Put in a request you can document. If they don't rectify the situation file a complaint with the city or whom ever is resposible for the building safety codes,
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usually if i call him he comes over and fixes stuff. it's no big deal.
It is a big deal if there is a fire, call him so he can come fix it.
I think it has more to do with having too much time on my hands to think about mother. I know I will get through this but for now it just is so incredibly painful.
Morning. I went to bed early last night. I was tired. Working the next 2 days. I got my follow up with my PCP on Wed.I was reading the Farmer's Almanac site about this coming winter. I hope they're wrong. If not then from about KS up is gonna be in a crappy weather situation. Supposed to be lots of snow and ice and subzero temps as low as 40 below. I tell ya if this crap with the weather is gonna continue I'm not sure if my health can withstand it. If it's too bad out the cabs won't run. If I can't get to work and no one can pick me up I'll get fired. I hate having to be constantly worried about all this junk.
We got a little rain over the weekend. Might get some more today.
You know...I know a lot of y'all aren't believers but with the way things are going in this world, I'm asking you to give some thought to your eternal future. You might wanna take stock and try to get right with God before it's too late. At least think about it. Not preaching just a suggestion that comes from a place of love.
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
This came from my ScienceNews that I get in email:
It’s health reporter Aimee Cunningham. At the start of another school year, I’ve been thinking about the differences between 2021 and 2022. Last year, many schools had mask mandates, testing programs and quarantine rules. This year, masking is optional, testing has been terminated and quarantine is curbed.
We’re shedding measures that stop the spread of the coronavirus and help prevent excessive disruptions to in-person learning. Without them, and with the absence of nearly any controls in place elsewhere in society, we’re inviting the virus to keep spreading, to find new ways to thwart immunity and to continue to derail plans and routines. And it’s not just a risk to our day-to-day lives, but to our future health. As much as we want to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, evidence continues to emerge that the coronavirus’s impact will be a recurring, unwelcome feature of many tomorrows.
Experts predict 100 million new cases of COVID-19 for this fall and winter in the United States, as more of life heads indoors during colder weather. It’s expected we’ll soon have a revamped vaccine that targets omicron variants along with the original version of SARS-CoV-2; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the shot August 31.
The original vaccine has done an outstanding job protecting people from severe illness and death, and an updated version may well be a plus. But the vaccine was never meant to shoulder the entire burden of keeping the virus at bay. It’s supposed to work as part of a team, together with masks, ventilation improvements and crowd control.
Without those public health tools in place, we are stuck with an ever-present risk of infection. Claire Taylor, a physician in the United Kingdom, tweeted about her experience having COVID-19 three times this year, in March, June and August, as the omicron family of variants moved through her country. “How can it be sustainable, sensible, bearable even, to get a virus that floors you in the same way multiple times a year?” she wrote.
It doesn’t seem sustainable, sensible or bearable. Not with what the virus can do in the midst of infection, and not with the harms that can linger after an infection subsides. Adults, for example, can face health issues throughout the body after a bout of COVID-19. A study of health records from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reported that, compared with those who haven’t had COVID-19, those who have — whether hospitalized or not — face higher risks of a variety of cardiovascular diseases, including inflammation of the heart and heart failure, 30 days after infection. Other research has found an increased risk of neurological and psychiatric illnesses for two years after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, compared with other respiratory infections.
On top of harm from COVID-19 itself is the expected health effects of the pandemic’s disruptions to medical care. A study of a large health care system in Massachusetts found a drop in necessary hospitalizations for urgent heart issues during the first year of the pandemic. Breast and ovarian cancer screenings in the United States decreased in 2020 compared with 2018. These delayed and lost health care opportunities may reverberate for years.
And then there is long COVID. Each surge of infections adds to the pool of people suffering from a range of debilitating symptoms that they just can’t shake, including extreme fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath and stomach pain. Because it takes time to identify people who develop long COVID, we don’t yet know the toll from the omicron surge earlier this year. But the spike in cases was so large, “ I suspect there will be millions of people who acquire long COVID after omicron infection,” immunobiologist Akiko Iwasaki told Liz Szabo of Kaiser Health News on August 26.
Long COVID can leave people unable to work, a threat to their ability to maintain health care coverage and to support themselves, and a looming crisis for the economy. There are already an estimated 16.3 million working-age Americans, meaning those 18 to 65 years old, who have long COVID; 2 million to 4 million of them are out of work because of their illness, a new Brookings Metro report finds. The annual cost of the wages lost is around $170 billion and may be as high as $230 billion.
There are also health impacts from grieving the loss of so many lives during the pandemic. Already 1 million people have died worldwide this year from COVID-19; close to 6.5 million in total have lost their lives to the disease during the pandemic.
Those deaths have included a devastating number of children’s parents and caregivers. As of mid-August, approximately 7.5 million children worldwide have been orphaned due to COVID-19. The loss of a parent or caregiver puts children’s education, health and well-being at risk, deficits that cannot be overcome without dedicated societal support.
Children have also developed long COVID and suffered mental health harms from the pandemic. There has been an increase in demand for mental health services for children and teens during the pandemic, a demand that has not been sufficiently met.
We’re just beginning to learn about other health issues in children that could stem from the virus itself or other pandemic factors. A recent U.S. study found an alarming rise in the number and severity of youth-onset type 2 diabetes during the first year of the pandemic compared with the average of the prior two years. New cases jumped by 77 percent in 2020. It’s not clear if the increase is due to COVID-19 infection, shifts in diet or activity or stressors from the pandemic, but the rise has strained existing health services for children with diabetes, the researchers wrote.
The pandemic has also disrupted vital health services for children around the world. A study of 18 low- and lower-middle–income countries found a decline in doctor visits and the delivery of maternal and child health care during the pandemic. The loss led to more than 110,000 excess deaths among children under 5 and more than 3,000 excess deaths among mothers, a threat to recent progress in reducing child and maternal mortality, researchers report August 30 in PLOS Medicine. The coronavirus has also interfered with vaccination campaigns, leaving children worldwide vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases.
Even newborns may face worsened health from the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on prenatal exposures to maternal infection during the 1918 influenza pandemic has reported health issues later in life for those individuals, including higher rates of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and diabetes.
In a piece on why studies across the life span of children born to mothers who’ve had COVID-19 are needed, the authors discuss the hypothesis that infections during different trimesters may put the fetal organs developing at the time at risk. For example, the heart develops in the first trimester, the kidneys in the third, so infections in those periods could mean a higher risk later in life of cardiovascular disease or kidney disease, respectively.
All of the research so far on the pandemic’s reach is just the start. We’re going to continue to learn of ways COVID-19 will shape our health and our lives going forward. It keeps me in a mask, and though reasons for donning one undoubtedly vary, I’m not alone: A recent survey found that 6 in 10 Americans mask at least some of the time.
In the face of a predicted winter spike of COVID-19 cases, reinstating masking and other control measures — in schools and elsewhere — in the coming months seems prudent. The appetite for masking, at least, hasn’t been extinguished.
It’s health reporter Aimee Cunningham. At the start of another school year, I’ve been thinking about the differences between 2021 and 2022. Last year, many schools had mask mandates, testing programs and quarantine rules. This year, masking is optional, testing has been terminated and quarantine is curbed.
We’re shedding measures that stop the spread of the coronavirus and help prevent excessive disruptions to in-person learning. Without them, and with the absence of nearly any controls in place elsewhere in society, we’re inviting the virus to keep spreading, to find new ways to thwart immunity and to continue to derail plans and routines. And it’s not just a risk to our day-to-day lives, but to our future health. As much as we want to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, evidence continues to emerge that the coronavirus’s impact will be a recurring, unwelcome feature of many tomorrows.
Experts predict 100 million new cases of COVID-19 for this fall and winter in the United States, as more of life heads indoors during colder weather. It’s expected we’ll soon have a revamped vaccine that targets omicron variants along with the original version of SARS-CoV-2; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the shot August 31.
The original vaccine has done an outstanding job protecting people from severe illness and death, and an updated version may well be a plus. But the vaccine was never meant to shoulder the entire burden of keeping the virus at bay. It’s supposed to work as part of a team, together with masks, ventilation improvements and crowd control.
Without those public health tools in place, we are stuck with an ever-present risk of infection. Claire Taylor, a physician in the United Kingdom, tweeted about her experience having COVID-19 three times this year, in March, June and August, as the omicron family of variants moved through her country. “How can it be sustainable, sensible, bearable even, to get a virus that floors you in the same way multiple times a year?” she wrote.
It doesn’t seem sustainable, sensible or bearable. Not with what the virus can do in the midst of infection, and not with the harms that can linger after an infection subsides. Adults, for example, can face health issues throughout the body after a bout of COVID-19. A study of health records from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reported that, compared with those who haven’t had COVID-19, those who have — whether hospitalized or not — face higher risks of a variety of cardiovascular diseases, including inflammation of the heart and heart failure, 30 days after infection. Other research has found an increased risk of neurological and psychiatric illnesses for two years after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, compared with other respiratory infections.
On top of harm from COVID-19 itself is the expected health effects of the pandemic’s disruptions to medical care. A study of a large health care system in Massachusetts found a drop in necessary hospitalizations for urgent heart issues during the first year of the pandemic. Breast and ovarian cancer screenings in the United States decreased in 2020 compared with 2018. These delayed and lost health care opportunities may reverberate for years.
And then there is long COVID. Each surge of infections adds to the pool of people suffering from a range of debilitating symptoms that they just can’t shake, including extreme fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath and stomach pain. Because it takes time to identify people who develop long COVID, we don’t yet know the toll from the omicron surge earlier this year. But the spike in cases was so large, “ I suspect there will be millions of people who acquire long COVID after omicron infection,” immunobiologist Akiko Iwasaki told Liz Szabo of Kaiser Health News on August 26.
Long COVID can leave people unable to work, a threat to their ability to maintain health care coverage and to support themselves, and a looming crisis for the economy. There are already an estimated 16.3 million working-age Americans, meaning those 18 to 65 years old, who have long COVID; 2 million to 4 million of them are out of work because of their illness, a new Brookings Metro report finds. The annual cost of the wages lost is around $170 billion and may be as high as $230 billion.
There are also health impacts from grieving the loss of so many lives during the pandemic. Already 1 million people have died worldwide this year from COVID-19; close to 6.5 million in total have lost their lives to the disease during the pandemic.
Those deaths have included a devastating number of children’s parents and caregivers. As of mid-August, approximately 7.5 million children worldwide have been orphaned due to COVID-19. The loss of a parent or caregiver puts children’s education, health and well-being at risk, deficits that cannot be overcome without dedicated societal support.
Children have also developed long COVID and suffered mental health harms from the pandemic. There has been an increase in demand for mental health services for children and teens during the pandemic, a demand that has not been sufficiently met.
We’re just beginning to learn about other health issues in children that could stem from the virus itself or other pandemic factors. A recent U.S. study found an alarming rise in the number and severity of youth-onset type 2 diabetes during the first year of the pandemic compared with the average of the prior two years. New cases jumped by 77 percent in 2020. It’s not clear if the increase is due to COVID-19 infection, shifts in diet or activity or stressors from the pandemic, but the rise has strained existing health services for children with diabetes, the researchers wrote.
The pandemic has also disrupted vital health services for children around the world. A study of 18 low- and lower-middle–income countries found a decline in doctor visits and the delivery of maternal and child health care during the pandemic. The loss led to more than 110,000 excess deaths among children under 5 and more than 3,000 excess deaths among mothers, a threat to recent progress in reducing child and maternal mortality, researchers report August 30 in PLOS Medicine. The coronavirus has also interfered with vaccination campaigns, leaving children worldwide vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases.
Even newborns may face worsened health from the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on prenatal exposures to maternal infection during the 1918 influenza pandemic has reported health issues later in life for those individuals, including higher rates of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and diabetes.
In a piece on why studies across the life span of children born to mothers who’ve had COVID-19 are needed, the authors discuss the hypothesis that infections during different trimesters may put the fetal organs developing at the time at risk. For example, the heart develops in the first trimester, the kidneys in the third, so infections in those periods could mean a higher risk later in life of cardiovascular disease or kidney disease, respectively.
All of the research so far on the pandemic’s reach is just the start. We’re going to continue to learn of ways COVID-19 will shape our health and our lives going forward. It keeps me in a mask, and though reasons for donning one undoubtedly vary, I’m not alone: A recent survey found that 6 in 10 Americans mask at least some of the time.
In the face of a predicted winter spike of COVID-19 cases, reinstating masking and other control measures — in schools and elsewhere — in the coming months seems prudent. The appetite for masking, at least, hasn’t been extinguished.
I'm home from the drs office. I had lunch at work while I was waiting for my prescriptions. The doc gave me a fluid pill that will help with my blood pressure too. And only 2 more wks of prednisone. Meanwhile he's gonna set it up with the sleep lab to have me come pick up an at home sleep test from the pulmonology something or other. Then they can set me up with a c-pap rental which he said should be covered by our ins. I hope so. He gave me two choices. One that has to be fitted for a mask & the air adjusted or one with one kind of mask (but I can get something else if I want) that can determine how much air you need from night to night on it's own. I chose option 2. I prefer something self regulated. Hopefully with this and the changes to my work I should be ok. *Fingers crossed*
Well because of my COPD they refuse to let me do the sleep study at home. And they are quite booked up so I'm having trouble getting something scheduled. The hours for the sleep study are extremely inconvenient and the total opposite of my sleep hours so I don't know how the hell they think I'm gonna sleep at 8 at night. *SMH* They want me there at 7:30pm and want to send me home at 5:30am. That's just screwed up in my book. So I hafta go to work and find out what the boss is planning to do with me in Oct. and when so I can try to get something scheduled. Otherwise I may hafta wait two or three months. I don't think I have 2 or 3 months that I can wait without having more issues. I don't understand why getting the care we need is so difficult. One of the reasons I don't bother as much with stuff because what's the point?
Anyway, I'll see what the boss can do for me. I just need information I can work with to get something scheduled. I'm already very frustrated for the day. Last time I did a sleep test at home I had no problems with it. I don't know why I can't do it at home now. I had COPD then too. It's not gonna matter if I can't afford all the stuff with my ins. So I don't know. Guess I just wait and see.
Anyway, I'll see what the boss can do for me. I just need information I can work with to get something scheduled. I'm already very frustrated for the day. Last time I did a sleep test at home I had no problems with it. I don't know why I can't do it at home now. I had COPD then too. It's not gonna matter if I can't afford all the stuff with my ins. So I don't know. Guess I just wait and see.
by next month if they change my schedule i'll be doing positions for different people. maybe i can get one of them to trade me a day where i can have my day off and then have the following off so i can get my test done. like for example if i'm off on a thursday maybe i can get them to trade me their wed. for my friday. that way i can be off two in a row and get my test done. it will get worked out i just gotta find out what and when so i can try to get it worked out asap. i just gotta try to be patient.
Well I'm all set for the 15th of Oct. to get my sleep study done. Provided no one else quits at work. We had two more turn their notice in today. I just don't understand what is wrong with that place that they can't manage to get decent help and keep them. Anyway I gotta be there at 7:30 in the evening. Lights out by 10. Feel like a kid going to bed without a story. I figure if I don't go to sleep the night before and don't nap and stop the caffeine at 2pm as instructed and get there and take my otc sleep aid, that should knock me the hell out. Someone better read me my damned bedtime story!
I figure if I don't go to sleep the night before and don't nap and stop the caffeine at 2pm as instructed and get there and take my otc sleep aid, that should knock me the hell out. Someone better read me my damned bedtime story! LOL! I told dad that someone better read me a damned bedtime story at the sleep lab and he emailed back saying he would come do it. I told him I was just teasing. Plus they'd never let him in to do that. It was cute though.
I'm working this weekend with one of the new girls. She's a baby in comparison so hopefully she can handle more work load. I do the best I can. About mid Oct. is when they plan to change me over to having my own area. Or being a float. I'm not sure what they're gonna do now with those other two quitting. It might be more beneficial to have me float until they get more people in. The supervisor is coming back to nights for a bit to help us out til they find someone.
I thought I was working Monday but, I'm not so I'm gonna wait til then and get gas and grab a few things at the store. I think I'm gonna start having sandwiches and things I can microwave and fix up fast to eat because I really don't have any need to cook right now. It's just easier on me to fix something light and quick.
Have a great weekend!
I'm working this weekend with one of the new girls. She's a baby in comparison so hopefully she can handle more work load. I do the best I can. About mid Oct. is when they plan to change me over to having my own area. Or being a float. I'm not sure what they're gonna do now with those other two quitting. It might be more beneficial to have me float until they get more people in. The supervisor is coming back to nights for a bit to help us out til they find someone.
I thought I was working Monday but, I'm not so I'm gonna wait til then and get gas and grab a few things at the store. I think I'm gonna start having sandwiches and things I can microwave and fix up fast to eat because I really don't have any need to cook right now. It's just easier on me to fix something light and quick.
Have a great weekend!
Kaila
SF VIP
I don't know about anyone else but I'm so over this whole "Let's talk about Covid & the vaccine" BS, I could just scream. I so don't even care anymore. I get enough of it at work. Everyone has made a big stink about this since it began. It's been 3 yrs. Christ on a cracker already! Just get over it!! It's a frickin shot to help keep you from dying from Covid. Big damn deal. I got mine. I ain't dead. I ain't got Covid. I ain't sprouted another head. I don't have alien DNA now. I mean seriously. Ok that rant is over.
I got my new Disney game loaded. I can't play it til it's release Sept. 6th. I'm super excited. I had started a public group on Facebook but ended up deleting it because some spammer/scammer kept sending me requests to post from like 52 different accts. It wasn't worth the headache. That site is just ravaged with them. I don't understand why they have to be so annoying.
I work Sunday then I'm off Monday. I gotta run to town for a couple things. I gotta order a book of stamps too. I can do that online. I'm hittin Walmart Monday. I think I'm gonna order some knit pants with pockets for work. I can't find any decent pants that last very long that aren't super thin that fit right. Woman Within has them. I've ordered from them before. I think I'll just do that. Tired of wasting money on pants that don't hold up.
I got my new Disney game loaded. I can't play it til it's release Sept. 6th. I'm super excited. I had started a public group on Facebook but ended up deleting it because some spammer/scammer kept sending me requests to post from like 52 different accts. It wasn't worth the headache. That site is just ravaged with them. I don't understand why they have to be so annoying.
I work Sunday then I'm off Monday. I gotta run to town for a couple things. I gotta order a book of stamps too. I can do that online. I'm hittin Walmart Monday. I think I'm gonna order some knit pants with pockets for work. I can't find any decent pants that last very long that aren't super thin that fit right. Woman Within has them. I've ordered from them before. I think I'll just do that. Tired of wasting money on pants that don't hold up.