#Dr. Natalie Lambert

[foreverknightalways]

Hiatt's voice from the TV, Good evening. Nick asks, Natalie, what is it? Hiatt continues, Thank you for coming. I am innocent. Natalie says, Look, Nick, Whatever you may be thinking this was not my intention.

[simplymariac]

Season 1, Episode 101 Dark Knight - More Enhanced Photo Stills of Dr. Natalie Lambert (Catherine Disher) #ForeverKnight

Just having fun with these screenshots. Sony has all the rights to this screenshot set. 😉

[simplymariac]

Dr. Natalie Lambert played by Catherine Disher.

pretty scans of Nat in season 1

[mlobsters]

supernatural s8e8 hunteri heroici (w. andrew dabb)

(huh, has he written without daniel loflin before? looks like no, but does exclusively after this)

literal cartoonish death, always a great sign. to go along with the very serious business in the recap

that's one creepy ass smile there, misha lol wtf are you doing. i wanna be a hunter *performing human smile flawlessly*

CASTIEL Can I, uh, at least ride in the front seat? DEAN and SAM simultaneously [SAM while shouldering CASTIEL out of the way] No.

so this is how it's gonna go

DEAN Listen, you see anything weird, anything out of the box, you give us a call. DETECTIVE Whatever you say, Scully.

where the hell did that come from? (picking scully instead of mulder)

*blurry flashback on sam starts to fade in* me, out loud: OH JESUS CHRIST. i know amelia was in the recap but i forgot, okay. i'm so tired of this plot mechanic

this man (brian markinson) has been in so many of my things

the x-files s5e9 folie a deux as gary lambert

the killing s2e12 donnie or marie as gil sloane

mad men s6e2 the doorway, part 2 as dr arnold rosen

the magicians s4e7 the side effect as everett

god mad men was a beautiful show. look at the sets and costumes and lighting. gahhh. and second, he played the character in the magicians that basically caused quentin to kill sacrifice himself and i just got real hurt over it all over again good job, brain-o

i swear i keep getting natalie portman's character in garden state vibes from how she's playing this part

SAM Uh, no. Maintenance, mostly. STAN Ah. Well, that makes sense. 'Cause I got to say, Sam, you look like a real fixer-upper to me.

i laughed out loud because ????? and also sam🧍‍♂️

DEAN Cas, you gonna book a room or what? CASTIEL No, I'll stay here. DEAN Oh, okay. Yeah. We'll have a slumber party, braid Sam's hair. Where are you gonna sleep? CASTIEL I don't sleep. DEAN Okay, well, I need my four hours, so... CASTIEL I'll watch over you. DEAN That's not gonna happen.

what a weird little interaction. i guess cas is back to being clueless about social stuff for comic relief. he had some really good snarky moments there for a bit, why are we backsliding

all right so. weird feelings about this dean cas convo. dean being very.. forthright demanding a serious conversation with cas. but this...

CASTIEL Dean, I... When I was... bad... and I had all those things – the... the leviathans... writhing inside me... I caused a lot of suffering on earth, but I devastated Heaven. I vaporized thousands of my own kind, and I – I – I can't go back. DEAN 'Cause if you do, the angels will kill you. CASTIEL Because if I see what Heaven's become – what I – [sighs] what I made of it... I'm afraid I might kill myself.

i don't like how this is framed to gain sympathy (and i have a general great distaste for how suicide is thrown around in media anyway)

ORDERLY It's creepy, right? A lot of these people – they just tune out and live in their own heads. It's like maybe the real world is too much for them, and they just run and hide, you know?

the way i laughed at that prompt for a flashback

STAN I think the two of you are holding on to each other, yeah. 'Cause I know she's scared. After what happened to Don, I don't blame her for taking off. Needing to run away and hide – I know why she did it. The question is – what are you running from, Sam?

yeah current!sam, what are you running from huh?? good thing the kevin tran thing drags out for a long time so you can figure out you wanna keep hunting or whatever by the time it wraps up

oh gosh, it's bj from mash

m*a*s*h s10e18 heroes - mike farrell as bj hunnicutt

*mumbling threats at the screen, if you flashback again because dean said something about living in a dream world........ 🔪*

SAM Look, it can be nice living in a dream world. It can be great. I know that. And you can hide, and you can pretend all the crap out there doesn't exist, but you can't do it forever because... eventually, whatever it is you're running from – it'll find you. It'll come along, and it'll punch you in the gut. And then... then you got to wake up, because if you don't, then trying to keep that dream alive will destroy you! It'll destroy everything!

it's a 3 way pep talk. everyone here needs it. personally iffy on the whole cartoon schtick but i do like this test pattern room effect

bro please i'm having extreme flashback fatigue 😭

LOL i took a screenshot of dean opening the bottle this way at the beginning of the episode because i was like this is so strange that they're focusing on it, is he using his pocketknife?? also like, opening a beer while getting in the car still at the gas station? well. now i see, more silly setup for a silly payoff later

SAM My, uh – my brother used to do that. STAN Yeah? SAM Yeah. STAN He a good guy? SAM Yeah. Yeah, uh, he – he was... the best. Uh, I, uh... I lost him, and, uh, I ran.

i don't hate the story they're telling through the flashbacks, i just hate how it's executed. i can see why they're doing it this way, so we're not actively suffering through the separation, it already happened. and the people want sam and dean together. but avoiding separating them has also made this really clunky and drag out by chopping it up and sprinkling it over so many episodes

anyway, resurrecting amelia's not-actually-dead husband certainly gives us all a guilt-free out of this whole fucking situation

[anakinsafterlife]

Just started re-watching one of my oldest fandom sources, the 1990s Canadian vampire show Forever Knight. It's still fantastic and alluring, but one of the things that really has changed for me is my view of Dr. Natalie Lambert, the human coroner for the City of Toronto who is attempting to find a cure for vampirism for the eponymous character, Nick Knight, a 13th century vampire who wallows in Romantic agonies for the thousands of people he's killed.

Now, when I was a teenager, I hated Natalie. There are a couple of reasons for this, but mostly I shipped Nick and Lucien Lacroix, his vampire maker/master/father, who the show very clearly sets up as both a familial *and* romantic match to Nick (in a subtextual 90s kind of way), as well as his frequent foe and foil. Lacroix was a 2000 year old former Roman General with a very sexy voice and a thorough obsession for his vampiric progeny. He was fascinating and exciting, while Natalie was frankly a bit of a nag who nagged more frequently as the show progressed.

Watching it now, though.... Natalie is clever and funny, with an engaging scientific curiosity. Most significantly, she is clearly working at a disadvantage because Nick only ever claims to want a cure for his state, while often working at cross purposes with her efforts to help him. She spends most of her (very scarce) free time engineering dietary supplements for Nick while attempting to formulate a kind of vampire vaccine. Nick spends half of his time spitting out what she makes him, and when he does take her concoctions, he often ignores her detailed instructions on how to safely act with his altered or reduced abilities. He also frequently goes back to his vampire sister/lover Janette, while concealing this from Natalie. As for his relationship with Lacroix, he interacts with him frequently, going to him for help and support, while only conveying the worst of their relationship to Natalie, leading her to believe that he hates his maker unequivocally, when that clearly isn't the case.

As for the aforementioned nagging, Natalie had a right to it! Nick frankly leads her on for the majority of the series, whether consciously or unconsciously, with the notion that someday they can be together. Meanwhile she gets older and older, and has to demand more attention from a man who is so ambivalent and perpetually dissatisfied that he eventually finds fault with everyone close to him.

Poor Nat. You didn't deserve your...Last Knight.

[abcnewspr]

HIGHLIGHTS FOR ABC NEWS’ ‘GMA3: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW,’ JUNE 19-23

The following report highlights the programming of ABC’s “GMA3: What You Need to Know” during the week of June 19-23. “GMA3: What You Need to Know” is a one-hour program co-anchored by Eva Pilgrim and DeMarco Morgan, with Dr. Jennifer Ashton as chief health and medical correspondent. The news program airs weekdays at 1:00 p.m. EDT | 12:00 p.m. CDT on ABC, and 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. EDT on ABC News Live.

Highlights of the week include the following:

Monday, June 19 — Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D); professional basketball player and author Chris Paul (“Sixty-One”); radio personality and host Angie Martinez celebrates 50 years of hip-hop

Tuesday, June 20 — CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on leaving the role; chat and performance by singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant

Wednesday, June 21 — “GMA” Digital presents “Protect Pride: Resilience After Tragedy;” Deals and Steals with ABC e-commerce editor Tory Johnson

Thursday, June 22 — Kentucky high school teacher and author Willie Carver Jr. (“Gay Poems for Red States”); Parents editor-in-chief Grace Bastidas; Broadway performers Justin Guarini and Briga Heelan (“Once Upon a One More Time”)

Friday, June 23 — ABC News “Nighlight” co-anchor Juju Chang with influencer Bretman Rock; Faith Friday with author Ruth Graham (“Transforming Loneliness”); chat and performance by musician Adam Lambert

ABC Media Relations Brooks Lancaster Brooks.Lancaster@abc.com

Daniela Urso Daniela.Urso.-nd@abc.com

-- ABC --

[simplymariac]

One of the very best episode!!! 🧛‍♀️🥰

Forever Knight S2E8 - The Fix

[maaarine]

‘I Had Never Felt Worse’: Long Covid Sufferers Are Struggling With Exercise (Melinda Wenner Moyer, The New York Times, Feb 12 2022)

“When Natalie Hollabaugh tested positive for Covid-19 in March 2020, her recovery felt extremely slow. 

Eighteen months later, she was still suffering from a litany of symptoms, including fatigue, shortness of breath, headaches and joint pain. 

She saw a cardiologist and a pulmonologist, who both ruled out other health problems, she said. 

And they advised her to start exercising, suggesting that some of her symptoms may have been a result of being out of shape. 

So Ms. Hollabaugh dutifully began using an exercise bike, speed walking on a treadmill and walking her dogs several miles a day.

But instead of helping, her new exercise regimen only exacerbated her symptoms. (…)

The researchers found that nobody in the study had abnormal chest CT scans, anemia or problems with lung or heart function, suggesting that organ injury wasn’t to blame for their symptoms. 

Yet when the long Covid patients exercised on a stationary bicycle, Dr. Systrom found that some veins and arteries were not working properly, preventing oxygen from being delivered efficiently to their muscles.

Nobody knows why these blood vessel problems occur, Dr. Systrom said, but another one of his recent studies suggested that long Covid patients experience damage to a certain kind of nerve fiber involved in how organs and blood vessel function. (…)

Dr. Lambert pointed out that some patients with long Covid are also diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (or POTS), a disorder that affects blood flow. 

In people who have POTS, “the nervous system can’t regulate the things that it’s supposed to automatically control, like heart rate, blood pressure, sweating and body temperature,” she said. 

Yet “those are all things that when you’re exercising need to be regulated properly.”

Some doctors also point to parallels between patients with long Covid and those with chronic fatigue syndrome, who have severe fatigue, memory and cognitive problems, and often muscle or joint pain. 

For decades, physicians advised chronic fatigue patients that exercise would improve their symptoms, but for many patients, exercise actually made their symptoms worse and now is no longer recommended.

In 2021, Dr. Systrom and his team studied 160 chronic fatigue patients, and found that when they exercised, they experienced many of the same blood vessel problems observed in long Covid patients, while control subjects did not. 

“We’re essentially finding the exact same thing” when it comes to potential mechanisms, he said.”

[nicholaslucien]

Forever Knight - Dr Natalie Lambert by Nicholas Lucien Via Flickr:

Dr Natalie Lambert, MD.  Nick’s friend and doctor

Forever Knight - Dr Natalie Lambert, Colorized Black & White Image, Red Jacket, Poster Edges Effect on Colored Image Copyright belongs to Sony/Tristar

[odditycollector]

The most inspiring character ever invented is probably Dr. Natalie Lambert from one of the classic Canadian Vampire Cop shows.

A dead body climbs off its morgue slab and her immediate reaction, in roughly equal proportion:

1. Ohhh I can't not fuck him.

2. I am gonna do SO MUCH mad science and submit ZERO ethics forms.

[foreverknightalways]

Nick answers, No, it's the way you said it. Natalie says, Well, I didn't mean to imply that-- Nick says, You shouldn't have said anything. You shouldn't have been there. Natalie answers, I had a commitment. I couldn't just stand by while they tried to run her into the ground with empty accusations. A car continues to follow Natalie's car.

[simplymariac]

From Season 1, Episode 111 Hunters - Det. Nick Knight and Dr. Natalie Lambert. #ForeverKnight #GeraintWynDavies #CatherineDisher

Just having fun with these screenshots. Sony has all the rights to this screenshot set. 😉

[simplymariac]

These photos are so lovely!!! Catherine Disher is a beauty!!😍🤩😎

Lovely photos of Nat from the season 2 and 3 promotional shoots. Catherine Disher looks so pretty in these. 😍

[themedicalstate]

“I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors

By Pam Belluck (The New York Times). Image: Michael Reagan at home in New York City. Lingering cognitive and neurological symptoms have forced him to take a leave from his job. Hiroko Masuike.

The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life.

After contracting the coronavirus in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier.

Several weeks after Erica Taylor recovered from her Covid-19 symptoms of nausea and cough, she became confused and forgetful, failing to even recognize her own car, the only Toyota Prius in her apartment complex’s parking lot.

Lisa Mizelle, a veteran nurse practitioner at an urgent care clinic who fell ill with the virus in July, finds herself forgetting routine treatments and lab tests, and has to ask colleagues about terminology she used to know automatically.

“I leave the room and I can’t remember what the patient just said,” she said, adding that if she hadn’t exhausted her medical leave she’d take more time off.

“It scares me to think I’m working,” Ms. Mizelle, 53, said. “I feel like I have dementia.”

It’s becoming known as Covid brain fog: troubling cognitive symptoms that can include memory loss, confusion, difficulty focusing, dizziness and grasping for everyday words. Increasingly, Covid survivors say brain fog is impairing their ability to work and function normally.

“There are thousands of people who have that,” said Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuro-infectious disease at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, who has already seen hundreds of survivors at a post-Covid clinic he leads. “The impact on the work force that’s affected is going to be significant.

Scientists aren’t sure what causes brain fog, which varies widely and affects even people who became only mildly physically ill from Covid-19 and had no previous medical conditions. Leading theories are that it arises when the body’s immune response to the virus doesn’t shut down or from inflammation in blood vessels leading to the brain.

Image: Lisa Mizelle, a nurse practitioner, has been forgetting routine lab tests and terminology on the job. Wes Frazer for The New York Times.

Confusion, delirium and other types of altered mental function, called encephalopathy, have occurred during hospitalization for Covid-19 respiratory problems, and a study found such patients needed longer hospitalizations, had higher mortality rates and often couldn’t manage daily activities right after hospitalization.

But research on long-lasting brain fog is just beginning. A French report in August on 120 patients who had been hospitalized found that 34 percent had memory loss and 27 percent had concentration problems months later.

In a soon-to-be-published survey of 3,930 members of Survivor Corps, a group of people who have connected to discuss life after Covid, over half reported difficulty concentrating or focusing, said Natalie Lambert, an associate research professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, who helped lead the study. It was the fourth most common symptom out of the 101 long-term and short-term physical, neurological and psychological conditions that survivors reported. Memory problems, dizziness or confusion were reported by a third or more respondents.

“It is debilitating,” said Rick Sullivan, 60, of Brentwood, Calif., who’s had episodes of brain fog since July after overcoming a several-week bout with Covid-19 breathing problems and body aches. “I become almost catatonic. It feels as though I am under anesthesia.”

Wreaking havoc on the job

Image: Erica Taylor, a lawyer, has had episodes where her brain feels like “white static.” She couldn’t recognize her car in her apartment complex’s parking lot and had to take a leave from her job. Lynsey Weatherspoon for The New York Times.

When Ms. Taylor, 31, contracted the virus in mid-June, she thought she’d need only a brief break from working as a lawyer for an Atlanta nonprofit helping low-income tenants.

But she became so disoriented that she washed her TV remote with her laundry and had to return a foster dog she’d recently taken in because she couldn’t trust herself to care for a pet.

One morning, “everything in my brain was white static,” she said. “I was sitting on the edge of the bed, crying and feeling ‘something’s wrong, I should be asking for help,’ but I couldn’t remember who or what I should be asking. I forgot who I was and where I was.”

By July, she thought she’d improved and told her boss she could return. But after another “white static” episode, she messaged him: “‘I’m scared. I really want to get back to work. But, I keep getting really tired and really confused.’” He suggested she rest and heal.

She resumed working in early August, but her mind wandered and reading emails was “like reading Greek,” she said. By September, her employer urged a 13-week leave.

“They finally landed on ‘You’re going to have to step away,’” said Ms. Taylor, who requested to volunteer for the nonprofit while on leave but was told no. “I’m gutted, to be honest.”

Image: Mr. Reagan looks through a book of photographs from his trip to Paris in March. He can’t remember anything about it. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times.

Mr. Reagan, 50, who spent five days in and out of hospitals, initially resumed work as a vascular specialist for a company that makes stents and catheters.

But finger tremors and seizures, neurological symptoms that sometimes accompany brain fog, meant “there is no way I’m going to go into surgery and teach a doctor how to suture an artery,” he said.

In meetings, “I can’t find words,” said Mr. Reagan, who has now taken a leave. “I feel like I sound like an idiot.”

Before Ms. Mizelle contracted the virus in July and was hospitalized with pneumonia for five days in August, she’d treat six patients an hour by herself at her clinic in Huntsville, Ala. But recently, she said, “I told our scheduler I can’t work alone because I’m slow in thinking, I’m dizzy, and I just need somebody else there to work with me.”

Sometimes in exam rooms, she said, “I’m trying to be slick with the patient so they don’t know, because you don’t want your provider to be in a fog, which is very scary.”

She’s forgotten to order cultures for urinary infections, but a lab technician caught it, saying “I’ve got you, Lisa,” Ms. Mizelle said.

“As far as I know, I have not made a mistake,” she said, adding that things have recently improved slightly. “I haven’t killed anybody yet.”

Ms. Mizelle in front of her home. Her colleagues have been backstopping her when she sees patients at her urgent care clinic. Wes Frazer for The New York Times.

Searching for answers to a mysterious cause

Brain fog’s cause is a mystery partly because symptoms are so varied.

“The simplest answer is people still have persistent immune activation after the initial infection subsided,” said Dr. Avindra Nath, chief of infections of the nervous system at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Inflammation in blood vessels, or cells lining the vessels, may be involved, said Dr. Serena Spudich, chief of neurological infections and global neurology at Yale School of Medicine. Inflammatory molecules, released in effective immune responses, “can also be sort of toxins, particularly to the brain,” she said.

Tiny strokes may cause some symptoms, said Dr. Dona Kim Murphey, a neurologist and neuroscientist, who herself has experienced post-Covid neurological issues, including “alien hand syndrome,” in which she felt a “super-bizarre sense of my left hand, like I didn’t understand why it was positioned the way it was and I was really captivated by it.”

Other possible causes are autoimmune reactions “when antibodies mistakenly attack nerve cells,” Dr. Spudich said.

Symptoms like tingling or numbness can occur when damaged nerves send wrong signals, said Dr. Allison Navis, a neuro-infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Health System. Some people with brain fog still experience lung or heart issues, which can exacerbate neurological symptoms.

So far, MRI scans haven’t indicated damaged brain areas, neurologists say.

Dr. Murphey, scientific director for a brain-wave technology company, who couldn’t summon the word “work” in a recent meeting, said research is crucial so symptoms are taken seriously.

“People say in a disparaging way ‘It’s all in their head,’” she said. “In this case it is literally in our heads, and it is very real.”

Forgetting Paris, and how to say toothbrush

This summer, Mr. Reagan, the vascular medicine specialist, turned the stove on to cook eggs and then absent-mindedly left to walk the dog, Wolff-Parkinson-White, named after a cardiac arrhythmia. Returning to discover a dangerously hot empty pan, he panicked and hasn’t cooked since.

He’s forgotten this past Christmas, New Year’s and the Paris vacation in March that he arranged for his partner Mustafa Al Niama’s 40th birthday.

“I look at all my pictures of Paris, trying to remember,” he said, showing a selfie of the couple at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. “We went and saw a Madonna concert, we went to the Eiffel Tower, we went to the Catacombs. And I remember nothing, nothing at all.”

Mr. Sullivan navigates a spectrum of cognitive speed bumps. In the mildest state, which he calls “fluffy,” his head feels heavy. In the middling phase, “fuzzy,” he said, “I become angry when people talk to me because it hurts my brain to try and pay attention.” Most severe is “fog,” when “I cannot function” and “I sit and stare, unmotivated to move, my mind racing.”

Even slight mental or physical exertion can trigger his fog, and Mr. Sullivan, laid off before the pandemic from a senior position with a photography company, said many days he could manage only two responsibilities: “Clean the kitty litter and pick up dog poop.”

Even that was anxiety-provoking. “To me, it was a series of 15 or 16 tasks,” he said. “Oh, my God, I have to find a bag to put the litter in, then I have to take the lid off.”

Julia Donahue, 61, of Somers, N.Y., struggles to speak in fluid sentences, painful because she’s long enjoyed playing Abigail Adams in historical programs.

“Now, Abigail is just a bunch of dresses in my closet,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to give a 45-minute address.”

Recently, she couldn’t even recall “toothbrush,” saying to a friend “‘You know, the thing that makes your teeth clean.’”

Experts advise people with brain fog to see doctors to rule out other medical conditions and treat remaining physical symptoms.

Ms. Mizelle, Mr. Reagan, Ms. Taylor and others are consulting cardiologists and other specialists, along with neurologists.

Doctors don’t know whether symptoms will improve or evaporate with time. Some patients are devising workarounds or makeshift recovery exercises.

Mr. Reagan, who’s also lost his sense of direction, follows a therapist’s suggestion to walk to random locations near his home in Lower Manhattan. Recently, he chose the New York Stock Exchange, several blocks away. He wrote down directions and read them repeatedly before setting out with his partner and their dog.

At the first corner, his mind faltered. “Left?” he asked Mr. Al Niama, who informed him they should turn right.

In mid-September, Mr. Sullivan thought the worst was over, but at the grocery store with his wife, he developed “full-blown fog,” gripped the cart and “wandered around the store like a zombie,” he said.

Days later, he was lifting three-pound dumbbells — nothing compared with his pre-Covid 65-pound routine — when “Bam, the fog hit me,” he recalled, realizing, “I’m not over this.” Then he broke down, sobbing.

[spockvarietyhour]

Oh it’s Catherine Disher aka Dr. Natalie Lambert from Forever Knight!