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  • dingus@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat is your profession?
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    19 hours ago

    I get to cut up human organs for a living. Whenever something is removed during surgery, it comes to me. It can be mundane but there are fun and interesting things too. The job is very hands on.

    No, I’m not a surgeon. You wouldn’t want me to attempt to perform surgery on you. I’m not a physician of any kind.


  • Why don’t you talk to him about it? You guys are both obviously close already.

    I will say…it’s ok if you don’t want to identify as gay or bisexual. But you clearly like doing these things with him already. I’m not saying that this means you should start identifying a different way than you want to. But what I am saying is that maybe you might like doing that with him as well. And it would be ok if you ended up liking it. It would also be ok if you didn’t end up liking it. Everyone is different.

    But yeah I think you should have a conversation about it.







  • There is a nerve that runs along that part of your elbow called the ulnar nerve. It gives sensation to your pinkie finger and a part of your ring finger. It runs along the “backside” of your elbow. So bashing your elbow in that area sometimes compresses your nerve there and causes pain/weird sensations in that area. You’re directly smashing/compressing the nerve when that happens.

    The sensations to the rest of your fingers are from different nerves. One of the other main ones is called the median nerve. It does run along your arm as well, but in a pathway that is not as exposed at the elbow like your ulnar nerve is. It runs along your “elbow pit” area, so bashing your elbow doesn’t affect it at all.

    But the median nerve is commonly compressed at the wrist. This happens in carpal tunnel syndrome, where you can get pain/tingling/weird sensations in your remaining fingers.

    Other nerves can be compressed in other ways, but the above two are probably among the most common.

    Check out this image of what nerve supplies sensations in any given area of the arm/hand:

    https://m.instantanatomy.net/diagrams/arm061.png

    Here is an image that shows where the main nerves run along the elbow. This view is looking at the “elbow pit” head on. The backside of the elbow is essentially behind this image if that makes sense.

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/93de5fe2-a798-435e-beff-fbc42897d839.png

    Anatomy stuff is pretty cool, imo. I guess I’m a bit of a dork for stuff like that.







  • Honestly? I was around 26. I “discovered” alcohol alone, not in a social environment. I’ve always been a loner so social drinking wasn’t a thing for me because I was never social.

    Anyway, I was in grad school and had some temporary housing where there was a lot of food and crap people left over in the fridge and pantry. There were two things left over in the fridge that were opened that sparked my curiosity. No idea how old they were. But one was amaretto and I think the other was some wine. Got curious and tried a bit and enjoyed the effects. I had technically had alcohol many occasions prior, but not enough to get remotely near drunk or anything.

    Spend the remainder of grad school occasionally binge drinking alone on the weekends to the point of vomiting. Carried on that habit for a little bit after but I hardly ever do that now.

    I had actually never really drank socially until very recently. As someone with severe social anxiety, I was surprised at how helpful I found it in social situations. I only had a couple of drinks in these particular scenarios instead of getting piss drunk tho. And again, I am not social anyway so this doesn’t happen on the regular. But goddamn. I didn’t understand self medicating for anxiety until that.