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Post by Simon_says »

czbond wrote: post #179
petercooper wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I'm not really here to discuss the pros and cons, false positives and what not here as it's a complex topic, but..) I have a medical every three years that involves a full body MRI and ultrasounding which monitors for both brain and aortic aneurysms. There are people who have caught aneurysms in early stages through such monitoring, but there are enough downsides to such screening that it's not something that would…

Do you have an idea of some of the downsides? (Imagining cost - but also radiation?)

MRIs and ultrasounds don't involve any ionizing radiation. You may be thinking of CT scans or X-rays.

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Post by sosuke »

input_sh wrote: post #78
woutr_be wrote: post #14

Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.

My significant other (23 at the time, otherwise perfectly healthy) felt a sudden headache one evening. Since it didn't stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they've dismissed her with "menstrual problems". A day after that the pain didn't stop, she ended up in the hospital, and had a (fortunately successful) brain operation some days later. Luckily it was in an accessible place, so she ended up…

Being dismissed from the ER while having serious conditions that they overlooked is an awful experience. I wanted to let you know that my wife and I can sympathize with you and your SO.

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Post by petercooper »

czbond wrote: post #179
petercooper wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I'm not really here to discuss the pros and cons, false positives and what not here as it's a complex topic, but..) I have a medical every three years that involves a full body MRI and ultrasounding which monitors for both brain and aortic aneurysms. There are people who have caught aneurysms in early stages through such monitoring, but there are enough downsides to such screening that it's not something that would…

Do you have an idea of some of the downsides? (Imagining cost - but also radiation?)

As a sibling response says, false positives are a big issue. Understanding risks is another issue (consider if you're told you have an aneurysm with annual risk of spontaneous rupture at 0.1% versus an operation with 10% mortality rate.. do you choose the op?)

In some people, indulging anxieties around health can be problematic in itself or have mental health repercussions. Anxieties could also be aroused by benign findings. For example, I have a 7mm cyst on my left kidney. It is entirely benign and not growing but some people may find such a finding unduly alarming and seek treatment they don't need.

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Post by thrownaway954 »

kerri said it best "i wish i had a time machine some days" :( it sucks getting old and seeing truly wonderful people pass.

man i miss mythbusters. they all had such chemistry and it truly was a wholesome show. grant, kerri, adam, jaime and tory really became part of my life.

rip grant... you have no idea how many people you inspired.

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Post by Balgair »

Grant was an inspiration.

The whole crew were, are.

Their efforts pushed me along the path I am on and made my life measurably better.

Grant was core to that. Grant made my life better.

I got to meet him one at a Maker Faire. They say, never meet your heroes. Grant was the exception to that rule. Shaking his hand was everything I expected. He was kind to some rando and seemed happy that he was able to make a better life for some stranger he'd never met.

I'm so grateful for his efforts. I am so grateful for his humor. I am so grateful for his joy.

Thank you Grant.

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Post by JohnBooty »

bjt2n3904 wrote: post #128

https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215... This was his workbench. In many ways, it doesn't look much different than mine. Grant was an electrical engineer, like me. Gone suddenly before 50 from an aneurysm. I can't help but wonder if it looks like that now, filled with unfinished projects. Projects that only he understood the complexity of, and few would have the hope of picking up where he fini…

    The world lost a decent person
I know a fair number of people who knew him personally, and (long before passed) all said the same thing about him - a really great human being.

They said he had one of those personalities where he made you feel special. Not through flattery; in a truly genuine way. We lost a truly good guy.

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Post by robertoandred »

ShakataGaNai wrote: post #31

Normally I ignore the "rich and famous" obits, however Grant's passing is really quite upsetting. MythBusters meant a great deal to me during my college years, right as I was trying to figure out where I wanted to go in life. The build team was always the best. With the loss of Jessie in 2019, it's been a hard year for Mythbusters.

I don't understand this smug "normally I don't care about celeb deaths, except the ones I care about."

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Post by vmception »

d1str0 wrote: post #60
maccam94 wrote: post #54

I would not be surprised if he is diagnosed with COVID-19, it can cause blood clots that obstruct blood flow. "Severe brain haemorrhage and concomitant COVID-19 Infection: A neurovascular complication of COVID-19": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199686/

This article is specifically about a single person (60yo woman) who had a aneurysm and was actively fighting pneumonia from COVID19. Just because a celeb died doesn’t mean it makes any sense to try and tie in COVID19.

I specifically didn't want to post my similar suspicions regarding blood clots and covid so that I didn't have to defend myself from the "everything I didn't think of is fearmongering" people.

yes, the normal distribution of people dying every year will still happen, but now that there is a blood clot causing virus out there, its also worth considering any time someone dies from a blood clot. not a huge stretch. I would actually wonder if they explicitly ruled that out, I don't trust that medical professionals have this in the modus operandi yet, and especially in the distributed US healthcare system.

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Post by japhyr »

bjt2n3904 wrote: post #128

https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215... This was his workbench. In many ways, it doesn't look much different than mine. Grant was an electrical engineer, like me. Gone suddenly before 50 from an aneurysm. I can't help but wonder if it looks like that now, filled with unfinished projects. Projects that only he understood the complexity of, and few would have the hope of picking up where he fini…

My father started his career as a software engineer in the 1970s. He worked at places like Raytheon and DEC and a few others. He started his career using punchcards, and ended his career building websites from a laptop. I am grateful that from a very young age he let me ask about and use anything he had in his home office, starting with a kit computer in the late 1970s which I learned BASIC on.

My father died in 2011. I flew back home to be with my mother during that time. It was a really hard time, made much harder because my only son was one month old, and my father never got to meet him.

In that week at home, my mother asked me to go through my father's computers and help her figure out if there was anything she should know about or do anything with. Going through his computers was a profound experience. I got to see all the projects he was working on; the ones we all knew about because they were his professional projects, the ones I knew about because we always had technical conversations, and the ones no one knew about because they were just little side projects for fun and curiosity.

I spent several days going through his computers, because it was like lingering in one last conversation with him. In the end, there wasn't much to share with my mother, for the reasons the parent comment mentioned - most of the projects had too much personal context for anyone else to pick up. But that experience had a huge impact on me. I realized that if I died that day and someone went through my computer, they'd find all kinds of projects that would never see the light of day. I was a hobbyist programmer at that point, and going through my father's computer motivated me to stop working on so many different hobby projects, and pick one or two to really build out. I realized I had developed meaningful programming skills, and I could probably build something that others would find useful.

Since then I have done that with a number of projects. If I die today, you could still find many little projects that won't ever see the light of day. But you'd also find some highly impactful projects, which I am really proud of. I miss my father every day, but I my life would also be on a very different trajectory if I hadn't learned what I did from his passing.

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