#purgatorywings

[yaoi-paw]

Hey I saw your post about your kitty and it was most probably the food that was getting to him. Science Diet is shit. Try switching him to a mixed wet food/dry food diet (we do dry in the morning/wet at night) (1/3)

and try to find foods with low grain/high protein and low ash (for the wet food). I know it's a bit expensive but buying online in bulk is a good idea. His tummy might be a bit uncomfy for a bit after the switch but in the long run he'll have less urinary problems. Our two ladies are super prone to UTIs and since switching over the fat one is less fat and they've had no problems

I've known for a while now that the Science Diet was shit, but my mum was pretty persistent about following the vet's orders. Now that I've taken him off of it and have moved back to what I was originally feeding him (Blue Wilderness dry/wet mix in morning and evening) until I can find the right diet for him, he's already improved a lot. It just kind of cemented it when he got into the cabinet broke into his kibble bag of Science Diet yesterday because I have the naughtiest cat in the world and managed a few mouthfuls before I heard him and stopped him, but he ended up having stomach issues for a couple hours after. It's definitely the food.

Do you have any suggestions on brands and such that would be good for this kind of diet? I'm really thankful for these suggestions! Our vet kept pushing a low protein diet because of the urinary issues but feedback from others seem to all be suggesting the opposite. I'm going to look around for foods that fit that, though. Thank you!

purgatorywings

[mishaphilia]

I ADORED Marco polo tbh. It's not horrible which is all I can ask for a show about ancient China

ah so you’ve watched all of it? :O glad you enjoyed it!! this gives me hope

[wuqs]

hipsturscum replied to your post: TA has a grading scale of 4 (best) to ...

idk what TA is but when i was in the NYC elementary schools all of our report card grades were from 4 to 1

TA is teaching assistant, so the grad student who does recitation for a lecture. and yeah that's true! all the elementary schools i've worked in here in nyc use the 1-4 system

purgatorywings replied to your post:TA has a grading scale of 4 (best) to 1 (worst) ...

i have a prof with a check, check minus, and check plus system for informal papers. that is strange.

ugh yeah my TA for islamic societies did the same thing. i hated it because "check" was good and "check plus" was VERY good, but like if i didn't get a check plus i wondered what i did wrong. but usually it meant, like, i didn't do extra research on iran or something

[violentvivacity-blog]

purgatorywings replied to your post:my friend keeps telling me to give attack on titan...

but eren is actually a huge sweetheart

if you can show me proof (cuz I never got past the first season, i've never ventured into the manga and i don't know if they have a second season) that he is i might reconsider putting him next to sasuke 

[biologyweeps]

General pet food psa: CATS CANNOT DIGEST GRAINS VERY WELL. Please always try to buy cat food both wet and dry with no corn or grains and a high protein content. If u can afford to, try to raw feed w/ either pretty-packages meals or raw meat+vitamins

*forwarded for general info*

Also cats are OBLIGATE carnivores meaning that if you feed your cat vegan you’re doing it a great disservice and the cat will die from malnutrition. 

[biologyweeps]

huffingtonpost(.)tumblr(.)com/post/95402343395/this-man-has-als-and-his-ice-bucket-challenge wrt this do you think it's possible that ALS is similar to Huntington's in that in some cases with each progressive generation the starting age is younger?

This is going to be very complicated because with Huntington we leave the realm of Mendelian genetics.

The whole dominate-recessive thing doesn’t cover the whole width of inheritance patters. Huntington works a bit differently.

Basically Huntington is caused by a series of triplet repeats. ‘Triplet’ here means a specific sequence of three DNA bases. In this case it’s CAG. If this sequence is repeated a certain number of times in a specific part of the genome, you get a problem. The ‘critical mass’ here is 36 repeats. Most people got less. People with 36 to 39 repeats have something of a low-show. People DO get Huntington’s, but the onset comes so late and may be so subtle that nobody notices. If you got 40+ repeats you do get fullblown Huntington’s and indeed with a very high number of repeats (60+) you can get an onset in your twenties (here). 

Now of course the question is, how do the repeats ‘grow’. Well, DNA can be pretty fickle that way, and it’s possible during the transcription process your body fucks up and creates ADDITIONAL repeats. It can also fuck up the other way and delete triplets, but the increase in repeats-per-generation comes from from these additional repeats being created during replication. Most of the time is the spermatogenesis that’s susceptible to this particular fuckup. This particular phenomenon is called genetic anticipation. 

Now that we cleared up how Huntington’s does the thing, let’s check for ALS. 

There are actually a whole bunch of genes involved in ALS, as in, we know a number of mutations that have different frequencies in different populations. For example the PFN1 mutation has only been observed in a handful of Chinese families (here), while the C9orf72 mutation in this study has not been observed in Native American, Pacific Isands, or Asian patients. Interestingly, this particular mutation IS a a nucleotide repeat pattern and it DOES have the genetic anticipation that we just got to know from Huntington’s (here). The thing is, ALS has a LOT of genes involved, some of which cause juvenile onset all on their own (here). 

But yes ALS has a chance for genetic anticipation comparable to what Huntington’s has, but the overall genetics are a lot more complicated. 

[bisexualhobgadling]

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i was one of those people like 5 years ago

i don't get it

especially when they don't realize that it's not real and they make actual events, both good and bad, all about their ship

like

come on now

[biologyweeps]

hey so this is somewhat of a dental/oral question! I'm getting all four of my wisdom teeth out on Tuesday and it's going to be at an oral surgeon at the hospital under heavy sedation. I have two questions: 1. can you talk about what exactly heavy sedation is, and 2. what kind of recovery/pain can I expect? I'm going to be prescribed a "narcotic painkiller" and at least my top wisdom teeth are extremely high up.

'heavy sedation' is in all likelihood a full anesthesia instead of a local one and you'll actually sleep through the whole ordeal. If full anesthesia is used you'll probably be asked not to eat the evening before the surgery. 

The recovery should take about a week or two, depending on how heavy exactly they need to go on the surgery part (if they need to remove bone it’ll be longer). 

There will be a fairly extensive swelling at least at the first day after the surgery and probably longer, you can use cooling to bring that down. The swelling and possible inflammation will hurt which is why you get the painkillers.

Speaking of which ‘narcotic’ usually indicates that this is the heavier stuff, not ibuprofen or paracetamol, but something morphine based or morphine related. Possible options include Codeine, Vicodin and Oxycodone. (here)

There are a bunch of things you can do to help healing along or at least not delay it, detailed out here but it generally it’s not going to be a very pleasant week for you.