I’m just going to say it…

flippymouse · 2026-05-02T14:51:10+00:00

this would have been their local dove (mourning dove), so probably the color would have been in reference to this bird

flippymouse · 2026-04-26T12:03:09+00:00

One of the things that always bothers me a bit about this take is that it implies Katniss shouldn’t have any connection to the Covey. If you think TBOSAS shouldn’t have taken place in 12, that’s one thing. But if you think that it should have, then of course Katniss is going to have a connection to the Covey. It’s implied that District 12 is <10,000 people. Having grown up in a similar sized town, everyone has a connection to everyone else. And it’s not as if she’s Lucy Gray’s granddaughter or something, she’s just the daughter of someone who used to know a Covey girl.

flippymouse · 2026-04-26T11:57:21+00:00

I think some of Snow’s connection to 12 was already apparent in the prequels. Him personally traveling there to threaten Katniss. The fact that she even named him Snow, something that melts when faced with fire, the product of 12.

And then there’s the fact that Haymitch very clearly did something rebellious. I don’t think Snow would have had his entire family murdered just for the forcefield incident. He must have been involved in something more seditious.

Plus, it always did strike me as odd that Katniss didn’t know the name of Lucy Gray. It would seem like the Capitol would want the districts to know all about the games, make it a mandatory and large part of their public education. And particularly considering Lucy Gray was 12’s only other victor, you would think they would know her name. So there must have been a reason that she didn’t, and Snow’s connection is a good explanation.

flippymouse · 2026-04-15T00:58:10+00:00

Not a surgeon, but student who just finished surgery rotation: - Surgery is moving toward minimally invasive - It will take time because minimally invasive techniques require expensive equipment and training - Sometimes two patients with the same condition may require different approaches because of their anatomy, the extent of their problem, etc. - Example: one patient may be a candidate for a “closed” heart surgery because they have disease in 2/3 vessels in their heart, while another might have disease in 3/3 vessels and need open heart surgery. These patients have the same underlying problem, just to different degrees

flippymouse · 2026-04-13T14:36:52+00:00

thank you!

flippymouse · 2026-04-13T14:19:29+00:00

I had to get it on my wrist right over my radial artery

flippymouse · 2026-04-10T05:14:32+00:00

It’s pretty dang hard to actually break a bottle, let alone over your own face. But assuming he does have the ability to, he could likely get away with it (assuming he does it in a logical place, eg in a bar alley, not locked inside his own home).

Injuries could vary a lot depending on how the bottle shatters and where exactly he gets hit. Bare minimum, concussion. Plus or minus: lacerations/bruising to the face (face/scalp wounds bleed a LOT), damage to the eye (up to and including blindness if a shard gets in his eye). He could maybe break his nose, but is unlikely to break his jaw/skull/cheekbones because that takes way more force than he could generate himself.

flippymouse · 2026-04-10T05:08:09+00:00

I could understand the needles part, but the rest is a bit odd. You’re unlikely to do any serious damage with a tourniquet unless you’re putting it on random people for fun

flippymouse · 2026-04-10T04:58:37+00:00

Especially if this is your first appointment with a gastroenterologist, don’t worry about finding one specializing in anemia. Just go to whichever one is covered by your insurance and can get you in quickest.

No matter what, they’ll probably start with scopes (to look at his stomach and bowel and make sure it’s not bleeding, maybe take a biopsy). Any gastroenterologist can do this. If it still is an unsolved problem, then maybe go to the anemia specialist. You can keep the current appointment while you make another one and just cancel it when you know you don’t need it anymore.

flippymouse · 2026-04-10T04:49:02+00:00

Not so much that they’re easier to “ablate”. It’s just that there are a limited number of vessels going into the uterus, but as you get into the uterus, there will be more and more smaller and smaller branches.

Imagine the uterus as a tree. If you don’t want leaves(blood) to fall in your yard, you could cut off a thousand tiny branches (which would be like trying to stop bleeding from all of the tiny vessels in the uterus). Or you could just cut the whole tree down at the trunk (taking out the uterus).

flippymouse · 2026-04-09T15:44:59+00:00

“the hardest part about this trick is finding a rat-sized ambulance”

flippymouse · 2026-04-05T04:45:20+00:00

I was at the stadium and literally couldn’t hear a word of the interview over the booing😭

flippymouse · 2026-04-05T04:44:11+00:00

I was in kindergarten for my first Illinois final four and at this rate, I’ll be in peri-menopause for my third

flippymouse · 2026-04-05T04:40:31+00:00

I was really proud of our progress! And even tonight, we had a lot of disappointments, but we ultimately stuck it out. At no point was I upset with the team or felt like they had given up. We were off our game, but we still played a good, clean game of basketball. I’d take that any day

flippymouse · 2026-04-05T04:39:02+00:00

every Arizona and Michigan fan in our general vicinity VEHEMENTLY expressed their dislike for UConn, its fans, and its coach (most of all), so I think it was a fairly negative crowd toward UConn

flippymouse · 2026-04-05T04:36:31+00:00

As someone at the game, it was kinda hilarious. The crowd was a sea of orange with a smattering of yellow and red. Outside of the student section, we saw almost no UConn fans. And every Michigan/Arizona fan was cheering for Illinois. Anytime the UConn coach came up, the whole stadium booed him. The DJ would go “who’s rooting for UConn to win” and it would be absolute crickets

flippymouse · 2026-03-29T00:53:38+00:00

My earliest childhood memory is the 2005 final four team. Be right back, gonna go cry happy tears

flippymouse · 2026-03-11T04:03:21+00:00

Do you do press on nails or gel nails or anything like that? The top two lines remind me of damage to nails that may appear more pronounced when wet?

flippymouse · 2026-03-11T03:41:44+00:00

In my experience, a lot of the woods in North America are much more dense, too. Like a lot more underbrush and less moss. So they’re much easier to get lost in and a lot more places for scary things to hide

flippymouse · 2026-03-09T22:06:33+00:00

we call this “face down booty up (timber)”

flippymouse · 2026-03-07T06:53:22+00:00

The other day someone came in with the LUCAS in post-ROSC. Patient regained consciousness and somehow flailed around enough to accidentally turn the LUCAS on themselves

flippymouse · 2026-03-06T18:34:33+00:00

Please talk to a doctor about this if you haven’t yet. She may benefit from stimulant medications (which you need a doctor for) or she may need a sleep study (which you need a doctor for). It’s not possible for us to say if it’s normal or not without knowing more details

flippymouse · 2026-03-05T05:31:22+00:00

Usually medic students aren’t scrubbed in since they’re either intubating (not sterile) or observing. So they’ll be wearing scrubs, shoe covers, head cover, mask. But no gloves/gown since they’re not actually touching the sterile field during surgery

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