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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • The Canadian system is triaged according to priority, as opposed to who can or can’t afford it. I’ve had several MRIs, including one during the height of COVID, and have never waited more than a few weeks. One was scheduled a couple of months out and then moved up after a radiologist reviewed my x-rays. Granted one of them was at 3am but would rather have answers and an inconvenient appointment time






  • They really thought everyone would just go down to the local schoolhouse basement, wait a week and everything would be back to normal.

    I looked this up because I remembered reading that nuclear bombs don’t have an excessively long fallout, since most of the energy is designed to be released during the detonation (as opposed to an accident like Chernobyl)

    Sources say minimum of 24 hours, after levels fall significantly but you should still wait for direction. Another source said 3-5 weeks. Hmm.