Daniel Reeders

PhD researcher in regulation and governance, studying how communities mobilise to reconfigure the regulation of licit and illicit drugs. I'm queer and trans (nonbinary, they/them pronouns) and a person with disability.

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2025-01-23 04:55:50 UTC

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I am an absolute fiend for losing glasses, looking EVERYWHERE for them, buying new ones then finding the lost pair...

2025-01-23 02:58:01 UTC

Look at this nerd wearing not one but two pairs of glasses around their neck 🤓
Photographer: John Macrae (Sydney)
https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/113/875/423/511/624/574/original/bc3f69313068542c.jpeg

2025-01-23 01:55:50 UTC

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I used OpenOffice.org as my daily driver in law school when I was too poor to pay for Microsoft, and after 3 years, as soon as I could, I paid for Microsoft. I can't stand their AI integration push but you can't deny the effort they put into smoothing UX.

2025-01-23 01:17:10 UTC

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I know people on the mod team I wouldn't trust to moderate my posts at Aus Social with an understanding of the place (queer, mad, disabled, sex positive, hard left, antiracist) they are coming from.

2025-01-22 23:59:11 UTC

Does anyone have any tips for alternative online office suites? I am using Google Workspace at the moment and I am stuck with it for some time as it houses my Android phone profile, but I have moved mail and calendar to Fastmail and I am keen to move my online storage and office apps elsewhere as well. This is partly due to Google's collaboration with the IDF on AI killing machines but also the non-optional insertion of AI functions into everyday UX.

2025-01-22 23:36:43 UTC

Urgent: in search of a queer owned or friendly sex-positive instance, as I am no longer even pretending to be an academic and the poor sciences.social mod team probably have no idea what to do with my sweary grompy tendencies.

2025-01-22 05:47:28 UTC

Cops in uniform at Pride just want to express their true authentic selves
🐷✨

2025-01-22 02:06:39 UTC

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There's no rush. It's a Big Spoon project, you really want to get it right to avoid data loss. Edit: and I will still be using Drive, since Dropbox is a piece of shxt and Apple's offering doesn't work across OSes.

2025-01-22 01:12:06 UTC

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DNS records activated ✅ #FastMail transition is nearly complete, just 4gb remaining on my Gmail import.

2025-01-22 00:43:59 UTC

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And the ease of transition with Fastmail is :chefskiss:

2025-01-22 00:17:47 UTC

Fastmail it is, because I care about UX and ease of transition more than I am fussed about super duper privacy.

2025-01-21 04:10:52 UTC

Friends, I want to move away from Google Workspace for everything except Drive and my Android account.
Thoughts on Protonmail vs FastMail?

2025-01-21 01:58:05 UTC

What does this even mean at this point?
tl;dr a bunch of platforms signed an entirely self-regulated EU agreement to tackle hate speech
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24347876/x-facebook-instagram-youtube-eu-hate-speech-dsa-code

2025-01-20 07:14:53 UTC

Ahhh my lovely friend's mum passed away. Fuck cancer. 😭

2025-01-20 03:07:40 UTC

I had 3x double shot coffees this morning and then slept for 3h 11am-2pm. I think I have to talk to the GP about doing that sleep study. 😴😩

2025-01-18 10:23:56 UTC

Roasted harissa chickpeas in the style of fatteh with toasted pita wedges, tahini-yoghurt mix with lemon and garlic, and Shirazi salad on the side.
https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/113/848/858/127/401/135/original/ad6f430278b0ca2f.jpg

2025-01-18 01:11:57 UTC

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Yes, that's very true. Most people on low incomes are not shopping at Trader Joes! And at lower price points it's tricky to find vegies unless you supplement with frozen.

2025-01-17 13:12:57 UTC

It's been quite the day for noise intrusion. Windy weather poses major sensory issues for me. The café downtairs was drillling and sanding and cutting into brick this morning while I was trying to sleep after last night's insomnia. And now the café's awning is squeaking as it moves in the wind and the Red Rattler is absolutely pumping with what sounds like hardstyle. Good times.

2025-01-17 12:59:56 UTC

I found this article enormously satisfying — a splash of cold water on the panic about ultra-processed foods, and a huge dollop of common sense about food and eating. No, the method is not scientific and it ignores the wealth of population evidence that these foods are associated with ill health. But equally, the nutritional epidemiologists ignore issues of cost, time and pleasure in their calls to abandon the entire food category.
https://slate.com/life/2025/01/ultraprocessed-foods-healthy-energy-fear-trader-joes.html

2025-01-17 11:28:00 UTC

Dry humour in the Graun!
This article opens 'As Philip Larkin once noted, your mum and dad have a lasting effect on you.'
Yes, he noted that.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/16/sibling-rivalry-parents-favour-older-children-and-daughters-study-finds

2025-01-14 11:04:47 UTC

RUDE.
(a) I went to a whole gifted and talented SCHOOL tyvm.
(b) It's going about as well as you'd expect, yeah, thanks for asking, even after diagnosis and with meds and therapy.
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2025-01-12 03:21:01 UTC

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ok so I'm glad to hear it's not just me!

2025-01-12 03:10:18 UTC

Tiktok app reinstalled again on my Android phone. That's the second time I've spotted it. Very dodgy.

2025-01-11 04:23:59 UTC

Cancelled an appointment because I drank too much coffee this morning and my anxiety is through the charts, the Daniel Reeders story.

2025-01-10 03:56:33 UTC

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Starting to think that Woomba means 'rain'!

2025-01-09 05:17:55 UTC

Took a med I usually take with food on an empty stomach instead and it's a lightbulb moment, like YEAH RIGHT this is how it's meant to work.

2025-01-08 04:46:35 UTC

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omg I cannot believe I had forgotten about Archy. ahahahaa. what a delight.

2025-01-07 02:42:07 UTC

Who says that, Vanessa? And RUOK?
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2025-01-04 02:22:03 UTC

I wrote up the thoughts I shared earlier — on drug switching and 'drug talk' among patients — as a post on my blog, Boundary Objects, which covers public health and mental health.
https://badblood.blog/drug-talk/

2025-01-03 02:34:55 UTC

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Most definitely doable in Affinity!

2024-12-31 02:50:07 UTC

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Oh damn, I am sorry to hear you had such a disrupted night. And holy moly that's a lotta rain!

2024-12-29 23:13:39 UTC

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Packed! Home now!! Never doing that again!!!

2024-12-29 22:18:52 UTC

I just have to pack a bag and then I can go home but can I pack it? #adhdlyf

2024-12-29 02:00:13 UTC

Ahhh fuck, I have to stop cat-sitting. It's fine when cats are happy and well, but with stressed or sick cats I keep being reminded of my cat Shifty who we had to euthanise at 4yo after 2 years in and out of the vet because my fuckwit ex bought him at a market pet store and he had FeLV. Add those memories to a depresso patch caused by moving out of home for >1 week and I'm just in horrendously bad spirits, crying uncontrollably. It's too stressful and I have to stop doing this to myself.

2024-12-28 04:49:34 UTC

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Damn. Feeling better already. L-drug is powerful stuff.

2024-12-28 04:22:19 UTC

I'm having the annual X-NY depresso patch. Lots of sleep, big fight to maintain routines, smol crises are debilitating, and I'm having big trouble reassuring myself these moods and emotions are only temporary. Upped my dose of mood stabiliser.

2024-12-28 03:51:03 UTC

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ooof that sounds oppressive!

2024-12-24 01:02:41 UTC

Attn: Queer Fronds 🌿
XNY can be a challenging time of year, since our support services often shut down, and we are reminded of painful relationships with family in a general and sometimes very particular sense.
The champs at Qlife are remaining open 3pm-midnight over the break, so don't hesitate to call them if it would help to chat with another queer human.
Phone: 1800 184 527 (also available via NRS)
Not queer? Try BeyondBlue https://www.beyondblue.org.au/

2024-12-23 10:15:54 UTC

Okay, I spent one day 'just sleeping' and that didn't seem like a good enough excuse to lose a day of holiday so I spent today in hyperfocus writing a literary nonfic/autobiog book proposal.
But, dammit, neither of these things is *doing the shopping* which means I have to go out tomorrow, brave the crowds and buy fresh vegies and some pantry staples for the XNY period.
I am incredibly not celebrating Xmas this year; in my upbringing it was reliably an awful time and I'm done with it.

2024-12-10 23:59:35 UTC

Folks, at $workplace I need to contract a skilled and engaging health promotion generalist with podcast production capability for a moderately well-funded but also fairly short time-framed project. If you fit the bill or know someone who might, could you please DM or e-mail daniel at napwha.org.au before xmas? Thank you in advance!

2024-12-08 22:05:47 UTC

*taps mic* A bit of personal news:
Nine years in, after major illness, a pandemic, and a severe incident of supervisor exploitation, I've decided to drop my PhD and refocus on my career in practice. Writing-up was going to involve a level of self-harm and dysruption I just could not in good conscience sign myself up for. I am sad but also relieved.

2024-12-02 10:07:05 UTC

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Okay so I am also a December miseryguts. Xmas in a very complicated family was never a fun time and I gave up celebrating it yonks ago. But I am wondering if you might like to check in with each other around the day itself. Could be a videocall or just chat depending where moods/feels are at?

2024-11-30 05:04:04 UTC

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He was an engineering student when WWII broke out and he volunteered for the Dutch Resistance destroying bridges used to bring Nazi troops and supplies. Then he came to Australia to work on the Snowy scheme and continued blowing shit up to build roads and tunnels!

2024-11-30 04:42:49 UTC

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my grandfather was the opposite of a brick maker... He blew up bridges 🤣

2024-11-25 09:57:08 UTC

Gemma Carey was a friend, my employer and one of my PhD supervisors, very much in the past tense on all counts, and she died unexpectedly last week. Despite our falling out I've found the news incredibly distressing. Speculation is so unhelpful. Gemma was Extremely Online and the media coverage of her death is focusing on her tweets, which is predictable but completely overlooks her stellar academic career. My thoughts are with her husband Ben and their 2yo as they grapple with this loss.

2024-11-22 06:52:28 UTC

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oh that is excellent news! And rescue breathing - is that also known as 'box' breathing (because it has four movements)? That and Celebrex are my main strategies for living with the cardiac asthma and it sounds dumb to be the Buddhist saying 'yo breathing really works' but IT REALLY DOES YO 😅

2024-11-22 05:55:21 UTC

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oh noooo 😖 did it end up being enough coverage or did you need the reliever? Honestly, it was not 'wood fired heater' level cold this week!

2024-11-17 05:26:47 UTC

Ugh today has been rough. Got dehydrated so I got interstitial cystitis. Drank a heap of soda water to fix it. Depleted my electrolytes so heartbeat went funny. Drank all the Hydralyte and I'm back to normal. Lessons were learned.

2024-11-15 05:20:06 UTC

I thought Rishworth was a wally for insisting renters need to hold an ambition to someday own a home — now here's her NSW counterpart claiming on live radio that you can rent a liveable 2BR apartment in Sydney for 'a couple of hundred bucks a week.'
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/14/nsw-housing-minister-rose-jackson-rental-crisis-prices-abc-radio-interview #auspol #nswpol

2024-11-15 04:35:11 UTC

Okay. Yup. Imigran hangover is a real thing. But after 2x50mg and a few hours of sleep my vision is back to normal, which saves me making an emergency trip to the ED. Well done that GP for talking me off that particular ledge.

2024-11-14 22:57:22 UTC

Woke up with slightly doubled vision. GP saw me immediately and is pretty confident it's migraine. I haven't had one for yonks — I used to have 2-3 per month. Intrigued to learn Imigran is now OTC. Gonna take two and try to sleep.

2024-11-14 01:03:04 UTC

From the presentation I am currently writing:
'This is a point I made in this very same auditorium over 12 years ago, and you’d better believe I was not best pleased when it turned up without attribution in a journal article by someone present at the time.'
I renounce my former identification as a pracademic.
From now on I am a bratademic.

2024-11-14 00:55:31 UTC

Please help me lazywebs: can I have a one-sentence definition of explanatory sociology and one other sentence explaining what it means by mechanisms? kthxbai love you

2024-11-13 01:18:37 UTC

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For us anxious people there's a tendency to expect the worst, but it almost always helps to go in with an expectation that practitioners want to do the right thing if they can, and this is a problem we can solve together if I give you the right information, etc etc etc. I feel bad saying that because I know it's really hard to do that when you've had shit experiences of past care. In my work I train people to educate people with HIV on how to be 'effective patients' (ugh ugh ugh).

2024-11-13 00:41:31 UTC

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Okay, wishing you courage to quietly and firmly insist there is an issue and it needs to be fixed. Advocating for yourself is hard when the issue is subjective but you have solid objective evidence (the old splint no longer fits) to draw on. Good luck!

2024-11-12 22:16:18 UTC

the conference panel I am organising is programmed up against... lunch. how am I meant to compete for audience members with meeting a basic human drive, and claiming a rare moment of pleasure and connection in an otherwise cognitively intense couple of days? ugh. definitely not added to the program in a last minute panic about the lack of representation, for sure.

2024-11-12 04:27:45 UTC

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Well, you also found the Camel Appreciation Society on Mastodon 😂 It's a form of community that is both tenuous and strong.

2024-11-12 04:23:16 UTC

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I am so glad to hear this. And yes... the start being made, that's the thing. We crack up on our own timetable and we heal on our own timetable too.

2024-11-12 04:12:57 UTC

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I'm thinking of the paradoxical coping I both witnessed and did in the early days of the pandemic. 'Oh, it's not safe to go outside? You're telling me!'
And queer communities pulled together through mutual aid networks to make sure their friends were getting fed.
But later down the track, we all broke, on different schedules, mostly alone.
We need food kitchens AND community. To survive we need dancing and open mic nights and crochet and woodworkers and music.

2024-11-12 04:05:55 UTC

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So I think we cope a fair amount better than most folks in the immediate aftermath of the crisis.
The news, although DISASTROUS, is not new. It's not telling us anything we didn't already know. There's no worldview violation.
(I knew a Dem 'operative' who had a psychotic break the night Hillary lost. Not a nice guy but I felt for him.)
For paradoxical copers, we only start to fall apart when the hets and normies are starting to get their shit together again.

2024-11-12 03:54:34 UTC

A lot of queer and crip and BIPOC folks have written about something I call 'paradoxical coping.'
Trump just won all seven swing states. #uspol
What does that tell me?
That every second person out there is questioning my continued right to oxygen?
For a queer and trans person that's any given day ending in a -y.
We have been living like this most of our conscious lives.

2024-11-09 01:16:43 UTC

Afternoon toot frens. Very flat mood today. Done laundry, got bread, need to shower and if I can find the motivation I'd like to make channa masala for dinners. Let's see.

2024-11-04 06:09:16 UTC

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It's a dark pattern alright.

2024-11-04 06:06:21 UTC

iinet just increased the cost of my plan and it requires a phone call to cancel it. *grrrrr*

2024-11-04 04:31:17 UTC

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apparently there are no kids from happy homes getting drunk or blazed or wired or wasted on a regular basis...

2024-11-04 02:17:38 UTC

I am probably taking part in an interview for a study about past problematic drug use and its relationship (if any) with trauma. The study seems so carefully designed and I have major topic envy. I personally find Dr Gabor Mate's claims that all drug use and dependence is an expression of trauma VERY annoying. It's a deficit account that ignores the fact that drug use is pleasurable and meaningful and our brains form affinities for regularly administered substances with these effects.

2024-11-03 10:22:39 UTC

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Oh gosh. It seems like the Australian national pastime is trying to guess where people are from without having any sense of facial morphological diversity on a global scale or the deep history that produced it.

2024-11-03 10:13:32 UTC

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Gonna be calling them chilly bins till the end of my days. Saves me the pitfall plus it just sounds really cute.

2024-11-03 10:09:18 UTC

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Bitta context https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/475129558/why-you-probably-shouldnt-say-eskimo

2024-11-03 08:41:21 UTC

I just nearly used the word Aussies use for chilly bins in an international FB group that is full of Canadians. My heart skipped a beat — that would not have gone down well.

2024-11-02 03:36:15 UTC

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Oh my god imagine driving one of those on country roads on solid tyres 😨 Sure, you never get a flat but your spine would cop it... I hope your dad understands how strongly you feel about keeping his stories going.

2024-11-02 03:29:38 UTC

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the car distribution system was a lot more diverse in its operations back then, it seems! I'm guessing your dad might have been able to fabricate missing parts himself?

2024-11-01 10:26:44 UTC

Huh. Based on their rough habit and charming personality I assumed goats and camels must be related but they are about as equally related as they are to hippos and whales, i.e. not very.

2024-11-01 10:15:07 UTC

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Do you get any other symptoms like rapid heartbeat, though?

2024-11-01 09:45:30 UTC

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Mmm that sounds like an incidentaloma to me!

2024-10-31 09:38:04 UTC

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2024-10-31 09:16:27 UTC

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Plus the Big List of Things! Which never went away. It's a lot.
I know that med and yes, aren't its timeframe and mechanism of action just the weirdest? #pharmageek

2024-10-31 09:06:09 UTC

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Nerves still jangling? 😭
I am so glad you have those two outlets, three if you count the walk-in fridge. I know first-hand what a prolonged spell of insomnia can do to my own wellbeing and I've been really worried for yours, too.

2024-10-31 08:45:56 UTC

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I think I am meant to pay them a further $30 to speak to an actual doctor who will use their highly specialised training to infer that my breathing issues don't require a call to 000. I am probably just going to go to the thing.
Also how are you travelling, lovely human?

2024-10-31 08:24:56 UTC

I may need a med cert to take work off tomorrow. It's our AGM and it's a 9-5 meeting that I really doubt I can manage with post-Covid symptoms. Both of my GPs are on leave so I checked and the pocket doc (InstantScripts) will do one for $19 — but you're not eligible if you're having breathing difficulty. My guys, I have cardiac asthma, breathing difficulty is a fact of my daily life. I know the exact case their lawyers had in mind when crafting that exclusion, too. *grrr*

2024-10-29 04:29:18 UTC

That's it, for sure, gonna sleep this med off. I gotta be functional this week.

2024-10-26 22:58:44 UTC

Fuck cancelling the WaPo, cancel Amazon.

2024-10-25 12:43:59 UTC

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I am okay with being vaccinated but blood draws still make me squeamish after all these years. More than once I've had a nurse or phlebotomist say 'Don't you pass out on me!'
Also how great that your brother got a transplant! Hope he is doing well.

2024-10-25 12:25:28 UTC

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For a number of years I was on B-cell depleting therapy that interfered with that exact process and I had to get all my vaccinations redone every 12mo. Do you know how many separate vaccinations we get from birth onwards? It's like 43! (It's not, I've forgotten how many but it's a lot. I felt like a pincushion.)

2024-10-25 12:03:59 UTC

A new study provides at least part of the explanation why Covid vaccines and infection don't seem to provoke long-lasting protection against subsequent exposure. The authors speculate that the spike protein may be too amorphous to trigger the transfer of antibody templates into the 'deep freeze' of bone marrow for later recollection and reuse.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/coronavirus-vaccination-room-improvement

2024-10-25 00:28:03 UTC

$14m sculpture unveiled at NGA called Ourobouros by sculptor Lindy Lee. Artistic merit is in the eye of the beholder but in my view this is gorgeous — both intricate and monumental https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/24/national-gallery-of-australia-lindy-lee-ouroboros-sculpture

2024-10-22 06:53:14 UTC

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this question is a tiny bit opaque to me but I *think* you are pointing out the social psychologists are the natural enemy of FB. Am I in the ballpark?

2024-10-22 02:00:43 UTC

My former research centre couldn't advertise a study or activity if their lives depended on it. Today they have posted on FB about an upcoming SASP conference and *nowhere* is this acronym defined. So I googled and it's social psychology. Not usually a discipline that struggles to communicate its view of the world to the public!

2024-10-20 09:49:21 UTC

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I can't help interpreting the clip as 'Kimbra blindfolds give boring guys and turns them gay' 😅

2024-10-20 09:40:34 UTC

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Oh this is delightful. Very different choons but something about it reminded me of this fun track by Kimbra from wayyyy back (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elyk9MBY72U

2024-10-20 05:36:30 UTC

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CRPS has a scary reputation but it can be treated effectively with nerve blocks and stimulators if that's what's happening.

2024-10-20 05:21:43 UTC

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Also, *big sigh that this is necessary* I would ask about CRPS from the trauma not from the surgery to avoid the doc's medico-legal paranoia kicking in.

2024-10-20 05:16:13 UTC

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So you can ask the surgeon in medico-talk, the name for the nerve situation is CRPS. But google that one lightly, ok? It could be alarming. Just remember that nerve jangling is normal after surgery and we're hoping it settles down on its own soon.

2024-10-20 05:02:34 UTC

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And I am mostly recovered after the Big Squishhhh. No more travel but a couple of big events to organise before the end of the year.

2024-10-20 04:59:56 UTC

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You are right to keep an eye out for fever, low BP and any ''feeling of impending doom'' (that's the medical term for it!) that would signal possible sepsis. But yes, living with dental trauma for so long means the nerves will take a while to stop jangling. If it is that, pain management nerds recommend breathing but *not* mindfulness to signal 'oy, you lot can chill tf out now.'

2024-10-20 04:54:35 UTC

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Did not know there's a name for it! And that sounds a bit scary 😬

2024-10-20 04:44:47 UTC

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Glad your temp and BP are okay but what an absolute bugger, though 😞 Rest is definitely the right thing — those dinged-up facial nerves will take some time to settle. Hoping they get the memo soonish so you can finally get some decent sleep 💜

2024-10-19 01:12:12 UTC

Went back to the optom to ask for multifocals instead of reading glasses. I saw a different guy and he was a bit concerned that my last measurements showed a big jump in my prescription. Redid them and found a less dramatic increase. Still no idea what caused the change, though. 😑 Anyhow, multifocals are go.

2024-10-18 21:13:43 UTC

Me: tired, dying
Little sister: *is sick*
Me: I'LL MAKE SOUP

2024-10-18 02:55:44 UTC

This paper just has the cutest title ever.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101594/