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Jedit posted:Science has actually requested my body for research purposes when I die. I apparently set the all time record for greatest loss of lung capacity in a self-admitted patient and they'd like to know how I did it. Same but for my self-respect.
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Jedit posted:Science has actually requested my body for research purposes when I die. I apparently set the all time record for greatest loss of lung capacity in a self-admitted patient and they'd like to know how I did it. I would love to hear any further details you'd like to provide on this.
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Jul 31, 2019 17:59
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I'm just going to take this thread off my bookmarks real quick
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Jul 31, 2019 22:19
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Phlegmish posted:I'm not a parent but I feel that you should praise your children for bringing a fork to their mouth, or for no reason at all, even if they didn't win first prize in some bullshit competition. Sounds like someone doesn’t want a emotionless homunculus of a child to vicariously live their dreams of greatness through.
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Jul 31, 2019 22:20
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Busket Posket posted:The swollen right cheek of seven-year-old Ravindranath looked like symptoms of a decayed tooth to his parents. But tucked inside his right tiny lower jaw were 526 teeth that dentists had to remove surgically. I can read about dead folks and serial killers all day , but I will not be clicking that link because it makes me very uneasy And I bet there are pictures. Ugh Teeth ... ugghh
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The video didn't work for me but there are no photos of like, the surgery or the kid's mouth before the surgery. There is a picture of all the teeth that were removed and arranged in a cool spiral. Some of them were teensy, like 0.1mm long, but had tooth features!
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coronatae posted:The video didn't work for me but there are no photos of like, the surgery or the kid's mouth before the surgery. There is a picture of all the teeth that were removed and arranged in a cool spiral. Some of them were teensy, like 0.1mm long, but had tooth features! Here’s the tooth spiral if you want to see
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Jul 31, 2019 22:47
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Video worked for me. Teeth basically were in one of those tumor things that sometimes grow teeth/hair? Not really what I expected.
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Jul 31, 2019 23:19
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We would probably have longer life expectancies and better QoL if our teeth regrew. This kid’s tumor was on the right idea
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Jul 31, 2019 23:40
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That's loving cool. Blue On Blue posted:I can read about dead folks and serial killers all day , but I will not be clicking that link because it makes me very uneasy It's not bad, it looks (on mobile anyway) like a tissue mass. The vast majority of the teeth are teeeeeeny tiny.
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Jul 31, 2019 23:43
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I'm disturbed that they 'can't rule out radiation from mobile towers', honestly.
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it's been a while since we've discussed teratomas itt. in case anyone doesn't know, a teratoma is a tumour that contains other types of cells from elsewhere in the body that can grow into fully-formed body parts within the tumour, such as (in this case) teeth, or hair, or eyes. there have been cases of surgeons finding like organs and hands in them. they're troubling
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The even more horrifying thing is that sometimes a teratoma isn't actually a teratoma but is actually a twin that was overtaken and absorbed by the other kid. You know, the one that was actually properly developed and born. Sweet dreams!
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Aug 1, 2019 01:49
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They’re a good demonstration of how disgusting earth life is out of context
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They’re pretty gross in context too
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Aug 1, 2019 01:55
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Life is just inherently gross, I think.
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Aug 1, 2019 01:59
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I bet the kid feels a lot better now, since apparently his mouth had been hurting and swelling since he was 3 years old.
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I was playing a tabletop RPG with my wife earlier and heard a loud bang outside. It sounded like when idiots turn 170 degrees into an intersection in front of my house after missing the first turn and scrape the underneath of their car on the bank. I looked out my window, saw nothing, and went back to playing. It turns out a house exploded so massively that everyone in a 10 mile radius heard it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wtae.com/amp/article/explosion-reported-in-washington-county/28568775 Neighbors' houses were damaged, and the windows on buildings anywhere near this house rattled. People in my town are speculating that the gas company caused the leak and explosion.
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I thought it was weird that I had one extra tiny tooth (it got loose and my dad pulled it out with needle nose pliers) but 526 good god.
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Cartoon Violence posted:People in my town are speculating that the gas company caused the leak and explosion. 
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Wait like on purpose?
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Aug 1, 2019 03:57
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We had a multi-city disaster from a gas company fuckup here in Massachusetts a while back. Turns out understaffing and undertaining the people who work with powerful, destructive gases isn’t actually a good idea, who knew 
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Aug 1, 2019 04:22
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BattleMaster posted:Wait like on purpose? "Give our privately-owned utility company more public money to deal with the problems we've created" isn't wholly tinfoil hattery these days.
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Ahaha yeah I didn't mean in a tinfoil "They just wanted to kill people" way, but instead meant negligence, understaffing, refusing to fix problems they caused, capitalism sort of way.
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Aug 1, 2019 05:53
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Yeah, but what about all those times houses didn't explode out of the blue huh? Honestly they should charge everyone whose house didn't explode extra now that we know it can happen. Probably waive the bill this month for the exploded house though. I mean, that's just good business.
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"Farmer finds human orthopedic plate in crocodile's stomach" https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/114689519/farmer-finds-human-orthopedic-plate-in-crocodiles-stomach
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Busket Posket posted:The swollen right cheek of seven-year-old Ravindranath looked like symptoms of a decayed tooth to his parents. But tucked inside his right tiny lower jaw were 526 teeth that dentists had to remove surgically. there is no loving way you are getting me to click that link
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CleverHans posted:"Farmer finds human orthopedic plate in crocodile's stomach" Goddamn, when crocs are on the ground their size doesn't seem to really translate in pictures, but you really get it when you see one hanging vertically like that with the two people standing next to it for context. Sad though, sounds like that croc was living a nice quiet croc life but then lost a fight for territory or something who knows.
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pookel posted:I would love to hear any further details you'd like to provide on this. I'd had a spontaneous pneumothorax in late October; that's when the lung collapses and there's no injury to cause it. The lung was reinflated and after a few weeks I was healed up. Please do not ask me what it's like to have an apical chest drain inserted without anaesthesia or painkillers. Then on Boxing Day I began to feel sick. It hadn't passed by the next day, so we went to A&E. We spent about three hours waiting - not the hospital's fault, you know what A&E is like at Christmas - and then I turned really bad and felt short of breath. They checked my chest and found my left lung was working at 50% capacity and my right lung had completely collapsed. So they hooked me up to the compressors again, but after three days it wasn't working so they scheduled me for emergency surgery. I met the surgeon who was going to be working on me, and that's when I was asked to donate my body if anything went wrong. Yes, he asked me this before the procedure. Cheery, huh? Anyway, I woke up in the recovery room with the outer layer of my lungs in a jar somewhere and hooked up to four chest drains. I spent a month completely bedbound in hospital; lost 20% of my body weight (and I had no fat on me); suffered post-op infections; leaked pus that was literally disintegrating plastic and stitches; got out and walked three miles the day after I got home; got dragged back in to hospital for another three weeks; then finally spent another month intubated and three more months healing the surgical injuries. By the way, if you want to know how common a bilateral pleurectomy is: the surgeon who operated on me had 20 years as a thoracic specialist and he'd never done one before. He actually did a write-up for the Lancet on the case. I worked it out once and the incidence rate of my condition is about 1 per 2.5 million. So there's maybe two dozen people in the UK at any given time who have experienced what I went through, and not all of them survived it. I mean, I'm glad to be here 27 years later, but ... could I not have won the lottery instead?
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Cartoon Violence posted:I was playing a tabletop RPG with my wife earlier and heard a loud bang outside. It sounded like when idiots turn 170 degrees into an intersection in front of my house after missing the first turn and scrape the underneath of their car on the bank. I looked out my window, saw nothing, and went back to playing. It turns out a house exploded so massively that everyone in a 10 mile radius heard it. It’s always a meth lab
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Pvt.Scott posted:It’s always a meth lab Oh ho! So one would think! But check out what was just posted today! https://www.wtae.com/article/columbia-gas-washington-county-house-explosion-pressure-regulator/28580073?src=app Also to the above goon lung story, holy poo poo! I'm so glad you're doing better these days!
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Jedit posted:I'd had a spontaneous pneumothorax in late October; that's when the lung collapses and there's no injury to cause it. The lung was reinflated and after a few weeks I was healed up. Please do not ask me what it's like to have an apical chest drain inserted without anaesthesia or painkillers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SywExJR4lrI Hopefully, you're better !
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Jedit posted:I'd had a spontaneous pneumothorax in late October; that's when the lung collapses and there's no injury to cause it. The lung was reinflated and after a few weeks I was healed up. Please do not ask me what it's like to have an apical chest drain inserted without anaesthesia or painkillers. Sheesh... That reminds me: whatever happened to the cystic fibrosis goon who was on like his third set of lungs?
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Spontaneous pneumothorax is not common, but fun fact: tends to occur most commonly in tall late adolescent males, it's theorized this is because of rapid growth spurts of the chest cavity. It's the "spontaneous" bit that always gets me. A lot of times there's no real reason, it just kinda...happens. Spontaneously. Both lungs at once though...sorry you went through all that 
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nockturne posted:Spontaneous pneumothorax is not common, but fun fact: tends to occur most commonly in tall late adolescent males Mainly checks out: I was 17 and going up towards my final height of six feet plus.
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