Desert!

Just did my second session on the the range of motion machine this time the background was a desert scene rather than the Alpine village from this morning. I used to really bike through the desert when I lived in the Mojave. So it was nice. It's a 12-minute workout, 10 passive, 2 active. The first one put me out for most of the next three hours with some ice and a little pain increase. But I'm hoping to do better the second time. But I do have to lie down and elevate and ice my leg. I plan to hey back up and do things. Really. I did eat some cottage cheese and challah afterwards. That's in top of my banana breakfast. I don't reach much when I'm at home, don't get very hungry,

Also, Itook my next dose of Mounjaro to get back on track after surgery. I had to stop mine a week ahead. I stopped it 2 weeks out. IMPORTANT SAFETY TIP FOR USERS OF GLP-1 DRUGS such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound, please realise that these medications work by slowing the emptying of the stomach, and therefore if your are sedated for any reason, you can aspirate and choke to death or get a form of pneumonia, either of which can kill you. As a result hospitals and other centres that sedate will not do so if you've taken one within one week. I knew this, but forgot before my colonoscopy and was given the option to reschedule and redo the prep or do it unsedated. I chose the latter. A surgery would have had to be rescheduled completely, though, so yes, I went two weeks out.😊

This was a terrible and thought-provoking story

shared by one of the librarians on the MEDLIB-L list. As another member said, I don't understand why so many baby teeth were going to be crowned for discolouration. Surely they could have seen what the permanent ones looked like before such drastic measures for a preschooler? But the whole thing is scary, whether you've got kids or you're going under sedation in a dentist's chair yourself. Thank you to Patricia Reynolds for sharing this. It was a sad read, but one people should see. I hope this story sheds some light on the profession's lack of regulation in terms of sedation and leads to changes, so there will be no more deaths like this one.

Deadly Dentistry--Junior’s Story: Drugged to death, in a Dallas dental chair by Brooks Egerton [part 1 of 7 in an investigative series]

First they drugged him. Then they sent Mom to the waiting room. Then they strapped his torso and wrists to a padded board. But Junior did not let down his guard. At the sound of the drill, dental records say, the 4-year-old began “whining, crying and moving.” So they pulled a strap across his forehead, then soldiered on to the last breath.