The Five Questions Meme
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mallorys_cameraI got Five Questions from asakiyume:
(1) What's a piece of guerrilla nursing wisdom you could share with us--along the lines of "You can use gin to clean out a wound," but not that one, since we all know that from westerns (unless that folk wisdom is wrong and we're actually going to ensure an infection by doing that?)
Oregano poultices! Oregano is a powerful antibacterial agent and an antioxidant. The essential oil works best, but if you don’t have access to a doctor, chances are you won’t have access to the essential oil either. So, you can actually use the powdered herb. Pulverize it with garlic, moisten it with a wee bit of honey—honey and garlic are also powerful antimicrobials—and apply it to that suspicious-looking wound.
I didn’t learn this as an RN. I learned it from my very first ESL student Renan (dubbed “Reuben” in this LJ) who was a medical student in El Salvador before he figured out that he could make twice as much as an unskilled laborer in the U.S. as he could as a physician in El Salvador.
Access to antibiotics in El Salvador is highly limited as they are expensive and most people cannot afford them. So, there is a thriving folk medicine industry in El Salvador. Renan was taught about oregano poultices in medical school. He used them himself once while I knew him on a dental abscess after he broke a tooth and didn’t want to spend the money on a dentist. The abscess cleared up.
I’ve never used oregano poultices myself.
I did use that tetracycline you used to be able to buy at PetSmart to clean fish tanks to treat a suppurating head wound the Meezer once sustained when I didn’t have the money to take her to a vet.
(2) What's a haunted piece of Hudson Valley architecture/real estate that people should visit?
There’s a standing stone in Wappingers Fall.
No shit! It’s on the front lawn of a modest ranch-style home at the intersection of the corner of Oakwood and Delavergne Roads.
Lois Lane was the person who turned me on to it several years back when I was teaching English to the two Tibetan llamas at the Buddhist temple in Wappingers. The standing stone is maybe a quarter of a mile away from the Buddhist temple.
Lois Lane had tons of backstory on the actual stone itself—she lived in a foster home right around the corner while she was in high school—but unfortunately, I can’t remember much.
I don’t know whether the stone actually counts as haunted. And I don’t know whether people should visit, seeing as it’s jutting right there up from somebody’s front lawn.
But it’s awfully odd. Its base is something like 10 feet underground.
And, of course, this whole area, the mid-Hudson Valley, is deeply steeped in a strange shimmery portal energy. There are an enormous number of Buddhist temples around here. The Buddhists feel it, too!
(3) The revolution has come and you have been tasked with dealing with billionaires Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. What do you do with them?
Oh, gosh. I don’t know.
Avoid them? 😀
(4) The revolution has come and you're being forced at gunpoint to paint your nails--but you get any color you want. What color(s) do you choose?
My favorite nail color is a bronze, glittery gold.
Although lately, I’ve been wearing this deep rose.
I think I’ll go with the glittery gold.
Question for my interlocutor: Why are “they” forcing me to paint my nails at gunpoint? How does the color of my nails forward the Glorious Revolution?
(5) If you were making a personal time capsule today, which you'd open up in five years' time, what's one thing you'd put in?
Hmmm. Five years is really not a very long time for a time capsule. The technology five years from now should be more or less the same as it is right now.
I would probably back up my phone to the Cloud, drop the current phone in the time capsule, watch the interment of the time capsule, and then scurry out to buy another phone.
I’m fairly sure you could reconstruct my entire personality should my brain get erased from a backup of my phone.
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Part of this Five Questions meme is customizing five questions for other people who might want to play.
So, if you want to answer questions, let me know! 😀
asakiyume:(1) What's a piece of guerrilla nursing wisdom you could share with us--along the lines of "You can use gin to clean out a wound," but not that one, since we all know that from westerns (unless that folk wisdom is wrong and we're actually going to ensure an infection by doing that?)
Oregano poultices! Oregano is a powerful antibacterial agent and an antioxidant. The essential oil works best, but if you don’t have access to a doctor, chances are you won’t have access to the essential oil either. So, you can actually use the powdered herb. Pulverize it with garlic, moisten it with a wee bit of honey—honey and garlic are also powerful antimicrobials—and apply it to that suspicious-looking wound.
I didn’t learn this as an RN. I learned it from my very first ESL student Renan (dubbed “Reuben” in this LJ) who was a medical student in El Salvador before he figured out that he could make twice as much as an unskilled laborer in the U.S. as he could as a physician in El Salvador.
Access to antibiotics in El Salvador is highly limited as they are expensive and most people cannot afford them. So, there is a thriving folk medicine industry in El Salvador. Renan was taught about oregano poultices in medical school. He used them himself once while I knew him on a dental abscess after he broke a tooth and didn’t want to spend the money on a dentist. The abscess cleared up.
I’ve never used oregano poultices myself.
I did use that tetracycline you used to be able to buy at PetSmart to clean fish tanks to treat a suppurating head wound the Meezer once sustained when I didn’t have the money to take her to a vet.
(2) What's a haunted piece of Hudson Valley architecture/real estate that people should visit?
There’s a standing stone in Wappingers Fall.
No shit! It’s on the front lawn of a modest ranch-style home at the intersection of the corner of Oakwood and Delavergne Roads.
Lois Lane was the person who turned me on to it several years back when I was teaching English to the two Tibetan llamas at the Buddhist temple in Wappingers. The standing stone is maybe a quarter of a mile away from the Buddhist temple.
Lois Lane had tons of backstory on the actual stone itself—she lived in a foster home right around the corner while she was in high school—but unfortunately, I can’t remember much.
I don’t know whether the stone actually counts as haunted. And I don’t know whether people should visit, seeing as it’s jutting right there up from somebody’s front lawn.
But it’s awfully odd. Its base is something like 10 feet underground.
And, of course, this whole area, the mid-Hudson Valley, is deeply steeped in a strange shimmery portal energy. There are an enormous number of Buddhist temples around here. The Buddhists feel it, too!
(3) The revolution has come and you have been tasked with dealing with billionaires Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. What do you do with them?
Oh, gosh. I don’t know.
Avoid them? 😀
(4) The revolution has come and you're being forced at gunpoint to paint your nails--but you get any color you want. What color(s) do you choose?
My favorite nail color is a bronze, glittery gold.
Although lately, I’ve been wearing this deep rose.
I think I’ll go with the glittery gold.
Question for my interlocutor: Why are “they” forcing me to paint my nails at gunpoint? How does the color of my nails forward the Glorious Revolution?
(5) If you were making a personal time capsule today, which you'd open up in five years' time, what's one thing you'd put in?
Hmmm. Five years is really not a very long time for a time capsule. The technology five years from now should be more or less the same as it is right now.
I would probably back up my phone to the Cloud, drop the current phone in the time capsule, watch the interment of the time capsule, and then scurry out to buy another phone.
I’m fairly sure you could reconstruct my entire personality should my brain get erased from a backup of my phone.
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Part of this Five Questions meme is customizing five questions for other people who might want to play.
So, if you want to answer questions, let me know! 😀
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Date: 2022-11-22 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-22 01:03 pm (UTC)1. You're a storyteller. And a scientist. How do you define "truth"? 😀
2. Do you like to dress up?
3. Who did you feel closer to when you were growing up, your mother or your father? And why? Or did you feel equally close to both?
4. What's your favorite museum?
5. Of the many, many places you've traveled, about which ones did you think, "I could live here"?
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Date: 2022-11-22 04:13 pm (UTC)I am DEFINITELY going to note what you say about oregano, garlic, and honey, though I hope I never need to use that wisdom.
Re: the revolution, what can I say, these guerrillas think style counts for something! And they haven't learned that, y'know, sometimes you can just ask people to do things rather than swing guns around. Their mottos are "Do revolution, but with style!" and "Everything's better with automatic weapons!" Glittery gold is great. I like glitter!
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Date: 2022-11-22 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-24 02:12 pm (UTC)Questions would be great thank you, I need something to spark me up.