Alice

NYC is my backyard, the hospital my playground. Blog of anything my heart desires. Oh & I have a thing for middle aged actresses. "You watch us run."

[riversclara]

jealous twelve

[alice-was-pushed]

Doggy parenting

Daily conversation when having a dog:

“She’s licking the floor again”

“Eh, has to get cleaned”

[thecheerfulmedic]

Achalasia

Dysphagia means difficulty swallowing and this can happen because of a variety of different disorders. Achalasia is a rare disorder of the oesophagus. The lower oesophageal sphincter is meant to relax when we’re eating to swallow food and allow food to pass down towards the stomach. In people with achalasia, the sphincter is unable to relax properly which causes the difficulty in swallowing. Some other symptoms that patients can experience are:

Regurgitation of food

Chest pain (especially after eating)

Difficulty swallowing

Weight loss

Heartburn

This can be treated in a number of different ways. Injection with botox (botulinum toxin) can help relax the sphincter muscle (although these effects wear off after a while). Nitrates and calcium channel blockers can also be used to relax the muscle. A more permanant treatment option is having surgery to dilatate the oesophagus. In the picture above, the arrows show the oesophagus being very dilated.

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[alice-was-pushed]

So peaceful

[lavidaextraordinaria]

What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?

[frenchshower]

My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually

[thepioden]

Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.

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[femonologue]

What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.

[optimysticals]

I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.

[alessariel]

@brainsforbabyjesus

[brainsforbabyjesus]

okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.

Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).

We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.

[digitaldiscipline]

The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).

This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.

[violent-darts]

OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*

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Jameela Jamil photographed by John Tsiavis for Vera

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Looking at you makes it harder But I know that you’ll find another That doesn’t always make you wanna cry It started with a perfect kiss then we could feel the poison set in Perfect couldn’t keep this love alive

Twelve/Clara version.

[veralorraine]

[funneeb]

In order to make a relationship last, you really have to flow with a person as they change. Give them space. My friend always told me about his grandfather who was with his wife for 60 years before she passed. His grandfather said that through all that time, his wife changed so much it felt like he had been with 8 different people by the end. But he said the secret to making it last was that through all those changes, he never suffocated his wife with his own idea of who he expected her to be. Rather he loved, fully, every new woman she became.

[alice-was-pushed]

💜💜

[business-as-usual-bats]

Tim: but what if i never feel better?

Therapist: with medication and therapy, most people can overcome their depression

Tim: yeah but only 80-90% of people, and I’ve always been told I’m a rarity! I’m one in a million! If I’m in the 1% financially then what’s stopping me from being in the 10% of people who don’t recover??

Therapist: i doubt you’ll be the exception-

Tim: is that a challenge?

Therapist: no. It’s not.

Tim: it sounds like a challenge

Therapist: I’m not challenging you

Tim: you’re challenging my way of thinking

Therapist: well, yes but-

Tim: fine. Challenge accepted. I will fight u if u so insist

Therapist: please don’t say-

Tim: meet me in the parking lot behind the Dennys-

Therapist: tim please we’ve talked about this

Tim: bring your own sword, we fight to the death

Therapist: challenging everyone to a sword battle isn’t a healthy coping mechanism pls u must talk about your feelings-

Tim: it’s only unhealthy for the person that loses

[rasputinaillyanna]

I eat danger for breakfast. I don’t, I prefer cereal. Or croissants. Or those little fried Portuguese… Never mind, it’s not important.

[riveralwaysknew]

In which Peter Capaldi is very pleased. Dragon Con 2018

[dailypsychologyfacts]

Dear, Suicidal Person

Dear, Suicidal Person:

Depression marks on you, leaving a void in your heart and soul. Feeling lost and confused, it seems like part of you is missing. Depression tries to convince you that suicide is the best option. Even after… 

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February 24th, 1942: Edward Hopper completes his best known painting, the seminal Nighthawks. When asked by a Chicago Tribute reporter about the philosophical meaning behind the diner having no clearly visible exits Hopper responded, “Shit. Fuck. I did it again. Goddamnit. Fuck. Not again. I did it again. Shit.” and slammed his hat on his leg.

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This is possibly the coolest video I’ve ever taken.

[mygirlsaremollymarylucy]

wow I love this!!

[pissed-wav]

This is so good for my anxiety

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I’ve reblogged this so many times