Little Girl: no stones

[cjsmith]

On Friday afternoon I saw my first ever X-ray of a fart. Air shows up dark on the film, y'see.

The good news is that Little Girl had no visible kidney stones. YAY! (Her kidneys were also a little shrunken and lumpy. She's gettin' older. Boo.)

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[ken_r]

On Friday afternoon I saw my first ever X-ray of a fart.

Which brings to my mind one of life's big questions:

How would life be different if farts were purple?

(I've seen a purported "infrared fart video" clip on youtube and elsewhere, but assume it's a silly fake because a black cloud would be colder than the room, and I would expect the emitted gas to be body temperature, and thus white like the supposedly emitting body. And, people walking down the street or hanging around the office generally can't see in the infrared range.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

There are some countries where farting is considered just another normal and natural bodily thing, and people don't make any effort to conceal it. Maybe life would be like that if farts were purple.

Or maybe all things deodorizing would be colored yellow. :-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, my sister lived in Japan, and at least in that part of Japan, farting was no big deal but public sneezing wasn't done, or was incredibly suppressed/embarrassing, and folks tried to do it quietly or discreetly. And that's where the germs are.