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Life is:
- Find a playlist “POV: you just robbed the Louvre” that was made 2 months before the Louvre was ACTUALLY robbed
- Send a link to your friend laughing about that timing
…exactly 2 months before…
GETTING A TEXT ABOUT LOUVRE GETTING ROBBED ON YOUR FINAL EXAM.
Life is part 2:
• Being sure I will get Plato or Descartes on my final exam.
• Being absolutely certain I am not getting Nietzsche on my exam but still revising him last the evening before the exam.
• Joking about having Nietzsche’s “moral of slaves” after I saw a pamphlet against government exams 30 minutes before the exam.
• GETTING NIETZSCHE ON MY FINAL EXAM.
BRO WHAT?
Life is:
- Find a playlist “POV: you just robbed the Louvre” that was made 2 months before the Louvre was ACTUALLY robbed
- Send a link to your friend laughing about that timing
…exactly 2 months before…
GETTING A TEXT ABOUT LOUVRE GETTING ROBBED ON YOUR FINAL EXAM.
I’ve reached this stage in my 3rd language that when I open a wikipedia article written on it, I feel too lazy to change the language to my 1st or 2nd and just read it as it is.
When at 11-12 years old I felt like this with English, I confidently said that I spoke the language.
Yet I am having SUCH a hard time associating myself with this 3rd language that I feel like a total rookie even though I AM NOT and it’s driving me just a little insane.
NOW I GOTTA LEARN 4TH ONE TO REACH THE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE™️ BECAUSE YES.
Nothing reminds me what a goddamn miracle modern medicine is more so than hearing stories about people who contracted the black plague in the 21st century and were prescribed antibiotics for it.
Like yeah man you got the disease that wiped out half of Europe, like, a couple separate times within written history, and we have no clue how many times before that. To cure it you have to take 14 pills and drink lots of juice. You’re gonna feel kind of crummy for a while. It’s vitally important you take all 14 pills.
the thing that blows my mind is blood transfusions. for literally all of human history up until about 100 years ago if you lost enough blood that was it, you were dead, and then people just figured out how to take blood from other people and successfully give it to you and now you can come in to the hospital with a blood pressure of ohfuck/nope, the same color as the linens and they just pop a tube in your arm and casually give you some stuff that another person donated on their lunch break, and you live long enough for the doctors to find and treat your gastric bleed. Insanely cool.
Honestly even more, just . . . IV fluids.
The fact that we can put fluids into people via IV saves more lives than I can actually communicate. There are so, so many more ways to die when we can't do that. You can go from literally at death's door from an illness you have no other cure for, to Basically Fine, You'll Feel Icky A Bit Longer But You're Otherwise Fine and Your Own Immune System Will Work Now, from sterile saline into a vein.
Or even fucking subcutaneous, under your skin. It still gets into your system faster and bypasses any fuckery going on in your gi-tract.
But you want the other end?
I recently got the answer to a crapload of symptoms of mine and it turned out to be Crohn's. Ileal crohn's.
For most of human history there was literally nothing to do about this but hope and pray that your immune system didn't decide to rip ulcers and lesions in your digestive tract to the point where you bled out, or the point where parts of it died and killed you with sepsis, or enough to build up stricture bands of scar tissue sufficiently to cause impactions or any other really gnarly and unpleasant ways you can die because for some reason your body decides the walls of your digestive tract are the enemy and need to be dismantled cell by cell. (Including a fuckload of cancers caused by the constant damage to the cell wall.)
Even as recently as when most of the younger people reading this were small children, mostly all you could do about it was take corticosteroids when you were in a flare. And that was better than Nothing. But at the same time, corticosteroids have a potential laundry list of side effects and you want to take them as little as possible and for as brief a period as possible. And there wasn't a lot else.
I am on a medication with the proprietary name "Skyrizi" and the generic name risankizumab. It's made from taking antibodies from a non-human source and then modifying their protein sequences to be more similar to human antibodies, after which they modify them further in order to make it so that the literal only thing they do is go into my body and bind to something called "tumour necrosis factor" so that this will stop flagging my own goddamn digestive system walls for destruction by the rest of the immune system.
Please feel free to read that paragraph over again.
Modern medicine isn't perfect; there are many things we're just as helpless against as we were in the Days of Eld, and there are many ways its practitioners fail us. But also we can make a thing that goes into my body and says "hey stop self destructing you MORON!" and I have a much better chance than at any other time of not dying young of bowel cancer or bowl impaction! This is fucking insane.
Vitamins and micronutrients.
There used to be a common, horrific illness that sailors would get, which was mysteriously cured by limes. People know about this one, it's scurvy. But there are other horrible ways to be sick from vitamin deficiency that weren't considered curable at all, and people had no idea what caused them.
Rickets is a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency where your bones get bendy and grow in the wrong shape (it is most apparent in children). It causes permanent deformity and very easy fractures, along with debilitating pain and persistent dental issues. Historically, it was known that milk, and later, cod liver oil, would improve or prevent it, but the reason was not understood until the vitamin was discovered.
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a complication of alcoholism that leads to psychosis, dementia, and death if left untreated. Severe alcoholics used to just go completely mad before dying, basically. It ultimately results in permanent memory loss (retrograde amnesia), as well as the inability to form new memories (anterograde amnesia). It is caused by the fact that alcohol prevents the absorption of vitamin B1 (thiamine). It is treatable and preventable by giving the patient thiamine shots - if caught early, before permanent brain damage has occurred, it is fully reversible, although the underlying substance abuse issue still needs to be addressed to prevent recurrence.
Pernicious anemia is caused by vitamin B12 deficiency (in turn ultimately caused by an autoimmune issue causing poor absorption). It causes blood cells to be the wrong size and too few in number, resulting in dizziness and fatigue. It also causes neurological symptoms like tingling in the extremities, poor coordination, confusion, and, in late stages, dementia. There was no cure for pernicious anemia in the past. People would simply become anemic and die from it. That's why it's called "pernicious" - that's an old-fashioned way to say "insidious and deadly," named for its slow onset and then-incurable course. Now it is curable with vitamin tablets or periodic injections.
Cretinism, or, less stigmatizingly, congenital hypothyroidism due to iodine deficiency, is a developmental disorder caused by the inability of the thyroid gland to function properly without sufficient iodine. it causes short stature, intellectual disability, infertility, hair loss, and a large lump in the neck known as a goiter (i.e. a hypertrophic thyroid gland). It was historically associated with poor inland populations living far from the ocean (due to the protective effect of consuming seafood, which is naturally high in iodine). We now simply put iodine in table salt, and this disorder is virtually unheard of in regions where this is the case.
Neural tube defects are a leading cause of birth defects, infant mortality, and stillbirth. The most common nonlethal forms of neural tube defects include spina bifida, hydranencephaly, and encephalocele. These defects are caused by a failure of the embryonic structure that becomes the spinal canal to close properly during development, leading the central nervous system to have a distorted shape that may impair cerebrospinal fluid drainage and put pressure on the brain. In severe cases, e.g. anencephaly, the brain/spine essentially develop outside of the body, which is not compatible with life (anencephalic and iniencephalic babies typically die within hours or days; fetuses with more severe forms are usually stillborn if they are not terminated). The risk of these defects is drastically reduced by taking supplemental folic acid (vitamin B9).
Vitamin K is perhaps the most amazing one on this list. Newborns often have very low vitamin K levels due to the fact that it does not cross the placental barrier easily and is not found in high levels in breast milk. It is only produced by gut bacteria, which babies do not have when they are born, and it takes time for them to acquire the right flora from their environment. Deficiency impairs blood clotting, and in infants, can lead to brain bleeds and sudden, unexplained death. Tiny babies would simply die of brain hemorrhaging for no good reason at all. But if they're given a quick shot of vitamin K at birth, that doesn't happen.
We have cured or prevented so many diseases just with vitamins/minerals.
Just a girl and her isopod…
If this post gets 500 likes/reposts I’ll buy an isopod plushie and take pictures of it everywhere I go.
Too busy studying for finals to really write my fanfiction, but after a long day I catch a trip from exhaustion and write a few random short scenes that will probably never enter in the actual fanfic, but oh well.
🦐bark....
God damn this is so cool!
fuck it
rate our MHA oc
PLEASE TELL ME SHE HAS GLITTERY AND GLOW-IN-THE-DARK GLUE STICKS TOO
Hmm do you know how much time you invested while writing the first chapter of your BNHA fic with Reika? Including the drafts and such? I'm just curious :P it's cool if you don't know
This made me check. The document for this fic was created 21st of Feburary. It’s been 1.5 months. Wow. I mean, I really don’t have that much free time to write. The answer in numbers though…
Probably 20+ hours. Which is crazy.
To be fair, I had to rewrite it several times, plus during that time I got more or less a solid plan of fic and worked on my OCs... English isn’t my first language, so a big portion of that tjme went into editing too. And daydreaming. Seriously, I have notes on some of the quirk limitations in my chemistry notebook.
Plus time for research. I love Wikipedia & statistics & any useless information, so I was combining two hobbies there. And yeah, apparently hair actually can prematurely grey if your diet is bad. I’m counting this as a learning experience.
The district elections is an entire story that I will probably post about sometime.
Thanks for the question and all your support <3
MHA, but with a detective twist…?
I’m a Sherlock fan and I’m a bit too obsessed with MHA… so I think the backstory is clear.
you can only do this career for the rest of your life
https://wheelofnames.com/dng-wgq
How are things going?
Great! A job I actually enjoy!
okay. I can put up with this
bad but not terrible
terrible
I don't work/results
(this wheel is set in a magical world where all jobs pay enough to support yourself so this is purely about the work you do and not the money)
First spin and I get the gayest one on the list.
Oh, to be a librarian…
I love it when conservative rock fans find out Kurt Cobain was woketron 5000
Showing a bigoted 56 year old Nirvana fan these pictures to watch them disintegrate
What is scary is how 30 years later, everything he said is still relevant.
You know the fic is getting intense when you switch from writing on your phone to writing on your tablet
I need a bigger screen for this shit
Literally my experience the past few days 😭
Publishing the first chapter of my first fic feels like a love confession.
And… it’s an awkward one.