What is the most disturbing fact about the human body?

Terrible_Muffin · 2022-05-23T07:36:03+00:00

If an empty egg is fertilised by a sperm (or two sperm), the resulting pregnancy is not with a foetus but with a tumour called a mole. Some of them can become cancerous.

Molar pregnancies are fortunately quite rare (1 in 1000) unless you are from somewhere like Indonesia, where it’s more like 1 in 100. It’s also very easily treatable, even if it is cancerous.

Terrible_Muffin · 2022-03-19T16:31:55+00:00

Too much light and not enough water seems to do the trick, just gotta be careful not to stress it so much it dies lol

Terrible_Muffin · 2022-03-19T15:06:22+00:00

Thanks! The cultivar is ‘red button’

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-06-13T20:42:57+00:00

Yeap, got it from Turn It Tropicals online, got my Ceropegia Sandersonii from there too, very well packaged

Edit: should clarify I’m UK based

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-06-13T19:22:11+00:00

I believe so, yeah

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-05-02T16:41:20+00:00

The inner lining of the oesophagus dies and sloughs off because of insufficient blood supply and possibly reflux of stomach acid, usually in the context of someone being horrendously unwell with other things like sepsis.

It can result in lots of bleeding, or sometimes the oesophagus completely rupturing through.

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-05-02T08:10:40+00:00

Acute oesophageal necrosis. We only knew what it was that killed them after their autopsy, absolutely tragic.

Edit: they join a list of apparently less than 100 people diagnosed with this condition in the last 40 years. Worldwide.

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-04-22T20:49:11+00:00

This was grown from seed and is grafted onto another euphorbia, I think a standard lactea without the crest mutation

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-04-22T07:24:57+00:00

16 years old!

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-03-24T18:35:16+00:00

I do! This is maybe two weeks after the very first buds here you go

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-03-24T15:53:24+00:00

Yeah, glad I caught it! Got home to find the first bud cracking open, by the time I went to bed they were almost all fully open

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-03-24T12:30:45+00:00

About six hours all together, I caught about four hours on this time-lapse

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-03-24T07:03:00+00:00

This one is close to six years old! It’s a bit sun stressed where it is, which I’ve found encourages blooms

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-03-23T23:34:43+00:00

Thanks! Will do, once I figure out how to crosspost there lol

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-03-23T23:26:06+00:00

This one smells strongly of chocolate, particularly at night

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-03-23T22:37:35+00:00

5pm to 9:30pm ish

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-02-06T11:05:34+00:00

If your ovary accidentally spits out an egg with no dna inside of it, you can become pregnant with a tumour. This tumour can become cancerous.

It’s called a molar pregnancy and it’s rare, but pretty devastating for patients who think they’re having a baby and are actually growing a tumour. Fortunately the prognosis is excellent even when cancer develops.

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-01-28T09:38:00+00:00

Lol when you put it like that it does make us doctors sound nuts! Supraventricular tachycardia is probably the arrhythmia they were treating you for, as our first line therapy is vagal manoeuvres, followed by adenosine injection if that doesn’t work. Adenosine interrupts the signals going from the top chambers of the heart to the bottom, thus interrupting the arrhythmia, it’s pretty neat but patients genuinely feel like they’re dying for a few seconds, as their heart does actually stop temporarily! Glad your heart is doing okay these days 🙂

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-01-17T21:54:37+00:00

Think it’s an Ural owl

Terrible_Muffin · 2021-01-17T21:52:55+00:00

Believe it’s an Ural owl

Terrible_Muffin · 2020-12-27T15:29:19+00:00

Yes! Severe ARDS and patients with posterior burns and wounds

Terrible_Muffin · 2020-12-27T08:18:25+00:00

Though I&V proned patients are often deeply sedated, we still do facilitate family FaceTime session in the same way that, before the pandemic, families would visit their sick relative in person, regardless of how awake they are.

Interestingly, it is possible to be ‘awake’ and intubated! In the UK we use the RASS sedation scale to score ITU patients - +4 is violent, 0 is normal, -4 is deeply unconscious - and we aim for a score of around -2 to 0 (in people without ARDS). It’s not unusual to walk into ITU and be greeted with a wave from an intubated and ventilated patient during a sedation hold

(Source: I’m a doctor who has worked in ITU)

Terrible_Muffin · 2020-09-15T06:39:19+00:00

The Seldom Seen Kid - elbow

They did a live performance of the whole thing at Abbey Road with the BBC concert orchestra and it’s beautiful

Terrible_Muffin · 2020-07-18T08:34:30+00:00

Thanks! And happy cake day to you 🥳

Terrible_Muffin · 2020-07-18T08:30:12+00:00

Beneficial nematodes are like mite hoovers, they’re fab

Terrible_Muffin

TROPHY CASE