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my blog is a safe space for me. the rest of you are in danger i think
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i don't have the brainpower to evaluate this paper on its statistical or methodological merits rn but tbh. does it even matter. perfect excuse to get a bunch of liddle vampire friends. like look at this is this not one of the cutest fucking worms you’ve ever seen. suction cup on the butt
should you do leech therapy for migraine? an annotated bibliography
I did a dive and there’s so little out there about leeches for migraine specifically that I was able to read basically all of it, and now I am going to share that information with you!!
TL;DR: There’s a plausible mechanism of action, but I would only recommend trying it if you are a deep appreciator of leeches qua leeches. More information at the end for those still interested.
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found an Abra today, which brings my collection of Pokémon cards sourced exclusively from the library book drop to 39
on the left you will see my pride and joy, Inexplicably French Psyduck From The Board Books Section. holo Galarian Moltres V 097/198 Chilling Reign is pretty cool too I guess
(not pictured: one each of Psychic, Fire and Electric energy cards)
new friends from the last few months
i don't have the brainpower to evaluate this paper on its statistical or methodological merits rn but tbh. does it even matter. perfect excuse to get a bunch of liddle vampire friends. like look at this is this not one of the cutest fucking worms you’ve ever seen. suction cup on the butt
god I’ve had a STUPID fucking week
- seriously consider going to urgent care on wednesday to kick a week-long episode
- stick it out one more day
- contract respiratory infection on friday.
- this somehow fucking. resets my head? i feel like I got run over by a truck full of phlegm but I don’t have a migraine anymore. this is dumb, why the hell is my brain like this.
- nap thru saturday, have a pretty nice sunday!!
- sleep badly last night for No Raisin.
- wake up this morning feeling basically okay but just a bit off.
- sleep deprivation + recent recovery from an illness + first day back at work = probable migraine afternoon. I take a naratriptan just in case. nara usually doesn’t seem to do anything for me but i still don’t ever know if i’m taking triptans early enough. this is pretty fucking early, that might make a difference
- get to work. head hurts. it’s really tight between the eyebrows? and it’s not quite like regular, the pain is more, it’s hard to describe, but more sour...
- wait i know this feeling
- this is a fucking triptan migraine
- motherFUCKER
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the noble peppermint is all that’s standing between me & a complete mental breakdown
resippy: 1 bag pure peppermint tea, 1 bag english breakfast, two lumps sugar, splash of cream, eng breakfast bag comes out after two minutes peppermint bag stays in indefinitely. this will not help with fatigue or hyperosmia or photosensitivity or dysphasia or brain fog or vestibular issues or visual disturbances but a steady drip of this does keep migraine pain down to slightly above a dull roar for me.
i’m fairly sure the effective ingredients here are the menthol (the reason why vick’s vaporub to the temples is recommended for migraine sometimes) and the caffeine (hit or miss for me but pure peppermint tea tastes terrible so). the sugar and fat are just to make u feel good. alternatively, u can eat a truly unreasonable quantity of soft peppermint puffs. or both
thinking abt polychaetes today bc a coworker was describing to me a horror movie where they were digging up worms for fishing and the worms were biting the digger and she did this exaggerated shudder and I was like ??? yeah that’s literally normal. who among us hasn’t been chomped by a baitworm?? what do you think they have teeth for??? [img]
but she doesn’t actually fish so she was disturbed by the juxtaposition with the classic gentle earthworm, and I was thinking fondly of our gorgeous local nereids, which can be dug up on any beach and are much better bait than earthworms but also they will definitely bite you.
...i did not make her day any less horrific by informing her the baitworm with teeth is real and i love them
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marine worm taxonomists will be like “is this a beautiful woman?” and not wait for an answer
you are reading my post and thinking, i don’t know about this one, Socks, i’m not sure if marine worm taxonomists do be like that. it’s because you haven’t met enough worms. here is a sampling of beautiful women
Aphrodite (also known as Alitta) (Aphrodita aculeata, Eunice aphroditois, Alitta virens)
and this is just about two thirds of the ones whose mythological associations I know off the top of my head, not counting deprecated genera such as Cytie, Nausicaa, and Hermione. worm taxonomists be like “is this a goddess or perhaps a nymph” and not wait for an answer
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I guess the biggest problem with tentacle porn is that it seldom has a positive message
'Ello, captain! Follow zailor here! The reason why crabs float is that they're made of wood. Hope this helps.
mate where in the blessed unterzee are you finding wood that not only bleeds hemocyanin and luciferaze but also still floats when you’ve filled all its cavities brimful with rostygold and ribcages
#asks#i actually can’t tell if this is a joke or if i missed some crucial fragment of angler crab lore lmfao either is equally possible#hell is bees and crabs is wood. sure. sure! this might as well be true#let’s start a angler crab timber company together cap’n. we’ll make a bloody killing on unsinkable treasure chests#the fifth city
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321 pages into Absolution and I think that. maybe. possibly. Vandermeer might think wet specimens are creepy. this is a hard one for authors to get across to me because some of my fondest memories are of napping in the fish collection. wrapped in a ratty old fleece blanket with sixteen million finned bodies sleeping in alcohol just a door away, fume hood and freezer humming. besides my actual home, nowhere else has ever felt so perfectly safe. so i’m reading this book and nodding at the pointlessness of it all during the silo exploration scene, the horror of all that work and sacrifice for no information of value, the tragedy of all that rot. (and the fire! jesus! the biologists were not taking useful data but ethanol fires still always make me suck my teeth. do you know how many type specimens we’ve lost to fire?) and then I get to Lowry and go hmm wait maybe I’m also supposed to be freaked out by, like, the corpses qua corpses. oops lmfao
You’re so right and this is me with dolls in horror movies. The protagonist walks into a room with shelves filled floor to ceiling with antique dolls and I’m clapping my hands in delight. A doll that’s in bad condition, maybe one of those composition dolls that’s cracked up and missing a few fingers and has one eye rolled back in the head? Aw, poor doll, it wasn’t treated with care, it needs a good restoration 🥺
Then they start murdering people and I remember oh yeah I was probably supposed to be creeped out by them huh
god yeah as a (textile arts) toymaker I don’t “get” doll horror at all. I don’t find molded/cast dolls particularly interesting bc the medium is out of my wheelhouse, but like. It’s always child dolls and not fashion dolls and those are like. That’s a toy. The only sad part is nobody loves it anymore. Oh whoops there goes somebody’s jugular vein
i also had this happen to me with The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone where i was like, dang, this is a solid action thriller series! i’m really excited to find out more about the mystery of the spiders!
then I went to Goodreads and found it tagged “horror.” I was confused because it hadn’t been scary until I gave the reviews a skim and was like. Hm. Right. Some of you are arachnophobic