Progress is progress. As any sane people would repeat: perfect is not the enemy of good.
”Study finds” and ”we were surprised”. Should be ”study confirms”. Also, no wonder these people fall for opioids fast, as the only way opioids help chronic pain is by shutting the brain down to sleep mode through five of ten times the recommended dose.
Several of my co-sufferers from chronic pain treatment groups entered opioid addiction, from the opioids not helping at all against the pain. Their addiction started when they had to take such a high dosage to get their brain to stop registering any kind of pain or anxiety and enter sleep mode. Once they could get nerve pain blockers, most could taper down from the opioids. Some, of course, never could as they actually entered a serious opioid addiction. Two from a group of twelve are now passed, women in their 30’s.
Whelp, good that it’s confirmed. And. There are a lot of good studies being done. What worries me is yet another pharmaceutical finding yet another cheap-to-produce addictive option instead of fighting the real problem and discouraging actual help.
Just. Don’t. Omit/Edit-out. The. Original. In-picture. Tags!
Thank you for the post and the link to the pelican rescue as well.
This reminds me of the stray cat that we adopted through a cat centre. Whenever we needed to take her to the vet or clip her nails we had to catch her in a towel because she got scared with more than one hand petting her and would shred our hands if we put forth two.
Now she’s the derpiest, most attention seeking void who demands to snuggle up to us whenever she doesn’t feel like sleeping under the couch.
I completely understand that the burrito bowl is to get them and us safe, but I imagine it must be difficult not to pet or give scritches to those adorable feathered raptors.
Ah! Beautiful!
Oh, I missed that writeup. Well written! Heartbreaking.
I feel the same way, curled up under a blanket, looking out the window.
The weather app said ”5C, feels like -4C”, and I have to go out on errands soon…
Adorable.
Just found out a few days ago that snowy owls (fjällugglor) are considered extinct in Sweden, there have been no new hatchlings observed since 2015. I am so grateful towards people who make other animals lives better, thank you all who care about and for owls and other species.
That X-ray is trippy. Looks like a cross between praying mantis, human and alien.
Long easter weekend here in Sweden, four and a half days off paid.
Gullig särskrivning.
From last year, as it's too early and hot for it currently.
This picture is so old that image searches turned up even worse resolutions than the one I had on my computer.
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March 11, 2011 - train passengers walk across elevated tracks after an earthquake in Japan
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Passengers on the Yurikamome transit line in Tokyo walk along the track towards Shiodome station
Photograph: Koji Sasahara/AP
Was cleaning up in my picture archive and came across this one. Had to do a reverse image search, as I had completely forgotten what the subject was about. Then I found some relevant articles, here's one:
An 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan on March 11, 2011, and this picture was so orderly and serene compared to the other ones from the disaster. Which is probably why I decided to save it.
Supposedly melatonin-infused (among other things) patches, sold on Amazon. If I were to fall asleep at the office, I sure wouldn't need any help with that. In the car though... scratches head
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Progress is progress. As any sane people would repeat: perfect is not the enemy of good.