I didn't get any pictures, and I'm OK with that. Though now I'm wondering whether there are pictures. I know there's frozen tumor tissue out there somewhere, which I think is just weird.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - May 09, 2007 4:48:51 pm PDT #6494 of 10001
brenda m - May 09, 2007 4:57:13 pm PDT #6495 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Okay, the dog is walking around the living room tipping things over.
Not accidentally.
She's going around the room, and things that can tip, she's reaching out a paw and tipping them.
§ ita § - May 09, 2007 4:59:10 pm PDT #6496 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was awake for the last thing they removed from me, so no need for pictures. As of pictures of me instead, no. Lying in a pool of my own blood smelling my flesh burn--that's going to stay with me forever, even without a visual to round it out.
It was the photography buff thing that made me wrinkle my nose. Unconscious and unasked, I'm no one's model.
sarameg - May 09, 2007 5:09:43 pm PDT #6497 of 10001
brenda, your dog has become a cat.
Lying in a pool of my own blood smelling my flesh burn--that's going to stay with me forever, even without a visual to round it out.
Aaaaack!
Dad thought his hand re-breaking was so cooool! "They used a hammer and a chisel! Just like the ones I have! The pin made a splooshy sound going it!"
Me? I've had foot surgery thrice. Once to remove a piece of glass and the other two times to burn out plantars warts. I can do without the smells and sounds and relayed sensations (I could feel in parts not numb that they were cutting parts that had ridges and can still cringe as the sensation of metal running into glass.) I really hated the crunching and sucking when I had my wisdom teeth out. I've never had general, but I wish I had. Especially on the latter.
Jesse - May 09, 2007 5:10:55 pm PDT #6498 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Lying in a pool of my own blood smelling my flesh burn--that's going to stay with me forever, even without a visual to round it out.
I'm pretty sure that's going to stay with me forever.
Lee - May 09, 2007 5:11:48 pm PDT #6499 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
me too
Kat - May 09, 2007 5:14:22 pm PDT #6500 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ACK! scary image!
I decidely would NOT want a pic of any surgery.
One of my coworkers also had an emergency c-section. At one point she looked up at the mirror that was on the ceiling of the OR and saw an organ resting on belly outside of her body. K posited that it was actually the woman's stomach.
t shudder
Cashmere - May 09, 2007 5:25:51 pm PDT #6501 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
We had an issue in Ohio with a photo buff and a coroner who were using corpses for photography subjects--with no permission whatsoever.
Kat - May 09, 2007 5:29:04 pm PDT #6502 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
seriously? I cannot imagine that.
sarameg, if there is chile cheese bread at the farmer's market do you want me to buy a loaf and mail it? I can't guarantee that it won't be stale when it gets to you though.
My friend Julie sent me a hands-free expression halter, which is weird as shit and it actually works. MOOOOO!
sarameg - May 09, 2007 5:32:01 pm PDT #6503 of 10001
I think I'm ok with looking at other people's insides. I mean, despite playing with the anatomy model in my pede's office so many times as a kid because of ear infections (not to mention hs biology), I'm still not sure where everything goes in relation to my own guts. Or what it really looks like, not the plasticized, sanitized version. And I'm curious that way. Especially when I'm inclined to remove parts with a rusty spork, I'd like to visualize that properly cause I am cranky. However, I don't really want to see it attached to my own self, I don't think.