#Surgery airway

[beecroft]

Orthopedic veterinary surgeons in Singapore specializing in fracture repair, TPLO surgery, spinal surgery, hip replacement, and orthopedic procedures for dogs and cats.

Web Page: https://beecroft.com.sg/beecroftsg/project-two-3amwl

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[professornightmare]

In a not-too-distant future where the birth rate is almost zero, creating a social and economic collapse, all fertile women must enter the government's special program.

#medfet #operating room #gynaecology #medical experimentation #surgery kink #gyno surgery #anesthesia mask #medical #submisive and breedable #breeding project #laryngeal mask airway #laboratory #med student #surgery

[medresusfet123]

#intubation #et tube #anesthesia #intubated #woman surgery #ekg #extubation #extubated #woman OR #OPA #oral airway #mayo pipe #general anesthesia #anesthesia mask

[nordicmedfet]

Gyno surgery for days

#gyno surgery #anaesthesia #intubated #laryngeal mask airway

[sheryl-lee]

soooo turns out i have condylar resorption, a severe degenerative joint disease that causes gradual bone loss of the mandibular condyles (the bones that are part of the jaw joints, aka the TMJs). this has probably been going on i was a kid but went diagnosed all this time. my symptoms like functional issues, pain, etc. were repeatedly dismissed by doctors my whole life. the pain and dysfunction is increasing more and more by the day.

it's a progressive disease, and nothing can stop it or slow it down until the joints are completely eaten away. the only solution to prevent further bone loss and restore function is a total temporomandibular joint replacement, where the two diseased joints that literally hold my face together are removed and permanently replaced with metal prostheses. aka a major surgery with a 6-12 month recovery 😃

#basically my face is disappearing because my body is attacking itself which has been really Fun to experience #i've had this disease since i was like 10 but only found out after doing my own research because most dentists/orthos don't know about it #i always knew something was really wrong and that my pain/ facial changes were not normal and getting worse #so it's both relieving and frustrating to *finally* be taken seriously #but yeah i'm having a lot of emotions about this and it's been really tough to process #getting joint replacement AND jaw surgery was not how i thought i'd be spending my early 20s #but better than being in chronic pain for the rest of my life for sure #and if i wait any longer i risk severe deterioration/unsalvageable bone loss and total airway collapse in the future #sameera.txt

[nimoy]

today is the day i get surgery or dont. im so nervous lol

#i am still not fully cleared cuz i have to be evaluated by the anesthesiologist which they said they cant do #until the MORNING OF THE SURGERY #because theyre afraid i may have some blockage in my airway passage #im fully going into it expecting to be rejected #and ive mentally prepared #so i will be okay. it will just hurt a lot #but if i do get it. yay #i felt like i havent been able to be excited and im still not #just cuz of how frustrating and distressing this all is #and i hope if i dont i at least get some kind of refund lol #tp

[clonerightsagenda]

medical bitching beneath the cut

Long time followers know for the last 2.5 years I have been chasing jaw joint replacement surgery after my bones started disintegrating which has so far involved a) the surgeon ignoring my calls b) getting denied by insurance c) filing an insurance appeal and getting rejected again d) having to start the entire process over when my workplace switched insurances but at least getting approved this time e) having to do braces for the second time (the first time caused this problem in the first place) which have led to my jaw joints dislocating all over the place (not sure either one is in the socket rn tbh... you get used to a specific pain and then it's hard to tell when something's wrong anymore) and various other minor and major inconveniences including the time I lost 7% of my body weight after getting spacers.

Last week's drama included learning that artificial joints expire and I will have to do this all again in 20 years or so and also that after my braces are done I have to do extensive imaging and then it takes ~4 months to build the artificial joint, which really threw off my mental surgery timeline. The orthodontist had told me May (after many, many attempts on my part in getting any sort of timeline since your employers tend to like to know in advance when you go awol for 6 weeks) so *this* week I went back to him and went 'hey when you said May did you mean May is when you'll be done with me and I do imaging and then the surgery is 4 months later or did you mean May is when the joint will be ready'.

'Probably the first one,' he said 'because I didn't think you were going to have surgery, Adam called and said he didn't think you needed it'

me: ...who? I've never spoken to an Adam about this surgery in my life?

The identity of Adam remains a mystery! I informed my orthodontist that since the surgeon was explaining the build a bear joint process it sounds like surgery is in fact happening so hopefully that is cleared up (or is it???) but like

a) who the fuck is Adam

b) why didn't 'Adam' call me?

c) if I have been coming in for orthodontic treatment since February being very clear that it is because I am preparing for surgery and you think I'm not having surgery shouldn't you like. idk say something. I'm paying you thousands of dollars out of fucking pocket bc my insurance only covered 1.5k

d) if you are convinced I am not having surgery and I ask you hey when am I having surgery why would your answer be 'May' instead of 'never and let's clarify expectations'

e) who the fuck is Adam???

Anyway when am I having my surgery? Idk. Also don't know who (Adam??) how why or even where considering my surgeon works at like 4 locations and last month I was sent on a merry chase bc the ortho office gave me a phone number for a different location than usual (where he did not work, actually, they googled the wrong place. good times). Don't even know what because the ortho keeps talking about making space on my upper jaw for the 'orthodontic portion' of the surgery and as far as I'm aware the main bit goes through my ears. I guess I will just keep living my goddamn life waiting for someone to eventually call and tell me it's time. Or not! Maybe Adam will materialize in my home killing me instantly. I wish every medical practitioner the terror, confusion, and frustration of having years of your life spent in the hands of people who don't give a shit about you and can't be bothered to try. This is not even starting on the front desk staff.

#chronic illness blogging #is adam in the room with us right now... #these are the people I am supposed to trust doing a delicate surgery next to my arteries brain and airways #but hey maybe they'll kill me and I won't have to do this again in 20 years #and here I am one of the lucky ones for having some form of insurance #and the energy to spend literal hours of my life at this point on the phone trying to get ANY information out of people #or moving hell and high water to schedule these fucking appointments #I need a secretary

[zouisalmightie]

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#getting a lil baby surgery today 😬 #not a surgery for a baby a small surgery #i have like….. a mass? in my nasopharynx and it’s blocking my airway which is fun it’s been making me snore 😭 #i already had surgery there cuz my tonsils and adenoids were removed in college and where my adenoids were my body was like #what if i actually wanted something there hmm???? and grew a mass there! which is fun #i feel like my body could have spent its energy doing literally anything else but whatever #but thoughts and prays are always welcome and encouraged

[anna-t-dote]

Only went to do dinner relief for 30 minutes and had to put another emergency call out for help *screams*. Anyway, everything was fine but fucking hell, I'm racking up emergencies lately. Third in 4 weeks.

#personal #work #life #nhs #surgery #anaesthetics #qualified life #healthcare #airway emergency

[pocket-poly]

Hubby by my side & driver

My cousin handled my kid

My Besties handled food prep for post-surgery (delicious soup & pot roast) and flowers & cookies a few days before to help with anxiety

My boyfriend came this morning before surgery and gave me lots of love and a pep talk. And between jobs delivered my favorite flowers & Lil balloons right in front of where I park so I saw them on arrival

Many calls & texts too from others that care & love me.

I can breathe. Was 65% closed.

However, could only dilate my air way to 15mm not 17-18mm so I'm starting this 6-9 mth time with less 🤞 i can still get that or more outta this run.

#my village #surgical #polyamorous #polyamory #polyamourous #boyfriend #married dating #polyam #poly life #polycule #support #loved #effort #surgeries #airway #healing #healthy after trauma #redgrasshopper

[under-same-sky]

One of my favorite movie's on the TV

solo in my room (cuddles would be nice)

Doing this stupid thing called slowing down and resting because I have to. This is not easy or normal for me. I just bought my frist pair of sweat pants in over 25 years. It always been workout leggings, men's pajama pants (because pockets) or jeans.

Crawled into my bed with tablet for digital scrapbooking and a heating pad because my feet are always ice cold.

For a few reasons, I'd like to rush my way to December. But I'm trying to just be in the moment one at a time.

#chronic illness #fuck fibro #fibromyalgia #autoimmune #depression sucks #appscrapping #digital scrapbooking #trachel stenosis #closed airway #waiting for surgery

[beecroft]

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[professornightmare]

Go to sleep, all will be fine.

#medfet #operating room #gyno surgery #surgery kink #anesthesia mask #intubation #laryngeal mask airway

[bestenthospital]

#Child specialist in Gurugram #Best delivery hospital in Gurugram #Hip replacement in Gurugram #best laparascopy surgeon in Gurugram #Best gynaecology hospital in delhi #Knee replacement in Gurugram #Speech therapy Gurugram #Airway Endoscopy in Gurugram #Best hospital in Gurugram haryana #laparoscopic surgery in gurgaon

[damazcuz]

Ok well I'm not above doing this. I need help paying for my sleep study so I can get a cpap.

A couple weeks ago I finished an at home sleep study and took the equipment back to the sleep lab to analyze. Friday I heard back from them with results. My test was so bad and my sleep apnea so severe, they're skipping the in-lab sleep study and ordering a cpap machine which I need to pick up in 3 weeks.

At my lowest points while sleeping I get down to 77% blood oxygen level. Prompt medical care (hospitalization) is needed for levels below 88% as this is considered dangerously low, and levels under 70% are life threatening.

Basically, every night while sleeping, I stop breathing repeatedly throughout the night, cutting off oxygen to my brain over and over again. A cpap machine would force my airways to stay open while I'm sleeping so that i can continuously take air in and continue to supply oxygen to my heart and brain. I've been untreated for over 15 years and have basically lived in a fog for most of that time. Untreated sleep apnea can and will shorten my lifespan; getting a cpap machine can and will extend it.

*insurance is not covering the sleep study itself.* I have no idea if it will cover all or even part of the machine. my savings has already been decimated by other life events. I've been trying to save for top surgery as well, but medical issues keep cropping up and right now I have nothing that I can borrow from.

Tl;dr I am broke, but I need to come up with at least $800 for the bill for the sleep study, so that I can even pick up a cpap machine in a couple of weeks. At that time they may bill me more for the machine itself.

If anyone can pitch me a couple bucks I'd appreciate it. https://ko-fi.com/damascus - I have a PayPal but I don't want to put my email and name out there publicly, feel free to message me if you need it. I don't have any other venmo/cashapp etc.

Thank u in advance to anyone who's able to donate or reblog, I appreciate the help

🛏🐅 <- honk shuuuu snork mimimimi

#man i dont know how to tag this stuff... #signal boost #mutual aid #??? meow.......

[zenaidamacrouras1]

Writing Modern Steve Roger's Health Issues: A compendium

AKA How do Steve Rogers' MCU canon illnesses hold up in a modern setting?  

I am writing something that is SO NICHE and so NERDY I feel absolutely, positively deviant about it. Who knew you could have this much fun while eating a burrito and sitting in the sun on your back porch? 

OKAY! This one goes out to all of you writing modern AU's with a modern Steve Rogers. (There are literally dozens of us!). Let's go.

So, I find it somewhat problematic when people write disabled or otherwise medically complicated characters and are wishy-washy about the diagnosis they have. In real life, everyone I know with ongoing medical issues is a fucking expert on their exact shit. A great tumblr reference for disabled characters is Cripple Characters, but I also use reddit threads to read about people’s day to day experiences with different issues in their own words. If nothing else, just decide what your character has and take ten minutes and read through a basic website article about it. 

So let's walk through what modern Steve's medical history and diagnoses might be. If you feel like I missed any details or got things wrong, happy to have comments to that end.

We'll start with the list of “ailments,” going with the MCU canon and combining the images from the museum exhibit and screen shots of Steve’s enlistment forms:

Asthma

Scoliosis

Fallen arches

Partial deafness

Scarlet Fever, Rheumatic Fever

Heart arrhythmia

High blood pressure

Palpitation or pounding in heart

Easy fatigability

Stomach ulcers

Pernicious anemia

Nervous trouble of any sort

Sinusitis

Chronic or frequent colds

Caveat: I am not a doctor, but I am a person who enjoys reading medical journal articles about illnesses I do and don’t have. The human body is a fascinating and terrible place to live. Talk to me about your medical complications - I will always find them interesting. I love small talk about Crohn’s disease and/or extremely graphic details about the time you had surgery because one of your wrist bones was the wrong length. 

Sucks To Your Assmar: Asthma! How has asthma changed? 

Kids who have their asthma well managed at a young age are going to have less scarring and lung damage (this is called airway remodeling). Thus a modern kid will likely have less severe asthma than a kid born in Steve’s time. Further, allergy medicines got way better from the 1990s, so kids with allergy induced asthma would have had fewer attacks. Fewer attacks as kids = less severe asthma as they age. 

I would also note that asthma is highly connected to environmental issues. If Steve grew up in a house with cigarette smoke, cockroaches, rats, or mold present, as is fairly easy to imagine, especially without dehumidifiers in a swampy Brooklyn summer, those are environmental factors that would have made his asthma much worse. 

They are also all factors that kids today certainly face, depending on how you write your modern Steve’s childhood. While people today certainly can have very severe asthma, it’s also entirely possible that modern Steve’s relationship to his asthma is pretty chill and easy to manage. (My partner has relatively severe asthma with a lot of environmental triggers; modern allergy medicine was a big game changer.)

Let’s talk about scoliosis ~~

There are a lot of variations to how scoliosis impacts people. I have very minor scoliosis and it's barely a thing in my life. I’m not trying to speak for everyone, but for what it’s worth, there are professional athletes with spinal fusion. I used Kyra Condie as my justification for writing climbing coach post-spinal fusion small Steve Rogers in one fic. My younger brother and best friend in high school both had spinal fusions. 

In reality the athletic and physical abilities of people with spinal fusion vary pretty much exactly as much as people without spinal fusion, so you have a lot of leeway for how you decide to write a character with scoliosis. I recommend reddit threads to read about people talking about how their bodies felt before and after spinal fusion, or why they decided not to have the surgery, if you want to get a sense of how it might affect your character’s day to day life.

Wait, so how tall is modern small Steve Rogers? 

You can see in this article that gains in height post scoliosis corrective surgery/spinal fusion varies, but the mean was 27 mm (1 inch) and the maximum was 66 mm (2.5 inches). 

The more severe the curve in the spine, the more height gained with surgery. 

We know Steve had scoliosis, we don’t know how severe it was (do we?). But if he was 5’4” without spinal fusion, and with all of his childhood fevers, and possible poor nutrition due to the Great Depression and untreated stomach ulcers, then it’s very reasonable that a modern Steve raised with proper nutrition and his gastrointestinal issues (see below!) properly treated and a spinal fusion could be easily 1-10 inches taller. 

I think it’s great if you want to write modern Small Steve as 5’4” - but I tend to write him as 5’7” or so. 

I think it is entirely likely that a modern Steve Rogers could end up being 6 feet tall given modern medical intervention and a healthy digestive system and adequate nutrition. As an example of how people with more or less the same genetics having different heights due to environmental factors, I know of one family of four brothers that immigrated from Italy in the 40s. Their height was 100% correlated to their age when they moved to the US/started having access to food: the oldest brother was around 5’4” and the youngest around 6 feet. The oldest was also a chain smoker and worked full time from around age 8, so you know, he was a fucking badass 5'4" Italian guy, if that's not clear.

What about fallen arches? 

Fun story, but I have fallen arches/flat feet and had a lot of foot pain as a kid, but I thought it was normal. I wear custom orthotics and/or birkenstocks and do exercises to strengthen my feet muscles and it's fine now as long as I remember to do the things I just mentioned. My dad had to have multiple surgeries on his feet, so I think it helped that they caught it earlier in me. 

Should I write modern non-serum Steve as deaf? 

Maybe! I think it’s lovely when people write characters with hearing issues. There are great blogs that cover ways to do that well (a good link, another one, and another one and I think this one on hearing aids is particularly good if you are trying to bring in subtle day to day routine differences a character that wears hearing aids may have. Another great option is, again, reddit, especially for questions around how sexual intimacy might vary in small ways that can be nice to bring in. (I am working on a fic with a seeing character whose ex is blind and also read a lot of couples first hand experience with sexual intimacy around that dynamic on reddit). 

But how likely is it that modern Steve would be deaf? 

I think that it’s reasonably likely that Steve’s hearing issues were a result of Scarlet Fever, which is a bacterial infection that can result in rheumatic fever, an inflammatory condition that develops in more severe cases of scarlet fever. 

Scarlet fever caused deafness - in fact, both Helen Keller and Thomas Edison had hearing loss due to scarlet fever infections. Further, sustained fevers of over 104 degrees can also cause hearing loss, so there is a reasonable chance that some other fever caused Steve’s hearing issues. 

Today, the kind of hearing loss caused by fevers and infections can usually be surgically repaired or never occur because we have better antibiotics and better medicines to treat fevers. However, I have a friend who has partial hearing loss and lots of other life long nervous system and fatigue issues due to complications from childhood chicken pox in the 80s (this vaccine came around in 1995).

I don’t know if it’s canon or fanfiction, but I often see Steve as having one bad ear. For what it’s worth, hearing loss in one ear is much less common than hearing loss in both ears. 

However, potential causes of hearing loss in one ear are infections that result in a high fever and some kind of head trauma, both of which are easy to imagine would have affected a Steve born in 1918, and while possible in a modern Steve, also easier to avoid. 

Heart Stuff: Heart arrhythmia, High blood pressure, Palpitation of pounding in heart, Easy fatigability

The aforementioned fevers that can cause hearing loss can also cause heart issues. I think it’s reasonably likely that Steve’s heart issues were from his fevers as a young kid, but I often write him with a congenital heart defect, because why not? 

These days, most of the time, such issues are detected at or before birth and fixed when the person is a baby, but there are plenty of heart issues that can require multiple heart surgeries at various points. Regardless, a modern Steve would most likely either have had access to corrective surgery or medication to manage these heart conditions. Which is not to say that he wouldn’t suffer mental and physical trauma from this medical complication. 

There are plenty of professional athletes you can find who have all of the above heart issues. And plenty of people with heart issues who have no interest in being professional athletes, so like, follow your bliss. 

Digestive System Stuff: Easy fatigability, Stomach ulcers, Pernicious anemia

I have easy fatigability under heart stuff too, because lots of shit can make you tired. 

My personal head canon is that Steve Rogers has celiac disease and/or lactose intolerance, it would cause all of the above. Both can also lead to poor growth - in fact falling off growth charts is one of the most common symptoms of celiac disease in children. 

While people have been aware of celiac disease since there were people, gluten wasn’t identified as the clear cause till the 50s. 

I typically write modern Steve with some kind of food allergy, and I think that addresses quite a few of his canon medical complications. 

Because so many causes of this category of symptoms are relatively easily solved with modern medical intervention/avoiding the problem, I would point folks towards Crohn’s disease if you are looking to write a modern character with medical issue that is more likely to be an ongoing source of similar medical complications today.

(Also, kids with Crohn’s are likely to have reduced height. I have a friend who has Crohn's whose 3 siblings are well over 6 feet and he is around 5'8" (so 4-6 inches aka 11+ cm shorter due to his severe childhood illness).)

Nervous trouble of any sort

Kids with medical complications and food allergies are much more likely to have anxiety. I’m so proud of all the kids making it through the day with anxiety. Luff you anxiety kids, I see you working twice as hard to be present as the non-anxious kids. Tough as hell. Give yourself a high five. I’m so damn proud of you.

Sinusitis and Frequent colds

I mean, god bless modern decongestants and allergy meds. Celiac disease and lactose intolerance can both cause sinus issues, so here is another one of Steve's ailments that can be "cured" through that diagnosis.

Other stuff

When you look at the above, you can see a lot of scenarios where modern era Steve, like many children/adults today, had multiple surgeries and serious and scary health complications as a child, but as an adult would appear as a relatively healthy able bodied person, with the possibility of even becoming a top athlete if he was so inclined.  It’s also likely that some issues like chronic fatigue etc, might linger into adulthood as relatively invisible illnesses that nonetheless affect his everyday. 

In some ways his character arc given the advances of modern medicine could mimic his arc due to the serum. 

Being medically complicated as a kid sucks. Even if you have surgeries to treat and/or learn how to live with things like Crohn’s and celiac and reduce flare ups, lingering mental health trauma can have an impact. 

Lastly and most importantly, I have a personal headcanon that young Steve Rogers of any era spent a lot of time sick in bed and staring into a mirror learning how to raise one eyebrow and perform other eyebrow gymnastics so he could more effectively sass his nurses. 

IN CONCLUSION:

I think it's actually reasonable for an author to say, "My modern Steve never had any fevers, and got his severe lactose intolerance diagnosed as a baby, and had good nutrition, had medications/clean environment that prevented his asthma."

So this Steve is 6 feet tall and healthy as long as he doesn't eat dairy and takes his daily zyrtec (cetirizine - it's an allergy med). The only medical issue he has from canon left is scoliosis, flat feet, and an astigmatism.

You can also choose to write a Steve with more complex medical issues, and there are lots of things that can be good and interesting and value about that. I think the main thing is to pick a diagnosis and write it realistically, hopefully this helps some with that!

#stucky fanfiction #smol steve #writing disability #steve roger #pre serum steve rogers #modern steve rogers #honestly whats wrong with me #I don't even know but I feel like I'm dealing with my mental illnesses well enough and I had fun writing this #meta #headcanon #stony fanfiction