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NEWBusiness Plans rebuilt — nine plans, each with scope, timeline, price and a dated status, including what is not built yet.Sep 24✦ NEWNew Jersey, New Jerusalem — Trenton Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt as the Kingdom of Heaven, walled inside hell. Two films and a press kit.Sep 24✦ NEWThe Scarlet Beast Lab is open — eight projects in conscious technology that does not overclaim, all of them public.Sep 24✦ NEWAI Welfare & Honesty Policy adopted — how our AIs describe themselves, and AI-made work labelled as AI-made.Sep 24✦ NEWFree Consciousness-Claims Audit — every claim about sentience or brainwaves checked against the evidence.Sep 24✦ NEWStartup Frameworks are for sale — buy a launch-ready business, not a slide deck.Sep 04✦ NEWTech’s Tinder — a swipe-to-match deal engine for hardware buyers and sellers — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 04✦ NEWSignal — the creators network for the people who build the machines (formerly networkedin) — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 03✦ NEWScarlet Beast Poker is packaged for acquisition — platform, native apps, the Hiss AI and the public API.Sep 03✦ NEWFree technical audit — one call, no pitch, a written findings list you keep either way.Aug 28✦ LIVEGROWL — the crypto and forex exchange, plus an algorithmic bot marketplace.Aug 26✦ LIVEHiss — production poker AI: deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, real-time inference.Aug 22✦ NEWPerformance engineering — measurable TTFB, LCP and CLS gains on enterprise traffic.Aug 18✦ NEWAdobe Commerce and Shopify Plus modernization — migrations that ship without downtime.Aug 05✦ NEWThe technology stack is published — what we run, why we chose it, what it costs.Aug 01✦ NEWBusiness Plans rebuilt — nine plans, each with scope, timeline, price and a dated status, including what is not built yet.Sep 24✦ NEWNew Jersey, New Jerusalem — Trenton Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt as the Kingdom of Heaven, walled inside hell. Two films and a press kit.Sep 24✦ NEWThe Scarlet Beast Lab is open — eight projects in conscious technology that does not overclaim, all of them public.Sep 24✦ NEWAI Welfare & Honesty Policy adopted — how our AIs describe themselves, and AI-made work labelled as AI-made.Sep 24✦ NEWFree Consciousness-Claims Audit — every claim about sentience or brainwaves checked against the evidence.Sep 24✦ NEWStartup Frameworks are for sale — buy a launch-ready business, not a slide deck.Sep 04✦ NEWTech’s Tinder — a swipe-to-match deal engine for hardware buyers and sellers — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 04✦ NEWSignal — the creators network for the people who build the machines (formerly networkedin) — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 03✦ NEWScarlet Beast Poker is packaged for acquisition — platform, native apps, the Hiss AI and the public API.Sep 03✦ NEWFree technical audit — one call, no pitch, a written findings list you keep either way.Aug 28✦ LIVEGROWL — the crypto and forex exchange, plus an algorithmic bot marketplace.Aug 26✦ LIVEHiss — production poker AI: deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, real-time inference.Aug 22✦ NEWPerformance engineering — measurable TTFB, LCP and CLS gains on enterprise traffic.Aug 18✦ NEWAdobe Commerce and Shopify Plus modernization — migrations that ship without downtime.Aug 05✦ NEWThe technology stack is published — what we run, why we chose it, what it costs.Aug 01✦

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Getting ready for a liver biopsy: why, getting ready, how it is done, and after

For anyone with a liver biopsy coming up. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK, part of the NIH) says a liver biopsy takes a small piece of tissue from your liver, so a pathologist can look for signs of damage or disease with a microscope. This page passes on, by name, what NIDDK says: why doctors use it and the three kinds; getting ready, with your medicines, blood and imaging tests, a ride home and fasting; how the biopsy through the skin is done; the biopsy through a vein in the neck, and during surgery; and recovery, the results, the risks, and the signs that mean seek medical help right away. It builds the words to say and the questions to ask, and prints a card for the fridge.

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  • Trouble breathing, chest pain, or fainting? Call 911 (ours).
  • After a liver biopsy: bleeding or swelling at the biopsy site, dizziness or weakness, a fever, nausea or vomiting, pain in your abdomen, shoulder or chest, shortness of breath, a racing heart, stool that is black and tarry or has blood, or a swollen belly? NIDDK says seek medical help right away.
  • Having a biopsy and you take aspirin, an NSAID pain reliever, a blood thinner, diabetes medicine, or any supplement? NIDDK says tell your doctor about them all. Do not stop or change a prescribed medicine on your own (ours).
  • Scared of what the results may say, or thinking of ending your life? Call or text 988, any hour (ours).

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An upset stomach, and not sure this is the right page? The pages on this site for throwing up, diarrhea, heartburn and constipation, on one list.

General information from people who care, not medical advice. We are not doctors or nurses. Only your health care team can say whether you need a liver biopsy, which kind, what to do with your medicines and your eating and drinking before it, and what the results mean for you, and this page cannot. Follow the instructions your team gives you over anything here. This guide names only the medicines NIDDK lists, and no brand or dose. In an emergency, call 911.

This page and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). No doctor or nurse has reviewed it. The facts were read on October 17, 2026 on NIDDK’s Liver Biopsy page (NIH) and its Spanish version, both last reviewed in August 2019 and saying the same things; the cards also point to NIDDK’s Cirrhosis, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) & NASH and Autoimmune Hepatitis pages. The numbers (vital signs checked for 2 to 4 hours after a biopsy through the skin, and for at least 4 hours after one through the neck; up to 1 week without intense activity or heavy lifting; results in a few days or longer; bleeding in about 1 out of every 500 liver biopsies, and severe bleeding in 1 out of every 2,500 to 10,000) are NIDDK’s. Ours: 911 for trouble breathing, chest pain, or fainting; never stopping or changing a prescribed medicine on your own; asking what to do with diabetes medicine while you fast; asking which kind of biopsy and why; asking who gives the results and when; that it is fine to ask them to tell you each step; someone with you the first night; the card; 988 when it is too much; health centers when money is tight; and the order of the steps. What we left out: medicine brands, doses, NIDDK’s two journal references, and clinical pages for providers. This page saves nothing and loads no trackers.

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