Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
During the mandatory look back they discovered very large cash gifts and real estate transfers. The family had spent all of the money and was unable to pay for care. The NH had given them 60 days to try to find a solution. The sum transferred was said to be $500,000. She was sent to her sons home. Her daughter accompanied her. I hope they take good care of her.
I feel sorry for the elderly lady. Her $$ is gone. Will her children take good care of her after they spent/ squandered her $500,000? I have my doubts.
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Random insert: I'm waiting for full moon correlation studies to come out. I have never found anything scholarly (haven't looked that hard), but I know what I know.
Happy Hunter's Moon, all. I've been wondering what my problem is tonight, why I can't concentrate for 10 seconds at a time. Like so many times before, someone mentions "full moon" or I look up in the sky, and sure enough. Hard to explain. I can live with being superstitious but it's a heck of a coincidence for me! 😁😱
*(If I did this study, I'd have to control for female cycles, which happens to coincide for me...🤔 I think I just debunked my own theory. Hope this makes someone laugh. I seriously just put it together. Oof.)
Also, you can't debunk your own theory based on just one subject (you). Don't you need a minimum number of subjects for a study. One is certainly not sufficient.
I was "bouncing off the walls" last night, so unusual for me... since I'm usually feeling tired. I could not concentrate at all to read my school text. It was very strange.
You can do a case study on a single subject or a within-subjects design on a single subject, before-and-after and can repeat (ABAB), on a single case, but depends on what you're studying. A lot of information about the brain/body started from single case studies, such as the study of Phineas Gage. I could act as my own subject and measure different variables... but expect it wouldn't hold much academic weight since lower/single participants mean lower internal and external validity. 🤓
There are different human physiological correlations for full/new moons -- e.g., heart rate and blood pressure. I think moon phases do affect human behavior, even if the bulk of scholarly studies find no correlation with whatever they're looking at. There is a lunar hypothesis, that lunar phases directly affect human behavior, but it's controversial. "Lunatic" is from lunar, and this has been a belief commonly held in human history, as we all know.
I think it's all verrry interesting. lol
I need to stop eating all the Halloween candy because that's a confounding variable for my hyperactivity! 😆
https://www.healthline.com/health/full-moon-effects
NHWM has been gone a few months now. Yes there was a hurricane and one of her daughters was ill. Hope all is well with her.
Loss of smell = sinus blockage
Thankfully sig-other has had his shots, including his flu shot. But I still worry about break-thru infections since we are senior citizens, and he does have medical issues. He's not easy to live with if he has a simple cold :P
His grown daughter and her teenage girls flew in for the wedding, too. The daughter has Lupus and I don't think she even got her first covid-vaccine shot. It's all political where she lives. Sigh.
Dr. Pollard of the Mayo Clinic says because we have missed our herd immunity opportunity, people now have three options: get covid while unvaccinated, get covid after being vaccinated, or live in isolation. The local numbers are showing much better outcomes for those who have been vaccinated and only minor effects of being vaccinated. As one doctor here stated, "I haven't treated one patient in the ICU or signed one death certificate for someone because of vaccine complications."