View Full Version : I am a mutant!
Sadly, I have not noticed that I possess any cool powers yet. I'll be sure to keep you updated.
Anyway, just came from getting my back adjusted. I asked my chiropractor if I could have a copy of my x-ray, so I could scan it and show everyone on my LJ friends list how weird my spine looks. I got a negative on that (well, technically I could, but it sounds like more trouble that it's worth), but he showed me the technician's report on the x-ray.
And holy fuck, I AM MISSING A RIB. I have twelve ribs on my left side and only eleven on my right! AHHHHH!!! I am like, some crazy monster creature! My spine is messed up because the right side of a couple of my vertabrae aren't fully formed and apparently that extended to the rib, which just never formed at all!
How come no one told me this til I was 26 years old, that's what I want to know? What other things could be wrong with me that no one bothered to tell me? Now I am all paranoid!
FatBaldGuy
05-03-2005, 09:19 PM
Have you noticed some new man hanging around? Last time it worked the other way (rib taken from man to make woman), but maybe they're trying something new this time.
Have you noticed some new man hanging around? Last time it worked the other way (rib taken from man to make woman), but maybe they're trying something new this time.
If it turns out someone took my rib, I'll be pissed, I'll tell you what.
Campion
05-03-2005, 09:26 PM
And holy fuck, I AM MISSING A RIB. I have twelve ribs on my left side and only eleven on my right! AHHHHH!!! I am like, some crazy monster creature! My spine is messed up because the right side of a couple of my vertabrae aren't fully formed and apparently that extended to the rib, which just never formed at all!
Wow! I read about stuff like this in Mutants (http://www.armandleroi.com/mutants/index.html), but you're living it -- that's awesome.
Can I have your autograph?
Mr. Blue Sky
05-03-2005, 09:30 PM
I AM MISSING A RIB
Did you check behind the couch?
Wow! I read about stuff like this in Mutants (http://www.armandleroi.com/mutants/index.html), but you're living it -- that's awesome.
Can I have your autograph?
Oooh, that book looks interesting.
But of course you can have my autograph. Here it is:
Kyla
BTW, I have family in SoPas. If you see my aunt, tell her her mutant niece says hi.
Campion
05-03-2005, 09:58 PM
Oooh, that book looks interesting.
But of course you can have my autograph. Here it is:
Kyla
BTW, I have family in SoPas. If you see my aunt, tell her her mutant niece says hi.
It's a great book; I highly recommend it. Very entertaining reading, if a bit dense, and only occasionally icky.
And I'll say hi to your aunt in So Pas, if you say hi to my aunt in River North. ;)
SkipMagic
05-03-2005, 10:09 PM
And holy fuck, I AM MISSING A RIB.
I think Chris Rock bought it for fifty cents.
LifeOnWry
05-03-2005, 10:16 PM
Welcome to the mutant club! I'll see your missing rib and raise you a third breast. (TMI to follow.)
See, when my daughter was born, I decided to nurse her. It takes a couple days for the milk to come in. The day mine did, I found, in the shower, an enormous lump under my left arm. Scared the crap out of me, and I all but ran to the doctor's office, thinking my gawd, what if it's breast cancer and I die and leave this poor baby with no mother??
Doc gave me a thorough exam and then explained to me that functional breast tissue can occur anywhere from under the arm to pretty near the belly button... and I had a little extra breast tissue under my arm that had filled up with milk. He said the swelling would go down in a few days, when my OTHER two breasts became less engorged.
(This is why, when you do a breast self-exam, you're told to feel under your arms, BTW.)
Welcome to the mutant club! I'll see your missing rib and raise you a third breast. (TMI to follow.)
Oh my god! Was that you in Total Recall?
LifeOnWry
05-03-2005, 10:47 PM
Oh my god! Was that you in Total Recall?
No, but you might have seen me in Mallrats.
:p
Spatial Rift 47
05-03-2005, 11:59 PM
Did you check behind the couch?
No no no, it's probably under the radiator, or behind that old casserole in the fridge. I'm always leaving spare body parts there.
Smeghead
05-04-2005, 01:07 AM
I'm heterozygous for the A1298C mutation in the metheylene tetrahydrofolate reductase gene, if that does anything for you.
Queen Bruin
05-04-2005, 01:43 AM
I'm heterozygous for the A1298C mutation in the metheylene tetrahydrofolate reductase gene, if that does anything for you.
That sounds painful, but I have a feeling it's harmless.
Keapon Laffin
05-04-2005, 02:06 AM
Sell off your other rib on eBay!
:D
Maybe you have mutant ability, but just don't realize it. For instance, your mutant power could be the ability to screw up x-rays. :p
huk24
05-04-2005, 03:53 AM
Sadly, I have not noticed that I possess any cool powers yet. I'll be sure to keep you updated.
Anyway, just came from getting my back adjusted. I asked my chiropractor if I could have a copy of my x-ray, so I could scan it and show everyone on my LJ friends list how weird my spine looks. I got a negative on that (well, technically I could, but it sounds like more trouble that it's worth), but he showed me the technician's report on the x-ray.
And holy fuck, I AM MISSING A RIB. I have twelve ribs on my left side and only eleven on my right! AHHHHH!!! I am like, some crazy monster creature! My spine is messed up because the right side of a couple of my vertabrae aren't fully formed and apparently that extended to the rib, which just never formed at all!
How come no one told me this til I was 26 years old, that's what I want to know? What other things could be wrong with me that no one bothered to tell me? Now I am all paranoid!
So, did he mention if that's a common thing?
So, did he mention if that's a common thing?
He didn't, but I doubt it. At least the way I'm missing my rib, I know it's not. The congenital abnormality in my spine is extremely unusual. I've had two doctors x-ray my spine and both have said they've never seen anything like it before.
I am special.
Maybe you have mutant ability, but just don't realize it. For instance, your mutant power could be the ability to screw up x-rays.
I was all excited for a second, until I remembered that my dental x-rays usually turn out okay. Damn.
The Weird One
05-08-2005, 03:51 PM
I had a friend in college who had one fewer vertabrae than normal. She was on the short side, and liked to gripe about how God had stiffed her of two inches.
Monstre
05-08-2005, 04:27 PM
I was all excited for a second, until I remembered that my dental x-rays usually turn out okay. Damn.
Better double check. Make sure you're not missing a molar.
AngelicGemma
05-09-2005, 10:30 AM
Did you check behind the couch?
Or under the fridge. Stuff always ends up under there.
toadspittle
05-09-2005, 12:38 PM
My sister, when pregnant, discovered she was a mutant. Her mutant power? Throwing clots! (She found out she has a prothrombin mutation.)
Zebra
05-09-2005, 12:50 PM
I think you have to wear a spandex catsuit to manifest your powers.
Kythereia
05-09-2005, 12:55 PM
I always seem to find my lost ribs somewhere in my backpack...
Maus Magill
05-09-2005, 01:33 PM
Welcome to the "Who the Eff Knew That Was Wrong with Me?" Club.
About four years ago, I had to have numerous brain and spinal MRIs [1]. The radiologist noticed that I was missing a substantial amount of brain tissue. Much to my surprise, it seems that I'm brain damaged. When told of this, my sister said that she could have told me the same thing without the expense.
[1] Long story short - If your legs keep going numb, try not crossing your legs at your desk for six hours at a time.
WhyNot
05-09-2005, 02:05 PM
Ohh! I have the perfect guy for you! My son was born with an extra rib! 13 on the left, 12 on the right. Screwed his back up somethin' fierce.
Of course, he's only 12, so you'll have to wait for him awhile...
(Seriously, he had a 59 degree curve and needed spinal fusion surgery to correct it. That included removal of the extra rib, which they used for bone grafts to even out the spine.)
Smeghead
05-09-2005, 08:37 PM
My sister, when pregnant, discovered she was a mutant. Her mutant power? Throwing clots! (She found out she has a prothrombin mutation.)
G20210A, I presume?
Prancer
05-09-2005, 09:24 PM
Ooohhh, can I join?
I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which means a mutation on either COL5A1 or COL5A2, most likely.
Fortunately, my form of it is really mild. But still, I do have mutant powers such as bending my thumbs backwards, overextending all my joints and sublexing a lot of them to boot. I can move my hands in a way that you can actually hear the joints popping in and out. I can sublex one of my shoulders loudly enough a whole room full of people can hear it. I can feel my metatarsals sublex when I walk on most days. I've never really needed to gross anyone out to the point of throwing up, but I could....
Regallag_The_Axe
05-09-2005, 09:31 PM
There's a bad X-Men Joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.
Monstre
05-09-2005, 10:34 PM
I've never met Kyla. So if I were to pass her on the street, I wouldn't know her from Adam....
inkleberry
05-10-2005, 01:10 AM
If it turns out someone took my rib, I'll be pissed, I'll tell you what.
I did. It was delicious.
ouryL
05-10-2005, 01:14 AM
:eek: I, too am a mutant!!
My doctor says my intestines cast strange shadows on x-rays. :confused:
God knows what fantastic super human powers will manifest!? :D
Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor
05-10-2005, 09:33 AM
:eek: I, too am a mutant!!
My doctor says my intestines cast strange shadows on x-rays. :confused:
God knows what fantastic super human powers will manifest!? :D
"Fantastic"?
I WOULDN'T SAY THAT.... (http://members.shaw.ca/legion_roll_call/legionnaires/matter-eater_lad/) :D
Snickers
05-10-2005, 09:47 AM
Ohh! I have the perfect guy for you! My son was born with an extra rib! 13 on the left, 12 on the right. Screwed his back up somethin' fierce.
The mystery is solved! WhyNot's son stole Kyla's rib! You make him give that back, right now!
toadspittle
05-10-2005, 11:05 AM
G20210A, I presume?
And/or Factor V Leiden. There were some complicated distinctions, and I can't recall if she had just one of them, or both.
Smeghead
05-10-2005, 12:11 PM
And/or Factor V Leiden. There were some complicated distinctions, and I can't recall if she had just one of them, or both.
Interesting. Those are the two highest volume tests we do in our lab, so there's a non-zero chance I tested her.
DirkGntly
05-10-2005, 02:10 PM
My daughter has scoliosis, and in her x-rays, very plainly visible are 2 (TWO) extra ribs, one on each side...they're just little rib 'vestiges', but they are there, and about an inch long...
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