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Chief Ọbẹ̀làwọ̀
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Chief Ọbẹ̀làwọ̀
@tunaug1
So, somewhere along the line, with the help of a few others, I became me.
Nigeria Beigetreten Haziran 2010
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I am a Urologist, suffer from Hypertension, Diabetes, Familial Hypercholesterolaemia & severe Ischaemic Heart disease. I hv had 2 heart attacks, & take a Statin ( with Ezetumibe ) to prevent a 3rd MI, that will certainly kill me. My Statin( with Ezetumibe ) currently keeps me alive. For how many more months, I don't know. My cardiologist has told me to celebrate every new day, I wake up alive, snce my angiogram is very bad, That is exactly what I do. Statins save lives. Let nobody tell you otherwise.
Neurophilia@bobvarkey
I’m a Neurologist and I take a statin. That’s the difference between knowledge and action. Literally the first concept that we started learning in pathology in second MBBS from ‘Robbins’ was atherosclerosis. How fatty streaks develop: the earliest visible sign of atherosclerosis, develop in the aorta during early childhood, often by age 3, and are present in nearly all children by age 10. We then forgot all about it for many years . Most of our literature deals with secondary prevention, but I now realise after reading tons of literature on atherosclerosis and Braunwald’s LDL years concept, primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the way to go. What’s the point of knowing all this, If you don’t take steps to ‘heal thyself’ The lower you keep your cholesterol on the longer you can manage it, the less likely you are to suffer from the big three (CAD, stroke and Peripheral artery disease) There is some things you can modify and others you can’t. Your cholesterol levels are definitely a modifiable risk factor. If you don’t think so , check out the literature on "SMuRFs" (Standard Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors).
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Nigerian electricity palava; is Tinubu deceiving us ?????
A must watch ‼️
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The exhaustion in the medicine wards isn't always from the work.....sometimes it’s from the atmosphere in the room.
I saw a guy today, another case of Alcoholic Liver Disease. It’s the same cycle. Whole life he’s been a drunk, making life hell for his wife and kids. Now he’s a frequent flier....in and out of our hospital every other week or month
One day it’s a fluid tap because he’s distended, the next he’s confused from encephalopathy, or worse, he’s vomiting blood in the ER. And even now, he’s trying to sneak a drink or lying to our faces about it.
You look at the family and you don’t see worried relatives anymore. You see people who are just completely burnt out. They have spent decades being his punching bag, and now they are his full-time nurses.
Eventually, they pull me aside in the corridor away from him and ask the same heavy question: "Doc, how much longer is left?"
I don't think they are being cruel. They are just finished. They want an end to a nightmare that started long before the cirrhosis did. Obviously, not every case is like this, but man, as a resident, you see this exact script play out way too often. It’s brutal.
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Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been.
Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now.
Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list.
His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch.
Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.”
The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule.
Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.
Reid Wiseman@astro_reid
There are no words.
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About a year ago, I had two young ladies come by the Pharmacy to procure Dexamethasone.
I kindly requested to know why? Have you seen a Doctor yet.
“Is it not gain weight?” One asked..
“No it’s not” I replied
They looked at me like, I was not up to date 🤦🏾
After my 10 minutes lecture, they gave me a good hiss and left.
What did I tell them:
1. Dexamethasone is not a safe weight gain drug; the “weight” it adds is mostly water and fat, not healthy body strength.
2. It can make your face and belly look bigger, but this is a harmful change like Cushing’s syndrome, not real growth.
3. It can damage your body by raising blood sugar and causing Diabetes mellitus.
4. It weakens your immune system, so you get sick easily and infections last longer.
5. It can stop your body from making its own natural steroids, so stopping suddenly can make you collapse.
6. If you want to gain weight, focus on food, rest, and exercise; abusing this drug can harm you instead of helping you.
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Taking 15-20 tablets of Dexamethasone at once is a very high dose.
It can cause serious problems like very high blood sugar, confusion, weakness, and stomach irritation or bleeding.
Hospital care was so important earlier on, even if the person “felt fine” at first.
RIP
SP Bright Edafe@Brightgoldenboy
A very sad case of a 15 year old boy who took sachets of Dexamethazone tablets, and swallowed 15 tablets at a go. Asked why they were taking the drugs, his friend whom he collected the drug from said, they were taking it to make them fat and eat more. Now the 15year old boy fell sick days later and was told by the suspect not to say that he took overdose of the said drugs. He died four days later😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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@rotilaw People would swallow anything instead of lifestyle changes
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This is what happens to your body every time you drink soda.
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This is especially true for patients with kidney disease.
The diseased kidney already struggles to get rid of phosphate and that is already a problem for bone strength.
If you have kidney dx, soda is a NO-NO!!!
Dr. Chinonso Egemba@aproko_doctor
This is what happens to your body every time you drink soda.
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There are men who will text “I miss you” and immediately go to sleep.
Then there is Abbas. He put on a Hijab, adjusted his voice, risked being disgraced, beaten, arrested, and turned into the biggest topic in Yobe just because he wanted to see his girl.
William Shakespeare would have looked at this and quietly opened a notebook. This is the kind of foolish, reckless, dangerous love that built stories like Romeo and Juliet. Not because it was wise. But because it was so intense that common sense stopped working.
Imagine the planning. Borrowing clothes. Sneaking through the street. Rehearsing how to walk. Hoping nobody notices your voice is too deep or your slippers are size 46. Then entering another man's house knowing that if you are caught, you are finished.
And he still went.
People should stop saying Nigerian men are not romantic. Some of them are out here risking their freedom, their dignity and the possibility of becoming a permanent family story told every Christmas.
Nigeria Stories@NigeriaStories
JUST IN: A young man named Abbas has been arrested by the NSCDC in Yobe state for dressing like a woman to visit his girlfriend in her father's house.
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@infolibnews As a Christian, White's lengthy comparison of Trump to Christ is sickening and blasphemous. Franklin Graham could not be a follower of Jesus and endorse this. Christian Nationalism is not of God.
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@SandyofCthulhu When you really look at it, reality is already more imaginative than anything we’ve invented fairies aren’t there to replace wonder, they’re there because we sometimes forget how much of it already exists.
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We have gigantic creatures in the sea which can sing for hours and have arteries so big you can crawl through them. (whales)
We have birds that fly 50,000 miles every year. From the antarctic to the arctic and back again. (arctic tern)
We have living creatures which never get old and never die naturally. (jellyfish)
We have animals which you can force through a sieve, and they can reassemble themselves. (sponges)
We have an ancient line of animals which once had 30 or more successful species, and has gone extinct down to just one single representative, and that representative has conquered the entire world (us).
We have horrors that look just like rocks and if you step on them your whole world becomes agonizing pain. (toadfish)
We have animals who hide inside other animals, and when you eat that animal, they enter your intestines and live there. (tapeworms)
We have plants which live on other plants and never touch the ground.
There's a fruit tree that grows around another tree, and eventually kills and replaces it. (strangler fig)
We have gliding lizards, marsupials, snakes, frogs, and rodents.
What the heck do you need fairies for?
•@yducknow
what a boring planet… no fairies, no elves, no mermaids, no dragons, no vampires, no ware wolves….. just bills, stress, gossip, and insufferable people
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In 2004, serial rapist Akku Yadav terrorized a slum in India for over a decade, raping dozens of women, murdering at least 3 people, and walking free every time thanks to police corruption.
On August 13, while appearing for a bail hearing, around 200 women (many his victims) stormed Nagpur District Court armed with kitchen knives, stones & chili powder.
They threw chili in his eyes, stabbed him over 70 times, hacked off his penis with a vegetable knife, and left him dead on the courtroom floor.
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@Joe_brendan_ Some governments actually give you a tax cut for clean energy
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I am of the STRONG opinion that
When a business embarks on a huge project like this to stay afloat, they should REFUSE to pay taxes for at least 3 years
Remove your security fees from the tax you are supposed to pay
You clean gutters yourself? Remove it from your tax
Anything you do for yourself, deduct it from your tax and don't pay shishi
CHUKS 🍥@ChuksEricE
“Finally, I don’t have to spend ₦200,000 on diesel every day to run my restaurant. My ₦20 million solar system has solved everything, God did it.” — Lady says as she shows off her newly installed solar.
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@Iameziokwu ...and he was faithful to his wife too — and that is also financial responsibility
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Broooo, for real!!! As a kid, I used to see him as that cheap, overbearing dad. Always counting coins, clipping coupons, stressing over every little thing. Funny how he was so annoying to me back then.
But Now? Damn... It’s a whole different story.
I now realize he was just teaching us money discipline, showing us that every small saving you make could help you survive.
That man was a hero. Worked multiple jobs, fixed cars, kept the household running, and even sacrificed his own comfort so that his kids could have the opportunities he never had. Every rule he enforced, every blunt warning, wasn’t him being cruel. It was basically him preparing his kids for how real life worked.
Julius is the kind of dad you roll your eyes at as a kid but then grow up to realize he is a masterclass in responsibility as an adult.
L E S E D I@_Hybreed_
The older I get, the more I understand this guy.
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@TayZonday @NYMag AI checkers would definitely flag your response 😂😂😂
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When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report for the day care they work at. The co-worker pointed to the words ‘juxtaposition’ and ‘circumstantial’ as evidence of a machine-generated influence. “I don’t write in a casual way but a much more serious, precise way,” he says. “And I’ve paid the price for living in a ChatGPT society.”
It wasn’t the first time Hewitt’s prose has been pegged as AI, and he thinks he knows why. He has a stutter, and when he’s typing, he can speak uninterrupted. It is a luxury he takes full advantage of. Hewitt is also neurodivergent. “Growing up, I had a strong obsession with writing,” he says. He was always given good grades in English, but now, with the massive uptick in AI-generated text, all the time he spent happily working to improve his prose strikes him as a liability.
There’s a new entity among us, and it’s getting better at disguising itself. The mood is paranoid: This presence is producing a gigantic amount of language, much of it filtered through people we know, whether they’re using it for Hinge messages or LinkedIn posts. The effect is that everyone is trying to figure out who is LLM and who is human. Sometimes, we are getting it wrong. “People are going off vibes,” says the historical novelist Kerry Chaput, who was horrified when a reader thought a social-media post she wrote about her neurogenic cough was ChatGPT generated.
Emma Alpern reports on the people — often non-native English speakers and autistic writers — being falsely accused of using LLMs to write: nymag.visitlink.me/kzDs4g
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