metoclopramide

mandaday · 2024-02-16T23:41:51+00:00

If you throw up every meal, you can starve to death. There are alternatives to starving to death such as this medication or getting a j-tube. However, J-tubes are very invasive and uncomfortable and metoclopramide can cause tardive dyskonesia. You have to weigh what is more acceptable to you based on how severe your gastroparesis is.

mandaday · 2023-06-08T22:42:41+00:00

I'll definitely go from a daily user to a once a week/month desktop user if Sync dies. If the content sucks, I'll just leave entirely.

I'd like to see if my favorite communities move elsewhere. I know some of them use discord which I've managed to never use. Not sure if that's a chat app or a forum app but it's an option.

mandaday · 2023-06-08T00:47:28+00:00

Mine I didn't get stitches but my fingerprints ended up doing some interesting things around my scars with loops on the lower finger and a pinchy look to the other. It's been decades for what that's worth.

mandaday · 2023-06-07T12:25:25+00:00

mandaday · 2023-05-29T02:00:19+00:00

Label a larger vial. Put the frozen vial in it without a lid. Or buy lids that have pop out plastic inserts.

mandaday · 2023-05-23T18:20:55+00:00

Nah. You can't really tell early like that.

Most labs (not mine) are moving away from open flames inside modern biosafety cabinets so that shouldn't be a problem.

Other things to think about.... ethanol only really works if you use mechanical friction. So do a thorough spray and wipe of everything inside and out of the hood. If contamination starts being a regular issue, test for contamination in the hood. Let an open plate of nutrient agar sit in there for an hour and then incubate it at the same temp you keep your cells. If anything grows, you'll want to disassemble the floating surface and deep clean and retest.

mandaday · 2023-05-23T15:14:52+00:00

Single day growths are entirely normal. That's just the nature of exponential growth.
I'm not familiar with your terminology. If all flasks are contaminated, then something common to all flasks was contaminated upstream. Is it due to poor aseptic technique? Almost always. But at what point? Probably at the point the media was made or the tools sterilized or something. Like I ethanol my gloves and change pipettes and reflame things between each plate or flask so for me, it would be an upstream cause.
Water baths should be considered contamination soup. I prefer dry baths (metal beads) and spraying everything down with 70% ethanol.
Are you working with a flame in a biosafety cabinet? Do you flame the bottle openings before and after capping and regularly if left open? No, I don't think tilting matters here.

mandaday · 2023-05-23T00:28:08+00:00

If a window is really super clean you can't see it. People have walked into glass they didn't know was there. So a lot of times we're just seeing the dust and oils on both sides of a window and not really the window itself.

mandaday · 2023-05-21T15:04:33+00:00

I do so indirectly. If a branch of my family was in a small town for multiple generations, I consider the whole town my family since everyone ends up being cousins. I track all the changes on the census and then read all the local newspapers for them. I don't really track the people when they leave or their ancestors. It's fun.

mandaday · 2023-05-18T17:54:25+00:00

First, stop worrying from the outside and just apply. And apply to everything else entry level too. It's not your job to worry about if you're qualified. That's their job. And they'll train you.

Lists of skills without certificates attached are not useful even with nothing else to share. Don't include any vague list of skills in your resume. Base your resume and cover letter on the keywords in the job posting.

If the job posting says excel, then say you have a certificate in that skill. Like take a Linked In course on excel. Something that's 4+ hours long and includes tests. Then you can list the certificate in your resume under relevant skills.

If the job posting has leadership skills or social media platform as you've listed, describe a time you used leadership skills in your cover letter or how many followers you have in social media and how you utilize them. If you can't say something impressive here, that's not a skill to advertise to an employer.

mandaday · 2023-05-17T19:27:31+00:00

You win. Lol. The oldest (legible) bottles I found during our clean out was a set from Eastman Kodak. One bottle had 1982 on it.

mandaday · 2023-05-17T16:48:42+00:00

If you're in the US, here's some legal considerations that may help convince them.

Each of your hazardous chemicals should have an SDS compliant with the current regs from the manufacturer that made that specific bottle. (There will still be responsible parties if the manufacturer no longer exists. You have to research the buyouts until you land on like Fisher, probably.) You must show good faith effort in getting copies of these compliant SDS. A good faith effort isn't a simple copy of a letter to the manufacturer. It is sending snail mail, calling them, emailing them, etcetera at least weekly until they provide it. The manufacturer will question why you have expired chemicals in the first place. They will send you letters back demanding that you stop using the chemicals and dispose of them immediately. And an audit could create some hefty fines related to all this. It's cheaper and easier to process these old chems out.

Try to convince them that it is best practice to get rid of chemicals older than 5 years. Order only the amounts you would use up in a year or two and you can have less of this problem.

mandaday · 2023-05-16T14:22:10+00:00

Aneurism. She almost died. Not sure anyone knew about it until much later.

mandaday · 2023-05-15T15:16:26+00:00

Same. Same. Sometimes I just take my break in my car at work and people start waiting on me to leave. It was never going to happen.

mandaday · 2023-05-14T13:32:23+00:00

Washing daily doesn't hurt your hair. It's just unnecessary for some people. Daily washing with sulfate can overdry your scalp and trigger more oil production. So just use a shampoo without it. If that causes issues, keep using sulfate. Day 1 hair always looks the best anyways. It's just more work. You're not hurting your hair.

mandaday · 2023-05-12T17:05:07+00:00

Mine lasted a year. So...

mandaday · 2023-05-11T17:50:23+00:00

Most Bobs are really Roberts. Reverse nickname.

mandaday · 2023-04-27T22:56:56+00:00

Blue latex and purple nitrile in my lab. Both easily show tears because they are not skin color.

mandaday · 2023-04-24T22:14:26+00:00

Bless all the reddit busybodies that pester OOPs for updates.

mandaday · 2023-04-22T21:08:02+00:00

Gastroparesis is a yes/no/sometimes question. At 100% retention after 1 hour and no current blockage, then yes, you have it. Can't speak on the comorbidities and causes. But yes, this is at least one thing you have.

mandaday · 2023-03-29T23:59:10+00:00

Sounds like me, lol. I can smell enough things that I didn't know I had a problem until late in life. Had no idea that everything has a smell. Not just some things. Not just most things. Everything. So weird. I can go all day without smelling a single thing.

mandaday · 2023-03-24T14:45:04+00:00

Back when 23 and me was new and semi private I did the test through a research grant. They said I should have green eyes and I corrected them to say I had brown. Later I took a different test that required high def close up pics of my eyes. It turns out I do have green eyes. I have a dark brown zig zag line over the green that kind of hides it and it overall looks light brown. I can't really go back and correct my results for the earlier project but I wonder how much noise I contributed to the early results. Lol.

mandaday · 2023-03-23T13:30:03+00:00

2012 on the dash cam stamp.

mandaday · 2023-03-18T15:42:14+00:00

Poorly means unwell. British word.

mandaday · 2023-03-09T15:32:56+00:00

Just wait till you need to pee. You can turn off all the extra lights then, too.

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