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Maybe a tattoo of the organ locations would be helpful?
Unlike most, mine is an exact mirror. I missed it earlier but this is what the Totalis refers to in Dextro Cardia, w/ Situs Inversus Totalis. Adding a tattoo of my organ placement would be comical. I'd be a human Operations Boardgame by the end of it.
This is fascinating! I was diagnosed with dextrocardia w/ situs inversus at 19. I didn't make it to 99 years old to find out I had it, but several physicians and doctors in my childhood missed the diagnosis too. Story time! This is written on mobile so I apologise for grammar and spelling errors. I had awful asthma as a child and would frequently visit hospital till my teenage years because of asthma attacks and simi…
> doctors look straight past the condition and consider it to be an X-ray Technician error. This can go the other way too. As a student I “corrected” an initial film as it came out the film processor. The patient hadn’t been imaged before and they had dextrocardia. Basically I turned the film over and sent it for reporting with the left and right reversed. The reporting radiologist noticed as the name tab, which used…
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Not OP, but I always thought it’s amazing how it becomes second nature. You think you want to turn left and slow down, not I have to use my left foot to slowly press the brake and slowly move my hands in a circle while grasping.
Breaking with the left foot sounds really dangerous. What is the right foot doing? ...though I guess you were just reinforcing your point: driving becomes so second nature that you forget the implementation details.
https://www.vox.com/2015/7/1/8877583/two-foot-driving-pedal-...
Why does a prefect mirror image of organs in your body result in things not working? One would assume most things would work... The only explanation I can think of as to why this would cause an issue is that not everything is mirrored.
How does the body figure out which side is left and which side is right? I can think of an easy way to break symmetry but it seems harder to consistently know which side is which.
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My favorite was a statistician in the late 40's early 50's who was tasked by the air force to find the 'average pilot'. The reason was new fangled jet fighters were crashing due to pilot error. At higher rates than could be anything but problems with the man machine interface. He and his helpers took 10's of thousands of measurements of thousands of air force pilots and determined that, there is no such thing as the…
What's really whack when you consider it is the same neuromuscular system that allows us to walk can also be repurposed to drive a car, fly a plane and operate other machinery. Isn’t this because we purposely design all those things around our anatomy though? I’d imagine alien octopuses’ vehicles would be designed around their anatomy and they would have no trouble using them.
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My favorite was a statistician in the late 40's early 50's who was tasked by the air force to find the 'average pilot'. The reason was new fangled jet fighters were crashing due to pilot error. At higher rates than could be anything but problems with the man machine interface. He and his helpers took 10's of thousands of measurements of thousands of air force pilots and determined that, there is no such thing as the…
What's really whack when you consider it is the same neuromuscular system that allows us to walk can also be repurposed to drive a car, fly a plane and operate other machinery. Isn’t this because we purposely design all those things around our anatomy though? I’d imagine alien octopuses’ vehicles would be designed around their anatomy and they would have no trouble using them.
Agreed. What's more impressive is that this "single neuromuscular system" can climb a tree, swim across a lake, or hike across a continent.
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This is awesome! For some reason I got really nervous reading about your accident. I was sure they opened you up and did some damage! I hope you keep going strong with the condition. I wonder how many people have lived full lives and never had it be detected.
Yes there is something very disturbing about the thought of doctors potentially opening up your body and shuffling your perfectly functional organs around because they think they’re supposed to be somewhere else.