were able to sprint out of the restaurants all reported seeing the same thing: a parting of clouds as a vortex of Chick-fil-A franchises slowly rotated upward through the sky and disappeared into the firmament.β
theonion.com/chick-fil-a-...
Holistic assessment of sleep characteristics across body systems
Links to medical conditions and diseases
An impressive sleep study goes deep on links to lifestyle and diseases
βimpact of gut microbiome and diet re: sleep apnea
βbig contribution of lifestyle factors
βability to predict across 16 body systems from sleep data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked sleep experts to set the record straight on some of the sleep myths they hear most often.
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So many people have lost their fear of the Lord. When we mock, relentlessly judge & make jokes about people who are suffering so we can maintain our political take, weβve forgotten thereβs a God in the heavens who hears. Humility is recognizing we are all just one disaster from losing everything.
15.01.2025 16:08 β π 447 π 36 π¬ 14 π 5As a San Diego resident, this is disheartening
15.01.2025 15:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0after this past week I have shifted my βmost impressive job in the worldβ rankings and at the top is βflying the helicopters and planes doing water drops on firesβ
absolutely unbelievable, every one of them
It's going to be a long night here in SoCal. Praying for those directly impacted by these fires.
08.01.2025 05:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Never forget
01.01.2025 03:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Merry Christmas! Love that youβre all in matching PJs!
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