Mazel tov with the doctors. The radioactive tracer they inject into you gets filtered out by the kidneys quite effectively, and creates a readable trace of what your urinary tract is doing with it. It just cracks me up whenever I have it done, when I need to pee during the procedure, I have to use the "hot" rest room, which is designed so that no radioactive human waste products get into the city sewers.
Everything our generation thought about medical science is now WRONG. Cancer is not an automatic death sentence. People can now recover and live a reasonable life after heart attacks or strokes. There are vaccines to prevent a lot of nasty diseases now. (I think I should get the shingles vaccine; I had chicken pox when I was a kid. But Medicare doesn't pay for it.) I was starting to go blind from cataracts in the early 1990s; I now have plastic lens implants that have some correction built into them, and with my glasses on I can see pretty normally. A skilfully applied electrical current re-set my heart rhythm a few years ago, and the results have lasted. About the only think I could wish for now is that they'd be able to replace my gall bladder with a mechanical one (which would work like a diabetic's insulin pump) so I can eat as much bacon as I want.
We now have technology that can knit or weave fabric with one side sleek Spandex and the other side fleecy fake fur. Why don't we have Luna City as a vacation spot yet?
I suspect that you and I will meet in person in 2047, at my 100th birthday party either in an orbital habitat or Luna City. At my party, the rules are anybody is allowed to ask anybody else to dance, but the person asked is allowed to refuse, and nobody is allowed to pester. So I'll ask you to dance with me, in zero or one/sixth G. That ought to amuse the other guests.
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Date: 2023-11-26 10:55 pm (UTC)Everything our generation thought about medical science is now WRONG. Cancer is not an automatic death sentence. People can now recover and live a reasonable life after heart attacks or strokes. There are vaccines to prevent a lot of nasty diseases now. (I think I should get the shingles vaccine; I had chicken pox when I was a kid. But Medicare doesn't pay for it.) I was starting to go blind from cataracts in the early 1990s; I now have plastic lens implants that have some correction built into them, and with my glasses on I can see pretty normally. A skilfully applied electrical current re-set my heart rhythm a few years ago, and the results have lasted. About the only think I could wish for now is that they'd be able to replace my gall bladder with a mechanical one (which would work like a diabetic's insulin pump) so I can eat as much bacon as I want.
We now have technology that can knit or weave fabric with one side sleek Spandex and the other side fleecy fake fur. Why don't we have Luna City as a vacation spot yet?
I suspect that you and I will meet in person in 2047, at my 100th birthday party either in an orbital habitat or Luna City. At my party, the rules are anybody is allowed to ask anybody else to dance, but the person asked is allowed to refuse, and nobody is allowed to pester. So I'll ask you to dance with me, in zero or one/sixth G. That ought to amuse the other guests.