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blackforestbride

my body is a machine that makes headaches

desert-love

innerchildabortionclinic

My brain works like this

c3rvida3

When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I'm allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.

mothocean

asphodelimago

So there's a medication called hyaluronidase. It's used to make other medications absorb better, because it makes the cell wall more permeable.

One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It's used in a number of injected medications.

Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.

This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it's actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don't actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.

Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.

tl;dr: They won't inject you with bees, but they might inject you with purified cow testicle juice, and your body might say 'eh, cow balls are BASICALLY bees' and try to kill you anyway.

bearbellyblog

The world is full of such beauty and wonder. Thank you for that sentence.

#GREAT #medical #hello hello I am not dead

revretch

They just discovered a new kind of organism that isn't a virus or bacterium

Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like

elevatordreamz

liked this so much i made a poem out of it

OBELISKS peering into us, we see these bits of sequence and strange an entirely new ancient gone unnoticed by its peer (the brevity of human bodies isolates us) we assume that the obelisks include us, but they don't seem to identify with their hosts

revretch

Beautiful!

fruityyamenrunner

@max1461 type statement

#yoo #science #poetry

aropride

"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

aropride

what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box

duckbunny

nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.

you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.

electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.

you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.

laughingpokemon

sunnys-aesthetic

I'm gonna go pet my dog

#wholesome #science #dogs

boazpriestly

#stories #neurodivergence

everlastingrandom

got blood work done today and i just remembered a time i got blood work done as a teen. after the nurse drew like 6 vials of the stuff, i asked him “is all that mine?” and he said “not any more” and walked off

#GREAT #chronic mood #medical #blood

txttletale

Are u normal about trans men

this is gonna get me some hate tbh but honestly? i disapprove of their choice to go to jupiter to get more stupider

businesstiramisu

I DID eventually remember the actual first part of the rhyme but I also sat here for a few minutes trying to get past part of my brain offering "girls go to Venus to get more penis" and the rest of my brain shouting "that can't POSSIBLY have been the rhyme i learned growing up"

#DYING #humor #nsfw

firefox-official

no way this oil is going to last longer than one day lol

firefox-official

three days in. gotta end today

firefox-official

what the fuck

#hannukah #Judaism

an-android-in-a-tutu

the thing about working as a housekeeper is that sometimes I will be called to clean a room that is in such a state that it gives me pause.

The thing about being a housekeeper at a Hospital is that it is not the things that would usually be concerning that leave me with questions.

Like if I go clean a room and it is just covered in blood, I'm not all "where did all this blood come from" that would be silly. It came from inside the patient and they were already in a hospital so they're probably mostly fine hopefully.

In fact "Inside the patient" is where most of the potentially concerning stuff I have to deal with comes from. Vomit? That's from inside the patient. Urine? Feces? Inside the patient baby. Needles full of unidentified drugs? That was supposed to go inside the patient but I guess they frogot.

But when I go to clean a hospital room and it is full of Sand... Did that come from inside the patient? I hope not. Why is there so much sand? Where did it come from? Was there some kind of terrible beach accident?

I have many questions and I'm scared of the answers.

theradicalace

this is such a delightful pair of tags

connortron7

Patient happened to be under the effect of the pharaohs curse at the time

#GREAT #hospitals #blood mention #vomit tw

importantanimalfacts

the-indoor-kites

#bats #oh how I envy them

sunnywalnut

Local PSA: invisible disability does NOT mean you can live your life like a "normal person" invisible disability meant that if a stranger looks at you in public they wouldn't know what's going on.

Like if a wheelchair user were to decide to run into a corner store to grab a candy bar because they know that their legs can last that long without, the cashier wouldn't know.

Or someone with "mild" scoliosis walking upright through their shoulder leans slightly to the left. Maybe they just have bad posture. The lady in the next isle thinks to herself.

The person with EDS or POTS or whatever sort of condition wearing compression gloves out and about. Perhaps it's a fashion statement?

Or what about the people with intestinal issues? They can look like "normal people" too.

You never know what someone is going through.

You never know what they might need to survive or if they're on the edge of a flare up or even if they are currently going through one just by one look.

I think both disabled and non disabled need to realize this. You're not "no longer disabled" because you can "live without" disability aids. They're there to help you. To make your life easier. If living without a cane is going to make it more likely you'll fall over and hurt yourself, use the cane.

If you need to sit down to do dishes or cut vegetables because you need to save your legs for taking out the trash, sit down.

If you need a shower chair because you don't know if you'll pass out, use the shower chair.

People are going to judge you regardless for multiple reasons out of your control.

I'd rather they judge you while you're being safe.

You don't need to struggle to be "normal."

You can just be you.

However that looks for you.

Use your disability aids.

#disability