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I reblogged a comic the other day about a doctor watching House, MD and diagnosing toxoplasmosis, tagging it with "you're more likely to get toxoplasmosis from a salad than a cat". There's a story behind that.

I used to work in the kennel at a vet clinic. One day one of the vet techs came into the kennel in a tearing hurry, handed me two cat carriers, and said, "Find a cage for these two. Don't know how long, but you can put them together." And then she left.

This was not how that was supposed to happen. I had no cage cards--no names, no feeding instructions, no health information--they weren't on the schedule, and techs didn't usually intake boarders. Medical cases had a separate kennel, so a tech shouldn't be bringing me an animal in during office visit hours. But I had a cage in the cat room, so I tucked them in--two adult females, very friendly, apparently healthy.

Half an hour later the tech came back--with cage cards--and said, "It's okay, they're staying overnight and going home tomorrow." She slumped against the kennel wall and told the cats' story.

They had been brought to the clinic to be euthanized, to die.

These healthy, friendly, beloved cats had been brought in to be killed, because a woman's doctor, her obstetrician, had told her that they had killed her unborn baby. He told her if she ever wanted a child she had to get rid of the cats. He told her they should be euthanized before they killed any other woman's unborn child.

He said, with no evidence, that they had toxoplasmosis. He said that toxoplasmosis caused her miscarriage.

The woman was distraught. She had just lost her baby, she was dealing with the hormonal changes of the pregnancy loss, and now she had to euthanize her beloved cats. Fortunately no vet I've ever worked for will euthanize healthy animals brought in by a sobbing client without asking why!

The vet spent almost an hour talking to the woman, educating her on toxoplasmosis, telling her all the reasons her doctor was wrong.

Not all cats have toxoplasmosis, and even when they do they only shed the oocytes in their feces--they're only infectious--for the first few weeks. Most cats are infected as kittens and are no longer infectious as adults. According to Wikipedia, "Numerous studies have shown living in a household with a cat is not a significant risk factor for T. gondii infection,[61][63][64] though living with several kittens has some significance.[65]"

Most people get toxoplasmosis from raw vegetables, especially salad greens that grow close to the soil and are hard to clean. Raw or rare meat, raw seafood, and unpasteurized milk are also a risk.

Toxoplasmosis can be a soil-borne disease from feces in the soil. Gardening is a greater risk than cat cohabitation.

Toxoplasmosis infection is dangerous to the fetus in pregnancy, yes, causing birth defects and miscarriages. But only the first time the person is infected. If this this woman had lost her first pregnancy to toxoplasmosis--and the vet said it really didn't fit the symptoms--she would be at low risk in a subsequent pregnancy.

So basically the vet told the woman that 1) her miscarriage probably wasn't toxoplasmosis, 2) even if it was, she probably didn't get it from her cats, 3) even if her cats had given her toxoplasmosis, they weren't infectious anymore.

The woman kept her cats and got a new obstetrician.

Human doctors get a few lectures on zoonotic diseases--diseases transmitted from animals to humans or vice versa. Veterinarians get semesters. If a doctor ever tells you your animals have given you a disease, get a second opinion from your vet!

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Orange

I don’t own or take any credit for any of these wallpapers.

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Someone said "Billy parent trapped Agatha and Rio" and tbh I can't stop thinking about that 🫣

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Guys I just finished season 2 of Doctor Who and imma need a long ass fix-it fanfic where Rose and the Doctor live happily ever after or I will crash out.

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DOCTOR WHO (2005) 1.10 The Doctor Dances

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Let’s talk about the powerful moment that happened for the Doctor and Rose in “Dalek”

Here’s a quote from the novelization:

“He’d sacrificed his own race, he’d sacrificed everything he thought he was, what had made him the Doctor. His own conscience. What would that all count for now, if, at the final throw of the dice, he couldn’t sacrifice his best friend into the bargain? A human girl. Just a human girl.” - Dalek by Robert Shearman

Not only did Rose herself tell him during the Slitheen attack that she wanted him to put the good of the world before her, but now he was faced with a Dalek. The same species that caused him to destroy his own race. If he couldn’t sacrifice Rose then the Dalek would be set loose to destroy earth and possibly more planets. His entire sacrifice of his own people would have almost been wasted. A lot was at stake.

But notice, he could only risk Rose’s life because when he shut the door the first time, he had believed she might’ve made it through. He didn’t do anything that would’ve killed Rose for certain, he was only capable of taking a risk. When he goes through the turmoil of thinking she’s dead but then finding out she made it, there’s no way he could take an action that was guaranteed to kill her. He releases the Dalek. He couldn’t do it. Not even to save the rest of the world because he believes his act might cause the Dalek to spare Rose. In fact, I believe that the only reason he could close the door in the first place is because he thought she at least had a chance to get through on time.

So even though letting a Dalek loose might’ve undermined the entire sacrifice he made to end the time war, he did it anyway. Because as the Dalek put it, “what use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love.”

The Doctor is consistently incapable of taking any action that would guarantee Rose’s death as long as there is any chance of an alternative that would keep her safe. And he’s almost incapable of putting her at any serious risk at all. I’m not sure he ever admitted it himself, but Rose meant more to him than the entire planet. Possibly the universe.

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Hercules is the most visually creative of the Disney Reneissance films. If not any Disney film ever.

The three Fates sharing an eye.

Hades’ flaming hair. 

The various designs of the mythological monsters and titans.

The diverse faces and body types of all the minor characters.

It’s a very visually engaging movie.

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not totally finished but didn’t feel like working on this much more 😓 so yeah here’s the one and only rose tyler‼️

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A piece I did awhile back for @hanamizine 🌸

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Rose Tyler is absolutely still haunting the narrative, and the Doctor, and if anybody says otherwise we’ll need to have words, thanks

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WIP/abandoned WIP/low effort attempt at drawing that damn comic panel that haunts my nightmares again

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i rewatched (new) dr who season 1 a little while ago and i needed to draw them

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