Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What unique technique can stop a nosebleed?
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Andrea is an athletic trainer. She wrote in to us with a technique for stopping a nosebleed, something we'd never heard of.
Andrea, what's going on here?
So there's this trend in athletic training called the heel thump for stopping nosebleeds. And basically you figure out which nostril the patient is bleeding from and then either have them lay down and like whack the bottom of the opposite heel with your hand or you have them stand up and you have them stomp on that opposite heel on the ground. I don't know how it works.
Some athletic trainers really swear by it. And I've actually tried it once or twice. It works about 50, 60% of the time for me. Some people, like I said, swear by it, but nobody really knows like how it works.
You said it's called the heel thump. Yeah. So if I'm bleeding from my right nostril, you would either whack me in my left heel or I would stomp my left heel on the ground.
Yeah, and typically when you have a nosebleed, it does come out of one nostril. I think if you have a double nosebleed, you're in real trouble there. You might as well just start jumping up and down.
Wait, would that work actually? Could you just jump up and down?
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Chapter 3: How can someone with a missing hand navigate handshakes?
I think, Ian, correct me if I'm wrong, for like 10 years, this is what she would eat. And then something happened with the restaurant. It changed hands. She's gone back, and they are not able to recreate it.
Yeah, well, it sounds like she's also grieving or mourning those 10 years too, right? So it probably represents something that's larger for her. Yeah, so maybe it's a question of just letting go of that part of your life or that period in your life, you know, more than letting go of the burrito.
Yes. Yeah. She, you know, so she had it for the last time a year and a half ago. She didn't know this was the last time she was going to have this burrito.
So she didn't really have a chance to say goodbye, which I think is, you know, that echoes with some of my experience of grief when, you know, you often don't know that you're spending your last moments with a person or with, in her case, a burrito.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't want to trivialize what she's talking about because it, you know, like Proust's Madeleine, right? It can kind of stir up memories. And as I said, it does sound like she might be grieving the last 10 years. You know, I lost my mom a couple of weeks ago and I was actually with her on the last day of her life. So I was able to say goodbye.
But for people like letting go of people, I think, you know, as a Christian, I believe, you know, they're in heaven and we can say goodbye to them in our prayer. One of the things that we can do to sort of help us say goodbye to something was something that was recommended to me by a Trappist spiritual director. My mom had moved out of her house
And he said, as a meditation, why don't you imagine yourself going through the rooms with God, or if you're not a believer, just kind of going through those rooms and remembering all the things that happened in those rooms and letting it go, which was really quite powerful, you know, in your house, your bedroom, the living room, kitchen, all that.
And what happened to me in this meditation, which I found very powerful was, as I imagined myself leaving the house with Jesus in my prayer, I expected in my meditation I would shut the door and that would be it. But the door was open and I realized that I could go back anytime I wanted to.
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