#Medically Related

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

[pangur-and-grim]

here it is, a big print of all @l3irdl3rain's feline residents* in the style of a natural history illustration! this a 4-ink risograph print on ivory vellum, and you grab a copy at greerstothers.shop

*(circa early 2024 - by the time I finished it was already out of date)

[schizoaffectively]

You are well within your right to be angry about the help you didn't get and should have gotten.

You are well within your right to be angry about having your needs neglected.

You are well within your right to be angry.

[dailyheavymedic]

day 35

[hellofellowneighborhoodnothings]

house md summary

[melorasmushrooms]

I still can’t believe that three (3) different Lou Wilson characters have performed some type of surgery (Lord Aravis, Fabian, Gunnie) and none of them were Kingston Brown, an actual nurse

[theabsolutebuffoon]

Noticed some similarities between my main pairings from my last 3 hyperfixations

[marzipanandminutiae]

ok but what are YOUR favorite and probably real victorian funfacts?

There genuinely were some doctors who thought riding in trains would cause uterine prolapse [uterus falling out], when trains were new. The concern was that the vibrations from travelling so fast would break the fibers connecting the uterus to the abdominal wall. Unsurprisingly, this did not stop women from riding in trains. Because fuck that noise- trains!!!

One time in the 1840s a bunch of doctors shellacked live horses and rabbits and concluded, when the animals died (probably from heat exhaustion after being unable to sweat), that they had suffocated and that mammals breathed partially through our skin.

Some beauty manuals of the era may have created accidental sunscreen. Occasionally you see advice to wear cold cream on your face when going out, to prevent sunburn. This probably mostly didn't work- but some cold cream recipes contained zinc oxide for a "white foundation" effect, due to beauty standards favoring very light skin, which may have created a low-level SPF. Other manuals also advocate sealing the cold cream in with powder...which even more frequently involved zinc oxide.

A dentist may have gotten away with a malpractice death by blaming tightlacing. A 23-year-old maid named Annie Budden, of Preston, England, went to have a tooth pulled in January of 1895 and suffocated after the procedure, during which she had been dosed with nitrous oxide. The dentist said she was tightlaced and therefore the coroner ruled that he was not at fault- however said dentist claimed that her natural waist was 23" and her corset measured 18". Presumably that's the closed measurement, and corsets were commonly worn with at least a 2" lacing gap at the time (one corset ad I've seen mentions that women liked to give the theoretical closed measurement of their corset as their waist measurement, to make it sound smaller, while actually wearing it with the customary gap). Ergo, she was only laced down about 2-3 inches, a difference unlikely to cause asphyxiation. The fact that she worked as a maid similarly calls the assessment into question- how could she have successfully done physical labor while laced down in a way that diminished her lung capacity so much? Her employer vouched for her good character and excessive tightlacing was seen as vanity- and would have been noticed by making Miss Budden look out-of-proportion physically. That doesn't add up either, to me. The dentist went on to become mayor of the town where this all happened.

That thing above started as a fun fact about the only credible death due to tightlacing and then I looked into it more and now I'm just mad.

Justice For Annie Budden

Sorry this has gotten off-track but I'm still mad about the whole Annie Budden thing

[wewrutuwertrer]

[uselesstherapy]

[jjngipilled]

yeah biggest warning i can give is do NOT watch house if you’re neurodivergent. you will not be able to escape its claws. your age or profession or interests do NOT matter. it will take over your life and soon you’ll be making a separate blog just for house and that’s just the start…

[hystericalend]

thinking abt sieun studying everything he can about suho's condition and filling SEVERAL notebooks cover to cover with suho's symptoms, scope of abilities, progress. he painstakingly draws diagrams and step by step instructions of the muscle rehabilitation exercises suho's physiotherapist gives him so he can guide him through it when he forgets. he pulls aside nurses at the hospital to take notes on the medication suho's taking, his calorie intake, his BMI and rate of muscle mass regeneration. he stays up late reading case study after case study of long-term coma patients and how well they recovered after waking up. sieun who isn't studying medicine but gets mistaken for it all the time bc even in the uni study halls he's watching some sort of medical video on head trauma and its effect on cognition.

just !! give me sieun who uses studying and knowledge as a coping mechanism because he hates feeling so powerless when it comes to suho's health

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

Credits to McVee ofc for making End of The Line and song credits to the The Raconteurs for making "Now That You're Gone"

[shadowkat2000]

thinking about how some hospital staff definitely became marked by the eye in their curiosity over how a man could only have brain activity and no other signs of life while Jon was in his coma

[l3irdl3rain]

It's amazing how chill Lazarus is. Turning deaf and senile could open a whole can of behavioral issue worms, especially in combo with being rehomed to a lively and confusing place. But he's just a "if life gives you lemons" kind of guy. I hate his former owners for surrendering a cat that is just old and snotty, but on the other side I'm glad he got a (probably much much better) new life at your house of critters

I do totally acknowledge that becoming senile can lead to lots of behavioral problems or just general unhappiness in animals. We see it all the time at the clinic. But on the flip side there are also cats who become senile and just so, so happy and content. Priscilla, Valentine, and Lazarus come to mind. Lazarus doesn’t seem SUPER confused. But Priscilla and Valentine never knew what the fuck was going on, they were just happy to be involved

[jackabbot]

#me .2 seconds before becoming obsessed with a new ship

ST. DENIS MEDICAL 1.09 • You Gotta Have a Plan