Ougggh Texas I need to see her destroyed in several ways I need to see her at her wits end I need to see her snap and lose it I need to see the look on her face when she sees something that finally pushes her over the edge, bringing out the killer in her. I need to see her lose control so bad that she is vulnerable, and is caught offguard by something she could have defended herself against. Despite this, I do not want her dead I want to see her be loved and experience love I want to see her heal. But first I need her to get worse.

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day.

Welcome to Too Much Information Tuesday.

Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.

Will Smith's first name is Willard, not William.

Loneliness is both physically and mentally damaging.

Napping for just six minutes can help improve your memory.

In the 1940s, butt plugs were marketed as a headache remedy.

In Switzerland, you can be denied citizenship for being too annoying.

Google has a database of 25 million books that no one is allowed to read.

You are 8 times more likely to be killed walking drunk, than driving drunk.

A survey of Americans from 2008 found wellbeing peaked at around age 82.

According to a new study, Finns have the longest weekend lie-ins in Europe.

A new study finds delays in texting responses may indicate the other person is lying.

The first copy of Rolling Stone magazine came with a free roach clip to hold your joints.

You're more likely to be killed by a vending machine related accident than to win the lottery.

A vital part of the mixing of ocean waters comes from huge masses of anchovies having sex.

On D-Day, J. D. Salinger fought with six chapters of ‘The Catcher In The Rye’ in his backpack.

In 2004, a boat in Texas capsized because everyone ran to one side to look at a nudist beach.

Being called ‘Baby’ has a positive effect on the female brain, causing instant emotional stress relief.

51% of Americans use subtitles all or most of the time when watching TV shows and movies.

In order to protest against a lack of cemetery space, the French town of Sarpourenx made it illegal to die.

Penn Jillette, of Penn and Teller fame, has a patent for a hot tub with a clitoral stimulator, called The Jill Jet.

The world’s deepest hole is about 7.5 miles deep. It was made by the Soviet Union just to find out what was down there.

At the start of World War Two, Soviet intelligence employed more graduates of British universities than MI5 and MI6 did.

McDonald's ended its 40-year relationship with Heinz in 2013, after the condiment company hired Burger King's former CEO.

George Clooney used to refund the cost of a cinema ticket to anyone who mentioned to him that they watched ‘Batman And Robin’.

New research suggests that drinking alcohol doesn’t make others seem more attractive, but it may give the drinker the confidence to approach people they already find attractive.

Switzerland hasn't had landfills since 2000. All municipal waste is either recycled or incinerated. 50% of the waste is recycled, and the other 50% is incinerated to produce electricity.

In France, it's illegal to completely disinherit one's children. French law mandates that a specific portion of a deceased person's estate, known as the "réserve héréditaire," must be allocated to their children.

Paul McCartney wrote ‘Hey Jude’ to comfort John Lennon's then-five-year-old son, Julian, who was upset about his parents' divorce. Paul wanted to encourage Julian and give him a hopeful message that life would get better.

After years of drug abuse, Ozzy Osborne vowed to never take acid again after he engaged in an hour long conversation with a horse. “In the end, the horse turned around and told me to fuck off. That was it for me, enough was enough.”

After going on a trip and returning to find that his wife had died and had already been buried, Samuel Morse was inspired to work on the telegraph. He wanted to find a way to deliver messages promptly, so others wouldn't have to feel that kind of pain.

Hikikomori is a phenomenon in which people withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement. The term is most commonly used in Japan, where an estimated half a million youths and a comparable number of middle-aged people live as hikikomori. They often refuse to leave their parents' house, avoid work or school, and isolate themselves for more than six months at a time.

Tokaido Shinkansen a.k.a. The Bullet Train has carried 5.6 billion passengers since it first opened and daily ridership has soared from 61,000 in 1964 to around 420,000 today, making it by far the busiest high-speed line not only in the Japan but also the world. The Tokaido Shinkansen cost Yen 380 billion to construct or £377 million at 1964 exchange rates. To date, the unfinished HS2 has cost taxpayers £100 billion.

A travel influencer who has been to more than 121 countries has branded the ‘penis village’ he found – complete with phallus murals and decorations – as the strangest destination he’s visited. Daniel Pinto, 25, discovered there was no shortage of items shaped like male members in Sopsokha, Bhutan. The village is located in the western part of the landlocked Asian country and has many penis symbols adorning buildings and sculptures on display. Mr Pinto, from Viseu, Portugal, said: “It’s a very beautiful traditional Bhutanese village surrounded by rice fields. But the closer you get the weirder it becomes.”

Okay, that’s enough information for one day. Have a tremendous and tumultuous Tuesday! I love you all.

My July ‘20 - June ‘21 film ranking:

1.       His House (AKA ‘Walls… I Scream’) – A Sudanese couple seek refuge in the UK, but are unable to escape the horror they left behind. It’s a tried and tested horror formula: a strained family unit try to come to terms with shared trauma against the backdrop of a serious social issue. But it’s really well executed. The understated tone left me unprepared for the brazenly nightmarish imagery.

2.       Sound Of Metal (AKA ‘Deaf Becomes Him’) – A punk drummer and recovering addict deals with a sudden and severe loss of hearing. I wish I’d gotten to see more of Riz Ahmed drumming with his shirt off but maybe that’s point? The sudden silence hits Ruben and the viewer like a tonne of bricks with ‘point of hearing’ sound design ensuring you empathise. Olivia Cooke is great too and the desperate romance between addicts really appealed to the angsty teen in me, until it resolves in an appropriately mature way.

3.       The Dig (AKA ‘Ralph Fiennes A Boat’) – On the eve of World War II, a wealthy widow hires excavator Basil Brown to dig up an Anglo Saxon burial mound. The stakes are low but it’s just nice to spend time in the countryside with these characters. I normally like shaky-cam and creative sound mixing but both are overused enough to be a bit distracting. Where director Simon Stone really shines is with his handling of the cast, who give some great naturalistic performances, particularly Ralph Fiennes who seems to be channelling Toby Jones.

4.       Nomadland (AKA ‘Van Clan Thank You Ma’am) – After losing her home, unemployed widow Fern takes to the road to join the American nomads. Why are non-actors so good at acting? This is pretty light on characterisation, to the extent that it wasn’t until halfway through that I started to get a grasp of Fern’s personality, but it makes up for that by immersing you in the nomad culture, as well as showing you tonnes of lovely nature porn. Paid for by the tourism board of Nevada.

5.       Mank (AKA ‘So What If It’s Not Citizen Kane?’) – Alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz draws on his experiences of 1930s Hollywood while writing the screenplay for ‘Citizen Kane’. I was more interested than emotionally invested. The old timey aesthetic felt like a gimmick, and though it was cool to hear Nine Inch Nails playing jazz tunes, the black & white gave me a headache. The real highlight was the late Jack Fincher’s screenplay, with tonnes of snappy and insightful dialogue.

6.       A Quiet Place Pt. 2 (AKA ‘Now With Talking!’) Pursued by monsters with powerful hearing, the Abbot family struggle to survive after the apocalypse. Remind me to always see horror in the cinema from now on. The big screen and sound system, and your inability to pause for a pee break, make all the difference. Though I prefer the first ‘Quiet Place’, this was a scarier watch, by virtue of me seeing it in the theatre. ‘Pt 2’ mostly lives up to the original, but lacks the emotional punch of its ending, and suffers from being split into two plots that don’t overlap.

7.       In The Heights (AKA ‘I Am Not Throwing Away My Shop’) – An adaptation of the Tony award winning show about Washington Heights’ Latin American community. It’s not easy adapting a stage musical for the screen, particularly a good one. And while I’ll still credit Lin Manuel Miranda’s source material for any and all gooseflesh I got, director John M. Chu did a pretty respectable job, with some nice creative flourishes. A lot of changes were made, many to the film’s detriment, but some provided new opportunities for characterisation.

8.       Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (AKA ‘I Miss Theatres’) – A 1920s Chicago blues band embark on a tumultuous recording session. This has all the strengths and weaknesses of a play. The spectacles of cinema are done away with in order to spotlight the many duologues and monologues in a way that feels unnatural for a film. But the source material is excellent and the cast definitely do it justice.

9.       Tenet (AKA ‘Taco Cat’) – A mercenary known only as ‘The Protagonist’ gets caught up with time travel, a Russian oligarch and the threat of Armageddon. This is way too long and the endless, inaudible exposition gets dull very quickly but the inventive and heart-racing action sequences more or less make up for that. The male actors all play their roles with charisma while Elizabeth Debicki is left to do the emotional heavy lifting.

10.   Saint Maud (AKA ‘I’m Walking On Thumb Tacks Oh-oh’) – A hospice nurse and recent Christian convert believes she must save the soul of her terminally ill patient. I never say this, but Saint Maud should have been longer. The first seventy minutes go for slow building tension but that leaves the last half hour with not enough time to bring things to a head. The creepy atmosphere is carried by the music and visuals more than the understated performance of the two leads.

11.   Luca (AKA ‘Started Out As A Fish, How Did I End Up Like This?) – Young sea monster Luca ventures onto dry land to see the world with his friend Alberto. It’s a much breezier story than Pixar’s ‘heavy hitters’ but there’s nothing wrong with that. The underwater animation was so beautiful I was disappointed when things moved to dry land but fortunately the seaside setting was just as evocative. Plot-wise, it’s pretty standard coming-of-age fare, with any pubescent ‘awakenings’ relegated to subtext.

12.   Soul (AKA ‘Jazz’) – A New York school band teacher struggles to escape the ‘Great Before’ in time to play a gig with his hero. This is absolute treacle to the eyes and ears as you’d expect from Pixar, and the narrative theme, of living for the sake of it rather than obsessing over your goals, is insightful and well delivered. The problem is that the story did too good a job of getting me invested in Joe’s hopes and dreams for me to be on board with his final epiphany. Perhaps it’s a lesson I still need to learn, and when I have, maybe I’ll appreciate ‘Soul’ more.

13.   News Of The World (AKA ‘Not Enough News’) – A travelling news reader takes a dangerous journey through post-civil war Texas to return a young girl to her relatives. This is one of the most unremarkable films I’ve ever seen. The plot is fine but predictable and its execution is forgettably competent across the board, with few distinguishing features. It adequately killed two hours of a lockdown evening, but then so would a screen of white noise.

14.   I’m Thinking Of Ending Things (AKA ‘The Arty-Farty Film For Clever Cloggses’) – A young woman goes to visit her new boyfriend’s parents as she contemplates ‘ending things’. This would have made a great short film in that it seems very deep and, for the 50 mins before I stopped watching, doesn’t really have a plot. Problem is it’s 135 mins long and I can’t take that much unbroken weirdness. Directing, acting and writing choices are all so offputtingly deliberate that watching it felt like listening to a band where every member is soloing at the same time.

15.   Uncorked (AKA ‘Billy Sommeliot’) – A young man from Memphis dreams of leaving his parents’ barbeque restaurant to become a sommelier. This is just kinda follows the formula of ‘young working class guy wants to do something his parents don’t approve of’. It’s competently made but not very imaginative and wastes the opportunity for some great food porn.

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Inspiration and Reading Asks:

1. How long ago did you start reading fanfiction? Writing fanfiction? Started reading when I was 12, started writing it, when I was 14, so reading, 19 years ago, and writing 17 years ago.

2. How do you spend your time when it comes to fanfiction? Are you primarily a fic reader, writer, or a perfect 50/50 split of both? I’m a 33.3% reader, 33.3% WIP machine, a 33.4% writer, and 100% mess, I usually spend my time doing an absurd amount of WIP that comes out of thin air, like, I can be eating an apple, boom, Bori WIP, a cup of coffee? Boom, Roro WIP, breathing? Boom, Lucaya WIP (that last one happens the most)

3. Are there any fics that inspired you to write what you do? It’s called Unfaithful (EN), it’s on fanfiction.net, and honestly, it’s so well written, that I had nausea 3 times while reading it, the pain was so palpable that I felt ill from it.

4. Link your three favorite fics right now. Right now, and in order 1 - Unfaithful (EN)  2 - Twenty Nights  3 - Perfect 

6. How do you find a new fic to read? Where do you primarily read fanfiction? Fanfiction or AO3, and have an excel doc with my favorite ships, then I go to the random number generator, putting 1 as the minimum and maximum the number of the last ship I added to the list, then hit random, and read about that ship, keep things fresh.

7. Do you prefer to read short fics or long fics? Both.

8. How often do you reblog/comment on fics that you like? When they are on Tumblr, a few times.

9. Tag 3 fic writers you think are underrated/unknown in the fandom/fanfiction community. I’m sorry, but I don’t know if they have Tumblr, so, amirmitchell, snowdrifts, and Onde Tu Esteves

10. What’s your favorite fandom, pairing, or character to read fic for? Fandom: Game of Thrones, love all those modern universe AU I have to say. Pairing: Lucaya (Not a surprise) Character: Lucas Friar, Portgas D. Ace, Roronoa Zoro, or Prince Zuko.

Fanfiction Writing Asks:

11. How do you come up with your fic titles? Coffee, food, and usually, Spotify, all that, sometimes, make my brain work into having titles about the things I want to write.

13. Do you outline your fics? How much of a headache would someone get if they just looked at an outline of yours without reading the fic? I do outlines, in 5 stages, so a pretty big one. 1 - I write in my notebook, what I want to write, like a general idea. 2 - Post it on my walls and door, to give the story some structure. 3 - Notebook outline the arch of the story. 4 - Outline every chapter on word. 5 - Reduce that chapter into mini arches to write faster.

14. Do you have a personal word minimum that you hold yourself too? Why or why not? I do (now), I usually don’t post anything that is less than 2900 words, Why? because we must not forget that writers not only write for people in the fandom, they mainly write for themselves, and I love to read something among that word count because that’s long enough to keep me on the hook.

16. Do you research for your fics? If so, how deep of a rabbit hole have you gone down by accident when researching? I do research for my fics, how deep? I can give indications for divorce paperwork in the state of New York, even if you want or not to go scorch the earth with the “fault” rule, I can give an appropriate value to an apartment or a house in New York, Texas, Nashville, and San Francisco, and I can do taxes on those states too, and I know more about how high school classes work in the US than in my country, even when I went to those classes, and I’m from Santiago, Chile, you know, in South America, like, the last country of South America

17. How obsessively do you sit and stare at your fic after you’ve just posted and wait for feedback? I don’t, once I finish writing something, I run away, and watch anime for a few hours, or work (Yeah, sometimes I write on my lunch hour)

18. Do you have a WIP that you keep telling yourself you’ll eventually get back to, but deep down you know that’s probably a lie? I do apologize to “The Games we Play” I have no idea how I outlined your 26 chapters, but I’m still on chapter 2, and I’m sorry.

19. Do you edit your fics after you write them, or do you prefer to just hit post and run (because it’s someone else’s problem now)? Sometimes I do because sometimes, I write things wrong.

20. What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process? That happiness I get when I’m in the Zone, and I write something that makes me say “Fuck, that was good”

21. What’s your least favorite part about the fanfiction writing process? I call it “The Deep White”, also known as writer’s block.

23. What’s your absolute favorite trope to write? I don’t write it anymore, because I was banned from a forum for writing it, but I love to write a bad ending, like “Killing the main character that I make you love for 30 chapters in the end” ending. I’m evil, I know, sue me.

24. What’s a trope that you’d like to never hear about as long as you live, let alone write? The “Good girl trying to change the bad boy,” I hate, apologies, I DESPISE that trope, it’s not cool, first, to be with someone abusive, and second, to try to change someone because you think you’re so almighty that you will change him (or her)  because of love, bs, I SAID BS.

25. Do you listen to music as you write? If possible, link your writing playlist. I do, and of course, it’s named “Writing Shiet” because my brain can only process decent titles for fics (Says the guy who once named a fic “No Title”) Here’s the link 

26. What’s your biggest distraction when writing? Anime and Manga.

27. Do you like to give your readers some warning of what might be coming or just slap them in the face with content at random? I don’t usually do it, but when I do it, I do it cryptic, like “You might be surprised, but this, I called in the beginning.”

28. How do you deal with writing pressure (ie: pressure to update, negative comments, deadlines, etc)? I ignore it, If I can ignore good advice, ignore something that gives me more stress it’s an easy cake.

29. Have you ever written for an exchange or event of some kind? Which one(s)? Did you enjoy it? I did but didn’t submit, I wrote for 2019 fictoberfest on Tumblr, but never send a shit, I did enjoy it tho

30. Post a snippet from your current WIP without context - no more than 300 words. "Well, we're still not in Texas," he says, implying something not PG-13 at all. "My God, in what did I turn you?" Maya teases him before getting up and grab his hand, pulling him up. Lucas grins at her, "On," he replies, making Maya flirty hit his chest

31. Of the characters you write for, which is your favorite? Has that choice been swayed at all by your followers/readers’ reactions to certain ones? I love writing Lucas and Maya, and honestly don’t know if it helps me or not LOL.

32. Copy and paste your top three favorite lines/jokes/sentences you’ve ever written. What fics do they come from? 1 - From November to June CH3 A few hours later, Maya heard a knock on her door. She takes a peek through the magic eye on her door and saw Lucas. She grabs her phone and fastly texts him. She was able to hear the 'ding' of his phone, and spying through the magic eye she saw his reaction. "Ok, first of all, I'm not that, second, my mother is not that, and third, I'm not gonna put that there, that's fucking gross, and probably deadly if you consider the size of my hands." he defends himself. 2 - Ten Duel Commandments CH2 Maya smiles at him, "Since you're all Texan cowboy goody-good boy, I imagine you would relate more with the honorable Lord Stark," she teases him. "Says the woman who read three books in a row and texts me at four in the morning," he replies before pulling out his phone, "R+L=J," he teases her, reading her text. "That's private, asshole," Maya recriminates him. 3 - The One Who Stayed CH18 "Then, I have less... GET OFF ME FUCKER!" Maya screamed, punching the person who grabbed her arm, "Holy shit, Lucas." she says, looking at the person she just hit. "Noted, never approach to you by surprise." Lucas says on the floor, "Well, this makes me feel more confident about you being here alone." he says before start laughing.

33. What do you like writing better: one-shots or multi-chapter stuff? Multi-chapter, unless, it’s wedding fics because I love weddings.

34. How much of yourself and your life experiences do you put into your writing? What do you think your readers’ image of you is? None.

35. How much has writing fic changed your life? Not much, but has made me happier.

36. Are there any fics or fandoms you’re embarrassed to have written or been part of? The Glee Project Fandom.

37. Give an update on your current WIP - if you don’t have one, give a sneak peek to a title or idea that you have and would like to write. "Shawn called him, and he assures him that if you try something inappropriate, he has a shotgun," she adds, making Lucas's face go pale. "Well, guess like father, like son," he comments, making Maya show unexpected interest in his words.

38. What does your writing process look like? How chaotic is it on a scale of 1 (very tame) to 10 (you can’t handle this kind of chaos)? As I explained in the outline question, pretty tame if we count that I have my outline process numbered LOL.

39. What’s something about your writing that you pride yourself on? That I try to make it real, I try to make people feel something when they read.

41. What’s your most popular fic (with the most notes on Tumblr, most hits/kudos on ao3)? Tumblr? The One Who Stayed Fanfiction.net? Ten Duel Commandments

44. Rant about something writing-related. Please, let’s stop glorifying the “Bad Boy” character, he’s an asshole, allow me to explain, Bakugo, fucking asshole, he’s just a bully with an oversized ego, no, he’s not a tsundere, no, it’s not cute, that shit is abusive, and it really makes me want to punch people in their nose when the romanticize that bullshit.

Done

(Told ya I was bored)

They Had Mild Covid. Then Their Serious Symptoms Kicked In.

Pam Belluck is a health and science writer whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Nellie Bly Award for Best Front Page Story. She is the author of Island Practice, a book about an unusual doctor. @PamBelluckMs. Khan said that she experienced “heart palpitations if I just got up to open the curtains.” Her cardiologist said she was the fifth previously healthy young person to walk into his office that week. In the beginning, her fatigue was so severe that walking two or three laps around her 600-square-foot apartment would exhaust her for the rest of the day. In addition, she said that she had “really intense mood fluctuations that don’t feel like they’re mine.”“Waking up every day in this body, sometimes hope feels a little dangerous,” said Ms. Khan, who will soon start the cognitive rehab program. “I have to wonder: Am I going to recover, or am I going to just figure out how to live with my new brain?”In his job, “my clients would tell me things like a passcode or an address and I couldn’t remember it,” he said.At Mr. Palacios’s first appointment with the Northwestern clinic, “I did the cognitive tests, and I failed them all,” he said. On a return visit, he did another battery of tests, he said, “and I didn’t do so hot on that, either.”Mr. Palacios was referred for cognitive rehab at a long-established program in Chicago that helps give patients strategies to manage and improve memory, organizational and cognitive difficulties. But he didn’t go, he said, because “I completely forgot.” He plans to go now.In the Northwestern study, 43 percent of the patients had depression before having Covid-19; 16 percent had previous autoimmune diseases, the same percentage of patients who had previous lung disease or had struggled with insomnia.Experts cautioned that because the study was relatively small, these pre-existing conditions might or might not be representative of all long-term patients. “We are all seeing very small pieces of the elephant in terms of the long Covid group,” Dr. Bell said. “Some of us are seeing tail; some of us are seeing trunk.”Along with neurological symptoms, 85 percent of the patients were experiencing fatigue, and nearly half had shortness of breath. Some also had chest pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, variable heart rate or blood pressure. Nearly half of the participants were experiencing depression or anxiety.“I was cleaning my gutters and I forgot where I was, I forgot what I was doing on the roof,” Mr. Palacios said. When he remembered, he added, the idea of doing “something as simple as climbing on a ladder all of a sudden became a mountain.”Dr. Allison P. Navis, a neuro-infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City who was not involved in the study, said that about 75 percent of her 200 post-Covid patients were experiencing issues like “depression, anxiety, irritability or some mood symptoms.”Participants in the study were overwhelmingly white, and 70 percent were women. Dr. Navis and others said that the lack of diversity quite likely reflected the demographics of people able to seek care relatively early in the pandemic rather than the full spectrum of people affected by post-Covid neurological symptoms.“Especially in New York City, the majority of patients who got sick with Covid are people of color and Medicaid patients, and that’s absolutely not the patients one sees at the post-Covid center,” Dr. Navis said. “The majority of patients are white, often they have private insurance, and I think we have to figure out a little bit more what’s going on there with those disparities — if it’s purely just a lack of access or are symptoms being dismissed in people of color or if it’s something else.”In the Northwestern study, Dr. Koralnik said that because coronavirus testing was difficult to obtain early in the pandemic, only half of the participants had tested positive for the coronavirus, but all had the initial physical symptoms of Covid-19. The study found very little difference between those who had tested positive and those who had not. Dr. Koralnik said that those who tested negative tended to contact the clinic about a month later in the course of the disease than those who tested positive, possibly because some had spent weeks being evaluated or trying to have their problems addressed by other doctors.Ms. Khan was among the participants who had a negative test for the virus, but she said she later tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, proof that she had been infected.Another study participant, Eddie Palacios, 50, a commercial real estate broker who lives in Naperville, a Chicago suburb, tested positive for the coronavirus in the fall, experiencing only a headache and loss of taste and smell. But “a month later, things changed,” he said.Across the country, doctors who are treating people with post-Covid neurological symptoms say the study’s findings echo what they have been seeing.“We need to take this seriously,” said Dr. Kathleen Bell, the chairwoman of the physical medicine and rehabilitation department at the University Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who was not involved in the new study. “We can either let people get worse and the situation gets more complicated, or we can really realize that we have a crisis.”Dr. Bell and Dr. Koralnik said many of the symptoms resembled those of people who had concussions or traumatic brain injuries or who had mental fogginess after chemotherapy.In the case of Covid, Dr. Bell said, experts believe that the symptoms are caused by “an inflammatory reaction to the virus” that can affect the brain as well as the rest of the body. And it makes sense that some people experience multiple neurological symptoms simultaneously or in clusters, Dr. Bell said, because “there’s only so much real estate in the brain, and there’s a lot of overlap” in regions responsible for different brain functions.“If you have inflammation disturbances,” she said, “you can very well have cognitive effects and things like emotional effects. It’s really hard to have one neurological problem without having multiple.”In the Northwestern study, many experienced symptoms that fluctuated or persisted for months. Most improved over time, but there was wide variation. “Some people after two months are 95 percent recovered, while some people after nine months are only 10 percent recovered,” said Dr. Koralnik. Five months after contracting the virus, patients estimated, they felt on average only 64 percent recovered.The study of 100 patients from 21 states, published on Tuesday in The Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, found that 85 percent of them experienced four or more neurological issues like brain fog, headaches, tingling, muscle pain and dizziness.“We are seeing people who are really highly, highly functional individuals, used to multitasking all the time and being on top of their game, but, all of a sudden, it’s really a struggle for them,” said Dr. Igor J. Koralnik, the chief of neuro-infectious diseases and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine, who oversees the clinic and is the senior author of the study.The report, in which the average patient age was 43, underscores the emerging understanding that for many people, long Covid can be worse than their initial bouts with the infection, with a stubborn and complex array of symptoms.This month, a study that analyzed electronic medical records in California found that nearly a third of the people struggling with long Covid symptoms — like shortness of breath, cough and abdominal pain — did not have any signs of illness in the first 10 days after they tested positive for the coronavirus. Surveys by patient-led groups have also found that many Covid survivors with long-term symptoms were never hospitalized for the disease.A new study illuminates the complex array of neurological issues experienced by people months after their coronavirus infections.

In the fall, after Samar Khan came down with a mild case of Covid-19, she expected to recover and return to her previous energetic life in Chicago. After all, she was just 25, and healthy.

But weeks later, she said, “this weird constellation of symptoms began to set in.”

She had blurred vision encircled with strange halos. She had ringing in her ears, and everything began to smell like cigarettes or Lysol. One leg started to tingle, and her hands would tremble while putting on eyeliner.

She also developed “really intense brain fog,” she said. Trying to concentrate on a call for her job in financial services, she felt as if she had just come out of anesthesia. And during a debate about politics with her husband, Zayd Hayani, “I didn’t remember what I was trying to say or what my stance was,” she said.

By the end of the year, Ms. Khan was referred to a special clinic for Covid-related neurological symptoms at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, which has been evaluating and counseling hundreds of people from across the country who are experiencing similar problems.

Now, the clinic, which sees about 60 new patients a month, in-person and via telemedicine, has published the first study focused on long-term neurological symptoms in people who were never physically sick enough from Covid-19 to need hospitalization, including Ms. Khan.

One-Shot a Day, Day 5. Caroling. RvB

Day 5: Caroling. Caboose and Junior drag Tucker, Wash, and Church Caroling with them. The night ends with hot chocolate and cocoa.

“But… But Tucker!!! It’s Christmas! We have to go caroling! It’s a rule!” Tucker blinks his eyes shut, willing the tylenol he took to kick in and abolish his Texas-sized headache that is only being made worse by Caboose’s yelling that he’s listened to all afternoon during their game day.

“It’s not a rule, Caboose. Traditions and rules are not the same thing.” Wash interjects, saving his boyfriend from replying. “How’s your head?”

“Still throbbing. Finally took medicine a few minutes ago since it’s not going away on its own, but it hasn’t kicked in yet.”

“Dad, Wash, Pleeeeaaaase can we go!” Junior, Tucker’s seven year old, bounces up and down on his toes barely in his father’s vision, Christmas sweater and elf hat already on, eyes gleaming. 

“Caboose, Junior, can you go wait in the living room with Church? Tucker and I need to talk for a minute.”

“Okay, Wash.”

“Yes! I would love to go wait with Church!” The two make their way out of the kitchen into the living room, the couple hearing Church’s protests as Caboose tries to sit too close to him on the couch. 

“Tucker? You know Junior’s been begging to go caroling with Caboose all year.”

“I know, I know. And I’ve told him we would, I just can’t do it tonight, my head hurts too bad. But I know then they’re going to ask me when we’ll do it.”

“We could compromise and do it tomorrow.”

“But tomorrow’s-”

“I know tomorrow’s date night. But we can compromise this once. We’ll move date night to Sunday, or we can have family caroling date night. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t really want to go out and be freezing while making a fool of myself singing to random strangers, but they want to do this so bad, and we’ve promised them both.”

“Yeah, I know. At least it’ll be a little bearable with you there.” Tucker smiles and red spreads across his boyfriend’s cheeks. “Come on, let’s go tell them and then I’m going to get a little dinner to maybe feel a little better. Do you want to stay tonight?”

“That sounds good. That’ll leave it open for you to go to bed whenever and I can take care of putting Junior to bed.”

“Thank you, Wash. I love you.”

“I love you, too.” The older man tugs on Tucker’s hand pulling him out of the chair before lacing their fingers together, pulling him to the living room.

“Junior, Caboose we can’t go caroling tonight, my headache is too bad.”

“Awwww.”

“But dad, you promised-”

“Be patient. As long as I feel okay, we’ll go tomorrow night, how about that?”

“But dad, tomorrow night is date night for you and Wash.”

“We know, buddy, we decided we’re going to skip it this week so we can go caroling since we’ve promised you both that we would.”

“Yay! Thank you, dad, thank you, Wash!” The boy runs across the room, slamming into his dad’s legs before hugging Wash’s legs too.”

“You’re welcome, J.” The blond ruffles his hair affectionately as he turns to sit back on the couch next to Caboose. “Church, Caboose, if you’ll be here about six tomorrow night we’ll leave then and carol for a while, sound good?” 

“Okay! This is going to be so awesome!” 

“I had fun this afternoon playing games, y’all, but now I’m going to get some food and then hopefully sleep this headache off.”

“Yeah, I hope you feel better soon, Tucker. Get well, man. C’mon Caboose, we’re gunna leave so Tucker can feel better, okay?”

“Okay, Church! Hope your headache leaves you alone, Tucker!” Before the dark-skinned man knows what hit him, the blue-clad man has him wrapped in a bear hug, lifting him off the ground slightly. 

“Thanks, buddy. Can you put me down now?”

“Oh! Yes, sorry!”

“It’s okay. See you both tomorrow.”

“Bye Wash! Bye Junior!” And with that, the two are out the door, Wash locking it behind them as Tucker turns to walk back into the kitchen to make a sandwich before going to bed.

The next evening, at six sharp, Church and Caboose knock on the door. “Hey, guys, come on in. Tucker’s finishing getting Junior dressed warm enough, and then we should be ready. We’re gonna go to one of the neighborhoods not too from here.”

“Hi, Wash!!!” Wash squeezes his eyes shut, forcing himself to relax into Caboose’s hug, hugging him back slightly, still not particularly caring for the tall man’s tight bear hugs, even though they’re better than they used to be.

“Caboose!” Junior runs to the dark-haired man, squealing in delight when he picks him up, pretending to throw him over his shoulder, but actually dangling him down his back, holding on to the boy’s ankles.

“Alrighty, just gotta put my shoes on and then we can go.” Tucker stumbles out of the hallway, trying to pull one of his sneakers on, tripping as he does, Wash barely catching him. “Heh, guess I fell for you, Wash.” Tucker grins, his boyfriend rolling his eyes.

“I thought we already knew that?”

“Ew! Dad, Wash! Stop flirting and let’s go!”

“Alright, alright, let me get my other shoe on and my grab my coat and then we can go.” 

The five tumble out the door, Wash locking it behind them. Piling into Tucker’s car, Caboose squeezing between Junior and Church to fit in the middle, they take off for the neighborhood. “Ooooh! Oh! We’re gunna sing We Wish You a Merry Christmas, right?” 

“Yes, Caboose.”

“Okay, good. Cause it’s not Christmas if you don’t sing that.”

“And Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, dad?”

“Yup.” The two continue, going back and forth with suggestions as to what songs they should sing. 

“Oi, asshole, why’d you have to drag me along with this plan? I don’t even celebrate Christmas!” That’s Church’s voice.

“Cause, you were Caboose’s ride to my house! Besides, we all know you kinda celebrate the secular side even though you’re Jewish. You’ve always participated in secular Christmas celebrations, and this is one of those! Alright, everyone out; we’ll park here, make our way around the neighborhood and then come back.”

Two hours later the five trudge back to Tucker’s car, Caboose carrying a giddy but nearly asleep Junior. “You two are welcome to come in and warm up with some cocoa before you head home, I’m going to be putting some on for Tucker, Junior and I anyway,” Wash informs the other’s as they all adjust their seatbelts, Caboose insisting on sitting in the middle again despite Church being more sizably suited to that spot.

“I thought you weren’t allowed in the kitchen, Wash?”

“But Church! Everyone is allowed in the kitchen. You have to be! That’s where you go to get food and water!”

“It’s just a saying, Caboose. It’s cause Wash always burns things.”

“Nope, Wash just isn’t allowed in there to cook. He can make a mean hot cocoa, and he can bake great, but not cooking.”

“I like hot cocoa. Can we please stay a little while, Church?”

“Sure, I guess. But not too long, okay?!”

“Okay!!”

Thirty minutes later cocoa is served to all, Church sprawled in the recliner, Junior and Caboose sitting on the floor, and Wash leaned into Tucker’s side on the couch, The Santa Claus playing on the TV. By the time another thirty minutes has gone by, Caboose, Junior, and Church have set their mugs aside and dozed off, Tucker and Wash sipping on their second mugs, these each slightly spiked. “It wasn’t our normal date night, but I am glad we went caroling with them.” Tucker keeps his voice low, almost a whisper, careful to not wake any of the others. 

“I am too. Early merry Christmas, Tucker.”

“Early merry Christmas, Wash.” 

The Fallen, 4/17

Volume: 1.

Number of parts: 4/17.

Pairings: Nine x Rose.

A/N: Written for Whumptober. "Wake up" (ALT1), Stitches (D11), "Don't move" (D12), Adrenaline (D13), Tear-stained (D14). Tagging @thebookster on her demand.

“We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.” - Amy Lee.

CHAPTER 4:

Maya Carson was one of Nash’s oldest friends. They were both from Shitferz and had both been part of that experimental program of exchange between their planet and Gallifrey. They hadn’t been told anything, they were just put on the list and sent away. The Quiston Calcium Assassins weren’t known for creating friendships or other bonds between people. Instead, they were setting their recruits against each other to make them merciless, heartless and bloodthirsty. The perfect assassins. Nash and Maya had both played the game; they had both compelled to their rules. They had become two of the best assassins of this deadly organization, had executed all their contracts. Their shapeshifter genes were giving them a longevity of life and a healing ability that was very useful when you were fighting targets stronger than you. When the Daleks and the Time Lords began fighting in a war that was to destroy everything around, the Quiston Assassins were sent on the battlefield. On the front lines. Despite their training, many of them had died that day. Maya was pregnant. It wasn’t visible yet, but Nash knew it. They had kept the secret. Only Maya’s husband, Oliver, another member of the Quiston Assassins, did know about the news, and they were all fighting for the sake of this future child. It wouldn’t have the same life as them on Gallifrey. No, it would come to this world in a better world than this one. That was their belief. The intervention of the Doctor was what saved them. He gave them the time to run away, to steal a TARDIS of their own and find another planet to settle down. Earth hadn’t been their first choice but it had been their best. This had happened over thirty years ago in their current timeline but the memories of it were still fresh. Forgetting about their killing instincts and making themselves accepted had been the hardest parts and they were still working on this, even now. Sadly, Oliver wasn’t around anymore – a divergence of opinions and an inability to control himself had caused his downfall – but Maya had found help in Texas. A married couple of shapeshifter and witch took her under their wing and took care of her for a moment. Maya had given birth to her daughter in this atmosphere and safety before coming to England, to London where she met again with Nash. She was forced to abandon her daughter in an orphanage for her safety when other assassins that had fled from Gallifrey came after them. The woman was growing somewhere in this world and Maya had no way to know where she was. But she would find her one day. “Maya? Maya, dear, do you hear me?” There was a clear wound on her temple. She had been knocked out with a heavy object. If she had been human, it could have killed her. They would have to pretend she was human and stitch that wound so no one – especially the person who caused this – would suspect a thing. With someone like Jeremy around, better lie low. “Wake up, please. You can’t let me down now. We haven’t found her yet.” The mention of her daughter brought some life into Maya whose eyes slowly fluttered open. She groaned. She was having a headache now. She brought her fingers to her head and touched the bleeding wound. She made a grimace of pain. “What the…” Her instincts quickly kicked back in and she immediately jumped on her feet. All her body was on alert but she was dizzy from the pain throbbing in her head. She clutched the frame of a bunk bed to keep steady. She would fight anyone coming near her. This dizziness was nothing compared to everything she had gone through. “Sh, sh, sh,” said Nash. “It’s only me. Do you remember what happened?” Maya focused. She relaxed only when she was able to distinctly identify Nash beside her. She sat on a bed with a heavy sigh. No, she hadn’t seen nothing at all. It was her break time so she had come here for a bit of sleep and before she could see or hear anything, she was out. Her reflexes weren’t as sharp as before. It wasn’t good. She let Nash clean and stitch her wound. She also accepted the band aid. It would hide the fact the cut and bruise would be gone in a few hours or less. No need to draw more attention on her. She already didn’t know why she had been attacked. It was frustrating for a former assassin to have been knocked out so easily. “I need to tell you something, but I can’t do it in here.” She was almost certain that Jeremy was spying on his employees to be sure they were obeying his orders and not nosing around like Nash was sometimes tempted to do. He was hiding secrets, dark secrets, and the therapist didn’t like that at all. She needed to talk about this, and about her patient, to her friend. It would have to wait until their shifts were over. She couldn’t even take the risk to speak telepathically. She was acting as humanly as possible. “The bathrooms aren’t on watch.” Maya’s voice had been so low that only a person with enhanced senses could have heard her. Still, Nash looked around and gave her friend a nod. They would find a bathroom and have their talk there if it was the most secure place of the building. Not the most appalling or pleasant for people with such developed sense of smell but it would do. They found one near the isolation ward and Nash made sure to check every corner and every hub. Safety first. She was very distrustful toward the owner of the place and the changes he had done around here. No micro and no camera in the bathrooms. At least, he had some respect left. A breach in his so perfect security. “I have a new patient,” whispered Nash. Just like Maya minutes before, she was speaking very low so only her could hear what she was saying. If anyone was passing by, they wouldn’t even suspect that someone was on this bathroom unless they came in. The two women would pretend to be washing their hands after using the loo. As simple as that. “I’ve heard of something about a new guy around. A psycho.” “No, not at all. It’s him.” Maya’s eyes grew big. It’s him. She couldn’t believe those words and yet, her friend wouldn’t lie to her. So it had to be true. The Doctor, the man who saved their lives thirty years ago, was here. As a patient. What could that mean? Was he undercover or something? “What’s he doing here?” “I don’t really know.” “Do you think he…” Nash shook her head. The Doctor wasn’t undercover. Something had gone wrong and he had gone nuts. He was t there for Jeremy either. He had been surprised to see him two days ago. A bad surprise. The rage and fear and disgust had made him lose it completely. Well, the person he stole this face from had lost it. Quite impressive. The body had been taken care of by Jeremy’s staff. Mash preferred not knowing what they had done of the poor woman’s cadaver but she hoped it was respected. No one should meet such an end. Not even someone working for Jeremy. “He’s pretty vague and confused. Looks like his latest adventure has gone wrong and it deeply affected him. J has already laid his hands on him. It wasn’t pretty.” “So what do we do?” “We have to help him out of here. For the rest, we’ll see that in time.” Maya nodded. The mission was simple: help the Doctor to escape this place before Jeremy Backfire had full control on his case. They had been working here for years and had been trained to run from the worst situations. But it was always easier said than done. It would take some time and organisation.

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“Don’t move!” The adrenaline was pulsing in every vein of the nurse’s body. He was one of the three employees in charge of lunch today and it was pretty calm until this one guy quietly eating alone in his corner was being bothered by another patient. A blonde woman who had tried to have him speaking only to be rewarded with a ‘stop trying to be her!’ and an empty plate straight in her face. The nurse hadn’t been told about this new patient yet so he didn’t know how to handle the situation but one thing was sure: they had to disarm it before it went south for real. The other patients were feeling the adrenaline and fear and tension in the air and that was exciting them. They were ready for a fight. A deadly fight since the new guy had a shard of broken plate in his fist. He was holding it so tight that it had cut his hand. Blood was dripping on the floor but he didn’t seem to notice. Or to care. “Put that down slowly, sir. No one will hurt you. We’re just here to help you.” The nurse had a raised hand toward him, a universal gesture for ‘calm down’, but the Doctor didn’t see him. He was oblivious of everything around him. His eyes were staring at the ground before him but his sight was a blur. He was seeing the floor without seeing it, being physically in this hospital and mentally elsewhere. The Wolf was active. It was there at the moment but the Doctor’s eyes weren’t glowing gold like it usually did. This blonde woman wandering around and trying to get him to speak had reminded him so much of Rose – though the woman had nothing in common with his companion – that it had triggered his fury. He had punished the woman and was punishing himself for not being able to get to Rose in time. She could be dead for all he knew and that was all his fault. And that new Doctor, why hadn’t he noticed that something was wrong? The Wolf had intervened before it could get worse. It had used a card the Doctor ignored everything about. As Rose was the host of the other half of the Wolf, they were telepathically connected and nothing could break this bond between them. So the Wolf had connected him to Rose’s mind. It was enabling him to have a look at her mind, at her surroundings through her eyes. Pain struck him at the pink walls. She wasn’t in the TARDIS. It could have been a day off, a day visiting Jackie but he knew deep down that it wasn’t. Rose was back at home, back at her old life with Jackie. Her sight was blurred. She was crying. When she looked down, he could see what she had in her lap. A notebook. It was closed and the cover was tear-stained. She had been crying for a while. She closed her eyes and the connection was broken. He was back in his own mind, back in this hospital. His fury wasn’t any better, but another emotion was dominating now: pain. The pain to know that Rose was at Jackie’s again, the pain to know that she was unhappy, the pain to know that the other Doctor had done nothing to get rid of the Wolf in her mind. He had cravenly left her behind and that was unforgiveable. He was clenching his fists so hard that the piece of plate he was still holding was deeply sunk in his skin now. This pain didn’t matter. He was all too focused on another pain, on her pain. It was unbelievable, unbearable and it was growing in him like a cancer. He suddenly leant his head backward and howled his frustration to the dirty white ceiling…

To be continued...

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wrote out some catharsis instead of going to sleep. 

Under the cut is a bit of fiction following characters I’ve had with me for years. You may notice that tenses are inconsistent - this is intentional. You may also notice repetition in places that seem strange. Think of it as a journal entry. Think of it as stream-of-consciousness. If you’re curious enough to read, a helpful bit of background: 1) Madison has been AWOL for about three years and has just recently turned up again. 2) Nixon is Madison’s best friend and also his It’s-Complicated On-Again-Off-Again lover. 3) Steven is a mutual friend of theirs.

I’ve always been a little bit scared of Steven. 

I mean, I love him. Of course. Deeply. I always have. But I’ve also always been scared of him. Not the kind of fear that makes you want to run away, but the kind that makes you want to hide.  And it’s that plain-sight kind of hiding. Maybe if I just don’t say anything, he won’t notice me. Maybe if I stay very still, I can avoid revealing to this extraordinary human being what an absolute dingus I really am. It’s not “scared” like I think he’ll hurt me. I know he’d never hurt me. It’s “scared” like I don’t know what to do with myself around him. Like I can’t read him, but I know he’s reading me,  and I know he’s seeing through all the bullshit I can usually fool other people with. All my life I’ve been so used to always feeling like the smartest person in the room. But that was never true whenever Steven was around. 

Out of everyone, I’ve spent the least amount of time alone with him. And when I have spoken one-on-one with Steven, it’s always been because he wanted to sit me down and lecture me about something Serious. Like when he told me in the back of Julius’s car that my father was going to beat me someday (he was right about that). Or the time on the metro train when he told me I’d regret not being kinder to my mother after she died (he was right about that, too). 

So when I heard Steven’s voice this morning, that same fear started growing inside me like ice crystals. Like little freezing daggers stabbing into my cells and making me feel cold. 

His voice this time wasn’t distorted by speakers. He was here. And I could hear Nix saying to him, “He doesn’t need to know.” 

Steven said, “I’m telling him.” 

Nix said, “It’s not his business. It’s not even relevant. I mean, not anymore.” 

I rolled out of bed. Paused to make sure my junk wasn’t hanging out of the robe Nixon gave me, and it wasn’t. Then I went to go open the door into the hall. 

Nixon was in the kitchen wearing scrubs. Those must be his work clothes. I remember when “work clothes” for Nixon was black slacks, a buttondown, and a Red Lobster nametag. He was putting dishes away - real, porcelain ones. Not plastic or paper like the ones we used to have. 

Steven was sitting at the bar table on a stool. His hair is gone. He always said he’d never cut it. I wonder what made him cut it. His dreads, I mean, his locs, were probably like three and a half feet long last time I saw him. 

They both turned to look at me. I thought I should say ‘good to see you, Steven,’ or ‘woah, what are you doing here, Steven,’ or ‘where’d your hair go, Steven,’ But what I said was, “...You’re gonna tell me what?” 

And instead of answering, Steven stood up and said, “Put some clothes on. I’m gonna take you out for some food.” 

I shook my head. “I, uh, I don’t wanna eat, I’ll-”

“Puke. Withdrawal. I know. Put some clothes on.” 

I looked at Nix. Nix shrugged and looked away. 

I told Steven, “I don’t have anything clean to wear.” 

Then Nix said, without looking at me, “In the closet at the back. Your stuff is there.” I watched Steven’s face as Nix said this, and I’m damn sure I saw him shake his head and roll his eyes. 

“You kept my stuff?” 

Another shrug from Nixon. “You were gonna need it if you ever came back.” 

Steven said again, “Get dressed.” 

***

My clothes didn’t quite fit anymore. I’m thinner now than I’ve probably ever been in my life. I mean, I was never fat, and I was never bulky, but I was always strong. The only part of the genetic lottery that played out in my favor was my natural inclination to be slightly more fit than not-fit. But even just a few months of treating yourself like garbage can whittle you down to nothing. So I grabbed the skinniest skinny jeans I owned. And I never wore belts, so I had to nab one of Nixon’s, and well, it was big on me, obviously, but I just tried to get it as tight as I could, which looked fucking ridiculous, really, but it was alright because then I threw on a hoodie that almost went down to my knees anyway. 

I didn’t say anything to Steven on the way down to his car. (The last time I was home, Franky and Julius were still the only ones among us who had cars). I’ve always worried that Steven thinks I hate him, given that I never really initiate conversation with him. But I don’t hate him. I’m just scared, like I said. 

The plates on the car were from out-of-state. I finally asked, just as we got in and he pulled out of the space, “Arizona?” 

He explained, “It’s an airport rental.” 

“Airport?”  

“I was in Houston.” 

“Houston… Texas? For what, like, a trip?” 

He shook his head. “I live there.” 

He drove along and I just looked at him like he was a fucking stranger. Then he said, “You missed a lot.” 

I asked him, “Why… why’d you move to Texas? I thought you hated Texas.” Truthfully, the only instance I can remember where Steven ever mentioned Texas at all was in high school when we were talking about that one Spongebob episode.  

He said, “That’s where most of the astronaut training stuff is at.” 

I felt my eyebrows raise. “You’re gonna be an astronaut?” 

He nodded. “I mean, if I don’t fail the exams.” 

Nix is a therapist at a rehab clinic and Steven is becoming an astronaut and I’m a washed-up junkie with nothing to his name besides a dropped felony charge, three misdemeanors, and an outstanding jaywalking ticket. I wasn’t even jaywalking. The light was broken and the cop had a quota to meet. I wasn’t even jaywalking. I’m not paying that fucking ticket. 

I finally said, “That’s like… your literal dream come true. That’s… amazing. Congratulations.” 

But he was terse and decidedly Not Gentle when he said, “I ain’t even there yet. Don’t congratulate me.” 

Steven scares me. I don’t know why he does what he does or says what he says. I can’t read him. I think he’s pissed at me but I also think if I told him I think he’s pissed at me, he’d tell me to get over myself.

I asked after a while, “...If you’re living in Texas now, what are you doing here?” 

“I’m here to see you.” 

My palms began to sweat. That feeling in my chest, that vibrating, that resonance that made me want to poison myself rang around inside me. 

“Why?” 

He pulled into the parking lot of a Waffle House. Steven loves waffles. I hate them. Pancakes, too. Syrup makes me sick. Steven got out of the car and I asked again, a little louder, maybe starting to panic, “Why?” 

He just said, “Come on.” 

I wanted a corner booth. I mean, if I was gonna be dragged to a restaurant against my will I wanted to at least be able to have a wall at my back and to one side of me. Safe. Small. Secure. But Steven asked for a table almost dead centered in the restaurant. I think he did this on purpose. I looked up at him, trying to give him that Look that I used to give my friends when something was too much for me, and then one of them, usually Nixon but also sometimes Franky or Steven, would give me some kind of excuse to leave without making anything awkward. And I know, I know Steven knows that look, and he looked down at me and I know he saw it, but he just… ignored me. 

I’m really scared of him. 

He sat, and so then I sat, but only because I had already stood there for long enough that someone glanced at me, clearly wondering why the hell I hadn’t sat down yet. A waitress came and took our orders. Steven ordered waffles and hash browns. I just shook my head and said “I’m not hungry.” But Steven interrupted and said, “Bring him some strawberries.” 

I do like strawberries.

He finally said, “You’ve figured out by now why I take you out in public to talk to you, right?” 

I just frowned. Confused. Annoyed. And honestly, the fucking fluorescent lights were giving me a headache. 

Steven said, “You’re a lot nicer in public. You don’t blow up. You don’t have meltdowns. Nah, you save those for when you’re just with us. And I know, I know, I’m sure your lil meltdowns are real or whatever, but it’s damn convenient that you can always manage to keep it together when strangers are watching.” 

I can never tell if Steven is trying to upset me. I think if I told him I thought he was trying to upset me, he’d tell me to get over myself. 

I told him, “I don’t know what you’re trying to say.” 

And he said, “Then quit trying to figure me out and just shut up and listen.” 

I think he’s trying to upset me. But I did shut up and listen. He said, “I don’t know what all you thought would happen when you just up and left like you did. And I know, you’re gonna say it ‘wasn’t about us,’ but like, no fuckin’ duh, bro. Because if it had been about us, you wouldn’t have picked your shit up and disappeared like that. But you did. And Franky, Franky started cutting himself again, like a damn teenager… Eli couldn’t hardly think straight. Me, I felt sick to my stomach worrying about you, and I mean sick, Midge. I mean I’m sitting at home tryna study thermodynamics and I cannot get the bile to quit rising in my throat, not knowing if you’re dead or alive out there.” 

For a long time I told myself that this was exactly what I stayed high to avoid thinking about. But I don’t know how I got myself to believe that lie, considering it wouldn’t have been a fucking issue if I had just stayed home. 

I clenched my jaw. Under the table I dug my nails into my elbows. I asked, with the monotonous inflection of a statement, “Why are you telling me any of this.” 

“You mean you don’t want to know?” Steven laughed. Steven laughed. 

“Honestly, man, I really just wanna get out of here.”  

“Yeah, I know you do. And, you know, if Nix had his way, I wouldn’t be talking to you right now. Because I’m gonna tell you what he doesn’t want you to know. And it’s gonna fuck you up, and I’m glad about that.” 

I covered my face with my hands. I bit my tongue. Out of my throat I managed to squeeze out the words, “Steven, what do you want?” 

Then he said, like it was a bomb he’d been holding over my head, “Six months after you left, Nixon drank himself into a coma.” 

My hands dropped from my face and my eyes got hot and my chest got tight and I felt myself say, “What?” But I didn’t hear it.

“And, well, he lived alone at that point, ‘cause you were gone… Franky offered to have him come move in with him… Julius offered… I offered… hell, all of us offered… but he wouldn’t do it. Said he was gonna stay where he was so he’d be there when you got back. But you ain’t come back. And he was alone. So he did what he does, and he drank like a fuckin fish, drank until he almost died, and then he laid there for… well, he doesn’t know how long, of course, but the doc thought it must have been a whole day or two… and, you know, thank God it was the first of the month, so the landlord came knocking when the rent didn’t get paid, and well, that’s the reason your so-called ‘best friend’ ain’t dead right now.” 

I was shaking. All of me, I think, but mostly my hands, and my mouth. And I could feel how wide my eyes were, and how they stung and burned, and the wetness welling up and brimming. And I tried to stay still, so still that maybe he wouldn’t see me. Maybe Steven is a fucking velociraptor and if I just don’t move, I’ll survive this.

“So, the landlord calls 911… the hospital calls Julius… Julius calls us. I tried to call you. You ain’t answer, obviously.” He rolled his eyes. “We spend the next few nights like a damn vigil in a hospital waiting room… they’re telling us he could have brain damage… they’re telling us to expect ‘deficits’ if he wakes up… ‘if.’ If. Because that wasn’t a guarantee.”

My cheeks began to itch - tears sliding down. Tears that I didn’t move to wipe away, because remember, I had to stay still. 

“So Jules finally called their mom… and gotdammit, Red, you know I ain’t a fuckin crybaby, but when you hear your best friend, your best friend since y’all was in playin’ in sandboxes, on the phone with his mamma telling her that her other son might die…” Steven’s voice cracked. I can’t remember ever hearing Steven’s voice crack. “That shit’ll fuck a nigga up.” 

I felt myself ask him to stop. 

He didn’t. 

“So then Mrs. Johannsen shows up, and you know she always hated all of us. And now we almost couldn’t even blame her… this shit all happened because of you, and you’re one of us, so of course she kicks us out… of course she makes a scene, screaming, carrying on. And then we didn’t even get to see him unless Julius snuck us in. A week and a half of us camping out in the parking lot, waiting for the text from Jules that it was safe to come back up… but damn, we’re grown ass men. We got jobs. We got bills. We got shit to study for. Marco’s going to culinary school worrying about whether Nix is gonna die. Eli’s tattooing tramp stamps worrying about whether Nix is gonna die. Die over something so fucking stupid. Die because he thought life without you was just that bad.” 

I’m not that important. I can’t be. I don’t even weigh enough to be that important. 

“But, you know, by some miracle… by some gotdamn gift from on high, he wakes up.” Steven took a breath. Closed his eyes. Exhaled. “He wakes up, and he talks. He talks!” His voice shook. Today is a day where Steven’s voice has both cracked and shook. “And that was a big deal because the neurologist said he didn’t know if Nix would be able to talk. But he could, and he did. And the nurses asked us if we know anything about his ‘medicine.’ Nixon’s ‘medicine.’ They said he kept trying to ask about his ‘medicine.’” 

I finally had to move. Finally had to drag the cuffs of my sleeves over my face and wipe my eyes. 

Steven leaned forward a little. He looked right at me and I think that was the first time I ever noticed that Steven never really did that. He never really looked at me. He glanced at me sometimes, but he didn’t look. But this, this was looking. And I hated it. 

He said through his teeth, “But he wasn’t asking about ‘medicine,’ Madison.” That was the first time I could remember him calling me by my real name. I hated that, too. “What do you think he was asking about?” 

I had been doing such a damn good job at the silence and the stillness. But not now. Grief and guilt grabbed me like a puppet and shook me. Shook my shoulders. Pressed the breath out of my lungs in a sob - one that I’m sure anyone in the damn Waffle House was able to hear. And my hands went back to my face and my body curled over and there wasn’t anything I could do, there wasn’t any muscle I still had enough control over to stop myself from coming apart. 

I’m a monster, I’m a monster, a gremlin, a troll, a gargoyle, I’m every hideous thing I’ve ever been called. And I always thought it was because people hated how I looked, and I mean, that made sense, because I hate how I look, too. But maybe they were talking about my insides. Maybe all this time people have been able to see right through me and see all the ugly. 

And now all that hideousness was weeping in a Waffle House. Just imagine - though I guess I don’t really need to imagine - all the fuckups somebody has to make in their life to wind up weeping in a Waffle House at 12:30 in the afternoon. 

And Steven, well, Steven didn’t give a damn. He said what he was gonna tell me was gonna fuck me up, and that he’d be glad about it. And he was glad. I hid myself as best as I could… my face down against the table, my arms wrapped around my head… but I could still feel him looking. And I felt him lean closer, and he said, “But the funny thing is, Red… look at what he’s done without you. Look at his life. Beautiful, right?” 

I’ve only been back in Nixon’s life for maybe thirteen hours, but yeah, it does seem beautiful. 

Steven said, “He got better. He focused. And for the first time since the two of you even met, he’s been making decisions without having to think about you. And now he’s got a career. Living in a safe neighborhood. He’s got himself a girlfriend.” A girlfriend? “Her name’s Yoanna. She’s a holistic aromatherapist or some shit like that. She’s annoying as fuck, but he likes her, so I like her, too.” 

I snapped, finally… not a Big Snap, not by my standards anyway, but a little one. I sat up a little and my teeth gritted together and my hands gripped the edge of the table and I demanded - well, begged, really - “Are you gonna shut the fuck up now?” 

He gritted his teeth, too, and damn, I always say I know Steven would never hurt me, but in this moment that didn’t feel true anymore. He said, “No, I ain’t gonna shut the fuck up. Because since you’ve been gone, I watched my friend regrow a life from scratch. He shucked off all your baggage and became a whole person. And now you’re back.”

“And what, you want me to run off again? Want me to go die in a ditch? Is that what’s gonna make this all better?” 

Then he told me, in no uncertain terms, “If all you’re gonna do while you’re here is wreck Nixon all over again, then I’ll run you off my damn self.” 

This is a Steven who would hurt me If he felt like he had to. I’m sure of that now. And it feels like he feels like he has to. Or, it feels like he feels like he thinks he’ll have to very soon. 

Now when I looked at him, I think the fear in me was obvious. 

He said, “I know it must sound like I hate you. And let me be clear - I’m pissed. I don’t think I’ve ever been this mad at anyone in my life. Or this disappointed.” Then he added, his tone finally softening, “But I don’t hate you, man. I love you. You’re my brother. You’re my family. That ain’t gonna change. But I’m pretty sure it was you who told me before that being family ain’t always enough.” 

I choked. I rasped. I wavered. “But you said I was wrong.” 

“You weren’t.” He answered too quickly and that just fucking broke me inside. “I get it now.”

I made myself ask, “What can I do? To fix it?” 

He shrugged. “You can get yourself together. You can become somebody who makes other people’s lives better instead of worse. It’s really not rocket science.” That’s supposed to be funny because Steven is a literal aerospace engineer. “Man, Nixon loves you… he loves you. And he thinks I don’t know! He thinks we didn’t know! And damn, you might just be the most heavily flawed person I’ve ever met in my life, but forreal, it ain’t hard to see what he sees in you. You’re so fucking brilliant, Midge. And you know this. People tell you all the time!” He sounded angry. He sounded frustrated. “You could be anything! There really ain’t anything you suck at. But you just… waste yourself. And it makes me sick, and sad for you.” I’m feeling sick and sad for myself right about now, too. Then he said, “You know, growing up I had to fight for chances… I had to beg and prove myself worthy of opportunities… but you? People took your hand, opened up your palm, and placed opportunity ever so gently in your grip and you just fuckin lobbed it away every time. And I never told you how disgusting I think that is.” He huffed. Shook his head. “So that’s one thing you can do, right there. You can stop pissing away every chance you’re ever given.” 

The waitress arrived with my strawberries. 

I don’t think I like strawberries anymore. 

Neither of us spoke during the ride back to Nixon’s apartment. But before he drove off, he got out and hugged me. I don’t understand Steven. I can’t read him, and he scares me. I asked him if he was coming back up. He said, “Nah. I gotta get back to Houston.” And then he left. 

I don’t like being the kind of person for whom someone feels motivated to fly across the country just to destroy. 

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I love the smell of coconut. I watched The Voice this season. I only watched it because of Christina Grimmie. I haven’t read a book in over a month. I have/going to eat pizza today. It looks like it’s going to rain. I wish Lil Kim would make a comeback. ^ But she is soo ugly now… I didn’t wash my hair today. I’m not wearing any makeup. I don’t own a purse. I hate doing laundry. I’m drinking coffee right now. I think Nicki Minaj is overrated. I have been to therapy. I have horrible anxiety. I had/have braces. I have called some a bitch this week. Currently wearing skinny jeans. I want to see Britney Spears in Las Vegas. I love the movie The Heat. I never get sick of the movie Titanic. I’m wearing plaid right now. I can not eat french fries without ketchup.  I’ve logged into Facebook today. I like lemonade. My hair gets tangled easily. My hair is straight. I’m glad my hair isn’t curly. I love/loved the Spice Girls. ^ I never got to see them in concert. I have a boyfriend/girlfriend. I have kissed a boy. I have kissed a girl. I love gummy worms. I haven’t been to the movies in forever. I’m not into animal print. I’m a nerd. I play World of Warcraft. I play The Sims 3. I like to movie Wall-E. I don’t like feet. I’m listening to music right now. I should start a journal. I went for a walk today. I love pop music. Miley Cyrus is going her thangg, I ain’t mad. I don’t mind commercials. I like Coke & Pepsi. I like watching soccer. I played soccer as a child. I never watched Teen Mom. I get headaches a lot. I never eat breakfast. I’m hungry now. I imagine Beyonce being evil. I think the Illuminati is real.. I miss the Olsen Twins… I wish I was tan. I like fish sticks. My mouse isn’t wireless. ^ I wish it was. Princess Diana was beautiful. I love documentaries. I have a Netflix account. I use to love owls. I have Alex & Ani bracelets. I love Mariah Carey. I’m broke. I live in New England. I never been to Texas. I use to want to be a marine biologist. My favorite color is/use to be red. I don’t like Perez Hilton. I had a muffin today. I hate cooking. I have a Pinterest account. I’m wearing socks. I hate camping. I love pickles. I had a furby a kid. I love Ariana Grande. I want to go to the zoo. I’m allergic to cats.

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Bold what you like Italics what you have tried but, don’t enjoy. 01. Key Lime Pie 02. Tater Tots 03. Sourdough Bread 04. Cobb Salad 05. Pot Roast 06. Twinkies 07. Beef Jerky 08. Fajitas 09. Banana Split 10. Cornbread 11. GORP (Raisins & Peanuts) 12. Jambalaya 13. Biscuits ’n’ Gravy  14. Smithfield ham 15. Chicken fried steak 16. Wild Alaska salmon 17. California roll sushi 18. Meatloaf 19. Grits 20. Macaroni and cheese 21. Brabcakes 22. Potato chips 23. Cioppino 24. Fortune cookies 25. Peanut butter sandwich 26. Baked beans 27. Popcorn 28. Fried chicken and waffles 29. Clam chowder 30. New Mexican flat enchiladas 31. S'mores 32. Lobster rolls 33. Buffalo wings 34. Indian frybread 35. Barbecue ribs 36. BLT (bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich) 37. Apple Pie 38. Frito pie 39. Po’ boy 40. Green chili stew 41. Chocolate-chip cookies 42. Blueberry cobbler 43. Steak 44. Chicago-style pizza 45. Nachos 46. Philly cheese steak 47. Hot dogs 48. Reuben sandwich 49. Cheeseburger 50. Thanksgiving dinner (Turkey)

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You are 5'5" tall. You have short length hair. You have an iPhone. You are currently on a laptop. You want a new car. You live with your boyfriend/girlfriend. You need to drink coffee everyday. You are on medication. You love pizza. You love playing The Sims. You play/played World of Warcraft. You want to move. You work with mostly guys. A friend of yours is having a baby. You want a kitten. You want a puppy. You have pet turtles. You have anxiety. You go to therapy. Your parents are divorced. You watch Bad Girls Club You watch Real Housewives. You live in Massachusetts. You are old enough to go to a bar. You like beer. Vodka hits you HARD. Lightweight… You use to love Nicki Minaj. ^ Now, you can’t stand her. You saw Britney Spears in concert. You use to be a emo kid…. :x You don’t own an iPod. ^ but, you use to. You  have/had my lip pierced. You have one tattoo. Your hair is light brown naturally. You were blonde as a kid. You haven’t been to the beach in years. You are currently not wearing pants. You have given a blowjob. You have sisters. You are the youngest in your family. You grew up with cats. You owned Ashlee Simpsons first album. You own a lot of band t-shirts. You play Words With Friends. You have a temper…. You wear glasses. You love going out for breakfast. You always defend yourself. You are not a pushover. You love ice-cream. ^ Even though you are lactose intolerant. You love Law & Order SVU. Your favorite color is/use to be lime-green. You keep everything You love scratch tickets. You can’t cook. You love x-men. You love Lord Of The Rings. You hate spicy food. Lady Gaga annoys you.

Got tagged by @lordy-lou to do this 

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag 10 blogs you would like to get to know better.

A - Age: 19 (I’m still a bab)

B - Birthplace: Texas, and I’m still there 

C - Current time: 3:11 pm 

D - Drink you last had: A lemonade from the cafeteria. It is the only drink they make that I actually enjoy. 

E - Easiest person to talk to: My mom, we talk all the time both over the phone and through text 

F - Favorite song: According to my ‘Top 100 songs 2017′ playlist on Spotify, it’s ‘LA Devotee’ by Panic! at the Disco, which I’d agree with. It’s a pretty awesome song. 

G - Grossest memory: Believe it or not, nothing is coming to mind. It’s actually pretty hard to gross me out, I grew up with gross older brothers and had baby brothers, I’ve dealt with some gross shit and really none of it phases me much anymore. 

H - Horror yes or horror no: All the way yes, I love scary movies and dark stories and creepy monsters and shit and it’s all just great stuff

I - In love?: Nope, never been, might never be. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently bu I realized I have never felt any form of romantic love for anyone ever, though I’ve felt platonic love for plenty of friends. 

J - Jealous of people?: I mean, yeah, I’m human, it happens

K - Kisses or hugs?: I’m a hugger, give me all the hugs

L - Love at first sight or should I walk by again?: Like I said before, I’ve never experienced romantic love, but platonic love usually takes a bit of time and a few interactions for it to develop. 

M - Middle name: Leigh, it’s a family name that I share with my dad and grandpa. 

N - Number of siblings: 8, I’ve got 8 sibs guys. 6 bros and 2 sisters. This number always throws people through a loop. 

O - One wish: That I could stop being so anxious and paranoid all of the time, that I could properly relax and not always have something weighing on the back of my mind. 

P - Person you called last: My mom, yesterday, but she didn’t answer, she was busy. 

Q - Question you are always asked: “Are you okay?” This is because of two reasons: 1) I have resting bitch face so whenever I’m just sitting and thinking about something I tend to look mad or upset and cause I’m usually a pretty happy person this usually worries people & 2) my hands always shake because of a genetic condition I have and so when people who don’t know this about me see my hands shaking they think I’m nervous or panicked about something 

R - Reason to smile: It’s a beautiful warm and sunny day outside which is so nice since it’s been so cold and rainy for the longest time 

S - Song you sang last: ‘The Lord Bless You and Keep You’ with my choir at our school’s new president’s inauguration yesterday

T - Time you woke up: 9:40 am, a little late for my taste but I’ve been pretty sleep-deprived this past week (to the point of having a consistent headache) so it’s understandable 

U - Underwear colour: purple, nothing special 

V - Vacation destination: I’ve been wanting so badly to go back to Costa Rica lately, specifically to the resort ‘Vista del villa’ 

W - Worst habit: I tend to chew on both my lips and the inside of my mouth, my mom always gets onto me for it

X - X-rays: None, but I have had other types of scans to see the inside of my body 

Y - Your favourite food: Pasta, I fucking love pasta, also bread

Z - Zodiac sign: I’m a capricorn and thats all I know

I think I’ll tag @glampyra @abraca-mari @lilacpinknebulae @sneezys-flower-mom @candyrandyjuniverse @asthedaysgobythesun and anyone else who would like to do this 

Avi Weisfogel from Dental Sleep Masters Talks About The DEA, Controlled Substances, and Revoked Licenses

Watch Avi Weisfogel from Dental Sleep MBA discuss how one error with his license and controlled substances became something that would reside in infamy in Google. Dr. Avi Weisfogel discusses how he gave up his license with the DEA, the disadvantages of prescribing controlled substances, and how the state dental board can mess up a dental profession. Get the truth about how a career in dental sleep medicine can keep you away from those issues and making more money in your profession.

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Did you understand that many dental experts are trained to assist deal with and manage your snoring and sleep apnea? Dental Sleep Medicine is an area of dental practice that concentrates on the usage of oral home appliance therapy to treat sleep-disordered breathing Dr. Avi Weisfogel, including snoring and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Dentists work together with sleep doctors to identify the finest treatment for each patient.

If you have problem enduring constant positive air passage pressure (CPAP) treatment or prefer an alternate treatment for sleep apnea, talk to an AADSM dental expert today. Oral device treatment can help you and your bedpartner get a good night's sleep, and it will improve your health and quality of life. The quality of your sleep has a significant influence on your health podcasts by Avi Weisfogel, wellness and total quality of life.

Keep in mind that snoring is a caution sign that must never ever be neglected. Throughout the nation, numerous dentists are prepared to offer to deal with and. Talk to your physician and dental practitioner about your treatment options. Snoring is a common warning sign for obstructive sleep apnea. Prior to treatment, you need to be detected by a board-certified sleep medicine physician. Dental Sleep Medicine.

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If you have sleep apnea, your medical professional will go over treatment alternatives with you. The most typical treatment for sleep apnea is constant favorable respiratory tract pressure (CPAP) therapy. The CPAP maker keeps your airway open by providing forced air through versatile tubing. CPAP treatment needs you to use a mask as you sleep.

Your physician should think about providing you a prescription for a sleep apnea device if you are unable to endure CPAP therapy or choose an alternate treatment. Lots of individuals like an oral home appliance because it is comfy, peaceful, portable and easy to use. In some extreme cases of sleep apnea, upper airway surgical treatment might be another treatment alternative.

An oral device is a device used in the mouth just throughout sleep. It fits like a sports mouth guard or orthodontic retainer. A custom-fit oral sleep appliance is an efficient treatment that prevents the airway from collapsing by supporting the jaw in a forward position. Oral device treatment is a reliable treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and snoring.

Oral device therapy helps keep an open, unobstructed air passage. Read more about for and. Oral home appliance therapy need to be offered by a qualified dentist who has technical ability and understanding in dental sleep medicine. Training in how to supply oral appliance treatment is uncommon in dental schools. So not all dentists have the training or experience to provide optimum care for grownups with snoring or sleep apnea.

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Scientific practice standard for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and snoring with oral home appliance treatment: an upgrade for 2015 (dental sleep medicine). Journal of Dental Sleep Medicine2015; 2( 3 ):71125. Scherr SC, Dort LC, Almeida FR, Bennett KM, Blumenstock NT, Demko BG, Essick GK, Katz SG, McLornan PM, Phillips KS, Prehn RS, Rogers RR, Schell TG, Sheats RD, Sreshta FP.

Journal of Dental Sleep Medicine 2014; 1( 1 ):51. Scherr SC, D L, Almeida FR, Bennett KM, et al., authors. Definition of a reliable oral home appliance for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and snoring: a report of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. Journal of Dental Sleep Medicine2014; 1:3950. Rogers RR, Remmers J, Lowe AA, Cistulli PA, Prinsell J, Pantino D, Rogers MB.

Are you tired being ill and exhausted? Tiredness is the number one problem heard by health professionals around the world. Fifty to seventy million Americans suffer from of sleep related problem. Sleep associated breathing disorders, such as snoring and obstructive sleep apnea, are at the top of this list.

As dental professionals, we remain in a prime position to be the first to recognize this disorder and to assist guide patients in the ideal instructions to get diagnosed. We likewise have the capability to treat much of these patients ourselves, therefore improving their quality of life in addition to potentially conserving their life! Understand regular breathing and airway anatomy and the problems and variations that cause snoring and obstructive sleep apnea Learn the health dangers connected with sleep disordered breathing Learn the fundamentals of sleep Discover the results of sub-optimal sleep on health and quality of life Acknowledge those signs and behaviors that may indicate sleep disordered breathing Understand present and suggested diagnostic methods and the function of dental experts in the team technique Evaluation the present treatment techniques for snoring and for mild, moderate and extreme OSA Check out the role that dentists can play in the management of sleep disordered breathing Understand the adverse effects of oral appliance therapy and how to handle them RICHARD B.

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degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dental School in 1989. He kept a private practice in basic dentistry from 1990 to 2001 and currently serves as Scientific Assistant Professor of the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. 8:00 AM9:00 AM 5:00 PM Webinar Dentist: $220.00 KDR Receiver: $198.00 Allied Dental Worker: $190 (Dr Avi Weisfogel).00 Hours: 7.0.

Dental sleep medicine is a field of dentistry intended at the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), or the event of breathing difficulties throughout sleep. SDB typically leads to sleep deprivation, which can have a deep-seated effect on your physical, mental and psychological well being. As oral health practitioners, we interact with sleep doctors to devise the very best care plan for clients struggling with sleep disruptions.

Sleep disordered breathing is related to common oral symptoms and signs which the team at All About Smiles is extremely trained to assess. Traditionally, sleep tests needed to be carried out in sleep centers, today they can be done from the convenience of your own house. We can even supply these for you at All About Smiles.

If you have snoring and daytime drowsiness together with any of the following medical conditions: High blood pressure Heartburn Headaches Large Tonsils Overweight Impotence Sleeping disorders Oral device treatment includes using an appliance resembling an orthodontic retainer or mouth guard throughout the hours when you sleep. The gadget holds the jaw in a forward position which helps unclog the airway (Avi Weisfogel).

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Research has actually revealed that this therapy is a reliable yet non-invasive way to treat the harmful symptoms of OSA. The home appliance is easy and comfortable to use, peaceful, simple to handle, convenient, and portable, which is why it is preferred with clients. Oral sleep home appliances are simple to take a trip with and simpler to be certified with than a conventional CPAP machine.

Sleep is critical for your physical and mental wellness - dental sleep medicine. Without a correct sleep pattern, your body will be deprived of the rest it needs to de-stress and recharge, and this will eventually lead to life modifying medical conditions if left neglected. If the lack of sleep has actually kept you far from being present in your life, NOW is the time to make that change!.

Dental experts who are Diplomates of the ABDSM have actually demonstrated that they have the skills and knowledge essential for the shipment of excellent patient care. The ABDSM thinks higher standards for dental sleep medicine translate into better care for clients and higher accountability. The ABDSM credential is extensively recognized as the gold requirement for quality in dental sleep medicine.

Differ in dental sleep medicine with a status that sleep physicians know and regard. ABDSM Diplomate Status: Represents to doctors, payors, and clients an expert commitment to education, understanding, and expeirence in offering oral home appliance therapy for sleep apnea and snoring. Shows that a dental practitioner has the technical ability, in-depth understanding and professional judgement to deliver excellent patient care.

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At SomnoMed, we strongly believe that dental professionals can considerably affect client's lives by changing their quality of sleep. Dentistry has the ability to help improve and save lives. An oral appliance is a device used in the mouth only throughout sleep. It fits like a sports mouth guard or orthodontic retainer.

Snoring is a typical indication or symptom for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); however, is not always the only indicator. Prior to treatment, patients ought to be diagnosed by a board certified sleep medicine doctor. If you have snoring without sleep apnea, your doctor must give you a prescription for an oral device.

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Here Are 7 Reasons Why You Need a Cleanse

Do you often get tired or feel like you have "brain fog"? Do you have skin blemishes you can’t seem to get rid of? Or maybe you just feel bloated or constipated now and then?

When you eat sugar, gluten, meat, dairy, and other foods that aren’t good for you, your body lets you know with bloating, constipation, bad skin, or other issues. But food isn’t the only issue. From the minute you open your eyes in the morning to get ready for work, our modern world is awash in toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and allergens like mold.[1, 2]

Did you know that you can reverse or improve some of the damage caused by toxins and poor food choices by doing a detox or cleanse? If you’ve never done a cleanse before, read on.

7 Reasons To Do a Cleanse

Maybe you’ve heard about cleansing or detoxing, but don’t know if it would help. Here are some reasons to cleanse! Cleansing or detoxification is a time-tested way to start anew and kick-start healthy habits. Do you see yourself in any of these scenarios?

1. I Can't Seem to Lose Weight!

Modern-day fitness gurus want you to believe that the key to losing weight is a formula of calories in and calories out — with some exercise thrown in for good measure. But eating less and working out isn’t always enough.

Detoxification can get rid of toxins that hold you back from reaching your ideal weight. Removing pollutants from your diet, even temporarily, not only reduces body fat and waist circumference, but also promotes normal cholesterol, triglyceride, and blood glucose levels![3]

Cleansing, sometimes known as a detox diet or detoxification, can reduce cravings for sweet foods, and we all know that excessive sugar leads to weight gain.[4] Fewer sweets can drop weight in and of itself! The even better news? Cleansing for even a short period of time can result in continued weight loss a couple of weeks later.[5]

Cleansing is also an excellent starting point for changing how you eat. Think of a cleanse as something that launches you into a healthy lifestyle with better eating patterns!

2. I'm Tired All the Time

Do you dread the sound of the alarm clock every morning? Many of us work every day with little to no energy, feeling sluggish and exhausted — but can’t figure out why.

Detoxing your body can change your energy levels and sleep quality for the better.[4] This is what Debi D., a sales manager from Camas, Washington, discovered when she gave up sugar.

"My sleep is better," says Debi. "Before, I was waking up several times at night and was feeling sluggish in the afternoon, so I needed sugar as a pick-me-up. Now, without sugar, I feel rested all the time and don't get that afternoon slump."

It's not just a sugar detox that will bring you more energy. Nearly any type of cleanse will have you removing harmful toxins and food choices, bringing you more energy — though you may experience a "healing crisis" for the first days of the cleanse itself.

3. I Feel Bloated & Constipated

Digestive issues like bloating, constipation, gas, or diarrhea signal that something needs your attention in your body. A detox is like hitting the reset button for your gut. Did you know that a cleanse can also clear out accumulated fecal matter in your large intestine (colon)?

Fruit and fruit juice cleanses, in particular, can improve the composition of the gut microbiota — the balance of good versus harmful microbes living in the gut.[5] Your gut microbiota influences not only digestion, but also mood, skin health, and the immune system.[6, 7]

Because any good cleanse involves eliminating unhealthy dietary choices — including soy, gluten, meat, dairy — it gives your digestive system a break. When you reintroduce foods (ideally one by one), you can identify which ones cause the digestive issues that you want to avoid.

Many people report that after a cleanse, their bowel movements are more regular, which reduces gas and bloating — especially if you use a high-quality probiotic afterward.

4. I Want to Look & Feel Younger

When you remove toxins that have taken up residence in your body, you’ll start to notice a difference in your skin and overall demeanor. Eating more organic fruits and vegetables during your cleanse will boost your antioxidant intake, eliminating damage from free radicals and reducing inflammation.

Debi discovered that the radiance from her younger years returned after a detox.

"My skin was better and started to glow! My skin was also more supple. My face and hands were no longer puffy. I even noticed that the black circles under my eyes disappeared," Debi says.

Some of this "glow" may come from the balancing of our body systems. For example, cleanses promote normal blood sugar, cholesterol, and triglycerides,[3] which can’t help but show on the outside!

5. My Brain Feels Foggy

Have you ever felt like your brain is in a dense fog that won’t let you concentrate or remember things? Some daye, even simple tasks like writing a shopping list may feel overwhelming.

This so-called brain fog[8] can come not only from hormones, obesity, and stress, but also exposure to toxins (and stress acts as a toxin!).[9, 10] Toxins can enter your body, including your brain, causing inflammation.[11] If you’re not eating the right foods, you’re not giving yourself the nutrients it needs to function at its best.

"The biggest thing I noticed was an improvement in my ability to concentrate throughout the day," says Courtney K., a director of operations in Austin, Texas. "With my typical diet, I would have spikes of being laser-focused, then was unable to focus on anything. Since the detox, my ability to concentrate has been far more consistent."

"I've also noticed better memory retention," she adds. "Before the detox, I had a terrible short-term memory. Now, I'm more likely to remember things without needing to take extensive notes."

6. My Allergies & Runny Nose Won’t Stop

The toxins and chemicals in the air around you can irritate the lining of your nose and make you reach for a box of tissues all the time.[12]

There is also a connection between your gut and your sinuses.[13] A disturbance in your gut microbiota may affect your sinuses and cause a runny nose.[14] Eating dairy, which I don’t recommend, can increase mucus production and even the incidence of asthma.[15]

"I used to have congestion related to seasonal allergies and food. I used to take an allergy pill every day. I would get headaches sometimes with the congestion," says Shannon J. of Sarasota, Florida, who saw big changes after a seven-day body cleanse.

"It definitely helped reduce congestion and what is usually a morning mucus problem for me," she adds. "The cleanse helped me figure out my congestion happened when I ate gluten. My symptoms went away after the cleanse, and my morning congestion was gone."

7. I Feel Stressed All the Time

Do you get anxious while waiting in line or when driving? Do you have stomach aches or recurring headaches? These can be signs that you experience too much daily stress. Stress increases your risk of getting sick and causes a variety of other issues, such as headaches, digestive concerns, anger, and more.[16]

Sometimes you feel stress because you’re not giving your body the best food for optimal health. But sometimes toxins in the environment can build up, manifesting in headaches or other issues.

A detox not only eliminates harmful substances — bad food choices and toxins — that make you feel poorly, but it gives you a chance to start over. Cutting out alcohol during cleanses is also important.

Many people use fasting and cleansing as a spiritual time, or a time to reflect on their life and priorities. During any cleanse, I recommend engaging in supportive therapies, such as massage, acupuncture, deep breathing exercises, yoga, and meditation.[16] These will also bring more calm to your life.

What Is the Best Cleanse?

If you’ve never cleansed before and are looking for something simple, I recommend starting with the Body Cleansing Diet. This is simply a way to remove dairy, meat, gluten-containing grains, and processed products from your diet while introducing more fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds into your meal plans. You will also cut back on processed foods, opting for those in a more natural state.

If you’re ready for something more regimented, you can try Global Healing’s Colon Cleanse Program™. This 6-day program involves following the Body Cleansing Diet — or for the more advanced all-fruit diet — while taking Oxy-Powder®, an oxygen-based intestinal cleanser and Latero-Flora™, a single-strain probiotic that purges harmful organisms from the gut.

Points to Remember

Our world is filled with chemicals and toxins that affect your body. The food you eat can make things worse. Have you ever wondered if a cleanse is right for you, but not know what it can do for you?

A cleanse might help if you feel tired or stressed a lot, experience occasional but frustrating constipation, bloating, or other digestive complaints, can’t seem to lose weight, or have brain fog. A cleanse can give your skin a healthy glow, even making you appear younger!

By eliminating dietary foods that commonly trigger gut reactions, like gluten, dairy, meat, and artificial preservatives, you create a healthier ecosystem in your gut in a short time. This can improve your digestion, provide more energy, and bring you better sleep.

Have you ever tried a cleanse? Tell us about it in the comments section below.

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rules: answer the questions in a new post and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better

a - age: 19

b - birthplace: some town near the border of texas and mexico

c - current time: 9:45pm

d - drink you last had: iced water 

e - easiest person to talk to: probably my sister

f - favorite song: the drive cover by valley & save me by bts

g - grossest memory: um probably when i threw up on some girl in my first grade class? i still remember it really clearly 

h - horror yes or horror no: i want to say no but i don’t watch too much horror so i don’t really know but i probably don’t watch it bc i don’t like it so 

i - in love?: yeah w tom payne, kristen stewart, and all 7 bts members

j - jealous of people?: definitely and one of the things i hate about myself 

k - killed someone?: no and who would admit that here fjkdg

l - love at first sight or should i walk by again: uh i don’t really understand bu i’m gonna go with walk by again just to be sure 

m - middle name: ann

n - number of siblings: 3

o - one wish: to be able to draw 

p - person you called last: my mom

q - question you’re always asked: are you going to be a teacher? (when i tell them i’m an english lit major) or you’re mexican but you don’t speak spanish? (no b my dad didn’t let my mom teach me please leave me be)

r - reason to smile: i don’t have to go to school for like four months and bts going to the bbmas

s - song you sang last: same drugs cover by misterwives

t - time you woke up: 9:16am

u - underwear color: floral

v - vacation: i’m going to washington dc in july and that’s about it for this year

w - worst habit: not going to bed when i’m tired and then having a headache or feeling like crap when i wake up

x - x-rays: i’ve had dental ones and then one on my hip

y - your favorite food: asian food (any kind. chinese, vietnamese, whatever)

z - zodiac sign: libraaaa

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Why I Opened a Home Sleep Test-Only Private Practice

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Vikas Jain, MD, FAASM, finds that HST can lower barriers to entry not only for patients, but for sleep specialists as well.

By Lisa Spear | Photography by Terry Cockerham

Gone are the days when opening a private sleep medicine practice meant investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in sleep study equipment.

As the sleep medicine landscape evolves, more physicians are forgoing polysomnogram (PSG), often considered the gold standard in sleep disorder diagnosis, in favor of home sleep tests (HST). This is in part because many patients are reluctant to do a polysomnogram, since it requires them to sleep overnight in an unfamiliar place with electrodes attached to their skin as they are watched via video. Not to mention, insurance companies are often reluctant to cover PSGs, which may create an additional obstacle to patients getting the appropriate diagnoses and care.

In some parts of the country, health care systems have even closed their PSG labs, due to the frequency of home sleep test use. Board-certified sleep medicine specialist Vikas Jain, MD, FAASM, FAAFP, CCSH, CPE, has witnessed this transition firsthand, when the hospital where he was working in Chicago shuttered one of its only sleep labs.

“They were saying home sleep testing is really where the trend is going in sleep medicine,” says Jain, who is also an adjunct clinical assistant professor at Stanford University’s Sleep Medicine program.

“Sleep medicine is moving more towards evaluating and managing our patients with technology such as home sleep testing and remote monitoring,” he says.

A review that Jain coauthored, which is published in The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, concluded that it is reasonable to use portable sleep monitors for diagnosing patients with a high pretest probability of having obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), based on an Epworth Sleepiness Scale of ≥12.1

HSTs are adequate to diagnose the vast majority of the patients who come into his office, says Jain, who says he had no hesitation in setting up a HST-only sleep medicine practice.

During the last decade, the medical community has started to become more accepting of HSTs and, according to the Sleep Review-Needham & Company 3Q 2019 survey, home sleep testing use has ballooned with 91% of survey respondents now offering the service for commercially insured patients and 81% offering HST for patients with Medicare.2

Such growth has created a new environment for sleep specialists who want to open sleep medicine practices. Once restricted by overwhelming overhead costs, more providers find that opening a private practice is now feasible in this subspecialty, says Jain.

“There was this really high startup cost to starting a sleep medicine private practice. I think now, with more insurers saying home testing is what they prefer, that financial barrier is really gone,“ he says. “Now, this is something that I can actually do.”

After mulling over the idea of opening his own private practice for several years, Jain finally took the plunge in October 2019. He opened his private practice in Dallas, Texas, and named it Dream Sleep Medicine. There, not only does Dream Sleep Medicine use HSTs exclusively, “we care for patients in the long run,” he says.

By opting to only use HST, he can rent a smaller office space since he doesn’t have full sleep study equipment. Patients who come into his office, and others he cares for via telemedicine, receive a diagnosis faster than if they waited for a PSG, he says.

“We often can see a patient, send them home with a device that same day, and then interpret the test and start treatment within a 72-hour timeframe,” he says.

His office now uses a few different home sleep testing devices, including the type III ApneaLink Air by ResMed, which is capable of recording up to five channels of information, including respiratory effort, pulse, oxygen saturation, nasal flow, and snoring. He selected ApneaLink Air, in part, because the manufacturer offers a quarterly leasing option so he did not have to buy the HSTs outright (at their full ownership price).

For telemedicine patients, he often uses mail-order services, including CleveMed’s SleepView Direct, which allow tests to be delivered directly to patients.

Jain uses CleveMed’s SleepView Direct most often for patients who live an hour or more away from the office. “We are able to care for our patients regardless of whether someone is coming in to see us face to face or lives several hours away and prefers to see us from their home,” he says.

A private practice has also given him the flexibility to be his own boss, manage his workflow, and cut down on the administrative paperwork he would often see in a major hospital system.

“I would say there are a lot of things that we do much more efficiently in my 2-person office than what we did in the hospital with ten times the staff,” he says.

Jain first started working as a sleep medicine physician about nine years ago after completing medical school at Ross University, a residency in family medicine at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, and then a fellowship in sleep medicine at Stanford University. When he first started out as a sleep specialist, opening a private practice seemed out of reach.

“I used to think that hospitals were the only way to go because of the overhead involved in polysomnography. That was probably a barrier for entry for me to opening up my own sleep clinic in the past: I thought that in addition to a sleep clinic you have to have a sleep lab. If you have a sleep lab, you have to have space, you have to have staff, you have to have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment,” he says.

So far, he has done most of the marketing of his business himself, designing and launching a WordPress website (though he contracted a design firm to create his private practice’s logo). His only employee is his wife, Reema, who works as the practice manager and physician liaison.

To get the word out, he and his wife often drive together to local physicians’ offices to introduce his practice, shake hands, and try to gain referrals.

“Any way that we can get the word out, we’ve been trying to do so. Whenever there is downtime, we are trying to market and build up our business and let other docs know what we do,” he says.

In the Dallas area, he has found a large number of other small private practices that are willing to band together to support one another, which has helped with generating referrals, he says.

Additionally, if a complex patient needs a PSG, he has privileges at several sleep labs and can coordinate their studies there.

Since many of his patients are on positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy, he is now in the process of creating a system for all PAP compliance data to automatically flow directly into his patient’s electronic medical records. The ability to streamline and digitize workflows and patient records is a huge benefit over working in hospital systems, Jain says.

Another example of this is how Dream Sleep Medicine patients are prompted to submit their medical history and other associated forms online before they even come into the office.

Communication with patients is also more direct. Jain fields calls and online correspondence directly from his cell phone via health care communication company Spruce Health without even having to come into the office. He can also use the technology to conduct live telemedicine video visits.

So far, the transition to private practice is going well and any apprehension Jain once had has receded. “Business is picking up and we are continuing to see growth month by month in our practice,” he says.

“I think there is a lot of fear in opening a private practice, but once you actually do it, it is not as scary as it seems,” he says. “There are certainly challenges and there are certainly headaches that you don’t get when working for a hospital, but at the same time, it has been very refreshing and extremely rewarding to have my own private practice.”

Lisa Spear is the associate editor of Sleep Review.

References

Walia R, Achilefu A, Crawford S, et al. Are at-home sleep studies performed using portable monitors (PMs) as effective at diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in adults as sleep laboratory-based polysomnography (PSG)? J Okla State Med Assoc. 2014 Dec;107(12) 642-4.

Sleep Review-Needham & Company, LLC Q3 2019 Survey. Data on file.

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