pull down to refresh
it's a tough one, yeah, my granddad was eventually sent to the hospice, but not that much different from the hospital really.
Generally, docs will always treat i think, the goal is usually focused on keeping the patient alive, of course, the question of 'is this the best thing' is another case.
in some places in the EU, euthanasia is legal tho and people do travel there when they are suffering, there's a fair bit of debate around the subject, but as long as a person is mentally competent, they should have the choice generally i think
My grandad was always fond of saying if things got bad, he'd 'swallow the gun', but then one day he had a stroke, was taken into hospital and never came out again, they kept him alive for months and i was able to fly in and see him before the end, but needless to say, he didn't have a choice and the sure weren't any spare guns floating around an NHS hospital!
Quite honestly, it would have been better if he had not been taken to the hospital anyway, as the whole thing was like his own version of hell and a loss of any shred of dignity he had left. This was a man who refused to wear shorts because he had some hang-up he had about his legs - then you end up in a nappy in hospital being treated like a baby by all these hot nurses.
Really, I don't know how much a person can plan, especially in the case of cognitive decline, where, by default, a person isn't aware of what's happening.
My plan is to do all the things and stay as healthy as possible, and hopefully, my children will be able to step up.
I'm basically my dad's medical helper already; in fact he had to go to the hospital 2 hours away on the weekend, chirosis of the liver, failing kidneys, bad swelling, then add in that he doesn't know any Bulgarian so I translate (badly).
So I track his bloodwork, take him to his appointments, and, since he doesn't get on well with tech, I manage his online banking and gold investments, like a PA basically, which is fine, glad I am in a position to do these things.
Personally, I wouldn't like to be so dependent on someone, but if, god forbid, i had to be, i would hope it would be my kids
Staying humble is a mindset that needs to be cultivated; it's basically the opposite of ego.
That being said, to even think about it is already a good thing, because it shows self-awareness.
the average douche that is full of themselves and operating on ego alone, doesn't even have a concept of what being humble is, it's not on their radar.
One thing about life, from what i have seen though, is that it has a habit of humbling people (although not always, look at Trump lol)
in the coming economy, i fear both DevWorker's and HandyWorker' both end up on OF or failed tiktok influecners
30s are actually pretty great, and a great decade to raise kids because you have energy and arent super old, keep stacking and enjoy the time because, the cliche is true that it blazes by
i resonate with this, luckily i always valued spending time with the family and kids as soon as they were born, zero regrets.
20s for me were not super great in terms of career building, but man i traveled so much and had so many adventures, my passwort was full of stamps. once i had kids the travel stopped basically and my friends are in different countries now, but im super glad i got to do what i did, when i did. i would like to pick it up again when the kids are a bit older
Pretty scary, i suppose. My dad has cirrhosis of the liver, lifestyle-related, but i suppose statistically, the higher the decade, the more likely it is for people to start dropping , stlill a shock tho
i havnt watched it , but how pissed was he? all the comments making it seem like he went nuts?
i had a chuckle when you wrote - If you're losing 10m a year, you shouldn't buy back shares... you should EXIT! Close down shop, return the money to owners, and let those owners find better things to do with the money.
I agree, but a lot of the business owners would never close down until the whole operation was in the ground because to close a business means to admit defeat; there's a lot of ego involved. plus we live in the magical world of fiat where banks can destroy the economy and get a bailout and bonus too
i would say, while not the cyperpunk dream, an option for a merchat to accept btc is better than not having that option
Trump is like a constant uncertainty generation machine, though, scaring the shit out of markets , one tweet at a time
i mean sure, but honestly, Europe is so hopelessly inefficient that i dont even think they'll do a good job.
i wonder what kind of stress levels Jerome Powell is under, like when he comes home from work and his wife asks him how his day was, and he's just like, the president has been blasting me on twitter again and i might be put on trial for refusing to change the interest rate.
for the average person that already banks in the Eu in euros, in a traditional way using SEPA etc, i really dont see how a digital euro adds any value
i can see how a government would like it to do enhanced spying and all sorts of other things, but other than that ,nothing
docs rarely have time to review new literature and what they learn in med school is engraved into their brains. PLus Ancel Keys did a hell of a job pushing his ideas.
I think also when a layperson starts telling docs about some hypothesis they read a book on, most docs will immidatly shutdown, i mean, this doc would have been giving the same advice for decades, and cognitively, i doubt they would want to think they were wrong all those years.
I've spent countless hours down this rabbit hole myself and read many books on it. i think mainstream med literature is now catching up to the idea that the lipid hypothesis was flawed and wrong all along.
From what i have read, the most dangerous cholesterol subparticle is lp(a) and statins apparantly dont touch it