#I have an appointment with the neurology department soon!!!!!!!!
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What’s the best part of being in and out of the hospital?
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#I have an appointment with the neurology department soon!!!!!!!!#i’m crying#i freaking hate giraffes#chronically ill#chronic pain#fnd awareness#functional neurological disorder#sick kid
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alicia
annie had a standing appointment with julia now, a weekly facetime call that was more or less therapy. it seemed clear to annie that julia was suffering from depression, but julia refused to see it at first.
annie found the conversations grueling, as julia was trained enough to evade everything annie wanted to get at. she took to walking down the street to a bar after every call and getting drunk by herself.
she was two drinks in one evening when a pretty girl sat next to her. her name was alicia, and she had blonde hair with pink streaks and very white teeth and seemed almost cartoonishly chirpy, but was also very direct about her flirtation. she told annie she thought she was really hot. annie observed to herself that they had a very similar body type -- thin and tall but with big tits. of coirse, annie was brunette and pale and wore glasses and alicia was blonde and pink and tan - very californian, which was funny because she was a local gal, even had traces of the chicago accent--annie's family had been too upperclass to ever allow traces of such a thing. in elementary school annie had been mocked for her crisp diction by both her classmates and her teachers. that had stopped as soon as annie had grown tits, of course.
alicia very obviously wanted to fuck -- impatiently played with the drink annie bought her, and so when annie proposed they go somewhere, alicia took her immediately back to her apartment, where they had a far-better-than-average makeout session on her couch.
"do you always fuck girls?" annie asked her.
"no," alicia said. "rarely, honestly, but i promise i'm good at it. you?"
"very rarely," annie said. "i'm better at sucking cock."
"hot," alicia said. "you're a slut."
"yeah," annie said.
they moved to alicia's pink bed and got naked. alicia was shaved, and squirmed and thrusted hard against annie's hand while she fingered her. she was so active and exciting in bed that they quickly moved through a few positions. annie was surprised how fast her first and second orgasms came.
alicia was on top of annie when her speech began to slur in a way that was immediately alarming.
annie's medical training clicked in and she told alicia calmly "i think you are having a stroke."
alicia did not seem to comprehend.
annie moved her down on the bed and got her phone from her dress and called 911. she spoke very calmly with the operator who connected her to a doctor as the ambulance departed. the man on the phone immediately clocked that annie was a doctor. she was still on the phone with him keeping alicia in a recovery position when the EMTs came in. annie had not really even considered that they were both completely naked until one of the EMTs offered her a blanket.
later, annie wondered if that was a standard part of the kit they brought in when they knew something like this had happened during sex. she tried to figure out who in her friend group would be the best to ask.
when alicia was gone, in an ambulance, annie got dressed and wondered what to do. she heard a phone ringing and realized with a start that alicia's phone hadn't gone with her. she answered it.
"hello?"
"hey, ali?" said a friendly voice.
"no, uh, no..." annie said. "hi, um, my name is annie ellison, i was here with alicia tonight and... who is this?"
"this is her brother tom,"
"ok great, uh tom, i think she had a stroke--"
"is she okay?"
"i'm not sure. i kept her stabile until the paramedics got here but it seemed pretty serious i--"
"stable? are you a doctor?" it was a little sarcastic, a little edgy.
"yes," annie said.
"oh," he said. "wait, but you called 911? why were you there?"
"i was having sex with her, um, at the time?" annie offered.
"oh, jeez, okay, wow, yeah, so has alicia told you about her condition?"
"condition?"
"alicia has a neurological disorder. this has happened before."
"oh god, okay."
"yeah, stay calm, she should be OK," he said. "listen, i guess, keep her phone on you. i will get in touch with my parents and we'll take it from here but i will keep you in the loop."
annie went home bewildered. robbie was up. he had a girl over, she was asleep naked in their bed. they sat together and she told him all about it. he asked if she needed anything and she laughed and said, "i kind of want to cum?" robbie pulled her into his lap and fingered her until she came. annie slept on the couch that night. in the morning, she woke to the sound of robbie and the girl fucking in the next room.
she came out a few minutes later, a skinny, cute girl in her early 20s, fully shaved, robbie's cum all over her tits and stomach. she was annie sitting on the couch and said, "oh hey! are you robbie's sister?"
"yeah, hi!" annie said.
"nice to meet you, he says you're like, so cool," she said.
"robbie is a sweet boy," annie said.
"sorry about being naked and covered in his cum though," the girl laughed. "i'm casey by the way."
"well that is totally fine, casey, we are pretty open around here."
"i love that," she said, as robbie wandered into the room wet cock dangling. "my parents definitely taught me that sex and nudity are natural."
"you ever see your parents fuck?" annie asked.
casey laughed. "yes actually. they have sex in our hot tub a lot and like, i'll look out the window into the backyard and see my dad railing my mom. it's kind of sweet, right?"
"that is kind of sweet."
"and my dad is very well hung so i am always looking for boys like robbie," casey continued.
"you're so little," annie said. "doesn't it like destroy you?"
"well, that's the goal, right?" casey laughed. "who doesn't want to be fucked to death?"
"oh man, too soon," robbie said.
"what?" casey said.
annie told casey about the alicia situations. her mouth dropped.
"okay i am soooo sorry," she said.
"it's fine," annie laughed. "it was just really weird."
she realized she hadn't checked alicia's phone in a while. there was a missed call from tom. annie was able to call him back from the home screen.
"hi, is this dr. ellison?" he said.
"yes. you can call me annie, though."
"hi annie. okay, so alicia is in a coma."
"oh fuck."
"no, that's okay. like i said, this has happened before, she was in a coma for 6 months when she was 17."
"wow."
"so yeah, she is stable, they think she'll come out of it gradually... she's going to live."
"i'm so glad to ear that," annie said.
from the kitchen, cleaning cum off of herself with a paper towel, casey gave an excited thumbs up.
"this is going to sound weird but my parents want to make you dinner." he said.
"um?"
"they are just really grateful that you were there with alicia. if you weren't, who knows what might have happened."
"tom, just so you know, like... i met alicia at a bar like an hour before we fucked. it was a very casual hookup."
"i get it," he said. "they do too. alicia has never been the long term relationship type. they just want to meet you."
he gave her a date and an address. annie hung up. "they want to meet me."
"you're a hero," casey chirped from the kitchen.
"yeah, totally," robbie said. casey giggled and grabbed his cock.
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This morning I called the radiology department as soon as they were open to schedule my MRI - it's another three weeks. 🫤 But I called neurology right after and made an appointment as soon as I could for after that date so I'm not waiting another three weeks to talk to her. This recent time they didn't prompt me to schedule until after the MRI was done. So now I will at least have both appointments before the end of May.
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Emergency Department vs Urgent Care vs Primary Care vs DIY
Disclaimer: This post is meant to be informative and it’s wording often assumes that you have access to all of the above as choices. We do, however, understand that the US healthcare system sucks, rural areas exist, lack of insurance is a thing, unexpected things happen, and unfortunately sometimes we don’t get all that much of a choice in where we seek our healthcare. If you need healthcare, please seek the healthcare you can access, even if that means using the emergency department for things that are not emergencies.
Also, please get your healthcare advice someplace besides tumblr.
If the above statement confused you, congratulations- you live in a place with reasonable healthcare. If you nodded right along with it, I’m very sorry to say you live in the United States of America, where pressures outside the severity of illness are often in play when deciding where and when to seek care for medical problems. Things like whether care will be available to you without insurance (or with any certain insurance plan) and, if you can actually get care with the coverage (or lack of coverage) you may have, whether the price for that care will be something you can afford.
Hopefully, not only will this post tell you a little about the options available to you and what problems they’re most designed to take care of, but also give you a few tips and tricks for getting the care you need in a way that works both for the system providing the care and does not literally bankrupt you.
When to go to the Emergency Department:
An emergency department is a part of the hospital. It is equipped and staffed to respond to the most emergent and life-threatening medical problems. It is designed to perform an initial evaluation of the patient, provide stabilizing care, and determine whether the patient should be admitted to the hospital for continuing care, or be referred to their primary care doctor for follow up. Patients are seen in order of severity, which can cause very long wait times for those who are otherwise stable.
Go to the Emergency Department for something that would either A, cause you to die without medical care, or B, requires a level of testing capabilities/care that is not possible outside of a hospital.
Things that could kill you or cause permanent disability without medical care:
Difficulty breathing
Chest pain
Uncontrollable bleeding
Seizures that last longer than 5 minutes, or stop and start without the patient going back to “baseline” in-between
Severe allergic reaction/anaphylaxis
Suicidal ideation with plan or inability to care for self due to mental health problem
Loss of consciousness
Poisoning
Spinal injury
Stroke symptoms
Severe trauma (car accident, gunshot wound, etc...)
Large burns
High fevers that don’t go down after taking over the counter medications
Things that require a higher level of testing capabilities and/or care than could be provided elsewhere:
First-time seizure or sudden onset of unexplained neurological symptoms like confusion
Abdominal pain
Broken bones (with obvious deformity or protruding from skin)
Coughing up blood
Head injury
Swallowing a foreign object
Severe dehydration
Active labor
Burns covering more than about a hand-size area
A US law called EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) makes it illegal for an emergency department to refuse care to someone who is experiencing a medical emergency, regardless of their ability to pay. This does not cover continuing care, however, just the initial stabilizing care, and the patient will still get billed.
If you go to the ED and get billed, and you are under 400% of the federal poverty level, call the hospital and ask to speak with a financial counselor. They will often be able to write off part or all of you bill and set up a payment plan if needed so your account does not go into collections.
When to go to Urgent Care:
Urgent care is a lower level of care than an emergency department, but an urgent care often has things like x-ray machines, EKG machines, and an on-site lab. They can also do minor procedures like casting, inserting a catheter, removing a small/minor foreign body, and giving IV fluids. Urgent care clinics can be expensive without insurance and may or may not have the same ability as a hospital to write off unaffordable bills. I would always recommend calling ahead to make sure they take your insurance.
Go to an urgent care if you need primary care services outside of normal primary care hours or if your primary care office cannot see you soon enough for your needs. They often do not require you to call ahead or make an appointment. You can go to an urgent care for things that require a slightly higher level of care than a primary care office, but are not immediately life threatening.
Things like:
Broken bones (without obvious deformity), dislocations, and sprains
Sinus, ear, and eye infections
Minor allergic reactions
Cuts, burns, large splinters
Bronchitis, pneumonia, mild-moderate COPD and asthma exacerbations
Nausea/Vomiting/Diarrhea/Dehydration
Fevers
Rashes
Sports or occupational physicals (if you don’t have a primary care physician)
Doctor’s notes for work or school (if required same day as call-off)
When to see your Primary Care Physician:
If at all possible, you should have a primary care physician (PCP). If you don’t have insurance, find one that offers a sliding scale, meaning you only pay what you can afford based on your income and household size. PCPs are especially important if you have any ongoing medical or mental health needs, but most younger, otherwise healthy folks will still need their PCP for routine/sports/job-related physicals, screenings, medical documentation, referrals if necessary, and vaccinations. It will greatly help in the long run to keep up on these things. Swearsies.
PCP offices require an appointment, but many have some same- or next-day openings for acute medical conditions that need prompter evaluation. Many offices now offer virtual visits as well, either over the phone or through a videoconferencing platform.
Primary care offices offer care for:
Physicals (sports, annual, job etc...)
Chronic disease (diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, COPD, asthma, etc...) monitoring and ongoing care (meds and med changes, referrals to specialists, etc...)
Screenings and tests (blood pressure, diabetes, TB, strep, basic bloodwork, urinalysis etc...)
Vaccines
Prescription refills
Sinus, ear, and eye infections
Minor allergic reactions
Mental healthcare (some offer counseling services, many are comfortable prescribing medications for things like anxiety, depression, insomnia, and ADHD)
Impacted earwax
Birth control, including implants and IUDs
Cuts, burns, large splinters
Bronchitis, flu, pneumonia, etc...
Nausea/Vomiting/Diarrhea
Fevers
Rashes
Sprains/strains
When to DIY:
Sometimes you have a problem you’re pretty sure you can deal with on your own. This is a different level of comfort for everybody, and I would always recommend you reach out for help if you’re having a problem you’ve never had before or if you’re uncomfortable. Do not DIY purely for financial reasons.
Many larger hospital systems and insurance companies have a nurse triage phone number, where you can speak with a nurse who can direct you in self care or recommend you go to one of the above options. These are often 24/7 and free to use.
If you have a PCP, you can also often call their office or ask a question through an online portal like MyChart. This is also generally a free service.
Common DIY medical situations:
Minor sprains/strains
Colds
Splinters/small cuts/scrapes/bruises
Minor allergies
Infrequent, mild headaches
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Stitching The Wounds, Chapter 18
TITLE: Stitching The Wounds
CHAPTER NO./ONE SHOT: Chapter 18
AUTHOR: fanficshiddles
ORIGINAL IMAGINE: Imagine Loki and Kilgrave are Alphas and feel a spark with the same omega.
RATING: M
Leona’s heat lasted near ten days, which was unusual. Usually it was just under a week for omegas in heat, hers had been really intense as well.
Loki and Kilgrave had managed to keep up with her, only just.
They were all exhausted by the end of it. And the poor washing machine and dryer had been on at least twice a day to try and keep up with all the sheets that needed washed on a daily basis.
‘I’ve never known a heat to be so intense.’ Loki hummed when Leona fell asleep, or more… passed out, between them both. She was curled up so cutely in the middle of them.
‘I can’t believe how much slick she produced.’ Kilgrave said in awe as he looked over towards the door at the pile of sheets that were needing to be washed, just waiting their turn. Loki had ended up ordering some more to be delivered, just to help keep up.
‘At least it’s over now, for another four months anyway.’ He chuckled lightly, smoothing his hand down Leona’s side.
‘She’s definitely been at her most vulnerable while in heat.’ Kilgrave hummed.
Loki nodded in agreement. ‘At least we had her trust for the duration of it.’ He smiled.
‘Not going to lie, I’m kind of glad we don’t need to worry about her being pregnant. Going through the whole nesting and rapid hormone changes, then the sleepless nights.’ Kilgrave said with a relieved sigh.
Loki chuckled. ‘I bet you weren’t thinking that during her heat though.’
Kilgrave looked sheepish. ‘True.’ He lay on his back and looked up at the roof while he let his fingers lightly glide through Leona’s hair.
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Kilgrave was made to eat his words the following day. Leona had gone missing, but they managed to find her in her bedroom wardrobe, at the bottom surrounded by pillows and blankets. And she had also stolen their jumpers too for their scents.
She was nesting.
‘I didn’t think omegas nested unless they had been impregnated?’ Kilgrave said to Loki in the kitchen after they had comforted Leona for a while and made sure she was ok. They had tried coaxing her out, but she wasn’t keen to leave her safe space at all.
Loki tapped his lower lip in thought. ‘She could be having a phantom pregnancy.’
‘What?’ Kilgrave’s eyes widened. ‘Is that actually a thing?’
‘Of course.’ Loki nodded.
‘What can we do for her? I don’t want to see her go through the whole process to then be disappointed at the end.’ Kilgrave said sadly.
‘I know, it wouldn’t be good for her mentally to go through that…’ Loki sighed. ‘There are options, but we’d need a doctor to come and confirm she isn’t actually pregnant first. Then there are drugs she can be given to stop her hormones from tricking her body into thinking she is pregnant.’
Kilgrave slid a hand down his face. ‘I guess we need to make an appointment then. With her not wanting to leave her nest, I suggest we get someone to come to the house.’
Loki nodded. ‘Do you have anyone in mind you’d prefer?’ He asked.
‘Not really. I don’t tend to mix with anyone else in the hospital but the neurology department.’
‘Snooty bastard.’ Loki teased with a grin and went to grab his phone to call someone.
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By the afternoon, a doctor turned up on the doorstep to help. It was a beta woman, which Loki was relieved for. He had a feeling if an Alpha turned up Kilgrave would have had a fit about letting him near their omega while she was so vulnerable.
Loki and Kilgrave explained everything to the doctor before letting her up to see Leona. She had already looked through her previous medical records so she knew what had happened to her in the past.
‘It does sound like she is experiencing a phantom pregnancy. As from the accident when she was younger, it is impossible for her to be carrying. But I will still take a blood sample just to check, it can be done here and I will get the results within ten minutes. While that’s processing, I will give her a general check over and then we can discuss options with her.’ The doctor explained before going into the room with Leona.
‘Sounds a plan.’ Loki nodded, then opened the door and motioned the doctor in.
Leona was confused and a bit worried when the wardrobe opened and she saw a doctor with her two Alphas. Kilgrave crouched down and put his arm around her.
‘It’s alright, pet. We just wanted to get you checked over, as nesting is usually a behaviour that happens if an omega is pregnant.’ He said softly.
She frowned. ‘I… I can’t be pregnant though… I just, I just feel a need to nest.’ She whispered.
‘I know, darling. That’s why the doc is here to check. Since you are nesting, there’s a chance your hormones are playing a cruel trick on you, making you think you’re pregnant. And we need to get that sorted as soon as we can.’ Kilgrave continued.
‘Hi, Leona.’ The doctor smiled and crouched down. ‘I just need to take a blood sample from your arm, so we can run a test just to confirm that you’re not pregnant first. Is that ok?’
‘No! You’re not taking my blood! Don’t come near me!’ She snarled at the doc.
‘Leona.’ Loki growled in warning.
‘She’s here to help.’ Kilgrave said firmly.
Leona scowled at her Alphas and reluctantly shoved her arm out, but she turned her head away and looked at the back of the wardrobe. The doctor looked at Loki and Kilgrave, they nodded their permission for her to go ahead.
They did warn her that she could be a little feisty sometimes.
The doctor took a blood sample and quickly ran the test, she left it to run while she then checked her over. There was more grumbling and reluctance from Leona, but with a firm look from her Alphas she let the doctor check her temperature, look into her ears, eyes and she listened to her chest. Then the doctor finished with taking her blood pressure.
‘Alright. Everything seems to be perfectly well. Let me go check on the blood sample and then we will take it from there.’ The doctor excused herself out of the room to check.
Loki crouched down and gently gripped Leona’s chin. ‘See, it wasn’t so bad, was it?’
She just glared at him, making him chuckle. He leaned over and kissed her forehead, melting her a little and making her features soften.
The doctor came back in a few minutes later.
‘So, you’re definitely not pregnant. Which means your hormones are completely out of whack, making your body think you are. It is unusual behaviour for an omega to nest unless she is pregnant.’ She sighed a little and glanced at the Alphas, then looked back at Leona. ‘If we allow you to continue with your phantom pregnancy, it might dwindle out within a few days. But there is also a chance it won’t, and that can mess with you mentally as well as physically. If you want to stop it, I can give you an injection that will balance out your hormones and tell your body that you’re not pregnant. It might take a day or two but it’s very effective. Though it’s your decision, Leona.’
Leona looked from the doctor to her Alphas. She was scared now, confused. Unsure what to do. She tried to keep her emotions together, but Loki and Kilgrave could tell she was distressed.
‘You decide… I don’t know.’ She said quietly to her Alphas, her lip wobbling a little as she curled herself up and looked away from them all. Breaking Loki and Kilgrave’s hearts.
The two Alphas stepped outside to speak to the doctor.
‘What’s the best option?’ Kilgrave asked quietly.
‘Honestly, I think giving her the hormone injection is best. It will put a stop to it quickly and effectively. It would be stressful for her to carry on.’ The doctor said calmly.
Loki nodded in agreement. ‘We will go with that then… What about her future heats, will this happen every time?’
‘Well. That’s something you will also need to decide on. It’s highly likely she will go through this after every heat. While we could administer the injection afterwards each time, it wouldn’t be overly healthy in the long run. What I’d suggest would be giving her the monthly injection to block her heats from happening at all. They’re perfectly safe to be on permanently, and from what you told me about how intense her heat was, I would highly recommend it. I can also give you a pack to last for the year, as you will be allowed to administer them yourself.’ She said as she looked at Kilgrave, knowing he was a doctor.
Kilgrave nodded, his hands on his hips. Loki ran his hand down his face. It wasn’t an easy thing to be discussing, but they knew they were going to have to do what was best for Leona.
‘I think we need to go for that option. We need to think of her health first and foremost. She did lose some weight during her heat, which isn’t good as she hadn’t put on enough in the first place since we got her.’ Kilgrave said, looking at Loki.
Loki nodded. ‘I agree.’ He looked at the doc. ‘Go for the injection to stop her phantom pregnancy. And if we can get a year supply of the injections, we will go for that option too.’
‘No problem. I will leave you both to tell her about them in a few days, once she’s not nesting and has a clearer mind. I know she’s distressed right now. She might have a sore arm for a few hours after, if she has any reactions give me a call straight away. And the monthly injections are to be given every four weeks, so pick a day and stick with it.’ She sorted out what was needed, then went back into her room with the Alphas.
Loki sat down next to Leona, half in the wardrobe.
‘Leona. The doctor is going to give you an injection now, to help sort your hormones out. Ok?’ He said softly.
She just nodded in agreement and put her arm out. Loki moved in closer and put his arm around her while the doctor administered the injection. It wasn’t painful and was done quickly.
‘There we go. All done. You should start to feel a difference and have a clearer head within a few hours. It can take anywhere between eight and forty-eight hours to settle completely.’ The doctor said to Leona, but also to the Alphas too.
‘Thank you, doc.’ Loki smiled up at her.
Loki relaxed much more when the doctor left the room with Kilgrave. He had been more antsy than he’d first thought he would be, having a stranger in his home when his omega was so vulnerable.
When Kilgrave saw the doctor out, he thanked her again.
‘No worries. I’ve left my private number on the card with the injections, feel free to call me any time. Night or day, if you have any questions or issues. Your poor omega has been through a lot, it’s nice she has such caring and loving Alphas to look after her now.’ She smiled genuinely at Kilgrave, who felt his heart melt.
‘Thank you. That means a lot.’ He smiled.
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See you again
Summary: Soulmates are the people that truly belong to us, but sometimes life is not grateful and we have to wait for a life where we can meet them again.
AUs: SoulmateAU ReincarnationAU ProHeroAU
Warnings: fluffier than the others, blood, medical talk, harassment at work, swearing, protective Todoroki
Disclaimer: My Hero Academia and the characters belong to Kohei Horikoshi.
Words: about 2.180
Quirk: Cell regeneration ~ This quirk allows healing somebody. The host can regenerate and strengthen the cells. Therefore the host needs to touch the person they want to heal. The quirk replaces the damaged cells with the healthy ones of the host. The new cells multiply on their own and heal the injury.
Malfunctions are that through extended usage, the host gets dizzy, receives nosebleeds, and their skin can get dry.
A/N : We are slowly getting towards the end of the story, although I separated the last part into two. It would have been way too long for one part. So here is Part 1. I hope you like it. Oh, I will also correct the parts after I have finished the series.
A/N 2: In Japanese, last names come before first names. So I wrote the names like this.
previous part: Third life: 1970 next part: ~ coming soon
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Annoyed, you pressed the alarm until it finally stopped ringing. "And another day that has to pass," you whined. Just like every morning, you got up and cleaned your bed. You opened the window and let the fresh air in. After you brushed your teeth, you headed straight to your desired breakfast stop.
You opened the door of your favorite café. When you moved here, it became a routine to eat in the small, cozy coffee shop near your workplace, also known as the hospital. Even with a high amount of customers, it was always quiet and welcoming. But this morning, it seemed like no one was there.
"Good morning, L/N-sama. What would you like to have for breakfast today?" greeted you, Watayama Tomomi, the owner of the comfortable café. "Good morning. The usual, please." You ordered. With a wide grin, she disappeared into the kitchen.
In less than five minutes, she came back with your beloved breakfast. "I already thought that you would order the same as always, so I prepared it for you. Luckily, as always, you were punctual. So it's still warm." She explained in response to your questioning look. "That's very generous of you. Thank you Watayama-San." "Oh, I was happy to do that for you." She waved it aside and went back to work.
As always, while breakfast, you took out your phone and read the news.
Bank robbery in Musutafu city center.
A bank robbery took place in Musutafu city center. Several million yen were stolen in the process. Some civilians got hurt. The pro heroes one and two were gladly in the area and arrested the villains immediately. Shouto and Deku have once again shown a magnificent performance in which they soon caught the bank robbers and handed them over to the police.
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You put your phone aside and focused on your miso soup. You took a sip of the broth and felt the soup warming your stomach from the inside. No matter how hot it could be, miso soup for breakfast promised an excellent start for the day.
Your gaze went back to the news article and stooped at the hero name Shouto. It was oddly familiar, but you didn't know why. It was just a name like everyone else's. Why did it felt like home reading these five letters? Why did it felt so familiar? You didn't even know him, neither did you ever saw him. You never dealt with this whole hero thing. It was just a regular career like every other. Of course, you were thankful that they risked their lives for the safety of the people. But that created a lot of work for others.
Your pager went off, and you groaned. Emergency room, it said. "Watayama-San, I have to go. Could you pack my breakfast so I can take it with me tonight?" you yelled through the empty café to the kitchen. “I like to do it L/N-sama. Have a successful day at work." she wished. You grabbed your stuff and headed straight to the hospital.
After you changed your clothes, you went to the E.R. In there, hell was going on. Nurses ran around, doctors stormed in and healed patients like on an assembly line. "L/N-san. We need your help." screamed a voice inside your head. You couldn't see anyone who might have called you, so it could only be one person, your colleague Sera Keiko. Her quirk allowed her to speak non-verbally to people far away. It was very efficient to gossip about various colleagues during the breaks.
You opened the door to the trauma room. A carnage greeted you with a Sera dripping in blood. "What happened?" you asked as you put on some gloves. "The bank robbery this morning did not take place without victims. This week we don't have so many staff to be able to cope with the size," She explained and pressed more effectively on the unconscious patient's wound. "Alright. We need more blood. Can someone get it, please?" you ordered. An assistant nodded and ran to the blood bank.
You took over the patient by pressing your hands on his wound and activating your quirk. "Why does he pass out every now and then? Did he hid his head?" you asked curiously. "I think so. We couldn't ask him, and there is no visible wound," reported Sera. "Did you ordered a C.T?" She inclined her head, embarrassed. "Then do it now," you demanded, and she called the tomography department. You focused on your quirk, so it healed the wound as concisely as possible. Blue sparks swirled around the bloodied skin. You felt how the effects started to work on your body. It felt like the world started spinning, but you wouldn't stop until you were sure that the cells would connect. "At the moment, they have no opportunity to take new patients," informed Sera. "Alright, then we need our wonderful neurosurgeon, doctor Tanabe," you said sarcastically. Sera nodded and dialed the pager number.
How you haded this arrogant, good-looking surgeon. Some people called him Mc. Hottie. Gross, you thought. As like your thoughts had summoned him, the door swung open, and he entered the room. "What do we have here?" Tanabe asked. "The patient passes out every now and then. We couldn't get a C.T, so we need your opinion," you told him professionally. "Of course you can have my opinion, babe." he winked at you. You rolled your eyes. He was a good doctor, but nothing more.
You felt how the bloody wound under your hand started to heal itself, so you could remove your hands. "L/N-san, your nose is bleeding. Here you are." Sera handed you a handkerchief. You cleaned your nose and thanked her with a smile. "When you're done here. I would take over," said doctor Tanabe. "You can have him," you said bluntly. With a last wink, he left the room with his new patient.
"Oh, he is such a douchebag," you complained loudly. "We need to inform someone related to him. Could you hand me his medical record?" you asked. Sera nodded and gave you the documents. "Thanks," you mumbled. "Do you want to grab a drink tomorrow?" asked Sera. "I would love to," you responded with a beaming smile. Sera started to smile simultaneously.
The door opened, and two men entered the room. "Excuse us..." started an unknown voice. "Sir, you can't enter this room. It's staff only..." your voice dropped as you looked into a pair of grey and turquoise eyes. A wave of memories hit you.
“It’s unfair.” you sniffed. The young prince pulled you into a closer hug and stroked your h/c hair. “I know, but we will meet in another life. That’s how it is with soulmates or not?"
“I hope so.” Your lips meet, the tears from both of you make the soulful kiss taste salty.
Even if I don’t come home, I will always remain a part of your heart, and we will meet again in the next life, just as we always have promised. We will be able to hug each other again and won’t have to let go. My love for you will never die, even if my body does not survive this war, my soul will always be with you.
“It’s fine, Shouto, we will meet in the next life. We will have a family and live until death will do us apart.” You wiggled your hand free from underneath the stone. With your bloody hand, you stroked his cheek. His eyes were filled with fear.
"You can’t leave me. I need you. We wanted to live a happy and long life together.“ he cried.
You felt how hot tears streamed down your cheeks. "Shou..." you mumbled, overwhelmed. "Y/N." he answered, as surprised as you were. You were attracted to each other like magnets. The world around you faded as you hugged each other. "I missed you," you mumbled, your voice choked with happy tears. "I missed you too, darling." His lips met yours, and you returned the loving kiss. The lonely feeling you felt your whole life disappeared at this moment. "Err, Todoroki, we still need to know what happened to your sidekick." stuttered a voice behind the two of you. You broke away from each other, and your cheeks turned a light red tone.
"Your right Midoryia, I am sorry. I just found my soulmate again," he said bluntly. "Oh, I don't want to be rude, but we really have to get going." said the green-haired man. "Do you happen to know where Mayeda Nobuo is?" asked Todoroki. "Oh yes, he was my patient. I bet we can ask doctor Tanabe if you can visit him. He had a severe wound and has probably a head injury. I healed the wound as best as I could, but the head injury still remains. Doctor Tanabe is the best neurosurgeon in Musutafu, so your sidekick is in good hands." you explained to them. "See you, Miyako-san." You let the two pro-heroes know that they should follow you.
As you reached the reception of neurology, you asked for doctor Tanabe. "He is at the tomography department." the receptionist explained. "Dang this idiot...," you mumbled under your breath. "Thank you." She nodded and went back to her work. I bet he was flirting with Oshiro Tomiko, head of the C.T. department, for an appointment, you thought.
You walked to the tomography department with the other two. There was a long queue in front of the C.T. And as it couldn't be otherwise, your object of desire was first in line. "Doctor Tanabe," you called him out. "What's up, sweety?" he asked flirtatiously. You rolled with your eyes. "Those two men would like to know how your patient is doing," you said professionally. "Oh I don't know it yet, but after the C.T we will recognize what's wrong," he said and stood close to you.
"Is he your boyfriend?" growled Todoroki. His eyes were gleaming furiously. You didn't even get the chance to answer. "I wish they were, but unfortunately, they always reject me. I need to say their sweet but has something," confessed Tanabe. His arm laid on your lower back. You pushed him away. "What did you just say?" asked Todoroki with a snarl. He looked down at doctor Tanabe with an expression that gave you goosebumps. Never had you seen him that angry. "I said that their but is cute," repeated Tanabe fearlessly. Todoroki grabbed him by the collar. "Don't you ever say that to my love again, understood asshole? And don't you ever make them uncomfortable again." He let go of him and took your hand. "Thanks for your help doctor," Todoroki spat contemptuously.
"Let's go." He dragged you away with Midoryia. You were surprised by his behavior. He was always this calm, collected guy, and now he was jealous? "Todoroki-Kun, don't you think you took it a bit too far," Midoriya asked carefully. "No, he molested my soulmate. This guy should get behind bars." Todoroki snarled.
He stopped in the entry hall and turned to you. "I apologize for my harsh behavior, darling, but I've lost too much in this life, and I can't lose you again." "You won't lose me. Especially not to an arse like Tanabe. I will always love you. No matter what will happen." you assured him.
The three of you talked for a while, and you go to know that Midoryia soulmate was the girl in the pink and black dress. Her name is Uraraka Ochako. Fortunately, they met in high school and trained together to become heroes. "Wasn't she your wife the last time we met?" you asked confusedly. The memories were still a bit blurry. "Exactly."
"We have to go back to work. Unfortunately, due to this incident, we have to sign some documents." noticed Todoroki. "Then I won't hold you back any longer. Good luck at work." you wished the two pro-heroes.
"Oh, and that I won't forget. Shoto, we still have to exchange numbers." His face lit up, and he handed you a piece of paper. You smiled at the note and saw that the numbers were neatly written down. "You still write your number on a piece of paper?" asked Midoryia confusedly. "Strangely enough, many women want my phone number, so I write it down on paper for faster inquiries," he answered bluntly. Jealousy grew in your stomach, but you knew he was attractive, and many women took advantage of his social awkwardness. "They find you attractive, which is true, but they want to um... " You whispered the rest of the sentence in his ear. His cheeks turned beet red. "Er, well, I don't want that they do that. I need to tell them." he stuttered. "I think so too. So then, I will see you two around." The two of you shared a kiss before the two pro-heroes went back to work, and so did you.
#shoto x reader#see you again#kinda fluffy#mha x reader#mha#bnha#bnha x reader#pro hero au#pro hero shouto#pro hero izuku#soulmate au#Reincarnation AU
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I guess it’s time for an update.
Hi guys, I didn’t post anything about this on Monday because I didn’t think it was serious. My psychiatrist disagrees with me.
I have mentioned to a total of two of you on dis//cord that I did not go to work on monday. I know I posted about it on here telling you all that I was very dizzy and going to take it slow.
What I meant by that when I posted it was, I could not stand up for several hours. I woke up so dizzy that I fell as soon as I got out of bed. I was so dizzy I had to hold on objects / the walls to get around. I nauseous and having minor vision problems. I had numbness and tingling on my left side and accompanying weakness on the same side. I did not go to the doctor, I didn’t think it was anything serious. It also started when I wake for work - which is 3:30am. I didn’t want to wake anyone, I just wanted to sleep.
When I woke at 9am I was still fucking dizzy and explained to my mother that I “felt like a bobble head”. She said she could see the dizziness in my eyes and that my head and eyes were not holding still. I slept most of the day after calling it to work when I woke up at 3:30.
I did not even consider going to the doctor after living for so many years without insurance - quite frankly I forgot I had it, even if it is Medicaid. After having an hour long conversation with my Psychiatrist on Tuesday, he gave me a bunch of things he thought it might have been - so he needed me to do a bunch of labs / test - i did them today after work. So he’ll get back to me about that.
He’s basically unsure if I had a vestibular migraine, a seizure, or a TIA Stroke. We’re working on things to rule shit out. I still get tingling going on in my hand and it’s on the wrong side so it worries me.
(context: my right side goes numb during a migraine; my left side is where it is lately)
I’m basically on watch now, because my psych said it’s more than likely that it will happen again and we’re just trying to catch it when it does next time and I am to go to the doctor ASAP when it does. At work or otherwise.
What I’m getting at is I am very stressed and I have been for many months. Work (a bar / cafe) finally opened back up indoor service today. We pre-the plague ran the downtown campus with 150 people. There are 16 of us for all departments. Currently we’re managing because we’re only open 4 days a week, but they want to put us on Seven day weeks with in the next 2 without giving us more crew members.
I don’t know what that means for my health.
I will still be here. I will still be around. I will answer asks, etc etc. I will just be slow. If I need to take a nap or sleep all day then I’m going to do that. Please don’t think I’m ignoring you. I’m not. I just need to slow myself down a little for my own health and sanity.
When results come back and I know what happened, I will tell you. For now I will also have a bunch of more than normal doctors appointments because Dr. Kirk wants me back neurology too. I will do what I can here, but please just be paitent with me. Thank you guys.
I love you guys.
Monday was very scary.
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We had a ridiculously early night, which was very much needed.
I always wake up during the night, at least two or three times. More often than not, it's multiple times. I think it was twice last night, then up at five thirty for my early workout.
So yay for a more decent night's sleep than usual.
Still waiting for an appointment for the neurology department for these headaches. Had them for at least several months now.
They are intermittent, and don't follow any pattern. But it's a bad one today. Had it since yesterday, on and off. They aren't migraines. Just headaches of varying degrees of pain and time scales.
Plus the menopause phase is in full force right now. If my period starts in the next few days, I will have no idea this time if I'm three weeks late or one week early for the next one 😂. But I've had PMT style stomach ache for the last couple of days.
So I'm not doing so good physically today, lol. Thank goodness I at least had a good night's sleep!
Spin class soon. Plus I've just done another kitchen workout. Nothing beats me!
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What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Prepares For Colin Robinson’s 100th Birthday
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The liquid-diet trio at the center of What We Do in the Shadows will endure the tortures of endless conflict in season 3. Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), will be taken to task by the entire Tri-State vampire community. Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry) will pay, and dearly, for licentious driving.
For psychic vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), it’s another Wednesday, which some fellas in his office like to think of as Hump Day. What We Do in the Shadows is a series adaptation of the feature film created by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, and for the uninitiated, it is a mock-doc styled vampire reality show. The vampires’ familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), keeps things real for the human audience. Colin brings the vampires to ground.
The psychic or energy vampire’s food source is different from traditional vampires, who subsist on the life-giving fluid of living creatures. Colin drains the neurological system’s electromagnetic debris. Sometimes called prana or chi, it is very annoying and about as exciting as a mid-afternoon interoffice meeting.
“I think it’s a very relatable character and every office across the world has an energy vampire in it,” Mark Proksch said during FX Networks’ appearance at the 2021 Television Critics Association summer press tour. “I think it’s cathartic for a lot of people that are working in offices to see a manifestation, a character that embodies all the people they can’t stand in their office.”
An early trailer revealed the vampires from Staten Island now represent the Tri-State area in the Vampiric Council. WWDITS season 2 ended with the slaughter of almost everyone in a leadership position, so the seats had to be filled. The second rule of vampiric leadership is keeping asses in seats, the first being “don’t kill vampires,” so choosing these four might seem a grave clerical error. This is something far below the bloodsuckers’ pay grade, and obviously an HR problem. That Dilbert-looking guy in the basement apartment is the closest thing the newly appointed bureaucrats have to a human.
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“Colin Robinson is very happy to be the secretary and take the minutes, which is the most boring job in any organization,” WWDITS executive producer and writer Paul Simms told the TCA journalists. Nandor and Nadja differ on executive motions, but serve. Laszlo “did not become a vampire to be a paper pusher and doesn’t give a shit about official vampire organizations,” according to Simms. But he does spend a lot of time in the Vampiric Council’s library. While he is usually surfing ancient and archaic porn there, he also comes in very handy to Colin.
Colin spends a lot of time in the library during season 3. It is the largest repository of underworld wisdom in these and any other United States, with the accumulated wisdom of the greatest and most depraved minds history has ever seen. The library has whole floors of shelves filled with books and manuscripts on traditional vampires of every culture. It barely contains a pamphlet on alternative afterlifestyles.
“He’s kind of trying to figure out where he came from and where he’s going,” Proksch said. “And there just isn’t a heck of a lot of information about energy vampires. And so it’s kind of a fruitless journey. But I will say there’s a pretty huge twist for Colin Robinson in the final episode that plays off his hundredth-year birthday.”
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Colin will turn-over a century this season, but energy vampires rarely have happy birthdays. They’re not nearly as nutritious as more emotional celebrations, like funerals and disaster memorials held far too soon.
But for now, Colin Robinson is quite content celebrating “Hump Day.” Even though he’s more of a “what’s the rush to get over the hump” kind of guy. FX shared another Dear Diary teaser, filled with puns, the most exhausting of all the comic arts.
You can watch the season 3 preview here:
As Colin retreats into his reveries on “department meetings, cross-department meetings, sending emails to reschedule team meetings that interfere with department meetings,” the vampires of Staten Island, and their most familiar vampire hunter bodyguard, continue to Excel in their dark reign of humor on What We Do in the Shadows.
What We Do in the Shadows season 3 premieres Sept. 2, on FX.
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They Had Mild Covid. Then Their Serious Symptoms Kicked In.
Pam Belluck is a health and science writer whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Nellie Bly Award for Best Front Page Story. She is the author of Island Practice, a book about an unusual doctor. @PamBelluckMs. Khan said that she experienced “heart palpitations if I just got up to open the curtains.” Her cardiologist said she was the fifth previously healthy young person to walk into his office that week. In the beginning, her fatigue was so severe that walking two or three laps around her 600-square-foot apartment would exhaust her for the rest of the day. In addition, she said that she had “really intense mood fluctuations that don’t feel like they’re mine.”“Waking up every day in this body, sometimes hope feels a little dangerous,” said Ms. Khan, who will soon start the cognitive rehab program. “I have to wonder: Am I going to recover, or am I going to just figure out how to live with my new brain?”In his job, “my clients would tell me things like a passcode or an address and I couldn’t remember it,” he said.At Mr. Palacios’s first appointment with the Northwestern clinic, “I did the cognitive tests, and I failed them all,” he said. On a return visit, he did another battery of tests, he said, “and I didn’t do so hot on that, either.”Mr. Palacios was referred for cognitive rehab at a long-established program in Chicago that helps give patients strategies to manage and improve memory, organizational and cognitive difficulties. But he didn’t go, he said, because “I completely forgot.” He plans to go now.In the Northwestern study, 43 percent of the patients had depression before having Covid-19; 16 percent had previous autoimmune diseases, the same percentage of patients who had previous lung disease or had struggled with insomnia.Experts cautioned that because the study was relatively small, these pre-existing conditions might or might not be representative of all long-term patients. “We are all seeing very small pieces of the elephant in terms of the long Covid group,” Dr. Bell said. “Some of us are seeing tail; some of us are seeing trunk.”Along with neurological symptoms, 85 percent of the patients were experiencing fatigue, and nearly half had shortness of breath. Some also had chest pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, variable heart rate or blood pressure. Nearly half of the participants were experiencing depression or anxiety.“I was cleaning my gutters and I forgot where I was, I forgot what I was doing on the roof,” Mr. Palacios said. When he remembered, he added, the idea of doing “something as simple as climbing on a ladder all of a sudden became a mountain.”Dr. Allison P. Navis, a neuro-infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City who was not involved in the study, said that about 75 percent of her 200 post-Covid patients were experiencing issues like “depression, anxiety, irritability or some mood symptoms.”Participants in the study were overwhelmingly white, and 70 percent were women. Dr. Navis and others said that the lack of diversity quite likely reflected the demographics of people able to seek care relatively early in the pandemic rather than the full spectrum of people affected by post-Covid neurological symptoms.“Especially in New York City, the majority of patients who got sick with Covid are people of color and Medicaid patients, and that’s absolutely not the patients one sees at the post-Covid center,” Dr. Navis said. “The majority of patients are white, often they have private insurance, and I think we have to figure out a little bit more what’s going on there with those disparities — if it’s purely just a lack of access or are symptoms being dismissed in people of color or if it’s something else.”In the Northwestern study, Dr. Koralnik said that because coronavirus testing was difficult to obtain early in the pandemic, only half of the participants had tested positive for the coronavirus, but all had the initial physical symptoms of Covid-19. The study found very little difference between those who had tested positive and those who had not. Dr. Koralnik said that those who tested negative tended to contact the clinic about a month later in the course of the disease than those who tested positive, possibly because some had spent weeks being evaluated or trying to have their problems addressed by other doctors.Ms. Khan was among the participants who had a negative test for the virus, but she said she later tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, proof that she had been infected.Another study participant, Eddie Palacios, 50, a commercial real estate broker who lives in Naperville, a Chicago suburb, tested positive for the coronavirus in the fall, experiencing only a headache and loss of taste and smell. But “a month later, things changed,” he said.Across the country, doctors who are treating people with post-Covid neurological symptoms say the study’s findings echo what they have been seeing.“We need to take this seriously,” said Dr. Kathleen Bell, the chairwoman of the physical medicine and rehabilitation department at the University Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who was not involved in the new study. “We can either let people get worse and the situation gets more complicated, or we can really realize that we have a crisis.”Dr. Bell and Dr. Koralnik said many of the symptoms resembled those of people who had concussions or traumatic brain injuries or who had mental fogginess after chemotherapy.In the case of Covid, Dr. Bell said, experts believe that the symptoms are caused by “an inflammatory reaction to the virus” that can affect the brain as well as the rest of the body. And it makes sense that some people experience multiple neurological symptoms simultaneously or in clusters, Dr. Bell said, because “there’s only so much real estate in the brain, and there’s a lot of overlap” in regions responsible for different brain functions.“If you have inflammation disturbances,” she said, “you can very well have cognitive effects and things like emotional effects. It’s really hard to have one neurological problem without having multiple.”In the Northwestern study, many experienced symptoms that fluctuated or persisted for months. Most improved over time, but there was wide variation. “Some people after two months are 95 percent recovered, while some people after nine months are only 10 percent recovered,” said Dr. Koralnik. Five months after contracting the virus, patients estimated, they felt on average only 64 percent recovered.The study of 100 patients from 21 states, published on Tuesday in The Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, found that 85 percent of them experienced four or more neurological issues like brain fog, headaches, tingling, muscle pain and dizziness.“We are seeing people who are really highly, highly functional individuals, used to multitasking all the time and being on top of their game, but, all of a sudden, it’s really a struggle for them,” said Dr. Igor J. Koralnik, the chief of neuro-infectious diseases and global neurology at Northwestern Medicine, who oversees the clinic and is the senior author of the study.The report, in which the average patient age was 43, underscores the emerging understanding that for many people, long Covid can be worse than their initial bouts with the infection, with a stubborn and complex array of symptoms.This month, a study that analyzed electronic medical records in California found that nearly a third of the people struggling with long Covid symptoms — like shortness of breath, cough and abdominal pain — did not have any signs of illness in the first 10 days after they tested positive for the coronavirus. Surveys by patient-led groups have also found that many Covid survivors with long-term symptoms were never hospitalized for the disease.A new study illuminates the complex array of neurological issues experienced by people months after their coronavirus infections.
In the fall, after Samar Khan came down with a mild case of Covid-19, she expected to recover and return to her previous energetic life in Chicago. After all, she was just 25, and healthy.
But weeks later, she said, “this weird constellation of symptoms began to set in.”
She had blurred vision encircled with strange halos. She had ringing in her ears, and everything began to smell like cigarettes or Lysol. One leg started to tingle, and her hands would tremble while putting on eyeliner.
She also developed “really intense brain fog,” she said. Trying to concentrate on a call for her job in financial services, she felt as if she had just come out of anesthesia. And during a debate about politics with her husband, Zayd Hayani, “I didn’t remember what I was trying to say or what my stance was,” she said.
By the end of the year, Ms. Khan was referred to a special clinic for Covid-related neurological symptoms at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, which has been evaluating and counseling hundreds of people from across the country who are experiencing similar problems.
Now, the clinic, which sees about 60 new patients a month, in-person and via telemedicine, has published the first study focused on long-term neurological symptoms in people who were never physically sick enough from Covid-19 to need hospitalization, including Ms. Khan.
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Little health update.
Back in December I woke up and my hands and feet had areas of almost complete numbness and tingling. I got a head MRI which appeared normal. I was referred for a nerve study for carpal tunnel and tarsal tunnel. The neurologist who I was referred to did a phone consultation because of the shutdown. He didn't think the nerve study would yield any meaningful results since my symptoms aligned better with a centrally acting neurological disorder. He wants me to see a multiple sclerosis specialist. That is scheduled for July 7th at disgusting o'clock in the morning.
Then a bit over a week ago I woke up with swelling around my eyes. Spoke with a doctor and they thought an allergic reaction because pollen counts were high. Prescribed antihistamines for a bit. It got worse over a few days so I spoke to them again. Still presumed allergic reaction. Prescribed 50mg of prednisone once a day for three days. It still got worse. Went to a walk in clinic and they sent me for blood work, still presumed allergy. The next day my entire face was puffy and my throat was feeling like it had pressure on it so they told me to go to the emergency department. They were able to look at the blood results from the day before and run some other tests. He does not think it is allergy related because the swelling is not itchy or tender and does not think it is orbital cellulitis because it's not red or tender. Since the urine tests in the past few months regularly show some amount of protein, he thinks it might be nephrotic syndrome. Referred to an internal medicine specialist for July 14 at disgusting o'clock in the morning. Told to go to the er in the meantime if it gets significantly worse.
So yeah, that's my life right now with regards to my health. It sucks but at least my specialist appointments were able to be scheduled quite soon, especially since the offices have a backlog of referrals.
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01/26/2010 DAB Transcript
Exodus 2:11-3:22, Matthew 17:10-27, Psalms 22:1-18, Proverbs 5:7-14
Today is the 26th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we begin a brand-new week together. And yesterday we concluded the book of Genesis and began the book of Exodus which is what we’re journeying through now. So, we met this baby and his name was Moses and we’re going to be getting to know Moses for quite a while, but we were able to make his acquaintance yesterday as a baby in the Nile River in a basket being discovered by Pharaoh's daughter and then raising her…raising him as her own. So, we’ll read from the Evangelical Heritage Version this week. Exodus chapter 2 verse 11 through 3 verse 22.
Prayer:
Father, we thank You for Your word and as we move into this brand-new week and…and…and look out before us, we take this time as we do most weeks to understand that it's all out in front of us. What this week is going to look like has yet to be written, and it will be written by the choices that we make. So, we invite Your Holy Spirit to come and offer wisdom in the deepest places of our souls and in all of our important decisions that are before us. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.
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Community Prayer and Praise:
Hi, DABber Family this is Cara from Denver and I’m just calling because I really need prayer for faith. I’m distraught, I’m helpless, I’m feeling so completely helpless. I…I just found out that my son Nish, he is homeless, and Albuquerque has court cases. He got arrested in November was released got arrested in December. He has been released. He has a warrant and he has just all these little charges. I…he may or may not have a felony charge, but I mean what this means is he’s stuck there in Albuquerque. I mean he needs to take care of these issues. I pray for someone to come into his life that will help him turn around and…and see God’s love. And I…I…it just seems like everywhere…person I turn to for help has no help available. And, you know, the last time I saw him was in September and I could have somehow maybe grabbed him and made him come back with the. But, you know, I didn’t because he’s his own person, he’s 25 years old and even though I kicked him out three years ago because he was using and I was, you know, trying to be clean, you know, and I have been off drugs for 2 ½ years. So, and I’ve been on the right path and I’ve found Jesus and…and I’m saved and…but I want him to know Jesus and God too and I just really…I can’t think straight. I don’t want to do anything that I shouldn’t do. So, I’m just really…I’ve been sick too...
Hi this is Anonymous. I was cheated on by a man who I was…we were planning on spending the rest of our live with each other. He has PTSD and I’ve come to realize a person like that, he barely can love himself and, how could he love me. And I’m hurt and I’ve questioned a lot about God. And I love him still, God and him, this man. And I just…I question a lot lately about myself, about life. But I know he needs our help. So, I pray for him daily, but I’m so confused about life and about what I’m doing. I’m 37 years old and I, you know, I just…I want a family, I want to be happy and it’s just so hard. I have MS and nothing seems to be working out. So, I just…I need help and this man needs help. Just pray for us. Thank you.
Hey Daily Audio Bible family this is Benjamin the Sower. Let’s pray heavenly Father I want to pray for Yvonne today from…from California. I lift up her two children and, yeah, just that she’s expressed that they have walked away from the things they used to know, that she…she has taught them. I pray for her Father that you would give her give her comfort, give her strength just to know that she is your daughter, that you love her, that you…you are still with her, that you love her children. God, I believe that you, yeah, you are drawing people back to you. You are…you are leading people to, yeah, to have second, third, fourth, you know, however many chances Lord. Yeah, to…to realize your goodness and realize that you, that you’re better than all those things, you’re better than tarot cards and the things that her kids are getting into. Yeah, Father I also want to pray for him Carla Jean from LA. Just that she called, her son Noah, yeah, is just in a…in a spiritual battle with anxiety attacks and that they were able to face time but, yeah, just that he’s, yeah, unsure Lord about being able to get help and life insurance or just health insurance and all those questions Lord. Just help him to be able to…to still reach out to, still just trust You with those finances and to, yeah, to get help…to…to open himself up to you and to realize that You are greater than anything that could…could cause him that anxiety. And then just real quick, I want to pray for Trusting with the father in South Carolina, just as you talked about so many things going on with your family, just know that I’m praying for you that we’ve got your back. Thank you so much for calling and I’ll talk to you guys soon. Bye.
Hi family this is Sally from Massachusetts and I am calling to ask for prayer for all of us who are parents of teenagers. Heavenly Father we need Your help with these know it all teenagers. Father God they are giving us such a difficult time. Lord You have said to us, “train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he is…he will not depart from it.” Lord, we need help with those years in between when these kids have jumped off this path without a parachute. Lord, give us wisdom, give us patience, and give us tight lips. And please help us parent these children who just reject anything within hearing distance of us. Lord please guide our teenagers, help them to listen to You somehow and give us the knowledge we need to parents through these difficult years. And we ask this in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
Good morning family this is Michelle __ in Central Florida calling to share some prayer requests and praise. First, please pray for my brother. He’s in a legal situation with one of his two children over a child. It’s complicated. Please pray for him. Pray for the whole situation being resolved in a way that brings glory to the Lord. He doesn’t or I shouldn’t say he’s not serving the Lord right now. Also want to pray for ministers and all businesses and also Pelham. I’m wondering how Pelham is doing and out Pelham’s and Anna Rose’s who are struggling to get things where they need to be. So, Father I thank You God for Brian and Jill and thank You for everything You’re doing in our lives. And God help us to show love in places where love is needed. Set our businesses aright Lord God. Let us keep first thing first and do and be led of You, do what pleases You. I pray for the ministry, the ministry of husbands and wives that are in ministry Lord God. Protect their marriages, strengthen them, set their ministries in the right place, in the right order. In the lives of the minister, help them to keep first thing first Lord. God, I thank You for Pelham. I thank You for what You’re doing in his life and the Pelham’s that we know around us Lord God the Anna Rose’s and John, Bob, and Suzie, and Janet, those who are serving You and desire to serve You in a greater way and are putting their lives back together in a way that’s, You know, gonna make them stronger and of better use to You and bring love and joy and fulfillment to their lives and the lives of those around them. I bless Your name oh God. I thank You Father God for everything You’re doing in us, for us, and through us in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Hi, I’ve been listening to Daily Audio Bible for about 10 years and this is the first time I’ll be calling in and I want to ask for prayer for my nephew who is in college. He’s 22. He only has 10 more weeks to graduate with some kind of bachelors and financial. He was recently diagnosed with lupus. He was losing weight, so the doctor put him on Reglan. He was on it for two months and now he’s having uncontrollable muscle movements, or it looks like part of dyskinesia where his neck is doing a full turn to the right and he has the closing of one eye. He has difficulty walking. He had to scale back of course on his driving. He can’t get real early neurology appointment. My sister flew out there to help him and also to probably disenroll him from college. According to things online, if it is the TARDIS dyskinesia it sounds like it’s irreversible. So, I just ask that if we can pray that he has a full healing from this and for him not to get discouraged or depressed because I know he was crying to his family about what he’s going through. Anyway, thank you.
Hi, my name is Vienna. For issues of safety that’s really all that I would like to disclose about myself. I discovered you guys towards the end of last year when I was facing homelessness. That situation has changed but my life circumstances are extremely complicated and involve a lot of issues, none of which I would like to detail here but I’m in major need of prayer, prayer for miracles. I feel like I have…need to take some serious steps of faith and bigger steps ever…than ever in my life after not speaking to God for quite some time. I began to…the end of last year…found you guys. Despite that I’ve already made some mistakes in this new year but the issues that I’m contending are all massive and large and they involve very complex family court issue, custody change. I’ve got a very malignant and toxic individual just blocks from me that has dominated much of the last few decades of my life, which is half of it. Recovering from a brain injury and in very serious need of a neurologist. Other issues that I’ll be contending with are applying for disability, public assistance type things. I’ve already gone through some career changes and will be taking a step of faith in order to focus on my health versus my work issues…boundaries…but it feels like the Psalms where I’m surrounded on every side and, you know, things that shouldn’t be legal or possible have happened and injustice abounds. And I’m struggling very, very much in my health is well…
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My S/P Hysterectomy: The Legend
CW Long Post - It’s worth it, I promise
Gather round my friends for I’m going to tell you a story. Oh! What a journey it was, what a glorious and befuddling day it was. For it was rightfully filled with exuberant joy and ghastly panic. This is the legend of my Salpingo-Oophorectomy Hysterectomy. Yes. A legend. I’m literally gonna be famous.
Monday, 6am
I get off work. My last day before I take off two and a half glorious weeks. I won’t have to see my shitty coworkers, the shitty employees, nor the horrendous conditions of our office. I’m fucking stoked.
Monday, 7pm
My friend Nikki arrives to my apartment, she gladly has sacrificed her time to drive me to and from the hospital. Not to mention the extra unplanned duties, but heed my dear reader for that tale is soon to come.
Tuesday, 2am
After dinner and my subsequent NPO period, and about 5 hours of working on art, I get my final shower before surgery using that special ass pink soap. IT WAS FUCKING NEON PINK. It smelled nice though, I want more of it to be honest. It got me clean as fuck.
Tuesday, 5am
We arrive at the hospital:
Oh the naivete... I did not expect what so ever the events that were to pursue this happy go lucky picture.
Tuesday, 7am
Nurse: *puts IV in*
Me: *trying not to move as I start screaming*
Nikki: YES SCREAM LIKE IRON BULL!!
Tuesday, 7:15am
They roll me out of the pre-surgery room and into the OR. I see all the doctors I had previously met, I blearily wave hello as I am transferred onto the OR table. I see Dr. Locke preparing all her instruments.
Tuesday, ????
I wake up...
Me: *heart monitor beeping rapidly*
Nikki: Do you want your Hancock pillow?
Me: I can’t feel my arms... I can’t... I can’t move my arms!!
Everyone: Uhhhhhh *starts panicking*
Tuesday, Late Afternoon
After a literal constant stream of neurologists and neurosurgeons and every nurse known to man is streaming in and out of the curtain surrounding me, we finally decide to keep me overnight. I was supposed to go home by now, but apparently waking up from surgery saying “I can’t feel my arms” kinda sends everyone into a panic.
I start crying and screaming, the pain is so bad, a 20 on the pain scale. I’m given Oxycontin and a bunch of other pain meds. FYI Oxy is the devil and I never want it near me ever again. It didn’t help the pain, it just knocked me out and I felt like I had the flu times 50.
Eventually I calm down. Sort of. I am FINALLY transferred to a single room, where I am the only patient and there’s a couch/bed for Nikki to use.
Tuesday, 8pm or something
I FINALLY get into radiology and I’m given an MRI of the cervical part of my spine. This is basically your neck, and also where most of the nerves in your shoulders/arms come from. Turns out I have severe stenosis of these nerves AND a herniated disc AND compression in two of my vertebrae. So there’s like the reason behind half of my chronic pain which my previous doctors never took seriously.
After another constant stream of Neuro doctors, a few diagnosis have come to light. Ranging from just general compression of nerves to an auto immune disorder.
BUT IT DOESN’T STOP THERE!! The best is yet to come.
Tuesday, ????
I’m finally off NPO and I can fucking eat and drink. Silvanus bless this water because shit it was fucking delicious as fuck.
Nikki and I are talking and she says, “So they found a lot of endometriosis and a giant fibroid.”
HOLD ON.
A WHAT.
Wednesday... maybe????
I sleep every 2 hours like clockwork to take my meds when the nurse comes in. I’m still in a 15-20 on the pain scale in my arms. I can barely do anything for myself. I can barely feed myself because I can’t fucking move my arms enough.
Wednesday, 3pm I guess??
Repeat the stream of neurologists again and a bunch of sticking me with things to test my nerves (it hurts you fucker).
I’m doped up enough on pain killers and Nikki drives me home. We go to the grocery to get last minute items I need during my recovery since I won’t be driving anytime soon. I barely make it through the trip because my arms hurt, but luckily enough I was able to use the rascal cart to get around since I was still heavily medicated and didn’t wanna fall in the store and make things worse.
Nikki goes home.
Wednesday - Friday
I spend the next several days in so much pain I can barely move. Medicating every 3 hours was making me sick. It wasn’t helping. I couldn’t sleep. My arms and shoulders hurt so bad I was screaming. I emailed all my doctors asking what we should do next. I’m prescribed a cortical-steroid medication specifically to target nerve pain. But I can’t fucking pick it up from the pharmacy because spoiler alert... I CAN’T FUCKING DRIVE OR MOVE MY ARMS. Luckily I had another local friend who picked it up for me, bless his heart.
This new prescription brought the pain down A LOT. Like it brought me from a 15 down to a 5 on the best of times. But eventually I ran out of this medication and had no refills... But this is where my OBGYN saw me for my 2 week follow up.
Monday, June 10th
I have my 2 week follow up with Dr. Locke. We discuss my recovery re: hysterectomy but also I bring up my arm pain.
Lords bless this woman because even though she has no specialty in pain or neurology, she has been instrumental in getting all my follow up appointments and nerve testing and MRI’s done in an extremely timely manner. She put pressure on other departments to get me seen ASAP because this was such a severe and urgent problem that had arisen so abruptly.
So after she examines my incisions, we discuss the findings. Now. This is where it gets good. If you held on this long... fucking buckle up kids we’re going for another round.
Dr. Locke: So I got your pathology results back...
Me: Hold on... my WHAT.
Pathology = cancer testing etc yada yada
Dr. Locke: Oh so we tested the growth we found. It’s non cancerous.
Me: Yeah the fibroid right.
Dr. Lock: It wasn’t a fibroid...
Me: Wait... WHAT.
Dr. Locke: It was a benign adenomatoid tumor.
Me:
BUT THAT’S NOT EVEN THE BEST PART FRIEND.
You see... an adenomatoid tumor is a special kind of tumor. A very interesting conundrum for someone in my condition. Very interesting indeed...
By definition an adenomatoid tumor is:
Adenomatoid tumors are responsible for 30% of all paratesticular masses. These are usually asymptomatic, slow growing masses. They are benign tumors comprising of cords and tubules of cuboidal to columnar cells with vacuolated cytoplasm and fibrous stroma.
US National Library of Medicine, 2009
Hold on... paraTESTICULAR mass???? So like... THE TESTICLES???? Of which I have none???? LMFAO WHAT THE FUCK!?
Yeah so basically my OBGYN (also my surgeon) found a fucking TUMOR INSIDE MY BODY that is 95% of the time FOUND ONLY IN CIS MALES?!
In Conclusion
So not only did I wake up from surgery with a now potentially diagnosed auto immune disorder I never knew I had... BUT APPARENTLY I HAD A TUMOR INSIDE ME THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME.
Luckily it was benign but HOLY SHIT.
In the end Dr. Locke asked for my consent to publish my de-identified (basically name redacted) story + history into medical journals. Basically I’m gonna be famous now apparently.
She’s discussed with other surgeons in the hospital, talked with other colleagues who deal with trans patients and this has NEVER happened to anyone she can determine.
Monday, Afternoon
I was sent home from the appointment with Gabapentin, another nerve medication. I’ve been taking that in addition to high strength Tylenol, Cyclobenzaprine (muscle relaxer), and Diclofenac (high strength NSAID). These meds have been instrumental in my recovery.
I’m back into my regular working schedule, and depending on how I move my arms, the pain comes back full force. Strength is still minimal and I have to lift even tiny things with both arms. Reaching is difficult still but I’m making progress. My next neuro appointments are in July along with a 6 week follow up with Dr. Locke. We will assess my progress during those days.
But that is my story in how I went from a normal trans dude... to a trans dude with a strange tumor and a potential auto immune disorder!!
#ok to rb#surgery cw#trans guy#ftm#trans rights#trans is beautiful#shut up viktor#viktor: personal#i'm not joking she's really gonna publish this into a medical journal
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How Real Doctors Think
Review of Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment.1
Denis M. Donovan, MD, FAPS
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
Volume 35; Issue: 2, 2018, pp. 455-459. DOI: 10.3138/cbmh.BR_EN
“In his welcome address,” Andrew Lees writes of the beginning of his
medical studies at London Hospital Medical College in October of 1965,
“the Dean informed us that we were here to study medicine and that from
now on our lives would be dedicated to the prevention, cure or alleviation
of human disease. Medicine,” the Dean stressed, “was a calling, not a
business.” There but for the grace of Fate go I was the Dean’s message.
Indeed, Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto — I am human,
nothing human is foreign to me — was the teaching hospital’s motto. But
almost overnight Lees witnessed in many of his fellow medical students
an extremely disturbing and worrisome transformation as they became
a-lien-ated —the link between doctors and patients, between self and
other, was broken — as if patients were them, mere subhuman collections
of body parts, carriers of disease and mundane opportunities for
uppercase ‘D’ Doctors to demonstrate their brilliance and celebrate their superiority. Although Lees says that Wolynski, the man whose body he and his fellow anatomy lab partners dissected, helped him “to acquire the carapace of insensitivity required to become a doctor,” the self- protective “carapace” Lees acquired was not the gross dehumanizing insensitivity he found so painful in the “self-satisfied and narrow-minded” attitude and behavior developing in many of his fellow students and the often frank sadism of some of his superiors.
It was in this context of patient suffering and medical insensitivity, prejudice and condescension that Lees experienced two kairotic, intensely formative moments. The first was a poignant and inspiring encounter with a patient during Lees’ first house physician appointment at what is now the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. This patient suffered — I use the word advisedly — from Parkinson’s disease and was confined to a wheelchair and completely dependent on his family to be fed, dressed and bathed. This former worker from the London Underground viewed Parkinson’s as a death sentence and was pinning all his hopes on the new miracle drug L- DOPA which he had read about in the newspapers. The results Lees’ patient obtained literally within days “turned [Lees] into a ‘Molecule Man’ overnight” and convinced him that “further peptide and amine research would lead to cures for Parkinson’s disease and all the other brutal brain degenerations within five years.” No such overnight progress was made but that didn’t slow Lees down in the least.
The second crucial experience which ultimately gave hope to the first was Lee’s discovery of an unknown face on the front cover of the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely hearts Club Band album. “Amidst the rows of famous faces he was on the second row next to Marilyn Monroe and above Oscar Wilde. I didn’t recognise him so I looked him up”
Lees’ discovery of William S. Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch and The Yagé Letters, while still in medical school provided him with the adult version of an imaginary friend, one on a lifelong quest to find a cure for certain mind-and-body destroying drugs. Beneath Burroughs’ “lurid descriptions of heroin-laced depravity, sodomy and infanticide in Naked Lunch [which] had been described by a Boston judge as ‘a revolting miasma of unrelieved perversion,’” and especially in Burroughs’ Yagé Letters to Allen Ginsburg, Lees found a kindred soul, a razor-sharp critic of imperious insensitive and dehumanizing doctoring, whose now-famous character in Naked Lunch Dr. Benway was both a medical beast and one of many voices of a caring visionary on a quest to cure his own junk addiction. While Burroughs’ life was one gigantic series of relapses, he did find genuine momentary relief for his morphine addiction in the apomorphine treatment provided by the London doctor Joseph Yerbury Dent in 1956, the potential significance of which Lees immediately recognized when he read Burroughs’ account. In a 2014 article in the Dublin Review of Books Lees briefly described the episode which is recounted at length in Mentored by a Madman.
Burroughs later wrote enthusiastically in Naked Lunch about Dent’s integrity and empathy and his innovative drug rehabilitation programme:
The vaccine that can relegate the junk virus to a land-locked past is in existence. This vaccine is the Apomorphine treatment discovered by an English doctor ... I found this vaccine at the end of the junk line ... suddenly my habit began to jump and jump. Forty, sixty grains a day. And it still was not enough. And I could not pay ... The doctor explained to me that apomorphine acts on the back brain to regulate the metabolism and normalize the blood stream in such a way that the enzyme system of addiction is destroyed over a period of four or five days ... I saw the apomorphine treatment really work.
Apomorphine took away the biological need for morphine without inducing dependence. It steadied the system, leaving no trace. In Burroughs’s words it was like a dutiful policeman that did its job and then left. Soon after Burroughs’s treatment programme was completed, Dent’s hunch that apomorphine had specific chemical actions in the brain was scientifically confirmed, but it never took hold as a routine treatment for addiction. Crucially for neurologists, it was shown to act on the brain by opening the dopamine receptor lock, which meant that Parkinson’s patients could use more of their own dopamine for longer. My hope was that in time apomorphine would become part of the clinical armoury against Parkinson’s symptoms.2
Burroughs unknowingly reminded the young Andrew Lees that humans did not begin curing their ailments by synthesizing new molecules and profiting from synthetically produced old ones; they began by discovering them as they occurred naturally in the physical world. This simple fact is all but forgotten today. Like Mickey Mouse in Disney’s version of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, contemporary medicine has become so fascinated by its ability to tinker with the world of medicinal molecules—and now the human genome—that it has lost sight of the fact that our knowledge of naturally occurring physical therapeutics is still in its infancy, a veritable gold mine of potential discovery since poison and cure often exist side by side in nature. Nature may not have ceased to be a generous teacher but, unfortunately, our self-absorption has made us far less willing and curious pupils.
But Burroughs wasn’t Lees’ only inspiration and model. He was immensely fortunate, when he began his neurology training at University College Hospital in London, to have two great living teachers, William Gooddy and Gerald Stern, and one great dead one, William Gowers, whose brilliantly detailed clinical journals Lees read avidly in the hospital’s archives. Gooddy and
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Stern, Lees writes, “would never interrupt [the patient’s recounting of his presenting complaint] but when the history had been given they would clarify points with a few carefully chosen, nonleading questions.” In stark contrast, today’s physician typically interrupts the patient a mere 18 seconds into his or her initial narrative which the patient may never be able to complete. Few patients today have ever experienced a William Gooddy, a Gerald Stern or an Andrew Lees and thus have no realistic idea of how caring, attentive and genuinely interested good doctoring can be. “Perfection of this methodological and time-consuming approach is essential to becoming a good neurologist,” Lees adds, “and I spent many hours on the wards and in the outpatient clinic trying to hone my skills.” Contrast this with the unquestioning expectation of a 22-year-old medical student in a “cutting edge” Leadership Program at the University of South Florida who doesn’t hesitate to say that he “... would like to be a leader of a team setting ... part of a department, leading other doctors and teaching them everything I have learned.”3
Today in his seventies, Lees is a Professor of Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London and University College London. He is one of the world’s top experts on Parkinson’s disease and a teacher and researcher venerated for his masterful observational and clinical reasoning skills. Even so, Lees is acutely aware of how little he knows, how much is yet to be learned and how much greater the obstacles are today to realistic naturalistic learning than when he began his medical and neurological training. And as for self- experimentation, which Lees kept secret for nearly his entire medical career, few today within or outside clinical, academic and research medicine, are even aware of how crucial it was to the understanding and innovative progress of the great medical discoverers such as Sir William Osler, the father of North American internal medicine and the originator of bedside teaching.
It is a great irony, but not unusual in the case of genuinely curious, creative and innovative thinkers, that the pupil proves to be far more skeptical than the teacher. It is to Lees’ great credit that he was able to distill from a complex and contradictory life of largely credulous self- indulgence Burroughs’ genuinely brilliant, caring and realistic thoughts, insights and commitment to a quest for a cure for crippling addiction. Most people throw the baby out with the dirty bathwater. Andrew Lees pulled the baby out of the mire and, throughout a lifetime of patient, sensitive and committed physicianly care and constant technical scientific research, has never ceased to do his best in the face of all obstacles to relieve human suffering and to leave the world of medicine and healthcare richer than he found it.
Yes, do read this book to discover how William S. Burroughs inspired a professional lifetime of brilliant medical research. But read it as well, perhaps even more so, to be reminded of what genuine medical care can and should be and what the obstacles to its survival are in a world increasingly defined by insatiable corporate greed and vacuous self-satisfied professionalism.
For those who were tempted to believe Jerome Groopman’s assertion that doctors can’t think because they’re the helpless victims of inescapable cognitive biases and need their patients to think for them, here’s your antidote.4 No technical knowledge is required to profit from this marvelous book.
1 Andrew J. Lees, Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment. (Devon, UK: Notting Hill Editions, 2016).
2 Andrew J. Lees, “Hanging out with the molecules.” Dublin Review of Books (1 September 2014). http://www.drb.ie/essays/hanging-out-with-the-molecules (accessed 7 November 2018).
3 Letitia Stein, “USF joins national effort to reform doctor training.” (Tampa Bay Times, Saturday, August 4: 1A, 7A).
4 Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
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The Palmer-Strange Series Part 1- Draft
In high school, Christine Palmer was voted on for “Most likely to be on time everywhere”. Yet here she was, waiting. She had been waiting for over an hour. She had left from the hospital a bit early today, she worked at the <> as an ER Trauma Surgeon. She reached home and took a quick shower and then took painstaking efforts to dress up for the upcoming fundraiser in the evening. She was wearing a lavender shimmery evening gown, with half of her hair neatly tucked in a bun and the other half left cascading down her shoulders in soft curls. She fussed a little with her makeup but ultimately decided to go for a simple look. She felt grateful for her mother’s flawless skin genes. Once she was satisfied with her appearance, she picked up her phone. She was on time, as always. She called her boyfriend. Her call went unanswered. She dialed his assistant’s phone. “He’s still in surgery” was the answer. She sighed and decided to stretch out a bit and lie down on her couch, careful to not mess up her dress.
Half an hour later, she was pacing up and down in her living room. She kept glancing at her phone every few minutes, checking if her boyfriend had texted her. He hadn’t. It was a Saturday and he had a brain surgery going on, which had been scheduled to be done 3 hours ago but Stephen was held up at the hospital. She couldn’t even bring herself to be excited about the night that lay ahead. It was technically a date night but really it wasn’t. Stephen had been invited by the American Neurological Association Department to give a talk at their fundraiser tonight. Her boyfriend, Dr. Stephen Strange was a renowned neurosurgeon in the US. He was a celebrity in the field of neuroscience. He was the highest paid neurosurgeon in the country, maybe the top 3 in the world. Therefore Christine had had the opportunity to attend thousands of such fundraisers, galas, seminars, talks. It wasn’t that she wasn’t proud of Stephen, she was extremely happy for him. Although it got tiring to be doing this almost every 2 weeks. Yet, this was his idea of quality time. She had known Stephen since medical school and they had been romantically involved ever since he joined the <> hospital a year and half ago. Remembering his first day at the hospital always made her giggle. His good looks and his confidence had caused a lot of furor amongst some of the female doctors. That was up until lunch time, when everyone discovered what a huge ass he was. With Christine, he was different though. He could almost give up his need to be in control with her. Christine found herself checking the time, she was getting impatient. She couldn’t remember the last time they went on a regular date or even watched a movie together. Now Christine was as busy as Stephen - if not more. She was a surgeon in the ER after all. ER meant constant stress. ER means no appointments, she was on call the entirety of her shift, unlike Stephen who could just schedule his surgeries around his golf time. She always hoped that they could do things the way normal couples did. She also knew that she was the only one who felt this way because Stephen found this current arrangement to be very perfect. She finally walked herself over to the kitchen and poured herself a glass of wine.
Twenty minutes on, she finally heard her phone ring and Stephen’s assistant was on the line. “Hello? Is he done?” she enquired. Felicia, his twenty three year old assistant replied “Yes Christine, he is asking you to drive up to his place, since there’s not enough time for him to pick you up and then drive back again to the fundraiser. He says he is sorry for the late notice”. Late notice?! YEAH RIGHT! Christine couldn’t believe her ears. Her boyfriend was such an ass! She just muttered a “Fine” and cut the call. “Damn you Stephen!” she thought
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She made her way up to his swanky Manhattan skyscraper apartment. As she got inside, she saw his assistant was helping him with his tuxedo while he was bent over his watch collection mulling over which watch to wear. He heard Christine enter the room. He walked over to her and gave her a quick kiss and before she could say anything, he started, “I know I know I know, I shouldn’t have kept you waiting, I know.. The hospital messed up on some scheduling and I had to wait. Christine just glared at him. He somehow thought that her look meant she was in agreement with him and so he continued , “I know right? I can’t believe it myself. I charged them for every minute I was in there.” he ended with his best puppy dog expression. She just couldn’t resist him when he was like this. He kissed her hands. Christine found her anger dissolving after seeing him. “You look gorgeous” he winked. She smiled and waved the compliment off, and added “You too Strange”. “Ready to leave?” he said as he offered her his arm.
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After braving the evening Manhattan traffic, they finally reached their venue. It was a 5 star hotel. Stephen stepped out of the car and escorted Christine out. He handed the keys to his expensive xyz to the valet and they walked in. Immediately as they walked in the lobby, he was greeted by at least 3 people. Christine internally prepared herself for all the smiling and greeting and talking. Christine never really fit in this world. This glamorous part of the medicine world. It felt too much for her, but she had to embrace it for Stephen. After making rounds of the room and socializing with everyone, they finally settled in at their tables, right at the center. They were seated next to Dr. Huntington and his wife Sheila. Dr.Huntington had recently retired from practice due to his old age and he was someone Stephen admired deeply. He was a mentor to him. Sheila, his wife, was a very merry lady. She was extremely witty and Christine always liked her company at these events. They got to talking in no time. Stephen was a little annoyed because one of his rivals was also due to speak at the fundraiser. He wasn’t told about this. His mood had visibly soured. “Why would they not tell me that he is also a part of this?” he huffed angrily. “It’s alright, it’s a fundraiser, he has donated money, it’s for a good cause, isn’t what this is about?” she tried to pacify him. He looked at her as though she was crazy “You’re so naive, Palmer” he laughed derisively. They were interrupted by his arch rival, Dr. Rogers and his new trophy wife. They greeted each other, Liam Rogers greeted Christine and gave her peck on her cheek. Stephen didn’t like that at all. “Congratulations on the wedding Liam” Christine said. Stephen just nodded and smiled with her, he couldn’t bring himself to bestow any blessings on Liam Rogers. He was a snake of a man. He introduced Stephen and Christine to Natasha, a famous Ukrainian model. Stephen took her hand and gave it a kiss. Liam boasted about donating a certain amount and then took his leave. Stephen kept his cool but he felt like killing the son of a bitch. The fundraiser began and Stephen had to give his speech and everything went smoothly until it was Liam Rogers turn for his speech, in which he announced his own foundation that will work for etc etc etc and that it was his wife’s idea and Natasha Rogers will be the CEO of his foundation. Congratulations poured in for the newly married couple. The fundraiser essentially became about Dr. Rogers. Christine groaned inwardly, not because she hated Liam, but because this meant Stephen’s mood will be sour for the next few days. She looked at Stephen , who had a very fake looking smile plastered on his face. She could just read his mind, she found him so amusing. He noticed Christine looking at him with an amused expression. “Oh shut up, Palmer” he deadpanned without looking at her. Christine just laughed and rubbed his hair. “I can’t wait to leave” he turned towards her. “No way Stephen, you cannot take me away before desserts, they are the ONLY thing that make this ordeal bearable!” she said laughing. He just gave her a puppy dog look and said “We’ll get our own dessert, but let’s just leave soon.” Christine was sold on that idea.
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After they said their goodbyes, they left from the hotel. Stephen was focused on the road, but his mind was thinking about Rogers and his new foundation. He was thoroughly pissed off. His thoughts were broken when Christine asked where are
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Paediatrician! Soonyoung
Everyone loves him
Literally everyone
The nurses
The little kids
The parents
Everyone
Whenever he’s on break he goes into the little play area and hangs out with the kids
Has never given a single shot or taken blood
Lets the “evil” nurses do it for him
Normally works the noon to midnight shift
Once worked the midnight to noon shift and that night all the kids we’re complaining that they didn’t have Dr. Hoshi to help them go to sleep
The kids called him Dr. Hoshi
In Korean it means tiger’s gaze and the kids say his eyes look like a tigers
Also his Japanese patients like it because it means star in Japanese
Dr. Hoshi was a star in all of their eyes
Soonyoung was amazing with little kids
He played with them
Whenever he had to talk about their health he would always try and put in terms they could understand
He wanted to make sure they understood and what was happening to their body
Hence why he was adored by the parents
After he explained in kid friendly terms he would go outside of his patient's room and talk with the parents
Since he was just a general paediatrician if other things were needed he would call in other doctors
All of the other specialist paediatric doctors knew how Soonyoung was
If he’s never worked with a one specific paediatric doctor, will have a meeting with them beforehand so that they understand how he works with the kids
Tells the doctor he must explain to the kids what's happening to them in kid friendly terms
The surgeons hate him for his
Even if one of his kids has a surgery wants them to be on his ward
Unless the kid is a very bad case and needs the specialised treatment from that ward, Soonyoung will fight to put them back on his ward
Loves all of his kids so much
Always feels bad when a kid is in the hospital on their birthday
Buys cupcakes for the kids on their birthdays with his own money
Works closely with Dr. Seungcheol of ER surgery
A lot of Seungcheols paediatric patients go to Soonyoung after being released from the ICU
Bc he works closely with Seungcheol a lot of the little kids he works with are car crash victims, burn victims, and patients who tore muscles or badly broke something
Because of who Soonyoung’s normal patients are he often has to call a lot of therapists
Play therapists, grief therapists, mental health therapists, play therapists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists
You were an occupational therapist
You worked with a lot of Soonyoung's kids who were in car crashes and fires
Because your job was all about making sure the kids could live the best life possible in their new bodies you were always very happy
You worked very closely with Minghao who was the head of the physical therapy department and also very good with kids for some reason
Depending on how bad their condition was affected how long they were with you before Minghao
All your kids would transition to being under primarily Minghao’s treatment then seeing you less and less
Soonyoung had worked with you for a while now so he often gave you his most challenging kids
You strongly resented him for that
You checked your emails to see if you had any new referrals
Lone behold you had 3 emails from Soonyoung
Because he was paediatrics and that ward had a lights out at 9pm he sent a lot of emails at night
You open the first one, it was a typical outline of referral that Soonyoung would send
“Patient's name, date of birth, place of birth, reason they were under his care, restrictions, and if they were special needs”
That was what soonyoung would normally send for a new patient
You open the second email, it wasn’t a referral
It looked like a messy confession to someone but was cut off at the end
The third email was gibberish, it was just a bunch of randomly typed out characters
You look to see when it was sent and it was sent at 11:50, ten minutes before he got off shift
He probably fell asleep at his desk
You reopen his first email and look over the referral and email Soonyoung back saying you would take him on to your schedule at 2pm
It was a little boy who was in a car crash and had shrapnel lodged in his chest and had to have his left leg amputated
You finished with a little girl who had be paralyzed from the waist down at 1:45 and then took her back to the neurology ward
You decided to go the the paediatric ward early instead of going back to your office for 10 minutes
All the nurse knew who you were so you all exchanged a hello and then you went to the patient's room
You walked past all the rooms and saw the little boy, whose name was Jinsoo
Whenever you would get a referral from Soonyoung he would always leave a folder with more information about the child's handicaps and the accident or incident that led to them needing to see you
You wish they were all accidents but you had one case with a little girl whose mother had abused her so badly she was unable to walk because of the tissue damage
In Jinsoo’s case it was a horrible, avoidable accident
A drunk driver hit his parents car after the three of them went out for dinner
Jinsoo’s mother was killed and Jinsoo was badly injured due to the fact the car hit their side
Jinsoo’s father was devastated and was always with his son as a result
You put the folder back and walked into the room
Jinsoo was watching Pororo and his father was in the corner eating his lunch
You introduced yourself to Jinsoos dad and then went over to Jinsoos bed
“Hi Jinsoo how are you?”
….
“Jinsoo, im Ms. Y/n. We’re gonna have a lot of fun today.”
….
Jinsoos father speaks up, “Jinsoo ah! Listen to Ms. Y/n. She’s going to help you go with her.”
….
“Jinsoo are you ready to go?”
….
You pull out the wheelchair, “Come on Jinsoo.”
….
Time to call Doctor Hoshi in
You look over at Dad and tell him you’ll be back
You go over to the nurses station and explain whats happening
The nurse say he doesnt respond to anyone but his father and Soonyoung
You page Soonyoung and he comes out
You tell him whats going on with Jinsoo and he confirms what the nurses told you
He walks back with you to Jinsoos room
“Y/n. I’ll start going with you to Jinsoos appointments so hopefully he’ll trust you more”
Soonyoung picks up Jinsoo and puts him in the wheelchair
You get behind the wheelchair and start going to your wing with Soonyoung at your side a little Jinsoo in his chair
You make small talk with Soonyoung on the walk as well as talking about other patients
One you reached your wing you put the breaks on Jinsoos wheelchair and pick him up
You take him over to a bench and sit him down, with Soonyoung behind you
Bc occupational therapy is all about trying to give the kids the best life they can, you want him to start walking as soon as possible
Korea isnt a very wheelchair friendly place, especially in the city so you want him to start walking soon
“Soonyoung, can you refer him to the prosthetics maker? I want to get him a leg soon.”
Soonyoung takes out his phone and makes a note of it and then has to look up the prosthetics maker email bc he completely forgot it
“Hosh, can you get the the crutches?”
You never called him Hosh or Hoshi. What was happening
But he still none the less got you the crutches
The crutches went around his forearm with a grip at his hands
“Alright Jinsoo. I know you haven’t tried to walk in a while, but let’s get these on you okay?”
Jinsoo looked up at Soonyoung, unsure
Soonyoung nodded his head and then Jinsoo whisper a small okay
You got the crutches around his arms and helped him stand up
He balance was off bc of the missing limb but he was standing
You helped him move the crutches and to help him start moving
He was unstable at best but he was moving
The whole one hour block you had with Jinsoo was focused on using his new crutches and gaining balance
You wanted him to gain a sense of independence that he hasn’t had in awhile
After your session with Jinsoo, Soonyoung picks him up and sets him down in the wheelchair
“See you soon Ms. Y/n! Say thank you Jinsoo!”
“Thank you Ms. Y/n….”
Soonyoung wheeled Jinsoo back to the dorm and you looked to fit Jinsoo into your schedule
You didn’t work in two days and then your schedule for tomorrow was full so
You put Jinsoo in your schedule for 3 days out at 3pm
You have Soonyoungs number for professional reasons
(that was at least Soonyoungs reason for getting your number)
And told him when Jinsoos appointment was
After you sent that text Soonyoung just kept a conversation going
He asked about everything he could think of
(he really likes you but doesnt wanna tell you bc ???)
The next day comes and you go back to the paediatric ward to get a little girl named Jimin who lost her left arm
Little did you know Dr. Hosh talked with Jimin and Jimin was gonna ask all the questions to help him, but he also told Jimin that he liked Ms. Y/n, so things could go south v fast
“Alright Jimin! Are you ready?”
Jimin smiled and got up from her bed and walked with you to your wing
“Ms. Y/n…”
“Yes Jimin?”
“Do you like Dr. Hoshi?”
“Well of course i like him! I work with him every day we’re here. He’s a very good doctor.”
“No Ms. Y/n. Do you like him? Because Dr. Hoshi likes you a lot. If i start telling what I did with you he waits for me to finish and then doesn’t stop talking about you. It’s weird. Adults are weird.”
You are clearly taken back by Jimins comment, “Well Jimin, if Dr. Hoshi asked me out to dinner i wouldn’t say no.”
“Who wouldn’t say no to dinner though!”
Little Jimin was so pure but you knew Soonyoung set her up to ask that
She just went a little further than Soonyoung probably wanted her too
You have your session with Jimin and take her back to the Paediatric unit
That next day Soonyoung was off work. He get 2 days off a week, Sundays and Wednesdays
Worked 8-4 6 days a week, and got off Wednesdays and Mondays
So as both you and Soonyoung had the following day off he decided to make a move with the newly acquired information from Jimin
It was the end of your shift and you were finishing up with one of Jihoons patients as you worked with both adults and kids
Soonyoung had a tea and coffee in his hand
He knew you didn’t really like coffee thanks to forced helped from the nurses you were friends with
You tell Jihoons patient he did a good job and send him back to the oncology ward
In comes Soonyoung
“Hi y/n.”
“Oh Soonyoung! Hi how are you?”
“Good. Heres a tea.”
“Oooo tea. My favourite.”
“Mhm. How was today?”
“Good. Jimin is improving a lot. She's a lot more comfortable with her bionic hand…”
While you were talking about Jimins improvements Hoshi just kinda stared at you focused on the details in your face
After a little bit he saw you snap your fingers at him, “Hello? Earth to Soonyoung! Were you paying attention to anything I was saying?!”
“Wanna out for lunch tomorrow?”
“wHAT?!”
“You. Me. Lunch. Tomorrow?”
“Fuck it. Why not.”
“Pick you up tomorrow.”
Walks away kinda dying inside but also v proud of himself
Gets back to paediatric ward and tells Jimin he’s going out to dinner with you tomorrow
Jimin is happy but confused bc like who doesnt just wanna go out to dinner?
Also tells nurses who he forced to help him
They tease him
Doesnt care at this point
Runs rounds on all his kids and then turns out lights for them
Texts you excitedly
Refuses to tell you where you’re going for lunch
Gets off shift and goes home and sleeps until 8 (gets home at 1am)
Starts getting ready and making sure hes showered, smells nice and looks good for you
Decides to take you to a traditional korean restaurant
Picks you up from your apartment and you look super cute in a nice dress and sandals with your hair and makeup done nicely
Normally he see you in scrubs with no makeup on and your hair pulled back
If he thought you were pretty before of god he thought you looked like a fucking runway model now
You listen to music on the way to the restaurant
You get there at 12 and dont leave until 2
You just keep talking and talking, feels like you get each other so well
Pays for everything
Takes you shopping after
Also insists on paying for everything
Takes you home after
Kisses at the door of your apartment all cliche and shit
Texts you as soon as he gets home
You guys just keep talking honestly
Takes you out on another date next wednesday
Finally asks you to be his girlfriend
You agree
But on a side note Soonyoung still comes to all of Jinsoos appointments even though Jinsoo finally warmed up to you
He uses them as an excuse to see you
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