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Lead residue from bullet fused into bone.

In movies and comics and stories, when someone survives being shot, they just remove the bullet and that's all.

In real life situations, as the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun and travels through the air, the metal gets extremely hot.

When it comes into contact with a hard surface like bone, it's like dragging a piece of chalk across the pavement. It leaves a metal residue that gets fused to the bone itself.

The gray part on the photo is the lead residue from a bullet. It only grazed the bone here, but still left behind residue.

Over a period of years the lead can slowly start to leach out from the bone causing lead poisoning.

Long-term lead poisoning is something that's not often talked about with gunshot wounds, but this is how it happens. Even if you remove the bullet fragments, its not enough, because you can't remove the residue.

You can't remove the lead residue but you can give medications to lessen the impact of lead on the body.

I almost never see this mentioned in stories except for medical dramas. But honestly it would be great to see this touched on more.

Because.....well....there's all these badass characters in fiction who survived being shot multiple times and they're just portrayed as tough and battle-hardened. But among themes of survival, the lasting impact of these types of injuries is rarely explored.

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Egwene Al'vere in The Wheel of Time s03e01

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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

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TORCHWOOD 2.09 “Something Borrowed"

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I have yet to see this so:

Three tickets to Oppenheimer

vs

Five tickets to the Barbie Movie

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Maybe this was just how my family did things growing up but when I was a kid and we saw a lady with chin hairs or a small chest or large feet or a broad shoulders we’d say “it’s rude and mean to pick apart someone’s appearance” and mind our own damn business.

Apart from being reductive, transphobic, and anti-woman, all this “transvestigating” nonsense is just plain bad manners, and I think we should say that more

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dude.

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"It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer"

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commission for @sirkai , a toast to not quite health

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Collecting books is great until you have to move all of them at once and realize that every one of the little bastards weighs about as much as a brick and collectively have the mass of a neutron star

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Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.