I want to take a slightly different track than talking about how awful the US healthcare system system is (and I can and do rant at length about it since I’m a former healthcare worker). One rare but significant outcome of fractures is that because bone shards are really sharp, they can sometimes nick or sever your veins or arteries. Part of keeping you “under observation” was to make sure you were in a place to get care at the speed you would need in the case this happened to you. Doctors (especially EM doctors) are trained to consider the worst case possible outcome and mitigate that.

I mean, if you have stock in like blockbuster you’re losing money there too.

I lived with my parents the entire year I was 18 and it was not a good situation (for me). I was expected to adhere to adult expectations such as paying rent and insurance, but wasn’t allowed adult freedoms such as setting my own schedule. My mother was pretty controlling and would change the rules or goalposts to suit her desired outcome.

I started the year in vocational training, got a job in the field and continued further schooling (community college in the U.S.) so I was mostly working and studying.

I’ve had Malort once. It was less terrible than had been advertised to me. However, I had a very immediate allergic reaction and was a little puffy and very very red within 10 min.

A hedge maze which was way more fun than I thought it would be be.

I have also wanted to chime in as a woman who has had sex with men both circumcised and not, I have personally found it to feel better with uncircumcised men.

I haven’t been eating breakfast since I started intermittent fasting. Before I kept it very simple and repetitive. I mostly had cold cereal with milk or overnight oats with chia and cinnamon.

I would encourage more than 2 hobbies. It can be very difficult to feel satisfied if for some reason you can’t engage in one of your hobbies (I speak from experience).

If it gives you an idea of how I am, I can play it takes two and trine and I cannot play overcooked.

I love split fiction (even if we are currently stuck), and really enjoyed it takes two. Do you know of other co-op games that can support a serious gamer and someone who is terrible at gaming (I’m the one who is terrible at gaming)?

I have had a crow visiting my balcony. I heard that cat food is somewhat more balanced that just peanuts, and since I have cats it was an easy switch. Are there other things I could offer to make visits more likely while not giving it avian diabetes?

It’s definitely a mix. I’m not a stylish person, but I find I get the most compliments when I’m wearing things I love.

“Refers to the piece of fabric rather than the zipper itself”?

Codeword/phrase

I like and admire visual arts. I wanted to try to be able to do the thing. I have a strong imagination and extremely good visualization skills, so I wanted to be able to take things from my minds eye to reality.

I have found much of my art/creative outlet in dancing and crafting.

I have a bit of dyslexia/dyscalculia so writing numbers from step to step often results in errors. I also had a bad teacher in 6th and 7th grade so I ended up with a lot of stress/shame which means I have a pretty significant gap in my understanding of concepts that has carried through every step of math since then.

I have always felt that I’m not good at art (the practice I did got me not very far), and I’ve recently had reason to make little collages. One thing that I’ve done is uploaded pictures to Canva and traced them so I had something resembling recognizable images (my dog, me in a kayak). I don’t think tracing is making an art, AI is definitely not making an art.

I just saw someone with an all I and a 1 plate. I mentioned the xkcd to my wife, but glat to have the reference handy now.

I partner dance and I joke that I’m graceful as long as I have on dance shoes. Off the dance floor I’m always bumping into things, knocking stuff over, just generally klutzy seeming. On the dance floor I’m able to navigate the crowd and prevent collisions.

I’m not quite 40. Last year I fell off a step and pretty significantly sprained my ankle. The instability and initial pain came down in about two weeks. However I was having a nagging/niggling pain for about a year. I finally got a referral for PT and that resolved it.