This shouldn’t even be possible
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Before she had the cancer treatment, doctors crafted a custom-made nose using 3D-printed biomaterial and kept it on ice until technology caught up.
This year, the structure was then implanted under the skin in her forearm where cells and blood vessels grew into the device over two months.
Two months later, the 'nose' was then implanted onto her face, with the blood vessels inside it then attached to those in her temples.
The patient is thrilled with the new nose, and says it is helping her to breathe better and smell her garden. Another operation will be needed to allow feeling in the organ.
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In the pre-dawn hours of November 12, 1833, the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. Unlike anything anyone had ever seen before, and visible over the entire continent, an Illinois newspaper reported “the very heavens seemed ablaze.” An Alabama newspaper described “thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” Observers in Boston estimated that there were over 72,000 “falling stars” visible per hour during the remarkable celestial storm.
The Lakota people were so amazed by the event that they reset their calendar to commemorate it. Joseph Smith, traveling with Mormon refugees, noted in his diary that it was surely a sign of the Second Coming. Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, among many others, described seeing it. It became known as “The Night the Stars Fell.”
So, what was this amazing occurrence?
Many of those who witnessed it interpreted it as a sign of the Biblical end times, remembering words from the gospel of St. Mark: “And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.” But Yale astronomer Denison Olmsted sought a scientific explanation, and shortly afterwards he issued a call to the public—perhaps the first scientific crowd-sourced data gathering effort. At Olmsted’s request, newspapers across the country printed his call for data: “As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relative to the meteors.”
Olmsted published his conclusions the following year, the information he had received from lay observers having helped him draw new scientific conclusions in the study of meteors and meteor showers. He noted that the shower radiated from a point in the constellation Leo and speculated that it was caused by the earth passing through a cloud of space dust. The event, and the public’s fascination with it, caused a surge of interest in “citizen science” and significantly increased public scientific awareness.
Nowadays we know that every November the earth passes through the debris in the trail of a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle, causing the meteor showers we know as the Leonids. Impressive every year, every 33 year or so they are especially spectacular, although very rarely attaining the magnificence of the 1833 event.
The Leonid meteor showers are ongoing now and are expected to peak on November 18. But don’t expect a show like the one in 1833. This year at its peak the Leonids are expected to generate 15 “shooting stars” per hour.
November 12, 1833, one hundred eighty-nine years ago today, was “The Night the Stars Fell.”
The image is an 1889 depiction of the event.
The Lakota people were so amazed by the event that they reset their calendar to commemorate it. Joseph Smith, traveling with Mormon refugees, noted in his diary that it was surely a sign of the Second Coming. Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, among many others, described seeing it. It became known as “The Night the Stars Fell.”
So, what was this amazing occurrence?
Many of those who witnessed it interpreted it as a sign of the Biblical end times, remembering words from the gospel of St. Mark: “And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.” But Yale astronomer Denison Olmsted sought a scientific explanation, and shortly afterwards he issued a call to the public—perhaps the first scientific crowd-sourced data gathering effort. At Olmsted’s request, newspapers across the country printed his call for data: “As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relative to the meteors.”
Olmsted published his conclusions the following year, the information he had received from lay observers having helped him draw new scientific conclusions in the study of meteors and meteor showers. He noted that the shower radiated from a point in the constellation Leo and speculated that it was caused by the earth passing through a cloud of space dust. The event, and the public’s fascination with it, caused a surge of interest in “citizen science” and significantly increased public scientific awareness.
Nowadays we know that every November the earth passes through the debris in the trail of a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle, causing the meteor showers we know as the Leonids. Impressive every year, every 33 year or so they are especially spectacular, although very rarely attaining the magnificence of the 1833 event.
The Leonid meteor showers are ongoing now and are expected to peak on November 18. But don’t expect a show like the one in 1833. This year at its peak the Leonids are expected to generate 15 “shooting stars” per hour.
November 12, 1833, one hundred eighty-nine years ago today, was “The Night the Stars Fell.”
The image is an 1889 depiction of the event.
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And that woman is crazy as a tick.
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A diving horse was an attraction that was popular in the mid-1880s( until the 1950s), in which a horse would dive into a pool of water, sometimes from as high as 60 feet (20m).
Stunt shows featuring diving horses began in the 1880s and were a wildly popular attraction for decades, despite the obvious cruelty to the animals and the danger it posed, ironically, it would seem, more for the riders than the horses’ theme.
According to Texas Escapes, horse diving was “invented” by a man named William “Doc” Carver. Carver had worked with Buffalo Bill Cody, but by the 1880s he was traveling the country with his own Wild West show. He was a champion sharpshooter, and his rifle skills were the main attraction to the show, but after a while, he added a new gimmick: diving horses.
Allegedly, in 1881 Carver was crossing a bridge over Platte River (Nebraska) which partially collapsed. His horse fell/dove into the waters below, inspiring Carver to develop the diving horse act.
Carver trained various animals and went on tour. His son, Al Floyd Carver, constructed the ramp and tower and Lorena Carver was the first rider. Sonora Webster joined the show in 1924. She later married Al Floyd Carver.
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The diving horse at the Hanlan’s Point Amusement Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, around 1907.
One of the most famous shows of William “Doc” Carver was “The Great Carver Show” which became the center of attraction at the Atlantic City’s Steel Pier in New Jersey. This bizarre show involved a horse with a young lady in a swimsuit on its back, jumping from a high platform into a pool of water below.
The platforms were set as high as 40 feet. The diving horse ran up a carpeted ramp while the rider waited at the top, mounting as the horse ran by to take the plunge together.
When the horses landed in the tank, which was about 11 feet deep, they would go down until their hooves touched the bottom and then push off to get back to the surface. Divers often trained with their horses for years, gradually moving up to higher and more challenging diving platforms.
The horses often threw their heads up to help with momentum. The diving girl had to make sure she kept her head to the side or she would surface with a bloody nose, black eyes, or broken cheekbones and collar bones.
diving horse vintage photosAllegedly, in all the years the show ran, there was not one reported incident of injury to any of the high diving horses. However, the same cannot be said for the riders.
On average there were two injuries a year, usually a broken bone or a bruise. The most serious injury in the show’s history happened to Sonora Webster.
In 1931, during a dive, her horse dove into the tank off-balance, causing her to hit the water face first. Sonora failed to close her eyes quickly enough, resulting in detached retinas that left her sightless.
Despite being blinded, Sonora continued with the act for eleven more years. A film based on her life, Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, was released in 1991 and was based on her memoir A Girl and Five Brave Horses.
Opposition from animal welfare activists brought the horse diving shows in Atlantic City to an end in the 1970s. Although there was a brief resumption of the act at the pier in 1993, it was again shut down amid opposition. T
he horses sometimes dove four times a day, seven days a week. An attempt in 2012 to revive the shows at Steel Pier was halted when animal welfare advocates petitioned the owners not to hold the shows.
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My wife has some serious health issues. Not life threatening but it ain't nothing nice.
So we go to to the neurosurgeon and the pain specialist. My wife get's her procedure and they put her on Oxy.
Oxy is bad news and it causes constipation and loss of apatite...BUT the doctors want her to GAIN weight.
My step son get's her some THC gummies. They are the one thing that has helped.
All of her doctors like the idea, especially if it helps. So I ask for a prescription...it's legal in Louisiana.
Neither the Certified "PAIN SPECIALIST" nor the neurosurgeon can prescribe THC. In Louisiana you must go to a THC Approved doctor. The pain specialist can give you opioids BUT not THC.
So we go to to the neurosurgeon and the pain specialist. My wife get's her procedure and they put her on Oxy.
Oxy is bad news and it causes constipation and loss of apatite...BUT the doctors want her to GAIN weight.
My step son get's her some THC gummies. They are the one thing that has helped.
All of her doctors like the idea, especially if it helps. So I ask for a prescription...it's legal in Louisiana.
Neither the Certified "PAIN SPECIALIST" nor the neurosurgeon can prescribe THC. In Louisiana you must go to a THC Approved doctor. The pain specialist can give you opioids BUT not THC.
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I've got one more:
We go to the DMV to get a temporary Handicapped Tag until my wife is more ambulatory. I have the form from the doctor. My wife can't even stand at the counter. They review the form but the doctor marked a wrong box.
DMV refused the tag because it MIGHT BE FAKE. EVEN if it was, they could clearly see she needed one.
Note: The Doctor is 40 miles away and the DMV won't accept a FAX or copy.
We go to the DMV to get a temporary Handicapped Tag until my wife is more ambulatory. I have the form from the doctor. My wife can't even stand at the counter. They review the form but the doctor marked a wrong box.
DMV refused the tag because it MIGHT BE FAKE. EVEN if it was, they could clearly see she needed one.
Note: The Doctor is 40 miles away and the DMV won't accept a FAX or copy.
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Damn @NOLAGATOR , I really hate 2022 for y'all, what with the roof and now this.
Prayers sent.
And both of her two scenarios above make zero damn sense but I'm glad she can find some escape from the pain with THC and is not on Oxy. But prayers that she gets better.
Prayers sent.
And both of her two scenarios above make zero damn sense but I'm glad she can find some escape from the pain with THC and is not on Oxy. But prayers that she gets better.
