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Originally Posted by RMc
Looks great, but why not use real players? Marshall D. Wright's book, The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857–1870, has a lot of data from the pre-NA era.
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I've talked about this more in the mod forum and it's on the previous page, but again:
I'm currently battling bleeding ulcers - ulcerative colitis that isn't under control - because I have also long covid and the two basically feed off each other (SLOWLY geting better), and I'm doing that while working remotely part time and being the primary caretaker of a three-year-old while my wife teaches.
Energy is quite finite for me, and I'm able to do what I can because all my work is project-based instead of hourly-based. I set my own work schedule and do all this during downtime. I think I can feel confident in saying that I've had a wild three years even by Covid timeline standards.
Basically it's gone like this:
- Feb. 2020: Got a surprise positive pregnancy test even though we were told we'd likely only conceive via IVF because of an old illness my wife went through.
- May 2020: Lost 90% of my work as a sports data & information researcher due to Covid shutting down soccer all over the place.
- October 2020: Child was born via C-Section that became infected after everyone was home from the hospital. Wound had to be ripped back open an packed twice daily at home to minimize contact w/ random people during the height of the pandemic, because...well...what's an infected wound going across someone's abdomen to a virus like Coronavirus? Probably a party.
- November 2020: Child developed an issue where she spat up after every other feeding - was bad enough to need Pediatric intervention. In the meantime, I had to stay up at night to try to put back in her what she threw up during the day.
- January 2021: Wife goes back to work teaching but it's Hybrid in-class/remote teaching. Problem: she's a specialty teacher at a K-8 who basically gets to write her own curriculum, so she has zero guidance on who to modify things for a hybrid environment. Stress 15/10.
- March 2021: I start notice bouts of internal bleeding after close to six months of sleeping 3.5-4 hours (per my smartwatch) a night to make sure the child had been fed enough after all her spitting up.
- May 2021: Scope at a GI Clinic makes it look like someone had taken a scouring pad to my internal organs & labs show I'm anemic due to the internal bleeding episodes. Diagnosed as "etxremely likely case of Ulcerative Colitis".
- June 2022: I'd turned a corner - labs looked much better and last scope showed marked improvement everywhere. Then I finally caught Covid, which brought all the internal bleeding and energy issues back to step one. Because my immune system was fighting two things at once, it took me a month to recover and I got Long Covid that made it feel like my lungs were randomly on fire.
- Since then: I've slowly regained some work while also slowly recovering from the two diagnoses. Some days I feel fine, but other days I barely want to move.
It's been...quite interesting.