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[sandandglass]

[vetmedirl]

God bless nurses forever

[dynamite5ftjewishbitch]

[adonyasooc]

God bless EVERYONE working in the hospital right now. We all make mistakes, even if poking at egotistical doctors is funny... we’re all in the trenches.  ~signed,  A very stressed out nurse

[intangible-rice]

When I was 17 my appendix ruptured because I thought I was just having period cramps and didn’t go to the hospital so don’t tell me PMS symptoms are no big deal

[lingering-spirit]

this actually happened to me during my math final and i didn’t think anything of it and when i was later admitted to the hospital my math prof was asking me ‘you didn’t have to take the final! why didn’t you tell me it hurt?!?!’ and i told him i’ve had cramps worse.

he gave me 100

[kadenonio]

This is actually an extremely common occurrence simply because in sex ed they don’t teach you how to tell the difference between menstrual cramps and other more serious pains. The way to tell the difference between cramps and appendicitis is that while menstrual cramps are generalized toward the middle of the stomach below the belly button, pain from a swollen or burst appendix will start in the middle of the stomach and relocate to only the lower right side, even lower than menstrual cramps, and is a very localized pain. It also comes on extremely suddenly and will worsen over time or when you make a sudden movement, like a cough or a sneeze.

Basically, if you’re feeling any sort of pain, even if it’s menstrual cramps, don’t hesitate to tell the school nurse or a parent, or if you’re out of school and home even make a doctor’s appointment. Chances are if your cramps are that bad there’s something they can do to improve that as well.

[vandigo-deactivated20180131]

I am boosting the shit out of that reply, because I am twenty-fucking-five years old and did not know how to tell the two pains apart

[teacupdream]

Adding another diagnostic tool! This is something we use in the ER called the rebound test. Basically, appendicitis and cramps react differently to certain things. If you’re still not sure if you have cramps or appendicitis, take two fingers and press them into your abdomen where the pain is (try repeating this on the lower right quadrant of the abdomen just to be sure.)

When you press in firmly, it will probably hurt. Here’s the test: LET GO. Does it get better or get worse? Appendicitis will immediately hurt worse when you let go. Cramps will not. Go to the ER if the rebound test makes it worse!

[rainbowrowell]

THE REBOUND TEST IS REALLY IMPORTANT.

My husband got sent home from the ER with a rupturing appendix. When he came back and was rushed into surgery, the surgeon was super angry – “Why didn’t anyone do the rebound test?!”

[deinde-prandium]

All great info, but there is another lesson to be learned here: if you’re in major pain, it’s probably important - so don’t let anyone tell you it’s not. There is a documented pattern of women who go to the ER with complaints of pain being dismissed as overreacting…when in reality women have an incredibly high tolerance for pain, to the point that some don’t even realize exactly how serious their condition is. These stories only serve to illustrate this point.

[allthyvexations]

Reblog to literally save a life.

[tvylxrrr]

Every time I see this..

[loved-the-stars-too-fondly-deac]

Someone I knew who was a trained EMT says he heard during training “Men, whatever pain level a woman says she’s at, add two to imagine how bad it hurts you. If she says six it would feel like an eight to men.”

Cramps do a number on our concept of pain.

[official-infinitea]

Another thing to remember; cramps typically aren’t debilitating or cause immobility after the ages of 19 - 20. They still hurt, but not so bad that you can’t move. If you’re past the age of 19 and suddenly get excruciating pain that immobilizes you, immediately go to a clinic or hospital or something, anything, because that’s a sign of a serious problem that can sometimes be fatal.

[adonyasooc]

^^^ THIS So here I was, barely 38 and I’m having so much pain with my cramps that I’m vomiting again - hasn’t been that bad since I was younger, but believe me I used to feel so incredibly *GUILTY* for having to leave work, events, etc for my terrible pain. How other women looked at me for complaining that I was in pain was unreal. Don’t ever be THAT PERSON.  So I have finally made the hard decision not to have anymore children. Trust me, I wanted more but to suffer like this just for the hope of a miracle was just not worth it and my child, being a senior in high school, meant I was too far gone to start over again. SO! I talk to my OBGYN about how through I am with all of it. Long story short, we get the hysterectomy scheduled. After all kinds of wonky ultrasounds, biopsies, and a cancer scare. They get in there and find endometriosis so bad that my ovaries were destroyed, my uterus was “seized” or attached with this scar tissue to my body, and my intestines were attached to my uterus.  FIVE HOURS LATER: My doc brags that I was in her top ten worst to get a laproscopic procedure, that she thought several times about opening me up, and what should have been a 2 hour deal had my family wondering what the hell was going wrong in the waiting room five hours later. “I don’t know how you were standing upright!” She tells me. Final vindication for all the times I felt like a wuss or a drama queen or “whiny”. Don’t let it get this bad, and if a male doctor blows you off, find a new one!

[lechuzaa]

[adonyasooc]

The tears in her eyes though. Right in the feels. Love for all my fellow nurses risking their lives right now. 

[the-memedaddy]

Me_IRL

[legsdemandias]

Friendly reminder that the reason you feel so much better is because of your meds, don’t stop taking them unless you talk to your doctor first, you really do need them, I promise. 

[legsdemandias]

Around June I stopped taking my eye medication because I hadn’t had a problem with my eyes in months. I got really lazy about doing it; then I stopped them altogether.

Turns out, the reason I stopped having problems with my eyes was because I was religiously taking my medication. Whodathunk. Now I have to work to get back to the place I was before I decided I was “better” (I wasn’t!).

If you thought this post was just about anti-depressants or lithium, it could be! For me, this post is about eyedrops, for you it might be about antibiotics, or it might be about zoloft. Whatever it is, please consider talking to your doctor before making a sudden shift to stop taking it. It’s not bad to be on medication. It’s not bad to need it. 

[doomhamster]

…and on a related note, do not let anyone tell you that because you start feeling worse if you don’t take your medication, that means you’re “addicted”. That is not how addiction works.

[legsdemandias]

Okay everyone reblog this version

[adonyasooc]

[yourpersonalcheerleader-deactiv]

[adonyasooc]

THIS IS MY TOWN <3 Love it. 

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

“If he wanted me, I would give up everything. “

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

[odinsblog]

Have a great day today.

[diesel-park]

@shotinthekidney please enjoy this positive post :)

[tlbodine]

Maybe being an INTJ means suffering from An Unpleasant Emotion for weeks before realizing where it’s coming from

For weeks, I’ve been shuffling around in a fug of unhappiness. Picking fights with my husband. Oversleeping. Unable to focus on writing. Just, like, irritable and distracted and listless. 

I sat down for four hours last week and drew a literal chart mapping out all of my responsibilities, distractions, goals, energy boosts/draws, trying to find ways to optimize my life in order to minimize unhappiness. 

So after mulling over this chart in my mind for days, trying to figure out how to fix and untangle all of the various threads of my life, it finally struck me: you’re LONELY, you dipshit. The emotion you are currently experiencing is LONELINESS. You used to have a friend that you chatted with every day and now you are no longer chatting with that person and you miss them. 

How did I come upon this realization, you ask? 

“I am spending X more hours on social media than I should, and keep getting on instead of doing other work. I should make my social media usage more efficient. That’s an area I can improve my time management. So why am I using social media so much? It feels like I’m seeking some kind of validation or attention. It’s like I keep logging in looking for a particular good interaction but am not getting what I want so I’m dissatisfied and keep coming back for more. What would an ideal satisfaction response there feel like? Maybe if I had just one person who was engaged with my day-to-day activities and would be interested in hearing these inane details. That would feel very good. And then I could hear someone else’s inane details and hear about somebody else’s life for a little while, which would be a pleasant change of pace without overwhelming me with the need to invest in numerous people’s needs. Actually, yeah, that’s exactly the arrangement I had with (specific person) and that was really nice. I haven’t talked to X in a long time, come to think of it. They’ve been really busy and our schedules don’t mesh up and things were kind of awkward the last time we talked and I…oh. OH.” 

*facedesk* 

If you ever wondered what it’s like to be completely emotionally illiterate and yet stuck occupying a body that insists on, from time to time, having emotions. Well. Here you go. 

[presbyteriansideblog]

[xubbs]

I could be wrong but what’s interesting to me personally is that Elijah wasnt just mad, he was scared for his life cuz there was a queen who wanted him dead so Elijah ran and told God he wanted to die because he was in such anguish

But God is so good and He always knows what we need!

[archer-bro]

Notice too that he didn’t even give Elijah some encouraging words to comfort him.  He just told him to eat.  Sometimes just being there and making sure someone gets through their anguish is enough.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

AND THUS SPOKE THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE

“Why don’t you have a some food and maybe you’ll feel better.“

[goatyellsateverything]

And God said, “Have a Snickers.”

[xphilosoraptorx]

And Elijah inquired of the Lord, asking “Why?” and the Lord replied, “Because thou doth lament greatly when thou art hungry”.

Thus Elijah took and he ate of the confection, finding it to be exceedingly satisfying.

The Lord then asked, “Art thou better?”, and Elijah replied, “Indeed Lord, I am better”. Then the Lord further advised Elijah, saying unto him, “Thou art not thineself when thou art hungry”.

[sighinastorm]

quality religious jokes, people

[igmakeup]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Yes, it’s you I cannot forgive who have given me up.”

— Marge Piercy, from What Big Girls Are Made Of; “Letter to Be Disguised as a Gass Bill,”

[adonyasooc]

wut?

I’m both saddened and annoyed. I’ve never ever posted anything that was blatant porn on my posts, and my blog has been tagged with NSFW warnings.... but I just found out so many of my posts have been removed (mostly reblogs). I was looking back for nostalgia and it’s like someone took pictures out of my personal photo album and I can’t even remember what they were now. *sigh*

[countgoat]

[adonyasooc]

That last one is so hot....

[asapscience]

Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention. 

Source

[trashcanbees-deactivated2019120]

We did a pretty good fucking job, Jesus Christ

[nunyabizni]

Remember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.

[art-angelsz-deactivated20170721]

Bananas looked like lemons wtf

[thatsmidnight]

Isn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?

[thespectacularspider-girl]

Yes.  But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.

GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.

People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions.  But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant.  Why?  So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.

GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.

GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids.  Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders.  We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.

[drewbern]

I for one am glad I live in a time where watermelons aren’t giant tomato abominations

[writingaboutmyrapists]

The issue with GMOs is that corporations like Monsanto are patenting GMOs and arresting indigenous farmers for cross pollinating with they seeds. But there is nothing dangerous about the science.

[wordnerdworld]

^This.

The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.

[afishtrap]

this should be in the largest letters we’ve got, plastered everywhere until it gets through people’s heads:

The problem isn’t the science, it’s what capitalism does with that science.

[adonyasooc]

YOU LOST ME AT SPIDER-GOAT HYBRIDS....

[cloudruler-old]

desperately wanting to rp when you dont know all the lore yet

[lhomhblr-deactivated20180912]

Also see:

desperately wanting to RP but you haven’t figured all of your character out yet

desperately wanting to RP but you have no one to do it with.

desperately wanting to RP but your character breaks original lore.