#to these vitamins i'm also taking

[cextra-loz]

This iron pill is healing me, or this eating more is healing me, or this salty cheese is healing me, or this hydration is healing me, or

[loki-hargreeves]

Starting clinicals at a new hospital today. I'm surprised I'm relatively calm and not freaking out yet. Praying that the workplace vibes are fun

I feel like Dean in that one episode where he was inside his favourite hospital show

[july-19th-club]

so my brother has what's either a hideous flu or a hideous covid (probably the second option, because it's surging) and instead of staying home he came to christmas if we're not all miserably ill by this time next week it'll be a miracle

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

so is Norovirus one of those things that like, if you're exposed to germs you are GOING to get it, or is it something you can avoid? asking for a friend

[silvermoon424]

I was wondering why I've been feeling so much better than normal these past couple of days and then I remembered I was actually out in the sun for a while on Saturday.

Vitamin D goes crazy hard, especially when you've been deficient lol

[euclydya]

oversleeping doesn't do anybody any good. let me try to fix this.

[seeleybooth]

Andd I'm sick at home again with a cold, I just got over one.

[running-in-the-dark]

my niece stayed with us last night. it was pretty fun this time, probably because I was feeling better (if I'm already in pain or exhausted, I can't handle it). after we dropped her off, we talked to my mother for a little bit, and then drove to my in-laws. we were there for a few hours and because the guys were busy outside, i ended up talking to my mother-in-law for most of that time. it was... kind of good? I don't know. she actually showed some real emotions, just a little bit, but hey that's more than ever before! I even gave her a weird little shoulder squeeze/side hug, it was so weird.

anyway, I almost fell asleep in the car on the way home because I was so tired, and actually did fall asleep immediately on the couch.

[b-blushes]

shopping for vitamin tablets and i will tell you what they LOVE to put calcium in those thangs.

[powerfulkicks]

man what is it with doctors and just assuming your vitamin levels that are like on the edge of normal MUST be the cause of all your problems

the first rheumatologist i went to told me i was vitamin d deficient and when i went back to him after 3 months and told him my pain levels were the same after taking the vitamin d as prescribed he told me it just hadn't had time to work yet. then when i went to him a full fucking year later he still has the gall to tell me that it takes time! no i think you're just an overconfident asshole who doesn't want to actually try to figure out what's wrong and won't even do me the courtesy of telling me to go someplace else cuz you can't help!

a fucking year of my life i could've been actually trying to find answers wasted because a guy just couldn't admit that he was wrong.

[tuesdayscanons]

I feel like Dale would secretly be concerned about Dev's nutritional intake because of how malnourished he was while working in Lemonade Hell.

He would track it through the Au-Pairs so he doesn't come across as suffocating, but Dev would get frequent blood checks and a highly curated diet. Vitamin D would especially be a concern because there's no damn way Dale got enough Vitamin D when he'd been locked up for for long that sunshine hurt his eyes.

Dale would always have orange juice on hand and make sure Dev drinks at least one glass of the stuff per day.

[venacoeurva]

THE WEEK OF THE SNIPPENING IS UPON US (hopefully, rescheduling is always a possibility)

[manasurge]

Tis' the season where I mentally and physically suffer. Complaining below (feel free to ignore, I'm just venting. I usually do this every year to get most of it out of my system lol):

mmm the fall/winter SAD is indeed in full swing. No warmth + no sun = a bad bad time. I always get so annoyed when ppl assume that I love winter bc I'm a "winter baby", as if that has any sort of divine intervention on instantaneously adapting you to perfectly fit the climate you were born in. NOPE. Silly human superstition. I start to freeze once it hits below 20C. I wish I lived in a warmer climate o|-< The depresso is probably going to make me very whiny and moody until next spring, so an early forewarning bc I'm EXTREMELY annoying about it this time of year bc it's the only way I know how to deal with it. But moreso in addition to the physical stuff is how badly it messes with my mind, making me so depressed to the point of just... sitting in non-moving silence where I become stiff as a board (very painful btw) and I isolate, making the bad depresso brain time even worse where I overthink everything bc of the silence and isolation. It's also always the time of year where everyone goes quiet too, which is understandable, but also makes things 10x worse (I am very alone in my life and where I am, and kind of rely on online friends bc they're all I have. I don't even have a pet. I'm literally just, loner mode. I don't really have much family to speak of, and only one family member I do speak to. I have little to no connections at all. But regardless, this is still the best living situation I've been in my whole life, so that's saying something).

[gender-euphowrya]

the absolute vicious shit people think they have to say whenever the topic of 'picky eaters' comes up ESPECIALLY when it's about children is just sickening

[avalior]

While it was strongly claimed during Cosmic Turnabout that Clay caused Solomon's unconsciousness by overdosing him on his anxiety medication, this was not the case.

Solomon's PTSD would likely be treated with SSRIs, with the most likely prescriptions being venlafaxine, sertraline, or paroxetine. Of these three, only sertraline has an explicit side effect of potential loss of consciousness -- however, experiencing this side effect would be cause for hospitalisation and would not be conducive to space travel once Solomon was conscious. The only other alternative would be to cause serotonin syndrome by forcing Solomon's serotonin levels to spike beyond control, through either a medication overdose or combining his existing medication with other tablets to raise his serotonin.

However, serotonin syndrome would also run considerable risk of seizures and arrhythmia, which again would not be conducive to space travel and would be far too inexact as to how much of the medication to give Solomon without a) killing him b) causing him to be entirely unfit for space travel, rather than just knocked out for the launch and c) causing any of the other side effects of serotonin syndrome instead of unconsciousness in isolation.

This also does not tally with Simon explicitly stating that traces of medication were found in Solomon's system -- presuming Solomon had blood drawn shortly following Clay's attempted murder being discovered and police arriving, there is no feasible way that Solomon's unconsciousness could have been induced by his medication as the volume needed to cause the unconsciousness would show in far higher quantities in bloodwork than just "traces".

In truth, Clay assisted Yuri in 'managing' Solomon's anxiety with the launch by including generic sleeping tablets in his usual medication, passing them off as additional vitamins and assisting in this deception by taking visually similar actual vitamins himself. It was these tablets which caused Solomon's loss of consciousness for the HAT-2 launch; far safer than hamfistedly overdosing Solomon on his medication until he caused unconsciousness.

Clay worked under the assumption, with Yuri's deceitful confirmation, that the drugging was consensual and Solomon was aware of this potential plan, with Solomon being consensually unaware of the details as to avoid further anxiety. Following his recovery from the Phantom's attack, once he is medically cleared, Clay does stand trial for Solomon's spiking on charges of infliction of bodily harm.

[womanfredvonkarma]

I've been having what I might call a Time.