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Welcome to Oliver rants abt marine life
TOPIC(S): Whale fall, the purple octopus, salmon
CW:animal death and the futility of existence
SO WHALE FALL IS A NATURAL PHENOMENON IN WHICH A WHALE DIES AND ITS CARCASS FALLS TO THE OCEAN FLOOR FEEDING THOSE FOR DECADE (AROUND 50 YEARS) ECO SYSTEMS ARE BUILT AROUND THIS THAT LAST FOR DECADES
THERE ARE FOUR STAGES, WHILE FALLIN SHARKS AND OTHER FISH WILL JUST NOM ON IT,
THEN IT FALLS TO THE FLOOR WHILE MOST SOFT TISSUE IS EATEN BY OCTOPI, ISOPODS ETC
THEN BONE MARROW IS DRILLED INTO AND EATEN BY MORE EXOSKELETAL CREATURES/ALGAE COVERS THE BONES T
HEN IS THE REEF STAGE WHICH IS LARGELY UNKNOWN BECAUSE OF THE NUTRIENTS DEPOSITS IT WILL LEAVE BEHIND NEEDS TO BE OBSERVED MUCH LONGER
AND WHILE WHALE FALLS ARE COMMON MOST ARE UNOBSERVED BECAUSE THE SEA IS FUCKIN HUGE
SCIENTISTS WILL LOOK FOR WHALES THAT ARE DEAD AND THEN SINK EM BUT IT'S NOT A TRUE OBSERVATION
WITH WHALE FALLS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A HUGE OUTBREAK OF BACTERIA AND ALGAE WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS IS LIKELY THE FIRST LARGE MEAL THESE CREATURES HAVE EVER AND WILL EVER HAVE
the VERY vital part in how deep sea creatures survive is a phenomenon known as "marine snow" which is organic materials falling from the top layers of ocean, a whale fall is just the jackpot of that, I guess what gets me is when you die on land you feed your neighbors, but when you die in the ocean you fall so deep that the only thing you are known as a blessing, perhaps a fallen god something that so few experience in their lifetime but that carries on for generations
It's a similar thing to the purple octopus the TLDR or their life is that mother deep sea purple octopus's brood for FOUR AND A HALF YEARS which means just sittin on their eggs they do not eat, rarely sleep due to the optic gland then as soon as their eggs hatch they die the mother will in a desperate frenzy eat herself and then fall into the abyss (coming the very marine snow she fed on) AND WHAT GETS ME IS HOW IT HAPPENS
like does she know this will be her fate? in her big alien brain when she swims past the cliffs speckled with other mothers she must realize this will be her fate right?? Does she live her life agonizing over when her time will come? when it is inevitably her end? Does she sit there for those four years angry, upset, this is her fate that she knew all along? or one day is she taken over with this undesirable urge to protect her eggs and is she happy and content or does she wait day by day waiting for it to end
AND IT'S ALL CONTROLLED BY THIS TINY ASS GLAND THAT RUNS IN BETWEEN THEIRS EYES THAT WHEN TAKEN OUT FOR EXPERIMENTATION (kind of on accident 馃拃) SAVES THEM FROM THIS DOOMED CYCLES, IN SOME CASES THE MOTHERS WILL ABANDON THEIR EGGS BUT THEY MOSTLY JUST LEAVE FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME TO HUNT, RETAINING THEIR BODY MASS AND DON'T EAT THEMSELVES ALIVE AFTER THEY HATCH
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So when I first got sick, my cardiologist called it right away: "This is MS or ME/CFS. My money is on ME/CFS because of your age and gender, but let's send you to a neurologist and rule the MS out."
Rant incoming. Men + western medicine = Fish screm
Sent me to a neurologist. It was a man, which should have been a red flag right away. But ME/CFS is diagnosis by elimination, so I figured whatever, let's get it over with. Do an MRI. He comes back, tells me "It's clear. You don't have MS."
I end up at a functional medicine collaborative, take the same fucking MRI to their neuro, and the first thing she says is "You know you have a bulging C2, right?" No, no I did not. And that fucker didn't tell me.
But hey, we knew I didn't have MS! It was a starting point! Yay!
Fast forward to last week at my GP, bitching to my nurse (who has MS) about dumbass male doctors. I bring up my "clear" MRI as an example.
She says, "Yeah, my MRIs are always clear. What did your spinal tap say?"
I say "...what spinal tap?"
"MS doesn't always mean lesions," she explains, "the only way to know for sure is a spinal tap. It's standard diagnostic procedure. You've never had a spinal tap?"
I've never had a spinal tap.
I've been debilitatingly sick for five fucking years. We have told my doctors that I was tested for MS and cleared for five fucking years, because we believed I had been, but we really have no idea.
I could have fucking MS after all.
I call my neuro, now my primary functional doctor. Explain the situation. "Oh my god," she says when it sinks in what a massive dereliction of duty this was on the part of this fucking clown. Remembers an MS patient of hers recommended their specialist, puts me in touch with the office. By this point in the day, they're closed, but I save their number.
If I'm lucky I'll be able to get this ordered and done before another plan year starts, we hit our deductible and are approaching the out of pocket max. (It's a sad country to live in when meeting your deductible is a more exciting part of winter than xmas.)
Fuck. Male. Doctors.
With the exception of my oral surgeon, I have never had a good experience with them.
Ladies, always find another lady. These fuckers will bin your case at the first excuse. Just one piece of one test not being exactly what they're looking for is all it takes for them to conclude that you're being hysterical and making it up and there's nothing wrong with you.
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Please stop reblogging my shit like selfies and start reblogging my art. I鈥檓 having such a hard time getting my art out there in the first place. It honestly kind of pisses me off and I鈥檓 getting to the point of selling all my expensive ass art supplies and just getting working retail.
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Hello!! My name is Oliver/Ollie and oh boy do I hyperfiaxate on marine life
Main account linked here for links to all my other hyperfixations-> Main
some tags to get around my blog ->
#fishart
#fishvideos
#fishfacts
#octopus
#whalefall
#fishrant
#special -> smth that stood out/stuck with us
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