telemedicine with Carmen

[redbird]

I had my quarterly telemedicine appointment for Ritalin refills and whatever else is on my or the doctor's mind. This month the other things were:

• me having fallen a couple of months ago, with a segue into my various balance exercises
• the wart treatment, which seems to be going well -- taping the wart treatment pad on, as the other nurse practitioner advised, and then putting on a nitrile glove before showering, kept it from falling off my finger quickly
• whether raw eggs are (reasonably) safe for me to eat, with a segue into our chocolate mousse recipe, which I offered to send her; and
• a second opinion on what Dr AbdelRazek told me about eating in restaurants, since he hasn't answered my question about my risk if I do get sick. It turned out Carmen had started to look for that information before realizing that I'd sent the MyChart message to the neurologist rather than to her,. She mostly found the same things I mentioned having found, plus that there's an increased risk with Ocrevus (which I'm taking) but not other MS medications with a similar mechanism of actio, which is odd but not actionable.

Carmen also told me that she looked into convalescent plasma on my behalf, because it's being considered as a possibly useful treatment now that we've lost Evusheld and most of the other options, but she doesn't think it's currently being offered in the Boston area. She specifically asked Mass General, because they had been doing research into it early in the pandemic, and they no longer have it.

I couldn't trim the mousse recipe enough to fit into the character limit for a MyChart message, and the "attach files" option works for at least a dozen file types, all image files. So I saved the recipe as a PDF, attached it, and said that if it's not readable I'll mail her a hardcopy c/o her office.

This is Amy Thomson's "Easy Chocolate Mousse" from The Bakery Men Don't See, the first fundraising cookbook for what was then called the Tiptree Award (now the Otherwise).

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[redbird]

Adrian has made a safer variant of this recipe, using pasteurized egg whites, and coconut cream in place of the yolks, which we might have used as a fallback if Carmen advised me against raw eggs.