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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

[wolfbrawn]

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

[rcmclachlan]

Uh-oh spaghettios, I accidentally wrote more pregnant!Buck.

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In a shocking twist, the squirrelly-looking resident who's tasked with administering the spinal (and who Tommy keeps side-eyeing like he's mentally preparing himself to take her down if she makes any sudden movements) turns out to be a rockstar, because Buck doesn't even feel the pinch of the local anesthetic, never mind the actual horse needle. Even Nadine, their nurse, blinks after it's over and says, "I've been doing this for thirty-three years and I've never seen a spinal go that smoothly."

Which means the two weeks Buck devoted to reading Reddit posts about bad experiences with pre-C-section subarachnoid blocks were all for nothing. He could've done something more productive with that time instead of silently spiral. Like deep clean the bathroom or build a birdhouse.

He forgets to be mad about it the moment his legs start tingling, and from there it's only a few minutes before his body goes completely numb from the chest down. "Holy shit, that is so weird. It's just—it's a complete void. Babe, punch me."

One of the nurses is in the middle of putting a sterile blue scrub cap over Tommy's hair and stops what she's doing to stare at Buck in horror. Tommy just sighs through his surgical mask and says, "No thanks."

"You could stick your entire arm inside me and I wouldn't even know," Buck tells him, delighted, as they wheel him into the operating room. It really is like there's nothing below his sternum. "You could carry me around and work me like a muppet."

Dr. Esfahani must catch the second half of that because she starts laughing so hard she almost falls off the stool she's sitting on.

"Glad to see we've got our head in the game," she chortles. "How are you feeling, Evan?"

"I'm not!" He says cheerfully while two nurses set up the curtain across his belly. "Doc, have you ever had a spinal block?"

"Sadly, no." Dr. Esfahani's eyes curve above the edge of her mask. "And when I had my kids, their labors were so quick that I didn't have time for an epidural, either. Be grateful you'll never know what it's like to push the equivalent of a Ferrari through a keyhole unmedicated."

"Bad ass," Buck whispers, and she laughs again, then spends the next two minutes introducing everyone on the surgical team. They're all standing at the ready like a NASCAR pit crew.

Once the introductions are over, Dr. Esfahani turns her attention elsewhere. "How about you, Tommy? You ready?"

Tommy's sitting at Buck's shoulder like a particularly attentive German Shepherd, his gloved fingers trembling where they're slotted between Buck's. "I'll just be glad when she's out and Evan gets the all clear."

Months ago their OBGYN walked them through the reality and the risks of carrying to term—for whatever reason, male anatomy means there's a much higher risk of atony, which means a higher risk of hemorrhaging—and Tommy's been a nervous wreck ever since. He thinks Buck doesn't know, and to his credit he's hidden it well. Not once has he ever shown Buck anything less than bright-eyed enthusiasm and excitement about starting this next chapter of their lives, but Buck has woken up more than once in the middle of the night to find himself clutched against a rabbiting heartbeat while Tommy whispered, voice cracking in half, "Please, please, God, please..."

Buck turns his head to look up at him. He looks like what's-his-name at the very end of The Departed: goofy as shit in all the sterile wear the nurses made him put on. He even has to wear the puffy shoe covers. Between the scrub cap and the mask, his face is almost completely obscured, but all it does is highlight his eyes, which are fixed on Buck like there's no one else in the world, let alone the room.

"You look so stupid," Buck says thickly, squeezing Tommy's hand hard enough that something audibly pops. For a second, he thinks he might explode from the sheer build-up of love in his body, which would be so embarrassing, considering everyone in the room is there specifically to make sure he makes it out of here intact. "I've never been more attracted to you. Wanna make out?"

"You know I would, but I don't think they'll give us new masks," Tommy murmurs, every bit as tender and sincere as he was five months into dating, when he'd interrupted Buck's passionate defense of ocean sunfish to say, "I'm in love with you. Sorry. I just—what were you saying about swim bladders?"

"He's right," the scrub nurse says, deadpan. "We're rationing those. You take it off, you're outta here."

Buck squints at her. "I don't think no shirt, no shoes, no service rules apply."

She squints right back. "Please tell me more about the rules of this hospital, Mr. Buckley."

"Evan, stop antagonizing the very nice, very knowledgeable person holding the tray of very sharp instruments," Tommy says. The corners of his eyes are crinkled in a specific way that means it's taking all his willpower to play the rational adult and not join in on the snarkfest.

Seriously. The human body can't hold an entire baby and all this love without serious complications, right? What if they cut into him and he just starts flying around the room like an untied balloon?

"All right, all right," Dr. Esfahani says, clapping her gloved hands together. "Time to add one more child to this veritable daycare. What do you say, Evan, Tommy? Are you ready to become parents?"

The reality of the situation hits him suddenly like a second lightning strike, and he grips Tommy's hand hard as he rides the waves of excitement and terror, inhaling and exhaling through his nose to help ground himself.

He closes his eyes and thinks of Evan Buckley of nine months ago, sliding to the floor of Tommy's bathroom and weeping bitterly because the test in his hand was a death knell for the relationship he'd finally found after searching his whole life.

If he could go back in time—before Tommy got so freaked out by Buck's incoherent sobbing and the locked bathroom door that he broke it down; before Buck babbled apology after apology for his parents' negligence by not having him tested for the carrier gene, for being the one to suggest they stop using condoms in the first place, for wanting to keep it even though it meant the end of them; before Buck took the test because Chim had jokingly said earlier that day, "you've looked and acted like a wrung-out sponge all week, are you pregnant or something?" and felt like the ground was crumbling beneath his feet when the little plus sign appeared—he would take that scared, resigned man into his arms and tell him that everything was going to be okay. Better than okay, even. Everything was going to be amazing beyond his wildest dreams.

"He stays," Buck would whisper, and hold him so tight they'd start to merge. "Not because he thinks he has to, but because he wants to. He stays because he loves you and what you've made together. You're enough. Isn't that wild?"

When Buck opens his eyes, Tommy's right there, looking at him with so much love and pride in his gaze that it's palpable. Literally. She's moving around in his belly like she's doing stretches to prepare for what's about to happen. Like she's every bit as impatient as they are to finally be part of the life they're building.

"I'm not scared if you're not," Buck rasps, and tilts his head up as Tommy leans down and kisses him through the mask.

"Speak for yourself: I'm terrified. But when has that ever stopped us?" Tommy presses another kiss to his mouth like a notary affixing an official seal. "Let's get this show on the road, huh? Let's meet our kid."

An hour and change later, they lay her, clean and perfect and swaddled into a sleepy burrito wearing a little hat, on Buck's chest where she gets to hear his heartbeat from the outside for the first time.

He stares down at her, awed speechless, and thinks, oh, now I'm going to explode from love. Everyone hit the deck.

Tommy doesn't get to hold her for almost fifteen minutes because he's crying so hard that Dr. Esfahani refuses to hand her over until she's reasonably sure Tommy won't drop her.

"I think Dad needs to take pointers from you," Buck murmurs to her tenderly. She squirms a little in a way that feels like agreement before she falls asleep, already bored with existence. "Your daughter says you're totally not the cool dad."

"That's fair," Tommy sobs into Buck's scrub cap.

[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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[i-eat-worlds]

worlds I have a question that's been on my mind. when someone has a concussion (mild enough for them to walk with assistance) and they're taken to a hospital what happens. what do they do to treat it. what tests do they do. i would love to write a scene for it but I don't know the specifics!!

- @seth-whumps

ooooo okay.

Remember folks, I’m not a medical professional, just a nerd. This is not medical advice and could be inaccurate.

Alright, so, for a concussion, the assessment at the hospital would generally include:

-Checking their head, neck, and face for other injuries

-Testing their strength (squeeze my fingers), sensation (is this sharp or dull, any numbness or tingling?), and reflexes (hit their knee with a hammer, blink to threat)

-Checking their pupils to make sure they react to light in the same way, and making sure they have no double vision. Hearing will also be checked, with a tuning fork.

-Balance and gait will be assessed. (Stand on one foot. Walk across the room)

-Making sure they’re orientated (what’s your name, what time is it, where are you, what happened) and checking their memory (giving them three words to remember and then asking them later)

-They might have to complete some puzzles, or order tasks, to test their problems solving and concentration skills.

Normally, they will not get a CT or MRI.

However, the fact that your character needs assistance to walk complicates things. While concussions can affect balance and cause dizziness, if those are so severe that they impair walking, then I would suspect a type of brain bleed called a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Those usually present with a massive headache, along with dizziness, double vision, nausea and vomiting, and more significant neurological changes.

Since your character likely has more than a simple concussion, they’ll probably have to get a CT scan.

[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.

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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.