moon thought

another one from the NAWA Historical Society whaaaaaaaat second drop this YEAR

some details on incidentaloma stuff based on AUA recs

to help me remember random wilms’ tumor stuff

I’ve never had a very structured method of memorization, so learning esoteric medical trivia has always been a challenge for me.  Today, I was studying on my laptop and ended up drawing the above thingy.  I’m not sure if anybody else would be able to make sense out of it, but it was useful in helping me to straighten out some of the eponymous diseases that happen to the adrenals.

Workin' on my cartoons!

“Lenk the Wunderlich” A visual cue card that I made to help me recall facts about the rare eponymous disease known as Wunderlich Syndrome. Classically, a patient may present with a constellation of symptoms known as Lenk’s Triad: acute onset flank pain, hypovolemic shock, and a large flank mass. Here, “Lenk” the Wunderlich is looking sick as shit and he’s in fuckin’ shooooooock! (I have to be dramatic to memorize things well sometimes). He’s holding a single slice of an axial CT scan demonstrating a large renal perinephric hematoma surrounding his left kidney which also has a large mass. The mass has some dark areas, the color that fat looks like on CT. The mass is an angiomyolipoma! I chose an image demonstrating a large mass to remind myself that bigger ones are more likely to bleed. Patients with AML’s larger than 4cm might decide to have them selectively embolized for that reason. In this case, Lenk would deserve a transfusion if it were anemic, and selective angiographic embolization.

Work doodle. Started with tracing a little plastic thing that fell out of somebody's shirt collar. Got weird kinda quickly

Now fast forward to present day.  Here I am, a full grown nerd (and continued comic book fan)...I sometimes fantasize about writing my own one day (in the far distant future).  In the past year or two, I’ve started thinking about cool and crazy story ideas.  I did most of my comic-thinking while practicing poppin’.  This is actually how I began to develop ideas for ‘Wave Mage.’  This habit has helped me fuse certain aspects of my interests in poppin’ and comic books.  Now when I want to flip styles in my poppin’, I try to take it a step further and flip ‘characters’.  I try to limit the types of motions, the vibe, and the personality (that’s the hardest for me) that each character has.  The practice video shared here is me trying a character that I call The Vandal.  In my Wave Mage comic idea, The Vandal is basically a low-profile, street-tough guy that doesn’t really give a fuck about nothin’.  He gets himself into trouble sometimes if he doesn’t back down from a fight that he can’t win, but it wouldn’t be his first time getting his ass kicked so he doesn’t really give a fuck.  In this practice, I was wearing my favorite jacket and thought I looked kinda badass and thought of the character The Vandal.  I decided to try to throw a getdown that The Vandal might if he were a popper, and I ended up doing what you see in the video.  It’s not quite how I personally envision The Vandal (he’d be much more agile, with movements much lower to the ground, and he’d be in the urban outdoors at night).  But, who gives a fuck? It ain’t that serious haha, enjoy some more of my digital waste!

I filmed this practice footage one afternoon after a particularly calm night shift.  It also happened to be laundry day.  The only shirt that could even barely pass as being somewhattechnicallyclean was my crazy, brightly-colored 'Hawaiian' shirt.  I call it my "tourist" shirt because I imagine that I look like a Chinese tourist while wearing it.  I’ve never actually worn it outside because I feel a bit embarassed in it, but I wear it on my weekends off when it’s hot outside.  I turned the shirt inside out to practice in (re-emphasis on being only barely somewhattechnically clean) and happened to see myself in the mirror.  I remember immediately smiling and laughing at how I looked because I thought it was ridiculous. But awesome lol.  I grabbed a funky hat, continued playing some tunes, and got on down in the groove garden. I was particularly happy with the “WM” (Wave Mage) hand-writing at the end of this freestyle. Enjoy, weirdos. -ghost541

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