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mermaidsirennikita · 6 months ago

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Do you have any recommendations of like servant/master stuff? Boss/employee may also work but like personal assistant employee? Someone who knows the most intimate details about their employer and understands the better than anyone else but uh oh they're hot? Ty

Sure!

The Duchess Hunt by Lorraine Heath is pretty much exactly this. The heroine is the hero's personal assistant/secretary (it's a historical romance, he's a duke) and he asks her to help him find a wife. She's been in love with him for years, so obviously she's like ".... it's time for me to leave ...." which is what wakes him up to the fact that he's obviously OBSESSED. I need to reread this.

Selina by S.M. LaViolette. Selina, who's a lady, disguises herself as a housekeeper and gets hired at this big gothic estate. The hero is going through some shit (he's adjusting, rather understandably badly, to losing his sight in an accideent that killed his friend and his wife) and at first hates her but then becomes emotionally dependent on her as she strives to do things like help adapt the estate for him, etc. It's really good.

His Valet by S.M. LaViolette. LOL YEAH. In this one, we would now call Jo nonbinary, but she uses she/her pronouns. She's been disguised as a man her whole life and been the valet of the hero for years, but is super obsessed with him and finally takes the chance to disguise herself as a lady looking for a loooover. Which means they hook up. Multiple times. And he falls in love her, being too dumb to realize she's the valet he's completely dependent on... It's EROTIC AS FUCK, and both edgy and sweet and has a great grovel.

Rules for a Proper Governess by Jennifer Ashley. The hero hires the heroine as his kids' new governess, but quickly becomes super fixated on her, especially an Oral Manner. The heroine was originally a street urchin stalking him, so it works.

The Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles. M/M, the hero is a coarse veteran who unexpectedly inherits a title that's being challenged by his relatives. He hires the other hero as his secretary—which is a big deal, as he struggles with reading. And, you know, an illicit affair begins.

Married by Morning by Lisa Kleypas. In this case, she's his sisters' governess, and they butt heads from the start, but she's also like... kind of running shit, and he's of course completely obsessed with her while being in denial about it. Until he isn't in denial about it at ALL.

The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt. She's his secretary, on whom he's very much reliant, but he doesn't want to cross the line and as a results SHE crosses it for him by disguising herself as a courtesan, wearing a mask, and dipping over to sleep with him at his favorite bothel!

Contemporaries with this vibe:

Reckless by Stella Rhys. The ultimate assistant/work wife book. The heroine is his PA, and they start hooking up to burn off steam after a tense moment when she finds out her fiancee was cheating on a work trip.

Managed by Kristen Callihan. The heroine is the social media manager for a rock band, but ends up being the sort of work wife of the band's manager... And he also needs a platonic nap partner to help with his insomnia... and he masturbates while smelling her dirty panties...

On the Hustle by Adriana Herrera. The heroine is the hero's personal assistant(?) and quits at the beginning of the book, which SHAKES AND DESTROYS HIM, so naturally he follows her over to her new job doing renovations for a reality show.

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lamentinghare · 29 days ago

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I'm going to let my story be known here in hopes I find others who relate to it and hopefully help other people see that there is hope after the storm:

My life was somewhat okay up until around the age of 8. This is where my childhood trauma really begins. It was 2006, my family and I were visiting with our cousins out at my grandparents ranch in California for the 4th of July season. We had to celebrate the holiday a little earlier than usual but all in all, we had a good time. As the week went on, we learned that on the night of the 4th, my cousins' father, who had gotten into a major argument with my aunt, had lost his mind due to his Schizophrenia and Drinking, decided to get his rifle and shoot my four cousins in the head as they slept and then went to the kitchen with his shotgun and killed himself near the entryway to their home. My aunt, not knowing what happened, returned home at a later time to discover what he had done. As tragic as this is, I fortunately was not there to witness it, however, my family, mostly my mother, had taken this event and used it as an excuse for a slew of mental health problems and trauma that we didn't genuinely have. She didn't allow me to grieve in a healthy way, instead, my family became more negative.

We had moved to Washington State in 2005, as my Dad had a new job working as an Electrician for some reputable company. We first lived in Issaquah. Life there was okay but being the new kid in town and going through what I was going through, I was deep in grief and at that time some sort of depression. This made it easy for the kids around me to pick on me and cause me to get in trouble more easily because of how I reacted. During this time or thereabouts , my great grandmother had moved up to Washington as well to live in a home not too far from us. I have memories of going over to the trailer she lived in at that time and how things were for me then. At that time, she was okay to be around, but we will get back to her later in the story.

Life in Issaquah was typical, there were good days and bad days, but in that time my parents both became more emotionally charged and had difficulty dealing with my brothers and I because of how energetic and raucous we were then. At this point, my mom in particular became more verbally abusive, yelling all the time to get us to do things, while my father was working more and more, so that did put a strain on her, but still wasn't a great way to parent.

We eventually moved into a home in Bothell, WA in 2008. It is a real place that is easy to look up even, 532 198th St. SE. This is the home I was abused in. It will never leave my mind. The number 532 is engraved into my memory and still follows me to this day.

I will start out by stating that if you have made it this far into the story, thank you for being here with me in this place. I will now talk about what happened to me during this time between 2008-2010.

We moved into the home and took some time getting adjusted to finally being in a home after living in apartments for a bit. It was at this time that my parents had become distant from us kids and my mom in particular having her own issues with her mental and physical health and my dad pretty much being emotionally and physically distant as well with his own issues too. My two younger brothers were young and wild and didn't have any control over their own emotions and actions. I was the only one in the home that had some sense of structure and reality. My great grandmother had also moved in with us as well because she apparently had no where else to live, but it is important to know as well, she was sinking deeper into her dementia and whatever other mental and physical health issues she had too. This all plays into what the atmosphere was like in the home and how everyone treated eachother during this time and how I was abused too.

I can't truly remember what sparked the abuse towards me in particular nor which event happened first but to make things easier I'm just going to list everything that happened to me between my mom, great grandmother, and out of the home as well:

I was forced to pick up everyone's trash and clothes (mom)

I was forced to clean up everyone's dirty dishes and how clean off how moldy they were (mom)

I was beaten with a belt, mouth washed out with soap, or forced to stay in my room with nothing but a blanket and pillow as forms of punishment for things I never did (mom)

I was also forced to write sentences about not doing certain things ever again (mom)

I was forced at some points to eat moldy food to learn not to waste food ever again (mom)

I had my faced rubbed in dog feces at some points as punishment (mom)

I was called on several occasions "my little slave" by my mom in public as a "joke" (mom)

I was verbally and emotionally abused by my mom in order to fo things that I didn't want to do and followed along with it so I wouldn't get harmed (mom)

At one point the door to my room had been removed so I couldn't have any privacy (mom)

There were occasions where she would slap me in the face for lying or talking back to her (mom)

There were times when I was forced to do things physically that were difficult for me to do as a little kid, putting me in harms way of injury (mom)

This was also the time when my mom had started making me and my brothers get onto medications for issues we really didn't have but was more due to our environment and her (mom)

Also, pornography and anything sexual was accepted in the household, me finding my parents porn and sex toys easily (mom)

My great grandmother began molesting me by treating me as her dead husband, my dead great grandfather who I never met because he died before I was born (gma)

I was forced to do what a husband would do to his wife, massage her, clip her toenails, rub lotion on her, etc (gma)

My grandmother would treat me more with objects and give me more attention than the rest of my family members (gma)

There were multiple occasions where I was forced to use my hands and arms to unclog her toilet downstairs (gma)

She would kiss me on the lips more instead on the cheek, which on the cheek would be more appropriate (gma)

Then one night, I awoke to saliva and cum all over my genitals and knew that she had raped me in the night as I slept (gma)

I was bullied physically and emotionally by school bullies in middle school (public)

I was bullied at the church we went to the next town over by similar bullies, emotionally and physically (public)

I was treated poorly by school staff and teachers about being bullied and didn't want to go to school as much because of it (public)

I am sure there is more to add but this covers alot of bases as far as what happened to me. Now it's time for me to be honest about what happened next. Given that I was only 10-12 when this all happened and under an extreme amount of stress and in survival mode, there was no avenue of escape that seemed plausible, until one day when my brothers started being abused by me sexually as a result of me being abused by my mom, grandmother and public bullies.

I can't recall what started the abuse between my brothers and I but I do know that it happened after my grandmother was removed from the home. Some people will see this and think that I am in the wrong for harming my brothers, but experiencing something and just reading about it are two vastly different things.

Anyways, after all of this happened for about a year or so, my brothers eventually came forward and told my parents about what happened between them and I and I was then put into the legal system as a Juvenile SO and made to register at 12 years old. This was extremely difficult for me and for my family but honestly should never have happened to begin with but it did anyway.

I was then required by law to attend a specialized therapist to help me through my trauma and sexual stuff. I was somehow allowed back into the home after everything happened but under strict supervision by my parents and eventually into two different households.

Things weren't perfect but there was some progress being made but unfortunately in the summer of 2012, my dad had gotten a new job over in East Wenatchee, WA and we all had to move back in with eachother, which wasn't wise, but there was no other way around it.

Of course, you can probably see where this is going to go but I will say that, I wasn't getting the help I needed from the therapist there, the household had become negative again, and we all fell back into our old ways and habits. Unfortunately, that also meant the abuse between my brothers and I had also started again. This went on until about April of 2012, when after realizing that I wasn't getting the help I needed, being abused by my mom in more ways than one and not having a way to actually live my life, I went into their room, told both of my parents what had happened and that sparked another long and chaotic time for me but eventually got me out of that environment for good.

I was put through the system there and was placed in a juvenile detention center over near Spokane, WA for 45 days until my release on May 29th, 2013, to where after immediately returning home to gather my belongings was being driven back over the state to Belfair, WA to live with my estranged cousin and my unknown great uncle at that time.

The first couple of years were rough just because of trying to adjust and work through my trauma but eventually, I got through my state mandated therapy, graduated high school and began to work in construction for a bit.

It wasn't until Covid happened that I actually started to explore who I really am and actually work on me as an individual rather that what the State saw me as.

It has been a long and arduous journey so far but I now am in my third year of college studying to become an environmental scientist with a specialty in mycology, I came out as transfeminine in 2021, I no longer have a record nor have to register, and am continuing to live my life the best I know how while continuing to reshape my inner narrative and work through my trauma.

I hope my story helps you see that there is hope through the storm and that no matter what happens, you too can get through things, as I have gotten through things.

#tw trauma #tw childhood trauma #tw abuse #csa survivor #tw death #cptsd recovery #cptsd vent #living with cptsd

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ben-loke-capstone · 2 months ago

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UWB Collaborative for Socio-Ecological Engagement

For my internship, I am working at the University of Washington Bothell Collaborative for Socio-ecological Engagement (CoSEE). The Collaborative operates out of the Environmental Education and Research Center in Saint Edwards State Park and focuses on community engaged learning and place-based research. The work which we do at the CoSEE is pretty varied due to how new of an organization we are, how diverse the backgrounds and interests of the interns are, and how different the demographics we are targeting content towards are. The intended audience for the materials and events we create can range from preschool aged kids who visit from a nearby nature school to the elderly. Despite these differences, a lot of the work which we do is centered largely around community outreach, building awareness, and disseminating information surrounding the park, with things like nature workshops, backpack programs, and field guides hopefully helping visitors learn about and engage with nature and the outdoors and be more mindful of the environment.

During my internship at the CoSEE, I have put a lot of focus on creating educational material or converting existing research into relatively short-form content which can be posted onto social media. From my time here so far, I have really noticed how much amazing research and content never reaches the general public as it is trapped in dense research articles, hard to find websites, or lengthy books. While these mediums are really great for providing as much information as possible and are probably better suited for academic or policy based audiences, they remain quite inaccessible to most people who don’t have the time, skillset, or desire to spend hours wading through research. Even as someone studying political science and environmental studies, where reading is a massive component, I was still struggling to get through a lot of these papers. With how much scientific literacy and effective communication seem to be lacking in our current information atmosphere, I thought that attempting to convey information about complex environmental topics through simplified social media posts could potentially help alleviate some of these problems. As someone who has been quite interested in science communication and education, I think that the time I’ve spent at this internship has really shown me how important it is that information can be delivered in a clear and concise manner when addressing non-academic audiences.

Another important thing which my work has taught me is the importance of knowing and understanding one’s audience when attempting to educate them. This concept might seem obvious when alternating between making content for preschoolers and making content for adults but from my experience it is something which is often overlooked when those coming from academic backgrounds attempt to communicate with other audiences. Through this internship I’ve learned how important knowing the audiences’ values, beliefs, and biases is when trying to overcome partisanship and create meaningful and constructive dialogues when interacting with someone who might disagree with you. I think that this skillset is especially useful when communicating with legislators and policymakers, something which I think might be an important part of my future work with my current focus on environmental policy. From my experience speaking to legislators during lobby days, I’ve seen first hand the effectiveness of understanding what issues congress people might be receptive towards and targeting appeals that fit into their value system in getting them to support pieces of legislation they might have originally opposed. Additionally, being able to target appeals and information is critical in not only getting people to open up and be receptive to a new idea but also allows us to build rapport that could help in future encounters.

While I have learned a lot throughout this internship, there are definitely quite a lot of things which I have struggled with. One of the major struggles is getting the materials and information necessary to be able to make content and being adaptable enough to make things work when I might not have access to the resources which I want. With how committed I’ve been to properly sourcing and fact checking any content which I publish, every educational post requires basically the equivalent bibliography and research of an essay, which makes the work quite mentally taxing. Additionally, as I’ve never had experience with creating content in this way, a lot of the time I am experimenting and kind of finding my own path as I work since there isn’t really a guide or instructions on how to effectively communicate these issues. Finally, coordinating with others and reaching out to experts has been quite a difficult process. I had initially wanted to do a series of interviews which would be made into various pieces of material but after many attempts to get an interview, literally nobody responded to a request. Adapting to one of my plans failing so spectacularly and rebounding from that to create a good product has taken quite a lot of flexibility and effort and I’m really happy with how I’ve been able to respond to a lot of the challenges I’ve faced.

Something which I wanted to talk about is the way in which we get and consume our news. I know a lot of us use social media to get information and a lot of really scary stuff has been going around with how social media sites are operating and the way they are censoring or pushing content. I want to stress the importance of being diligent in critically assessing everything that we consume and questioning narratives, not only of information which we disagree with but also stories that fit into the narratives we want to be true as well as getting news from a diverse range of sources. I also think that with all of the negative news going around right now that it’s important to sometimes take a break from doomscrolling and take a mental break for a little, spiraling into a depression while being bombarded with negative story after negative story probably won’t accomplish anything positive but taking real world action will. While it is really easy to feel hopeless right now, there are a lot of actions we can take that can make a difference - from boycotts to calling legislators there are still a lot of things we can do even without the cooperation of the federal government.

Here is a tour of the EERC: https://www.tiktok.com/@uwb.cosee/video/7467754097169583406?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7440421261576095262

Here is one of the posts I made surrounding Bobcats in Seattle neighborhoods:

My question for you guys is what mediums do you receive news from, and what are some of the positives and negatives for these different sources? How do these different mediums change how you consume and interact with the news which you see?

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poedaughter7 · 2 years ago

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Weeks ago when I was super sick with Covid someone named Micheal tired to tell me there was something wrong with my car. I had never told them about the make and model of my car, or let them walk me to my car so how did they know anything happened with it? Creepy stalker crap this seemed to be. Then another strange thing happened with my mail. The Mercury club in Seattle, WA wanted to offer me a membership. I applied for membership YEARS ago when I was visiting my aunt Trish living in Bothell a suburb of Seattle, and they said I lived too far away. I had never given The Mercury my new address, and yet mail had been forwarded from one of my older Virginia addresses to me! How did they MAIL that crap? How is Virginia LESS far? Stalkers-stalkers all around! Proof positive people are sharing information about me behind my back, and getting it wrong.

I am a domestic abuse survivor, and have had many ex-boyfriends many times steal money from me, punch me bloody in the face, and stomach. People on the Internet need to STOP forking information over to "friends" who say they want to "help" women in that stalker criminals say that sort of thing too ALL the TIME. The Internet is sadly a treasure trove of dangerous information and misinformation. I have been to some great night clubs, with fun nights, and had good relationships in other areas. In Virginia the clubs are nothing but con-artist abuse factories for bad men meeting new victims. This is why I go on SO MANY road trips out of state, and go FAR away to be social as often as I can hit the road by car, or Amtrak, or road bike. This is why I keep a P.O. box far from my home. An important aspect of data privacy many Internet chat boards forget to mention is do not use home addresses. Simply put don't talk about women's personal information behind their back you are NOT helping them, and getting it very wrong.

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thedaveandkimmershow · 2 years ago

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August was definitely an odd month.

It also felt like two months. There are definitely events during the early part of the month that seemed like they belonged in July. There are even things that happened after the fifteenth that seemed of another age.

The summer/fall thing had a lot to do with that oddness, I’m guessing. We are, after all, now living in the season of Fall.

Booooooooooo. 😡

August was a busy month for Linzy. She played gigs at The Cottage in Bothell and The Rustic Cork in Mill Creek where we enjoyed a lovely evening with dear friends.

The band she's in, The Little Lies (a Fleetwood Mac tribute band) played to a packed Taste Edmonds crowd on the 11th. The other band she's in, Midnight High, debuted their new album, Swimming Lessons, at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard to a packed house and a lot of love from that audience.

The month was a busy one for me in a number of ways, the most interesting of which was exploring the use of Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe's AI tool that enables serious manipulation of reality. For example, we were at a Public Storage place with friends when I took out a chair, placed it in the middle of the road between two buildings, and had our friend's son sit on that chair with a big smile plastered on his face. With not terribly much effort, I replaced the background trees and sky with a sun-soaked jungle. I also replaced the road with a brighter chunky cement surface and toy dinosaurs running all about.

Seriously.

Toy dinosaurs.

As if they were giant set pieces I'd brought down for the occasion.

Couple weeks later on a particularly bright and hot weekend, I took another photo at that Public Storage, this time with plenty of room for…

A giant public swimming pool.

No kidding. It actually looks like a public swimming pool complete with a net for water sports, barely a couple feet from our van.

I did a bunch of stuff like that across the month, figuring out this tool. Mostly illustration-y things. But those photos at Public Storage continue to capture my attention because of how strikingly real are my additions.

Kimmer, of course, continued her work from home with Ballard Psych. She's also fully gearing up for her Doctoral program at The American College of Healthcare Sciences in Portland. It's an exciting opportunity for her and, from the sidelines, I can see the experience is fixing to be pretty incredible with all the resources they're already making available to her.

For our family movie outing of the month, we all convened at The Crest Theater in Shoreline to watch "Barbie" and compare notes. It's fun to watch, definitely. It's filled with a lot of laugh out loud moments on top of a metric ton of nostalgia. It's creative as hell, great casting (did not see Rhea Perlman coming, for example), wonderful performances all around. Definitely a lot of social commentary that, in a nearly full theater, resonated with a lot of different people at different times according to their experiences... as well as lighting up universals that are obvious (of course) to everyone.

One of my favorite quiet moments of August was a comfy weekend afternoon when Kimmer 'n I drove into Ballard, grabbed some burgers at 'Lil Woody's next to The Majestic Bay Theaters, and drove further west to that spot overlooking Salmon Bay where the water empties out into Shilshole Bay. At that overlook is a patch of grass with a park bench on which we enjoyed a lovely lunch together.

Those sweet moments are not nothing, you know?

Insanely Small World Award of the month goes to Lerin Herzer who opened for Midnight High at their album release show. Lerin, it turns out, is the daughter of Linzy's Jr. High band director.

Dang.

The previous winner, by the way, is Harry Wirth III, Linzy's bandmate in The Little Lies who was also in a band called Molasses, a band in which Linzy's High School band director also played.

Speaking of Linzy's high School band director, he recently referred one of his 2023 graduates to me to talk shop. The student's about to embark on their university experience and wanted to ask questions about being a professional creative. We covered a lot of ground during our conversation and, once again, much to my chagrin, I found myself advocating what once I used to roll my eyes at whenever the Music & Video Business director at the Art Institute of Seattle would bring up his pet advice: networking.

He talked about it a lot.

And we all rolled our eyes.

Only, you know, he was right and even though I frame the advice in terms of community and chasing your career as part of a group with compatible skillsets, yeah.

I'm singing that same old song.

Networking.

So that's it for August (and summer, apparently).

Eight down.

Four to go in 2023.

Onward!

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solarbird · 1 year ago

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So Seattle maintains a bike facilities map and now with the light rail 2 Line starting up this week they're keeping one, but there's none for Northshore and North King County and the thing is

we connect to all that stuff

so I'm making a connector map. I have pretty good info for Shoreline, Kenmore, Bothell, and parts of Lake Forest Park but not all of it. Woodinville and the unincorporated east is a LAND OF MYSTERY to me tho so if you have data point me at it okay thanks

(this isn't anything I've ever used Tumblr for before but there's a first time for everything I guess lol)

(also kirkland has an official bike lanes map but 1) it's five years old 2) it doesn't show routes that actually exist and 3) it DOES show routes that ABSOLUTELY DO NOT exist so fuck that)

#northshore #seattle #woodinville #bothell #kirkland #juanita #lake forest park #kenmore #biking #bike map

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mill-creek-chiropractic · 4 years ago

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Why Diagnostic Imaging Is Important In Chiropractic Care?

Many car accidents occur each year, and they can lead to whiplash or other injuries. If you have been in a car accident and are suffering from whiplash, your chiropractor may recommend that you undergo diagnostic imaging at Mill Creek Chiropractic.

Imaging may help them determine the severity of your injury and figure out a treatment plan that will suit you best!

What Cases Can Prompt Your Chiropractor To Send You For An X-Ray?

The most common tests done by diagnostic imaging include x-rays, MRIs, CT scans, PET Scans, and bone density exams like DXA Scanner (Dual Energy Xray Absorptiometry).

A mill creek car accident chiropractor may deem it necessary to carry out an x-ray or imaging on you in certain situations. Examples of such cases may be;

Your chiropractors can ask you to get an X-Ray if you’re involved in a severe road accident.

When you’ve suffered significant traumas, for example, falls from heights greater than five feet, your chiro can ask you to get an X-Ray.

Your chiropractor can require an X-Ray if you’ve had previous surgery on your neck.

Chiropractors may recommend an X-Ray for you if you have signs of a fracture in your lower back.

If you have worse pain with your neck or spine movement, your chiropractor can recommend an X-Ray for you.

With a history of trauma and a spine that is vague, your chiropractor can ask you to get a scan.

Your chiropractor can ask for imaging if you have an infection or an abscess in your spine.

If a patient has a history of cancer and has been going through treatment, the chiropractor can ask them to get an X-Ray.

If you are immobile or can’t sit up straight with your feet flat on the ground, a chiro can ask you to seek X-ray services.

If your condition shows vague or unclear symptoms, a chiro can ask you to get an X-Ray before proceeding with any treatment.

The Importance Of Diagnostics Imaging In Chiropractic Care

A diagnostic radiograph can provide your doctor with crucial information about what's going on inside of you. X-rays and other images can help diagnose issues like arthritis, bone fractures/dislocations (i.e., from falls), tumors, congenital disabilities, and more.

It may also give you peace of mind by ruling out these possibilities.

A chiropractor will also take x-rays to rule out anything like scoliosis, which can cause chronic low back pain for no reason at all! Diagnostic imaging should never replace an appointment with your local chiropractor because it's best to see what they think first before getting more tests done on you.

If you do have some minor injury, then diagnostics just help give them an idea of how bad things might be so they know what course of treatment to recommend.

Now that you know why you may need diagnostic imaging, we at Mill Creek Chiropractic have state-of-the-art equipment and internationally qualified, talented car accident chiropractors. We offer excellent diagnostic services and treatments to patients.

Mill Creek Chiropractic

16212 Bothell-Everett Highway, Suite E

Mill Creek, WA, 98012, US

425-745-4430

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redbeardace · 5 years ago

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Between Panic and Indifference

Okay, serious post time.

As you may know, I live near Seattle. And if you’ve been paying attention to the news (in between the politics), you’ll know that we’re currently going through a bit of something. I’ve been making jokes about it, but I sort of want to talk seriously about some of what it’s like here right now.

Quick recap: About a month ago, it was announced that the first case of COVID-19/coronavirus had popped up in Everett, Washington. Everett’s one of the larger suburbs of Seattle, home to a Boeing airplane factory, FunkoPop HQ, and Half-Price Books that I go to once in a while. It was someone who’d been to Wuhan in China and got sick after returning to the US. He went to the doctor, got quarantined, and that was it. The system worked, the disease was contained, the guy got better. And that was it.

Until last week. Last week, they closed Bothell High School “out of an abundance of caution” in order to clean it, because a family member of someone who works at the school had gotten sick after returning from overseas travel. Bothell is a smaller suburb than Everett. It’s largely unremarkable, one of those places that takes up three exits on the freeway, but no one really understands why. It’s also where I live, so hearing that the high school was closed was a bit unnerving, but also a bit ridiculous because it was all speculation. It was a family member of a school worker, and that employee was staying home. And it turned out that there was nothing to it, that family member did not have COVID-19. But at least the high school got cleaned.

False alarm, back to your regularly scheduled--

Scoop Jackson High School in Mill Creek is closed on Friday, this time for a confirmed case. Mill Creek is an even smaller suburb, sandwiched between Bothell and Everett, and it’s where my post office and a grocery store I go to is. A student had the “flu” earlier in the week, went to the doctor, the doctor said go home, get better. So the student did that. They got better and went back to school on Friday. Unbeknownst to them, their doctor had performed a coronavirus test. The student hadn’t been out of the country, hadn’t been around anyone who’d been out of the country, so they shouldn’t have had it, the doctor was just performing the test as part of some study.

It was positive.

They hadn’t been out of the country. They hadn’t been around anyone who had been. The only known case in the area had been contained. There were a few cases in California that were mysterious, but at least those were linked to a possibly mismanaged quarantine situation. But in Mill Creek, there wasn’t any of that. Sure, it’s next to Everett where the first case was, but that was contained. So what the hell?

Later that night, there was another case of “possible coronavirus” in Bellevue, the city where I work.

Then Saturday happened. The first confirmed death, in Kirkland, Washington. You know Kirkland as the Kirkland from “Kirkland Brand” at Costco. I know Kirkland as the place I drive through on my commute that’s between Bothell and Bellevue. Several more hospitalizations. A news conference talks about the death and the hospitalizations and, almost as a side note, mentions 50+ people connected to a nursing home, also in Kirkland, as showing symptoms. Fifty people. I’m going to come back to that. None of these people had been to China or Italy and I don’t think any of them knew anyone who had. So what the hell?

Later that night, a scientist from a local research facility posts a short Twitter thread that potentially could have gone unnoticed. It’s a Twitter thread for crying out loud, who knows what kind of crackpot this could be? But it’s not a crackpot. It actually is a local research scientist. The thread kinda gets right to the point. An analysis of a sample of the virus from the first patient genetically matches a sample of virus from the Mill Creek student, therefore it is highly likely that the virus has been circulating around the area, on the loose, for six weeks.

Oh.

That deadly disease that we’ve been watching cripple other parts of the world, killing thousands. That’s here. Now. And it’s been here for weeks.

And by here, I mean HERE. You may have noticed that all those cities I mentioned are places that I go regularly. “Here” is literally right outside my door. I am in the bright red bullseye of the hot zone, as this virus swirls around me.

After Saturday, it’s a bit of a blur what happened when, but the specifics really don’t matter. More cases, more deaths, a Seattle skyscraper closes, Amazon closes, Microsoft closes, more schools close, including the entire Northshore School District (the district I live in), which closed today for the next two weeks.

So that’s the recap. That brings us up to now. But you could’ve gotten all that by watching the news. I’m really writing this post to talk about what it’s like here at the moment.

I think the scariest thing about it all is that we don’t know how scared to be. We’re used to thinking of disasters in terms of a concrete event. Something happened, you can see the impact. An earthquake, a school shooting, a hurricane, a terrorist attack, a volcanic eruption, a nuclear meltdown. Most of the time, it ends, you can count the bodies, tally up the damage, and that’s that. Even in a longer term event, you can see the lava coming and get out of the way or look at a map of the Chernobyl or Fukushima exclusion zones and avoid those places.

But this is an invisible disaster. It’s literally in the air around us. It’s on door handles and shopping carts and library books. Your coworker or neighbor or roommate could be The Thing, and you have no way of knowing. We’re playing a dangerous game of tag against an invisible opponent, and you have no idea you’re it until way too late.

Even worse, we have absolutely no idea whatsoever how bad it actually is. The latest official number I can find as of this writing is that there are 39 confirmed cases, and ten of those have died. A significant number of those cases are associated with that nursing home I mentioned earlier. So 39 isn’t bad at all, out of a couple million people in this region. Even if you limit it to just the “bright red bullseye of the hotzone”, that’s several hundred thousand people. So 39 out of that is nothing. But you’ll remember that I mentioned that there were 50+ people connected to that nursing home that were sick, and only some of them are counted in that 39 number. Then there’s a bunch of firefighters in the area who went to that nursing home, who are sick. Family members who are sick. And that student in Mill Creek and the first guy who died got it from somewhere... And other random people just popping up here and there who had to get it from somewhere. You add those all up, and it’s probably 100+ cases, but for some reason, they’re not yet confirmed (or even tested), so they don’t show up in the official counts yet.

They weren’t really testing people who hadn’t been overseas or been in contact with someone who had been, until this week. It’s been here, on the loose, for six weeks. There are probably thousands of cases that have gone undiagnosed. For most people, it’s like the flu. So how many cases of the “flu” were really COVID-19? They’re retroactively discovering people who died prior to Saturday who had it. Their deaths had been chalked up to some other respiratory disease.

So it’s here and it’s killing people. But... It’s been here for six weeks and we’re not all dead yet. So what does that mean? Is the disease not actually as bad as people feared? Sure, it sucks if you get it and it’s really bad if you’re old or already sick, but so’s the flu, and we haven’t panicked about that since Seattle made it to the Stanley Cup. If that’s the case then maybe this is as bad as it gets, which, frankly, isn’t that bad at all and we’re all overreacting. Or are we just at the start of the spread and it’s about to go Beast Mode on us and lay us flat for two years? We don’t know.

Everything’s shutting down except huge gatherings like ECCC and the Sounders games. King County just bought a motel to use as a quarantine site. Stay in your car on the ferry. Awkwardly jab elbows instead of shaking hands. But only ten people have died out of 4 million, and all of those ten had “underlying conditions”, and it hasn’t been bad enough for anyone to notice until now, so...

So what are we supposed to do about all this? Raid every store for every last bottle of Purell and every last roll of toilet paper and hunker down in our homes like it’s the end of days? Or do nothing in particular because enh no biggie?

It’s like we’re standing on a beach and we’ve been told that maybe a tsunami is coming. We’ve been standing here for a month and a half, and the water is up to our ankles and we’ve just noticed our feet are wet. Is the tsunami still coming? Is this the tsunami? Or is this just the tide?

It’s weird living like this. You find yourself doing things in different ways, noticing things you never noticed. Every morning now, I’m checking my work email before driving in, just in case we’ve been told to work from home “out of an abundance of caution”, or worse, told that we need to self-quarantine because someone in the office tested positive. Every night, I bring my laptop home in case this is the last day I’m in the office for a while. Everyone’s telling a lot of morbid jokes. Traffic is amazing. There are even spots on the second level of the parking garage and there are NEVER spots on the second level when I get in. Every cough is treated with suspicion, and your coworkers cough a lot. Every door handle is treated with suspicion, and there are a lot of door handles. No one from the other offices is allowed to travel to our office and we’re not allowed to go elsewhere. I’m getting targeted ads for hand sanitizer and Windex. I had a slight tickle in my throat that might just be allergies, but I started mentally doing contact tracing of everywhere I’d been and everyone I’d talked to over the past two weeks. I’ve never even considered that I might have allergies before. I have a day off tomorrow, so do I risk going to the store to make sure I have at least three weeks of supplies, instead of only the two weeks I currently have, just in case? Or do I go to the store just to see the circus of empty shelves? Or do I go to the store to buy an Xbox One X so if I do get quarantined, at least I can be quarantined with True 4K Gaming?

I was listening to the radio this morning, and they were interviewing musician Dave Matthews about the coronavirus. He was talking about touring while this is going on, and how he might come home to Seattle between the legs of his tour, and he said something like “We’ve got to find a balance between panic and indifference”. And I just felt like that’s the best possible way to describe where we are right now.

Seattle: Somewhere between panic and indifference.

#covid19 #coronavirus #seattle #but seriously seattle y'all gotta learn about disaster preparedness #we live in an earthquake zone #and ya ain't gonna be able to pop down to Costco to get a cartful of water #when the full rip 9 hits us #why do you need a cartful of water anyway #you know there's a device in your kitchen that gives you water right #and it's probably going to be fine through all this #this virus isn't going around causing water main ruptures #life in the hot zone #that was a longer post than I was planning

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03/12/2021 DAB Transcript

Numbers 16:41-18:32, Mark 16:1-20, Psalms 55:1-23, Proverbs 11:7

Today is the 12th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it's great to be here with you today as we continue our journey, the journey that leads us through the Bible in a year. And we’re well on our way in that journey. But there is so much out in front of us to experience and see. And, so, we have a grateful heart for the distance that we’ve traveled and the things we've learned so far. But we also have a grateful, an anticipation, a grateful anticipation, for all that is yet to…to be, all it is out in front of us. But we’re here. We’re right here right now. And, so, the next step forward is before us. We’ve been reading from the New International Version this week. Picking up from yesterday. Numbers chapter 16 verse 41 through 18 verse 32.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. And as we bring to a close the second of the gospel narratives, the book of Mark, we thank You for the witness to Your life and to Your ministry and to Your personality and to Your posture. We've witnessed Your determination to bring the truth out into the open and that the false be eradicated. And yet we’re 2000 years in the future and we’re still in the same struggle. And, so, come Holy Spirit You have promised to lead us into all truth and yet so often we choose to veil ourselves in something false because we’re naked and ashamed and running because we’re afraid to be exposed. And so often that comes because we…we’re ashamed. And maybe for good reason. Maybe we have plenty of things that we’ve been involved in while bearing Your name that we shouldn't have been involved in, and were they exposed we would be ashamed. But we’re here with open hands and open hearts saying remove these things from us, reveal these things to us, reorganize our lives, bring us back into complete alignment so that we are who we are supposed to be, and we have nothing to hide, we are true, we are true and righteous before You. Come Holy Spirit we pray. Make us more like Jesus, that we might be conformed to his likeness, that we would be Christ like, that we would be like Christ. Come Jesus we pray. In Your precious name, we ask. Amen.

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And that's it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello, my dear DAB family this is Maria Missionary in Mexico. So, as you know we are here to be a service to the people the missionaries who work among the native indigenous people groups here. A lot of people ask, “why are you in Mexico? Isn't it a reached country already?” You know what? Missions has evolved through the years and I think of the old days people just kind of thought that if they came spoke the national language to…to the native people, that they would understand, get saved, and that would be that but it just didn't work out like that and a lot of the people have…have syncretism, which is they took Christianity just kind of what they understood of it which wasn't a lot and mixed it with their native beliefs. And, so, for example in the Guataheal tribe they believe that the sun in the sky is god the moon is his wife and they had two children, they had Satan and Jesus and Satan is the older brother. They are the children of god and the rest of us in the world are the rest children are the devil. And their god only speaks Guataheal, he doesn't speak Spanish or any other language. So, if you go to them and tell them we have a message for you from God in Spanish well you can imagine they automatically dismiss you because it doesn't make sense to them culturally. So, that's just a little bit of a taste of what missionaries that work among native groups face as they translate the Bible and love these people and help them with their physical needs and plant churches. So, please be praying. Please be praying for missionaries who do work among them, that they would have wisdom, and that…that hearts would be open to hear the truth. Also praise the Lord with us that there is a church now among the Guadaheal people, a young church and that there are missionaries from among them as well helping with the translation and one lady and her husband are reaching out to an entirely new tribe for her. So, that's really exciting.

Hey neighbors it's Lisa the Encourager. Today I want to reach out to Maria and her daughter Taylor. And I heard your story and it really gripped me. And I just can't even imagine what your heart must be feeling every day thinking about your sweet Taylor that you gave birth to and you never dreamed that something so awful could happen to her. And I just pray tonight especially for Taylor and I just want you to know that my heart aches for you and I know that God is gonna be able to see this through for you and I am going to pray now. Dear God thank You for Maria and thank You for her being brave to call us this evening and tell us about Taylor and Taylor’s story Lord. And we know that You love Taylor so much and You do not want this for her life. And God thank You so much for the ministry of the men that are going to intervene in Taylor's life and do their best to take her out of the horrible situation with somebody. And I pray God that that will be successful. I thank You so much for the bravery of those men and I just pray that they will be…and women…I pray that they will be able to convince Taylor to leave and that You will just break her heart and help her to give up and surrender to You Lord. And I just pray God that You will forgive her and help her to get her life back and lead her with the Holy Spirit back to You.

Hello DAB family this is Greg from Bothell. I…I've called before for…for my own prayer requests but today I just feel led to…to reach out and…and let some DABbers know that I'm…I’m listening to…to your requests and I want to just take the time to acknowledge you all. Just I've been behind a little bit and I'm going through the 5th of…of…of March and I listened to Lynn and her family, her grandchildren, her four grown children and her daughter and this unbeliever husband that's inattentive. I just I'm going pray that Lord Jesus just will open his eyes and…and…and…and reveal himself to…to this this family and this father that…that…that he will take care of you and…and keep you in…in…in his loving arms. Maria follower of Jesus, daughter Taylor 26 that's in this…this relationship with this man that's pimped her out and she's…she's involved in drugs and prostitution and this massage parlor and…and…and team Andrew that's going in to rescue her. O Lord Jesus just…I just pray for Taylor and Maria and Andrew that You would…that You would be there in the midst this that You would come Lord. O my God Lord rescue Taylor and bring her home. O Lord Jesus and…and…and Julie in southern Illinois, your marriage, that God God…that God use you and He knows your heart and He knows your husband's heart. And Lord I just pray that You rescue Julie in her desperation and her sadness. In her loneliness she says she's lost…

Good morning DAB. Good morning DAB family it's Nadene calling from East to Midwest praises to God. Woo…out of breath…I just lifted something, but anyway praises to God. This morning as I was listening to Brian March 9th and listening to the prayer requests. There's so much I could pray for. And add to all who had prayed for all the others…others who had asked for prayer I just want to say DAB family we are a strong bunch. I mean those who are going through things right now it's so difficult. And, you know, of course I won't make light of it, but we are winning. You are on a winning team. It's a fixed fight and we've already won the fight. God is so good and I just love the fact that this DAB team is getting stronger and bolder and we are praying in faith and we are believing in faith and we're gonna to win. We're gonna win. So, let's keep our eyes with eyes looked to eternity and from eternity because it's just one big story, God's story and we are blessed to be a part of it. It's not an easy…not an easy journey. Once you become, you know, a follower of Jesus we have a target on our back and somehow, it's an honor to know that the enemy feels that…feels that we are such a threat. Anyway, God bless you everybody and I just wanted to put my log in the fire. Nadene from East to Midwest. God bless.

Hello Daily Audio Bible community my name is Kelly from Boston Mass and I called in last fall. My husband and I have been separated for almost a year. It'll be a year this month and I called in for prayers of reconciliation and restoration in healing. And we had our first grandchild that was due to arrive or did arrive on New Year's Day. So, it was a beautiful way to start the 2021 year out. We celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary last Thursday night. Ironically, I was listening to Brian because it was his anniversary with DAB. And it was…it just breathed some life into me that there might be some light or some kind of shift in my husband's heart for us to restore our marriage. I can feel little nudges from God here and there and I'm trying to pay attention to them. We have a long way to go but I just want prayers from all of you if you can that this 32 year marriage can be saved. We hadn't seen each other in a couple of months, and we had very little communication, but it was probably one of the nicer anniversary dinners we've had in many years. So, again I'm just praying and hopeful that God will find our way…help us find our way back to each other and have a healing and happy second half to our marriage and a beautiful ending together with our first grandson born on New Year's Day. I appreciate the prayers and I pray for you all on a daily basis. I love this app. Thank you.

Good morning family it is Wednesday March 10th. Good morning good morning. I'm calling in a prayer request anonymously. Hence, I have gotten myself into a pickle. I have taken my eyes off Christ and put them on myself and what I want and what I desire and who I desire and how I can get what I want. And spoiler alert it's a hot mess. O my goodness friends and family, turns out when you take your eyes off Christ and you focus only on yourself it's harmful and sin is the result and sin damages relationships. And, so, I'm watching the fallout of all these relationships be harmed because I took my eyes off God and put them on myself. Friends, cautionary tale. If you would lift me up and just really help me put my eyes back on God and what He wants and the work He has for me and prayers for the healing of the relationships I've damaged through my sin. Thank you, friends and family. Peace to you.

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