That's incredible
Chetzemoka
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There are a few things I wish we could really show the public. The first is how brutally savage and undignified CPR really is. And the second is what alcohol abuse really does to a person.
Chronic malnutrition, brain damage, hallucinations, anxiety, internal bleeding, fluid swelling your abdomen like a water balloon, literal ammonia building up in your blood that we treat by deliberately inducing massive diarrhea. That's not even mentioning esophageal varices and the increased cancer risk.
Alcohol is a horrifying drug.
This is a painting? The texture on that fabric is perfect
Making noise is the only way things actually get done in this world. Asking politely gets you nowhere. Squeaky wheel gets the grease and all that
Ah yes, a staple on HBO cable TV when I was a kid along with the Phantasm movies
Good morning! Oh man, Screech is coming on strong out of the locker rooms after halftime. Chestnut Backed Owlet and Buff Fronted going for the aggressive offense on this play.
Critical care nurse here. The answer is esophageal varices.
It's the same physiological anomaly as hemorrhoids, except in your esophagus. Swollen, fragile veins caused by increased internal pressure. In the case of hemorrhoids, that pressure inside the veins is caused by straining too much when trying to poo. In esophageal varices, the increased pressure inside the esophageal veins comes from blood backing up from a swollen, scarred, and damaged liver. So we often see esophageal varices in end stage alcohol use disorder.
Horror stories abound in emergency departments and ICUs of having to do CPR on a patient massively hemorrhaging out of their mouth from esophageal varices. As soon as nurses I know saw this report, our immediate thought was, "Yep, varices."
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15429-esophageal-varices
You joke, but my dad literally built (most) of his own helicopter. My mom wouldn't let him fly it because of us kids haha. He sold it still incomplete
Oh this is wild! I just now saw this post. I drive past Fresh Pond all the time. I wonder if I could find these guys.
I agree with at least 2v2 because it evens out the chances that one owl doesn't get votes because it had a bad feather day.
And then the movie patient pops up and smiles and everything is perfectly restored back to normal instead of, "Oh, we convinced your heart to start beating again, but you're still unconscious probably because you have brain damage, your kidneys are dying, your blood is acidic, and now we're gonna put you on a breathing machine. Best wishes!"