• Carotid Dissection

    From a425couple@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 8 10:40:27 2025
    >> http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-planetary-defense-asteroid-october-2012-tc4-644072
    >
    > Here's a much bigger one they *missed* detecting just recently:
    >
    > http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2017-oo1-close-pass-undetected
    >
    > "Whoosh! Astronomers discovered a small asteroid – now designated as
    > asteroid 2017 OO1 – on July 23. That was 3 days after it passed 1/3 the
    > moon’s distance from Earth."

    Yes!! Interesting.
    " a fact that stands out is that asteroid 2017 OO1 is about three times
    as big as the house-sized asteroid that penetrated the skies over
    Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, 2013, breaking windows in six Russian
    cities and causing more that 1,000 people to seek treatment for
    injuries, mostly from flying glass."

    For whatever reason, I'm reminded of just over a year ago.
    I'd had a medical incident. A carotid dissection.
    The doctor was showing me the MRI, and this big dark
    spot that was I guess a blood clot in my neck.
    He said, we don't think this will come lose and cause
    a stroke.
    I asked why he thought that.
    His response was, "because if it was going to, it probably
    would have done that already. Then we would not be here talking."
    Struck me as kind of unnerving!!

    "Woosh!"

    I guess, all things considered, I should not get too
    frustrated about mild headaches, or making more mistakes
    than I ever used to.

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