No that tracks for me, and I work in Healthcare in the US just the same. I personally had what I perceived as urgent but non-emergent and got into my doctor within a week.

I would go to urgent care (I know it’s in the name but alas) if I had more pressing concerns or symptoms were bad but not life-threatening.

I would go to the ER if I was in massive pain and felt at imminent risk of death.

Take out back and sh–

–own a great time with a BBQ cookout and given a big plate of delicious food while friends brainstorm how to help get them back on their feet!

There’s a saying among BBC journalists that all who work there eventually end up at Al Jazeera.

Watch one of my favorite documentaries of all time, Control Room (2004) about coverage of the Iraq War.

Al Jazeera is far from perfect, and I’d argue has fallen from its peak in terms of quality. But it’s still worth viewing to get a more well rounded perspective.

Now do I believe they can cover topics that hit close to Qatari interests? Not necessarily. For those I take with a grain of salt.

What is the humidity level?

I am definitely caffeine addicted, too. Best I can manage usually is to taper off the caffeine coffee by noon and transition to green tea, then ginger tea later. Seems to help!

Temp seems good; that’s about what mine is.

If possible, consider a big lunch and reduce size of dinner and/or dial it back by an hour. Be extra cautious of deep-fried, high sodium, or high acidic foods (tomato-based sauces like spaghetti or pizza, mayo, etc.).

Does that include no coffee/caffeine in afternoon?

What temperature is your room?

Do you have a watch or device that passively monitors Heart-rate variability?

On average what do you eat before bed and how long before sleep?

For those who don’t dream much, I’m curious of your surrounding sleep habits and how much you’ve looked into changing your habits. This could be a big indicator you’re not getting into REM sleep, which is not good.

Do any of you drink alcohol, take other prescribed substances (or not prescribed)?

Have you tried eating foods rich in magnesium or taking magnesium supplements?

Happy to see someone mentioned this!

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There are some moments in that which are pretty brutal and I was like, “Oh wow… Not sure if my kid should be watching this yet…” but it was an incredible film.

I know it’s a considerable cost increase and installation, but still way cheaper than upgrading your central A/C, and way more efficient, quiet, elegant than a window unit: add a mini-split to the room. I added a Mitsubishi to our hot office with tons of electronics and it’s one of the best home investments I made.

When I moved out west with my mom and sister, the road trip took around 5 days. Most stops were good. The Red Roof Inn in Oklahoma was a total shithole. Lock on room didn’t work. Flickering broken lights in hall out of horror film. Super suss guests… Slept with a knife under my pillow.

I used to play the shit out of The Specialist, a HL1 mp mod.

Also while most were hooked on Twisted Metal my brother and I loved Vigilante 8.

For a relaxing Sunday Morning? Probably Timon & Pumbaa and Dexter’s Lab. At night things got spicy with Courage the Cowardly Dog and Gundam Wing.

When my family got Boomerang and Toon Disney channels, life was good.

I echo this.

I went with a lower tier Bosch simply because it had a built-in water softener and that was my main priority. On hindsight I may have jumped for the 800 series.

The 3rd utensil tray becomes way more usable with the 800, and your stuff actually dries unlike in my model.

I will say I thought my old whirlpool that came with this house was well designed (more capacity and utensil tray being out of the way on the door was nice).

Can you elaborate?

Are you discussing API calls? Remote Procedure Calls?

My initial assumption was you wanted info on Data Marshaling — utilizing the likes of JSON or XML to communicate data between different programs.

But then maybe you mean data allocation in memory, how the heap and stack work, etc.? References and pointers, and deep and shallow copies, etc.?

This. They’ll hook you up immediately to an ECG to see the state of your heart in the moment and draw blood for labs to check for signs of a recent heart attack or clot issue (trops, d-dimer, etc.). If ischemic heart attack, you’ll be rushed to cath lab. Urgent Care doesn’t have the resources to do this and will likely re-route to a hospital anyway, charging you separately in addition.

Hope you’re doing better now. As someone who works in the medical field, it can be a real bitch to navigate everything.

For the future: Nobody here knows your baseline. If you tell any clinical medical worker you have had chest pain followed by difficulty breathing and vomiting they’re very likely to tell you to go to the ED/ER (Emergency Department / Room). Speaking for myself only, that would depend how stable I feel following the vomiting incident and if the chest pain persisted, and baseline conditions and history (e.g., do you have a history of hypertension, high cholesterol, overweight, etc.? When was your last physical exam?).

We also don’t know the full context on what you mean by couldn’t breathe and feeling like you could die. For example, did you have a major GERD / Acid-Reflux incident (could explain mild chest pain)? Did you eat something and have an allergic anaphylactic reaction followed by a surge of adrenaline from your fear of death and a panic attack followed by vomiting? Have you had sinus congestion say from a cold and a glob of postnasal drip obstructing your airways? Do you take drugs? And yes, it’s possible you also had a heart attack.

Worth noting: Urgent Care has limited resources beyond an X-ray machine, usually. The moment you mention chest pain, they’ll hook you up to an ECG to take a reading. If your vital signs are okay (blood pressure, SPO2, heart-rate, temperature) and your ECG reads no active heart attack, then they might just refer you to a cardiologist follow-up. If on the other hand there are signals of a recent or active heart attack, they will pretty much demand you get loaded up into an ambulance and send you to the nearest hospital with a cath lab (due to liability on themselves). You’ll thus be triple-dipping costs from urgent care, ambulance, and hospital when you might’ve been better off going straight to the ER.

ER will be a higher co-pay with insurance and absurdly costly without (but there are options, some ethical some not surrounding this). The good news is unlike Urgent Care, they cannot refuse treatment based on lack of insurance, if that’s your predicament. Urgent Care will.

Also when you call 911 for a medical emergency, police aren’t going to be involved. ACAB rhetoric aside, DO NOT REFUSE TO CALL 911 BECAUSE OF THIS. The moment the dispatcher sees this is a medical emergency, nearby fire departments or ambulances will be notified.

I love a lot of different instruments, but I fell in love with the Erhu after ATLA. Second to that, the orchestral strings like the violin, viola, cello, etc. Scores from Halo and Elder Scrolls franchises.

Finally, the collective vocal cords of choirs.

I appreciate your honesty as a 5’7" dude.

Luckily I’m happily married while my wife is 5’6".

Lots of perks to my short dudes out there. Faster metabolism/more energy, longer life expectancy, better power-to-weight ratio, etc. I won’t beat em in a sprint necessarily, but always have the advantage in the long-run.

Square-cubed law can be a bitch!