When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I’m allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.
So there’s a medication called hyaluronidase. It’s used to make other medications absorb better, because it makes the cell wall more permeable.
One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It’s used in a number of injected medications.
Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.
This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it’s actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don’t actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.
Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.
tl;dr: They won’t inject you with bees, but they might inject you with purified cow testicle juice, and your body might say ‘eh, cow balls are BASICALLY bees’ and try to kill you anyway.
recently saw someone’s “advice for your 30s” which included something like “never get on the floor without having an escape plan for getting back up” and um. if you are otherwise able bodied and having trouble getting up from the floor in your 30s. you are very unhealthy. yes, even, if not especially, for that age.
I’ll add that if you are having trouble getting up from the floor at any age, you should definitely practice and repeat it as a form of exercise. Yes I am serious, it is one of the exercises I used to do in dance class. Those muscles are important and you definitely don’t want them to go away —- especially if you fall down!!! Most people don’t realize they’ve lost the ability to get up from the floor until years later when they have fallen and are trying to get back up and can’t. That’s such a scary situation to be in. If you’ve been chalking up the decline of your physical form to chronic pain related to aging, stop to think about the possibility of it being your body’s way of telling you that the bigger stronger muscles are constantly compensating for the smaller weakening ones. And then do something about it. Don’t let yourself wither.
Also!!!! Stand up right now and see if you can balance on one foot for 10 seconds. Then do the other foot.
If you can’t, then you need to practice this at least twice a day until you can.
Maintaining your ability to balance is one of THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU CAN DO to ensure your future safety. If your ability to balance is eroded, then your likelihood of being a repeat victim of trips and falls as you get older is SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED. And with falls, comes injuries. Comes sprains and bruises at best - breaks, dislocations, and hospitalisations at worst.
And when you’re older, breaks and dislocations can lead to complications which can lead to severely decreased quality of life, and/or outright death. The number of people who are relatively healthy, but fall, break something, and then never make it home, is a significant number.
So stand up. Right now. See if you can balance on your right foot for 10 seconds without wobbling or grabbing onto something. Then do your left foot.
Practice stepping into your underwear whilst standing. Can you navigate your foot into the leghole without having to sit down or grab onto something? If you’re otherwise able-bodied, that is something you should be able to do.
If you can’t do it, practice it until you can.
If you can do it, check periodically to make sure that you can STILL do it.
It seems like a silly little insignificant thing, but its a measure of your overall ability to balance, and its literally SO important.
Also worth noting that if you’re practicing getting up and you’re able to do so, practice in multiple ways
I’ve never had a problem getting up right up until I fell and fractured something in my left hand and discovered that I ALWAYS use my left hand to get up and getting up right handed was very difficult because I just had no practice using it that way
Also, if you’re trying to do these things and really genuinely struggling, maybe look into it and find out if you’re actually as able-bodied as you assume.
My mom is notoriously clumsy and now that she’s in her 70s I worry about her. She took a really bad spill, even knocked herself out, when she was visiting. It looked like she got in a fight- too bad the “other guy” was a concrete step. Even with extensive hospital scans, she didn’t break ANYTHING and her doctors attributed that to her being in really great shape(she works with a trainer).
I told myself that I never wanted to get like my grandma and not be able to get off the floor, so yeah. Move it Move it, folks.
An important message to heterosexuals, listen carefully: you do not, and I repeat do NOT, have to marry someone you actively dislike, don’t enjoy spending time with and/or whose hobbies you despise. You do not have to do that!! stop doing that!!!
“hahaha I hate my wife and made an entire room of the house dedicated to evading her company”
“hahaha I hate my husband and I drink industrial quantities of wine to cope with having had kids with him”
This is super cute! Sometimes snakes bob their heads a bit when tongue-flicking; it’s perfectly normal and not a sign for concern if it doesn’t come with any neurological symptoms. All’s good here!
It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.
decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years
i just think Anakin is the sort of person to get really really into conspiracies— I’m talking 5am forty-eight hours deep into a ‘the moon landing was faked’ binge but because they’re in space it’s more like ‘Corellia is actually hollow and filled with a little-known species of Force-sensitive moles’ binge.
Which means what I really want is Anakin, age twenty two and on leave for the week, accidentally taking a deep dive into a political conspiracy forum and finding someone’s ‘Palpatine is actually a Sith Lord and going to take over the government’ theory and because it’s Anakin, you know his first reaction is going to be to write a hate comment, but the problem with writing a hate comment deconstructing someone’s argument is that you actually have to read the argument in-depth and, uh oh, the person actually makes some pretty good points.
‘It’s fine,’ Anakin thinks, ‘I’ll just go ask Obi-Wan to help me write this reply.” So you get Obi-Wan bent over a space laptop at three in the morning, reading a fringe theory and wishing fervently that Anakin would stop using him as a solution to all his problems. He reads the post— grudgingly, of course, because it’s three in the bloody morning and we are on leave, Anakin— gets to the end of it, and realizes that kneelover69420 made some very salient points.
Obi-Wan calls the council at three in the morning and has to defend a fringe theory from someone on an Internet in front of the most revered and venerable Jedi in the galaxy. It is quite possibly one of the worst moments of his life.
no, you’re totally right. Because Anakin’s life is ridiculous, okay. He was a slave on an outer rim planet for the first nine years of his life, and then within the span of a few days he: wins a podrace, gets freed, gets adopted, flies a starship and wins a battle, gets orphaned by his new adopted dad, and gets adopted again by his dead adopted dad’s other son. So of course his baseline for what counts as weird is totally off-base.
Obi-Wan, who was raised in the temple and knows what the Force can and can’t do and at least somewhat how the world works for normal people, can look at a conspiracy theory and go ‘this is clearly fake,’ but Anakin? Virgin birth Anakin? Will look at a theory proposing that all water on Coruscant is actually distilled apple juice and go ‘you know what? sure. midichlorians exist, and all water on Coruscant being distilled apple juice is actually less crazy than that, so it must be real.’
Damn now i really want a conspiracy theorist fic/au. In addition to no baseline for normalcy, he is canonically 0-60 ride-or-die in all of his decisions. Not to mention the whole antichrist thing where his beliefs literally can alter the fabric of reality. And half of a Jedi’s job is breaking up real conspiracies !
I think its canon that palps was suppressing info about the trade blockade so if little ani was trying to space google what happened, the earliest articles literally would have only been from fringe news outlets. Oh dear. the Jedi suppressed the fact that Qui-Gon was killed by a Sith not a random darksider. His first exposure to republic mainstream news is that they don’t know shit.
You know that on half their missions growing up Anakin would wander off and come back convinced by ramblings he overheard about the Duke secretly conspiring with their sworn enemies to steal everyones pets. And he would be at least 50% right30% of the time, so Obi-Wan has to hear him out. I just-
The ReTuRn of the SiTh probably made the rounds every so often for the last 500 years anytime a Jedi starts dressing suspiciously. Atlantis-classy conspiracy, you know. The sort of thing people with crazy hair talk about on the History Holo-Channel. So 15 year old Anakin bursts into Obi-Wan’s room and makes him spill hot tea allover himself and he can’t even get mad because Anakin’s hysterical-
“A garbageman saw the Sith from Naboo in the outer rim! He’s building robot legs and shouting about revenge!” *holds up blurry holo of a pile of trash*
Can you imagine??? Can you imagine? 5 years later. Not only does Obi-Wan have to deal with Maul coming back from the dead specifically to make him suffer personally, but Anakin would be insufferable.
