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      My doctors, they said my labs came back and said they were the highest any if them had ever seen, they said they called all their doctor friends to tell them all about me, they said “you’re not gonna believe his numbers,” frankly.

      Narrator: He was talking about his INR, and the phone call was the lab tech performing the critical value callback.

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    Lol if homie really had a stroke they’d want him on other anticoagulants besides aspirin, and if they wanted him taking aspirin at all, they’d really want it at 81 mg instead.

    Wonder what other medical advice he’s ignoring.

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      I mean, hopefully all of it and he runs his body into the ground like he’s trying to do with this country.

      I had to be on high doses of aspirin and ibuprofen after an injury. I had to alternate them every 4 hours so I wouldn’t completely nuke my liver and I could only be on that schedule for a week. Doc said if I did too much all at once, or even just a standard dose all the time, it can kill you.

      I always thought 81mg was such an arbitrary number. Why not 80?

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        Historic relic. The prior system to metric in medicine was the apothecary system and it used a standard called barleycorn as its unit. One grain of barleycorn was approx 64mg, and the standard dose of aspirin was 1.25 grains, or 81mg. Now 81mg hangs around as an in-joke.

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            There’s a lot of stuff like that. In computer science, unexpected program errors are called “bugs” because the very first unexpected program error was due to a moth getting into the punch card system of an early computer.

            QWERTY layouts persist in keyboards because they were copying typewriters. Typewriters were QWERTY to reduce the risk of colliding typebars by making common letters distant from each other, an intentional inefficiency.

            Until 2001, US stocks were priced in dollars and sixteenth fractions, because the US stock system was based on the 1600s Spanish system, which used pieces of eight (1/8ths of a doubloon).

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        It’s part of aspirin’s legacy as one of humanity’s oldest drugs. There’s an old dose unit called grains. One grain = approx 64.8 mg. A full dose of aspirin is 5 grains, or 324 mg, and 1/4 of that is 81 mg.

        Edit: what fox said.

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      As someone who knows extremely little medically speaking I personally wouldn’t know what the drawbacks are, however in my defense I would take my doctor’s advice on the matter; I know a bunch of old people myself so I understand that the older generation can be stubborn around medical professionals, and they’ve also ended up hurting themselves because they thought they knew better than doctors on medical matters

  • Many people say blood is thicker than water…I don’t know. I don’t think so. Not mine. Not during my presidency. Once I’m done they will be saying that water is thicker than blood. Water will be like sludge slowly moving through, it’ll be so slow folks. My bood will be fast, faster than anything anyone has seen. Faster than water. They won’t even know how to measure it. The blood cuff won’t cut it. They will squeeze the little ball and nothing happens because my blood is so thin. Pressure is impossible. I put a lot of pressure on my people, my beautiful people and I am very used to pressure. But not my blood. There is no more pressure and my heart beats very quietly because my blood is so thin. Very very quietly. The doctors can’t hear it anymore and they say that they have never seen a heart beat so quietly folks. It’s the first time in history.

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      They were targetting tylenol for some reason.

      Awful Tylenol destroys livers, is made in a LAB, and gives kids super autism. Beautiful Aspirin thins the blood, comes from big beautiful willow trees, and was won from those evil Germans as reparations.

      (Kinda funny that only one of those statements is false.)

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    Is this a joke? Even if he did say that, is it actually true? I don’t know anything any more.

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    He got the thinnest blood, folks. The doctors were amazed, they said it was the thinnest blood they’ve ever seen.