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I knew when Covid started, when I saw the news article headline "Greenland gets first case of novel Coronavirus" we were in it for the long run!

I've played a few times during Covid, a bunch before, and I watch the news ticker in the game more now, and it's shocked me how accurate it is and true to time.

Just curious, in Canada, the defence attorney and Crown attorney (prosecutor, sounds very elite, though) call each other "my friend" when they argue, its actually hilarious, gets passive aggressive and sarcastic quickly.

How do you address opposing counsel? Whats the stupidest thing a defence attorney has done and ruined it for his client? Or just himself. Charges of "intimidating the Crown" come up in the news frequently. Do you have that sort of protection?

Just throwing in my experience. People think ETC (electroconvulsive therapy) is patients being forced, being held down screaming, used for punishment. None of that is true.

I went through a course of ECT in 2008. My first psychiatrist sent me to a big fancy hospital for an assessment after exhausting meds, the psychiatrist there tried different meds, and one day I confided in my nurse (we had the same nurse generally, and they worked 12 hour shifts, and were amazing) that I couldn't take it anymore, I wanted ECT.

The next morning my psychiatrist brings it up. My social worker agrees with us, to do it, and I'm tl see the "ECT doctor" and his nurse. He gets my file, says I'm a good candidate. We spent gours over the procesure, different placement of electrodes, etc. He sends me for a physical with a physician, and I am approved. I sign many forms, some are informed consent.

The procedure itself was simple. Get up really early, go to the medical hospital (they used the recovery room, so we had to be early so it was empty) and the ETC nurse was great. She'd tell jokes, ask us silly questions, was calming, could get an IV in in half a second. Then we went to the recovery room, heart monitors, and stuff.

The nurses treated us well. They'd let us have the TV, bring us heated blankets, hang out and talk. Then the actual ECT itself. Warm blanket,on, oxygen mask on, woozy from anesthesia, then out, wake up without the IV, sometimes a headache, immediately our nurse comes and gives us juice and tylenol (most common SE was headache) and we get dressed, they give us muffins and donuts, coffee.

Then we go back to the psychiatric hospital and sleep,off the anesthesia and by supper, I was perfectly fine and would go to yoga or play baseball.

I have some memory loss, but it's more fuzzy around the weeks I got ECT. Some things I remember vividly, others are kinda blurred. I had unilateral (one side). I remember signing up for a scrapbook group and going an hour after getting back from ECT. It didn't go well, I wanted to sleep, lol.

I have more memory loss from the depression, the manic episode before it, and the psychotic episode I has in 2006.

Oh wow! My mom was born in 1957 and she's retiring in a couple years!

One place I wasi n had a ball pit. I call it hotel-pitol.