There were surprisingly few deaths (both immediate and short term) officially reported due to the disaster. I wonder what the real numbers were.
Random Thoughts the 13th: Jason Takes RTT
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I saw a show on PBS where they went back to Chernobyl. There are some amazing fish in the lakes and ponds in the area just because of no fishing pressure on them, wolves have moved back etc...
I know a guy that just went into hospice because someone at the health food store told him he could cure cancer by just eating green foods. Needless to say it didn't work.
The news was on a slow roll since there was no free press or free flow of info from the Soviets. It was nothing like the coverage the Fukushima incident got. Not sure how the info would have flowed on Three Mile Island today. That was as pre-cable news as Chernobyl was pre-social media. Me imagining Trump tweeting about Three Mile Island or Chernobyl and
. Since Jimmy Carter is in the news after falling and breaking his hip it might be time to mention to the young'uns here he was probably the perfect guy for credibility on Three Mile Island. He was an ex-Navy nuclear guy and had even lead a team on a cleanup of an experimental reactor that had a partial meltdown. Not the best president but probably the best "person" in the White House in my lifetime.
Think we have had our first ear infection? IDK, something like that. Had a 102 underarm temp at bed last night and gave Motrin (mistake, do Tylenol first, lesson learned). He'd had a lower fever yesterday morning. He slept restlessly and mostly in our arms until 1am when he was burning up. Gave Tylenol and checked temp after he fought us on the meds............104.5, mild panic because I know orally he's pushing 106 then, omg. Dr. Google said fever is good though and he didn't have other concerning symptoms like vomiting or not eating so I said let's give it 45 minutes to work before we think about another ER visit. Google (give me a little credit, it was Mayo Clinic and Stanford websites) said for his age group, fever alone is not an automatic Do Not Pass Go straight to Dr type thing. Plus he got himself all worked up fighting the meds so I figured a good half a degree was from that.
Anyway, by 2:30 he was feeling cooler and calmer. Traded him to DH at 3 so I could sleep and they slept hard til 7. Came out to check and little man felt nice and cool. Checked his temp when he woke and it was 97. He was smiley for a while this morning too, but think he was still tired and got cranky by the time I was leaving. Looks good in his daycare photos and still eating so that's good. Kids, man.
Anyway, by 2:30 he was feeling cooler and calmer. Traded him to DH at 3 so I could sleep and they slept hard til 7. Came out to check and little man felt nice and cool. Checked his temp when he woke and it was 97. He was smiley for a while this morning too, but think he was still tired and got cranky by the time I was leaving. Looks good in his daycare photos and still eating so that's good. Kids, man.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
I trust the Mayo & Johns Hopkins websites when I'm researching stuff (something I've had to do in the past couple of years). WebMD, not so much...with them it's usually a TOOMAH...
@cowgirl836 when you say "meds" are you talking about the motrin/tylenol fever reducer? If it's an ear infection, those are usually bacterial and do not resolve by themselves. You probably still want to take him in. Is he digging/grabbing/rubbing one (or both) of his ears? He's old enough to have that kind of hand coordination, and that's a pretty tell-tale sign for an ear infection.
fever reducer, yes. And what I read was most ear infections are viral and resolve in a day or two unless bacterial. Since his eye stuff last week was ruled viral and he seems way better today, I'm leaning toward viral. He had grabbed at his ear/head a few times but he does that when tired so it was hard to quantify if it was more than normal.
Do have a message in with the nurses to see what they think though.
Times have changed, I guess...or knowledge has.
Son never did much of the fever thing - but he would grab & pull on his ears, and was basically inconsolable. He was never much for continuous fussing & crying...unless he had an ear infection.
Hooray !!!
It's that time of year where I get to take all those online "classes" about harassment, Data protection, HIPPA and other wastes of time.
I have to take these stupid things every single year for our company and then other companies will require that I take the same classes on their platform as well.
I wonder what idiots got together and decided people need to do this on a yearly basis.
It's that time of year where I get to take all those online "classes" about harassment, Data protection, HIPPA and other wastes of time.
I have to take these stupid things every single year for our company and then other companies will require that I take the same classes on their platform as well.
I wonder what idiots got together and decided people need to do this on a yearly basis.
Yeah - that was a thorn in my side while still working. OTOH, there are a lot of people who need the reinforcement, and even then don't recognize their bad behavior.
I like WebMD. It's more exciting.
Our division used to require the harassment training every year even though the rest of the organization only required it every 3 years. Eventually "wiser heads" prevailed and the rest of the organization moved to every year along with us. They thought having a live trainer do this in a huge organization was pretty expensive so they developed a video. And who better to write and star in a video on the subject than a bunch of attorneys. So we got to watch the driest video on harassment ever made in western civilization for about 3 years. It was universally hated so I think they only used it long enough to not hurt the feelings of anyone involved in making the horrible thing. Now they have an online slide show/video that has the text written out on the side along with narration so you can read it and skip to the next slide before the narrator even reads half of it. What a huge improvement!
When my boss reminds me that I have to take harassment training again I usually reply, "Why? I already know how to harass."
Times have changed, I guess...or knowledge has.
Son never did much of the fever thing - but he would grab & pull on his ears, and was basically inconsolable. He was never much for continuous fussing & crying...unless he had an ear infection.
It was interesting because I had thought ear infections were an auto go to the Dr for antibiotics thing too and then I was reading that they found outcomes weren't always better and most resolved on their own so now they aren't automatically going to abx anymore. I suppose that's a good thing with abx resistance and all.
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