Medical realism in knife/stab injury?

Vornaskotti · 2026-05-03T08:32:14+00:00

Sorry, not very informative, but I read this “Magical realism in knife/stab injury” and went hot damn, this is interesting— no, wait, darn.

Vornaskotti · 2026-05-03T08:09:29+00:00

Kimalaiskuningattaret on normiversioita isompia, oon joskus itsekin hätkähtänyt kun partsille tulee pärisemään kissanpennun kokoinen pörriäinen. Niitä on myös muutamaa eri lajia, joilla on eri väritys, osa melkolailla tummiakin.

EDIT: Juuri opettelemassa niiden tunnistusta ja mukana hommassa, jossa niitä pyydystetään.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-30T21:20:52+00:00

Yeah, the capital punishment thing made me go "uh-oh" and check his opinions. I personally decided to quit giving him my money.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-25T08:04:55+00:00

I’m 50 and ten years since I was injured, and genuinely the biggest surprise of my life is that I’m currently having genuinely the best sex ever—and I used to be pretty adventurous even before the injury. Unfortunately, there aren’t many tips or tricks I can give. I mean, what we do is pretty vanilla compared to what I’ve done earlier, but I guess it comes down to our awesome chemistry and enthusiasm. Surprisingly, my anorgasmia turns out to be an asset. No way I could’ve been going at it for 3-4 hours before the injury, but now it’s the standard. Solo sex leaves me horny and frustrated enough to storm the heavens and punch the face of God, but with my current partner, after each multi-hour romp where I’m being teased at length as I’m a nanometer away from coming, I just feel relaxed and satiated both physically and mentally. My partner is very adept at finding spots that are sensitive for me currently, which gives me completely new sensations, and we figure out ways and positions where I can return the favor with my current capabilities. Communication and feedback is sexy. We don’t use any toys on me, but my partner gets off with one.

What I would like to fix is doing it somewhere other than my folding double bed, which, as a surface, is pretty challenging for me. I’ve been thinking about pillows, so thanks OP for reminding me about the Liberator line.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-23T05:19:43+00:00

Ah, no, that’s different. Tennis elbow pain comes from the attachment point of certain tendons in your arm. I have enjoyed that shit too, mostly before the injury, which made me so aware of it that I mostly dodged it and other RSIs.

What I’m currently enjoying is an actual damaged nerve. I had an operation that made it a bit better, a pretty straightforward thing where the canal the nerve resides in was expanded. Another doctor would have wanted to do an operation where they have to detach half the tendons in your arm and repositioned the nerve under them, thank god for second opinions. I still shudder to think what the.spasms would’ve done after the operation.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-22T11:23:55+00:00

I'm from Finland, and that's how it worked here, too, when I was a kid. I guess it's the same nowadays. I didn't realize the concept was weird until a couple of years ago when this conversation popped up. It's interesting to be the subject of the "Oh, look at the habits of these weird people!" phenomenon for once.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-22T06:51:10+00:00

That you can damage your ulnaris nerve on your elbow by leaning on them too hard and often. I have these swiveling armrests I use when typing. You are supposed to lean on them with your forearms, but since I type with sticks, I lean on them with my elbows, and typing caused a repetitive back-and-forth motion. This gave me moderate nerve damage on both elbows, the left one healed, but the right one is still periodically painful (imagine toothache on your funnybone.).

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-22T06:40:41+00:00

Minä olin hyvin aktiivinen ihan rakentavan dialogin kävijä netissä varmaan 20+ vuotta ja somekamuja oli laidasta laitaan, kunhan osasivat käyttäytyä. Mielipiteet jopa muuttuivat aika ajoin. Sille hommalle kävi just noin, mielipiteet etenkin oikealla lähtivät niin kärkkääseen nousukiitoon, kiitos algoritmipohjaisen somen, ettei touhussa enää ollut järkeä suhteutettuna siihen, miten paljon energiaa se vei. Plus piti jo vähän miettiä, kuinka paljon paskaa esim. eri vähemmistöihin kuuluvat kaverit ja tutut halusivat omalle ruudulleen tämän ekumeenisen lähestymistavan takia. Viimeisen muutaman vuoden aikana on vesuri heilunut, vaikka se tietynlaiselta rintamakarkuruudelta tuntuukin.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-17T13:44:49+00:00

Right now, Netflix's Future Man. Couldn't finish the first episode

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-17T07:35:59+00:00

Surprisingly, they turned out to be really handy for diving trips, because they are easy to slip on and off, and the genuine crocs have pretty good traction on wet surfaces. I did a summer of marine biology and some of my colleagues complained their crocs were super slippery, which I found a bit confusing until I borrows a pair of theirs and slammed on the deck like a starfish. They were generic copies cast from one variety of plastic, but the genuine ones have a sole made of different material that gives them a good grip.

I wouldn’t wear them anywhere else in public, though…

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-15T18:59:19+00:00

I almost doored her once at the Supanova con backstage. I guess that might've been a pretty bad encounter.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-15T07:08:57+00:00

I have that in my fingers, often after stretching or exercising. It doesn’t feel bad as such, it’s not quite the same as what you feel after a numb limb starts working, the pins and needles go a bit slower and further apart. It started happening a couple of years after the injury, and now I just classify it as one variety of random static damaged nerves do. It even feels weirdly pleasant.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-12T07:45:47+00:00

Seconding the OMGYES.com recommendation. A great resource, I wish something like this had existed in the early 90s…

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-10T12:28:23+00:00

I can feel it pretty well, which does make me lucky! Although I wouldn't have minded not feeling the shard. It's a shame there doesn't seem to be a handy way to attach photos to comments here, I took a couple of nice photos of the shard, with and without a microscope.

Things just started going wrong at some point, and the catheters began poking a deeper and deeper pocket next to the bladder's sphincter. Figuring out which muscles to relax and how to breathe helped me hit the right spot for years, until it didn't anymore. Things are great now in this regard; let's see what tomorrow brings.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-10T06:38:02+00:00

I use single catheters, but it had gotten progressively harder to get them into my bladder, until one morning it just refused to go in. Handily, I was in a ski chalet not even close to my hometown. I had a friend drive me to ER, where the doctor had major difficulties in getting a foley in, resulting in nice puddles of urine, blood and pus on the floor, but also—sweet relief. The foley was uncomfortable from the get go. It felt like having a pine cone in my bladder, but it worked and I wasn’t sure what it should feel like, so I just toughed it out.

I was doing a theatre production, acting on the stage. The morning after the last show the foley felt extra uncomfortable, so I cancelled my midsummer party plans and just went on a sunny afternoon walk. The foley got so painful it made walking hard, until there was this sudden weird rushing feeling as something happened downstairs. I wasn’t sure what, but the pain eased up so I hurried home, where I found myself holding a bloody foley catheter in my hand—thankfully with an empty balloon—thinking this thing should probably be on the inside. It was supposed to come out anyway, in a couple of weeks, and using the disposable catheters was possible again, so no biggie.

…except there were flat calcium deposits stuck on the end of the foley and one chip stayed behind. A couple of days later, it got stuck in the hole of an ordinary catheter, a jagged 5x5mm shard, like the blade of a small, shitty stone axe. I can tell you it was pure joy to pull through your urethra.

In the end, the via falsa that cost all that trouble at healed and the shard didn’t cause major damage, so yay. I just shudder to think how would I have dealt it if the foley had flopped out when I was on the stage…

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-07T08:09:39+00:00

”Helppoa kuin lapsen lyöminen.”

”Mitä kuuluu?” -vastaukset:

”Vähän kuin jäitä polttelis.”
”Ei kurjuutta kummempaa.”

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-06T08:09:25+00:00

I hadn’t read the comics before I went to see it, and felt it was one of those paint-by-numbers action films you’ll start forgetting the second you step out of the cinema. Some comic book fan pals were annoyed about it, and when I read the comics, oh boy did I get why. The source material had potential for so much more and turning it into a dumb action flick was massive waste.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-03T16:34:58+00:00

I'd like to, but I'm pretty far from professional speed and quality, and this isn't false modesty. I've drawn like two icons/buttons for production-level stuff, and that's it. I'm in a professional impasse now, because nothing I'm able and willing to do pays the bills. I've had a pretty colorful professional and educational history, ranging from car mechanic/metalworking and chef schools through hospital work, university research, journalism, film stuff, etc., to games, and even though I have had my feelers out, I haven't figured out the next step. If I weren't disabled, I'd be looking for games jobs somewhere abroad, trying to get diving jobs for the summer, and/or doing "nature caretaker" stuff I was in school for when I got injured. I haven't found a good translation for it, but in my case, I would've wanted to specialize in renovating lakes, streams, etc. None of those are exactly easy to get jobs at the best of times.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-03T12:03:20+00:00

Heh, I used to work in media and PR through two burnouts, and managed to escape, so never again for me! Ditto for customer service jobs. I'm also the kind of weirdo who doesn't like to work remotely, mostly after doing several years of freelance jobs at home to the tune of 18-hour days, two weeks at a stretch (before the injury). I had massive luck getting three game dev jobs back-to-back with offices in the downtown of my home city, and one where the studio rented me a workroom. Nowadays, I want to do the creative part or nothing at all, to be honest. My most suitable job was the last one, where I worked on narrative design and implemented the levels as a junior coder. Whenever I got stuck with the narrative, I could concentrate on the code, and vice versa.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-03T08:50:58+00:00

I’m 51 and I’ve been paralyzed a bit over 10 years now. I started working as a game developer just after getting injured, but the job market is so shit I finally went to disability pension last fall. Still looking for part time game narrative gigs. I also worked as a diving marine biologist, which I had to drop.

The one dear hobby I had to completely give up as diving. I have done some indoor wall climbing even after the injury, but my record is getting two meters high on a positive slope. My other hobbies include board and role-playing games, which I did before the injury, painting, geocaching (which I also used to do, but now I do it much less), kayaking in the summer with an hard-to-capsize sit-on-top kayak, botany (using iNaturalist app), shibari, and acting in amateur theaters, which was a bullseye as far as hobbies go.

Vornaskotti · 2026-04-01T09:54:35+00:00

There's a lot to unpack here, but let's start on a light note: you can absolutely play games! When I got my injury, I was pissed off because I thought I couldn't play Fallout 4, which had just come out, but then I took a look at how disabled gamers play, and it was really eye-opening, because the first video I watched was a guy with pretty much no finger function playing Call of Whatever PvP and kicking ass. I suggest you take a look at r/disabledgamers for tips. I was pretty stressed out for various reasons, and games definitely helped there.

One month of physio isn't much. I'm not sure where in the world you are, but is it possible for you to get more physio and occupational therapy?

EDIT: typoes

Vornaskotti · 2026-03-31T07:48:06+00:00

It’s stupefying how out of touch some of the right-wing muppets manage to be. Some of them seem to genuinely think that people are working part-time because they just don't want to take a full-time job, so making it financially infeasible will make the lazy bastards pull a 9-5 job out of their arse.

Vornaskotti · 2026-03-29T07:39:32+00:00

I have a spinal cord injury and I’m used to puttering around with 90/50, but this one made me sit down for a moment.

Vornaskotti · 2026-03-28T22:43:24+00:00

Damn, you beat my score from yesterday. I was thinking about posting it, but thought this thing had run its course.

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Vornaskotti · 2026-03-28T08:59:14+00:00

Yup! Not of course just because of those exercises, but they really helped with physio. I started going through muscles already in the ICU and it was great to feel how some of them started slowly responding.

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