Oh hey, it's my first post in four months!

[Renomitsu 934]

Before I get started, let me first state that Vasteras is unequivocally a team of –

 

Wrong train of thought, sorry. It's been a little while since I was last here and wanted to see how the league was progressing – and it's clear there have been several changes. The most obvious is, of course, the attribute switch; I'm fortunate to have been on the upswing of the league's litany of complaints about 40/99 or what meta just got addressed rather than its full fever pitch. But I needed to step back from sim leagues and that's still the case; I'm just not ready to make any kind of commitment to being a top earner, especially in a competitive league like the VHL. So sorry, this isn't an "I'm coming back" post, but I doubt anyone expected it to be. I'm also humbled by my selection to the VHL Hall of Fame - which I've sought for nearly seventy full VHL seasons since first creating Hiro Renomitsu way back when.

 

Real life is eating up an unhealthy majority of my time and effort as you might expect – unsurprisingly COVID-19 was the name of the game during the winter season, and I've only now completed my last day of Step (a series of board exams for medical students later and residents earlier on in their training). The last couple of months were brutal for me, as my anticipated study time evaporated on hematology/oncology (blood and cancer medicine) and general inpatient medicine, what with a switch to a new electronic medical record. Our floors were consistently bursting-to-full, with a patient population vastly outstripping even the infrastructure of the tertiary (and for a few subspecialties quaternary) care center in which I work. And if the landscape stays like this – which I fully expect it to – I'll have no problem keeping to my long-term plan of staying out of sim leagues in a substantial way. That hardly means I won't try, whether that's today or in a year, but that also unfortunately means I won't be able to enjoy the communities of these sites nearly as much as I'd like.

[frescoelmo 1,276]

1 hour ago, Renomitsu said:

Before I get started, let me first state that Vasteras is unequivocally a team of –

 

Reported

[McWolf 3,115]

I missed you Reno.

Now that you're back, can we talk about some gross medical stuff that have been happening to my body recently?