That’s exactly what it does.
Do a Google Image Search for Parking Pawl and you’ll see that you pretty much nailed it. That’s also why if you’re on a hill, put it in park and let it roll a bit it pushes the gear against the pawl and makes it hard to pull the pawl back out. Personally, I’ve never given that a second thought, but if it bugs you, pull the parking brake before you take your foot off the regular brake, then it won’t roll.
When you get back in the car, start it, put your foot on the brake, take off the parking brake, then take it out of park. If you do it this way, the weight of the car never rests against the pawl.
Imagine putting a stick in your bike spokes and then rubber banding the handbrake so the stick can’t get wedged against the fork.
It’s not exactly true that bleeding stops. With no tonus the vessels relax and any intrusion, whether from an IV, arterial line or injury, will continue to bleed.
When a woman comes in critically ill while on her period, if nothing is done to intervene, she will often continue to bleed, beyond her normal period. Therefore, drugs to stop her menses are given.
If there is menstrual bleeding at the time of death, it will be packed, as any would any wounds. They body is then wrapped in a plastic shroud or a body bag, so bodily fluids don’t spill.
As for hair care in coma patients, it depends on how stable they are, whether their hair is attended to. Patients with head injuries are often not bathed until their ICP is stable, which may be days. The saying goes, “No one ever died from not having a bath, but they can from having one.”
Back before no-rinse/dry shampoos were widely available, there were illustrations in my Girl Scout Handbook (under one of the badges, I believe) showing how to wash the hair of a bedridden patient. It involves making a sort of basin around the patient’s head with a plastic or vinyl sheet (I believe it suggested cutting a piece from an old shower curtain) and towels, fixing it so it would drain into a bucket beside the bed, and very carefully using as little water as possible.
I bet nurses and nurses’ aides are very glad to have other options now…
That’s how we learned how to do it in CNA training, except we used several chucks under a folded towel, each changed several times during the procedure, to catch the water. Even when only using a pint or so of water, it was a careful process that usually still made a bit of mess. Bed baths were and are timed to be given directly before a full bed linen change. Even using no-rinse shampoo there is still a lot of water involved.
For the non-bedridden, no-rinse shampoo is great for camping.
While there are dry shampoos and no-rinse shampoos, an awake, but, bed-ridden patient very much appreciates a real shampoo. It’s a lot of work, but, worth it for patient comfort.
Yes, my mom was bedridden at home for a couple of weeks with excruciating back pain and couldn’t make it to the shower. She finally went into the hospital and was bemused and so happy about the no-rinse shampoo.
In some doors, you can turn the key twice and feel it lock again. This seems to make the bolt go out further. What’s this function called, and what is it for?
I assume you’re talking about a deadbolt on a house door.
My assumption is that it’s an antipicking measure. I always figured that if someone picks the lock, when they turn they cylinder 360 degrees all the tumblers will reset requiring them to pick it again. Maybe not a big deal for someone with a lock picking gun, but if you spent 15 minutes working on it with a small screwdriver and a paperclip that keeps bending, you might give up when you realize that you have to start all over.
Either that, or when you you make the second revolution something inside cams over* and makes it so you can’t push the bolt back in by hand. That is, turn the key part way and you can push the bolt back in, now turn they key all the way and you can’t.
*“Cam Over” probably isn’t the right word, but I’m not sure what the right word is.
Here in North Carolina (at least in my district), school bus drivers are full-time employees, because they’re actually teaching assistants who must drive a school bus as an additional duty if they want to keep their job. They are, like teachers, considered 10-month employees. I’m virtually certain they aren’t eligible for unemployment during the summer.
My questions:
If you have curly hair and you don’t wash it every day, how do you style it in the morning?*
Are there any statistics for the prevalence of left foot dominance? Because I can’t find any.
Since a sneeze pretty much serves the same purpose for everyone, why can one person’s sneeze sound so different from another person’s?
How does a blind person know when he’s done wiping?
Why does it seem like a higher percentage of black people (in the U.S.) go to church than white people?
*If this seems like a weird question to ask, it’s because I have hair that’s curly on the bottom, and when I style my hair without washing it I run the comb through it up until the point where it gets curly, and then pull the comb out because combing through the curls makes them frizzy and less curly. So I wonder what I would do if my hair was curly all the way up to my scalp.
Seriously? Looking at the toilet paper is by far the most certain way to be sure you haven’t left anything (ahem) behind. I think anyone whose main mode of determination is, by choice, not visual, is the weirdo.
Programmer here. I’ve seen a lot of websites stop working because of data corruption issues. This often happens when the site’s owners were importing new data from an external system that was not properly validated. When you request a page, the server loads the data and tries to process it, but because it is bad, the program crashes. Typically this doesn’t bring down the entire server or even the website but it prevents you from loading the page you wanted.
Another thing that can cause problems is updated software. Systems get patched and then stuff stops working.
As you can see, the biggest thing is “someone changed something”.
Really? You wipe your ass and then hold the shit-smeared wad up to your face for inspection, then lather rinse repeat (so to speak)? You honestly can’t tell by feel? <shakes head>
I used to get baby wipes and use those with toilet paper. Then I guess they realized a lot of people were doing this and there would be a bigger market for it if they created a branded product specifically for adult. And so was born the bright new age of the flushable moist wipe.
Give it the once over with the tp, then hit it with a wipe (best to fold over a couple sheets of tp to keep your fingers dry) - maybe a second if it was a difficult birth - and blob’s your uncle. All done and you’re nice and clean.
