Like everyone outside of a handful of people in Minneapolis-St. Paul, they are trying to forget that Lions game ever happened

"Our viewers come first [just not in the sense that we tell them anything other than what they want to hear]"

youtu.be/egxqfdYbPtc?...

Definitely trying this today

Hugely disappointing - I was counting the minutes until we got an episode when the Packers are ejected from the playoffs! In all seriousness, your podcast has been a listening staple for years and I'll miss it so much. Would happily subscribe to a reincarnation and chip in cash.

RIP Ricky Jay

I wish there were more fellow Lakatosians around, tl;dr: Progress is a fairytale, but some things tend to go, others don't, depending on the circumstances and habits of mind of the observers. A real Aristotelian, and also IIRC quite a flirt

So for the foreseeable future, I can't get dressed by myself very easily, because stretching my arm to get it through an arm hole is rough and shrugging my shoulders to adjust how things sit on them is deadly. In the interregnum between Oxy and whatever else, you just live with it, I guess.

...a total mystery why none of the five docs I've talked to so far referred me to them.

-they end up doing essentially nothing, and I get billed.

The PTs I work with are really nice. I like them and what they do is helpful for a few hours, but when I go to sleep fifteen hours after seeing them, it's hard to tell the difference.

If there is someone who addresses this better, it's...

...an industrial blender, I am doomed to fail the test questions the medical professionals in my life are asking.

There is something entirely fucked about the American medical systems approach to chronic pain. I'm just starting to understand it. They don't want to overtreat with meds and it means-

Where I'm at is kind of the worst of all outcomes: No meds, treatment that's expensive and time consuming but does not address symptoms, no real prognosis besides "it might get better eventually... but maybe not." Unless I compare chronic throbbing with intermittent hideous pain to being stuck in...

I get a distinct vibe from doctors I talk to that they're primed for me to ask them for drugs, and to refuse that request. I'm actually just there for them to solve a problem (I really miss sleeping for more than 5 hours, I miss exercise, I miss putting my left arm around Lauren without thinking).

when your bodily integrity is fucked makes that kind of pain better than more boring but acute pain but I have no idea. I think it's worse to be surprised by intermittent pain than predictable, avoidable pain. But there isn't a number you can put on that. I genuinely do not know what they're asking.

And the question I heard most often was, "Rate the pain from 1 to 10." Wtf does this mean and why are these answers helpful? I don't know what it's like to be eaten alive by tigers or have my arm chainsawed off. Is it 10 *in my experience?* It wouldn't surprise me if the hormones your body dumps in

I've been dealing with it for 6 months. Recovery can take 6 months to 3 years; almost always physical therapy. Surgery is a last resort and comes with risks of its own.

Getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night for years while also going through PT is... not ideal. I talked to a surgeon re options ...

...inside the ball and socket of your shoulder becomes scarred and gradually starts to restrict motion and become painful. Diabetes is a major risk factor. You become prone to painful & unpredictable flare-ups, but it also interferes with sleep, & it becomes painful to raise the affected arm much...