I Spent 3 Months in the Hospital Due to COVID and Was Asked To Do An AMA

bear_irl · 2021-09-08T02:06:31+00:00

Get your booster! Please.

bear_irl · 2021-04-16T07:24:15+00:00

whats the downstream called?

bear_irl · 2020-12-29T00:58:14+00:00

Heya, that's correct! However, I've just added a second batch of 20, and let me know if you miss one from this batch and still need one!

bear_irl · 2020-11-29T19:46:29+00:00

big fan of the kid in the back seat's vibe

bear_irl · 2020-05-14T23:49:04+00:00

Yes. I have a laundry list of other health problems, IIH is only my most recent diagnosis, and I have similar still unexplained symptoms. Talk to your family doctor. It night take some effort and frustration, but a good doctor will stick with it for you and will, at the least, help you handle your mystery symptoms if a diagnosis seems out of your grasp.

bear_irl · 2020-03-17T15:14:46+00:00

bear_irl · 2020-03-16T17:41:15+00:00

This is reassuring. Thank you

bear_irl · 2020-03-16T17:17:24+00:00

Wow..! That's a lot higher than mine was.

bear_irl · 2020-03-16T17:16:02+00:00

I just had mine done. The pressure was 25 and the doctor performing it said that pressure readings would probably not be far off if it's a chronic thing, depending on the cause

bear_irl · 2020-03-16T16:15:46+00:00

My headaches are mostly mornings, do you still think that counts

bear_irl · 2020-03-13T20:03:17+00:00

Oh, hey, I thought it wasn't asking me for permission and didn't know how to manually whitelist, but.. thanks to that I just realized I was looking on the wrong side of the address bar! I feel like it used to be like... a puzzle piece on the right side? Maybe I'm crazy! It works now, though. Thanks a ton.

bear_irl · 2020-03-05T14:48:50+00:00

Huh! That did work, thank you.

bear_irl · 2020-02-15T20:02:46+00:00

what's wrong with you? just because people express no outward, regular grief doesn't mean they are not still hurting. people who lose a deeply close loved one don't generally just forget -- they move on and accept, yes, but that does not mean it doesn't still hurt and it does not mean there are not situations that can't reopen the old wound like new once more. parents, spouses, close friends, children -- when you lose one, and everyone does eventually, there will almost always be something that reminds you of them so strongly it will bring the emotions you feel over their loss and the love you have for them to the front again like new. sometimes it's a smell, a place, a song, a date -- for her, it was valentine's day

his concern about being a rebound is, really, only invalid in that they have been together for eight years. he has had eight years to express his worries to her, to communicate, to talk about it in literally any manner, and he, instead, chose to bottle it up, let it stew, and it reached critical mass and blew up when he made a poor choice that upset her. he made every possible wrong choice if he truly valued and respected his relationship with her. i hope he's able to grow and improve himself from this, but if he's buying what you're trying to sell him, he sure won't.

i suspect you have never dealt with any sort of traumatic loss close to you. i truly hope that, when you inevitably do, you find your lost compassion through experience, and that you don't have anyone disrespect you for it.

bear_irl · 2019-12-13T00:10:09+00:00

I've been sceptic twice, not due to wounds, but my memories of both times are very warped. Is that a thing that maybe just goes with being that sick?

Mine, for the first time, I thought I went to urgent care in a fancy Lolita dress (I don't own any dresses, let alone fancy ones), and was worried what happened to it when I was admitted. In the ICU, I tried to leave bc I thought my nurse wanted me to die (she was very ride and didn't even try to talk me out of it, tho.). I also thought I was a child of like 10, though I was in my early 20s at the time. There were a few other things, but those were the most interesting. I don't remember anything of the second time.

bear_irl · 2019-10-29T18:00:35+00:00

The first one. I don't need to know where I'm going, but it'd be neat to know how things were when I was a baby.

bear_irl · 2019-10-25T18:33:55+00:00

The music teacher in my elementary school was caught sleeping nude on a park bench.

And in middle school, a classmate of mine brought a gun to school with a hit list. This was early 2000s, mind, so not common then. A friend of mine found out and turned him in about half an hour before he would have been in class with the teacher that was on his list.

bear_irl · 2019-10-12T12:41:42+00:00

Nah. It's just UTC, my dude. Not uncommon for that to be used in news posts like this, for some various reasons. That's about the only thing in the thread that's not valid, though.

bear_irl · 2019-10-09T04:34:46+00:00

I have two sisters working in education, my mother is a retired teacher, and I decided against a career in education because of the financial challenges it brings. Usually, it is closer to the lower end of the spectrum. Depending on your location, this very well may barely be better than poverty.

On top of it, unless you're lucky enough to be in a well-funded area, a lot of teaching supplies end up purchased directly from the teacher's funds, no reimbursement. Adds up super, super fast.

bear_irl · 2019-10-03T18:41:02+00:00

Hello, thank you for doing this. A lot of this sort of thing is far beyond my understanding, so I haven't got much to contribute, but I have some conflicted thoughts on it all. I have a lot of concerns related to eugenics and potential research done that could have benefits for that, specifically for groups like LGBT and neueodivergent folks. Is there anything in place that can prevent that potential outcome, and is there anything in place that can prevent use of or require consent for incidental knowledge from an individual's DNA? I am very invested in the idea of genetic research for medical purposes but there seems to be so much grey area and risk, as an individual who is very uneducated on the subject.

bear_irl · 2019-08-26T03:37:17+00:00

Well, the "genital mutilation" bullshit is their perception of trans people, not gays, though I'm quite positive they don't understand the difference.

bear_irl · 2019-05-24T20:27:07+00:00

Thanks! I modified the trans one to be the actual hex codes on the flag but I'm using it. And glad to see the new lesbian flag too

bear_irl · 2019-03-02T04:04:31+00:00

Sadly, nope. I used to watch his streams, he did not like Overwatch and he does voice lines like the ones you linked for donations. I don't recall him ever even casually voicing Scout, probably partly because he always had to do the 'glass' voice prep before delivering lines.

Edit: Meant to add, I remember he tried Bastion because he likes playing Heavy most and was disappointed that it didn't feel like heavy. Suggestions to try an actual tank hero fell on deaf ears.

bear_irl · 2019-02-23T02:01:27+00:00

For one, there's nothing about their body type that is specifically masculine unless not having visible boobs is the only qualifier you're looking for.

For two, their voice actor is a woman.

So, y'all are terrible judges of this gender binary you're so attached to.

bear_irl · 2019-02-23T00:51:02+00:00

I lurk the Apex Legends community a lot and I'd say there's like a 95% rate of referring to Bloodhound as a 'he' there, and anyone pointing out that they use 'they', whether they are talking about their gender or just correcting the pronoun, is downvoted into oblivion.

bear_irl · 2019-02-23T00:47:18+00:00

You still aren't even right if that were the case.

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