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htmelle
woman-inside-water

What's the worst pain you've ever experienced in your life?

Getting kicked in the balls really hard

Migraine

Broken bone

Piercing or tattoo

Getting stabbed

Waking up from a surgery

Passing kidney stones

Getting shot

Giving birth

Other (list in tags)

snowriddenwolf

Ok. Real talk time. I'm going to share this story, and if you are someone who has a uterus, please read. I do not want anyone else to go through what happened to me without at least knowing what is happening with their body. The worst pain I ever experienced was a deucidual cast.

Dec 2020, I woke up in horrible pain. I was having the worst cramps I have ever had in my life, and I regularly experience very painful cramping when I'm on my period. Pretty much all I was capable of doing was crawling out of bed and onto the living room floor to try and put pressure on my uterus so it would stop.

Within about an hour, I texted a friend to ask if they could please come help me get to a hospital. About ten minutes after that, I called 911 for an ambulance because I could not wait the 20 minutes for my friend to come pick me up. My primary concern at the time was appendicitis. I had recently read somewhere that it was not uncommon for people to confuse intense period pain with their appendix bursting.

I got to the hospital and told them my symptoms. Incredible pain. Like 15 on a scale from 1 to 10. The ER nurse put me on morphine. IT DID NOTHING. I was in so much pain morphine did not even take the edge off. When the intake admin came in to do my paperwork, I was rolling on the bed in so much pain I could not even speak. The nurse upgraded me to hydromorphine-did not even know that was a thing, but that finally helped to get control over the pain.

They determined it was not appendicitis, and then sent in an ultrasound technician to take a look at my uterus. When I sat up after the exam, what I can only describe as an explosion of blood came gushing out of me. My underwear was soaked and dripping blood. The paper sheet on the bed was drenched. If you are squeamish, warning because it's about to get kinda bad.

I went to the bathroom to take a urine sample, and to try and assess the damage. When I pulled down my pants to sit on the toilet, a piece of flesh the size of a golf ball fell out of my body and onto the floor. To be very clear, there was 0 chance I could be pregnant for a multitude of reasons, so this was not a miscarriage. Stunned, horrified, and now sure I was dying, I scooped it up in the sample cup and took it back to the nurse.

My pain immediately went away after that. After a lot of hemming and hawing, the nurses and doctors decided that I was ok to go home, gave me some heavy duty painkillers, and sent me home. When I had a followup with my regular doctor the next day, she did a lot of thinking and eventually suggested that maybe, since I was using my birth control to skip periods, I had built up an unusually thick uterine lining, and suggested I stop skipping the placebo week, so I did. It was not until 2 years later, on TikTok of all places, that I finally found out what it actually was.

I came across a video of a nurse who described experiencing very similar symptoms to me, including having flesh come out of her. She noted having what felt like contractions, and intense pain for hours. When she went to the doctor's, no one had any idea what was wrong.

In fact, the comments on this video was FILLED with women who'd gone through the same thing, and had responses ranging to 'no idea, go home' to 'you're hysterical.' People described being terrified by the experience, and having to go home with no answers. For me, I went home and stopped skipping periods, the exact reason why I'd gone onto birth control in the first place, and then just lived with my very scary ER visit for a long time.

So finally the woman explained that she reached out to a gynecologist colleague who was able to tell her that she'd had a deucidual cast. The lining of her uterus had come off in one piece, instead of slowly shedding over several days (aka, a period, for those who don't know). A deucidual cast is excruciatingly painful, not that uncommon for anyone who has a period, and most doctors have never heard of it. Unless you are a specialist in a few fields, it doesn't really get taught in medical school.

I know this is a very long and rambling story, but I feel like it's really important to capture the details because it helps others to identify what the symptoms are, and assure others that they are going to be ok if it happens! This was a seriously scary and traumatizing experience, and I had to live with it in the back of my mind for two years. No one deserves that.

The good news is: a deucidual cast is not dangerous. It can be indicative of am ectopic pregnancy, but not always, and if you're not pregnant you don't have to br concerned. If it happens to you: it is going to be ok. You do not need to feel scared about the blood or anything else; it's the uterine lining, just like regular period blood. It is PAINFUL and that suuucks. But you will be ok once it's over.

Idk, I hope this helps someone. Tl,dr, look up a deucidual cast if you have a uterus and can have a period. They are VERY painful but not dangerous, and there's a good chance if have one a doctor will not know what's happening to you.

htmelle
turing-tested

what’s your preferred way to view online menus on a restaurant’s website

pdf

text

png/image of menu

other/please comment

hi im doing research for my job and i want menus to be accessible to as many people as possible in their preferred format so any input on the subject would be super helpful! reblogs are appreciated as well :>

turing-tested

i want you all to know that im going to forward y'alls responses to this post/ur tags and considering some of you feel that if a restaurant has the menu in PDF format they deserve the death penalty its so incredibly funny to have to couch the responses in “as you can see some people feel very strongly about this subject”

turing-tested

i cannot tell my boss that he should be “drawn and quartered in the town square” for having a pdf menu

zwoelffarben

Gangar is a fucking coward meme: in panel one gangar is told, "i cannot tell my boss that he should be 'drawn and quartered in the town square' for having a pdf menu.  In panel two, someone from the crowd shouts, "You could if you weren't a fucking coward."ALT
mevima

If you want an accessible menu, it must be available in plain-text for the sake of screen readers and visually impaired people.

And please for the love of god don’t make us (have a smart phone, have internet access, have enough data available to, take the time to) scan a QR code

htmelle
turing-tested

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humanjeff

this is a legitimate problem in robotics.

like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.

it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).

anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).

ronthedunedain

In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.

Bots on The Ground In the Field of Battle (Or Even Above It), Robots Are a Soldier's Best Friend  By Joel Garreau Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 6, 2007  The most effective way to find and destroy a land mine is to step on it.  This has bad results, of course, if you're a human. But not so much if you're a robot and have as many legs as a centipede sticking out from your body. That's why Mark Tilden, a robotics physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, built something like that. At the Yuma Test Grounds in Arizona, the autonomous robot, 5 feet long and modeled on a stick-insect, strutted out for a live-fire test and worked beautifully, he says. Every time it found a mine, blew it up and lost a limb, it picked itself up and readjusted to move forward on its remaining legs, continuing to clear a path through the minefield.  Finally it was down to one leg. Still, it pulled itself forward. Tilden was ecstatic. The machine was working splendidly.  The human in command of the exercise, however -- an Army colonel -- blew a fuse.  The colonel ordered the test stopped.  Why? asked Tilden. What's wrong?  The colonel just could not stand the pathos of watching the burned, scarred and crippled machine drag itself forward on its last leg.  This test, he charged, was inhumane.ALT
humanjeff

oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about

aquilacalvitium

Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy

Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge

imakemywings
bogleech

I think I’ve said this exact thing before but it’s so freaking weird that we put breasts on so many alien creatures and anthropomorphic animals because the two prominent boobs are something totally unique to humans.

That’s like if we were chicken people and gave all our fictional beings cock’s combs. Even robots and cartoon bugs and shit.

Or maybe if we were turtle people and our version of Star Trek assumed a vast majority of alien races would have turtle shells cause that’s just so normal to us and marketing executives assume nobody will buy a game or watch a movie where the characters don’t have turtle shells.

Walrus pop culture where everything has tusks.

Termite people giving all their female characters huge colossal pulsating abdomens even if they’re cats or fish or humans.

Proboscis monkey pop culture where anything designated “male” has a big dangly fat nose to make it sexier.

htmelle
derinthescarletpescatarian

Americans will use anything but the metric system.

elalmadelmar

> The Jerusalem Post

> Americans

You might wanna double check that one, just saying.

derinthescarletpescatarian

NASA is an American organisation even when foreign journalists report on them

elalmadelmar

NASA is calling it 34 meters, because NASA uses the metric system.

This article is by an Israeli journalist who apparently really likes borzois, and spends half the article infodumping about them.

mossadspydolphin

I used to be in a creative writing group with the guy and I promise you this is absolutely normal for him.

faustandfurious

Quite possibly the funniest thing you could have added to this post.

gehayi

For anyone suffering from anxiety, the asteroid passed Earth on March 18, 2023.

catgirlcommunism
pirateprincessjess

I do a series on Tiktok/Reels called “Good Trans News” the whole idea was to try and give other trans people a reprieve from the constant barrage of bad news and try to provide hope by showcasing positive news that affects trans people.

I’m not sure why I never posted those videos on tumblr, because I think they could do some good here.

So here’s some good news!

It turns out that most people don’t hate us

catgirlcommunism

Thats not just 83% of americans, thats 83% of Fox News Poll Respondants, which typically is a demographic that leans strongly to the right anyway!