Tag: medical treatment

  1. Well, it happened again.

    14 March 2025

    I know I should probably change the title, given the one of my last post. I can't be arsed right now.

    I've been offline for a couple of weeks and not writing because I've been giving my body a chance to heal up. If you haven't guessed by now when I say something like that, it's just about a given that some form of emergency dental work was involved, and along with it pain, prescription drugs, and something gross. You would, unfortunately, be correct. About halfway through February of this year I noticed a rather large, loose blister on the …

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  2. Can you help an old friend?

    26 May 2017

    I haven't spent much time with forge and Nicole since their wedding many, many years ago.  Forge was in mine back in '08, but weddings being what they are, I wasn't able to really hang out.  I think they lived in the Bay Area for a while, but now they're living in Maryland under what seems like less-than-optimal conditions..

    Nicole recently announced that she's been suffering from polycistic kidney disease for much of her life; it is a disease in which cysts grow inside the kidney in the place of normal nephritic tissue.  If the cysts become too large or …

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  3. Notes from the Transhuman Superpowers and Longevity Conference - 12 July 2015

    20 July 2015

    And now, hopefully sooner than the last set, my notes taken during the Transhuman Superpowers and Longevity Conference held on 12 July 2015 in Oakland, CA. Everything's behind the cut, with references as applicable. Personal observations (are on separate lines in parenthesis) to differentiate them from the speaker's material. Vertical Farm Civilization - Karl Doerrer

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