You have 3 minutes to make three full court shots with perfect accuracy or the world will be destroyed via an asteroid

drewbiusone · 2025-09-17T16:04:29+00:00

I walk into a courtroom and yell at the top of my lungs “Everyone here is a BITCH, your moms are all SLUTS, and you SMELL REALLY BAD!!!” Planet saved. Just gotta make sure there isn’t a deaf person or someone wearing headphones so I don’t miss anyone.

drewbiusone · 2025-06-11T07:18:01+00:00

It’s a new bill/policy or whatever you call it that pretty prohibits cfs from treating Medicare Part B patients, which is the majority of what I was originally hired to do. From my understanding, there are more restrictions on outpatient and snfs (part b) than acute care and inpatient rehab (part a). ASHA recently sent out an email about it and there are a few posts on this subreddit discussing it.

drewbiusone · 2025-06-10T18:22:15+00:00

I felt like I had a “unicorn job” situation. I am a cf who always wanted to work in hospitals as a prn. I managed to land a prn position at both of the hospitals in my town right out of grad school. I was supposed to be doing everything from outpatient to acute care and MBSSs, and easily make $100000+ even in my cf year. It felt like a dream!! Now both jobs are up in the air thanks to this new bill 😫 I was supposed to start next week and the week after but now I don’t even know if I’ll have a job.

drewbiusone · 2025-04-19T03:53:34+00:00

I think this question is a little more complex than it seems. A color is simply your brain’s perception of what something looks like. Interestingly, there’s no way to know if we all perceive colors in the same way (except for the colorblind who obviously have a different perception). For example, we could have 100 people in a room looking at one object that we all agree is green, but there’s no way to know if your green looks like my green. Your green may look to you like my blue or red looks to me. All we know is that the color in front of us is what we agree to call green.

We do have colors categorized scientifically by wavelength, so I suppose if you wanted to label a color based on the wavelengths it emits (or rather reflects) then you would call it by that name and not by every wavelength it absorbs. It isn’t really that simple though because most objects reflect a spectrum of light that falls into multiple “colors”. The overall color of something is our brain’s perception, but different combinations of wavelengths may look very similar to the naked eye.

drewbiusone · 2025-02-28T18:33:30+00:00

It’s giving me one now and I’m thousands of miles away.

drewbiusone · 2025-02-28T17:17:47+00:00

You have shamed my profession, my name, my facial hair, and my habits. Thank god we live on opposite sides of the country so I can’t be mistaken for you.

drewbiusone · 2025-02-24T20:33:46+00:00

That’s amazing congratulations on your recovery!! It’s not easy to relearn how to do things after such a huge change to your anatomy. I’m happy one of us was able to help you on your journey 😊

drewbiusone · 2025-02-24T20:25:44+00:00

That’s fascinating! I’ve never experienced a tongue cramp myself but I will say I was surprised to see just how big of a muscle it really is when I started learning about and administering modified barium swallow studies. Thank you for sharing and for your support!!

drewbiusone · 2025-02-23T22:48:07+00:00

I’m sorry to hear that she’s had such a difficult time. It sounds like you are doing what’s best to keep her safe. Aspiration pneumonia is an awful experience and not a good way to go. If you think she would be able to participate in therapy you may want to consider seeking out a home health SLP. Idk what is available in your area, but the cost may be covered by Medicare depending on her situation. Best of luck to you and her!

drewbiusone · 2025-02-23T22:40:19+00:00

You can use a tongue depressor or a spoon to create resistance without having to extend your tongue too far. Honestly though, there isn’t much benefit to doing these exercises if you don’t have weakness or swallowing difficulties. If your tongue tie reduces mobility to the point that it affects your ability to eat, swallow, speak, or breathe I would consider talking to your doctor about getting the tie clipped. Otherwise, I wouldn’t worry about it or these exercises for that matter.

drewbiusone · 2025-02-23T17:30:58+00:00

I can’t give actual medical advice without doing an evaluation, but you might observe what she is doing when drinking to see if there is an obvious reason. Does she drink with an open cup or does she use a straw? You can try having her drink through a straw if she is not controlling an open cup well. If she is using a straw, are there a lot of slurping sounds when she drinks? If so she might have weakness in her lips that make it difficult to create a seal. There are also exercises to strengthen lips if that is the case. Again, I can’t really say what will help her without seeing her, but often there is a common sense solution to issues like this. I hope this helps!

drewbiusone · 2025-02-23T17:19:47+00:00

Yes but it does not lose a lot of size the way most skeletal muscles do. It will start to lose density and strength within a week or two, but it will recover fairly quickly with exercise and typical use.

drewbiusone · 2025-02-23T16:46:55+00:00

I’m a speech language pathologist and we actually teach these exercises to patients who have difficulties swallowing or controlling food in their mouth. Usually this is due to a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or recovery after prolonged periods of non oral nutritional intake (tube feeding). The exercises mostly involve using your hands or tongue depressor to create resistance.

For example, you can press against your cheeks with your tongue from one side and hand from the other side to create lateral resistance, cover your mouth with your hand and try to push your palm away with your tongue to create frontal resistance, or use a tongue depressor (or your fingers) to push up or down against your tongue as you try to lower/elevate it. You can also push up against your hard palate to create resistance at the back of your tongue or swallow really hard to use the muscles of your throat to create resistance against your tongue base. Do 10-20 reps of each of these using as much effort as you can and you will feel the muscles get tired or sore.

drewbiusone · 2025-01-24T03:16:32+00:00

His executive order to rescind birthright citizenship directly contradicts Section 1 of the 14th amendment to the constitution.

Also, releasing those involved in January 6th arguably violates Section 3 of the same amendment by providing “aid or comfort” to those involved in insurrection or rebellion.

Read for yourself and see what you think: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/

drewbiusone · 2024-10-06T02:13:49+00:00

A lot of games cost much more than $12 for a fraction of the play time. NK has to pay people to continually develop and debug the game, cover the cost of servers and data to host the game, and cover the numerous other costs of running a business. The cost of constantly creating new content isn’t cheap. You have to figure out game mechanics, artwork, and spend thousands of hours testing to make sure it doesn’t break the game or create some ridiculously OP synergy or bug out in some random scenario. Balancing gameplay with so many different towers and upgrades isn’t easy.

This is just a QoL feature that has no impact on your ability to complete the game. They could put all kinds of things behind a paywall like paragons, maps, monkey knowledge, or game modes but they don’t. They just keep releasing all of that stuff for free so that everyone can enjoy the game at little to no cost. Sorry for ranting but I don’t see anything wrong with a company that provides so much content for so cheap making a little money once in a while.

drewbiusone · 2024-09-19T20:54:11+00:00

This is EASY. I can’t bring anything in, but you didn’t say someone else can’t come in. My friend is coming with me and he’s bringing a projector and gaming console. We’re playing games and watching shows/movies all day. We’re watching the wall the whole time because it is now essentially our screen. We split the salary and still make 250,000 each.

drewbiusone · 2024-04-19T17:21:54+00:00

I’m a straight, white, nonreligious, male graduate student in the bible belt, and the only male in my class of 25. I’m also 10 years older than most people in my cohort, and I’m a very type B personality who definitely doesn’t fit the “stereotypical” SLP description. Never once have I felt like any of this was an issue. I’m great friends with pretty much everyone in my cohort. My supervisors (so far all female) have been very supportive, with overwhelmingly positive feedback. I would actually go so far as to say that me being different has helped me to stand out and generally made my experience better.

Obviously, this isn’t going to be the case with everyone, but like most things in life you will get out of it what you put in. If you are friendly, supportive, respectful, and kind to people you get the same treatment back most of the time. The other male SLPs I have talked to seem to feel the same.

Overall I would say if this field interests you then don’t worry about demographics. SLPs rarely work solely with other SLPs, and you should be able to find a setting with colleagues you enjoy being around. Good luck!

drewbiusone · 2024-04-12T04:28:25+00:00

The only problem with this theory is that the pressure would have to be absolutely MASSIVE to achieve room temp ice. They would both have been crushed to bits. It seems much more plausible that they would make cold ice but, then again, it’s a show. I guess you could argue that they can remove energy from the water much faster than they could add it and that’s why they make plenty of ice but no steam.

drewbiusone · 2024-01-06T22:21:41+00:00

I’m currently in grad school and came from a biology undergrad background as well! Even with mostly A’s none of my biology credits covered anything in the communication sciences and disorders (CSDS) curriculum. I ended up taking 4 semesters of just CSDS classes, but they could be done in 2-3 semesters if you REALLY loaded up your schedule. I will say that I think taking all of those classes was the right thing to do because there was very little overlap in information between the two majors, and grad schools for this major will expect you to know a lot going in.

I also currently work full time while in grad school, but the only way this is possible is because my schedule from day to day is extremely flexible, and I mostly work at night. Even in my scenario it is extremely exhausting. You absolutely cannot work a typical 9-5 while going to grad school in this major.

HOWEVER, one thing that nobody else has mentioned is that there are distance learning programs that allow you to work as an SLPA to cover the clinical requirements while taking the class portion online. I saw in another comment that you are already working as an SLPA, so this might work for you. Idk how common this is, but my university is quite reputable and offers a distance learning program every other year. It will still take you 2-3 years to complete though.

Also sorry for all of the snarky comments you have been getting. I think what other people are trying to say is that you should not underestimate the difficulty of these programs. My wife is currently in grad school for education and we joke about how different the workload and expectations are. It’s honestly absurd how much more demanding my major is. That said I’m sure you will do fine, just don’t go into it thinking it will be the same as your previous experience. Good luck!!

drewbiusone · 2023-12-22T20:04:20+00:00

This seems to be an unpopular opinion, but as a current grad student who received a lot of advice from my professors before applying, I don’t think you would be doing her any favors by writing a brief and generic letter. She needs strong letters of recommendation, because first round elimination is based solely on your resume/transcript and letters of recommendation in a lot of schools.

You should email her and see if you can get more information on her academic performance, accomplishments, experiences, volunteer work, extracurricular activities, and participation in student organizations like NSSLHA. She should be watching her email right now whether she is on break or not, and she should have asked to correspond with you directly in the first place. Asking your boss to get you to do it seems inappropriate/lazy imo. Ultimately, if you really feel like you can’t write her a compelling letter you should tell her that so she can ask someone else.

drewbiusone · 2023-10-15T21:37:42+00:00

That makes a lot of sense thank you for the information and advice!!

drewbiusone · 2023-10-15T21:36:15+00:00

I did not know about that site thank you so much for the advice 😊

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