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Using separate tags for "LEWD" vs "GORE" Has been a request on Reddit since practically day 1.
The fediverse is an evolution from things like Reddit, so I'm a bit surprised this wasn't a day-1 feature here and that we're still having the exact same conversation.
Community-provided custom tags would be a nice feature too. There's some artsy content that toes the line, but even if it's like some really cool body paint, or a tattoo or something, I still don't want surprise tits on my screen in the middle of the break room. That would be a nice way to one-click block the 700 or so furry porn communities on Lemmy.
...or block the 700 or so sports communities if you're not interested in sports; this isn't necessarily just a blood vs boobs problem as it is a content (of any kind) filtering problem.
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No idea. I've only done a few of these, and again they're absolute madness. I'm a surgical tech, so getting the sterile field and instruments set up is my first responsibility; then it's getting those instruments into the hands of the surgeons so they're not wasting ANY time; then it's packing up the mess afterward. In slower cases I can kinda check out what the anesthesia folks are doing, and sometimes even help out with super basic shit like holding an O2 mask on the patient's face before they're intubated to free up their hands for actual patient care, but that's all extra, time-permitting stuff that isn't a normal part of my job.
For organ harvests specifically, I don't even recall if an anesthesiologist or CRNA was present or not - these cases require 100% of my focus to stay honed in on my own job, otherwise I'll fall behind, which slows the surgeons down, which compromises the organs being harvested and used.
It makes intuitive sense to give a little sedation to prevent the scenario from the article, but I could see that being problematic for a harvest: sedation or general anesthesia are systemic, so any of that they administer is going to make its way into the organs being harvested. Whether or not that's an issue for those organs or the next patient receiving them... no idea. Could actually be beneficial and already standard practice. Or anywhere in between. That'd be a question for an organ harvest doc - it's over my head.
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About an hour after Hoover had been brought into surgery for his organs to be retrieved, a doctor came out and explained that Hoover “wasn’t ready”. “He woke up,” Rhorer said.
I wonder how far into the surgery they got. I'm assuming either not at all, or like only the initial cut, which may have been what gave the stimulation to knock him out of whatever coma state he was in.
If he was in the actual operating room for a full hour, that's a LONG time for nothing to have happened; but the hospitals I've worked at, there's a holding area where family is allowed to be at the patient's side, then shortly before surgery they get moved to pre-op (no family) for final prep before finally being pushed to the OR, so I suspect a lot of that hour was in pre-op.
...assuming organ harvest cases even go to pre-op - tbh I'm not sure if they do.
I've assisted in a few organ harvest cases, and the surgery itself is absolute madness - each organ system being harvested has its own team who specializes in that system, and they need to be extracted and preserved quickly to ensure they stay viable. So the second the docs get the green light to cut, it's like a pack of lions going to town on a gazelle. The time between initial cut and the donor being an empty carcass is like minutes. As soon as a team gets the organ they're after, they break scrub and leave, so the chaos transitions pretty quickly to this eerie quiet OR with a now not-just-brain-dead but dead dead patient flayed open on the table, blood all over the place since they don't really care about controlling bleeding, supplies all over the floor...
It's literally 6 high speed surgeries at the same time.
Point being - if someone woke up in the middle of that, they're already well passed the point of being completely fucked. You couldn't just call a stop and put it all back together. For real the best thing they could do in that scenario would be to push some general anesthetic to knock the patient back out, then continue the harvest (assuming general anesthetic wouldn't ruin the organs) and try to figure out what the actual fuck happened later.
NPR made it a point to say that some observers worry that the media attention Hoover’s case has drawn could undermine an organ-transplant system with a waiting list of more than 100,000 people. A professor of medical ethics with whom NPR spoke said all indications are that cases like Hoover’s are generally “one-offs that hopefully we’ll be able to get to the bottom of and prevent from ever happening again”.
That was my first thought too. This sounds like a super weird scenario, and while we should definitely dig, I'm a little uneasy about it circulating the web.
But Rhorer defended her decision to go public with Hoover’s story, saying it would be worth sharing if it could “give one other family the courage to speak up or if it could save one other life”.
...and that's the thing - that one life being 'saved' (or more likely: death delayed a bit, beyond the point of being a harvest candidate) is going to doom multiple others to death and prolonged agony. Going public was not a responsible choice. Where they should have gone was to a conference room in that hospital with a bunch docs from that hospitall and from KODA, their ethics board, and their patient advocacy staff, where they could have had every one of their concerns and grievances addressed in extreme detail, and provided to those docs extreme detail on every little gut feeling they had that was putting up red flags that something wasn't right, and possibly identify some potential system improvements - that's the data that could have saved other families from going through this again.
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It's not so much a horse issue as it is an allergy issue, and those are specific to the person. You can have a severe reaction to pretty much anything, and you don't know ahead of time unless you've been allergy tested for some reason - you'll just have a random exposure like mine to horses, and find out the hard way.
I'm guessing the person with the epi pen had an allergy to something else and was carrying for that; saw me and decided to intervene with their own meds.
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...this new season of Battle Bots is hardcore af.
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🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
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Rode a horse.
Woke up in a hospital.
Discovered I'm like insanely allergic to horses; airway was completely fucked.
Someone hit me with an epi-pen after recognizing the signs - good chance I'd be dead otherwise. Unsure if it was a staff member or just a random person who happened to be carrying an epi-pen; I was pretty little when it happened, and only vaguely recall getting up on the horse and nothing after, but I'm told I just randomly went all dead-weight and flopped off and face planted in the dirt.
Thanks, random stranger with epi!
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Donald Trump Is Deteriorating
...was this report published by Internet Explorer?
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I'm not super familiar with Final Fantasy. Played FFX, but none of the others.
...not really sure why; I did enjoy FFX, just haven't ever gone beyond that. /shrug.
In any case, your wardrobe sounds like it's got high fantasy written all over it, which is pretty awesome!
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If mine (Shockz Openrun Pro) are any indication, there's still some sound leak if they're turned up a bit, especially with the higher pitch sounds. Significantly less than with a normal headphone or ear pod, but definitely can't blast it without sharing whatever you're listening to with anyone around you.
I've seen them advertised as 'zero sound leak' which is a bit misleading.
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They make a great product. And they're far from the worst company on earth.
...but that doesn't mean they don't have shit ethics or that you should ignore their malice and support that behavior by purchasing their product.
Pirate their shit, enjoy it, and don't give them a cent.
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...wonder how fast a 50-seater tandem bicycle could get going, assuming ideal conditions and riders.
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But not immoral!
Don't let the law stop you from doing what's right.
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Vaguely recall reading about a way to set your phone with two PINs, your normal one, and a security one that's like a completely separate user account. So just install some BS apps on it, take some photos, and give that PIN when you need to.
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Meh, the global ecosystem is fucked anyway. Might as well trim out the especially annoying bits and enjoy some relative comfort on our way to extinction. If doing so accelerates our downfall a bit, that's a fair trade.
I say it's worth the risk.
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Another of the CIS horde spilling in from All, checking in...
If you catch me staring, it's cuz you look like a Witcher. All you're missing is a sword or two.
10/10
Bonus pts for the bone conduction! I got a pair a few months ago and fucking love em.
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That was both hilarious and painful.
And I don't mean to always hate on it - the tech is useful in some contexts, I just can't stand that we call it 'intelligence'.
Nursing student here. I record lectures so review them at high playback speeds, and to share with classmates who aren't able to make it to class. I've been using the small clip-on battery powered mics made for doing interviews, but last semester revealed a few weaknesses: The profs don't like to actually wear them, so I just clip them onto the lecture podium - works fine while they're standing at it, but they don't have good range, and most of the profs move around a lot as they lecture, so the volume of the recording is all over the place or completely silent if they stray too far away. Also 99% of the time a student asks a question, the mic doesn't capture it at all, so I just get a few seconds of silence followed by some random info with no context. The battery is also only enough to get through about 2/3 of a class period - fine if I remember to swap them out during a break, but not ideal. Going forward, I'm hoping to find an option I can just plug into my laptop, sit near the front, and record. A normal desktop conferencing style mic stands out as a decent option, but thinking of the range issue I'm having with the portable mics, I suspect a conferencing type product will have the same issue since it's made to record sound coming from like two feet away from the mic. I've seen like giant fuzzy mics used on movie sets - should I look for something like that? And are there specific product recommendations you'd make that are on the less expensive end of the spectrum? Thanks all! Edit- Thanks for all the feedback folks! Time to dig through reviews.
Made this for a comment reply to another thread; thought y'all would enjoy it too! \^_\^
I visit this site probably more than I should, and when I browse, then come back a bit later to browse again, I'm seeing a LOT of repeat content. The one and only feature I miss from that other site was being able to browse by reading a thread title to assess if its something I want to click on, if no hit 'H' to hide it, and it's gone; next one bumps up, and repeat. So I'd skim by pressing H... H... H... H... "Ooh that one looks cool!" read the article, comment w/e, H... H... H... H... then I'd pop back in an hour later, and those threads would still be gone. Unsure if that was a built-in feature or part of the RES thing. ...is there an RES -or- 'LES' for Lemmy?
The laptop I'll be recording them with is running Windows 11 Pro. Not loving the 'Camera' app that comes stock with Windows. Tried recording just with my cellphone, but ran into issues with audio quality and battery life. I have an old webcam, and just ordered a tiny bluetooth microphone that I'm hoping to either plant near or literally pin onto the prof if they're cool with it. Not looking for anything fancy... ability to choose both video and audio device, record/pause, and save so that I can upload to YouTube and forward it to the class. (side question... best video format for this?). Not really familiar with this kind of software... I recall one of my gaming buddies being a fan of OBS Studio, but unsure if that's just on-screen capture for gaming/streaming or if it can do webcam-only too - DL'ing right now to experiment. In the mean time, taking all suggestions! Thanks, all! Edit - Took about 5 mins to get all the shit on my wishlist figured out in OBS (https://obsproject.com/), and if my dumb ass can figure it out that quick, that is some GOOD software!! Kinda wish I'd have tried first before asking, but was not expecting it to be that easy. I'll leave the thread up just incase its helpful for someone else later.
Follow-up to [this thread](https://lemmy.world/post/18586396) - this is way more specific, so hopefully worthy of its own thread. I think wildcards are the best option for my skill level (basically none), and have gotten a good chunk of what I wanted to accomplish done with those. An issue I've run into and can't seem to google my way out is making TTS pronounce acronyms in a sensible way. For example "PACU" (post-anesthesia care unit) is usually vocalized as "pack-you" but my TTS software likes to say things like "pace-uh". Or "PO" (latin abbreviation for 'by mouth') is vocalized by just saying the letters, but TTS says "Poe". Stuff like that. When the TTS comes across a capitol letter with a space on either side, it just pronounces the letter, so I'd still lose things like "pack-you" but at least hearing it spell out "pee ay see you" would make sense, vs "pace-uh" which is gibberish and confusing at high playback speeds. Best I've come up with so far is `<([A-Z]{2})>` on the Find side, but that's only spotting the two character terms like PO, and ignoring the longer ones... I'd hoped it would see PACU and detect PA, AC, and CU as three distinct sets of two that could cobbled into "P A C U". Nothing I've done on the Replace side comes close to working. It either does nothing at all, or it'll do something like turn "PO" *into* `<([A- Z]{2})>`. Not sure if preserving the original characters is something A-Z is actually capable of - seems not, but I'm kind of an idiot with stuff like this, so any tips would be appreciated! Thank you!
Nursing student here! So we get a shit load of reading assignments, and since everything's digital nowadays, I've been leaning a lot on text-to-speech software that effectively converts reading assignments to listening assignments. The problem is textbooks have a LOT of just... noise. Every image has something like "FIGURE 13.5 SURGICAL DISASTERS!" "FIGURE 13.6 YOU GOT SUMMONED TO COURT!" etc. In-text citations are EVERYWHERE, copyright info is EVERYWHERE... reading the content, you just skip over all that crap, but pasting it into a TTS service, all that trash gets spoken aloud and adds up to a huge time sink every chapter, and distracts from the actual lesson. Googling it, the best I've been able to come up with is doing a find and replace in MS word for things like `FIGURE **.*^13` with wildcards on and the replace field blank... but it's not very consistent - sometimes it works, sometimes not. Same with nuking parenthesis and the text within with `\(*\)` All that said, I'm wondering if I'm approaching this wrong by using MS word in the first place. Would be absolutely amazing if I could save all the commands on standby, then run them at the same time. By end of the school program, we're talking like 100 chapters from multiple books, so anything that lets me just nuke huge batches of BS as quickly as possible and dive right into the listening would be a godsend. Thanks all!!
Skip to the tldr if you don't want the novel explaining the reasoning. A friend gifted me their old Razer Kraken headset a while ago. The leather Razer uses is some CHEAP shit, so the couple years in a closet leading up to it landing on my noggin left it in a state of deterioration that would sprinkle my head and ears with little bits of black leather. The speakers are good though, and free is free, so no complaints: I hit it with some duct tape and peeled it off repeatedly until all the leather bits were freed up - the cloth layer underneath the leather is now the outermost layer, and no more black sprinkles all over, so yay. Unfortunately the tape pulling on the ear cushions was a bit too much for whatever adhesive Razer uses to stick em on to their mounting plate, and they pretty much just pulled off. Also no biggie - [replacements are pretty cheap on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Generic-Replacement-Headphone-Breathable-11x9-8x2-6cm/dp/B0CYWJJRSP), so I got a set and lived happily ever after... ...but now I've got the old mounting plates (minus the cushions) and an idea.  So... I do a lot of gaming, wife watches a lot of TV. We do this in the same room, so I pretty much always have my headset on, which blocks most TV noises from getting to me, and most gaming noises from getting to her. Works great until she says something, and all I hear is muffled gibberish until I lift a speaker off my ear and hit her with "What?". -----------TLDR--------------- My idea is to put... idk... something... on the mounting plate of the side facing her that's stable enough to keep the headphone in the correct position (and not pressing directly on my ear) but basically leaves the space completely open to the environment so that external sound coming from that side isn't muffled. I'm thinking something like a [plastic spiral hair tie](https://www.amazon.com/invisibobble-Original-Traceless-Non-Soaking-Accessories/dp/B01K25MIB6?refinements=p_36%3A-400), but with an inner diameter large enough to encircle my ear, and the spiral diameter roughly the same as the cussion, at least when its under tension against my head. something like this:   ...but ofc not just a cylindrical spring, but a donut shape. I kinda suck at photoshop, but you get the gist. The spiral hair tie is the closest actual product I can think of to what I'm picturing, but those are far too small... ideas?
Mobo is MSI Pro Z790-P Cooler is Aorus Waterforce X360 Tried orienting the radiator so the tubes go toward the front vs back of the case - both orientations land that tube joint right in the path of the closest RAM slot. The lines are too stiff to enable much wiggle room in either direction. Never used a liquid cooler before... I've got 4 brand new RAM sticks, so I'd hate to drop one, but I don't see any options other than just flipping the radiator around, and neither position does the trick. Any tips? *trying to upload a pic, but it won't let me... Will try later.
I have my phone set to remember my car, my wife's car, and a pair of bluetooth headphones. When it's within range of one of them, it connects and all is well.... until it detects another one, then it changes to that. On the way home from work yesterday, I passed my wife on the interstate. Didn't notice her car, but did notice my music suddenly stop... oh well; not gonna futz with bluetooth when I'm driving... guess it'll just be quiet for the rest of the trip. Couple minutes later, it comes back. Yay! Make it home, and as I'm getting out of the car, the wife pulls up, so I wait for her and we're chatting our way back to the apartment. She mentions her car randomly started playing heavy metal on the way home for a minute, then stopped. Now the gears are turning - I ask if it was around the area when mine went silent, and yup! I was a couple lanes over, but my phone detected her car and ditched mine to connect to it. I've noticed it auto-hop from my car to my headphones or vice versa before, but car to car is a new one. It's really annoying... and seems like the kind of thing that should be a check box in the settings, but I got nothing. Phone is a Google Pixel 8 if that helps. I'd really like it to connect when it comes in range of a recognized device ONLY if it's not already connected to another device... Am I just stupid? This seems super basic...
Watched the first episode of The Acolyte on Disney+, and there so many ads that I swear the ad-to-star-wars radio was 1 to 1. ...so I set sail. I'm so sick this. But now I've got three video files on the comp (Windows 10), but I'm struggling to get them into the TV... We have a Roku, but apparently my comp doesn't support 'Miracast', and that seems to be a huge road block going by guides online. Hoping to not spend an arm and a leg, but probably need some cable or something other than Roku. I'm probably the least techy person on Lemmy, so please idiot-proof any instructions. Thanks all!
Previously I've been pretty gentle with modding that game - things like SkyUI to make it a bit more PC friendly, utility mods like the one limits soul gems to ONLY being filled with their highest tier (no more wasting a grand by filling it with a mudcrab). Also LockPick Pro to effectively skip lockpicking, cuz I hate Skyrim's (bring back Oblivion's model!)... that's kinda it. Looking for mods that bring something new to the actual gameplay. I know there are a ton of them - what are your favorites?
Initial scrolling of the Steam Summer Sale seems pretty lackluster, but digging through the comments sections in other threads, a few gems have stood out, and it doesn't appear we have a thread dedicated to this yet, so post what you think are the best deals here! Not mandatory ofc, but it'd be helpful if... - One game per top level post, so comments stemming from it are focused on on just it. - Hyperlink the game title to its [Store Page](https://store.steampowered.com/) - Include both the normal and sale price / %off - Include a short blurb about the game - if it's one you've played before, what did you like about it? If you're diving in blind, what grabbed your attention? Good hunt'n!
Just switched to a new phone carrier, and they had a promotion that included a free phone: the Google Pixel 8. I'm not a fan of Google, but I am a fan of free, so I took the bait. It's already bombarded me with pitches for their new AI bullshit. I've opted out of as much as the settings allow, but I'm under no illusion that doing so actually provides any real privacy. So, damage control time. On my previous device I used YouTube Vanced for music and videos, but I guess Vanced isn't around anymore, and I'm pretty out of date on what the current options are... any insight on streaming specifically? *I'm a medic who's only surface-level competent with tech, so please idiot-proof any instructions. Thanks all!
I've heard of things like Nair that make it fall out... if that was a one-and-done solution I'd be all for it, but I'm hoping for something that slows or stops it from growing. I go clean shaven, but I get the '5 o-clock' shadow the second I put the razor down, and look homeless if I skip a day or two. Tried growing a beard - looked alright, but the amount of product and effort I shoved into that thing was ridiculous. And it was maddeningly itchy the entire time (lasted about a year putting up with it). I've spent the last couple years with the conclusion that hair is just annoying, and I want it gone with as little effort and expense as possible. Kinda partial to keeping the eyebrows and lashes cuz they keep shit out of my eyes, but honestly if losing them is the cost of getting rid of the rest of it, I'd call that a fair trade. Some initial searching shows there *is* a market for hair growth suppressants, but chewbaccoids like myself might not be among the target audience lol. Anyone got a recommendation or cautionary tale?
Remember like Rooster Teeth's Red vs Blue? Looking for something like that. Episodic use of a videogame for some light-hearted story driven cinema. The only good modern example I can think of is Neebs Gaming's Subnautica series, but that's kind of an outlier in their channel since everything else they've done (that I've seen at least) is more of a "let's play" type of video than the kind of cinematic roleplay they do for Subnautica. Hard to screen for quality on channels I'm not familiar with, since 99% of YouTube's gaming content is hot garbage. Anywho, the combination of school and work is melting my brain... I don't trust my time management skills to dive back into actual gaming, but the occaisional episode to get that little half-hour-mind-vacation would be a godsend. Thanks, all!
I just recently learned that this is a thing that exists. I've had a couple audiology tests that use these weird headphones with firm rubber balls where normally expect to see the speakers; the rubber balls sit on your temporal bone, and there's a metal bar the wraps around your head connecting them and giving them pressure to kinda squeeze your head. The sound experience was pretty wild - my ears were completely open, so I could still hear ambient noises, but the sounds from the headphones were just kinda there... like it didn't sound like they were coming from anywhere, but like beamed directly into my brain. I was curious if these were exclusive for audiology testing or if there were commercial variants for listening to music and such... hit the ol' search engine, and lo and behold: there are actually quite a few commercial variants! \- **TLDR** - Anywho, I'm intrigued as hell, and am curious if anyone here has experience with bone conduction headphones. Lots of questions: Which brand/model are you using? How's the sound quality? How's the sound leak? What kind of music do you use it to listen to? (my poison of choice is [symphonic metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtFXTIEwYQ), with emphasis on the symphonic bits -- looking for that full range hit everything from the flutes to the howler monkeys :P) Are they comfortable to wear? For how long? Do you get any skin irritation or even breakdown where it contacts your temple? Does the hook part wrap around your ears without any pressure points? Does the behind-the-head band bounce around when you're walking or running? How much space is between the band and the back of your head/neck? (I think my noggin is a bit on the smaller side, and I have basically no hair... one of the manufacturers makes one with a smaller sized band, which might be a good selling point for me) How's the battery life? How long have you had it? When do you use it? (working out, at work, etc) Do they stay put, or do you need to reposition them frequently? Anything else to comment on?
Print-to-PDF is locked down. There's a print option as part of the software, but it slaps my student email diagonally across every single page, which makes reading it kind of obnoxious. I don't intend to distribute (which I'm assuming is why it's locked up so tight), but needing to log in and navigate to the text is getting cumbersome, so I'm hoping to just save a chapter at a time to my phone and whip that out to tackle my reading assignments. Also hoping to preserve images, since a lot of the info is charts and such, so PDF seems like the best target, but open to any ideas. ...I suppose I could just suck it up and deal with their annoying software, but at this point I hate to admit defeat lol.
Like in the Home tab, the "Styles" seems like exactly what I need, but it applies the changes to the entire paragraph vs just the selected text. Pic below of what I'm trying to do:  Just started nursing school (woo!!) and I'm trying to make review guides for my class. There are like 50 of those questions for every chapter, ~10 chapters for every unit exam, and a unit exam every couple of weeks. ...for the next two years. >_> There are a metric FUCK TON of these questions, so I'm trying to make them as easy on the eyes as possible so that we can review them as quickly and effortlessly as possible. Anywho, in the pic, question 3 is the format I'm shooting for - letter answers bolded, red, and caps; answer key tucked away with right side alignment, small, light grey, and italicized so we don't prematurely see the answer as we're scrolling. Question 4 is how the text appears in the textbook, which makes it hard to scroll though them without seeing the answer prior to considering all the options, and seeing the answer early kinda sabotages actually learning the content. The ideal study scenario being read the question, discuss which answer we think is right and why, check our answer against the grey text, and move on. I know you can change formating with find and replace, but then the entire document is filled with sentences that end with things like "fractured bon**E.**" so afaik the best approach is to just ctrl+click/drag to select the letters, then then click the bold/red/Aa and move on to the next one and repeat. Any tips to automate this would be outstanding, since there will literally be thousands of these throughout the entire program. Thank you!!
When I separated, a few things on my initial claim fell through the cracks - they weren't denied or anything, they just didn't appear at all despite definitely being brought up in those first VA apts. When I noticed they were missing, I put in the intent to refile, went through the hoops to get my DBQ's and all the appointments and such, and resubmitted. Took about 8 months. Fast forward to just recently: percentage was increased!! Got a pretty decent chunk of change retroactively deposited to the bank account, and I'm now eligible for VA healthcare, so FUCK YEAH!! This is an unbelievable weight off my shoulders! Last Friday, I got an email from the VA saying to be on the lookout for a call or letter scheduling the C&P exam. I've been working through the VA up to this point, so I'm not sure what the C&P would cover that their own docs haven't already, but w/e, I'm not opposed to going in for another look. ...but it's super weird to me that the C&P exam would be scheduled *after* being awarded a new rating. I've heard that not everyone has to do the C&P if your DBQs are good enough, so I figured I fell into that category... but now I'm getting nervous: was I given the new rating in error? My plan as of now is to just not touch the money that was deposited, since I'm not sure if I'll be allowed to keep it... but I'm also tempted to just dump it all into my student loan debt, since it's enough to bring that almost to $0.00 and even if I do end up having to repay, it'd effectively just make my loans reset to 0% interest (or would it be 0% if I have to repay the VA?). Does that email go out to everyone regardless of whether or not you actually need the C&P? If they are going to call me in for the exam, how long does it typically take to get that phone call? Like if I go a full week without hearing anything, safe to assume all is well? Month? Longer? My anxiety is through the roof right now. I've pretty much been poverty or paycheck-to-paycheck my entire life - the prospect of actual financial security has always been a pipe-dream fantasy, but fuck... here it is. But I don't trust that I'll get to keep it. Any insight would by much appreciated!! Thank you, all!