![]() ![]() ![]() Lets start a conversation on demystifying this ![]() When i was younger i imagined getting sick like hornbacher and going through the stuff she did, in some ways i did but since the US health system is fucked ive had to just be "smart" and manage it myself. ![]() And in the US treatment is sparse, unless you're dying you probably wont be taken seriously or even get a semblance of treatment, outpatient is most of the time out of the question unless youre rich and the the shrinking middle class. most of us live our whole lives with this and many never get emaciated and almost die, lots of us live in limbo between a little underweight and healthy weight. because not everyone is forced into the hospital, a lot o people want to be forced into the hospital because o the whole "sick enough" thing. Ive noticed some younger kids joining mpa recently and maybe people with more experience and insight into living with ed could share. She didnt write it to help people she didn't write it in a way most memoirs should be, as a way to reflect and illustrate your life in a way that could help others. My contentions with wasted are basically all rooted in the same thing, in my opinion i think hornbacher wrote this as a way to prove how sick she was. As we all know by know wasted is a book you read to trigger yourself, if you read this you definitely aren't looking to recover. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones - and of Kekon itself. When a powerful new drug emerges that lets anyone - even foreigners - wield jade, the simmering tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family erupts into open violence. Ancient tradition has little place in this rapidly changing nation. They care about nothing but protecting their own, cornering the jade market, and defending the districts under their protection. Now, the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for - and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion. 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When the United States National Security Agency's code-breaking supercomputer TRANSLTR encounters a revolutionary new code, Digital Fortress, that it cannot break, Commander Trevor Strathmore calls in head cryptographer Susan Fletcher to crack it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nimura has written “The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – and Women to Medicine” (Norton, 336 pp., ★★★ out of four), a fascinating dual biography that restores the two sisters to their rightful place in U.S. Over the next two decades the two women would go on to establish the first hospital run for and by women, and the first women’s medical college with training as rigorous as that received by men.ĭespite all these firsts, the remarkable story of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell isn’t particularly well known. Five years later, her younger sister Emily would earn one of her own. 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