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Roland

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Nonbinary Lesbian

Traveler

Creator

Lost kid

Burnout Survivor

Human in training

Joy-seeker in the midst of my uncertainty

butchcody

Happy Juneteenth I love you studs I love you bulldykes i love you bulldaggers. I love you Black femmes and Black butches. I love you Black trans women and Black trans men. I love you Black drag queens. I love you Black queers and Black dykes and Black lesbians. I love you Black queer community for establishing so much of the foundation of queerness and queer language and terminology that is so widespread today most people forget it originates in Blackness. I love you Black gay community for all the history you have made and continue to make, in spite of being overshadowed by ignorance and prejudice. I love you Black gay culture, I love you Black gay art, I love you Black gay people.

rasberilvr

✶◟# ann – she/her ⁺

roseillest

BILLIE & EMMA (2018) dir. SAMANTHA LEE

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

revizyonist

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

ancelineonline

I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.

bowditch

i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!