Today's My Monday

[shanmonster]

I think I'm going to have to schedule another doctor's appointment. I suspect I may have broken a teensy little bone in my elbow a few weeks ago when I was kicked in kung fu class. I thought it was a bruise, but if I lean on my elbow just so, it makes me yelp. Aside from that, it's fine. My mobility and strength are normal, but that one little spot is very sensitive if I prod gently. If it is broken, can it even be repaired?

Remember the story of the little boy who had his hands and one foot severed in a freak basketball accident? Well, it looks like they couldn't save his foot. Poor kid (thanks, g026r)....

Beastly doctor snaps up women crawling on all fours: " She thought something was amiss when the doctor told her to strip naked -- she only had a painful chest. Still, her physician was one of the most famous in Japan, so she assumed he knew what he was doing. She even went along when he told her to get on all fours and crawl. And she still didn't complain when the doctor pulled out a digital camera and began taking photos. But she knew something was really wrong when she wasn't charged for the examination." I heart WaiWai.

FemDefence: A Protection Against Rape: What happens when you cross a tampon with a thumbtack? It's an imaginary product, but still....

Woman breastfeeding tiger cubs in Myanmar: I think it's bad enough when baby humans start to bite. Imagine a tiger doing the same!

Crap Circles: Like crop circles, only different.

Pictures of Pennies: How to build cantilevered structures out of pennies (thanks, UberIcarus).

Clerics Fighting a Gay Festival for Jerusalem: Leaders in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are joining together in solidarity. What could make them join forces? Gay protesters coming to Jerusalem, of course (thanks, Zinc).

Erwin Olaf - Royal Blood: An eerily beautiful collection of stark, bloody photography.

Comments

[andy-meister.livejournal.com]

It's been a while, but I think there are only three bones in the elbow and you might have chipped one. I'd be safe and go to outpatients sometime soon to check it out. If nothing can be done, well, it will get less sensitive over time, even if it remains tender.

Good luck Shan.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I've made an appointment to see the doctor on Thursday. Then we'll find out. I don't believe it's a serious injury, since everything seems to work properly.

[goth-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Point tenderness is always worrisome, according to my medically-trained best friend. Good luck with your checkup!

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

Regarding the tiger breastfeeding... it says explicitly that she's doing it before their teeth grow in, so I suppose it's only gumming.

Still, it sounds a bit ridiculous... human milk isn't designed for tigers any more than cow's milk is designed for humans.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I have doubts that milk was designed.

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

Whatever you want to call it. 'Meant for', perhaps.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I think meant for has the wrong connotations, too. Were cows meant for eating? I suppose that would depend who you ask. Likewise, milk being meant for the consumption of other animals would depend on the animal doing the drinking. Raccoons, for example, have been caught by plenty of farmers drinking directly from a cow's teat.

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

No, but I would think milk is meant for the young of the creature producing it. Even if other animals do drink it, that doesn't mean that it was actually meant to feed them. They just can and will filch it.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Similarly, vegetation wasn't meant to be eaten. Creatures just can and do it it.

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

Depends on which plant and which part of said plant. Many plants use fruits to scatter seeds far and wide. Fruit was meant to be eaten. However, cracking open the seeds and eating the bits inside the shell was not intended, creatures just can and do.