vicodincrutch | 100 Diagnosis

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.

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Where is the science in that? Break a bone, it can be grown back.

Overnight.

Is that meant to be impressive? It all sounds like a cop out.

Why?

Presto, change-o. Healing is a trick when you can tap a wand or open a bottle of elixir.

Hardly a trick when that wand tap and potion actually fixes the problem. And I'd think the speed of it wouldn't be a problem.

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.

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.

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?

[A long, uncomfortable pause.]

No.

Recovery is cathartic. Mental wounds take time, physical wounds don't take as much. Healing slowly in a physical manner paves the way for a stable piece of mind. You follow me or did I take the sparkle out of our magic dust?

[... pwned.]

Of course I follow. I'm not an idiot.

[Pause.]

We're as human as you lot but magic's a part of our lives. Maybe because of that, we... I don't know, process things differently. As for whether it's better or worse, Merlin knows.

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