Links: Healthcare, Living, and Dying
May. 19th, 2024 01:23 pmThe Queer Dying Workbook by Dr. Liam Snowdon, as recommended by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
radiantfracture (locked). I ordered a copy, which I should receive soon. Note that the price is in Canadian dollars, so it's cheaper for US folks, and that they ship out orders only a couple times a month. "This workbook is a collection of embodied resourcing activities, conversation/writing prompts, experiments and questions of deep wonder for you and your community to play with."
Update: It is June 28 and I still haven't received my book. I wrote to the author a couple of weeks ago. They said to wait another week, but have not replied now that I let them know it still didn't arrive. I can't recommend ordering the book at this point.
The Beauty and Power of Jewish Naming Traditions by Brittany Sirlin. "My grandmother’s life is forever braided with mine, and I think about the power her name will hold for the baby named for her one day."
Just Before My Mum Died, She Said 6 Words That Changed My Life — And Made Me A Better Mother by Ann Batchelder. “You’re going to get through this.”
Denver paramedics can navigate without a GPS. Here’s how they do it — and why you should try, too by Rebecca Tauber.
Lyme Vaccines Are Finally Coming, and They May Not Look Like You'd Expect by Claire Bugos, May 25, 2023. This is from a year ago, and says there may be a vaccine anywhere from now to a year from now. Which is great, because I was looking up a reference to the vaccine that was available 25 years ago but was "pulled from the market due to poor sales."
I am very sick by Elana Hashman.
Could tearing up an Oakland freeway undo decades of racial injustice? by Jose Fermoso. "Plans to remove I-980 have energized urbanists and environmentalists. But longtime residents fear it could be a new phase of gentrification."
Paul M. Sutter Thinks We’re Doing Science (and Journalism) Wrong by Dan Falk.
And, the Covid links.
COVID-19 virus can stay in the body more than a year after infection, research finds by University of California, San Francisco.
Our Third COVID Surge in Nine Months is Ahead — What Does That Mean? by Angie Ray, April 20, 2024.
radiantfracture (locked). I ordered a copy, which I should receive soon. Note that the price is in Canadian dollars, so it's cheaper for US folks, and that they ship out orders only a couple times a month. "This workbook is a collection of embodied resourcing activities, conversation/writing prompts, experiments and questions of deep wonder for you and your community to play with."Update: It is June 28 and I still haven't received my book. I wrote to the author a couple of weeks ago. They said to wait another week, but have not replied now that I let them know it still didn't arrive. I can't recommend ordering the book at this point.
The Beauty and Power of Jewish Naming Traditions by Brittany Sirlin. "My grandmother’s life is forever braided with mine, and I think about the power her name will hold for the baby named for her one day."
Just Before My Mum Died, She Said 6 Words That Changed My Life — And Made Me A Better Mother by Ann Batchelder. “You’re going to get through this.”
Denver paramedics can navigate without a GPS. Here’s how they do it — and why you should try, too by Rebecca Tauber.
Paramedics can’t stop to orient their GPS while speeding down the street with sirens or afford to wait while a computer reroutes them at a road closure. And paramedics regularly need to find someone on a bridge, somewhere in the city — fast.
Lyme Vaccines Are Finally Coming, and They May Not Look Like You'd Expect by Claire Bugos, May 25, 2023. This is from a year ago, and says there may be a vaccine anywhere from now to a year from now. Which is great, because I was looking up a reference to the vaccine that was available 25 years ago but was "pulled from the market due to poor sales."
I am very sick by Elana Hashman.
I'm hoping this post will raise awareness in spaces that aren't often thinking about chronic illnesses [and ME/CFS]. But I think there is also a part of me that wants to share, reach out in some way to the people I've lost contact with while I've been treading water, managing the day to day of my illness.
Could tearing up an Oakland freeway undo decades of racial injustice? by Jose Fermoso. "Plans to remove I-980 have energized urbanists and environmentalists. But longtime residents fear it could be a new phase of gentrification."
Paul M. Sutter Thinks We’re Doing Science (and Journalism) Wrong by Dan Falk.
We don’t meaningfully engage with politicians and policymakers. I find that the voices of scientists are actually frequently taken from them and used by other people, and often for anti-science means. And so I want scientists to be out front and center as the representatives of science in the public sphere.
And, the Covid links.
COVID-19 virus can stay in the body more than a year after infection, research finds by University of California, San Francisco.
The scientists found pieces of SARS-CoV-2, referred to as COVID antigens, lingering in the blood up to 14 months after infection and for more than two years in tissue samples from people who had COVID.
Our Third COVID Surge in Nine Months is Ahead — What Does That Mean? by Angie Ray, April 20, 2024.
When people say COVID is seasonal, I think they think it’s surging once a year in winter, not every three months. But, we have seen surges of infections caused by new variants in August/September, December/January, and now very likely in April and May.
