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Think of the relationship of cholesterol to your calcium score as like the weather to climate. Your calcium score is your accumulated history. Also, not all plaque is calcified, so it won't necessarily show up on the scan and it can still be risky by being more rupture-prone. The important thing is that no matter what your calcium score is, plaque is the thing you have to go after with statins (among other things too, like exercise). Non-calcified plaque is what shrinks - calcified plaque basically stays the same - like scar tissue. Paradoxically, statins can actually lead to more calcification by converting the unstable plaque to a stable calcified form, but this is a good thing in the end because it's stabilized. Think of it - using the climate analogy again - as changing the atmosphere to make it less volatile - less storm activity - but the climate doesn't immediately reverse. I agree about the insurance payout racket as a possibility - a strong one actually in light of what I've seen her request of me (like another, earlier than needed, colonoscopy).

I completely agree with the above comment on getting your Agatston score from a coronary calcium scan. I mentioned it here years ago, but <crickets>... I've noticed that there's usually reservations about getting something like this done just because it could bring bad news, but bad news can be life-saving news. It only cost me $60, but maybe the price has more than doubled due to more people getting it done - or just plain greed? I have a newer, young(ish) doctor who seems doubtful that I really scored "0" and keeps hinting that I should get it done again, but it's really an expense that needs to be done again only after 10 years minimum. Very strange that she thinks this way when I have absolutely no other problems: no physical ailments, no high cholesterol, take no medications, senses working properly ... Anyway, it's a really good indicator of heart health - even more accurate than cholesterol numbers.

Conductor who championed period instruments and called vibrato a ‘modern drug’.

World’s oldest marathon runner, Fauja Singh, dies at 114 after being hit by a car.

Used only OTA until 2020. Bought FireTV Recast to record, but they stopped supporting it and then it started to breakdown, but OTA is still available to us - tho an added extra problem is that we've had to often get on the roof to adjust the antenna every few years (by lowering it) because of the ever increasing number of cell towers that interfere.

Mitchell was inspired by that 1975 National Geographic pic.

I think Joey needs a swift kick in the chestnuts.

Yeah, I'm sure that the deal(s) that they have are ones that regular folk don't know of (unless there's something online about it), but it's, in general, one of the aspects of the "modern" world that we both complain about around here without trying to sound like, "well, back in the good ol' days..." But, we both really miss having our old setup with the big Mitsubishi on wheels that, before 2020, we could just turn on and simply f'ing watch a show - either live or off of a hard drive. For me, easily 80% of the time I'll have some kind of trouble after I've pressed the "on" button - and since I'll turn it on, at most, 2 or 3 times a week, I just can't imagine what it would be like to watch the thing at the rate that most other people do. For my wife, she's often in the middle of some series and one day she'll go to turn it on and it's gone! Oh well, won't know what happened to those folks in that show. Now, she's watching something on Disney that just drops out in the middle of the show. Today, she spent 10 minutes in the middle of some drama unplugging and replugging crap and jumping thru hoops on the remote just to get back to the storyline she was watching. And we saw online that other people are having the same problem with this Disney channel. ...and the only reason we got Disney temporarily is because in order to be able to watch the TV version of Dune a few months ago, we had to buy something else (can't remember the channel), and Disney was part of the total cheap one-time package deal of less than $10 a year, but, you know, you had to buy both or pay full exorbitant price for the thing that you really wanted. Earlier, we talked about Call the Midwife disappearing and all I had to do was go to Netflix, pay them, watch it and then cancel? Well, that's what I did this evening - except before I gave them my money, I did the hunt for the show on their website - finally found it - and the little drop down menu said that they are only showing seasons 1 - 10, so I would've been out of luck if I had just went and signed up for it 'cause I just wanted to see what happened in the final three shows of Season 14. More research said: *nope. you gotta wait until September...* It all just makes my damn head hurt.

Yeah, we had to sign up for their "Passport" service, because the local PBS is notoriously bad when it comes to programming mistakes. It's the first time we've seen a show have such a limited availability after it's shown (unavailable beginning mid-June - just weeks afterward). Usually, they have an expiration of many years when you can watch them. We're thinking that it has to do with a contract they might now have with, in this case, Netflix who will pay PBS bucks for temporary and exclusive access. PBS is probably riding that train because of upcoming idiotic slashing of their funds. I'm considering using a VPN and watching the rest of it on BBC 1.