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Revlis-TK421815 karma

Leprosy causes progressive and permanent nerve damage. This damage thaf does not repair itself even if the infection itself is stopped. Patients have permanent loss of sensation in the affected areas, typically hands and feet. Blindness may also occur.

This loss of sensation is what leads to what historically killed sufferers because they would often get unnoticed wounds that would get infected, get gangrene, sepsis, then death.

People with nerve damage need to be constantly vigilant to inspect themselves for damage and treat accordingly.

Imagine if your shoe had a small pebble in it but you couldn't feel it. You walk all day developing a blister that you can't feel. It grows, bursts, and the pebble keeps on rubbing more and more of your foot raw. This would be nearly debilitating pain for most people, but for someone with nerve damage they'll just keep on going all day. The wound gets infected in that moist, raw shoe and by the time the patient gets home at night and takes off their shoe it's a bloody, puss-filled, infected mess.

Leprosy patients must learn to cognitively and actively do all of the monitoring that their damaged nerves used to do automatically and unconsciously for them. All day, every day, for the rest of their lives.

Revlis-TK421386 karma

or exponents. A lot of Science!(TM) is done on 96-well plates. A1 - 12 to H1 - H12.

That leaves a row of E1 - E12. That's fine and dandy when you are just dealing with one plate. But in multiple runs, you get values like 1E1, 2E8, 24E12 and the like.

Guess what Excel does to that stuff? And you can't turn it off as far as I can tell because these files are created automatically by the lab machines. The first time you open the file everything gets converted into exponent and you have to write conversions to change em back.

Revlis-TK421129 karma

Well played, fellow Excel user. Well played.

Revlis-TK42199 karma

You ever have the urge to fuck with the overly religious?

I had this for about a half a year back in highschool and there was a holy roller girl that was constantly proselytizing. She seem to take it as a personal mission to try and convert everyone she talked to, and would lambaste those who didn't come to Jesus right then and there.

My welts would take a couple of minutes to raise after scratching and no one really knew I had the condition, so I took the opportunity to fuck with this girl: I scratch "666" into my forehead before starting a conversation with her.

She's well into her standard speech when I see her eyes start flicking up to my forehead. When her speech faltered it was time : rolled my eyes back in my head and started convulsing and talking in tongues.

Her face went from white to green to purple. Never talked to me again. 10 / 10, would do again.

Revlis-TK42194 karma

Right, but you also hear of the life-ruining levels of scams that people fall for. Emptying their bank accounts, retirement plans, taking out loans to send on.

I can largely forgive scamming a couple hundred bucks off a gullible mark. But tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars that leaves the mark in poverty akin to the guy pulling the scam in the first place? No, those assholes can burn.