datlas 

Glad it was a good experience. I hope her SLN (Sentinel Lymph Node) was negative.

MoAlpha

Hopefully we'll have the path by the end of the week.

big john

Before recreational weed was legal here a friend who was on chemo was having trouble eating. A lifelong runner, she was already pretty thin. She asked her oncologist about a scrip for edibles and he said he couldn't do it but he referred her to a doc who would. She got the edibles and got her appetite back.
She's fine now.

Mojo31

Friends who have gone through the same thing as your LSS have experienced the same thing - once they found a doctor they could relate to. Once they found the right doc, they said the rest flowed smoothly.

We are starting to move toward concierge care for regular, ongoing things that are not crazy expensive. It's just good to be able to see and talk to someone when you need it.

MoAlpha

Thing is, this was the system, not the doc. Good docs are fortunately pretty common, but good systems and well-trained, conscientious, kind, and generous support staff used, at least, to be rare. If this is an effect of consolidation and head-to-head competition, yay for that!

Mojo31

Tennessee offers incentives to vaccinate cows but not people. Near the bottom of the pole in terms of people vaccinated for Covid.

Tennessee isn't offering incentives for COVID shots - but paid nearly $500,000 to vaccinate cows (msn.com)

big john

Finished a 3.5 hour ride this morning @ 11:30ish and it was close to 100 degrees but it didn't feel bad. There was climbing early and after that we just cruised and I never felt hot or overworked. Maybe tomorrow I'll get started earlier and do a couple thousand feet of climbing by myself.

Mojo31

I'm sure you and your wife treated the staff well, and that goes a long way.

I have never had cancer, but have had several surgeries although nothing as emotionally challenging. Every time I've been hospitalized, I've found the care and people to be very good. Once I was in the hospital for several days, and during that stay kept hearing a guy in another room treating the nurses like crap and berating them. All I could think was that that wasn't going to win him any friends. I didn't understand it because all of the staff was at the top of their game - nice, considerate, helpful, conversant, caring, and wanted to take care of me. After I got out I sent the nurses' desk a couple dozen cookies and a floral bouquet thanking them for making the stay as pleasant as it could be.

Bah Humbug

Of a Python script?

datlas 

The course I had to take in order to get credentialed suggested that drops (oil or tincture) are better than edibles. The downside to edibles is they are absorbed too slowly and stay in the system too long. Edibles with THC, even taken at bedtime, are likely to cause some fatigue the next day. So most of my patients are using tincture, oil, or occasionally vape/inhaled if they don't have lung conditions. Interestingly, my job is simply to certify that they qualify for medical cannabis. Once they get a card, they go to a dispensary and the people who work there know more about the products and decide what to offer the patient. Insurance does not cover medical cannabis, which can be an issue for some patients if they are of very modest means.

MoAlpha

Most nurses are amazingly dedicated and professional and take good care even of nasty people, but explicit gratitude goes a long way and makes a very hard job more rewarding. I was really talking about the staff who schedule and coordinate complex care, take phone messages, etc. This recent experience was just an amazing contrast to what we had to deal with at the old National Naval Medical Center and the old and the new Walter Reed. The docs and the nurses were fine and in some cases fantastic, but everything else was pretty awful even for a VIP.

Mojo31

I was being facetious. Did not understand a word you said.

big john

I don't know why the one doc couldn't write the scrip himself, Don't know if California had a certification process for doctors then or if he didn't want to have his name involved.
Having eaten brownies, banana bread, green butter on toast, and thc pills, I can assure you there is a bit of a hangover/residual effect the next day, but I wouldn't call it fatigue. It's usually mild, nothing like the alcohol hangovers I had every damned day while I was drinking.

Mojo31

In most states, a doctor has to be registered with the state in order to prescribe weed. Growers, sellers, and prescribers have to keep careful track of inventory from seed to consumer so it doesn't end up in the black market. State has to get its tax cut, you know.

Trsnrtr

My tubeless run may be over. A very expensive pair of Assos bibs got sprayed considerably with Orange Seal and my wife and I can not get it out. I’ve watched videos and read FAQs and essentially, it turns out that sealant is very hard on clothes. My jersey cleaned up nicely but the bibs are basically ruined. I have them soaking again but I’m not optimistic.

genejockey 

Yeesh.

Once again, the experience of others saves me hundreds of dollars.

MoAlpha

Thank you. Another reason not to try them on a set of road wheels. I’m even considering putting tubes back in the gravel tires.

Trsnrtr

I’m still working on them. When the bibs are wet, you can’t see anything. But when they dry, it looks like I rode through a mud puddle without a fender, only worse. Looks like dried, muddy water.

MoAlpha

WhyFi

Yeah, it is tough to get out - I never really tried to get it out, but I have one sock that is still stained after having been through the wash for a few years. I can understand the frustration, but considering the pains in the ass that I've had with roadside flats, I'd gladly put up with a messy set of bibs, or dedicate them to the trainer/under tights, once every several years.

DougRNS

Velo Vol Did you have any undisclosed meetings at undisclosed locations with undisclosed individuals discussing undisclosed topics today?

WhyFi

Here's a breakdown from a sometimes humorous YouTuber -

***NSFW Language!!!***

Velo Vol 

I got $0.00.

Nope.

DougRNS

Sad.

DougRNS

LesterOfPuppets

In your time zone. A battle Royale.