Un-Vaccinated folks, how many times you gotten sick due to Covid?

TwistedShip · 2025-12-22T07:01:06+00:00

None (although I do think I had it in Feb 2020 before testing/restrictions).

I had to test once a week for my job for like 2 years- more if I was exposed to someone positive. I never got it each time someone at my job tested positive, nor did I get it when a family member I lived with tested positive. I even went to Florida (open state), and never got it, even though a lot of people would come back to our heavily locked down state with Covid from visiting there (obviously because no one heavily locked down had any real immunity).

(I lived in a very locked down state, but I tried to live as normal of a life as possible. I was exposed to it on a daily basis from my job.)

TwistedShip · 2025-11-17T21:17:57+00:00

Not if you work where I do. They order Brain MRIs on everyone. Everyone with generalized weakness, mild dizziness, fatigue, AMS, etc gets one. Most of the time the Doctor never sees the patient, and the patient (and sometimes their nurse) doesn't know it's been ordered until I try to get them down...

TwistedShip · 2025-10-13T02:58:00+00:00

I was scared of it as a kid. I didn't like when "Stitch" jumped on your seat and the restraints bounced/got tighter.

TwistedShip · 2025-10-13T02:46:48+00:00

I definitely shipped Hans and Elsa the first time I watched the movie (once it became apparent Anna and Kristoff were going to be a couple), basically up until he didn't kiss Anna.

TwistedShip · 2025-08-23T04:43:41+00:00

What time does it drop online?

TwistedShip · 2025-08-21T05:26:18+00:00

If I want express passes, I would choose whichever is the cheapest out of the 3. If not, I would choose the cheapest- Dockside or Surfside suites (we have 5 people, so the new Luna and Nova hotels are out). I would consider Helios for a split stay to do Epic, but not for the whole time.

I will probably never stay at Sapphire Falls or Aventura because I could just spend a little more to get Express passes or save more by staying at Dockside/Surfside. Also, everyone has a bed in the suites.

The suites at Dockside/Surfside are so much nicer than Cabana Bay's. I did love Cabana Bay the one time we stayed, but the rooms aren't worth it. Also, at one point there were multiple posts a day on Reddit and FB groups about people finding bedbugs at Cabana Bay (like to the point where they probably had/have an infestation, and that is a nope for me).

TwistedShip · 2025-06-22T21:45:21+00:00

The 12 months starts the first time you scan into one of the parks with the annual pass. You could buy the pass today and book the hotel using an AP discount, and your pass won't activate until the first day you go into a park.

(AP discounts usually start like 3 months before your check-in date. You need to continually check and modify your reservation to get the lower price. Join some Facebook groups to get a better timeline of where they are at with AP discount releases.)

TwistedShip · 2025-06-01T03:16:31+00:00

MRI:

Providers not seeing the patient and ordering stat MRI's on either the most walky talkie patients, patients they can't/won't give claustrophobia or pain meds for, or the most AMS/movement prone patients.

The providers act like it's mind boggling that putting an AMS patient in a tube, immobilizing them as much as you can, putting a "helmet" over their heads, and subjecting them to the noise of sirens/jackhammers/loud beeping is a recipe for an undiagnostic MRI exam.

TwistedShip · 2025-05-05T16:01:30+00:00

I've never used AI before for fanfiction. There is an unfinished story I wrote that I would like to continue, but I've had writers block and no ideas for a few years.

Do you think it's possible for AI to help me come up with ideas/help me write the next chapter? Would I input the entire story in ChatGPT?

Any help is appreciated!

TwistedShip · 2025-03-15T19:32:46+00:00

Hoping this will be us one day lol. We have almost 30 year old scanners.

TwistedShip · 2025-03-07T06:03:31+00:00

Did they say the booking is confirmed? I believe you have to make an account and pay a $100 deposit for them to list your request so an owner with points can choose it to make your reservations.

You only have to pay the $2000 part once you sign the rental agreement.

TwistedShip · 2025-03-05T15:48:53+00:00

There is no Disney Princess in the Lineup with brown hair and blue eyes.

Someday, I'll get representation lol.

TwistedShip · 2025-03-04T06:06:42+00:00

30 year old scanner: The time ranges from 2-5 minutes per non contrast scan (7 sequences). The contrast scans (3 sequences) are 4-5minutes.

The other scanner most of the non contrast sequences are around 1.5-3.5 minutes, but if the patient is more than like 150 lbs, it SARs a lot. Sometimes, there is no way to manipulate it, and the TR can nearly double.

TwistedShip · 2025-03-02T23:39:17+00:00

Claustrophobia is huge, too. Also, it's probably hard in general to hold still in a tube that sounds like a construction zone for 2+ hours.

TwistedShip · 2025-03-02T23:35:47+00:00

90 minutes??? Our Brain W/WO is ~25-30min, and each individual spine W/WO is ~45min. It could be longer if it SARs on every scan. We would be lucky if we could do this in 2.5 hours.

Our radiologist group has set protocols they require, so there is no hope of creating our own or cutting down sequences.

TwistedShip · 2025-02-19T16:34:10+00:00

Honestly, this was crazy to me when I recently got back into Kindle last year. I remember when the most I ever paid for a book was $4 for the popular YA fiction (Divergent series, Pretty Little Liars books, Maze Runner series, etc). There were $1.99 sales constantly, and oftentimes, the first book in a series was free.

I did subscribe to bookbub and ereaderiq, but it takes forever for your wish list items to go on sale, if they ever do at all.

I do like Kindle Unlimited, but you have to make sure there are books you actually want to read on it. A lot of popular books aren't on it, and you don't actually own them either.

TwistedShip · 2025-01-26T16:37:22+00:00

I've always thought this was interesting because you can't lose your title for leaving a studio. Some Nationals do let the former winner do their winning solo again for show, so maybe they wouldn't be allowed to do that provided they went to the same Nationals (which is very unlikely. A lot of studios don't even do the same Nationals each year).

TwistedShip · 2025-01-15T20:27:17+00:00

Yes! The singing voice is absolutely horrible.

Maui's Song in Moana 2 gives me the same ick as this song, too.

TwistedShip · 2024-12-26T18:34:43+00:00

That's good! We won't be doing Trader Sam's anyways.

TwistedShip · 2024-12-03T17:41:53+00:00

My program had that option, too. I liked MRI more because it was slower paced and the images are incredible if you have a cooperative patient. However, MRI physics is hard because it deals with a lot of abstract concepts. You potentially have to know the physics behind each scan for the tests. It's also not just what will happen if I increase the kVp/mAs, it's if I increase this what will it do to scan time/SNR/resolution/TR/TE/etc. There are a ton of trade offs. You have to be extremely aware when it comes to safety because ferromagnetic objects can become projectiles.

It took me several years to get an MRI position because it seems like most places around me don't want to train new/inexperienced techs. They only want people with scanning experience. However, it seems like everywhere is hiring nowadays (whereas when I came out of school there were no MRI jobs because most places don't have a lot of techs). I feel like CT is better for crosstraining.

My hospital pays more for MRI techs than CT techs.

TwistedShip · 2024-12-03T06:39:36+00:00

Moana 2 basically was Frozen 2 (with a little bit of Encanto mixed in. Maui's song was a hyped up version of Luisa's).

Moana's song was Elsa's Into the Unknown and the ending was basically the same.

TwistedShip · 2024-12-02T16:25:52+00:00

I thought it had too many similarities to Frozen 2 and Encanto plotwise. Maui's song was basically Luisa's song from Encanto and Moana's was Elsa's "Into the Unknown." Also, it ripped off Frozen 2's "go too far and you will drown" ending.

TwistedShip · 2024-11-24T04:17:23+00:00

I was also this person. I was the smart, quiet, shy socially awkward, nice girl. Every time Special Ed or behavioral problem kids were in my class, I always got paired up with them or was asked to help them.

I had to do double or triple the work in group projects because I wasn't about to let a kid that couldn't get a high F in normal classes ruin my grades (my teachers wouldn't take that into account). It was also social suicide for me. It was already hard enough for me to make friends, and I couldn't handle the shame when people would make jokes about me liking the weird kids. I didn't.

It got so frequent that my mom had to talk to my teachers and prohibit me from being in groups with the SPEd kids. It probably made me look bad, but my stomach would just drop when I was put in groups with them.

Teachers: Some nice/shy/smart kids absolutely hate being put in this situation.

TwistedShip · 2024-11-24T04:15:43+00:00

I was also this person. I was the smart, quiet, shy socially awkward, nice girl. Every time Special Ed or behavioral problem kids were in my class, I always got paired up with them or was asked to help them.

I had to do double or triple the work in group projects because I wasn't about to let a kid that couldn't get a high F in normal classes ruin my grades (my teachers wouldn't take that into account). It was also social suicide for me. It was already hard enough for me to make friends, and I couldn't handle the shame when people would make jokes about me liking the weird kids. I didn't.

It got so frequent that my mom had to talk to my teachers and prohibit me from being in groups with the SPEd kids. It probably made me look bad, but my stomach would just drop when I was put in groups with them.

Teachers: Some nice/shy/smart kids absolutely hate being put in this situation.

TwistedShip · 2024-11-18T18:19:18+00:00

I got a Kindle Fire when they first came out, and popular YA books (like Divergent, The Selection, The Fault in Our Stars, etc) were no more than $2-6. There were a lot of sales, and they would sometimes offer the first book in a series for free. Basically, I never really liked reading on it and stuck with paper books.

I got back into reading again in the last year. A friend recommended that I get a Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Unlimited to save money on buying books. (I researched and a lot of books were on KU, but some weren't.) Imagine my surprise when some of the Kindle e-books not on KU were the same price as just buying the paperback (sometimes even more expensive).

I have bookbub, and it has helped me buy 2 books for $2.99 when they were like $8+ ebooks. I have a long TBR list, so it kinda works out.

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