Next year my wife and I will be making our move to Australia between April and August. The permanent resident visa for my wife came through. Over the next few weeks, I will post some questions that hopefully will be of interest.
The first involves power conversion. Electricity in Oz is 240 50 hz and I thinking of purchasing several of something like this for some of our US appliances we wish to take with us as well as my amps.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/14/blind-date-savannah-timI am curious how they work since they mention a regenerated sine wave. Presumably, there is not just a step-down transformer. Any ideas?
A quick health update. The wonderful news is that I am well on the way to recovery. Six months ago I could barely walk and now I can walk 3 miles including steep hills, climb steps and approach a toilet seat without fear and dread that I will not be able to stand up. I went to Johns Hopkins and was diagnosed with a very rare case of statin-induced myopathy. The cure is IV IG and it has worked miracles over the past three months. It is an amazing feeling to progressively feel your body recover its strength. The doctor who prescribed the treatment is the bloke who co-wrote the paper on it. If you read the paper, my CK level was similar to one of the subjects at over 8000.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629845/By the way, if you know somebody who is having increasing trouble walking and they take statins, tell them to talk to their doctor about the statin. In some cases, taking an alternative may help.
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