#dealing with tinnitus

[martyrbat]

batman: shadow of the bat #0

[ID: a flashback of the outside of Wayne Manor at night. A narration box (unrelated to the scene) reads, “Ya think he's got a guardian angel, or somethin'?” Inside the manor, Leslie Thompkins and Alfred Pennyworth are talking in regards of young Bruce Wayne. They sit in a magnificent library at a small table as Bruce sits at his own desk that's across the room and has his face buried in a book. Alfred reassures her, “— Worried about him, Doctor Thompkins? I can assure you there's no need! Master Bruce has the manor to live in — myself to look after him — the best education money can buy—”. Leslie cuts Alfred off before he can continue rambling out more examples. She tells him, “It's what he doesn't have that bothers me, Alfred. Friends — hobbies — the kind of life a normal teenager looks forward to. He spends all his time in the gym, or here reading. I don't think he ever recovered from his parents' death.” We're shown Bruce, now in a close-up and able to see the book he's reading is titled ‘Lip Reading For Beginners’. Bruce peers over the book intensely as Leslie continues to express her rightful concern, “He almost seems obsessed!” END ID]

[irascible-iridescent]

Q_Q

[bootdork]

Dudes on Reddit telling you exactly how to safely take certain drugs for a good and careful time have done more for harm reduction than any doctor dangling pills away from people because they might abuse them.

[dalishthunder]

I would like to not live in a physical body that is constantly degrading

[28dayslater]

save me cocodamol... save me

[amzarashi]

i was tagged by @wherepoetsdie;;; misshh ily and tysm for tagging me!! ---> link (o′┏▽┓｀o)

tagging: @junghoesucc @arahir @distortedlightbeam @gryewaren @aredhels @irishforjane @gothgerry @filippa-kosta + anyone who wants to try (❁´◡`❁)

[psyscha]

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[gender-luster]

if i never had to hear a high-pitched ringing/tinnitus sounds from a piece of media ever again it would be too soon

[holyviolence]

me watching a movie because glenn howerton is in it and then getting scared when glenn howerton shows up

[manasurge]

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[moesartblog]

welp my old computer finally hit its breaking point. hopefully i can recover all my art that i hadnt saved into storage from my hard drive

but fuck it means i have to get used to drawing with a new computer and new tablet (cus my old one dosent have drivers new enough for this version of windows)

[rro-bots]

bruhhhhhhhhhhhh i might have a tmj disorder

[silverspleen]

Oh I got so caught up in Saturday plans I forgot that FINALLY I had a tap (pericardiocentesis) go well at work this month!!

for reference during my three prior taps:

I got so skeezed out by watching the doctor struggle to suck fluid out of the patient with the huge comedy syringe that my ass fainted (it's ok it was at the end of the procedure and I was in training)

The patient was so wiggly that the doctor literally called another higher up doctor and went "do we really need to do this" and they did anyway and I was panicked and sweaty the whole time so when they mega fucked up and punctured the heart with the catheter wire it was like "oh this might as well happen" and the patient had to get rushed to the OR instead OOPS

Got called in not for a tap but for a possible post-tap chest tube readjustment, possibly in the patient's room possibly in the cath lab, and sat around outside for 40 minutes while they frantically gave meds, only to finally get to go in an the end, and when they looked at my ultrasound pics they promptly announced that the patient was dead and they were calling it

This last tap went completely fine, except that the doctor had to stab the patient like four times so it took an hour+, but I didn't have to hold the ultrasound probe so my hand was not near the needle! which helped a lot, I just had to run the machine. Patient was very alert but pleasant, and the worst that happened was that they kept accidentally gently smacking them in the face with the xray arm.

Anyway I didn't realize that they just......... Literally left the drain in with the catheter, which must megasuck.

Patient: I'm uncomfy :(

Doctor: Well you do have a tube literally going into your chest to drain the fluid around your heart into this jar here, and a piece of wire inside the tube that's poking gently at the outside of your heart so, yes, unfortunately you will feel sucky until the fluid is gone :)

Me who has literally never had a tap go normally and therefore never knew this: OvO

This means I'm comfortable enough to be a fully useful member of the lab and not freak out when they (inevitably) send me to go do another tap!!

Now if only I can remember the code for the lead apron storage room!!

[samwisefamgee]

how does this week keep getting worse wtf

[daydreamodyssey]

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[skylordhorus]

unrelated but today i was just reminded that not everyone has just always had tinnitus