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Infant surgery then and now
Infant surgery has seriously affected some of us whose lives were saved by it.
This is especially true of those like me who are now at the older end of life: we have been affected emotionally and psychologically despite having no conscious memories of the surgery we had so early in our lives. Our bodies record potent trauma even when our mind cannot. This does not seem to affect everybody but others' stories and tell-tale signs are too similar to reject as fiction.
Surgery in the past was rather basic, especially when performed on infants and in the light of current practice. Often in the not-too-distant past no safe general anesthetic and trained pediatric (children's) anesthetist were available: general anesthetic agents were hazardous for infants in their first two years unless a very careful and experienced anesthetist was available.
Local anesthesia affects the tissue at the operative site, making it hard to work on, so many surgeons would also exclude its use. So the squirming baby was strapped down, and quite often given a shot of whisky or a sugar cube laced with rum to somewhat distract it. Or a paralysing drug was injected and a breathing tube inserted. No picnic for the baby, and it must have been tough on the operating room staff.
The hospital regime then was also "different". Two weeks or more in hospital was standard after an "uneventful" pyloric stenosis ("PS") operation, and often the mother was allowed no contact for fear of infection, which still killed about 50% of PS babies post-op in UK public hospitals after WW2. I understand my mother had to deliver breast milk daily over 15 km to the hospital for 2 weeks but was never allowed near me, let alone nurse me. (My surgery was at 10 days so what an introduction to nursing her first baby I was for her…)
Starvation pre-op plus surgical shock plus maternal deprivation – none of it remembered of course, but it has really affected me and others of that generation long term. Add to that: some years later, these baby-boomer and earlier parents were totally unaware and incapable of managing their own and their growing child's developing ptsd.
But hey! Ever since Dr Conrad Ramstedt and others began publicising their newly discovered "pyloromyotomy procedure", most of us PS babies no longer died of dehydration and starvation. Even those who had the PS op in its early days have mostly lived to tell their tales and have often lived well.
But I am also very thankful that despite the many post-op issues reported on Facebook and other form sites, some of the old damage is no longer being inflicted today. Infant surgery today, even in its most severe forms, is now far less traumatic for all concerned, and most hospital regimes are sensitive and aware.
This entry was posted in History, Infant Surgery, Long term effects, Maternal deprivation, My Story, PTSD, Pyloric Stenosis and tagged 1940s, 1950s, anesthesia, ongoing effects, parent, PTSD, pyloric stenosis, trauma on August 6, 2015 by Fred Vanderbom.
Are Pyloric Stenosis problems history yet?
In my previous post I explored the horrible old mantra that "babies have no brain and therefore will not feel or remember pain".
When I was just 10 days old I had my first surgical operation, for a pyloric stenosis ("PS", a blockage at the stomach's outlet) which occurs fairly commonly in between 2 and 5 baby boys and about one girl in every 1,000. In 1945 (and for several decades after this) the trauma easily caused by what is today regarded as simple surgery was not understood –
the operation was often done without a general anesthetic, sometimes even without local pain control because of the major hazards and possible side-effects of each;
hospital stays after such an operation were routinely 2 weeks;
in hospital sick and recovering babies were routinely separated from their mother to reduce the danger of infection and they were fed on bottled milk;
the effects of these practices on the infant's parents were usually discounted and masked by a code of silence, which often made them even more toxic in the long-term on parent and patient.
What I have outlined here has had a lifelong effect on me, and most likely also my parents, although they maintained their silence to their deaths many years ago.
One effect of this on me has been a lifelong and obsessive interest in PS and infant surgery. In recent years what I have learnt and continue to learn has been channelled into teaching and advocacy for the a list of "issues" around these two subjects –
What is PS and how was it treated yesterday and is it treated today?
Can surgery for infant PS be avoided?
How can PS and its surgery affect the infant's parents?
How can they affect the patient in the immediate and long-term?
Why is the diagnosis of PS often so frustratingly delayed and what can be done about this?
How can parents deal with the problems babies frequently have after the operation?
How can PS survivors deal with some remarkably similar problems that all-too-often arise in adult life?
Do babies feel and remember pain and other trauma of their pre-verbal stage of life?
What are the symptoms of PTSD that seem linked to early infant surgery, and what therapies and programs are available to those affected?
Since gaining access to the internet in 1997, I have learnt much about all the "issues" listed, from websites, blogs, social forums, and some valuable personal interactions and friendships that have resulted.
In 2015 I plan to continue sharing and interacting with the PS community via this blog, as well as on several social forums, notably the various Facebook Groups committed to offering support, sharing information and raising awareness about PS.
PS survivors and their parents on Facebook sometimes express their profound gratitude that some of the issues I have listed above are now largely becoming consigned to the historical record.
Greatly improved support for parents, good pain management, new surgical techniques that much reduce disfigurement, and short hospital stays are now standard. Parents may also remark that there seems to be a slowly growing change in the medical professions' awareness of PS and their attitude to PS parents: less professional paternalism, arrogance and conceit. Changing social attitudes and better education in medical school seems to be germane to this.
However, it is also quite clear that we are far from being able to "move on" and go fishing!
This entry was posted in Anesthesia & analgesia, Diagnosis, Doctors and patients, Education & Support, Long term effects, Parents' Stories, PTSD, Pyloric Stenosis, Survivors' Stories and tagged anesthesia, diagnosis, doctor's attitude, history, infant memory, ongoing effects, PTSD, pyloric stenosis, research on December 18, 2014 by Fred Vanderbom.
A pyloric stenosis baby
These are the very first photos of my mother with me, and 69 years later they keep touching me deeply.
Click on the images to enlarge them. Yes, they are very grainy: they were taken just a few months after the end of World War 2: my Dad was never much of a photographer, but more to the point, my parents and their country (the Netherlands) had just been liberated from five terrible years of occupation and oppression. But despite the obvious poverty of the photography these images capture enough.
My composed mother
Photos of a yummy mummy with her first baby are usually drenched with glowing pride, obvious health and radiant happiness. Sadly, both these photos are somewhat different.
Despite being a devout Christian committed to a life of serving others as a Jesus-follower, Mum's life of 28 years to this point had not been easy.
As a child she had sustained a head injury which left her with frequent and severe migraine headaches and later, early onset Alzheimers.
During the early Depression years she had left home in an idyllic small town and moved 200 km north to Amsterdam, hoping to study medicine. But her frequent headaches forced her to abandon her studies.
The student with whom she fell in love was a good man but also a compulsive networker and more interested in following lectures and making new friends than in finding work so that he could marry his fiancée. In later years she would still remember the nightmares she had in those years.
During World War 2 the Dutch witnessed ruthless Nazi destruction and atrocities, the programmed dehumanisation and then menacing removal of Jews, and the brutal suppression of Dutch dissent. In 1943 my father at last obtained a church appointment which enabled my parents to marry. But this also meant that my Dad as a public figure in town was sought as a hostage whenever the Germans carried out reprisals for some act of the Dutch Resistance. He survived this time but did develop TB (which we are grateful was treated without apparent damage).
As was normal at the time, my mother was never very open about her inner life and its stories. Not only did she not speak easily about herself; she batted away questions she found uncomfortable.
Early in 1945 she became pregnant with me, her first child. The joy and glow of pregnancy must have been somewhat clouded by living over 300 km from her parents and sisters, a relatively small distance today, but not in the ravaged Netherlands of 1945.
The day after I was born Dad wrote to his parents: "he loves sleeping and eating, in this he is like both his parents, not to mention one of his grandparents… we don't need to tell you how much we have enjoyed and been thankful for so much good fortune and wonder, for answered prayer and dreams fulfilled!"
Less than a week later my parents' firstborn was vomiting himself to death and was diagnosed as suffering from infant pyloric stenosis. On day 10 my lanky little form lay on an operating table, bundled up for warmth and strapped to a small cross to keep me still, as general anesthetic was usually regarded as too hazardous for infants under 2 years old.
Infection was still a huge hazard in 1940s hospitals and particularly after surgery on tiny people in an emaciated condition. This meant a standard of two weeks of post-op care in hospital, and for much of that time, isolation from family including even a nursing mother. Mum had to express milk daily and deliver it herself to the hospital 15 km away by steam train.
These two photos were clearly taken after my return home. As is fairly usual after pyloric stenosis is corrected, my weight and condition quickly returned to normal, and this is confirmed by the weight chart my parents sometimes showed me (but sadly, later tossed out).
On one photo my mother is uncomfortable with the bright sunshine. Both show her as young, well and caring, but also as formal, unsmiling and preoccupied with her damaged child. All this is how her children remember her.
The sleeping baby
On both these photos I look well but am not just asleep: this baby looks exhausted! I can only wonder whether this was the truth or whether it just showed my parents' lack of (or disinterest in) photographic skill!
To me these photos reflect sadness. Under all those warm clothes was a scarred little body which reminded them every time my parents bathed or changed me of what they and I had just endured. By the time I was allowed home, the incision wound would have healed to the point that the scabs were crispy crusty and starting to fall off. But the wound had been sewn up with heavy and deep stitches to prevent it rupturing as I cried and strained, and in case there was more vomiting (as there often is after this operation). These sutures would have been only recently removed, leaving longish wounds with dried blood where the threads had cut through the tender young skin. Although the photo I have posted here is of an adult male it accurately conveys what my dear Mum had to confront many times each day.
But this violence and ugliness had also given me life – in fact one that would enjoy great length and blessing! We can also be grateful that all wounds soon get past their unsightly worst, and most people's scars soon fade: after a year or two the damaged tissue has changed into white or pale-pink kanji markings. Despite this, the unevenness and lumps often remain and the incision line, especially in babies, can become disfiguringly sunken. My scar is sometimes hardly noticeable but it can also look like hollowed pockmarks left by a shotgun blast.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, my mother seems to have struggled with how best to help her damaged son but did this in ways I have always regretted. She stonewalled and procrastinated, promising to explain "sometime" but talking to friends within my hearing, she made a variety of clothes that sometimes framed and sometimes hid my scar, and she embroidered words based on the word "pylorus"… Clearly, she had been deeply affected by the pyloric stenosis of her first child, the hospital stay that followed, and the 1940s scar that became a kind of sacrament (or is it a "scar-ament"?).
Strangely for some, unsurprisingly to me, my gnarled midriff was something I hated and hid from public sight for many years. Although I now feel pride in being a survivor and belong to a community of people who share my experience and understand my emotions, every time I see my body I am still flooded with mixed emotions.
Sharing some of these feelings and reflecting on my parents' and my experiences with one of the maladies of infancy, with infant surgery and with being "damaged goods" all help me and have helped countless others among the many readers of this blog.
This entry was posted in Infant Surgery, Maternal deprivation, My Story, Parents' Stories, Pyloric Stenosis, Scar shame and tagged 1940s, 1950s, counselling, infant surgery, ongoing effects, parent communication, pyloric stenosis, scar, self-consciousness on October 23, 2014 by Fred Vanderbom.
My pyloric stenosis obsession
Spring has come again to the southern half of the planet Earth, and with it the season for beach walks and swimming (my favourite forms of exercise), and for barbeques, a fun if not always healthy way of sharing a meal.
Wooloomooloo Bay on Sydney (Australia's) iconic harbour includes one of the city's swimming pools, popular picnic spots and jogging routes, a finger wharf converted to elite homes, a marina, the Botanic Gardens, and the Art Gallery. Something for almost everyone.
But my worst area of obsessive-compulsive disorder ("OCD") has also responded to the rise in temperatures!
Wikipedia tells us that with an anxiety disorder, persistent, intrusive thoughts produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear or worry (or obsessions). Repetitive behaviour develops, aimed at reducing the associated anxiety (compulsions). The disorder may show as excessive washing or cleaning, repeated checking, extreme hoarding, preoccupation with sexual, violent or religious thoughts, relationship-related obsessions, aversion to particular words, places or numbers, and nervous rituals such as opening and closing a door a certain number of times before entering or leaving a room. How many of us don't struggle with some odd habit or even a full-blown obsession? It is believed that a third to half of adults with OCD report a childhood onset of the disorder, suggesting that such anxiety disorders can continue across our lifespan.
In my case, yesterday was the 69th anniversary of my first surgery, a very early operation in very different time which I had to remedy pyloric stenosis, a fairly common stomach blockage. This surgery certainly saved my life but it also left me with a relatively mild but nevertheless vexing and indelible form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and also with an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
This post is devoted to this aspect of my inner life, but not because I revel in it ("pity me") – in fact, only my most immediate family and those who read my posts here know about it.
The reason for this post is that so many PS survivors I have "met" online share my pain in a variety of ways, and until the web enabled us to share this trauma, many of us struggled with yet another obsessive fear : that we were "different" and "strange" because of our PTSD and OCD. The web has made possible all kinds of community, and countless infant PSers have found information, reassurance and help thanks to blogs like this one and to networks like those I have mentioned in my most recent posts here.
This scene I captured of some of my family at Sydney's harbour heads is typical of early summer. But notice the sunlovers on either side of our group… Since I can remember, one weird reason I really like a beach or coast walk is so that I can scan lots of bare midriffs for anything like the 10 cm scar on my belly. And believe me, I am not alone in this.
In my younger years this was a blind obsession; I have slowly realized why I learnt to do this from such an early age and why it has seemed to me impossible to shake off.
One of the first things human babies start doing after their birth is to scan their admirers' faces (especially the eyes and mouth), first to learn to recognise those nearest and dearest, then to "read" those faces for approval (or otherwise), and then to learn how to mimic sounds and speech. In other words, babies are programmed to seek and belong to a community.
At a different level, it seems that I and many like me were and remain hungry for a sense of community based on our deep and uncomfortable awareness that in certain everyday summer situations our body looks different. Other people must have thought so too by their looking, pointing, asking questions and making comments we could not handle when young. It needs to be added that my parents could have helped me but (notably in those long-ago days) probably did not know how to.
The combination of deep seated feelings, traumatic experiences, and repeated damaging ways we responded to these can give rise to OCD, and often even the best available counsel will not bring much change, the more so after many years when the brain's pathways (learned behaviour) have become established.
So at the beach or pool, or sometimes when reading a magazine, my eyes are in scanning mode. Hardly immoral or threatening – but a major nuisance I'd love to be without. And on the positive side, when I do find a person with a body scar, I feel a sense of identity that over the years has yielded some good friendships, occasionally some very helpful mutual discoveries, and always a reminder that I am after all not unique in my being "marked, different and "damaged".
OCD affects people in other ways too. Recently my fellow PSer and blogging partner Wendy Williams wrote about this subject, and I identified strongly with what she mentioned about triggers, another way in which OCD shows itself. We survivors can develop very deep feelings about a scar that we have always had, which for whatever reason we did not learn to embrace from the dawn of our awareness, and of which we are daily reminded, sometimes in ways that upset us. I "see" images of my scar in many places, ranging from patterns on clothes and buildings to occasionally the contrails of jet aircraft.
During our recent family visit to the Netherlands, we were walking around a lake which included an adventure playground: I looked inside the entrance and instantly my attention was locked onto a small tent – for no other reason than that the markings around its "door" represented to me … what? I saw what my little baby-belly must have looked like 69 years ago to this day. Click on the photo if you cannot see what I saw.
Now, is that a pleasant, useful or interesting discovery? It's not something I wish on anybody – and that is the nature of OCD – uninvited, unhelpful, unpleasant, useless but inescapable.
Back in Australia I was given the tools for a barbeque last week when we had lunch in a national park with our family. The thick sausages were still frozen, so after some initial sizzling to firm up the outer meat we decided to slice them open to ensure they were well cooked right through.
Immediately the realization: this is almost exactly what the surgeon did to open up my stomach's pyloric muscle all those years ago: cut through the outer layer (but not too deeply, keep the gastric passage intact), spread the slit to open up the inside (to allow the gastric canal to reopen), and extend the cut towards both ends to be effective (but again not too far: don't damage the stomach and duodenum ends).
Again: is this photo and what it represents helpful? pleasant? useful? Yet the link was inescapable to me. And no, I didn't tell my wife exactly why I wanted her to take that photo! Of course, if another aspect of my obsession had not prompted me to find images of the Ramstedt pyloromyotomy operation and watch online videos, I would be unaware of the connection between my barbeque and my first surgery.
My OCD makes its continuing presence felt in other ways also, as I have mentioned in other posts and on the "My Story" page of this blogsite: with certain words, images, places and people. However, I am grateful that these various triggers now trouble me a lot less than they once did. I have come to understand and embrace my story and what came with it.
OCD is a pain! But my friend and colleague Wendy summed up the positives very beautifully:
Though triggers are frightening, they are teachers. Through them, we understand ourselves. We discover where we still need to heal. And we go where we are led to find more freedom from trauma – to become more of who we are, and have always been, at our core.
This entry was posted in Education & Support, Infant Surgery, Long term effects, PTSD, Pyloric Stenosis and tagged counselling, long term effects, Obsessive compulsive disorder, ongoing effects, parent communication, PTSD, pyloric stenosis, trauma on October 7, 2014 by Fred Vanderbom.
Networking after pyloric stenosis (4): Emotional baggage
This post continues a series in which people who started life with infant pyloric stenosis ("PS") and were usually left with a very gnarly or sunken surgical scar tell something of the psychological damage that came with that. The social pages of Facebook include at least seven Groups of such people and the comments below are taken from these pages.
In their most formative years many PS survivors didn't understand the reason for the surgical scar on their belly: their parents were perhaps embarrassed or reluctant to explain it because of their own inner pain over those pages of their life story.
Even during our honeymoon this pose shows how careful I was about showing my belly to the world.
When PS survivors feel shame about their scar, it's typically because their personality is not extroverted and confident, and/or because they were not helped from an early age to understand the story of their PS and to "own" and wear their scar with pride and gratitude. Let's face it, not many of like to be "really different", and when we're not helped to understand and appreciate the issues involved…
Here is the record of some of the emotional struggles PS'ers feel or have felt.
T B – c. 1990
I have gone through stages where I have become depressed over the scar left, however I think I am beginning to accept it more. I'm an avid fitness enthusiast and weightlifter. In saying this, I try to stay in shape. However I still feel really uncomfortable taking my shirt off in public or around people I don't know… the internet has made it easier. It shows that there are "others" out there… I feel the scar is something I should be proud of instead of ashamed.
D C-S 1974
My ops were both in 1974, left me with a big zip scar down my front from sternum to belly button. Wouldn't be without it, but it has left me affected mentally and has left me with a variety of digestive tract issues.
When infant surgery leaves your body looking like this man's, only the very self-confident would ever feel at all comfortable
K D 1949
Gosh all your scars still look way better than mine. I am 64, an old girl, and had it done at 12 weeks. Huge vertical with big dots horizontally. I'm in Australia and it is amazing to see how far surgery has advanced. Have been embarrassed by my scar all my life and never wore a bikini.
J H 1962
I struggled with my scar for years… especially in school, sports, etc. Always was embarrassed to take my shirt off, kept my arms folded, etc. Now I'm proud of it and love to show it.
Growing up I used to be so embarrassed. It's something I had trouble overcoming… but finally did.
Because I had my op long ago when lots of the issues around it were pretty basic, I've had some emotional baggage, probably mild ptsd, shame and obsession for many years, now still in some ways an inordinate interest, although working on the issues and age have helped me heal inwardly. Suspect there's also some damage from the hunger and dehydration, as I lag behind all my 4 sibs in some areas. But I'm glad I lived and don't have the problems some have, esp. adhesions and serious bowel issues.
WW 1952
I'm 57 and had PS surgery at 3 weeks old and my mother told me that I never crawled. I would only pull myself along on my butt. (This behavior, I think, is very connected to the surgery.) I did walk late, as I recall her saying. For me, I think transitions have always been hard. Safety is a big issue. All my life, I've been a late bloomer. For me, it's definitely connected to the surgery. I lost some confidence early on and doubted the power of my body.
It is noteworthy that most of these kinds of Comments are from people who had their PS surgery many years ago, when the surgical techniques were fairly crude and not cosmetically sensitive, hospital care was rough and ready, and parents did not know as much about child psych as we do today. These Facebook comments are typical of other forum sites I have read.
However, the one comment (the first one) that is from a younger PS survivor shows that "emotional" baggage after PS surgery is not simply related to whether the surgery and scar were relatively recent or not. Again, many of us just hate being different.
These Comments also show that emotional, psychological and PTSD consequences can show up in different ways.
This series based on Facebook common interest sites also bears out that the medical alternative to treating PS surgically should be considered in every case – as it is in several developed countries. This option like surgery is not always trouble-free, but will avoid most if not all the serious complaints and problems which fill the PS pages of the web's forum sites.
During the 3 months after this post was written my wife and I were travelling, visiting family and friends and holidaying in the U.K. and Europe. My Facebook page records some of this wonderful and special time (accessible to Facebookers who "Friend" me).
This series of posts was continued soon after my return home.
This entry was posted in Maternal deprivation, PTSD, Pyloric Stenosis, Scar shame, Self-harming, Survivors' Stories, Trauma and tagged empathy, infant surgery, long term effects, ongoing effects, parent communication, PTSD, scar, shame, trauma on June 20, 2014 by Fred Vanderbom.
Networking after pyloric stenosis (2): blockages and pain
The previous post looked at some of the benefits of the internet age enabling us to network with people worldwide about issues of common interest. I gave links to some of the websites I have found very useful for people with infant pyloric stenosis ("PS"), whether they be parents or survivors now in their adult years.
This post starts a series in which we listen to what people from all over have shared about the hassles they have experienced before and more often after PS surgery. True, we can be grateful that the problems mentioned seem to occur to only a minority, and there is probably a "silent majority" who find they can easily put their PS nightmare behind them and "move on", never or hardly ever thinking about it again.
However, that does not make the problems about which so many take the trouble to write any less real and troublesome. The medical world's ignorance about PS is widespread and reprehensible, as the many online forums and this blog have often demonstrated and stated – but in 17 years of following this subject area I have never yet seen a single research report on the frequent and serious grievances about shoddy diagnosis of this rather common condition!
The fact that ongoing problems occur as often as they do after PS flies in the face of the bland assurance of too many of those doctors who know anything much about PS: the common mantra is that "PS is quickly and easily fixed, with only rare post-operative problems and no long-term hazards". Ahem, what was that again?
Adhesions can form without an obvious cause, but usually result from damage to tissue and organs caused by surgery, such as those shown in this diagram caused by an appendectomy.
In this and the following posts I pass on some of the comments from six PS survivor networks on Facebook. This selection of comments is about adhesions and related conditions following PS surgery. This blog has devoted several posts to the post-operative adhesions which can cause bowel blockages and pain: readers can find these posts by using the Categories box near the top right of this page.
KD was born in 1949 and wrote:
I am a 64 year old survivor. Have over the past 2 years had a lot of problems with partial small bowel obstructions that are apparently caused by adhesions very probably from my PS surgery all those years ago. I am also lactose intolerant and have IBS, and often have pains at the top of my scar! I have bowel adhesions caused by scar tissue my surgeons say from that P S op all those years ago… in between i am ok, plus years of having pain at the scar site,
Electric Heating pads, hot baths and lots of either swimming or exercise are really good to keep things moving. Strong pain killers are a whole other issue, and you have problems from them too, so I try and avoid them but sometimes u have to. Every time you have abdominal surgery you run the risks of more adhesions so be careful about that too. I get small bowel obstructions with my scar tissue, not nice.
I had it done at 12 weeks. Huge vertical with big dots horizontally… It is amazing to see how far surgery has advanced. Have been embarrassed by my scar all my life and never wore a bikini. I have suffered so many digestive problems.
now I have partial bowel obstructions caused by adhesions which surgeons say probably came from my ps op all those years ago, as I haven't had any other abdo surgery. I still feel pain at the top of the scar from time to time. Weird!!
TF, 1977
I had surgery for this in 1977. I have a ton of scar tissue and adhesions everywhere because of it. Also my small intestines are stuck to my abdominal wall because of all this. Been painful for the last year, so I'm going to have to have surgery soon to fix all this. Just have been going through all the tests to be sure that is the problem and ruling anything else out.
LH, 1980
I have an almost 5 inch scar that has is bulky and is such a mass that it has attached itself to my diaphragm. I am going to a general surgeon in a couple of weeks to get it checked out and possibly reduced a bit.
I was just diagnosed anemic and put on iron pills after lots of testing and a colonoscopy. It's great to know that the iron might be a part of the ps stuff.
Mine bothers me when I exercise because I breathe heavily, so my diaphragm moves a lot then it stretches the scar tissue and tears. Once I have been exercising for a while as long as I keep it up regularly it doesn't shrink again and I'm good. But if I stop it shrinks and hurts like hell when I start up exercising again.
How do I know it's attached? I was just told by a doctor years ago… I explained the pain and after an ultrasound they confirmed it.
JM, 1986
I get bad pains like a stitch but worse.
PM, 1969
I am having some tenderness at the surgery site and acid issues. Wondering about scar tissue? Just had an endoscopy to try and figure things out. Anyone else have issues many years later?
AB, 1992
I have acid reflux and gastritis as well, they are side effects from the surgery.
I had PS as well and surgery when I was a month old. I've always had pain with my scar too. It gets hard at time and sinks in very nasty. I've had ultrasound scans, even cat scans, mri scans and xrays. My doctor told me that my scar didn't heal properly internally and as a result I have scar fibers extending to my ribs and even to my liver. All the doctors say that I have nothing to worry about because in time they will tear on their own.
I have a hard time bouncing back [after a stomach bug attack]. Leaves me weak for weeks… sometimes months. My doctor says it's because my stomach went through such a major change when I was a baby.
RR, 1987
I had pyloric stenosis surgery at 10 days old. I went to the E.R yesterday because I was having bad pain in my rib / back like someone had punched me a few times. I was given an ultrasound scan but nothing was found. I was told it could be a muscle strain or scar tissue issue from my surgery… Never did I think of my surgery from that long ago: I had always overlooked it.
Next time: poor diagnostic work
This entry was posted in Abdominal pain, Adhesions, Long-term Hazards, Pyloric Stenosis, Survivors' Stories and tagged abdomen, adhesions, blockage, long term effects, ongoing effects, pain, pyloric stenosis, scar, surgery on June 5, 2014 by Fred Vanderbom.
Networking about infant pyloric stenosis (1): links
For those who have had surgery for infant pyloric stenosis ("PS") the online social media and discussion forums have been a Godsend.
Being a 1945 PS baby, for most of my life I was able to compare notes with only a very few others who share my PS-related joys and sorrows. But worldwide networking has arrived and flourished since the advent of the internet in the 1990s.
Parents now compare notes on their baby's PS, the surgery, and what followed. Many regard it as the most traumatic experience they've ever had, too often made worse by the lack of awareness, sloppy diagnostic work, and even arrogance of their doctor. Many tell their tale or join a Facebook Group hoping to increase the general awareness of PS, the most common condition of infancy which is usually dealt with surgically.
Survivors are typically keen to break out of their sense of aloneness. We can now compare our feelings over the surgery and scar: we had no say and have no memory of our first crisis, but we can now meet others with the gnarly or deeply sunken scar which most of us hated, especially in our earlier years.
Many PS survivors also want to learn about a list of ongoing problems which some have and which seem to be related to their stomach operation, although doctors don't agree or want to know about this. After all, the paediatrician and the surgeon assured our parents that the operation was easy, quick, almost always immediately successful, and that there are no long-term problems after PS and the surgery. "If only!"
Facebook is the most accessible and popular address and has at least six large and small PS Groups and they are actively used by both parents and PSers. Unlike web forum sites, Facebook Groups can only be accessed by registered users; they just need to type "pyloric stenosis" into the Search box to get a list of Groups.
Forum sites like Experience Project, MedHelp, Patient UK, and Topix each have one or more discussion groups for PSers. These four links are to each site's most popular discussion on PS matters, and a search there will usually give you links to other discussions on that site.
Expectant and recent mothers share their experiences, concerns and questions on specialist sites including BabyCenter (in the USA), BabyCentre (in the UK), and also in other countries.
Readers interested in any of the PS-related issues are to be encouraged to "visit" some of these online locations. Consider sharing your story and help increase the public and medical world's rather too common ignorance of PS!
In the next few posts I want to pass on some samples of the important information that is shared on the pages of some of Facebook's PS Groups.
This entry was posted in Networking, Parents' Stories, Pyloric Stenosis, Survivors' Stories and tagged education, forum discussions, long term effects, networking, ongoing effects, parent, pyloric stenosis, support, survivor on May 30, 2014 by Fred Vanderbom.


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            w.GlowBrush = Brushes.Gray;
            w.BorderThickness=new Thickness(1);
            w.Title = "Modal";
            w.Width = 300;
            w.Height = 200;
            w.Owner = this;
            w.WindowStartupLocation = WindowStartupLocation.CenterOwner;
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        public static readonly DependencyProperty ToggleFullScreenProperty =
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        private static void ToggleFullScreenPropertyChangedCallback(DependencyObject dependencyObject, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
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            var metroWindow = (MetroWindow)dependencyObject;
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                var fullScreen = (bool)e.NewValue;
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                    metroWindow.IgnoreTaskbarOnMaximize = true;
                    metroWindow.ShowMinButton = false;
                    metroWindow.ShowMaxRestoreButton = false;
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                    metroWindow.WindowState = WindowState.Maximized;
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                    metroWindow.UseNoneWindowStyle = false;
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                    metroWindow.ShowMinButton = true;
                    metroWindow.ShowMaxRestoreButton = true;
                    metroWindow.ShowCloseButton = true;
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        public bool ToggleFullScreen
        {
            get { return (bool)GetValue(ToggleFullScreenProperty); }
            set { SetValue(ToggleFullScreenProperty, value); }
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Saturday - Woke up to sounds of all the horses & their riders getting ready to set off for their Trail ride. There must have been around 100 vehicles there. Great to watch.
We set off for a bit of a day trip - no where near as big as the day before! We headed for the Sugar Pine Walk first. This is on the way to Batlow (near the village of Laurel Hill). It's only about 20km from Tumbarumba. It is a definite must-see on our list - would recommend it. It is quite hard to capture the atmosphere in a photo but it is almost a bit like walking up the aisle in a cathedral. Busted a couple of people who were caught (literally) with their pants down - they obviously thought they had the whole forest to themselves!
Batlow was a very picturesque little town. We drove around a number of the streets looking at all of the little cottages. While cruising around we found a street that took us up to a lookout over the town. This give me my first opportunity to take a number of photos to combine into a panoramic shot.
After that we headed for Tumut - when we got there we discovered that the Festival of the Falling Leaf Street Parade was being held that day. So we just had our lunch at a little park overlooking the show grounds instead of going into the main part of town as it was too busy and not much parking.
On the way back to Tumbarumba in the afternoon, we called into the Tumut caravan park to make a booking for the next day.


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Unfortunately for the 10 million people across the U.S. who are taking metformin tablets, 1 in 3 will experience uncomfortable side effects such as nausea, vomiting, gas, bloating, and diarrhea. These intolerable side effects often lead to a discontinuation of therapy.
Here at Pavilion Compounding Pharmacy, located in Atlanta Georgia, we have been working with several healthcare providers to create a solution to reduce or eliminate many of the undesirable side effects of metformin.
Using our formulation expertise, we have been able to take metformin USP powder and incorporate it into a transdermal base, Lipoderm®, that can be applied topically. According to many recent studies, transdermal metformin is an effective alternative for patients who cannot tolerate the oral dose or cannot swallow the large tablets. The transdermal option allows the drug to be absorbed into the body while bypassing the gastrointestinal system and thus avoiding many of the unpleasant side effects.
Another advantage of using transdermal metformin therapy is that a patient's dose is generally only 10% of the oral dose. For example, if a patient was taking one 500mg tablet twice daily, they would only need to apply 50mg twice daily of the transdermal metformin. The current literature supports a dose of 50mg applied topically twice daily to the inner wrist. This dose can be titrated accordingly based upon patient's blood glucose levels.
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UK banking chief notes concern over biometric authentication
03 October 2016 15:59 GMT
The chief of the UK's Treasury Select Committee has written to banking regulators asking them to consider the implications of biometric data storage.
Andrew Tryie wants the regulators to look into consequences surrounding stolen biometric data.
In a letter to industry and government, he said, "Banks and regulators will need to plan for what they will do if biometric details are lost and/or illegally obtained by third parties." He asked regulators if they shared his concerns, and he went on to say plans would need to be developed to deal with customers who may be victims of biometric hacks.
The comments follow a investigation into underground cybercrime by Kaspersky Labs in which the firm says it found at least 12 sellers offering ATM skimmers capable of stealing fingerprints.

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If any users for the Clan Centurio Hunt Marks guides notice any errors in there, please post to this thread to report them!
Azys Lla - Lamia Thelytoke are in the same area as the Cybri and can appear on the Rank 3 bill. It's missing from the list.
Noticed the coordinates were wrong on the image for the Frost Grenades in Coerthas.
Rather than 22,12, this should be 28,12.
This hasn't been used in awhile, wow.
Anyway, Mosslings are at 11,19 in the Fringes. Noticed they weren't on the Veteran Marks page.
Probably a mistake, since I`m sure I made it, it was in the same map as Grizzly Bears that are also missing from it. I`ll look it over tomorrow.


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Dubrovnik Weather
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Introducing Dubrovnik
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Travel to Dubrovnik
Croatia Information
the IDs1388Dubrovnik Airport
Places in Dubrovnik
Getting around Dubrovnik
There are no trams, trains or metros in Dubrovnik, but the Old Town is more than easily accessible by bus and navigable on foot.
Libertas (tel: +385 20 441 444; www.libertasdubrovnik.hr) runs the city's bus service.
Routes 1A, 1B and 1C are popular with tourists as they connect the harbour and bus station at Gruž with the Pile Gate – the western entrance to the Old Town. Route 4 is also useful as it passes by many hotels and terminates near Hotel Dubrovnik Palace. One-hour tickets are available upon boarding or at various Libertas sales points. Daily tickets are also available and they're valid for 24 hours after activation.
Libertas also runs a Dubrovnik sightseeing bus that takes visitors from the Old Town in the east to the Dubrovnik Bridge in the west.
Taxi stands are located outside the Pile and Ploče gates, at Gruž, the bus station and in Lapad. Operators include Radio Taxi (tel: +385 20 411 411) and Radulovic (tel: +385 98 725 769). Uber is also available in Dubrovnik.
Driving in Dubrovnik can be chaotic due to the sheer weight of tourist numbers in the high season and a complicated one-way system. Parking spaces are at a premium and the Old Town is pedestrianised.
Car hire companies have offices at the aiport and in the city centre. They include Avis (tel: +385 95 9 222 333; www.avis.com), Bingo Rent (tel: +385 20 773 136; www.bingo-rent.com) and Hertz (tel: +385 20 425 000; www.hertz.com).
Cycling is not common in a city whose core is ruled by pedestrians and whose roads are dominated by cars. Cycling on the busy Adriatic Highway is not recommended. Accordingly, no companies currently rent out bikes in Dubrovnik, but Adventure Dubrovnik (tel: +385 98 531 516; www.adventuredubrovnik.com) runs bike tours in the nearby countryside.
This 198-room hotel in São Paulo, with its mammoth convention centre, flatters beyond its 4-star billing. The rooms behind Excelsior's art-deco frontage are plain and businesslike, yet excellent value. Wi-Fi is free, rooms come with LCD TVs and there is a bar and fitness centre onsite. The location is also close by downtown Praça da República with nearby cultural icons such as Teatro Municipal and Edificio Copan. Staff speak English and can help book tickets and tours. Breakfast included.
It would be a shame to stay in Dubrovnik without waking up with a sea view. Hotel Neptun has recently been renovated to ensure an unforgettable stay in the Babin Kuk peninsula overlooking Elaphiti Islands. Choose one of the 91 rooms or suites and make the most of Croatian summer.
ZigZag Apartments Dubrovnik
These stylish apartments scattered around the Old Town and priced very reasonably, won't break your budget. Light, airy, with a plenty of sunshine, you will be close to all the hot sports, restaurants and bars.
Valamar Club Dubrovnik
Set in luxuriant gardens, this family-friendly all-inclusive resort on the Babin Kuk peninsula is only a few minutes' walk from the pebbly beach. Many of the modern light-filled rooms come with sea views and balconies, and there's a separate children's pool as well as a large outdoor pool.
Hotel Stari Grad
With only eight rooms, this smartly decorated boutique hotel in the Old Town offers a more intimate experience than the huge Lapad resorts. The tastefully furnished rooms don't have views to speak of, but the fifth-floor terrace has a superb rooftop restaurant and is a great place for breakfast.
A wallet-friendly option offering a selection of dorms and private rooms, the Old Town Hostel has a great Old Town location. It offers extras such as free Wi-Fi and free breakfast and its owner Mike is a well-liked character.


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HATS group fits Airbubbl air cleaners to 100 cars used for Covid-19 patient transport
By Mark Bursa | 21 April 2020, 06:53
Leading healthcare transport provider HATS Group is equipping 100 of its vehicles with AirBubbl air-filtration devices, following research that suggests they can lower the risk of drivers contracting the Covid-19 virus.
The fleet is used to provide transport services to London hospitals dealing with the crisis, including those who are known or suspected coronavirus carriers.
The Airbubbl device, developed by AirLabs, is designed to reduce pollution levels within vehicles by extracting particulates from the atmosphere and filtering them out, thus cleaning the air inside the car.
But as the Covid-19 virus is of a similar size, AirLabs says the Airbubbl can remove the airborne virus particles from the air circulating inside the cab. AirLabs claims the device can remove more than 95% of airborne particles that pass through the filter.
Airbubbl is a compact, 310mm long cylindrical device with pre-installed filters. It plugs in to a USB socket inside the car and can be easily attached using a crash-tested strap, around the headrest supports of one of the front seats. Operation is simple – a quiet internal fan sucks air into the cylinder, through the filters and expels freshened air out of the other end at a rate of 30 cubic metres per hour.
The AirBubbl contains patented filtration and air flow technology that removes particulates such as dust, pollen, soot, fibres, PM2.5 and PM10, along with bacteria and viruses and gaseous pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Ozone and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).
It collects the particles on a filter, which should be changed every 1,000 hours. Once the virus becomes caught in the filter, it dies off after a period of 24 hours maximum.
Coronaviruses are spread via respiratory droplets produced by infected persons when they cough, sneeze, talk or breathe. While larger droplets quickly fall out of the air, smaller droplets persist as aerosols. These aerosols provide an environment in which viruses can remain alive for hours allowing them to spread through the environment, according to recent studies from MIT and the New England Journal of Medicine. Droplets and bioaerosols also lead to the contamination of surfaces, another route of transmission.
By installing air filtration devices, alongside thorough cleaning of the vehicles with antiviral chemicals, and the wearing of protective masks for drivers, HATS is seeking to minimise the risk of exposure to the virus for staff who come into close contact with infected patients in confined spaces.
Matthew Johnson, professor of chemistry at University of Copenhagen and chief science officer at AirLabs, said: "Our focus here is on reducing exposure for workers who cannot avoid close contact with coronavirus patients, and for anyone working in essential jobs in enclosed spaces.
"The science shows that by installing air filtration devices in vehicles, it is possible to remove more than 95% of airborne particles. By decreasing the concentration of airborne particles that could contain the virus being breathed in by workers in critical environments, we reduce the risk of them being infected.
HATS originally ordered 100 AirBubbl air filtration devices from AirLabs to protect its drivers and passengers from London air pollution. Its vehicles are now being repurposed to support London hospitals, including Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and St George's Hospital, which are putting protective measures in place to manage the crisis.
Ashley Stowell, Advanced Paramedic Practitioner and Clinical Director for HATS, said: "We decided to ramp up installation, along with the rapid deployment of extra vehicles for a number of additional services, including ITU transfers of Covid-19 patients and maternity services to a number of Hospital Trusts across London, in a bid to help reduce the cross infection on this mountain we are all having to climb."
John Wenger, Professor of Physical Chemistry at University College Cork and Director of the Centre for Research into Atmospheric Chemistry, said: "Dose matters and higher exposures can lead to more severe illness. There is an obvious need for methods to reduce airborne transmission right now for people who cannot avoid contact with the public."
HATS is a leading provider of healthcare transport services supporting the NHS, mental health trusts, local authorities, other public sector bodies as well as private medical institutions. HATS operates London-wide and reaches into the home counties. The company also provides school transport for children with Special educational needs and disabilities and has a fleet of more than 800 adapted vehicles with highly trained specialist crews, including paramedics.
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QR codes help to prevent bike theft
Julie Campbell | April 23, 2014
An innovative new solution has been developed to add security to parked bicycles.
A new security system based on QR codes for bikes being parked on campus has been developed by a team of three students who call themselves the Beta Adroits.
The group had frequently heard of problems with bikes that were being stolen and sought new on-campus security.
What they accomplished was a system of QR codes that can help to provide added security to bicycles that are being parked on campus. One of the Beta Adroits members, Arun Balaji, explained that "There were a number of cases in our college where our college mates had their bikes stolen." He added that "It was during the same period we were also extensively exposed to the brand new smartphone technology and found out how it could be used to scan QR codes."
The group then realized that there was a very practical use for QR codes in solving the problem of stolen bikes.
Balaji said that the quick response codes could be affixed to the bicycles so that they can be scanned with smartphones or even with webcams.
The entire Beta Adroits group is made up of Sona College of Technology students who are seeking Computer Applications degrees. These students from Salem, Tamil Nadu are already 75 percent of the way through completing their source code and are nearly ready for implementing this new QRcode security system on their college campus.
The students and professors, alike, have been very receptive to the idea and are looking forward to seeing the system when it is put into place. The goal is to test it on their own campus and then introduce it to other schools throughout Chennai when it is found to work.
The group feels that if their system is, indeed, successful, then these QR codes could be used as an effective bicycle theft deterrent on college campuses. However, they also feel that there are a number of other useful applications, as well. They are hoping that this would make it easier to screen vehicles in offices, housing complexes, and large parking lots
QR codes can be harmful when precautions aren't taken
Dan Gendro | January 15, 2013
Mobile marketers love these barcodes , but as consumers embrace them, unscrupulous efforts grow.
It's difficult to open a magazine or a flyer, these days, without seeing QR codes in all of the adds, but just as their popularity grows, so does their attractiveness to unethical individuals who would take advantage of this opportunity to cause harm.
These little black and white codes may look simple enough, but they may now pose an underlying threat.
It took quite a while for consumers to start to feel the enthusiasm for QR codes that mobile marketers have felt from the start. This has meant that individuals who would seek to use them for harmful purposes have left them alone for quite some time. But as the scanning trend continues to grow, so have the hazards associated with the activity.
Malicious QR codes have started to pop up here and there now that the technology has become commonplace.
Though it is still rare for malicious QR codes to appear, they have started showing up on occasion, and their impact can be quite damaging. This is because there are far more mobile device users that have barcode scanners than there are those who have protection against the type of attack that a tainted scan could present.
QR codes are meant to make it easy to redirect a device user to an app or a website to provide information, generate a download, view a video, or even to help buy a product or make a charitable donation. However, when a permissive reader app has been used, even a seemingly harmless scan could place the user's privacy at risk.
The most common strategy that is used in order to encourage malicious barcode scans is simply to place a sticker with the harmful code overtop of the legitimate square. Therefore, one of the best efforts that a device user can make to protect his or her security is simply to double check that the QR codes they scan are printed directly onto materials from companies that they trust, and aren't printed onto a sticker. Downloading a scanner app with built in protection is also a highly recommended activity.
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[WASHINGTON, DC] – Earlier this month it was revealed that a massive data breach at Equifax Inc. had compromised the financial and personal information of more than 143 million Americans' and exposed them to identity theft and credit card fraud. Congressman Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) today introduced legislation in the House to allow consumers to protect themselves from financial fraud at no cost. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the senior Democrat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee, recently introduced a similar bill in the Senate.
Lujan's and Wyden's bill, known as the Free Credit Freeze Act would guarantee all consumers can use PIN numbers to freeze and thaw their credit – free-of-charge – to stop hackers and others from creating new financial accounts with stolen information. The Equifax data breach, which exposed credit information of nearly a quarter million Americans, as well as Social Security numbers, birthdates and driver's license numbers of an estimated 143 million more people, has highlighted the vulnerabilities of large data systems and underscored the importance of credit freezes.
Currently, credit reporting agencies like Equifax, charge consumers recurring fees as high as $15 each time they use their PIN numbers to freeze or thaw their credit reports. Luján, who sits on the House Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, noted that as data breaches have become more frequent, consumers need to have a reliable cost-free way to protect themselves when their sensitive personal information is compromised.
Luján noted that as massive data breaches become more frequent, companies must do more to protect their databases from intrusion. He also said consumers need a reliable way to get information about whether their personal information was compromised and the ability to take steps to protect themselves once there is a data breach. Cybersecurity experts and the Federal Trade Commission recommend credit freezes as a dependable method of protecting against identity theft and financial fraud.
Days after the Equifax breach was reported, Luján and his Democratic colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee wrote a letter to Equifax Chairman and CEO Richard Smith seeking detailed information about how the data breach occurred, what steps Equifax is taking to make affected consumers whole, and what the company is doing to safeguard against security breaches in the future.
"As consumers, we can't control how securely our sensitive personal information is held by the credit reporting agencies, but we should at least have the right to freeze that data whenever we want, at no charge, to limit the damage that can occur if it's exposed to identity thieves," said Susan Grant, Director of Consumer Protection and Privacy at Consumer Federation of America.


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Molecule 02 consists of the molecule Ambroxan, pure and singular.
Escentric 03 is a tribute to the more familiar side of vetiver, through its dark, slightly exotic woodiness. The fragrance opens with a burst of freshness - the ginger root is joined by top notes of green peppercorn and Mexican lime. The heart of orris is surrounded by Egyptian jasmine and soft tea notes. Then, at the base of the fragrance, the slightly bitter notes of vetiver are smoothed by rich amber shades of sandalwood, cedar, leather and musk.
The Escentric Molecules Discovery Set includes four duos x 2ml samples.
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Precious Villas
Tuscan Countryside
Montepulciano/Montalcino/Pienza
Forte dei Marmi / Versilia
Tuscan Coast
Location Arezzo Chianti Cortona Florence Florence city Centre Forte dei Marmi / Versilia Grosseto Livorno Lucca Montepulciano/Montalcino/Pienza Pisa Siena Tuscan Coast Tuscan Countryside
Type Apartment Bed and Breakfast Boutique Hotel Country House Farm Manor Noble Villa Penthouse Seaside Villa Winery
Price range up to 3M from 3M to 7M from 7M up
Province Arezzo Arezzo Firenze Florence FLORENCE Florence Grosseto Livorno LIVORNO Lucca LUCCA Pisa PISA Pistoia Siena Siena
Casa Rosso Chic – Luxury House for sale in Tuscany
Price €: Under 2.5M
Rif. PV11747
Features and Amenities:
Location: Forte dei Marmi Forte dei Marmi / Versilia Lucca Tuscan Coast Tuscan Countryside
City: Massarosa
Province: Lucca
Typology: Bed and Breakfast Country House Noble Villa Villa
Size: 350 mq - 3.767 sqft
Land: 1 hectares - 3,7 acres
Private access road: Yes, a private road from gate to house
Vineyard: A personal vineyard
Garden: A diverse fruit garden
Olive Groves (# of trees): Yes
Air conditioning: Yes
Heating: Gas and chimney
Parking: Parking lot that fits up to 20 cars
Solar panels: 20 panels
Water: Yes
Extra features: Automated watering sprinkler system for garden
Lucca 20km
Pisa 25km
Florence 80km
Siena 165km
Lake Massaciuccoli 15 km
Viarregio 8 km
Forte dei Marmi 20 km
Livorno 55 km
Florence 90 km
Pisa 35 km
Forte dei Marmi Forte dei Marmi / Versilia Lucca Tuscan Coast Tuscan Countryside
Casa Rosso Chic is a beautiful and elegant country house for sale, that dates back to the eighteenth century. This property has recently been restored and is located in Massarosa near Viareggio, just 8 kilometers from the sea. The Villa is fabulously decorated with a combination of traditional Tuscan country style and Moroccan or Arab finishing. The estate measures approximately 1 hectare, whilst the villa measures 350mq, offering a total of 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.
Energy Class G
Casa Rosso Chic is located on a hilltop just 50 m. above sea level in the region of Versilia. The property is only minutes from the famous seaside resorts on the coasts of Forte dei Marmi and Viareggio.
Pietrasanta is one of the main Versilia towns known for its marble and bronze artwork. International artist and sculptors often visit this small town which has became a real artistic centre.
Forte dei Marmi, is reputed to be one of the most loved seaside locations in Tuscany since it is an attractive holiday city for actors, politicians and VIPs. Beautiful private villas along with high-end shops and restaurants make for a luxury location. Some important attractions are Villa Agnelli equipped with an underpass that leads directly to the beach and Capannina di Franceschi Club, the oldest recorded Italian nightclub, founded in 1929.
Viareggio is a historical city and gets its name from the Latin Via Regis or King's Road, which is the name of the city's famous coastal road. The city is a large tourist attraction for its famous carnival celebrations, fashionable nightclubs and family friendly entertainment. Bagno Balena the famous aquarium offers daytime family visits and at night turns into a fun nightclub.
Description in Detail
Casa Rosso Chic is a beautiful and elegant country house for sale, located in Massarosa near Viareggio, just 8 km from the sea. The property dates back to the 18th century and has recently been restored. The house measures 1 hectare (3,7 acres) of terrain, which offers a relax area, a beautiful swimming pool (6×12 meters) with a gazebo, a wooden stove and grill/barbecue area, an olive grove with 120 olive trees, a small vineyard for personal use only, a mixed fruit and vegetable garden featuring over 40 diverse fruit trees and a car park that fits up to 20 cars.
The three-story main villa measures 350mq, and is wonderfully decorated with a mix of traditional tuscan style decor and touch of arab or Moroccan influence.
The ground floor includes a large living room with three comfortable sofas and a French wooden fireplace, two window-doors create for a luminous environment and offer direct access to the magnificent porch that is surrounded by the garden and a large veranda, where you can have outdoor dinners, a spacious dining room with a separate kitchen and pantry, a small guest bathroom and a second bedroom with a private ensuite bathroom and dressing room.
The first floor accommodates a master bedroom, beautifully furnished with two wardrobes, an en-suite bathroom and air conditioning. On the same floor there are three other bedrooms and two bathrooms.
On the basement floor there is a luxury Spa room including a turkish bath, Jacuzzi and relaxation/massage area.
Current State and Condition
The property is in excellent condition, equipped with all modern amenities and appliances.
The property is in good standing and in compliance with local building and zoning regulations. When a sale is registered to a private individual, it is subject to a mortgage and/or cadastral registry fee, following the laws for that specific case/circumstance of the acquirer.
In addition to the services described above, utilities are all present: electricity, and a water supply through a connection to the public water supply system for the water used in the kitchen.
Potential Uses
The property is a perfect solution to be immediately experienced and used as a second home during the summer periods and / or to be worked on international circuits of tourist rentals that currently generate an interesting income.
Cities & Towns:
Beaches & Lakes:
Sport Facilities:
Golf Club Alisei is easily reachable from the property, it offers classes for kids and a golf course with nightlights http://www.golfalisei.it/ ;
Versilia Golf Resort includes a hotel, a restaurant and the 18 hole-course, set in a vast open area, among thick woods, sand bunkers and large fairways http://www.versiliagolfresort.com/;
Tennis Corner Club di Forte dei Marmi, Forte dei Marmi is the Italian city with the largest number of tennis clubs http://tenniscornerclub.it.
This elegant oasis is located on a hilltop just 50 m. above sea level in the municipality of Massarosa which belongs to the province of Versilia, only minutes from the famous beaches and resorts of Forte dei Marmi and Viareggio. It is easily connected to all the major cities of artistic and cultural interest, provided by nearby by roads and highways. In just 20 minutes you can reach the cities of Pisa and Lucca, and in even less time the marble workshops of Pietrasanta.
The coast of Versilia, Viarregio and Forte Dei Marmi are often frequented and popular destinations. The perfect place to live or just spend your free time visiting interesting artistic towns like Pietrasanta or cities such as Lucca and Florence. The various towns and villages which form and surround Versilia are: Pietrasanta, Forte dei Marmi, Seravezza, Stazzema, Viareggio, Camaiore, and Massarosa.
Pietrasanta is one of the main Versilia towns known for it's marble and bronze artwork, in fact it often hosts international artists and sculptors who go there to stay and study. This small town has became a real artistic centre, hosting lots of art galleries, temporary seasonal art expositions and a pictoresque historical centre. Marina also offers a big variety of fashionable discos and clubs where you can enjoy your summer nights.
Forte dei Marmi reputed to be one of the most appreciated seaside resorts in Tuscany, maybe because it has always been chosen by actors, politic authorities and industrialists for their holidays. In fact, here you can take a stroll among many luxurious private villas, shops and restaurants. For example a sight of interest is the: Villa Agnelli (the current Hotel Augustus – http://www.augustus-hotel.it/en/) equipped with an underpass leading directly to the beach and the Capannina di Franceschi club, (http://www.lacapanninadifranceschi.com) the oldest Italian night club, inaugurated in 1929 and still attracting thousands of people thanks to its '70s theme parties. There is also a wide range of superb hotels and bathing establishments all along the town.
Seravezza is known as being an important centre for the marble-trade business. It is located in a valley surrounded by the stately mountains of the Apuan Alps, from which emerges the rich-in-marble Monte Altissimo. For this reason the marble trade here, is very developed (production of hand-made objects). Seravezza founded its economy on marble extraction, working and trading. Other marble pits nearby are located on the Monte Cappella, Monte Ceragiola and Monte Trambiserra. There are several paths displaced in this area, that you can cross to arrive directly to the caves.
Stazzema is a village fully immerged in the Apuan Alps Park and in the middle of Serchio's watershed area, a territory which results to be perfect for any kind of mountain excursions and rock-activities.
Viareggio takes its name after a latin name Via Regis (literally King's Road), the name of a road that was built in the Middle Ages along the coast and that still exists today. The elegant and very refined bathing Versilia resort, Viareggio (also called the "Pearl of the Tyrrhenian"), is a world-famous tourist destination.
It is an entertainment centre, the town of the carnival (the Carnival of Viareggio, celebrated in January-February) and of the Versilia nightlife, considered to represent the soul of Tuscan nightlife with its high-level and fashionable clubs. For example we suggest BAGNO BALENA (http://www.b2k.it) which by day is a watermark and aquarium for families and at night turns into a hip night club with pools you can swim and dance in all night.
Camaiore municipal district of Versilia (with over 30.000 inhabitants), spreading out from the impressive peaks of the Apuan Alps to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
It is a town boasting many monuments such as the Collegiate Church of Saint Mary of the Assumption (13th century), the Bell Tower (14th century) and the fine Abbey of Saint Peter (7th century).
Massarosa located on the outskirts of the Massaciuccoli lake, famous for its lake belonging to the natural park of Migliarino S. Rossore Massaciuccoli, where it's not difficult to come across different species of permanent and migrant birds and several kinds of plants such as eucalyptus, alders and watering-lilies. For nature-lovers this peaceful place could be the ideal, cause it is a zone offering a wide choice of activities related to the characteristic Versilia's nature, such as walking tours and rides. Here you can also find the ruins of a Roman villa (called Villa dei Venulei Aproniani) built during the Roman period and housing a small thermal estate.
Annual Festival in the Area
The Flea Market: Forte dei Marmi a shoppers' paradise open every Wednesday from 8:00-14:30 in Piazza Macroni. The market is open on Sundays in the summer months
Carnevale di Viareggio: is Tuscany's rowdiest but good-natured carnival celebration.
Suggested Restaurants
La Brigata di Filippo located in Pietrsanta is a gourmet restaurant and elite dining experience with an incredible menu and wonderful selection of wines http://www.filippolondon.it/;
La Dogana is a very refined restaurant in Camaiore that along with its scrumptious fish menu one can enjoy the seaside views from the beautiful veranda http://www.ristoranteladogana.com;
Il Merlo is another gourmet restaurant located in Camaiore with an elegant environment and a great choice of wines http://www.ilmerlocamaiore.it;
Osteria Candalla, located in Camaiore and built in an old mill, offers traditional Tuscan cuisine in a unique environment http://www.osteriacandalla.it.
Principe Forte dei Marmi is a stylish luxury Boutique Hotel in Forte dei Marmi. This 5 star hotel is a modern boutique hotel that features both contemporary and Tuscan décor http://www.principefortedeimarmi.com/;
The Grand Hotel Imperiale is a 5-star luxury hotel found in a splendid position in Forte dei Marmi, and offers for style and luxury lovers a perfect setting to relax http://www.grandhotelimperiale.it/index_eng.html;
Hotel Plaza e de Russie is one of the best known luxury hotels in Versilia found on the main promenade of Viareggio just 50m from the beach http://www.plazaederussie.com/hotel-in-viareggio/versilia-luxury-hotels.html.
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Artist Feature – AUDIOKICKS
Posted: March 3, 2021 by Soda in Alternative, Artist Feature, Audiokicks, Grow, Indie, Music, MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE, Single
Tags: Alternative, Artist Feature, Audiokicks, Grow, Indie, Music, MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE, Scotland, Single
Audiokicks – Independent 4-piece rock band from Aberdeen, Scotland
Life long project of frontman Iain Jamieson, Audiokicks have survived in various forms through highs and lows with countless gigs and well received releases. A stalwart of their local Aberdeen scene the 4-piece are prolific with writing and touring, making use of every small opportunity in 2020, recording with esteemed producer Mark Morrow.
New Single "Grow":
On March 6th Audiokicks release new single 'Grow', an anthemic track with pop stylings, pulsing drums & bass, catchy guitar hooks and an engaging melody. Originally written for the bands frontman's two children, the song carries themes of personal growth which are relevant to the way many people will be feeling as the world remains an uncertain place.
Audiokicks are working with Mark Morrow to release a string of singles over 2021 including "Grow" that will be released on all Major online platforms including Bandcamp.
Press-
"What an absolute f****** BELTER of a track!" – Iain Sinclair at Supersound Radio.
Audiokicks are a 4-piece indie / alt rock band who blend anthemic riffs, soaring vocals and a juicy driving bass-line into a powerful sound that always entertains. These guys have nailed the live sound; whether it's a more soulful ballad or an energetic blast, they pulverise the expectations you might have of a "local band". These guys have made focussed distortion their friend, contrasted it with crisp lyrics and injected an overdose of energy into their music – the world is better for it. – Mike Rushby MNPR Magazine
Follow Audiokicks and Pre-Order Grow-
https://linktr.ee/audiokicks
Artist Feature – POEINA
Posted: February 17, 2021 by Soda in Artist Feature, Crazy In Love, Music, MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE, Poeina, Single
Tags: Artist Feature, Blog, Crazy In Love, DIY, Indie, MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE, Pop, Singer, Single, Tate Simms
~Love in the time of Quarantine~
New Song "Crazy In Love" by Poeina & Tate Simms
The last year for Artist Poeina has been complicated far more than the world falling apart, yet she still managed to find love during the time of quarantine. Poeina has been recovering from injuries inflicted by her former music producer who violently attacked her leaving her permanently injured. After being forced to leave Los Angeles to recuperate in the mountains during covid lockdowns, and against all odds, she found love. Returning triumphant to the city full of joy sparked an incredible collaboration with guitarist Tate Simms for this newly released hit single "Crazy in Love".
Tate Simms has played with Grammy Award Winner Christina Aguilera, Latoya Jackson, Joe Cocker, The Supremes' Mary Wilson and Bobby Brown to name a few. Tate & Poeina have been taking turns backing each other up on live shows for over three years and have finally begun collaborating on their songwriting as well. Both artists, desperate to share their love of music, came together for two magical sessions to write and record "Crazy In Love".
This natural and magnetic collaboration has led to an uplifting, light-hearted fun track about falling in love against all odds. The homemade indie music video for the track was created in a similar manner. Joy and freedom of expression were the main objective for these artists who needed to just let loose and have fun with music again. In the music video you will see Tate Simms & Poeina joy riding in LA along HWY 1, dancing on the beaches and watching seagulls fly.
In a time where artists are forced to reconsider how to pursue their craft without live shows, truly these artists have found the freedom to celebrate life and love in the time of quarantine. Now streaming on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, & Pandora or check out Youtube for the Official "Crazy In Love" music video.
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https://music.apple.com/us/album/crazy-in-love-feat-poeina-single/1545061819
http://www.poeina.com/
Artist Feature – BEFORE STORIES
Posted: January 27, 2021 by Soda in Artist Feature, Before Stories, Blog, Indie, Music, MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE
Tags: Artist Feature, Before Stories, Experimental, Indie, Music, MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE, Scotland, The Next Reason To Breathe
Almost a month thru 2021, and all is pretty good! <pandemic aside> My first post on M-S-G for the year was an awesome interview with Tim Smith (The Lickerish Quartet, Jellyfish, Umajets)!!! Now, I am excited to drop an artist feature from an exciting duo all the way from Scotland. Check it out!
Post-Everything Talk Rock music from the North, formed of Jamie Reid and Colin Brennan. Diverse and creative song writing using a vast range of vocal and guitar styles. Since 2015 the spontaneous two-piece has been consistently playing ambitious live performances and challenging themselves creatively on all fronts. Prolific with sharp emotional vocals, Before Stories have been slowly accumulating a fanbase from Scotland and beyond since 2015. New EP "The Next Reason to Breathe" is their 4th released on Ripcord Records in December 2020. Since release it has received great response from all over the globe.
-About The EP-
"Our idea was to make art that said exactly what we wanted to say and then stopped, abandoning traditional song forms for enough music to make an idea a song and no more. This has not changed in our 5-years together. We are working hard on making sense of a world that has dramatically changed, which is reflected not only in the lyrics but also in how we've made this. Recorded in our own houses with minimal interaction apart from emailing ideas back and forward, it's been a journey in accepting each other's vision and having a lot less individual control over how the songs have been formed."
-Press-
"'The Next Reason to Breathe'" is their fourth successive EP, and is a defining mood of an unnerving society, and instills this impactful memory throughout. This new source of music is a dystopian-like fairytale, instilling elements of dark mystery, raising awareness to some of the most crucial questions we ask ourselves about ourselves." – Man V Music.
"It is an authentic and completely unique body of work that will no doubt attract a lot of attention!" – Charlotte Talks Music.
"This integrity and originality has been recognized by Ripcord Records, who have picked up on the merits of the duo and released the EP as a cassette on top of its digital release. Will there be more stories to tell? It's probable; in this fast changing world, we might need their voice." – Pictish Prism.
*Catch up with the band on IG: https://www.instagram.com/beforestories/
LISTEN ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1pfKujJCEaRofrY931NUhK
Artist feature – Jamie Reid/Poür Me
Posted: November 25, 2020 by Soda in Artist Feature, Indie, Jamie Reid, Music, MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE, Pour Me
Tags: Artist Feature, Jaime Reid, Music, MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE, New Release, Pour Me, Taciturn
Jamie Reid/"Poür Me" was brought up in Ackergill in the far North Highlands of Scotland. From learning the guitar through High School and taking up bass and backing vocal positions in School Bands Jamie learned that there is no better feeling than performing live. Now Much older, slightly wiser and based in Aberdeen Scotland Jamie has been working on his ever changing solo project for years with no sign of slowing down. With Experience in various positions across a large scale of local and touring bands Jamie's songwriting and influences vary greatly from track to track leading to an unpredictable live set.
It's not been the easiest road and Jamie writes very personally about his struggles hence the name "Poür Me" Hoping that certain themes will relate to his audience as his soul-bearing, raw music catches them.
New Single Taciturn Out now only on Bandcamp (Pay what you want download)
https://pourme.bandcamp.com/
About Taciturn-
Taciturn means "reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little".
Set in the late teen/early 20's era about repeatedly saying things you regret while at parties.
On occasion I'd try and train myself to be more reserved on nights out in order to avoid saying anything regretful which is where the title comes from.
This also isn't a vague admittance to committing anything shockingly horrible it's about the kind of moments everyone else laughs off and forgets instantly but you hold onto it and judge yourself harshly for it. There's no other person being referred to in this- It's in the moment vs morning after.
Why? Something different innit.
After a prolific series of releases in 2020 to kick start "Poür Me" Taciturn is the first single to be part of an album to be released in 2021.


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Hot, Dry & Natural in D.O. Madrid with Marc Isart
A few hours after landing in Madrid, I drove southeast with Marc Isart to visit his vines. As we passed through an incredibly arid landscape, where the poorest of soils were allocated to vines, Marc spoke of the two most recent vintages, hot and dry, and no doubt a result of climate change. Luckily,...
Grower Cava at Avinyó
On our first day in Spain we arrived at the Avinyó winery in Penedes excited and slightly jet lagged. We were greeted with cava poured from parones and a steaming plate of paella (that respectively enhanced the excitement and removed the jet lag). In a region dominated by large producers and bulk wi...
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The Boundaries of Remelluri
T. Edward Visits Granja Remelluri in Rioja, Spain La Rioja, the oldest DOCa in Spain, is a bit shy of 2,000 square miles. As of a 2015 report, it has 61,645ha (152,328 acres) planted to vines, 16,413 vineyards, and over 600 wineries. The three principal regions are Rioja Alavesa, Rioja Alta and Rio...
Farming Monsant with Joan d'Anguera
The saying, fine soil makes fine wine, has been passed from one generation of winemakers to another in the d'Anguera family. Their estate sits nestled between several mountain ranges and just east of the Ebro river in one of Spain's newest D.Os, Montsant. This is a region often overshadowed (literal...
2014 at Do Ferreiro with Manuel Méndez
"Cepas Vellas" 200+ year-old Albarino Vines at Do Ferreiro In 1973, Geraldo Méndez's father purchased a plot of land in Rias Baixas that became Do Ferreiro. "They really bought it because of the house," said Manuel Mendez, who now works with his father Geraldo. "When they began to clean the whole...
Ancestral Varietals at Dominio do Bibei
Dominio do Bibei "When you're an interventionist, you're changing the profile of the vines," said Iría Otero of Dominio do Bibei, in Ribeira Sacra. "We're not exactly biodynamic, because there are some things in biodynamics that we don't completely love, so we started to work organically. We try ...
A Return to Roots with André Tamers
André Tamers with Thierry Tissot in Bugey Named for his grandfather, whose father who had a general store in old Savoie on the Annecy Lake, De Maison Selections is returning to its French roots. "A long time ago," said André Tamers, "we had quite a bit of French wines. But then I realized I h...
An Identity Crisis, Rioja with Andre Tamers
Andre Tamers (right) "Our idea of wine in Spain is just Rioja," began Andre Tamers of De Maison Selections to a group who'd gathered at Toro's Backbar Room to taste with Tamers. "Dusty, earthy, classic, old school Rioja...I'm gonna take that and throw it all out the window. Spain has incredible ...
The Ameztoi Txakolina Dinner Party at Aldea
Chef George Mendes at the center of Aldea's kitchen Anticipating the arrival of Chef George Mendes' My Portugal: Recipes and Stories (soon-to-be-released on October 7th), we couldn't wait for last Monday night's Ameztoi Txakolina Dinner at Aldea. Seated at the chef's counter, we watched Mendes pi...


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Q: Incorrect freshen usage test result I have just installed Freshen and am trying to get the hang of it.
The following test runs, but the output it gives is incorrect.
Test: get_user.feature
Feature: Retrieve an existing User
    When a Users ID (ID, Email, User-name) is entered,
    An object containing all the Users information is returned

    Scenario: Get existing User from their ID
        Given I have the user where their id is '288' and account id is '57'
        Then their username should equal adminuserxxx

steps.py
from freshen import *
from freshen.checks import *

import user_operations
import util
#The URL of the API
api_root = "http://api.stuff.com/v1/core";

#The ID of the Application
appid = "1234567";

#Our private key
secret = "987654321";

#Headers
headers = {'Accept':'application/json', 'Content-Type':'application/json'}

@Before
def before(sc):
    scc.headers = headers
    util.get_auth_token_and_scope(api_root, appid, secret, scc.headers) #An authorization token is added to scc.headers here

@Given("I have the user where their id is (\d+) and account id is (\d+)")
def enter(user_id,account_id):
    scc.user = user_operations.get_user_from_id(int(account_id), int(user_id), scc.headers)

@Then("their (\w+) should equal (\w+)")
def check_result(field_value, result):
    assert_equal(str(result),scc.user[str(field_name)])

And the console output:
C:\Users\Front-End>nosetests --with-freshen -v features\
Retrieve an existing User: Get existing User from their ID ... UNDEFINED: "I hav
e the user where their id is '288' and account id is '57'" # features\get_user.f
eature:6

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.137s

OK (UNDEFINED=1)

Can anybody point at what I am doing wrong? Cheers!

A: the feature should have this syntax (Given I have the user where their id is 288 and account id is 57 ) if you use (\d+) ...(\d+) in the @Given function
M.Harbaoui

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Soft foot is a common term used for machine frame distortion. The distortion is caused when one or more foot of a machine differ in height from the others. This in turn may be due to differences when the machine was manufactured, a squishy footage with oil film etc. between foot and base, a bent foot, or it may be induced by a pipe to which the machine is attached (e.g. a pipe on top of a pump), which prevents the machine from touching all its feet to its base.

Soft foot usually gives rise to a 1x harmonic of the rotation frequency in the spectrum when radial (horizontal or vertical) vibration measurements are taken. It can be detected in this way.

Similar harmonic 1x is caused by misalignment and looseness. Usually not only will it resemble them, but it also causes misalignment, imbalance and other problems. In fact, it may be loose, not strictly a soft foot. Therefore, a way to tell the difference is needed.

To differentiate soft foot from misalignment and looseness, even if it causes misalignment when present, one way is to loosen each foot bolt at a time, while the other three are tight. If loosening one of them reduces vibration amplitude (which would be opposite to what one would expect if the machine was all right and we caused looseness by unscrewing of the bolt), then soft foot was present.

Another way to differentiate soft foot from looseness are phase measurements between the machine foot and the base/ground. 180 degrees difference indicates looseness.

External links
 Detecting Soft Foot with Vibration Analysis

Mechanical engineering
Maintenance

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Самаркандський державний медичний університет (Самаркандський державний медичний інститут до 1 квітня 2022 року) (; ) — медичний навчальний заклад у місті Самарканді (Узбекистан). Готує медичних працівників та наукових діячів, а також підвищує їх кваліфікацію.

Скорочені назви: СамДМІ, СамДержМІ, СамМІ.

Історія
Інститут заснований у травні 1930 року з ініціативи Ради народних комісарів Узбецької РСР.

Ректори інституту
 Лев Немцович (1930—1935);
 Юлій Недосєков (1935—1942);
 Хакім Захидов (1943—1945), професор;
 Рауф Абдуллаєв (1945—1951), професор, Заслужений діяч науки РУ;
 Азіз Аділов (1951—1955), доцент;
 Манап Мирзамухамедов (1955—1961), професор;
 Муса Хаїтов (1961—1966), доцент, депутат Верховної Ради Уз РСР, перший секретар Самаркандського міськкому КП Уз;
 Уктам Вахабова (1966—1981), професор, Заслужений діяч науки РУ, депутат Верховної Ради СРСР;
  (1981—1986), професор, Заслужений діяч науки РУ, Заслужений лікар РУ;
 Нуриддин Камалов (1986—1995), доцент;
  (1995—2000), професор, Заслужений діяч науки РУ;
  (з 2004), професор, член Нью-Йоркської академії наук.

Інститут у роки Другої світової війни
На базі Самаркандського державного медичного інституту в 1942—1944 роках розташовувалися евакуйовані Ленінградська військово-медична академія і Куйбишевська військово-медична академія.

Структура інституту

Факультети
У виші функціонують 6 факультетів:
 «Лікувальна справа», організований 1930;
 «Педіатрична справа», організований 1963;
 «Медична педагогіка», організований 2005;
 «Вища сестринська справа», організований 2005;
 «Стоматологія», організований 2009;
 Факультет підвищення кваліфікації та перепідготовки лікарів, організований 1981.

Відділення магістратури та клінічної ординатури
У відділеннях магістратури та клінічної ординатури готуються фахівці за такими напрямами:

 акушерство та гінекологія;
 терапія (за направленнями) — ендокринологія, кардіологія, неврологія, фтизіатрія, наркологія;
 оториноларингологія; офтальмологія;
 загальна онкологія; хірургія (за направленнями);
 анестезіологія та реаніматологія;
 травматологія та ортопедія;
 судово-медична експертиза;
 педіатрія (за направленнями);
 дитяча хірургія;
 стоматологія (за направленнями);
 інфекційні хвороби (за направленнями);
 дитяча неврологія;
 функціональні та інструментальні методи діагностики (медична радіологія);
 урологія;
 неонатологія;
 нейрохірургія;
 дерматовенерологія.

Професорсько-викладацький склад
У Самаркандському державному медичному інституті існують 66 кафедр і курсів, де ведуть наукову і педагогічну діяльність понад 540 вчених і викладачів, з яких — 58 докторів наук, 42 професори, 177 кандидатів наук, 111 доцентів.

Примітки

Посилання
 Офіційний сайт інституту.

Самарканд
Навчальні заклади, засновані 1930
Вищі навчальні заклади Узбекистану
Медичні навчальні заклади Узбекистану


Huawei's West European CFO, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested last weekend in Canada on behalf of the United States, and the incident came into focus after the arrest on Wednesday night became public. Meng was arrested for allegedly violating US sanctions against Iran, but we will not officially hear the charges until their hearing today in Vancouver.
China has demanded the immediate release of Meng while American businessmen are warned not to travel there. It's a fast moving story that attracts everyone's attention, from bankers on Wall Street to Silicon Valley technologists. But what happens next? We have a summary of everything you have missed during your sleep.
Executives in the tech industry are cautioned against traveling to China, as some experts speculate that the Chinese government might avenge the arrest of Huawei Meng. 46-year-old Meng, sometimes called Sabrina or Cathy, is not just Huawei's chief financial officer. She is also the daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei, who is closely associated with the People's Liberation Army (People's Liberation Army), the name of the Chinese armed forces.
Shaun Rein from the China Market Research Group today told the Sydney Morning Herald, "If I were high level exec at Google or Cisco I would not visit China so soon. "
I've seen speculation that China might take revenge if it arrested a US tech executive. That would certainly be explosive, but I am not sure if Beijing would do so without a very clear litigation, as this would undermine the massive propaganda campaign the party has undertaken to make the PRC open to international business and defending global trade to represent system. If I was an American tech manager, I would delay the trip to China or go on vacation if he were resident there.
I think takeaway is if you are an American businessman going to China, you know the risks now. And it's probably not worth it until things have calmed down.