One of us will die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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"The disease can't kill me if I kill myself first"
"This peanut won't kill us if I completely block the airways, I think."
Use this simple trick to overcome depression
40+ is where it gets really interesting, introducing the possibility of getting delirious with weirdly unsettling hallucinations.
Don't fuel them by watching TV is all I'm gonna say.
I had 40-41 as a kid and it was so surreal. Especially because it was mod summer
Once had the flu with a fever of 106-107(almost 42c)...I was taken to the hospital and the doctor literally threw me into an ice bath... I was crying and he said "I'm sorry but you will be dead soon unless we drop that fever"
I had to continue taking ice baths at home because the fever kept creeping back up to that range. They're not fun...
While 104 is contact an MD range.
Fevers have to get to 108F to cause brain damage. 106F is definitely in the seek treatment range!
But normal fevers between 100° and 104° F (37.8° - 40° C) are good for sick children.
Cite: https://www.seattlechildrens.org/conditions/a-z/fever-myths-versus-facts/
Last time I had intense fever dream was when I was a child. For some reason I never had another. As an adult, I would get sick with occasional high temperature but I would wake up immediately as soon as I sweat heavily.
so chemo is just fevers revenge
That's actually exactly how chemo works. It microwaves your cells on a molecular level!
Edit: turns out I confused it with radiation therapy!
Absolutely not
I think they may have been thinking of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy?
Seeing the edit, yes, but that is also wrong. As the first line of the link says, radiation therapy uses ionizing radiation and not microwaves
It is possible to use microwaves for treating cancer (see https://www.bmc.org/content/microwave-ablation), but the two aforementioned methods do not use them (with the caveat that both "chemotherapy" and "radiation therapy" are very broad categories)
I used microwaving as a verb, as in cooking. English can be weird like that but I didn't mean the literal frequency range. My bad
Immune system to the infection: "If I die, I'm taking you with me!"