Kavanaugh didn’t just DARVO his way through yesterday’s hearing:
his bluster, tears, rage, and blame-shifting also allowed him to dodge a
remarkable number of questions raised by the senators.
Ford, by contrast, answered virtually every question put to her.
Vox went through the transcript and painstakingly logged whether each
question raised was addressed. They confirmed the impression that
Kavanaugh was dodging the questions and Ford wasn’t, and produced an excellent interactive graphic that allows us to visualize the both witnesses’ forthrightness and drill down on each question and statement.
My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”
I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)
So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”.
I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask.
This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.
Pain Scale transcription:
10 – I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.
9 – My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.
8 – My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.
7 – I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.
6 – I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.
5 – I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.
4 – I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.
3 – My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.
2 – I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.
1 – My pain is hardly noticeable.
0 – I have no pain.
It’s also really important to get this kind of scale to people who have chronic pain, because chronic pain drastically lowers your perception of how “bad” any kind of pain actually is, and yet something like this pain scale is extremely user friendly.
For example, if someone asked me how much pain I’m in at any given time, I’d say hardly any, and yet I’m apparently at a chronic 2.5, and it only goes up from there depending on the day.
Facebook says an attack on its network left the personal information
of some 50 million users—perhaps you?—exposed to hackers. Who were the
hackers, and what did they want? Facebook doesn’t know, or won’t say.
“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then
we don’t deserve to serve you,” Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement
regarding Cambridge Analytica earlier this year.
Sometimes self care is making a batch of turkey burgers at 9pm cause you might have been trapped in an ADHD executive dysfunction cycle all day, but time is an arbitrary concept and you deserve nourishment regardless of what the stupid clock says.
Bonus scenario: you can now have turkey burgers for breakfast.
Also as an aside, in the Regency era the concept of supper was formalized into a late evening meal and was held usually at the end of a grand social event, so therefore could take place anywhere after 8pm to midnight depending on the event. It was considered super fashionable and elite.
So if it helps to think of it this way, romance yourself like the Jane Austen heroine you are, and eat leftovers out of the fridge at 3am like the high spirited and unconventional person you are. You’ve got this.
In the event you don’t want to be a Regency Heroine, you can also Be:
A Hobbit, who has a meal for roughly every 2 hours of the day and they never said WHEN second breakfast was. or maybe it’s First Breakfast, just really, really early.
A Nocturnal Cryptid coming out of hiding at odd hours to avoid the paparazzi
You’re preparing to battle jetlag on an interstellar trip where you’ll be on a 30-hour schedule becuase it’s a good compromise with the alien’s 36-hour schedule.
