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Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

#vegan #honey #text #animals

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sorry, professor whats his nuts

#this is fantastic #school #university #a series of unfortunate events #always double check your papers‚ kids

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omg so we have 1 seeing dog and 1 blind dog and whenever there's a toy they both want, the seeing dog takes it and just...stands very still. immobile. she KNOWS he will try to wrestle it from her but she has figured out that if she does not squeak it, then he will not find it. leading to this.

"god....grant me the strength to not squeak the squeaky toy"

#absolutely amazing #doing her damned best #love how dogs figure these things out #reminds me of the deaf dogs that learn to look at their hearing companions for cues #mostly so they can bark at people outside #dogs #animals #images and text #blind dog

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#mood #social anxiety is dramatic af #but even if I know that‚ it's basically impossible to ignore it #text #social anxiety #we are not ok

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When I realized pre-packaged food was for me, my entire outlook on life changed.

Let me explain.

I remember walking through the grocery store with my mother as a teen and her making a bitter comment about how everything had more packaging now. De-shelled hard boiled eggs in plastic, cut fruit, pre-portioned salads, all of it was "laziness" to her. She insisted people were getting lazier to the point where if my brother ate pizza from the fridge, she would chastise him for not heating it. She would say "you deserve warm pizza" as a way of saying you should do something the "right way" because it's worth doing.

This isn't because my mother had no concept of people with disabilities, she is disabled herself. However, in raising me, she taught me to hide that disability, to try to be on everyone else's level so we aren't seen as weaker. That laziness is worse than being disabled and there's simply no excuse for taking shortcuts. I don't think she intended to teach me this, but her own internalized ableism was so loud.

When I became an adult, I realized I hated cooking. The prep was tedious, I almost always have dishes in the sink, there's cleanup after, my back hurts, my eyes burn, it's too hot and in the beginning, I got overwhelmed to the point of crying. Leftovers were almost never eaten becuase heating them up (the "correct" way to eat them) was an extra step that made me not want to put the effort in. I thought I was lazy and felt ashamed when I wanted something to eat but couldn't bring myself to make it.

At some point, I finally said "I'm tired. I don't care how much packaging it is, I don't care how lazy it is, I'm going to get meal kits."

It was life-changing. Dinner takes 30 minutes to make. Everything is portioned. The directions are clear. I don't hate it anymore. I want salads in bags. I want eggs that don't take three steps to eat. It's not laziness, it's accessible! I don't have to make a meal, I can eat the raw vegetables, have pasta with butter, eat a granola bar! There's no right way to feed myself!

I made things SO HARD on myself because I wasn't acknowledging my disability or my depression and they didn't need to be hard! I didn't need to go around the store saying "is that really necessary?" Because it IS necessary for me! It's brilliant! It's so helpful!

Accessibility takes so many forms and overcoming internalized guilt for not being able-bodied or mentally well enough to handle tasks other handle easily is incredibly freeing. Obviously I'm lucky to be in the position to have this option avaliable to me, but I kept myself from it for far too long.

I do deserve warm pizza. I can have it delivered.

#important #let yourself use all available resources #that's what they're there for #text #disability

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Why do I have to second guess every decision I make. Why don't I know more. I should already know so much more and then I wouldn't have to question my every move.

#this is oddly reassuring #cuz i've always felt this way even for things i'm objectively skilled at #nice to know others get this too #including extremely talented and skilled people #text #medical #science #feeling stupid

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#seriously #that and not being forced to drive *everywhere* #health #healthcare #US #images of text

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#important #look out for each other #because that's our biggest strength #stop advocating for eugenics #survival of the fittest #text

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I just want to be a really, really good doctor who helps a lot of people, but I also am pretty sure I am quite stupid most of the time. This is the war raging eternally in my life. 

#mood #text #medblr #vetblr

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#fantastic #twitter #homework #dog pics #seen this before but it never gets old #images of text

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veterinary medicine textbooks!

hi everyone! this is my first post on this blog! i thought i could share some of my resources because it takes me so long to find textbooks and i hope other people find them useful too!

i have the following vet med textbooks in this google drive link

An Atlas of Interpretative Radiographic Anatomy of the Dog and Cat  (Coulson, A. & Lewis, N.)

Color Atlas of Veterinary Histology (3rd Edition) (Bacha, W.J. and Bacha, L.M.)

Dyce, Sack and Wensing’s Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy (5th Edition) (Singh, B)

Essentials of Domestic Animal Embryology (Hyttel, P., Sinowatz, F., and Vejlsted, M.) 

Guide to the Dissection of the Dog (8th Edition) (Evans, H.E. & De Lahunta, A.)

Veterinary Embryology (McGeady, T.A., Quinn, P.J., FitzPatrick, E.S., Ryan, M.T., Kilroy, D., Lonergan, P.)

Wheater’s Functional Histology (6th Edition) (Young, B., O’Dowd, G., Woodford, P., Wheater, P.R.)

Keep reading

#useful #veterinary medicine #textbook #google drive #vetblr #vetmed #university #veterinary science #physiology #vet school #vet student #resources #text

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“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”

— Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (via themedicalstate)

#we really need to restructure our work lives #cuz jfc #that's horrendous #yet encouraged in almost any career #some more than others #but man #the productivity #i know i get more done in 2 hours well rested than I get done in 8 hours sleep deprived #at least done to a high standard #med and vet med especially need this #Work hour restrictions in vet med #vet med #stop normalizing sleep deprivation

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did y'all know that child-resistant packaging actually has to be tested on children like they literally go to a daycare and ask a bunch of kids to open medication packages and if they can the company has to go back and redo their packaging from scratch

#working animals #applies to both the children and the bears #bears #video #wildlife #your daily reminder that wildlife that's comfortable around people is a bad thing

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One thing that I've found is very difficult to internalize is the idea that I actually *am* an expert on certain topics. Like, I'm not just some student fucking around; my opinion actually has weight.

#the last addition is why we have randos online thinking they know more than professionals #like no #you don't know as much as an epidemiologist cuz you spent 5 hours googling shit #dunning kruger effect #so frustrating #also reassuring to know other people go through this #I will constantly second guess my opinions and evaluations #cuz idk shit #but also i actually know some things???

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Way to go dad!!

#important #images of text #I'm really bad at looking out for myself/pushing back #but i've thankfully gotten better at saying no #employers will just take and take #and screw you once you're burnt out #we need to make sure to give kids these sort of messages #so they can hopefully grow up knowing how to not bend over backwards constantly

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#mood #seriously tho #even fitting something into my own schedule is rough #coordinating it with other people's busy schedules? #witchcraft #images of text #screencaps