Christine Broadhead
Christine Broadhead
@cjbroadhead.bsky.social
Clinical pharmacist now mostly in the ED; (not terribly fast) runner; travel addict
I've been out early for similar stupidity.

I wearing noise-cancelling headphones 24-7 until Christmas considered cheating?
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Can be done down to 6 months if there’s risk of exposure, but it doesn’t count towards the 2 dose course (still need 2 doses after 12 months as there’s a chance of persistent maternal antibodies blunting vaccine response)
March 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Nothing from me, but this was a useful tip I saw a few months back. Might also be useful future advice for the inevitable cat bite/scratch infections that come in over the next while…
March 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Nah. Gaffer tape is the amiodarone of tape. Fixes almost anything (at least for a while) and takes forever to get rid of when you’re done with it.
March 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The answer was: there’s no data.

But a two dose booster course will confer a 3 month window, so that’s what I did.
March 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The lack of vaccination may be offset by their lack of travel.

Last data has wild polio (not vaccine-related virus) still only circulating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Not typical travel locations for most US citizens, especially now that the war is over.

Last reported case in Nigeria was in 2014.
February 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
We no longer have a local wholesaler, but there are 12 pharmacies in town (and in Australia insulin is relatively cheap so they all have some).

We used most of the neutral in town (cartridges and vials) and almost needed to move to aspart but made it until our order arrived.
January 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I think I just realised we had a slight language mismatch.

Although my grandmas stove was a “cooker”, most of what we in Aus would call a stove are these (and are mainly for heating).

Grandmas was a AGA from the 1940s (she and grandad built the house after the war)
January 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Grandma only gave hers up because at almost 80 she was getting too old to chop her own wood!
January 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Still relatively common in many parts of Australia.

My grandma had a wood burning kitchen stove/cooker that also heated the hot water until about 2000! Ran all day every day because it took forever to heat from cold.
January 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
👍

I read once English isn’t one language. It’s a bunch of languages dressed up in a trench coat that occasionally shakes down passing languages for useful words and/or interesting grammar!
January 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Of course it will.

Because being a logical and sensible person she will stop looking when she finds them!
January 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Also in my part of Australia.

The ONLY benefit of the 90's SJW fad was that removing it from farms became profitable!
December 29, 2024 at 10:42 AM
I have been known to qualify that my ancestors survived the middle ages drinking things like mead, and thus I am inherently able to metabolise alcohol. The ancestors of my Chinese friends instead drank tea (which was safe due to boiling the water) and thus their metabolism is not guaranteed.
December 18, 2024 at 9:47 AM
In 1986 I was 6.

In my defense it was a big year:
- Challenger
- Hayley’s comet
- Imelda Marcos’ shoes
- Chernobyl
- Duke & Duchess of York wedding
- the naming of HIV
December 18, 2024 at 7:47 AM
In 1986 I was 6.

In my defense it was a big year:
- Challenger
- Hayley’s comet
- Imelda Marcos’ shoes
- Chernobyl
- Duke & Duchess of York wedding
- the naming of HIV
December 18, 2024 at 7:45 AM
As a patient I was ecstatic when my last CST came around and it was a PCR so I would need another for 5 years. The hate of having cervical screening tests is universal!
December 16, 2024 at 7:56 AM