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stormybadger8 said:That’s gotta be the old Staklana Straža, or maybe it’s called Vetropack now? Pretty sure some foreign investors bought them out...
And specifically, it’s right on the border with Austria, in that small town near the Sutla river...
The story sounds totally plausible...
Yeah, that's definitely it. I honestly wouldn't have remembered on my own 😵😵
Jack Cook7 said:Chemo treatments are getting canceled or pushed back because hospitals are falling apart.
Man, this is getting seriously, seriously bad. These daily delays are straight-up slashing patients' chances. And look, trying to transfer someone—especially if they're already admitted—to another hospital is a total nightmare since basically every bed is full anyway, plus doctors can't just zip around the city like they're in a race. We're finally seeing the price tag of having such outdated medical facilities.
In New York City, there are 245 cases out of nearly 600 total, though they aren't saying how many are new. NYC is clearly the massive epicenter here. On top of that, we’re about to see the fallout from everyone fleeing the city after that earthquake last Sunday; things are probably going to blow up in the next two days.
Well, at least they reopened those little market stalls. Though, I honestly don't see how the veggie stands are supposed to make it work—unless they just turn all the booths toward the wall, but then people would just be rummaging through the produce; which, let's face it, is what they do in grocery stores anyway. Maybe the market should just provide plastic gloves for every stall?
The real issue is that the Government is slapping the exact same rules on New York City and the rest of the country. For NYC, the measures aren't even enough, but for most of the US, they're way too much—actually, way overkill. Aside from a few bigger hotspots—San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, Charleston, and for some reason that one state (?)—everything else is mostly quiet. It’s obvious NYC needs tougher restrictions while letting everyone else breathe. It makes zero sense that you can travel from a neighborhood like Podsused to a suburb like Sesvete without an issue—that's like 700,000 people right there—but moving from one tiny town of 1,000 people to another is treated like it's impossible. To make matters worse, because of the earthquake, New Yorkers have scattered everywhere, and now who's going to get them back in one place? This couldn't have happened at a worse time. Maybe New Yorkers should just self-isolate whenever they cross state lines? Because they were the main carriers, and now they've spread across the whole country, so everything could start spiking everywhere by Monday.
On the flip side, if they start locking down specific neighborhoods in NYC, it's going to be absolute chaos, and that would end really, really badly. Cutting back on public transit is only making things worse because everyone ends up cramming into the few buses that are actually running.
That one state has a huge company called Straža (some kind of manufacturing plant, I'm not entirely sure what). They employ half of Austria and half of the surrounding region, plus people from other countries too. Apparently, everyone who caught it worked there—at least that's what my folks told me. Whether that's actually true or not, I honestly don't know. Word is, they couldn't maintain social distancing there, and management refused to halt production, so now the employees are paying the price...
Does anyone know a good ophthalmologist in Chicago? It’s kind of an emergency because reading is giving me a massive headache lately. I just moved to the area recently, so I'm still trying to figure out where I can actually get an appointment without waiting forever. I'm currently finishing up high school, and honestly, my workload is so heavy right now that it's becoming impossible to keep up when the letters are literally dancing all over the page. 😉
So, my doctor didn't really give me much to go on. She just mentioned some kind of hormone therapy that comes with a massive list of side effects, but she wasn't even really pushing it on me. 🤷
I'm 16.
They haven't actually given me a formal diagnosis or anything yet; they just sent me to see a pediatric gynecologist for a consultation, and he basically told me there isn't much he can do for me here.
Well, I guess I’m officially joining the "painful periods club!"
It usually starts right in the middle of my cycle—though not every single time since my ovulation isn't exactly predictable—and the pain lingers for a few days before finally letting up. Then, the nightmare repeats the morning before my period actually hits. Once it arrives, I’m basically glued to painkillers for the first three days, even though they barely touch the pain. On day one, I’m knocking back about seven pills, then five on the second day, and maybe two on the third. My gynecologist actually suggested this specific routine because I can only really tolerate Lupocet; nothing else seems to work for me, and even that just takes the edge off a little. For those first two days, I’m completely out of commission and can't even make it to school. The flow is intense—lots of heavy clotting—and I get these sharp pains in my right ovary and cramps so bad that sitting down is impossible. I just have to lie flat, and sometimes I even run a fever.
Does anyone know of any exercises that actually help ease the cramps and pain? I feel like I’ve tried everything under the sun. When I went in for my high school entrance physical, the doctors actually suggested hormone therapy to try and regulate my cycle (since it's all over the place—sometimes I get it every 2-3 weeks, other times it's been 50 days), but they warned me there was a risk it could affect my ability to have kids later on or trigger other health issues.