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[vicodincrutch]

To hell with it. No doom so far. And if it happens, I know who to blame. Or if reason has any weight in this ridiculousness, since this is a later challenge there could be time to prepare, call in bribes. Whatever means necessary.

Growth hold obvious relevance in the medical world. From the time we are born to the age of two our craniums are measured regularly to check growth progress. Abnormal numbers above or below the norm could be a sign of one or more of the following:

• Chronic disease
• Emotional (psychosocial) health
• Genetics
• Infection
• Poor nutrition

Life is still in the equation. Big or small headed people alike can tell you that. Look around you. With the aid of hormones and with a possibility of a close to normal life outside of the circus or the next Austin Powers movie. Dramatic differences on the other hand leave the door open for other issue possibilities gastrointestinal problems that prompt a slow or stunted growth due to digestive enzymes, cerebral palsy to throw out a few rockstars of the category. And all of this is possible within the first leg of life. Makes you wonder by what miracle or luck of the draw this many people pass through the first round of the real Real World.

And we continually grow. We get older, our capacity for learning becomes more complicated with critical thinking, memorization, and any kind of social upbringing. These are all dependent on were we go from the start. Genes get blamed, it's the genetics passed down from our parents and their parents. Health is more than possible in early life. Then comes that oh so sudden decline of aging, ready willing and able to put it's hand into the grab bag of genetic issues that your Grandma's cousin first removed had.

Growth usually has such a positive connotation. You grow ill. You grow weary. Growth can also mean progression. Tumors for one thing. Flesh eating viruses grow.  Or Joseph Merrick experienced growth and then some. Who said it was a happy subject?

There.

Give me my prize.

Comments

[an-alkahest.livejournal.com]

Deterioration isn't growth, Mr. Medic.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Mister Medic.

[an-alkahest.livejournal.com]

Is that too forward? Well, I never liked "Doctor." It's too ambiguous, since these days, you could be a Doctor in anything.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Right. Don't want anyone who has gone to school for years and studied to get that title to have any funny ideas. God forbid treat a patient. Then who knows what would happen.

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[dr_conscience]

I think the demand at the end wraps it all up quite nicely.

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[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Gives it that nice touch. I was thinking of putting 'the end'. So glad I didn't.

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[dr_conscience]

I'm glad you didn't go that route. Really no personal charm whatsoever, and you've got so much of that it'd be a shame to leave it out.

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[7thborn.livejournal.com]

Flesh-eating. Now there's a charming thought.

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[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Think no more. It's real.

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[7thborn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know it's real enough. I just try to ignore that sort of thing. Then again, when you've got dragon pox turning your skin green, it's really nothing unusual.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[If a small patch of silence can register Chase processing something unexpected...]

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[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You'll have to speak up.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

[With the inevitable response.]

Ow-- what the hell...? Are you trying to deafen me?

[eiremagic]

Huh.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Yes, peanut gallery?

[eiremagic]

Didn't think you'd actually do it.

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[idomore.livejournal.com]

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[idomore.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about flesh eating viruses. Please.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Subcutaneous tissue turns necrotic as a result of trauma usually from a kind of medical procedure streptococcal pyogenic exotoxins are released and the skin layers begin to deteriorate. If the patient is lucky and the infected area is not very deep dark violet bruise marks and onsite pain appear rapidly.

Does this do anything for you?

[as_damaged]

This seems like it should meet their standards.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

They're sentences. It should work. I've seen worse slop.

[as_damaged]

I suspect it's the effort they're judging, more than the product.

[adamantined]

Do people ever just stop growing?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Ears and noses continually grow. Fingernails too.

[adamantined]

Ears and noses and fingernails, sure. But what about people just as general, overall kind of thing? Has anyone ever just stopped aging? Theoretically they'd still eventually die, but can people just stop?