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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

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[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Writing entirely on midgets in an essay about growth feels a little counter productive.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I'll have to endure.

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[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

It devalues the act of being wounded, gives people a false sense of invincibility if you can get mauled one day and then be skipping down the street.

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[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Your systematic destruction of anyone's warm fuzzy feelings on the topic was much more in your line.

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[7thborn.livejournal.com]

Devalues.

[Oh, Merlin.]

It depends on the damage done. Even with magic, if it's bad enough, it'll take a while. [Pause.] Devalues. Honestly.

[an-alkahest.livejournal.com]

What a coincidence! I'll take three. It's for my health.

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[idomore.livejournal.com]

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[idomore.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about flesh eating viruses. Please.

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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.

[as_damaged]

This seems like it should meet their standards.

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[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I gotta be me.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I thought you got the detail that I'm a doctor. Now get that I'm not in retail.

[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?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

And it doesn't let the purpose of the matter fall to the wayside.

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[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

What about the mental aspect? You fall down flights of stairs after a seizure and lay there with however many broken bones and internal bleeding until help arrives. Bippity-boppity-boo. Everything is fine, physically. Is there a magic cure for PTSD?

[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?

[idomore.livejournal.com]

I didn't understand most of the words. Basically, something makes the skin rot? And if it isn't bad it's bruised and hurts?

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[7thborn.livejournal.com]

[A long, uncomfortable pause.]

No.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

There are conditions where the person ceases to age visibly. That doesn't mean that their internal organs remain in the same condition. You know who Gary Coleman is, right?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

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

[an-alkahest.livejournal.com]

It's a matter of life and death.

[adamantined]

Sure. From Different Strokes. And he punched a woman in the face.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

The bottom most layer of skin starts to die and special enzymes are secreted with this happens. If there's an infection, the tissue starts to come apart but also spread out and kill itself. It's not as bad if it's bruised and hurting quickly. Flesh eating virus is bad news over all.