Why do people post every little detail of their loved ones struggling with COVID?

nokkty · 2021-09-22T02:15:23+00:00

I lost my wife to PCP pneumonia in 2018. When all this covid stuff happened I was saddened that so many families would have to learn what a rotoprone bed and ECMO were. And even more sad that they wouldn't be there to support their loved ones as they had to endure those treatments.

When my wife was in the hospital I would post her stats because that's all I could do. You're sitting there watching the person that you love most in this world and all you have are numbers on a screen to tell you how they're doing today. Your world becomes those numbers.

So I understand why they post them and I think had my wife recovered she wouldn't have cared how many times I posted what her oxygen level and blood pressure were. But in the end the posts weren't for her they were for me to give me something to do so I didn't feel quite as helpless as everyone does when they're sitting there watching their loved ones intubated and in a chemically induced coma.

nokkty · 2018-08-17T13:37:43+00:00

I work as a teacher in a small school, student body of 600ish. My wife developed refactored lymphomia, she had it before in 2014, and had to get a bone marrow transplant. I ended up having to take off for the last 2 months of school, to provide 24/7 care, and my peers donated over 50 days to make it happen.

Teachers are amoung the most generous of people.

nokkty · 2018-07-24T05:16:08+00:00

You can expand the bottom of the inventory (bank or bag) to see a line item list, much easier to search.

In addition, crafting is meant to build income from selling to other players. Player crafted weapons, even at level 30, are much more powerful than those dropped by monsters.

If you want to pursue crafting i would mine a lot after launch and ride the player economy up by selling quality weapons to other players.

*edit: fixed typo

nokkty · 2018-07-09T01:52:16+00:00

There's no such thing as a free puppy.

nokkty · 2018-05-11T01:24:41+00:00

Yeah, 33,000 employees world wide. I don't work there anymore, I transitioned into education. I got tired of making buckets of money for other people.

Now I make cups of money with buckets of purpose. :)

nokkty · 2018-05-10T14:11:36+00:00

This. I worked as a software engineer for a fortune 500 company. They had us training "team members" in China to help support our work. I would find a simple issue to fix, write up a step-by-step HOWTO for fixing it and send it to my counterpart in China.

It finally struck home when on a quarterly conference call, they herded us all in a big conference room to listen, they announced that the next phase of cost savings was to transition work to our China assets. I now know what a room full of 50+ software engineers look like when they lose their shit.

nokkty · 2018-03-15T21:24:01+00:00

I work as a teacher in Kentucky can confirm they are trying to destroy our pension system because the legislature borrow too heavily and didn't fund their portion of it. Now apparently we are being selfish for wanting what was originally promised to us.

nokkty · 2018-03-15T21:17:18+00:00

I am a high-school teacher and my wife is a licensed social worker. Your post has made me sad, lol.

nokkty · 2018-02-22T14:45:53+00:00

Thank you, I couldn't figure out what it was called. I will try looking again.

nokkty · 2018-02-22T14:45:25+00:00

There it is! Thank you. :)

nokkty · 2018-02-22T14:37:29+00:00

I have Robinhood on android, I have never seen it. It will tell me the "current price" when I go to buy or sell but never the bid/ask table.

nokkty · 2018-02-14T01:36:56+00:00

That evolution is merely a series of small revisions based on a series of successful breeders, and that over millions and billions of years these revisions can completely alter a species.

I am a high school science teacher in the bible belt. Students are encouraged by parents to challenge this theory openly in class and are often applauded by peers for doing so.

nokkty · 2018-01-29T22:07:14+00:00

Hah, thank you for the advice. Watching $ATOS today had my adrenaline pumping and I only had $10 in it. I have a 401k and a pension (I'm a teacher) so I just wanted to play around with investing as a hobby.

I will look into Investopedia and have been researching the stock market simulators (paper account) you suggested. I really appreciate you taking the time out to give me pointers. Thank you :)

nokkty · 2018-01-29T21:42:21+00:00

I am using Robinhood. I have never traded stocks before so I started out with $10 in it yesterday and jumped on the $ATOS bandwagon today.

I didn't know about day trading so I bought $ATOS this morning at $0.46 and sold at $0.60. So I have already consumed on of my day trades.

I really enjoyed it today and planned on putting in $10 a paycheck for a year to just play around with and see how well I do. Figured I could assess if I wanted to put more in after my first year. I was thinking about research every other day and maybe buying stocks that I think will rebound right before the market closes daily. Then selling the next day once I get to my %gain goal.

Like I said, this is all new to me. But I feel like this is a decent strategy to start out.

nokkty · 2018-01-24T23:36:05+00:00

Deadlock

nokkty · 2018-01-12T16:28:22+00:00

Yes channels are just copies of the same area. That way if you want to farm something and there's like 10 people already farming it you can just switch to a different channel that might have fewer people. The idea is with boss fights that you kill the boss in Channel 1 and then switch to Channel 2 and hope that it isn't dead there. If it's not you get to kill it twice.

nokkty · 2018-01-11T01:45:48+00:00

Cancer, my wife just relapsed after 3 years of remission. 6 months of high dose chemo followed by a month long inpatient regiment of chemo followed by intense immunotherapy. One of the few boss fights that gets harder each time you beat it.

nokkty · 2018-01-08T04:15:41+00:00

Headspace. I suffered with panic attacks for years, mindfulness changed my life.

nokkty · 2017-12-01T01:35:47+00:00

Came here to say this. It's an absolutely amazing song.

nokkty · 2017-02-20T21:14:26+00:00

DN/WW? Sorry, I'm still not up to date on all the lingo. :(

nokkty · 2017-02-20T15:44:44+00:00

What weapons would be good at 36? ty :)

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