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[shardechance]

𝖜𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖈𝖍, 𝖎𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚'𝖉 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊?

Teaser Tuesday for the critically acclaimed CORPSE UNTIL SUNRISE coming Oct. 30

[justnoodlefishthings]

Are u okay? Tomorrow I hope u feel better.

the blood vessels in my brain are trying really hard to kill me rn but i cant see a neurologist for like, a month. so im just existing in a constant state of muffled distress and agony

[wolfclad]

ooc . Sorry for the disappearing act, your girl was trapped in A&E hell.

[i-love-tubbs-the-cat]

answering med school insiders polls and getting the right answer is the most euphoric power trip

[nerdgirlnarrates]

The novel I’m reading includes a character having some version of a stroke with a hodge podge of every neuro symptom out there: bilateral upper and lower extremity weakness! Sensory deficits! Dilated pupils! Thunderclap headache! Raccoon eyes! Aphasia! Dysautonomia! This gal’s got it all!

[funwisdoms]

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: 10 Critical Insights for Understanding and Managing This Life-Threatening Condition

This comprehensive guide covers the essential aspects of subarachnoid hemorrhage, from its causes and symptoms to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.Understanding these critical points can help you stay informed and take proactive steps in managing

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: 10 Critical Insights for Understanding and Managing This Life-Threatening Condition Table of Contents Causes of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Aneurysm Rupture, Trauma Symptoms of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Sudden Headache, Decreased Consciousness Diagnosis of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: CT Scan, Cerebral Angiography Treatment of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Surgery, Blood Pressure…

[scratchingworkstoo]

she's not like other girls, she's had a

brain hemorrhage

[olaabuward]

Don’t scroll ,read to the end

Hello, my name is Ola. I’m a Registered Nurse (RN) with a Master’s in Public Health (MPH), a survivor of six wars, and currently trapped in an ongoing genocide. My father was killed, my brother kidnapped, and now we’ve been bombed again, leaving my brother Abood gravely injured.

I wanted to provide an update on our dire situation. After our house was destroyed for the third time, Abood sustained multiple serious injuries. His most critical are a subarachnoid hemorrhage and a globe rupture, threatening his eyesight. We desperately need to evacuate him to Egypt for urgent medical treatment to save his vision.

I had paused sharing about my campaign after the famine crisis, but now we are in an emergency. We need help to get my brother the care he needs to survive and, hopefully, restore his sight

Your support means the world to us. Thank you for standing with us through these unimaginable times.

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[justkidneying]

Cerebral Hemorrhages

The Layers of the Cranium

You have your skin and connective tissue on the outside, then the skull itself. Under that, you have three meningeal layers: dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater. Between the dura and arachnoid maters is a potential space (they technically aren't attached, but nothing is there. Between the arachnoid and pia maters is where CSF flows. The pia mater is basically stuck to the brain.

Epidural Hematoma

This is bleeding between the dura mater and the skull. You might see it if the temporal bone is fractured (or just hit), and the middle meningeal artery is ruptured. I have a whole post on it here.

You get this nice lens-shaped blood spot on a CT, as the blood is tapped between the skull and brain. It can't enter into the folds, just exerts pressure on the brain.

See the CT below. The blood is white (the black is a normal space within the brain, and the black at the top is the frontal sinus).

Subdural Hematoma

This is bleeding between the dura and the arachnoid mater. There are a bunch of what's called bridging veins in your brain that cross the subdural space, and their tearing causes this. The symptoms can start immediately after injury or develop over weeks. As the brain is compressed, you can have headaches, vision changes, dizziness, balance issues, nausea, and weakness on one side. As it progresses, you can see seizures, paralysis (including respiratory muscles), coma, and death.

On CT, this will look crescent-shaped. This is because the blood can move around between the layers and begin to surround the brain.

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

This is bleeding under the arachnoid mater (no shit, right?). This can happen due to an aneurysm rupturing or trauma causing a vessel to break. This is going to allow blood into the folds of the brain, as the pia mater is still adhered to the actual brain tissue. The main symptom that differentiates this is a thunderclap headache. This is a very sudden and severe headache (you should go to the hospital if you get one). The rest of the symptoms are similar to subdural ones, eventually resulting in death.

On CT, you can see the blood in the middle of the brain. Not as interesting looking as the other two, imo.

[childhoodgrave]

struggling to stay awake dehydrated and hungry and sweating and shakkng and my brain is like cough cough wheeze… weneed to draw.. horny… ezrah pictures.. and then i get a subarachnoid hemorrhage anc pass away

[transgenderer]

The Cheese Effect in MAOIs

A number of other MAOIs followed iproniazid onto the market, of which the best known were phenelzine and tranylcypromine. In 1961 there was a report in the Lancet of a patient who had a fatal subarachnoid hemorrhage while taking tranylcypromine. Subarachnoid hemorrhages are uncommon but occur frequently enough to make it al but impossible on the basis of a single case to implicate a drug that someone might have been taking. Reporting such a case in a journal like the Lancet, however, indicates a certain degree of suspicion on the part of the clinicians involved. This was one of seven such cases reported between 1961 and 1963. Some were fatal, but in those instances the subjects were taking more than one drug, making it impossible to finger tranylcypromine.

It also seemed that primary care physicians were noticing an increased occurrence of headaches in patients taking MAOIs. Examination of such patients suggested that some had blood pressure elevations, which could potentially tie in with the subarachnoid hemorrhages. Barry Blackwell, a psychiatric trainee at the Maudsley, drew attention to the possibility in a letter to the Lancet, which caught the eye of a hospital pharmacist in Nottingham named Rowe. He wrote to Blackwell detailing the occurrence of headache and hypertension in his wife, who had been taking a MOAI, after she ate cheese. Could there be something in cheese which cause a problem for people on these drugs? Blackwell and his colleagues were amused at the suggestion and dismissed it, not knowing that some of the American clinical trialists for tranylcypromine had noted headaches as a side effect. Max Lurie even suspected an interaction with the food that people were eating.

Gerald Samuel, working with one of the manfuacturers of an MAOI at the time, was less skeptical than the Maudsley doctors because the company had received two other suggestions of a similar nature. His remarks encouraged Blackwell and a colleague to take tranylcypromine for a week and then have cheese--nothing happened. The notion might have died at that point but that weekend Blackwell was called to see a lady who had taken phenelzine and had developed headache and hypertension--after a cheese sandwich. A patient in the hospital taking tranylcypromine agreed to take cheese with lunch and several hours later developed the increasingly familiar symptoms, as did two other patients in the hospital the afternoon after cheese made its weekly appearance on the dinner menu.

...

The medical profession only began to take the observations seriously when a scientific account could be given for what was happening. Ultimate it was shown that cheese contained tyramine, which appeared in the bloodstream after it was eaten. This could indeed increase blood pressure. The implicated was that the inhibit of monoamine oxidase in the wall of the guy allowed more tyramine than usual to enter the blood stream and hence the problem. The "cheese effect" was born. A variety of other foods were then shown to be problematic as well, including both wine and beer, beans, and other vegetables.

The Antidepressant Era, Healy

[cealtrachs]

Three years ago I was standing over my unconscious mother as she lay in the emergency room. She had just been in a terrible accident, and was bleeding from the base of her head and ear. Multiple skull fractures, multiple subarachnoid hemorrhages, broken cheekbone and eye socket, dangerous brain swelling on her ocular nerve and eardrum.

I didn’t know this, but she was about to be in a coma for three days. I did know, or, was told, that she had a 50% chance of surviving past 48 hours. I was also told that I wouldn’t be able to stay with her - it was the first wave of COVID, I was just incredibly lucky that I arrived at the hospital before they formally admitted her. I knew the hospital chaplain, and asked him to go pray over her. I didn’t feel anything at all - just buried myself in forms, as I was her health care agent, and insurance phone numbers.

This past weekend, my mother and I went to see the movie about the famous University of Washington rowing team. She loves stories about underdog athletes - Miracle on Ice is one of her favorites - and squeezed my hand in excitement during the racing scenes. In two weeks, she and I will visit a new Andrew Wyeth exhibit.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

I'm sorry.

it wasn't a true prank. No one today or for a very long time gives a shit about repaired esophageal atresia or a tracheo-esophageal fistulas that meant that when they put this 13 week prem on a ventilator it forced air through the fistula into the lower half of his unconnected esophagus and then into his stomach and causing a rupture, the stress of which caused a left side subarachnoid hemorrhage and life-long paresis and epilepsy.

It looks like you're in a place where you feel helpless and you have a lot of anger about that. I know how it feels to be in that dark place for decades, but it is inappropriate for you to lash out to strangers online. Especially towards those most likely to feel empathy towards whatever burdens you are currently carrying in life.

I will say again that I hope you find joy and community, but unfortunately I cannot be the one to offer you either.

[cabernet-and-calculations]

Incident Report 12282023, Incident Location: Site-██ On 12/28/2023 within room ███ at Site-██, an MTF team was dispatched to respond to a localized threat that was reported at 23:15:06. Upon arrival, the team discovered the door to the room to be open with two entities recovered from the room (see injury report). Much of the furniture in the room had been disturbed with several items being broken in a manner similar to enduring a blunt force. Upon review of footage, it was deduced that the equivalent of a minor bomb had been detonated within the quarters utilizing Type Blue methods. The individual behind the attack, ██████ █. █████████ of the ██████-██, "██████████ ██████", was spotted fleeing the scene shortly following the explosion and was traced to be attempting to escape through the Northern fire exit where they were caught and apprehended. ██████-██ has not claimed responsibility for this attack, it appearing to be a continued reaction of a splintered opinion forming within the GOI. Further monitoring will be necessary.

[Only visible to anons & muses with O5 clearance.] Injury Report 12282023-A, Incident Location: Site-██, O5-10 O5-10 was recovered alongside O5-12, unconscious. Physical examination showed bruising to the kidneys and spleen, minor internal bleeding, extensive bruising to the skin and muscles, moderate whiplash, and increased aggravation of the left eye and surrounding skin. Upon arrival, bleeding was staunched and its condition stabilized. Cognitive function appears normal, with some minor confusion presenting and severe fatigue. Injury Report 12282023-B, Incident Location: Site-██, O5-12 O5-12 was recovered alongside O5-10, unconscious and in critical condition. In a physical examination, it was determined that the radius of his right wrist had sustained a moderate fracture, the 7th rib on his right side sustaining a moderate fracture with the 8th rib on his right side sustaining a mild fracture, and a fractured skull and subarachnoid hemorrhage as well as extensive bruising across the body. Upon arrival, the hemorrhage was stabilized and the rest of the injuries were administered aid. Cognitive functions appeared to be partially disrupted upon awaking in the evening of 12/30/2023 with the presentation of confusion and agitation as well as lacking significant memory of the day leading up to the event. Motor functions cannot be accurately gauged at this time. More documentation will be provided as monitoring of his condition continues.

[turtleations]

Pink Cloudy Sky, Chapter 03 (Summarized)

Chapter 00 - 01 Chapter 02

Chapter 03 - Chance Meeting

In April 1984, REM started at the Kanagawa Dental College. This time he did not live in a dorm but in an apartment of his own, near the campus. After having failed the entrance exam twice, he now got accepted into two different universities he could chose from, the alternative having been Saitama. There was no particular reason for him to chose Kanagawa instead, except that he had a hunch he might be able to find cool rock musicians in Yokosuka, where the college was located. And the hunch turned out to be correct.

REM didn’t waste any time looking for them: Immediately after starting college, he placed an announcement looking for fellow musicians for a band in a music magazine called “PLAYER”, where an acquaintance of his worked. While he had been a bassist in his former band, he was looking firmly as a guitarist now.

Soon, he was contacted by a drummer called Komori. They met and talked, then went to a studio to play together. Later, REM found out that Komori happened to be the manager of the band SAVER TIGER at the time. Looking back, that felt like such a strange hint of destiny…

Their acquaintance, however, didn’t last long: Just a month after they met, Komori suddenly collapsed and was admitted to the hospital, where he died another month later from a subarachnoid hemorrhage. It was the first time REM came to understand just how fleeting and fragile a human life actually was.

The first band he had in college was called DOPPEL GANGER. It was a punk band playing a fusion of hard rock and punk rock. Other than his previous bands, they played only original songs, of which they made a lot.

REM met that band’s vocalist, Koga Masao, at the university festival, where Koga noticed the rock-emblem on REM’s jacket, figured that he probably had an awesome taste in music, and followed him to the toilet. Despite being somewhat weirded out by this, REM went drinking with him and they ended up forming a band together. At the time of writing the book, they are still friends.

Koga was a member of the college’s karate club. Their bassist, Tanabe, was also a member of fighting-related clubs. The band was very sportive, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

REM’s own contribution to this was being a member of the folk music club.

How that happened: REM went to the room for music activities and saw the list of all the bands on the wall. There was fusion, pop, blues and many other styles, but no rock music. A younger fellow student with neatly parted hair saw him stand there looking baffled and like he was about to cry and asked him what he was looking for. When REM told him, “Hard rock!”, the guy looked very sympathetic and compassionate as he informed him that no one cared for music like that, so he should better give it up.

For lack of any acceptable option, REM went to the folk song group. But when he came in, all guys already in the club had suspiciously long hair, and they soon informed the timid newcomers that they only played hard rock in this club. So obviously REM joined with enthusiasm.

With the band DOPPLE GANGER, he stayed throughout all of his time at college. They drank during their live performances; their band name was based on the legend that every person has a double somewhere on earth who is identical in every aspect – actually just one person, split in two. There is a 1/10,000 chance of ever meeting your doppelganger, but if you do, you will die. That seemed suitably dramatic for their tastes.

Anyhow, there was one more reaction to the advert in the music magazine: A band called LAFERIA had a live performance coming up and their guitarist was unable to play due to an injury, so they needed a temporary replacement. The person calling him was LAFERIA’s vocalist Shiomi, with whom REM would stay in contact for a very long time. It was the same Shiomi who later, in 1998, would help out as SAVER TIGER’s support vocalist at hide’s birthday memorial live.

REM listened to LAFERIA’s demo tape, decided that they were a good match and joined as support guitarist. The injured guitarist he was replacing was Ichiro [Note: Full name Itô Ichiro] who would later be guitarist of the pop group E.L.T. (Every Little Thing). Ichiro left LAFERIA soon after, having been invited into the band ACE, which was seen as SAVER TIGER’s little brother. And so REM joined LAFERIA for real.

In this time, REM got even more into music, writing a lot of original songs and getting used to performing on stage. As their original songs increased, so did their audience. At that time, they played about one live show per month.

At one point during those days, they were playing at a live house called PUMPKIN on Dobuita-Street. The live house had a little performance hall for an audience of about 200 people. It used to serve as an air-raid shelter, which gave it a particular structure, and was overall very typical for Yokosuka. And as they played there, the guitarist of Yokosuka’s most consistently good and popular band SAVER TIGER, hide, came to see them.

[Note: At this point REM brings up that SAVER TIGER was still called SABER TIGER at this time, the name change not happening until 1986, but for consistencies sake, he uses the final name throughout.]

REM knew SAVER TIGER, of course. In fact, they had been the second band he had gone to see after coming to Yokosuka, at a live house called ROCK CITY. Watching play them had had quite an impact on him. Even back then, hide’s brightness shone though, his talent already manifesting. And even back then, he used the word “visual” a lot, even though “Visual Kei” as a concept did not exist yet.

hide went for a visual for his band that purposefully contrasted their music: Wild, shocking looks combined with melodious hard rock. With him at the center, SAVER TIGER was without any doubt the number one band in Yokosuka. And that hide had now come to see REM’s band. REM was very excited.

They met briefly but didn’t talk much at that time. REM didn’t expect them to – to him, hide was so far beyond them that even just him coming to watch them perform left him ecstatic. He never thought they would ever be any closer than that.

There were other things on his plate then, anyway. Like the “Fake-High-School-Student” incident: LAFERIA entered and won a band contest for high-school bands, with REM being a fully established 20-years-old college student. He was only a support member at the time, so it wasn’t technically cheating, but he still breaks into cold sweat thinking about it, even though he was happy to have won and the statue of limitations has expired.

Also, there was the time when they performed at the festival of Misaki-High-School of Miura, a neighboring city of Yokosuka. LAFERIA rolled in in the sparkly Fair Lady Z car of his university friend, all wearing leather pants and make-up and looking very flashy. The other bands were wearing school uniforms. In that high-school-festival atmosphere, who can blame the teachers for being overwhelmed by their presence?

After stirring things up at that festival, they all crammed back into the sparkly silver Fair Lady Z and made their triumphant return to Yokosuka.

Meanwhile, the festival “Break Out the Rock”, that was held every year by the Yokosuka Cultural Center, was drawing near. Every rock band in the vicinity of the city that had confidence in their abilities wanted to attend. With around 1,500 spectators, it was quite a step up from their usual live houses.

Of course, LAFERIA also wanted to participate, but the whole thing was spearheaded by Yokosuka’s No. 1 rock band SAVER TIGER, and in order to get a spot, their leader hide had to pick you out. And since no member of LAFERIA was affiliated with SAVER TIGER in any way, they figured that they weren’t going to be on that list. Except that one day, hide contacted them and said, “Since LAFERIA is the most vigorous band right now, wouldn’t you like to perform at the festival as the top act?”

They didn’t need to be asked twice.

Looking at the list of the other bands that would perform, REM started to doubt that they were all just friends of hide. LAFERIA, for their part, didn’t have anything to do with any of them and yet ranked above them all. To, out of all of them, have hide’s recommendation like that filled them with a lot of happiness and pride. REM remembers how excited they all had been.

At the festival they played with abandon to a great atmosphere. The event closed, without any issue, to SAVER TIGER’s rousing performance.

The after party happened at an establishment serving local specialties that sadly no longer exists. Here, they finally really met hide, as well as his vocalist Rolly. In fact, all the SAVER TIGER members, lined up along the wall, seemed intimidatingly amazing and not quite out of this world. But now that he got to really talk to hide, who had seemed like such a distant existence before, about music and their aim as musicians and plans for the future, and got to meet him as an equal, REM was incredibly happy. They bonded over being guitarists and their love for rock music. It was the best of nights and they drank together until morning.

[REM on the left, hide in the middle. The identity of the one on the right I do not know. According to the image descripton in the book, this was in 1984, making REM and hide 20 and 19 years old respectively.]

Life moved on, however, and soon, LAFERIA’s drummer and bassist, no longer high school students, started their working life and left the band. REM and Shiomi were left to try and find a way to move forward. While REM had originally only been with them as a support member, he had since joined for real, had written plenty of songs, and managed to realize his musical goals with them. He loved the band and didn’t want to lose it.

And then Ichiro, his predecessor as LAFERIA’s guitarist, invited Shiomi to join ACE.

Shiomi was torn over this and consulted with REM, but they did not reach a conclusion. However, REM knew, deep inside, that if Shiomi wanted to go to ACE, he couldn’t stop him or argue against it. ACE was one of the best bands in Yokosuka – in fact, several of their members, including Ichiro, would later become professionals. For Shiomi, the band offered a big chance that REM didn’t want to stand in the way of. But it would leave him behind on his own.

It was in just that night that the phone of destiny rang. Literally.

REM was going out as usual, to a bar near Dobuita-Street. Suddenly, someone handed REM a phone receiver with hide at the other end of the call, which stunned him into silence. hide asked him if he wouldn’t like to join SAVER TIGER. REM was so surprised that he couldn’t give an answer right away. On the one hand, he was happy about the offer, on the other hand, the style of SAVER TIGER was quite different from LAFERIA and REM had no experience with twin guitars, having always been the only guitarist until now. So, while hide wanted to meet him right away, REM told him that he was heading out and that they should meet tomorrow. He needed time to think.

When they ended the call with the promise of meeting the next day, hide sounded a little disappointed.

REM drank at his usual bar until 3 AM, agonized over his decision and not reaching any by the time he went back to his apartment. As he walked down the pitch-black corridor towards his room, he saw, in the light of the single lightbulb, two crumbled black trash bags in front of his door, which left him quite confused. Even as he came closer, no matter what, he could only identify those objects as trash bags. It wasn’t until he had reached them that the bags turned out to be hide and SAVER TIGER’s bassist Jimmy, aka JAM, who had been drinking in the corridor while waiting for him to come home. After getting over his initial confusion, REM was actually very moved by them coming to him, and they all went into his apartment where they continued to drink together.

From what REM could put together from their story, hide had absolutely wanted to meet to him that very day, and once he put his mind to something, he took action immediately. That kind of excessive energy was typical for hide, who never stopped until what he wanted became reality. Now the three of them forgot the time and talked until morning, about music, the band, the future… It was an amazing night.

REM told them about his own music, his band’s style, his practice methods. hide and Jimmy listened attentively, then they talked about conditions and compromises. Essentially, they were willing to give REM basically anything he wanted, let him do whatever he wanted. The conditions they offered were unbelievably good! But all he asked for, in the end, was, “I want a flashier look!”

He couldn’t give them a final answer right away, though, because he needed to talk to Shiomi first. But REM, hide, and Jimmy hit it off right away and ended up going for drinks at Dobuita-Street, as they would every night.

A few days later, REM and Shiomi had their talk which ended with them deciding to disband LAFERIA and join ACE and SAVER TIGER respectively. They wished each other luck as they went their separate ways.

REM told hide and Jimmy of his decision immediately. Seeing them react with innocent, child-like joy made him happy, too. And he was convinced that he had, at last, found partners that would accompany him, not just in music, for the rest of his life.

There was one thing he never told them, though: That the decision to join SAVER TIGER had already been made the moment he came home to find those two crumbled trash bags in front of his apartment door.

His days at hide’s side started in September 1985. REM was 21 years old and in his second year of college.

Chapter 04, Part 1