The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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The whole process was rather simple: I went to see the ENT doctor, he took a peek inside my nasal cavity and sent me to get a CT scan and referred me to a pulmonologist and an allergologist. Came back with the scan, he took a look at the CT scan and wrote up a diagnosis for the insurance company. They approved the surgery, I went to the local polyclinic for a surgery check-up, arrived at the hospital with the results and woke up with my nose thoroughly eviscerated.
How did you get viscera in your nose in the first place?
Surgery?
A humorless pedant explains the joke in excessive detail: the word "viscera" technically refers to the internal organs found in the torso, such as heart, liver, intestines, etc. "Eviscerate" originally meant removing those organs, for example while preparing a freshly killed animal for consumption. The other poster was joking that your use of the word eviscerated implied that prior to your surgery your nose had contained some unneeded heart/liver/intestines/etc.
Thank you, this was funny, to quote one mildly autistic PM I worked with.
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