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[Great Order]

Amazon review for the knock-off waxing kit I got that damaged my skin and waxed fuck else got quietly removed.

I'm not shocked, but it's still irritating.

[hector13]

Amazon review for the knock-off waxing kit I got that damaged my skin and waxed fuck else got quietly removed.

I'm not shocked, but it's still irritating.

Maybe go see a doctor? Hurhurhur.

[Akura]

Well, speaking of doctors...

Spoiler: Really starting to question the ability of one of mine(contains... medical details) (click to show/hide)

Two weeks ago, I had a colonoscopy done by my proctologist. As I mentioned after that, he tried to discuss post-op details literally as I was just coming out of anesthesia, and then a few days later claimed that I never scheduled a surgery that was supposed to take place after.

For the past few days, I've been feeling constant pain, though varying in intensity. Right now, I'm mostly alright. It feels like something has been swelling against that nerve that controls the need to use the toilet.

Now, going over the paper I got when leaving the hospital, I saw that I was instructed to take a prescription suppository, only I never got any call from the pharmacy that they received the prescription or that it was ready. I also looked up the name that was scribbled down by the proctologist, and the medicine prescribed is, according to the website dedicated to that drug, only used for the treatment of ulcerative colitis, though apparently it can be used with colonic Crohn's disease. Now, some of what I'm feeling does match with UC, but I don't have a lot of the other symptoms of UC, and the symptoms I do have also match other issues. But I'm not qualified to make that call anyways.

On the other hand, this probably isn't something you can diagnose right away from a colonoscopy without other tests or reviewing the colonoscopy data. Additionally, when I had a sigmoidoscopy done a week or so before the colonoscopy, he didn't find anything inside except a small fistula or fissure that he only noticed as he was pulling the camera out, and then only because of the bleeding caused by the insertion of the camera. In fact, I'm looking UC up on Wikipedia as I type this, and it seems like a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis is very much jumping the gun here. Additionally, he never mentioned UC to me post-op, unless he did so when I was incapable of understanding it.

This leaves us with three possibilities. He prescribed the incorrect medication, misdiagnosed, or failed to properly inform me of the diagnosis. And none of those are mutually exclusive. Nor did he actually send the prescription to my pharmacy in the first place, which something similar already happened with the colonoscopy prep prescriptions as well.

[hector13]

It’s looking more and more like you need a different specialist. Do you know if there are others in network you can see?

[Akura]

A few. Still, unless he proves truly incompetent, like actual malpractice bad, I'm going to wait until my immediate issue is resolved, since going to another specialist might require starting over.

[Grim Portent]

Gran's in the hospital.

She was unwell on Thursday and had gotten dehydrated and confused as a result of not eating and drinking for a day or two, we had her over here to get her better and checked out for a possible UTI, and she was doing pretty well.

Then she fell while getting out of bed around midnight last night. Banged her head, arm and leg pretty bad. Big swelling on her head, think it may have hit the nightstand when she fell, couldn't stand even with assistance, couldn't raise her left arm above chest height without severe pain, just moving her into a seating position was very painful. No signs of a stroke or heart attack, so there's that. Weren't in a position to move her to the car, she's a bit too heavy for us to lift, and we couldn't do it without causing severe pain anyway, so we propped her up with pillows and blankets and applied cold to ease the swelling and pain.

Low priority ambulance got assigned due to the lack of stroke/heart attack/brain bleed symptoms, took almost six hours. We really need to do something about that. SNHS A&E and ambulance service needs expanded by a good chunk.

EDIT: CT scan/MRI/x-ray are all looking clear from what I've been told. Gran should be out the hospital later today.

[Schmaven]

It would be really cool if Windows would just stop changing my desktop background without me initiating the change.  If I get tired of it and want a new background, I will change it.  I don't need Windows to do so for me on its own. 

[Loud Whispers]

God damn. Thoroughly disappointed to find in the last 7 years all the places I loved about Malaysia have been bulldozed and replaced with main roads or empty towers. All the areas that used to be monkey-filled jungle are just gone. All the shops are just gone. They've fallen for that particular addiction in urban planning that more cars = more good so they'll bulldoze the shops to build roads and carparks so everyone can drive to the shops they can't reach because you can no longer cross the road or traverse the elevated highways -_-

The mixed cosmopolitan atmosphere had already been showing signs of strain with the government's whole sharia push where if you're not muslim you're not a real Malay. But things have gotten even worse with the physical segregation of communities by these highways and carparks, and a lot of these commercial developments seem to be aimed at segregating or evicting Hindu/Chinese/Christians by building over their holy sites or surrounding their communities with giant walls topped with highways. Even if you have an ancient holy site and protected ecological zone like at Batu cave a developer can show up and begin tearing down swathes of jungle and as far as I can tell nothing will happen to them. So many of the new towers I've seen around here are physically good spaces but they're just left to rot as they can't sustain families or retail as there's no pedestrian traffic, and there's no pedestrian traffic because of the stupid road system making crossing from one building to another illegal and dangerous

They truly took paradise and built a carpark over it

[King Zultan]

The true dream of every developer is to pave the world.

[scriver]

God damn. Thoroughly disappointed to find in the last 7 years all the places I loved about Malaysia have been bulldozed and replaced with main roads or empty towers. All the areas that used to be monkey-filled jungle are just gone. All the shops are just gone. They've fallen for that particular addiction in urban planning that more cars = more good so they'll bulldoze the shops to build roads and carparks so everyone can drive to the shops they can't reach because you can no longer cross the road or traverse the elevated highways -_-

The mixed cosmopolitan atmosphere had already been showing signs of strain with the government's whole sharia push where if you're not muslim you're not a real Malay. But things have gotten even worse with the physical segregation of communities by these highways and carparks, and a lot of these commercial developments seem to be aimed at segregating or evicting Hindu/Chinese/Christians by building over their holy sites or surrounding their communities with giant walls topped with highways. Even if you have an ancient holy site and protected ecological zone like at Batu cave a developer can show up and begin tearing down swathes of jungle and as far as I can tell nothing will happen to them. So many of the new towers I've seen around here are physically good spaces but they're just left to rot as they can't sustain families or retail as there's no pedestrian traffic, and there's no pedestrian traffic because of the stupid road system making crossing from one building to another illegal and dangerous

They truly took paradise and built a carpark over it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70k2lHsBMKo

I'd try to translate the lyrics but I'm too bad at it and they lose all their magic.

Spoiler:  eh I'll make a shitty attempt at a direct translation anyway (click to show/hide)

The memories come so often to me
Everything is gone now I can't understand
Gone is the house where the ivy clung
Gone is the gate where we always hung
Happy street, you that once heard our cheer
Once there was roses here where a city now quickly grows forth

Happy street you are no more
You've gone under with entire blocks
Silenced are the games, silenced is the song
High above the ground sways the concrete
When I came back all was so changed
Trampled and pillaged, spoiled and defiled
Will between these high houses one day rise a song
As wonderful and sweet as the one we once heard

Yeah all is gone, that's just how it is
Yet I might now want to accept
That my idyll that that all want to leave behind
Now is a dream that once I got to dream
All is gone, with house and with linden
And my friends scattered for the wind
Happy street, it's time that here has ravaged
You have gave way to asphalt and to macadam

It was written (covered from an Italian song) by the artist when they paved her childhood home (called a shanty-town or a slum at the time) to make way for the concrete blocks of the million programme. I've read the Italian original has the same or similar theme but I don't know Italian so I can't confirm.

edit: Found this by the great Veronica Maggio who made a great combination of the Swedish and the Italian versions

[Loud Whispers]

edit: Found this by the great Veronica Maggio who made a great combination of the Swedish and the Italian versions

Spoiler: that song is this feeling personified (click to show/hide)

The true dream of every developer is to pave the world.

Who knows
Not me
I never lost control
You're face
To face
With the man who paved the world

[Frumple]

Oh hey, sounds like they're cribbing notes from the US in regards to one of the major things to do to minority communities (pave over as much as you can and split them up with highways). Even odds that has little to nothing to actually do with improving access for cars and everything to do with fucking over minorities. Gods know that was the primary motivation over here

[King Zultan]

The true dream of every developer is to pave the world.

Who knows
Not me
I never lost control
You're face
To face
With the man who paved the world

That sounds like it might be a reference to a different song, as I was thinking of Pave the world by the Blue Meanies when I wrote that.

[scriver]

The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie, aka the gherkin song, or possibly the Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie by Nirvana