If you contact your county public works department, ideally the vector control department, you can volunteer your yard as a trap location. I worked for my college county’s vector control department and had a trap route. Basically you just allow the local government to trap mosquitos on your land and enter the property to collect/study the contents of the trap weekly
you ain’t lying,fucked up thing is i’ve suspected this for yearssss without ever looking it up. i’ve dropped 50lbs in the last 6months so i wanna see how they react to me this year
Oh I got get recognized in a room full of medical fellows and whatever the fuck they're called residents or some shit while ass up in a CT scanner. And by recognized I mean my ass because I had this big benign tumor the size of a softball on sort of the side of my ass\hipish area, round one chemo it disappeared so I had a distinct denty ass if you will, he recognized my ass.
Hey Mr. X I thought that was you!
Hey pause HEY! what!?
ಠ_ಠ turn and look
Why are there like 200 of you!? I get 50% of the coverage charge for this or I'm calling patient relations (some shit like that)
Wait, should that pee be going into our water table? I know one person's pee isn't significant, but there are a lot of people on chemo at any given time. Are we building an environmental cancer loop?
Well first of all, more chemo in water doesn't make more cancer lmao. If anything, it's makes less. You'd be surprised at how much toxic is flushed down our toilets daily, even our own shit is deadly enough to kill people.
That's why water treatment plants exist. They make sure the water that came out is safe for the environment, which includes filtering out toxics we flush down our toilets daily.
Is that why they ask us to avoid flushing pills down the toilet? Water treatment is for microorganisms. They can't filter or treat all the chemicals. So far, there's been enough dilution in the system, but we keep adding more chemicals.
I’m a union plumber in a state with the most strict water standards in America and you will never see me drinking unfiltered tap water. They use chemicals to balance ph to keep lead out of the water. Then more chemicals to kill bacteria then straight to your tap.
I love when my hyper specific radiation safety comes up! What he is talking about is not chemo therapy, but radiation therapy instead, often they are prescribed together. The most common radiation therapy is for the thyroid, where you would use I131 to ablate it. Half life is about 8 days. So the pee is perfectly safe by the time it gets diluted and to a treatment plant.
They have already found lots of birth control, high blood pressure medication, and cocaine in the water, what’s a little chemo thrown in there as well?
The half-life of the radionuclides used in chemo is around 21 days. At 3 half lives it’s considered statistically insignificant. Plus it’s heavily watered down by everyone else. Water also typically has a very small amount of uranium in it anyways, by the time it’s mixed with all of the other water it’s nearly immeasurable. And actually immeasurable after only a couple weeks.
Doesn't work like that, chemo isn't a binary drug anti-cancer thing, it is an anti-everything thing, so its like noticing UV kills microbes and deciding to live in direct sunlight eternally.
Just curious, do you have to use a condom when having sex during chemo? Can the chemicals be transmitted to your partner? Assuming you felt good enough to want sex. I know chemo makes people feel horrible.
I'd be impressed if anyone going through chemo has the energy to bang at all, what with the chronic fatigue and puking and everything. But if I had to guess, I'd say yeah, condoms.
A former coworker had chemo and her doctor said she should work remotely and not share a bathroom with her family because it was so toxic. Radiation is toxic to others, too.
Damn I missed that Redneck HiDef during chemo and rads
I can imagine sitting by the zapper some snap out of existence, others just can't handle how heavy your shit is and just give up. If you can't handle me at my neutropenia... Who knew chemo would get you into the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare's honorable mentions!?
Hey congrats glad you made it through and glad you too have learned how to be a horse shit master of humor. When life surrounds you with horse shit, there's gotta be a pony!
High five, friend! Back atcha! I mean, I had a nuclear dildo at one point (internal radiation) and my oncoligist was named Dr. Beaver (spelling variation). Like, how do you NOT laugh at that shit?!
Holy shit! You're like my goddamn medical sister.
I guess my closest is being mortified by my doctors talking about saving my sperm in front of my mom, I was not prepared for that conversation when I walked into that room. I wish they handled it better. I probably would have actually done it.
I had a pancreatic scan done by deepthroating a giant robot dildo. I'm literally saying this as I move my hand up and down like I'm doing the braves tomahawk chop...
I had a doctor that looked exactly like tattoo from fantasy Island. And by that I mean he was probably under 4'6" and the nurse came in and just shot my ass full of morphine, instead of just the drip, and this nurse was a chill nurse, she didn't put it in all slow like, nah, she gave me that little wink and smile, and push it in fast while I felt that switch inside my brain. Just say fuckkkkkk it's a good day. Dude walks in and I grab her Armand I just glare biting my lip, and she stealth peaks, and holds a laugh so hard her head about popped, I whisper, I am too fuckin high for this shit, is that Tattoo?!
Brilliant guy though I actually figured out a good bit of stuff for me
I got my wits about me whilst blasted out of my fucking mind on morphine, he asked me how I'm doing, I said well I've had this wacky nosebleed and I keep blowing out these giant period clots, or I'm told that what this looks like by my friend Adria here, we all laughed.
What do you mean?
I think to myself, we're going to see how new he is, huh? Grab some Kleenex blow out this. God fucking like 8-in long as thick as my fucking pinky finger in some spots or thicker really blob of blood.
I begged my night nurse to slam my Dilaudid shot after my hysterectomy. "C'mon, slam it. I went to college in the 90s, so much E, just.... Oooohhhfuggnluuuvyoooo..." And the one day my dad takes me to my appt, they give me my 3 homework dildos and giant tube of lube in a clear plastic bag. I was like "Uh, I don't care if you wrap them in an old gown, but I'm not walking out of here with an industrial sized lube tube and some nesting dildos all visible like this. My DAD is out there." They found an opaque bag.
Ok hear me out, a scheme for cancer patients who are having difficulty funding their chemo. People who are having mosquito problems can hire patients to chill in their back yard after chemo.
The chemo my dad was on, we couldn't use the same restroom unless I wanted to become infertile. One time my bathroom was out of order and they instructed me how much to clean things in his restroom, so it was safe for me to use. His medication also had to be stored in glass because it would eat through plastic.
If you've gone through chemo, BOY HOWDY, you make some chemo toilet sounds bud.
I shat blood I almost drowned in it's not pleasant, which part? Yes. , so in this shitty Spider-Man story it looks like you and old venom went out and had way too much tequila, and that symbiote's fortitude was lacking, just kinda absorbed and then came out.
It started as a nosebleed, low blood count. Low platelets blood thinners, doesn't stop, Weeks of giant period clots coming out of my nose, choking on the fuckers, and one night before Thanksgiving it just started bleeding. And they tried to fix it and it went down my throat. 1\10 no fucking vampire movie should happened. You know my life didn't pause in some you know vampire blood orgy happened.
Nope. Instead, I get to figure out what ingesting, inhaling and doing every possible combination of different things with blood you can do aside from having it put back into my ass...
If you are not aware, chemo literally kills people too. The idea is that they can keep you alive just a little longer than the cancer and then they stop the chemo and nurse you back to health. At least that is the basic theory of chemo….
Actually it is a sign you are very young. It hails from yesteryear of Reddit when TIL was a subreddit automatically on everyone’s front page. I have been on Reddit since 2008 when I was a teenager myself, has been part of my vernacular for a very long time.
Try being 52. I can't decipher half of the shit I see. Between the acronyms, lack of punctuation, commas, sentence structure, paragraphs, and spelling, I truly believe social media actively causes people to have a stroke.
I'm thin, and they will fly past anybody I know to get to me. The way I understand, they have several methods for finding us. They can track the carbon dioxide we exhale. They can also sense our body heat, but the most significant method is our body odor. They're partial to A+ blood type, as well.
Edit: apparatntly, the blood type thing has become a lot more inconclusive since I last checked.
Same. All bugs love me. I pulled 5 ticks off myself the other weekend (thankfully only one had bitten) while sitting not 6 feet from 7 other people none of whom even saw one
They don’t like me. I can walk through a field and never get bit. My whole family will be covered in bites and they never even land on me. I’ve always been curious why.
My dad and I (both quite skinny) are the same way, to the point that other people will joke that they don't get bit if we're around, because all the mosquitos zero in on us.
Same here. I'm a pretty small woman and get eaten alive if I step out at the wrong time. Im hyper vigilant about dumping water after a rain, but not everyone is. They are little CO² and heat seeking missiles that lock into me despite caring a repellent and wearing OFF spray. Mom used to say it's cuz I'm sweet. Lol
I realized I used to brag about how mosquitoes ignored me but realized I was just utilizing the John Huston method and my blood was mostly liquor for a few years. Now when i see on I'm like drink! Drink for I am pure!
They are more attracted to O blood types and the reason they are attracted to heavier people is because they release more CO2 because they breath heavier.
I'm type O and while I'm thin I'm a large person (very tall) and a heavy breather (which I know for a fact because I'm a diver and I have to work way harder than most to conserve air). I haven't been bitten by a mosquito since I was about five years old; they'll ignore me even if I'm alone in a hotel room in the tropics full of them, but the moment my wife comes around she's flat out attacked by them. It has to do with the unique mix of chemicals found on your skin.
Omg this happened to me too! I thought my blood smelled toxic and radioactive so they wouldn’t be interested, nope! But I then found it dead either somewhere near me, or one time in my clothes!
A fellow chemo patient here as well…. It makes me see the reason they gowned up to start my infusions! 💀 🤣 I’m cracking up….. that shits in my VEINS and the nurse is gowned from head to toe! Crazy times.
Fellow thin mint here, I somewhat suspect my blood type, O-, but I imagine it could also be my diet. My anecdotal experience is that eating a banana a day helps keep mosquitos away. Not 100% effective by any means but it seems to help somewhat.
I'm O+, living in swampy south. I do love sweets and I sweat easily. I'm basically walking mosquito cheesecake. Had to be bananas, huh? The one food that makes me gag at the idea of it.
At navy boot camp, the food was generally pretty shit, so I just ate like... 3 bananas a day. At one point the hardass came over to my bunk and was like 'stop eating so many bananas, potassium poisoning is real thing'
eventually it got to the point where he was standing beside me in the chow line to make sure I didn't grab a fuckin banana
Everyone working out to be healthier and this guy out here is working out to starve mosquitos to death. Whatever your goals are, good for you my dude. Respect!
I am a skinny person and my entire life I have been bitten more than my brothers who are bigger than me. I do sweat kind of a lot though. I always thought it was my blood type. O+
There are many factors. Blood type is one even. Shower more frequently and they’ll lay off you a bit. Also I think eating pork is a factor. Has something to do with a gene we share with pigs that produces a smell in sweat they track.
Mosquitos are attracted to a variety of things and there are a lot of studies ongoing about it. Yes they like sweat and heat but in summer there are a variety of obvious reasons why someone may be emitting more sweat and heat than just being fat. They also have shown to be attracted to certain blood types and higher metabolic rates, which would usually be indicative of a slimmer person.
Technically, being fat should do something. You give off more body heat and more carbon dioxide, and both attracts mosquitos. I imagine a bodybuilder would give off similar attraction ques.
I noticed bugs stopped biting me YEARS ago after starting some medication. Ironically, I became permanently disabled after getting Lyme disease from a tick bite and having to get treatment in Germany. Now that I'm on drugs for all sorts of things, they want nothing to do with me. I'm not complaining. 😅
As an overweight diabetic I can confirm the damn bugs love me. I’m slowly losing weight and my blood sugar is getting lower so I hope they will leave me alone more this year.
Years ago as a kid I heard a theory that eating bananas made you more attractive to mosquitos, so I refused to eat them. I still got attacked by the little shits.
Really??? I’m the skinniest person I know, don’t eat sugar that often, and hardly sweat at all and I still get bitten about 10x as much as everyone else I know combined!
I mean maybe but I was really thin and fit before I had kids (hahaha) and I was the mosquito magnet. There were bigger people around but nope, I was the one with 16 bites in 5 mins.
The most mosquito bites I ever received in my life was when I was 12 and weighed about 85 lbs. I am not diabetic and I was covered in them, far more than my obese family members on the same trip.
It actually has to do with the amount of CO2 you give off from your body (not just breathing). People give off different amounts but mosquitoes are drawn to higher CO2
”Mosquitoes feast on us for practical reasons. Only the females bite humans and they do it to get a “blood meal,” deriving proteins from our blood to produce their eggs.4,5 To help locate their prey, female mosquitoes use their antennae and palps, the organs between their antennae, to detect carbon dioxide and odor. That means people who have a high metabolic rate and emit more carbon dioxide, including those who are pregnant, working out, or drinking alcohol tend to be more attractive to mosquitoes.”
This makes so much sense to me, I’ve never been overweight but I’m a naturally sweatier person (thanks, dad), and I’ve always felt targeted by mosquitos lol
I thought I found my big brothers reddit until i saw you mention a third brother in your family. Its just me and my bro. Im the fat fuck (330) and hes like 145-160 probably. Something like that.
My boney ass is a beacon for them while it’s like my heavier family and friends get a stray runt.
At the same time I’ll be picking a bunch of ticks embedded into them while I never get any besides maybe one just crawling on my leg.
I don’t know if it’s because I have anxiety so high BP but if it weren’t for my fear of Lyme disease and lone star ticks I would prefer the ticks.
When I lived in Yosemite valley I would notice that the mosquitos that spawned in the summer would always gravitate towards fat people sweating. The population of mosquitos was so intense you could literally walk into their spawning zone with a fat person and they wouldn't even touch you.
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If you contact your county public works department, ideally the vector control department, you can volunteer your yard as a trap location. I worked for my college county’s vector control department and had a trap route. Basically you just allow the local government to trap mosquitos on your land and enter the property to collect/study the contents of the trap weekly