shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.


I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.


I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock


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What’s wild about appendicitis is

  1. it just happens out of nowhere like we don’t really know what causes your appendix to get infected besides maybe constipation increases your chances

  2. There’s literally nothing you can do to prevent getting appendicitis at some point in your life at complete random

  3. 1 in 20 people will get appendicitis

  4. It’s extremely serious and an emergency and you must go to the emergency room ASAP and will most likely need surgery to have your appendix removed

  5. But it’s okay because we don’t actually know what the appendix does and it doesn’t seem to do anything so just getting rid of it is fine

  6. And removing it is super easy it takes like 15 minutes to 90 minutes at most

  7. But they gotta inflate you with gas like it’s e621 at the hospital tonight in order to do it and that ends up hurting worse than the appendicitis


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in reply to @shel's post:

the appendix - we have read but don't immediately have a source for - used to serve the function of digesting raw meat. when humans started cooking, the lack of evolutionary pressure to maintain the functionality caused it to stop doing that (so, don't eat raw meat. other than sushi)

I have lived in constant fear that any random side pain was it for like thirty years and I have to say seeing two people get it out of nowhere on the same webbed site within like a week is doing severals in my brain

Learn where you appendix is on the map of the human body and if it hurts a lot there and just there for like more than five hours then year go to the ER just in case