#vein surgery

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[hoshizoralone]

HI! Hope you're having a great day! I love all your Samus art! She's the best. Quick question,with the comic you just posted,I recognize most of it but where is the Samus with the big scar on her face from? I don't recognize that one though I've probably missed it somewhere else.

it’s just how i imagine samus looking after fusion/after she’s taken in metroid dna:

i draw the scarring a little bit differently every time but the general idea is having a fucked up face .

[atomicraft]

[slaps everett] this guy can hold so much—oh dear god what is HAPPENING TO THAT GUY

[skunkes]

thje really good thing about this year is ive gotten poked with a needle for drawing blood or other reasons like 20 times so that part of Fearing Going On T has been lessened a bit

[tiredsn0w]

I have a few questions about Kepler’s(is that the correct way to say that, or is it Keplerians?) cardiovascular systems, if you have the time to answer them :3 /nf

•Do they have high blood pressure than humans? Actually, how big is one of anaverage Kepler’s hearts?

•Are the aortas and vena cavas of the two hearts connected, or do they run separately?

•Since they live on a planet with less oxygen in the atmosphere, does that mean that they don’t need it as much? Do they have less of their equivalent of red blood cells? (Blue blood cells?) Or do they have something else altogether?

•Since human veins look blue under our skin, do the Keplers have something equivalent to that?

Also, how’re you doing?

Anywho, have a good rest of your day/night! :]

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This is glorious because I was actually just studying the anatomy of the human heart and thinking about these exact things.

Keplers have higher blood pressure than humans because on Kepler the gravity is roughly 1.5g, which means that it's 0.5x higher than Earth's gravity. Therefore, the CV system has to work harder in order to pump blood up to the head. I don't have exact numbers of how high it would be, but it would definitely fall into the hypertension range for a human.

I would say that on average the heart of a kepler is slightly smaller than one of a human, but combined their volume exceeds one human heart. I'm again not very good with exact numbers, but it's enough to have a larger stroke volume.

For the aorta and vena cava ... I think it's best if they have a set of each, otherwise it would be too easy to have an aneurism. (Now that I think about it, it makes me wonder if 6118 would be prone to aneurisms upon first arriving on Earth? The art I posted the other day was supposed to be of an an aortic dissection [while still on Kepler, it's part of a one-page comic I drew], but I don't plan on actually writing that, I just had a strong idea of it and wanted to draw it. Also since dwarfism affects the bones and cartilage I had a moment of going "what if the kepler version of this disorder also includes connective tissue issues" ...) Anyways, I think it would be that the left heart is dominant over the left side, and the right heart is dominant over the right side, but there is also a lot of crossover. Such as, if 6118 had an aortic dissection in the right heart, the blood pressure on the right side of his body would drop considerably, and somewhat on the left, but the left would be stronger. Don't know if that makes sense.

Kepler actually has an oxygen-rich atmosphere, but it's not so much higher than Earth's that it would have considerable affects on a kepler who went to the latter. What would bother them more is that Kepler's atmosphere is very humid and Earth's is usually so dry.

I never thought too hard about what their veins would look like, hmm ... cyanohematoic blood is clear when deoxygenated, so the veins would not be visible (or only faintly visible) but I can see arteries being pretty bluish under the skin depending on skin tone. Of course on darker skin tones they would not be as visible. I haven't thought about how this would complicate a blood draw but maybe it could be done by the vein popping/raising from the skin alone instead of by colour. (Isn't that how they normally do it? I don't know, I always get complimented by nurses and phlebotomists on my veins since they're very visible. My own family member looked at my arms when I was a child and said how easy it would be to do an IV haha.)

How I'm doing, well, I've been feeling very sick this past week, I seem to be doing a bit better now, but my poor favourite characters have been going through it in my sketchbook. Though it's given me a lot of opportunities to practice sfx. But there aren't very many good resources online to learn sfx without reading things that make me want to rip out my eyeballs with a blunt fork ... oh well.

[contentment-of-cats]

Self-advocacy is exhausting

So, got a call and was asked about my stay after surgery and readmission for the incision infection. Surgery great. Surgeon great. Nurses awesome.

But.

It's noted in my record that I have small, deep veins. Brittle from chemo and radiation, they are prone to collapse. The ER nurse had to use ultrasound to find a capable one. They collapsed when I was on the table which is why I went into surgery with one IV site and came out with three. They were considering a site in my neck. I have begged people to use the power port. It's used for blood draws, it's used for fluids, it's carried my chemo - it's there for a reason.

And the reasons they won't access it are numerous. It doesn't have the flow rate we need. We have to keep it in reserve. It can't handle certain medicines. Finally, one nurse said, "We can't access it without your oncologist's permission."

It was Sunday night and I shot my onco an email detailing my problems - by now five sites collapsed. He spoke to someone about it and next thing I knew it was discharge time Monday afternoon. Why does a patient need to advocate to the point where they're worn down? I look like I've been slamming heroin.

The interviewer seemed perturbed, and referred me to the patient advocate's office. I'll make the call. Just not now. My self-advocacy is on fumes. I need to regroup.

[digital-media-enthusiast]

by: @1morefix

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

anyway. the uk sucks ass and living here sucks ass too! NHS is sooo amazing until its soooo not!

[emmaspolaroid]

medical malpractice barbie

[pekodayz]

if i ever made smth like this again i would actually need to dunk my head in cold water for 7 seconds

[wryn-redacted-thrives]

it’s been over 2 weeks since i was discharged from the hospital and the vein that had the bigger of my two IVs still fucking hurts. like it occasionally just starts stinging and aching the way it did when one of the painful meds was being pushed. the bruise isn’t really visible anymore, but i definitely still feel it 🫠

[keepchangingandneverstop]

Day 297 - I hate anxiety but I don't want surgery again and so I'm anxious

[cowardlycowboys]

always so evil for most sensitive girl to get ivs

[jewishdainix]

They should let me do morphine every night in theat time in the middle of the night when i wake up and cant fall asleep again

[pintsizeginger]

Yesterday was my birthday!

In the past I typically love celebrating my birthday! That normally involves either game nights with friends or a fun trip. Last year and now this year due to health issues those things have been difficult to do.. Last year I was fresh out of surgery and this year I'm just a few days away from a major surgery. Because I can't do much to celebrate I figured I would share my wishlist for surgery recovery items. Since I have fibromyalgia I need all the recovery help I can get! I'm so ready for the surgery but I also know that recovery is going to be rough!

The wishlist link is here

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/21DWNBKK7SDHD?ref_=wl_share

And if you don't want to use Amazon, my PayPal and Venmo are both @SelinaMariaA and CashApp is $SelinaMAngotti

The reason for the surgery is that after having reoccurring blood clots we discovered that I have Venous Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (vTOS). So to allow my veins to work properly I'm having decompression surgery, which will be removing my first rib on the problem side and possibly removing muscle, and I will probably need vein repair too. It's been hard dealing with this, my arm and shoulder has been just getting worse and worse. I'm so thankful that my hematologist recognized it for what it is!

[unorganisedalienrubbish]

I don’t know what to do

I feel drunk but I promise I’m sober. I can feel my heartbeat everywhere, in my chest, in my throat,I’m my sinuses, in my eyeballs, I’m dizzy even when I’m sitting. I feel nauseous. My stitches are itchy, my stomach hurts

I just want to relapse. I know it’ll fix this. Please I just want it to stop.

It’s telling me ‘come on, just a little one, you know you’ll like it, it’ll be fun. Your chest won’t feel so tight. I’ll make the dizziness stop. Come on, just cut a little deeper, you’ll be okay then. You’ve healed wounds before, you’re good at it. The stitches are itchy because they’re healing, you did a good job. You can do more. Let’s make these ones neater. Come on it’ll be fun”