F*cking grossFollow

Ugh, that gave me a stomach ache.

As we speak, Al'Katie is bidding on e-Bay for the one that was complete but lacking limbs.

I was talking to a midwife last year about some of her more interesting clients, and here's a story she had to tell.

Identical twins share a placenta. Fraternal twins don't. After birth a care provider usually inspects the placenta to make sure there are no missing chunks which might still be adhering to the uterine wall and could cause an infection. It sometimes happens that when inspecting the placenta, the remnants of an embryo can be seen, where an identical twin died early on while the other baby lived.

In one case where a mother had just given birth to fraternal twins, both placentas had a dead embryonic twin in them. Which means this woman actually conceived two pairs of identical twins, and would have been pregnant with quadruplets had things worked out differently.

Not gross, just a very interesting tale.

have any of you noticed how many messed up births happen in India? what is in the water/air/food over that that is causing all of this?

I was thinking that myself and wondering WTF.

Prolly doing that ritual washing of oneself in the River Gangrene, err, Ganges. That ****'s filthy.

Reminds me of this time we picked up an old lady who was maybe 90-ish. She had been complaining of stomach pain, when she began bleeding from the vag. We flew her in to a local hospital, whereupon spreading those sticks she called legs in the stirups, this horrible stench comes rushing out. Eye watering, paint peeling, nose hair curling stench.

Being the curious lad that I am, I peek over the doctor's shoulder to check out the oldest 'tang that I've ever seen and lo' and behold the granny has freaking purple and black stalagmites and stalagtites festering in her pu55. The stalagtites (you know, the ones hanging from the ceiling) had dangling angry reddish dingleberries at their ends wobbling like a uvula. Seeping out of her baby chasm was this green sludge dripping down the crack of her a$$.

My eyes just about popped out of my skull. Just before they did, the smell snapped my eyelids closed saving me from permanent blindness. This was the nastiest thing I have ever seen in all my days of medical transport. It turns out that she had an IUD inside her that she hadn't removed since she was in her 20's.

/shudders

Oh yeah, she died from septic shock a few hours later.

Totem

Sorry, baby. I just had to get that off my chest.

Totem

I came to work feeling sick and after reading Totem's story, I am definitely sick now. Blech.

I forget what the term actually stands for, but it's basically birth control. They insert some kind of metal gadget that disperses something that kills sperm and eggs or something.

Pathetically, I learned that from SVU.

Ok, this is too odd of a coincidence not to post:

The SECOND time I read something about stalactites/stalagmites in a bajingo today.