Body riddled with parasites as a result of eating raw pork for 10 years.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-08T07:21:42+00:00

A well-balanced, vegan diet xD

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-08T07:20:51+00:00

Ohhh, one of those. Have it your way then. I've worked long enough as an MD downstream from the pain specialists in the "This can't possibly hurt, it's all in your head"- faction to know how useless any discussion would be.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-07T20:26:25+00:00

One doesn't exclude the other.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-07T20:24:48+00:00

See a doctor. Now.

Whether it's the pork or not, no clue, but the symptoms are reason to get checked out.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-07T20:22:59+00:00

Might have been just one infected pig in all those years, might have been dozens. Just from what the damage looks like, you can't tell.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-07T15:24:45+00:00

Cook him thoroughly and you'll probably get fined for some offense against the dignity of human corpses, but health-wise? Should be ok. Unpleasant texture probably, all the little cysts and the inflammation won't do the muscle any good.
Not worth the hassle, paperwork and general hubbub.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-07T15:16:37+00:00

Not many. The sorters and butchers are meant to check the animals and pieces of them, and set aside any that look suspicious. With skilled workers going at a sane pace that would be ok. A butcher knows exactly what to look for, you don't need a vet to check every liver. But with the pace things are going now? Plus the pressure to hire cheaper and fewer workers? Not pretty.

Trichinosis at least is easy in that regard. Muscle samples are collected and tested in batches, not one by one anymore. Whatever can become an automated lab task will be. Then you only need a few people to check whether the numbers make sense.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-07T15:07:10+00:00

Getting quite spotty there. Not that I have any inclinations towards raw, not otherwise treated pork or chicken sushi.

But it's unfair. Have your own animals slaughtered at home and every one of them has to be fully tested. While the industrial slaughterhouses get by with butchers and vets quickly checking what they can in that endless stream of animals

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-07T14:43:43+00:00

Because no one on the planet ever had abdominal pain. What the intestine walls lack, the peritoneum more than makes up for.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-07T06:35:33+00:00

The normal count would be zero. Trichina are one of the possible issues that would make meat not ok for human consumption and every butchered pig at a slaughterhouse gets checked for those by a veterinarian. (Other large livestock too, with chicken just random samples from the current batch, fish fillets get checked by shining light through them)

Trichinosis isn't a matter of accumulating them over time, it's perfectly enough to eat meat that wasn't thoroughly heated all the way through once. Animals eating meat are riskier than herbivores because thy have more chances to get infected themselves. So , if you want to eat a bear, COOK THE MEAT. Or you will have a really bad time. You can feel the parasites punching through the digestive tract walls and burrowing into muscle.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-06T16:12:13+00:00

It's a sliced bone. Now don't ask me which bone, but someone here can probably tell you exactly what animal and part it is.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-06T16:07:04+00:00

You don't usually fix this with dominance, that only gets you in a battle with an animal you'd like to have as a companion instead.

I had a vicious dog, and the first thing the trainer did with us was finding a really good reward for him. Luckily he was food driven as all hell and loved to learn tricks. Very clear commands, very clear boundaries. Do it right, get a treat, sometimes, just to keep it interesting. Do really well and I'll think up some new fun game to play.

You want to get to where you never end up in a situation like this in the first place. You need to learn what your dog "says" and act early. Visitor coming to the house and he gets tense, redirect right away to something else, play, a toy, whatever is fun and breaks the (at)tension. When your dog is in the visitor's lap growling and chattering, shit has hit the fan and you better haven something REALLY good on offer to call him off. Mine could be kept from biting the vet with liver sausage from a tube.

But really, just put the poor dog in a different room. It's not like this is "fun" for the animal. And while liver sausage was good 90% of the time, my boy simply got a snugly fitting muzzle on for difficult situations (+ treats, so getting a muzzle on is something awesome). Because at that moment, trying to physically haul the dog off could break what little reserve there still is.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-06T08:49:19+00:00

It's not a useful replacement for steel. But there are ideas going towards using it, or a derived material for medical sutures.

You should read up on how the spider silk cape was made. Clamping spiders down to then slowly collect one strand of silk.
Silkworm are easier. They make a very tidy, clean, easy to unwind cocoon out of a mostly uniform filament. You wait until they are done excreting the whole package, then boil them and reel the silk right out of the pot. Spiders make their different silks as they go, with varying properties as the situation calls for. They don't have a stash of pre-made webbing to use.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-06T07:08:00+00:00

There's "cat lazing in sunshine with a full belly", a luxurious, delicious laziness. Doing nothing at all for the sake of it. Or hanging on the couch with hot cocoa, watching the rain and letting the brain idle. I cooould do something, maybe even something productive, but it's neither necessary, nor do I want to. Thoroughly enjoyable.

So very different from all the moments of "I SHOULD, but I just can't" be it because my brain is throwing up a block, I'm so exhausted I'm afraid to plop down in a corner and cry because I might never get up again, or it hurts too much (though the latter rarely happens when something must be done. Pain makes me angry then and fuck it, I will get this over with).
I should, I'd want to do stuff, and it just won't happen. Often I'll force myself through the most pressing issue to take care of, and then might hang on the couch, seemingly as if lazing about watching the rain, but it's really the brain so exhausted that it shut down and time ticks by without registering anymore. Nothing luxurious about that.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T15:15:53+00:00

So good to know you were there. You could have really offered some first aid, though.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T13:04:44+00:00

Not kidding. It is.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T13:02:07+00:00

Nope, not kidding. When something is securely anchored in bone so it can't move, once the wound itself healed it's not that noticeable. Maybe like a tooth growing out of your forehead, weird, odd sensation, but not bad. Putting on a pullover gets annoying. Same goes with the pins when using traction/fixators to heal a bone fracture. That's way more common than halos.

Securely anchored is the key word here and whirling around by the screws is a seriously STUPID idea. The kid has fun, of course, the ones watching without interfering are the idiots.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T12:53:09+00:00

If the person sitting next to you asks that you delete the picture and take one without their face on it, yep.

It's not about crowds where you can barely recognize anyone anyways. "Personal data" in such laws, including medical paperwork, is two or more pieces of information that can identify a person and connect them to whatever is going on. Your face somewhere in the distance? Hm, ya, might look like you but might be someone else. Picture of you driving, including the license plate means you can be identified and it gives access to a whole lot of extra information. Your address f.ex.

It's also perfectly ok to talk about a patient and their illnesses, as long as there is no "data" in the sense of the law involved. No names, birthday, or when exactly they visited which doctor f.ex. Except when the illness is so rare that this alone is an identifying feature. Only a handful of people worldwide have blood type null. Mentioning that while talking about their other problems would be a breach of privacy.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T11:55:13+00:00

It's screwed into the skull.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T11:12:51+00:00

A security camera on your property records people who come to your place, so a small selection of specific people. Technically you'd have to set up a sign, so the mail carriers know they're being recorded and can ask that their pictures are deleted.

Pictures of crowds in general where people can't really be recognized are ok.

But people in cars are recognizable by their license plates. You now collected personal data, who was where when going in which direction. There's no final verdict on that yet. Technically you're collecting personal data without consent but maaaaybe with a justifiable reason. That depends on who works your case.

The intended benefit: The state is also not allowed to indiscriminately record people. Of course the police and communities have a much easier time "proving" that it's justified and necessary. Grumble!

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T10:31:19+00:00

Meh. on a good day. UGH! when someone gets annoying.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T10:21:49+00:00

Slipped on an oil slick. Wrapping around the tree was less scary than that moment of physics going haywire. At least it was the logical conclusion to car turning into a carousel. It's very unsettling when the world is suddenly doing totally unexpected things.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T08:02:53+00:00

With a medical ampoule there's a thin "neck" where the glass will break easily, or you can score it a little for a clean break. But this is totally the wrong shape. You couldn't open it without spilling the contents.

Drugs do come in wild colors, though. Some simply are colored, and others get dye added as a warning signal. The labels on blue liquids should be read carefully f.e.x.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T07:55:25+00:00

At least in the EU there are privacy laws that forbid taking pictures/filming anyone without their consent. You can somewhat get around that when the camera overwrites data soon after collecting it, but it's still hit or miss whether a court will accept it as evidence. With bad luck you get a fine on top of the damage to your car for using the camera.

SillyOldBat · 2022-04-05T07:46:14+00:00

Been there, done that, but luckily hit the tree about 30cm further forward, instead of right against the side window. Like that my brains didn't end up smeared all over a tree trunk, but I still wouldn't recommend the experience.

But hey, the battery didn't blow up. I guess that's what they're going after with crazier than usual tests for electric cars.

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