Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”
This is probably my all-time favourite take on story-writing right here 😁 (Speaking as a woman who just watched "The Other Bennet sister" on TV and sobbed her heart out 😭) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c...
P.S. I was also thinking about emergency MRI. There are bound to be cases where patients, after natural crises or serious accidents are going to be unable (through pain for instance) to keep still in the scanner. There must be a way surely to keep the body sedated enough to scan
2/2 Mind you, I had sedation a while back which wasn't GA but meant I knew nothing about the procedure. Out like a light. Of course, ever since I read up on stuff about "memory wiping" anaesthesia, I've often wondered about whether I was screaming my head off during! If I did, I don't remember 🤷
Yes, I was mulling over this earlier and I imagine that with dementia patients only light sedation would be advised, GA being, I think, deemed potentially catastrophic re: dementia and after effects? The old benefits v harms risk 1/2
Just to add: "Best words I'd heard in a long time" sounds awful, but I'd been struggling with Mum for years. And I was proud of her for tolerating that MRI. At least now we knew exactly what we were dealing with and its particular form/prognosis, even tho' we knew forthcoming help would be limited
...and she did do it, to be fair, despite my anxiety. I remember fretfully saying to the radiographer when Mum strolled out (this was at the medical school, Sussex campus) "Did you get the images?" "Oh, yes," he said. Me: "All THREE images?". Him: "Yes, we did." Best words I'd heard in a long time 🥹
P.S. Even then, a nightmare for me to even think about getting Mum to an MRI (recall you and I discussing this over at the "old place") but it ended up ok, thankfully. I remember seeing a young boy being led to his MRI (parents left behind in waiting room) and thinking "If he can do it, Mum can"
Yes, Mum's diagnosis was late 2016 as I recall, not long after we moved her here and signed her up with local GP, who referred. We also had Prof Sube Banerjee here locally leading dementia studies who made a huge difference re: focus on dementia patients. Think he's an Hon. Visiting Professor now
Had haircut today. Last time, hairdresser was struggling with back probs so we decided against preceding hair wash. Best haircut ever! Serious clippers-action 😊 Asked today whether clippers styling was better on dry hair, given that's what men do, and he said "Yes!" So that's it, I'm a convert! 😁
Looking back, some might say that Mum didn't gain much from the process and that's probably true (given the nature of the disease). But she didn't come to harm either, and as her carer I gained professionals who dealt with this scenario every day. The dementia nurse(s) in particular, were great ❤️
P.S. Advantage being that my mum was under hospital care, not just GP, and I had access at any time to talk to a dementia nurse. Days before Mum died the memory clinic were going to come to the care home for routine monitoring but Mum was so close to death that her GP, with my agreement, cancelled
2/2 My mum did have an MRI and tolerated it well. The first drug they put her on was donepezil, which turned out to overstimulate her so she had to come off it. Consultant told me then (psychiatrist) that prescribing memantine instead would mean they could keep her at the memory clinic. I agreed
Yes. Thing with Memory Clinic (as I learnt quickly with my mum) is that if the patient isn't prescribed the dementia drugs on offer (two available in my mum's case) then there's nothing they can offer apart from discharge. And to be prescribed the drugs there must be a firm diagnosis. Hence MRI 1/2
The replies are a treat!
Surround yourself with the kind of people who help turtles cross the road.
What a stupendous photo from the ISS - the mighty Nile River.
Little known fact: if nobody will pay £850,000 for your house, it's not worth £850,000.
Husband and I too adored that film. I'm not usually a fantasy fan but after Moon and Source Code I wasn't going to miss Warcraft for the world! Before I knew it I was totally hooked into the story. And the visuals, wow! 😍 Here too, in Brighton, U.K., excellent turnout out in the cinema 👍
You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2.
A few warnings:
Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is.
Absolutely /do not/ lick it.
Keep far away from any Supermen.
If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts.
Let's talk about the science here.
"No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water" …
Love Henning Wehn! Great cast all round, and fabulous Trailer. Mr Shed and I are so excited for this film! 🤩
Good Reuters story on the government's "earned settlement" proposals and the care sector.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
Really does feel like we'd have a much better understanding of what's gone on if MPs had sat in silence and let Olly Robbins speak.
Absolutely dismal questioning from MPs. And often clear they're either not listening to the answers or not understanding them.
Kids on a slagheap, Consett, 1970s, photo by Don McCullin.
Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius): This European & Asian species of Jay is a habitual acorn horder and historically a key player in natural oak woodland regeneration. This Jay species has a harsh screeching call. Photo of a Jay taken by Jeremy Franklin in Hampshire, UK. #wildlife #eurasianjay #jay
