Medical pornography
 

is what one of my profs calls it. Tropical medicine. All the 3-foot worms and liver flukes and stuff that burrows through the skin of your feet as you blissfully squish the beach sand through your toes ... schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, onchoceriasis, filariasis. There's a poetry in those name that belies the reality. Please don't google these things. You'll find stuff like guinea worms that form lumps under the skin and then burst out of your arms or legs but have to be pulled out very slowly, wrapped around a stick and drawn out a bit more each day ... :eek: ... and that's not the worst of it.

To me, this is NOT pornography. I suppose, maybe, in terms of being unable to look away from a car crash or train wreck ... but arousing it is NOT. However, I have another week, nine hours/day, of viewing/reviewing/internalizing this material. So what pornography did you encounter in your day today?

[Vaguely related] Do not go to a website called Medical Images Online. Just don't. Trust me.

Reminds me of a trichobezoar I saw last year. Six years of eaten hair taken out of a girl's belly.

I pretty much avoid anything with the iasis suffix. It's a good rule of thumb; the clue is in the name.

True, that.

Don't eat spaghetti for a week. ;)

That, too. Not even rice.

I once saw a case of gummy worms; but, it was self inflicted.

[The first two look like they're gettin' it on!]
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Only in my dream last night.
There was a roller-derby-esque lady whispering seductively in my ear and occasionally letting a tongue flick in.
And I was conflicted because I was engaged to Mark Gatiss and although I knew he was gay, he seemed like my best bet for future happiness.
I did wake up feeling both hot and bothered and strangely secure though.

There's an apocryphal story of a new female medical recruit who is annoyed off when the crusty old Doctor training her sends her out for bacon and pencils and she bridles because she thinks she's been sent out for his shopping as she is a young woman. Then witnesses the removal of a guinea worm and realises perhaps she didn't know everything after all (the uppity bitch).

It's all teh disgust anyway.