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shadowkatCovid-19 Antibody test came back..and its way above 50. Kind of in the 8,000 range. So value is positive. So apparently I don't need the booster immediately since I still have antibodies. Either they are from the booster I got in October, or I did get COVID in December when I was visiting mother and just don't know it?
What's hilarious about the test results is all of the crazy disclaimers. "Performance characteristics have NOT been evaluated in individuals who received the SARS-COV-2 vaccination. This test has not bee FDA cleared or approved and has been authorized by the FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization. This test has been authorized only for the detection of IgG antibodies against SARS COV-2 not for any other viruses or pathogens. "
In other words just because I have the antibodies doesn't mean I had COVID, it means the booster gave them to me. Nor does it mean that I'm protected.
Nor is the test necessarily accurate, although it most likely is.
I'm taking it as good news.
Oh, I told my mother that the doctor thinks my high cholesterol might be genetic. My mother begs to differ.
Mother: Except your father and I didn't have it until recently.
Me: Nor did I.
Mother: We were older than you.
Me: By what ten years??
Mother suggested that instead of giving away all my Easter candy, I just throw it in the freezer like my grandmother used to do with her candy. (She'd get free candy in Vegas or at Christmas or make it, then throw it in the freezer and eat it sparingly.) Except, mother pointed out - this doesn't necessarily stop her from eating it. It stopped my grandmother, it did not stop mother.
I'm wondering if the combo keto and paeolo diets over the years caused my cholesterol to spike - due to the increase in cheese substitutes and meat fats? Although I have kind of gone off of red meat for the foreseeable future on account of it just not being digestible. (I know keto has resulted in a lot of folks getting their gall bladder's removed or in high cholesterol due to the fact that most people can't process fat that well.)
(As an aside cholesterol is a difficult word to spell.)
***
I may re-watch Bridgerton - I'm in the mood for fluffy romance, and I like the characters. It's not for everyone. But nothing is. There are things other people like that I can't watch. It's like food. I don't like brussle sprouts, my brother loves them. I don't know which family he sprouted out of - but it wasn't ours, no one in my family likes it but him.
***
Oh, Biden appointed the first female to an Admiral Position via Kamala Harris on Twitter.
President Biden has nominated Adm. Linda Fagan to serve as the next commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, the administration announced Tuesday.
If confirmed, Fagan would be the first woman ever to lead a branch of the U.S. military, lawmakers said.
YAY! And about bloody time. I feel like going into a chorus of anything you can do, I can do better...or something.
Although, this does mean that women can be drafted, although I think we could be as early as the 1990s, so never mind.
**
Been feeling a tad depressed of late, combination of the weather (gloomy and we're getting a late Spring), work, and my frustration with my body at the moment.
Reading another romance novel - It's one of Julie Anne Long's books about the Palace of Rogues. I can't remember the title - but it is about a disenfranchised and scandalized opera singer who seeks refuge in a boarding house, and runs smack into a former General, military legend and Duke. (I'm thinking this is after the Napoleonic Wars - which is a popular period for Romance Novels). At least it's different - in that it all takes place in a boarding house. The opera singer is hiding out - after a duel was fought over her, someone got shot, and an angry mob ran her out of her residence.
Poor thing. The guys who fought the duel weren't named in the papers to protect their identity, but she was - and is now scandalized and out of job. The ladies who run and own the boarding house, with their husbands, agreed to let a room to her - if she'd agree to sing at a gala they'd hold and charge tickets for, she'd get a percentage of the proceeds. They failed to inform her that the Duke was in residence though - he got his title after memorializing himself in the Wars. And is a military legend. He's renting a suite - because he's trying to write his autobiography while his townhouse is under renovations.
See? Different. Usually there's a lot of balls. I get bored of balls after a bit. The last one I read was about a banker who got thrown in jail, was hung, survived, married a minister's daughter who was pregnant with someone else's kid. It had a mystery in the center of it - who set him up to be hung. Although the focus was on the romance, and his family drama.
I tried reading the Bridgerton novels, but I liked the series better. I may try again.
What's hilarious about the test results is all of the crazy disclaimers. "Performance characteristics have NOT been evaluated in individuals who received the SARS-COV-2 vaccination. This test has not bee FDA cleared or approved and has been authorized by the FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization. This test has been authorized only for the detection of IgG antibodies against SARS COV-2 not for any other viruses or pathogens. "
In other words just because I have the antibodies doesn't mean I had COVID, it means the booster gave them to me. Nor does it mean that I'm protected.
Nor is the test necessarily accurate, although it most likely is.
I'm taking it as good news.
Oh, I told my mother that the doctor thinks my high cholesterol might be genetic. My mother begs to differ.
Mother: Except your father and I didn't have it until recently.
Me: Nor did I.
Mother: We were older than you.
Me: By what ten years??
Mother suggested that instead of giving away all my Easter candy, I just throw it in the freezer like my grandmother used to do with her candy. (She'd get free candy in Vegas or at Christmas or make it, then throw it in the freezer and eat it sparingly.) Except, mother pointed out - this doesn't necessarily stop her from eating it. It stopped my grandmother, it did not stop mother.
I'm wondering if the combo keto and paeolo diets over the years caused my cholesterol to spike - due to the increase in cheese substitutes and meat fats? Although I have kind of gone off of red meat for the foreseeable future on account of it just not being digestible. (I know keto has resulted in a lot of folks getting their gall bladder's removed or in high cholesterol due to the fact that most people can't process fat that well.)
(As an aside cholesterol is a difficult word to spell.)
***
I may re-watch Bridgerton - I'm in the mood for fluffy romance, and I like the characters. It's not for everyone. But nothing is. There are things other people like that I can't watch. It's like food. I don't like brussle sprouts, my brother loves them. I don't know which family he sprouted out of - but it wasn't ours, no one in my family likes it but him.
***
Oh, Biden appointed the first female to an Admiral Position via Kamala Harris on Twitter.
President Biden has nominated Adm. Linda Fagan to serve as the next commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, the administration announced Tuesday.
If confirmed, Fagan would be the first woman ever to lead a branch of the U.S. military, lawmakers said.
YAY! And about bloody time. I feel like going into a chorus of anything you can do, I can do better...or something.
Although, this does mean that women can be drafted, although I think we could be as early as the 1990s, so never mind.
**
Been feeling a tad depressed of late, combination of the weather (gloomy and we're getting a late Spring), work, and my frustration with my body at the moment.
Reading another romance novel - It's one of Julie Anne Long's books about the Palace of Rogues. I can't remember the title - but it is about a disenfranchised and scandalized opera singer who seeks refuge in a boarding house, and runs smack into a former General, military legend and Duke. (I'm thinking this is after the Napoleonic Wars - which is a popular period for Romance Novels). At least it's different - in that it all takes place in a boarding house. The opera singer is hiding out - after a duel was fought over her, someone got shot, and an angry mob ran her out of her residence.
Poor thing. The guys who fought the duel weren't named in the papers to protect their identity, but she was - and is now scandalized and out of job. The ladies who run and own the boarding house, with their husbands, agreed to let a room to her - if she'd agree to sing at a gala they'd hold and charge tickets for, she'd get a percentage of the proceeds. They failed to inform her that the Duke was in residence though - he got his title after memorializing himself in the Wars. And is a military legend. He's renting a suite - because he's trying to write his autobiography while his townhouse is under renovations.
See? Different. Usually there's a lot of balls. I get bored of balls after a bit. The last one I read was about a banker who got thrown in jail, was hung, survived, married a minister's daughter who was pregnant with someone else's kid. It had a mystery in the center of it - who set him up to be hung. Although the focus was on the romance, and his family drama.
I tried reading the Bridgerton novels, but I liked the series better. I may try again.
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Date: 2022-04-06 03:42 pm (UTC)