#11 kids to manage by taking Ye Olde Totally Safe Concoction (70% morphine 20%alcohol 10%cocaine) | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

luminarai · 6 months

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I often think about all the people who were forced to go through their periods before reliable painkillers were invented. I just had period cramps so bad, I was frantically googling ‘how to tell the difference between period cramps, ovarian cysts, and a cute appendicitis’ while waiting for the painkillers to kick in and trying not to throw up from the pain. And how period cramps were probably the least of their problems. Absolutely insane. How did we survive as a species.

#cecil blogs her life #period mention #period mention tw #like I was genuinely trying to do the pressure test for appendicitis but I was in so much pain I couldn’t tell the difference #I know that morphine and so on has existed for ages but like. imagine you’re a Victorian trying to get thru your cramps bc you already have #11 kids to manage by taking Ye Olde Totally Safe Concoction (70% morphine 20%alcohol 10%cocaine)#and oops now you’re addicted to morphine #if you don’t accidentally overdose #or you’re a hunter gatherer without running water and your options are ‘try these berries/mushroom/bark’#‘you’ll either forget you have a body or die instantly problem solved in either case’#and you’re sitting there try to remember if those were the berries/mushrooms/bark that killed Kenneth last week #and so on and so forth

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