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Prinzka t1_jdrjf7z wrote

Reply to comment by _lippykid in Incision in my arm that doctors left open for 2 weeks after a surgery. by soapboxingdaychamp

>Nearly died. Shit is no joke

Yeah same here, came pretty close.

>Luckily, in my case I’d literally just read the symptoms a few days before and knew what it was right away.

Yeah, recognizing the symptoms makes such a gigantic difference, and it can go wrong so quickly.
Had I recognized the symptoms right away it would've probably been minor.
As it was it was quite close to killing me.

>Happened in NYC and the hospital was awesome

I was in one of the best hospitals, so I trust they did what was best. It was mainly my own stupidity that made it bad.

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KnudsonRegime t1_jdriiz6 wrote

Reply to comment by sashinexists in These bananas at the grocery store are sold on the stalk they grew on by co1063

The only reason it’s not is logistics. Bananas are notoriously quick to spoil in transit and fast transit is expensive. The banana trains in the US are still the fastest long haul freight method and they have priority over any other train on the tracks.

Since you can fit more bananas without their stalks it’s vastly more economical than wasting a bunch of space with non-edible material.

What nobody talks about is how stalked bananas are shipped LTL (less than truck load) and their carbon footprint is 20x+ that of bulk bunches.

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