• Level 1: You don’t recognise the word
  • Level 2: No one recognises the word
  • Level 3: The action the word describes no longer exists
  • electronVolt@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 days ago

    The word ‘due’ as in ‘due to covid.’ I hear it everywhere now, especially from young people. I want the word ‘because’ to make a comeback.

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        4 days ago

        Fun fact: it’s also a medical term referring to a specific type of injury / trauma! One of my instructors said she was caring for an ICU patient who had been clinging to life so long that their body was basically just disintegrating and she accidentally degloved their hand while trying to reposition them. Like she picked up the patients’ arm and the arm just slipped out of its skin. She panicked and tried to put it back and her preceptor (she was a new grad) stopped her because that’s just kinda not how that works like even if they were gonna somehow put it back on they’d probably be calling a surgeon but if the patient is so sick it’s just slipping off it’s almost definitely not reattachable. Another instructor had a similar story of trying to turn a patient on their side and her hand just going through the patients thigh which she described disintegrating in her hand in a similar manner so apparently it’s not even all that uncommon when medical science has kept your body alive past its expiration date.

        • daed@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          4 days ago

          On Christmas Eve 201X, I was on duty on the ambulance. Here I thought I’m just jumping in for 3 hours since everybody else was busy. Big regret. We got called to a “seemingly dead person” who was living right next door to his sons’ family flat. When we arrived, son opened his dad’s flat and that old sucker was lying in the bathtub, water fucking hot like he just put it in. Every part of his that was outside the water was stiff as fuck, like neck and arms. Everything else was fucking boiled. So of course we try to put him somewhere with more space, the living room. My colleague took him by his armpits, I took his legs. The legs, as well done as they were, I couldn’t take them. I tried to pull him up but only ended up with a handful of skin, it peeled off so smoothly. I hate that I still remember it. Never heard what happened after, we almost instantly gave that over to police.

        • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 days ago

          I read about a guy who fell into boiling water. When someone tried to pull them out the skin on their hand came off instead.

          • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            4 days ago

            Idk they didn’t say much more and most of my psych patients have lots of minor medical conditions but are at least ambulatory. When I was a phlebotomist I did go to the ICU occasionally and one time I flicked the back of a persons hand to get the veins to pop up and they just blew right there and then. Like I’d busted a fragile vein on accident with too big of a needle or pulling back too hard on the syringe before so I know what it looks like the blood sort of pools under the skin (which later becomes a bruise). I was not expecting that I hadn’t even stuck yet I was literally just flicking / tapping the veins to get them to pop up and just that alone busted them.

            I wound up filling a microtainer from a fingerstick and it was the easiest fingerstick I’d ever collected. It came back hemolyzed meaning the individual blood cells had burst at some point and it counts as a collection error but I’m pretty sure those cells were already hemolyzed inside the patient. Anyway the patient was bright yellow like practically glowing so definitely some kinda liver problem. Could’ve been alcohol related but not necessarily.

          • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
            1·
            3 days ago

            Burns can do it. I saw a hand where a finger was degloved because a person was climbing with a ring on and the ring snagged when he fell.