Some folks have contracted botulism poisoning from
getting botulinium toxin injections.
It is a mystery how this could have happened.
It seems unfair for the article to imply that they did not succeed in their aim.
I was squicked out when the article reported that this is a semi-standardized weight loss treatment and that the problem was that they injected too much toxin. Directly into stomach muscles. Using a syringe at the end of an endoscope.
Brrrrrr.
The US has an obesity epidemic, which has absolutely nothing to do with America being heavily saturated with ads for doesn’t this look ever so tasty, aren’t you hungry?
though, admittedly, the stories are primarily from places outside the US
I can see this. Botox in the stomach muscles is less intrusive than bariatric surgery, and should be more easily reversible. The real bit of stupidity is getting botox injections from a back alley doctor.
I’ll have you know that Dr. Nick Riviera has a medical degree from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.
The story suggests otherwise. It seems that the botulinium toxin binds permanently, making the resulting paralysis irreversible.
That’s not what I read.
But you said it was “more easily reversible”. It is not, in the sense that botulinum toxin binds irreversibly, from which point antitoxin has no effect. Whatever the effect at that point, whether it’s what you wanted or life-threatening paralysis, the only path to recovery takes several months for the nerves to repair the damage.
Gotcha. That’s what I get for doing two things at once. I should have have said "less permanent. "
Student athlete pushes one-legged woman’s empty wheelchair down atairs in full view of cameras
I see, at a bar… so the stupidity had opportunity to get juiced up to assholery.
He’s been kicked of a hockey team for Arizona State, which is not a school known for decorum and good behavior as far as I have heard secondhand.
I’m sure his wrist will be lightly bruised by a gentle slap.
And he can’t figure out how to wear a ball cap. Don’t really need to know anything else about him.
To be fair, compared to some other examples of stupid MFery in this thread, I’m a bit grudgingly impressed at how nobody is making excuses for this asshole, including the asshole himself. Looks like a case of “drunk teen thinks it’ll be funny to play with gravity by doing a little random property damage, nobody is amused”.
The person I’m non-grudgingly impressed with, though, is the wheelchair owner who cut off the GoFundMe for the wheelchair repairs and pledged to give the extra money to disabled people who need it. (However, it is absolutely drunk asshole teen who should be paying for these wheelchair repairs, not the wheelchair owner or GoFundMe donors, and I hope that that will be what happens. Preferably with money he has to earn by shoveling fresh pig manure in 90+ degree heat.)
If he’s actually the son of a pro hockey general manager, then his family can probably easily afford it.
Why does that sound, to me, like what Mike Pence yells after accidentally striking his thumb with a hammer?
Yeah, although I can’t picture Pence doing anything resembling manual labor.
You never know what kind of kink he and Mother engage in.