• frog@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    Loving this sequel to Boong-ga Boong-ga.

    Here is the original arcade.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    this is giving me flashbacks to the IV simulator in nursing school. I had already been a phlebotomist by that point so I was just like yeah this feels nothing like a real vein. Did help me learn the order of the steps though. Like practicing pushing the catheter down the length of the needle one handed and all. Then I went straight into psychiatry where basically no unit allows even a disconnected IV without a 1:1 and have put in like 5 IVs total in the entire time I’ve been employed as a nurse which is still well over half my attempts but still.

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    Everyone in the US should start getting colonoscopies at 45, the recommended age. Colon cancer is quite preventable if you catch it early, and insurance is legally required to cover preventative screenings after that age.

    If you have a family history of colon cancer in a first degree relative, talk to your doctor about getting screenings approved at an earlier age.

    Save your ass, save your life.

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      I was paranoid once in my early twenties so I asked a doctor to check my bum for cancer (I didn’t know much about it at the time other than that it’s a thing that people do and apparently it’s nothing to be ashamed of, but I was also a bit of a hypochondriac).

      Well she probably thought I was too young for that and just being a weirdo, cause she made it HURT as badly as she could, and I’ve had a thing about avoiding doctors ever since.

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        one more example of “useless tests are bad”. unfortunately there are no statistics for this kind of harm. see my other comment

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      Also important note that colon cancer has been increasing in people much younger than 45 as well. Get checked peeps.

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    can we talk real numbers please.

    tbh: just to decrease my chance from dying to colon cancer from 1:75000 to 1:85000 I won’t let someone rummage around in my guts. fuck off! an decrease of 50% is still ignorable if only 1 in 100.000 gets it.

    I am a big believer that so many shit that gets tested regularly for is doing more harm then it helps…

    do you wear a helmet while jogging because there might be a way to fall where you could die without one?

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      I do wear a helmet on my bike and seatbelt in the car for that reason.

      But more importantly, what standard preemptive screening is doing any harm? Are you an anti-vaxxer, too?

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    7 hours ago

    Every night, baby!

    I’m grinding so hard, I cleared the sigmoid with 3 fingers in 20 minutes and just one pain killer.