![]() ![]() Chegg enables them to rent the e-book version of every textbook. ![]() It’s a great business as students really don’t want to buy a $170 textbook that they’ll only use for a few months. It is most well-known for selling monthly subscriptions for electronic textbooks to students. Those were the words of Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig late Monday afternoon on Chegg’s first quarter 2023 earnings call.Ĭhegg is a major player in the online learning space. “ We now believe it’s having an impact on our new customer growth.” The CHIPS Act is running into resistance from the industry….How artificial intelligence could transform “wet work”.The hottest IPO of 2020 makes its generative AI debut.And it is amazing to watch closed off, shell shocked survivors who have learned not to talk about physical and emotional pain, open up and describe in very personal detail what they are going through, because they know that others in the room have shared that experience. However, it has been demonstrated repeatedly that a wealth of experience just begs for stories to be told. These out of the comfort zone experiences, surrounded by others who are experiencing the same experiences and have lived a similar life as adult bleeders, creates a camaraderie and safe zone for survivors who have learned not to talk about the pain and limitations that have taken over their lives. “The thing to be cherished and remembered isn’t the activity, but the fact that I overcame a limitation in my mind… But indoor skydiving is a great substitute, and very safe for just about anyone with the right precautions. For example, jumping out of an airplane sounds crazy for anyone with a bleeding disorder, let alone a senior bleeder with advance hemophilic arthropathy. Take just about any adventure activity and think of a way to make it safe for senior bleeders. These adults need support and as the pandemic eases, these adults need to reconnect, re-energize, and refocus. Then there are those, like Barry Harde and so many others, that have even taken their own lives.Įven now when the pandemic is curtailing programs, it has become more common to combine adults with programming for younger bleeders and their caretakers. Too many of this community have succumbed to these hardships and engaged in destructive tendencies such as addiction. Aging bleeders are struggling to manage through the continued isolation of the ongoing global pandemic. In addition, there are growing mental health concerns. These adults live with the ensuing hemophilic arthropathy and joint disease, and all the other comorbidities of aging with hemophilia. ![]() These adults are veteran survivors, having grown up with not only the constant threat of a tainted blood supply but also the historically inadequate treatment available prior to the introduction of factor concentrates. What is needed but is often missing is programming and connectivity support for senior bleeders. To hope for what can go right.” ~ senior bleeder “We are so afraid of what can go wrong, that we forget The Bleeding Edge is about removing barriers, not installing new ones. Older bleeders do not need or respond effectively to remedial lectures on the benefits of prophy, the necessity for a “proper” infusion environment, or cute sayings better suited to kids and teens meant to remind us to keep us active and engaged.” Older bleeders also do not respond positively to new limitations placed by risk adverse caretakers. There is minimal support directly for adult bleeders and often this group is simply added to the programming cited above. Programs for Teens, Tweens and young adults are well supported and frequently provided. ![]() However, the survivor’s guilt, isolation, and loneliness continue to this day for adults and seniors living with bleeding disorders.Įducational programming and support in the bleeding disorders community most often focuses on younger bleeders and the parents that care for them. In the last few years, we have slowed the mortality of those affected and even effectively eradicating one (HCV) of the two diseases and gotten a handle on managing the other (HIV). What is not well understood is that even when the blood supply and products derived from blood were cleaned up, we continued to die from these diseases for decades. Thousands of our fellow bleeders faded and died from HIV and HCV that came from tainted blood. While a new generation of bleeders are becoming teens and adults the cohort of bleeders who survived the tainted blood era of the 1970s and 1980s is dwindling. ![]()
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