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Good gods, WHY?!?!?!
(I have a horror of needles, in any context.)
It was supposed to be a test for muscular dystrophy. Though from the poking around, I can't quite figure out why it was that horrible (oh, and thinking about this, I was probably younger than six) and what all the bits were about - I've found some documentation of what MD tests were for that time period, and while yeah, I remember those bits, bits like the "make the line wiggle but without using your muscles" (or at least that's how they explained it to me at the time) make a bit less sense. *shrug* Electromyelogram? If so, I share your sentiments. (Hey, Emma, you may remember me cussing about various medical procedures and then adding a footnote saying that it wasn't the worst procedure I'd ever had. This would be that. OK, back to molecular gastronomy... though my silly brain persists in trying to think of a culinary use for a violet wand. |
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« Reply #61 on: September 05, 2009, 08:11:53 pm » |
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It was supposed to be a test for muscular dystrophy. Though from the poking around, I can't quite figure out why it was that horrible (oh, and thinking about this, I was probably younger than six) and what all the bits were about - I've found some documentation of what MD tests were for that time period, and while yeah, I remember those bits, bits like the "make the line wiggle but without using your muscles" (or at least that's how they explained it to me at the time) make a bit less sense. *shrug*
It's a neuroconductivity test... they zap you at one end and time how long it takes the current to affect your muscles. I got that same test on one leg when I was a teenager. It's not just because you were young- it's a painful test! |
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« Reply #62 on: September 05, 2009, 08:16:05 pm » |
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Having googled violet wands, I now wonder what would happen if you turned it all the way up and put it on a kernel of popcorn.
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« Reply #63 on: September 05, 2009, 11:07:57 pm » |
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Having googled violet wands, I now wonder what would happen if you turned it all the way up and put it on a kernel of popcorn.
I would guess - not much of anything. (If the things are safe enough for direct skin contact, it's hard to imagine they'd put out enough heat to pop a kernel.) Alas, here I speak from inexperience. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me much if one or more Deltas out there were to conduct the experiment and report the results. |
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« Reply #64 on: September 06, 2009, 12:43:12 am » |
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... I'm so trying that.
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« Reply #65 on: September 06, 2009, 04:48:42 am » |
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It's a neuroconductivity test... they zap you at one end and time how long it takes the current to affect your muscles. I got that same test on one leg when I was a teenager. It's not just because you were young- it's a painful test!
Actually, I'm pretty sure it was electromyography, done with intramuscular electrodes. There may also have been a nerve conduction test at the same time, but the EMG* is what you'd expect for muscular dystrophy. And while I kind of want to grouse that it's not like they had much reason to believe I had MD, and hello, the most common forms are vastly more common in males, but I do have some joint abnormalities, and I could imagine this looking enough like early stages of MD when I was a kid that the testing seemed reasonable. There was just this whole phase where they wanted to me take a line (amber, on what looked like an oscillograph) wiggle. If I contracted any of the muscles, it would jump all over the place and make noise, but they didn't want that, and they kept on telling me not to use my muscles and to make it just wiggle. And they didn't explain it, which frustrated the hell out of me. I got pretty decent at it, actually, but I didn't know what I was doing, and thinking about it now I still don't know what I was doing. Low level activation? Huh? * Our lab does electrophys and biomechanics, and uses EMG a fair bit... |
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« Reply #66 on: September 06, 2009, 06:10:02 am » |
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Oh, hey, I said I'd post when the entry was up. You can now see my bizarre creations over here. It is, as might be expected for a sex toy review site and a post containing food shaped like sex toys, not work safe for most work environments. |
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« Reply #67 on: September 06, 2009, 01:47:31 pm » |
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Whee!
And now I'm pining after Musashi's onigiri...
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« Reply #68 on: September 08, 2009, 05:25:31 am » |
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Despite having a violent hatred of electric shocks (I often press metal lift buttons with a pen, due to unintentional aversion therapy), I didn't actually feel much during my electocution episode (which was due to some utter idiocy involving an electric mower and being too lazy to put the plug back together properly). It was more of a "Huh. I appear to be flying through the air. How interesting. And now I've landed in a crumpled heap. I wonder why? Oh, yes, the electricity I just touched." kind of thing.
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« Reply #69 on: September 08, 2009, 06:04:05 am » |
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I've gotten a couple of really good jolts, but only one that knocked me across the basement. It's always so surprising, isn't it? And that kick in the chest is so damned unpleasant.
I wonder how Chaz felt when he electrocuted himself.
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« Reply #70 on: September 08, 2009, 09:02:20 am » |
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Despite having a violent hatred of electric shocks (I often press metal lift buttons with a pen, due to unintentional aversion therapy), I didn't actually feel much during my electocution episode (which was due to some utter idiocy involving an electric mower and being too lazy to put the plug back together properly). It was more of a "Huh. I appear to be flying through the air. How interesting. And now I've landed in a crumpled heap. I wonder why? Oh, yes, the electricity I just touched." kind of thing.
In my case, it was wondering why everything had suddenly gone white and then noticing that the someone who seemed to be screaming was, in fact, me. For an experience that couldn't have lasted more than a second or two, it sure seemed like a very long time. PSA: always be sure to use grounded extension cords when hooking up your RV to a power supply (we'd been using two and hadn't realized that the shorter one was not infact 3-prong; This wasn't a problem so long as it was hooked up to the longer, grounded cord before being plunged into the outlet). |
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« Reply #71 on: September 08, 2009, 11:28:19 am » |
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A second is a long time.
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« Reply #72 on: September 08, 2009, 12:09:17 pm » |
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A second is a long time.
Is that in the news crawl yet? |
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« Reply #74 on: September 12, 2009, 10:12:44 pm » |
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I love it!!!
Well, except for one teeny, tiny, itsy bitsy thing: "biotch". I hate the mangling of the word, and I hate that use of the word.
But otherwise I love it, and think it would make a great title sequence, rather than a promo. I love the ridiculousness of the gangsta style for the two of us.
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