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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[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

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

I see an opportunity for a userpic there!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*laughter* Y'know, MOST people who have userpics of their kitties have something cute and fluffy depicted. I suppose it would indeed be just like me to have a picture of innards instead.

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

Not just innards, but a FART!

My God, it'd be even better than a booger.

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

This is opposed to farts that emit X-rays, which you're well familiar with.

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

"She's gettin' older. Boo."

Jason noticed over the weekend that Tremolo's eyes look cloudy if you look at them at a particular angle. I checked and I agree. I'm wondering if she's getting cataracts. :-(

I managed to capture a spark on xray film once (well, more than once, but one of them yielded a good pic, the rest interfered with chemoluminescent images that I wanted). I have it in my wallet, I think. It's cool.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

How old is she? Seems early for cataracts, but I might be forgetting her age; I'm apparently at that age myself where time sort of telescopes and I say stuff like "Has it been four years already?" :-)

A spark? As in, an electric spark?

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

My kitties are 13, believe it or not.

And, yes, an electric spark (static electricity)

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

My HS chemistry teacher had a framed picture of a chemical flame of a distinctive blue tint-- his buddies used a special burner to light and photograph a fart for a special graduation gift.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah, they're getting up there. Mine are in the 14-15 range (Little Girl is 15, the other two fourteen) so we're in the same ballpark. I keep visualizing Vibrato and Tremolo as maybe four years old. I can still remember them as kittens, playing with the red dot that lived under the couch.

That's nifty, catching a spark on X-ray! What does it look like?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That is soooooooo the kind of graduation gift friends would give me, if I were involved in some kind of chemistry degree program. That is awesome. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I bet boogers don't even show up on X-rays very well. Feh. Farts rule!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I thought they were supposed to emit a compound that caused instant death on contact. All these years I've thought my own capabilities were so... wimpy.

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

It depends on the wavelength of the X-Rays.

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

Like forked lightning. Covering an area about the size of a quarter.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

The perfect gift for someone going off to work with kids who will find this HILARIOUS.

[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.)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. That must have made you squee out loud in the office!

I used to know someone who had a secret love of the smell of things within 24 hours or so after they died, and worked in wildlife rescue and recovery, and saw a lot of that. :( And she pretty much had to hide her "mmm, smells good" response from her coworkers. I didn't find it gross so much as very interesting to know that part of her.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I was in the back at the clinic, in the surgery room because that's where the X-ray light box thingy is, so I just said "Oh look! A fart!" :-) The vet laughed.

The smell of recent death, hmm? Interesting. I wonder what compounds her nose responds to differently than most folks' noses do.

[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]

I think the first hour or so was no big deal, it was the beginning of either decomposition or insect infestation that was most compelling. Maybe she has vulture genes.

[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.