Medical things you didn’t know?

[Emptychairdoasolo]

Just watching a medical drama and wondered what happens if you die on the operating table? Do they just sew you back up without repairing anything inside?

but also had me thinking what other medical things didn’t you know until you maybe experienced them or learned?

It is to let the soul out. The body does not decay that quickly I promise. I am a nurse!

Way to worry a high risk pregnant woman 😏

I was a care home manager for 20 years and I always opened the window for the soul to exit-as taught by the matron in the first nursing home I worked in-and I passed that on to all my care colleagues. I did it in older people services and later in mental health (younger people sadly-where admittedly it did get a few odd looks).

My sister was the matron in charge of a hospice and she did the same. Surprised at lots of nurses not knowing about that superstition/tradition.

I was induced (due to complications in pregnancy) but wanted to keep things as natural as possible. When the midwife mentioned the canula she could see I didn't want one unless necessary and suggested we wait to see if one is needed first. In the end it wasn't. I think a good midwife follows suit of the woman in labour and takes into account not only their their needs but wishes.

I hope all pregnant women get to experience a labour with a genuinely caring midwife 💜

You can get chicken pox more then once.

I’ve just tried and it seems I do…

grey (16G) isn't the biggest cannula available, but due to the phenomenal capacity for blood loss from the term uterus (blood supply is about 750ml/min so a woman's entire blood volume passes through the uterus in about 6-8 mins....) it is standard to put a big drip in on labour ward so we can manage the unpredictable turns of events appropriately. It's always a joy when it's not needed, but given that it's often much harder to get one in once a woman's lost a couple of litres of blood, if we're putting a cannula in at all it's best to put the size cannula in that can actually manage all the possible outcomes.

You can get cancer of the appendix, it’s one of the rarest cancers in the world. My sister had it, her consultant hadn’t come across it before in his thirty year career. Slow growing, It secretes jelly like stuff into the abdomen. Her scans showed two big masses where her ovaries were, she was told it was ovarian cancer but when they operated they found her ovaries were normal sized but her abdomen full of the jelly stuff. They took as much out as possible but it kept growing back. Audrey Hepburn died of it.

Your foot is on the side of your arm, not the inside. Try it on the inside and see if it works!

Your foot is on the side of your arm out of context that had me baffled!

Well I'm struggling to place my foot on my inner forearm.

Not true I’m afraid, there are stages of breast cancer (as well as types) you can read about the different stages here: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/breast-cancer/stages-grades

No, most nurses open the nearest window to let the soul out.
Newly deseased bodies don't generally smell.
We also used to place a flower on the bed or in the hands but less wards allow flowers now.

I'll make sure to pass the link onto my entire oncology team who have been treating me as a Metastatic BC patient for the past 5yrs................

In my experience it isn't the size of the cannula that makes it more or less painful, but the skill of the person putting it in.

Clearly Cancer Research think there are stages too.

Clearly they do.

No your wrong , my wife is a nurse of forty years and does it to let the soul out. Younger nurses don't do as often.

On the same theme as the foot/arm thing, if you stretch your arms straight out to the sides, the distance from the tip of your middle finger from one hand to the other is your height.

My dad studied art in the 1950s, and was tought all sorts of facts like this in order to draw human bodies accurately. I seem to remember also that you can divide the body up into sevenths, and it starts from the top with the top of the head to either the chin or shoulders, can’t remember which now.

I take art classes too,it's a rough guide, that would only make me 5ft 8 and I'm taller.

It was just a fun fact, it’s usually right within a couple of cm or so for most able bodied adults.

We sadly found my dad had passed away at his house. He was on the floor and not wearing much and we had assumed he must have had some kind of trauma or fall as it looked like his abdomen on one side was massively bruised. But we did find out that it was just as you sad. He was on his back though. He had collapsed and landed on his back from bronco pneumonia which apparently can be quite instant.

So do I!

I placed a finger and thumb in th entrances to my nostrils, inhaled, and BOTH nostrils contracted and drew in air.

I thought breathing through separate nostrils was a yoga thing which implies it isn't automatic. I seem to be breathing through both of mine (fingers up nose).

@FridayNeverHesitate This is incredible!