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  1. 7 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    Interesting - to make sure I'm understanding, she had her gallbladder removed and then continued to have symptoms afterwards which turned out to be this sphincter of oddi dysfunction thing? I'm reaaaaally hoping that the gallbladder removal (and once whatever is happening right now) takes care of her stuff but she was going a little crazy just not being able to get a doctor to figure out what was wrong with her for so long.

    Yes.  The pain was virtually identical to the gallstones.  The sphincter (say what?) is one of the mechanisms that controls release of bile into the digestive tract and it "spasms," closes, and you get the same bile backup that you get from gallstones and the same pain.

    This was 10, nearly 15 years ago and it seems like a less obscure problem and solution now.

    And yeah, for a year or more prior to the situation becoming acute, wifey had sort of non-specific abdominal pain, particularly after certain meals, but not "reliably," so sometimes happened sometimes not.  When it started becoming acute, it basically put her on the floor.  By that time, she had several largish and medium gallstones and a bunch of gallstone sludge in her bile duct.

     

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  2. 6 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    Wife has been dealing with some health struggles. Nagging nausea, insomnia, etc etc - it's been a whole journey that landed on gallstones. She had her gallbladder out Wednesday. Hopefully that solves the main problem. On Friday afternoon, we were at our 2 year old's preschool Christmas pageant. Obviously wfie is still a bit fragile two days out of surgery. Before it all kicks off, she starts talking about her chest hurting, it feels like something is sitting on her chest, she's having difficulty breathing, at this point I'm walking her to the front of this church where this thing is happening and noticing where the defibrillators and dialing 911. Soon there's a firetruck in front of the church with lights flashing, wife is still struggling on the couch with paramedics all around her working on her, I'm kinda pacing around on the periphery thinking through all the problems I need to head off or whatever they might need or information that may be missing etc, and then a church lady appears on my periphery doing the kinda "hey i'm being polite but let me get your attention" movement. I look at her and she asks 
     

    "Is everything OK?"

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    wife is fine, in the hospital, things will be ok, probably a stone got loose or her liver got knicked or something, my weekend has sucked, I know that this lady was trying to be helpful and is surely a nice person but fuck if I had laser eyes she'd be a pile of ash. I think I just said "No" and gestured at the evidence.

    Wife had something similar in that gallbladder "colic" persisted after removal.

    The answer for her was sphincter of Oddi dysfunction.  The test and "cure" is an ERCP, which is a pretty specialized scoping of the bile duct.  A lot of GI docs were reluctant to perform the procedure because it is delicate, requires skill, and can cause pancreatitis all by itself.

    We/I found a doc at Baylor (Scott White Dallas) that specializes in them, had no fear, scheduled her for the procedure and she was "fixed" in 12 hours.

     

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  3. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Oh, I definitely think your path is more common than  mine, especially with the proliferation of STEM curricula in high school.

    I didn't have a specific interest in any one thing, but had always been taking things apart, was pretty interested in cars and engines and trains and ships and all kinds of machines.

    By the end of undergrad, my curiosity had mostly been satisfied and advanced topics like acoustics were starting to elude my intuition and become purely creatures of math, so I couldn't generate much interest in a graduate degree.  And I was also beginning to question how I would use this accumulated knowledge to synthesize designs rather than understand how and why things worked.  That anxiety was probably overwrought, but it did mesh nicely with doing patents.

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  4. 57 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    IMO, the Bari Weiss experiment at CBS News is going to fail miserably. Viewers have no appetite for this fake gravitas bullshit she is trying to peddle, particularly with an angle that is basically a soft porn version of Fox News. Trumpers want to see penetration. 

    Erica Kirk is an absolute joke. She's already getting lots of pushback from the right. They aren't buying what she's selling. 

    In the end, the blatant and pervasive misogyny within MAGA will reject Erica Kirk and Bari Weiss. I'll take it at this point. 

    Says a person whose fame is entirely due to the internet, and refusing to acknowledge that regardless of parenting or upbringing, racist, divisive and violent messaging from the ostensible leader of the free world is a bit more serious than "just one person."

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  5. 10 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Yeah, I'm not really worried about Erica Kirk. She will fade way soon enough. 

    What Bari Weiss is trying to pull off is much more dangerous if successful. Zionist and anti-woke propaganda packaged in a calm and palatable way. I don't think it will work, but hopefully it fails very quickly. 

     

    Yeah, calm and palatable isn't what MAGA wants. And I think the rationals recognize it for what it is.

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