This came to me in a dream.

I call him Batnoman.

hold on babygirl dont die there will be a new freaky little character for you get insanely obsessed with

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babygirl doing all the heavy lifting for that honour

had time to draw torrent tonight

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when someone asks me the date and i. don't know

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(Sometimes they get into heated debates when someone else is buying the rounds at the bar)

begging small indie musicians to post lyrics to their songs because with all the love in my heart 🫶i dont know what ur saying🫶 and no one else can tell me 🫶

what part of the human body is this? whenever I'm sick, it feels insanely bad

The Sickness Nodules

The Lumps of Disease

The Lymphen Mounds of Despair

Not to be serious or anything on a funny post - but - on the off chance that it helps people who have received medical advice etc etc -

Gentle self-massage of this area (manual lymphatic drainage) is so widely accepted as a management technique for inflamed lymph nodes that research papers literally just say, “MLD is widely accepted as a basic treatment for this symptom.” Normally, this is found in cancer patients, but the discomfort of inflamed lymph nodes can apply across groups.

Cancer patients are particularly known for having a tough time with these “Swollen Glands” and a self-massage to “strip” the swelling can provide relief. Although it is effective outside of cancer care, this knowledge is often siloed within cancer care.

Read some reputable sources and consult a doctor if you have complex symptoms or conditions. This is not medical advice; I am not a doctor and I am not your doctor.

the most basic form of self-massage to alleviate the symptoms is taught below.

I work with massage therapists, including ones who specialize in post-operative lymphatic massage and this video is the very one we send home with client for "homework"!

Note: (This is not meant to discourage the techniques above, just to clarify a little what's happening.) Your lymph nodes' job is to swell up when you're sick. They are busy at work producing the white blood cells that make you better! You have lymph nodes on the sides of your throat, in your armpits, just below your collarbone, near your crotch, and several other places (including lymph tissue in many major organs like lungs and liver), and any or all of these can go nuts when you're sick and that's good and healthy. (Again, not saying not to do stuff to relieve the discomfort, just clarifying that it's not something to worry about.)

However, if your lymph nodes stay swollen for more than 4-6 weeks after you're no longer sick (or when you weren't noticeably sick to begin with), especially if it's only the ones on one side of your body or you get nights sweats and/or itching all over your body that isn't helped by the usual things like moisturizing dry skin, see a doctor, because those things could be signs of lymphoma.

Brought to you by my old lymphoma patient email group, which got questions about once a week from people whose lymph nodes were swollen totally normally but they were freaking out thinking it was cancer. It's not! 99.99%+ of the time it's really not! But it helps to know what the actual signs are so you can reassure yourself.

One more fun fact!

The job of the lymph system is to collect the fluids that build up in your tissues, clean them (in your lymph nodes--this is why the lymph nodes swell when they're working hard making protective white blood cells during an infection), and then return the fluid to the blood vessels near your heart.

But, like your veins, they're really low pressure vessels (the lymph vessels aren't getting pushed on by your heartbeat at ALL) that need some help to get the fluid to move. One of several things they use is the natural pressure of your skeletal muscles bunching up and pressing on them as you move around during the day. So if you're having more swelling than normal, gentle massage can also help get fluid moving through them back to your heart! (You don't have to worry about fluid going the wrong way--they've got one way valves all through then.)

This is also why when your feet are swollen from standing all day (gravity pulls blood down into your legs and fluid leaks out into your tissues) a foot massage can feel great and help out!

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

wallace you cant say that

a quick one

You know how kids are supposed to be exposed to some level of dirt and grime as they grow up so their immune systems can learn what's a deadly disease and what just causes some slight irritation? And if a kid grows up in a too clean environment they're likely to develop severe allergies or a hyper immune disorder?

I think the over sanitation of the internet is doing similar things to people's psyche.

No that ship with an age gap isn't the same as pedophilia, you're just having the moral equivalent to hay-fever.