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Finished reading: Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚 I’m definitely on a Marilynne Robinson kick, such shimmering writing! Here, she continues to meditate on the unhoused, what it’s like to be mentally ill, and bad decisions.
Finished reading: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson 📚An excellent book, especially for any of us who plan to grow old.
I made another Racket:
Lisa and Bernadette talk about Zoom Fatigue
I highly recommend Racket as a way to do simple, short, interview-style audio recordings. It’s very easy!
The Information Intervention Chain
Wait, that’s not what a big banner with an exclamation point saying “COVID-19 Information” means? So tell me what an average person is supposed to think an exclamation-marked heading on an NIH site saying “COVID-19 Information” indicates?
Finished Reading Incredible Doom vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden 📚Very fun trip back to the past of the dial-up 90s-era Internet. Some depictions of parental anger/abuse.
Had a good time doing a Racket with @cm on the topic of “Facilitation Do’s.” We were going to talk about “Do’s and Don’ts” but ran out of time which is part of the beauty of Racket – only nine minutes!
Listen here:
Currently reading: Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson 📚
Currently reading: The Listeners by Leni Zumas 📚
Today I became an Advanced Certified Scrum Master, woo hoo!
New Recommendations Address ME/CFS Diagnosis and Management
The urgency of appropriate recognition and management of ME/CFS has increased as growing numbers of people are exhibiting signs and symptoms of ME/CFS following acute COVID-19 infection.
New Clinical Guidelines for ME/CFS
The clinicians make it clear that no treatments have been shown to be curative. Instead, they focus on advice for managing and treating symptoms like orthostatic intolerance, cognitive dysfunction, pain and sleep dysfunction.
Finished reading: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 📚I didn’t love it, but it is an interesting story of growing up as mixed race in post-apartheid South Africa. Includes harrowing stories of abuse.
The study
Risk is cut, but not eliminated. We have to remain careful.
Vaccines cut risk of ‘long covid’ in half, major study finds
Excellent but anger-making article about Long COVID
COVID-19 Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future - The Atlantic
They and other long-haulers want studies that treat long COVID holistically, rather than focusing on the single organ a researcher happens to specialize in. They want more attention to common symptoms, including neurological ones (which are among the scariest) and menstrual changes (which are among the most overlooked). And they want researchers to ask them what they already know.
Woo hoo, going dancing tonight for the first time since March 2020! Outdoor concert at the local venue, hubby playing bass in the band. I’ll still be COVID careful but am looking forward to boogeying.
So the local bread baker made “sesame Sirarcha bread.” I made French toast with it, added avocado and fried eggs, topped with chili crisp. Yum!
Just had my eyes dilated at the doctor’s. Can’t drive for another hour so am treating myself to takeout dinner. Seafood crepes for the win.
Currently reading: Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚
Currently reading: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 📚
Finished reading: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚 A good read. Dragged a bit in the middle but overall great characters and a good glimpse into a fictionalized version of life under the terrible institution of slavery.
Finished reading: Home by Marilynne Robinson 📚
I’ve been worrying about this:
The data from vaccinated Israeli medical staff shows that while breakthrough infections aren’t life-threatening, they are also not benign: 19 percent of cases led to so-called “long-haul COVID-19”
Pelvic Floor Health This article might be paywalled but it had the best language I’ve seen to deal with our changing ideas about gender. It refers at one point to “people with penises” instead of saying “men.” I laughed but I also love it.