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Had my 6-monthly checked with my cardiologist today, starting with an echo. About a year ago he prescribed me the lowest dosage on Entresto, and back in April of last year added Foxiga to the mix.

A year later and my EF went up! From 44% to 47%. Woot! This is great because when he started me on Entresto, my EF was at 48% but went DOWN to 44%. So he changed one of my meds to Entresto. Seems that it paid off after all.

I know for some the journey is short or whatever, but it's been pretty long for me. I was diagnosed in 2019 at an EF of 17%. Got it up to 34% within a month and then it went slowly from there, getting up to 47% maybe three years ago. Made it to the aforementioned 48% the year before last and then it slid to 44% last year for some reason (doctor has no idea why). And now back to 47%.

P.S. - forgot to say, this last two years was under the backdrop of me finding out last year February that I have type 2 diabetes. So I suspect I went untreated for a whole and that lowered my EF. I started managing my diaetes and I think that made a real difference, because the two conditions are linked.

Do I understand Ships and Shieldwalls correctly? I'm giving this a big rethinking since I have a notion to try a bronze age game, and I'm naturally thinking of Mythras.

Basically, I'm reading the book again and it says "units" can be as small as a warband up to a whole legion. Does this mean, essentially, that I could have, say, a force of 15000 men (three legions), with a "unit" being a wing of the army, like a 5000 man legion (4500 infantry, 500 cavalry) and the only wrinkle would be calculating the damage, based on front, for the 4500 infantry and then adding the dice from the 500 cavalry?

Addendum to that - the rules assume a "unit" would be doing the same sort of formation, which I guess I'd be okay with, at this scale.

Essentially, if that's all correct, then that would make S&S a lot more useful than I would have imagined for the size battles I'd want to run. Mind, I had to calculate out the frontage table myself (which I did about a year or two ago, so that's done). Quite a thing (and even if not exactly correct, I might run it this way anyway).

What got me thinking down this part was a comment in the text that "you might run a unit as a wing of an army" or some such. And that line about a unit being a whole legion. I know they're being a little loose with terminology here, but maybe not that loose? Other than counting the gobs of individual Strength points that'd work, no (which means I have PCs as commanders of said "units", giving more things to do in battle, since there's not much of a system for individuals to affect battles more directly)?

So, wife got two titanium implants today. On one of the implants is a brownish line/stain. She tried brushing it but it doesn’t come off.

So the question is, what is this, and what should be done about it, if anything?