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– Not everyone should love the hero.

– The more antagonists you have the more conflicts you create.

– Real life should happen to the characters, even if they are saving the world they have jobs and responsibilities.

– Give the character interests and friends outside of work.

– Multiple point of views aren’t a bad thing if you know how to juggle them.

– It all needs to come together at the end.

– Not every antagonist needs to be vanquished at the end.

– – Give us more than one character to love– (from Diantha)

— Make each and every character count — (from Diantha)

I like to tell stories of full recovers and dramatic spas because, well, they’re kind of dramatic and I love making things shiny again (I like polishing silver too).  But sometimes, it’s just a little fix that’s needed, no spa, and the patient flies home within a few days.  There were several of these in the hospital recently, but I thought I’d share just a few:

First was Jasper.  He lost an eye – his person didn’t say how, but it looks like a pet injury.  Here he is when he arrived at the hospital:

and here he is, ready to fly home, a happy penguin with 20/20 vision again:

He looks great, thanks so much! said his family.

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Edgar needed his muzzle repaired and a new nose.  He had definitely had a run-in with a dog.  Here he is on arrival at the hospital:

And here he is ready to fly home, sense of smell restored:

His family wrote: HE LOOKS SO GOOD! Thank you so much!!!!

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Ophelia didn’t have a pet run-in, but her eyes were darkening, hindering her vision.  Here she is on arrival at the hospital… it’s really her left eye (right in the photo) that was having the problem:

And here she is all bright eyed, ready to fly home.

And finally, here she is, safe and sound at home!

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(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

During surgery, the guts are rather quiet since we make patients not eat or drink anything for at least a day before abdominal surgery (NPO, or nil per oral diet). The consequence of this is, because the peristaltic movements of the guts are specifically in response to food, there’s no wriggling about, and thank god, because what if you cut one open by accident?

This reminds me of the other post on tumblr where there was a photo of someone with the entire proximal third of a very healthy looking femur mounted onto a walking stick with a caption claiming that it’s the OP’s father’s actual hip that was taken out during a hip replacement.

While the type of muscle present in our guts is very different than the kind of muscle in our arms and legs (the stuff we can control consciously), both rely on a chemical signal from something called acetylcholine in order to contract. No acetylcholine? No peristaltic squiggly eel movements.

In the kind of abdominal surgeries where people do rummage through a person’s bowels (like to find a place where there is obstruction or when they’re taking out a cancer, to make sure they don’t see any more), often a neuromuscular blocking agent is used to help relaxed the abdominal wall. These blocking agents mess with the ability of acetylcholine today stimulate contraction - that’s their goal! So, if a person is getting one, there’s a great chance their bowel won’t move a whole heck of a lot even if there’s no food in your guts for it to move.

For the medblr folks, as you may have guessed, the blocking agent I’m referring to is rocuronium and the other non-depolarizing agents. There is currently a study underway (registered in 2013) to evaluate the effect of roc on peristalsis, since, although it makes sense from a physiological perspective, there’s not published evidence to that effect at the moment! So, stay tuned.

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