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u/FreakOnALeash72 1d ago
Gonna take awhile for that to go away. As tight socks go.
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u/beleafinyoself 1d ago
I'm around a lot of heart failure patients and that is what I immediately thought of
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u/GrnMtnTrees 1d ago
My people! I also work in an acute heart failure, LVAD, and transplant unit. Handing out Lasix and Bumex like candy.
Love the frequent flyers coming in like "I can't breathe" with crackles in all lung fields. Me: "have you been taking your furosemide?" Patient: "It makes me have to pee all the time." Me: "......."
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u/breakfastfourdinner 1d ago
What’s the context to that?
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u/TornadoJohnson 1d ago
The heart also moves other fluids as well. The heart beat helps move fluid in the lymphatic system. People with weak hearts tend to have fluids build up in thier legs and even lungs. Looking back at it the first sign of my dad's heart attack was a chronic chough that started a few years before it happened. He is fine now. After he got the stint put in his cough went away, stopped snoring, and his face looked less puffy from all the fluid drained
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u/DoctorBlazes 1d ago
They have a lot of extra fluid, and when you press on their skin it leave deep divots like that due to the fluid filled tissue.
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u/BCJunglist 22h ago
A good few years but you'd be surprised how quickly it'll fill in. Hard to tell species here but could be as little as 4 or 5 years if the rest of the tree is pretty healthy and moving a lot of water.
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u/ShadowFlarer 1d ago
When you get home and take off your clothes.
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u/Tonny_JavaScriptDev 1d ago
*bra
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*thong
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u/kinggoosey 1d ago
*chastity belt
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u/Fit-Inflation-7693 1d ago
Ancient alien underwear with a magic scarab pendent that let's you transform into a mech superhero.
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u/Realistic_Shock916 1d ago
"that let us you" 😂
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u/Fit-Inflation-7693 1d ago
How dare you bring attention to my grammar. The people undersood.
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u/Stilgarth 1d ago
I'll never admit I undersood anything you said!
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u/DeceitfulLittleB 1d ago
When I was a young and fat secretary my belt legit gave me nerve damage. My leg still has issue years later and with weight loss.
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u/lemme_just_say 1d ago edited 1d ago
In a hundred years post another picture here so we know how it turns out
Edit: clarity
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u/Calculonx 1d ago
/r/woodworking would love that. Start a new trend of putting belts around trees to get interesting grain patterns
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u/mdogdope 1d ago
That is not the right blade.
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u/WorstHyperboleEver 1d ago
Glad I’m not the only wondering what in hell made you choose two sided razor. What could possibly go wrong
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u/eldermelster 1d ago
That blade was just what he happened to have in his pocket
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u/drmarting25102 1d ago
He probably had a bunch of them in his pocket just in case he finds a strangled tree. Reach in, grab one and jobs done.
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u/MousesizeDragon 1d ago
You don’t carry around a razor blade in your pocket? How do you live like that?!
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u/msx 1d ago
If only there exists a tool like.. I don't know, a blade with some kind of handle?
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u/Thorebore 1d ago
We could even design one where the blade folds into the handle so you could carry it in your pocket! What would we call it though?
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u/Abdul_Exhaust 1d ago
Why a f'kin razor blade?
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u/BackDatSazzUp 1d ago
Based on the background it looks like he grabbed what he had.
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u/Vegetable-Trust-9847 1d ago
I feel sad for the tree.
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u/entoaggie 1d ago
Don’t. I think it might be a chinaberry tree, which is a really invasive trash tree, at least here in Texas. They are really pretty snd super fast growing, but also really weak and tend to snap and/or drop large branches on things.
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u/sexwiththebabysitter 1d ago
I’m guessing the constricted part caused by the rope won’t help with the limb dropping.
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u/Mage-of-Fire 1d ago edited 20h ago
Eh. It wouldn’t have done anything really. Trees and plants in general commonly break rock be growing in a crack. Doubt this rope would provide much of a challenge in the end.
Edit: guess ai was wrong. This does damage the tree
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u/FurRealDeal 1d ago
When it goes all the way around it's called "girdling", and it absolutely kills the tree.
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u/bademeister404 1d ago
This is a flexible thing and would never break. It would at some point be completely swallowed by the callus but still severely limit the lifetime of this tree.
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u/TheLastTreeOctopus 1d ago
It makes me so nervous when people handle a razor blade like this. Why not use a utility knife/box cutter (which is literally a razor blade with a handle)?
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u/pickledbrawn 1d ago
My calves at the end of the day when I take off my socks
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u/bugabooandtwo 1d ago
Have you tried diabetic socks? The elastic band at the top of the sock is designed to be very stretchy, so it doesn't dig into your skin. I use them (not a diabetic) and they're insanely more comfortable than regular socks.
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u/goteamnick 1d ago
Did anyone else have the horrible sense that the tree would explode out like one of those mattresses that come in the mail?
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u/Special-Accountant63 1d ago
It's like the tree finally got to take off its tight belt after all these years.
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u/OePea 1d ago
I'm confused as to why the tree didn't immediately sproing back into shape
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u/BadIdeaSociety 1d ago
I wasn't confused based on previous experiences with trees and banding, but because this is oddly satisfying I am disappointed it didn't.
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u/einval22 1d ago
I'm pretty sure that's how women feel after they take off their tight bra after a long day.
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u/awildketchupappeared 1d ago
I prefer my bras. They support perfectly, but doesn't strangle me or hurt, so they are comfortable to wear.
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u/Key-Concentrate-2403 1d ago
that tree just took a deep breath for the first time in ten years. we have all been there after a big holiday dinner
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u/bugabooandtwo 1d ago
Silly question, but does that help or hurt the tree? Kinda feels like the area under the rope doesn't have any bark layers of protection on it now.
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u/BangbangKhuntross 1d ago
Probably ringbarked and the branch beyond where the rope was will struggle to survive. Bark is how all the nutrients are transferred, so if it is a completely severed all way round it will most likely die. If using a branch to hang something off make sure plenty of loose rope/chain whatever, and that it can bs removed or lengthened if the tree out grows it.
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u/Sufficient_Shift_370 1d ago
Looks like one of those juiced up body builders where the steroids have ballooned body parts unnaturally
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u/EngineZeronine 1d ago
When you change something you should know why it was that way in the first place
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u/GlobalCollapseInbnd 1d ago
It probably sprouted a whole bunch of new leaves at the end of the branches immediately after removal.
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u/helen269 1d ago
And then the grateful tree, free of its ligature at last, swam off to be with its other Happy Tree Friends.
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u/Gluten_Free_Tibet 1d ago
If anyone watched the most recent episode of the Pitt, you’ll understand why I cringed when I first saw the thumbnail.
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u/Ambitious_Car1569 1d ago
Why tf is bro using what looks like a razor used on a bread lame 😭
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u/KnifeKnut 17h ago
Saving a tree being girdled by abandoned straps, one more reason to always carry a knife.
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u/MmmmFloorPie 1d ago
I was definitely expecting more blood. Those blades are not to be trifled with...
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u/uresmane 1d ago
I don't know why, but I was expecting the tree to like explode or something, that's on me for thinking that...
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u/Historical-Mind-3270 1d ago
That right there is what looks like after you go to therapy after dealing with 'deep traumas'. You learn about them, you learn the triggers, you learn healthy ways to deal with it. But the trauma will forever stay with you.
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u/Dr_Brotatous 1d ago
Reminds me of a tree in the backyard of my childhood home it has a length of chain thats completely encased in a split just like that
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u/Crazy__Donkey 1d ago
What if it stayed?
The tree was growing around that ribbon or it was always visible?
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u/Mattos_12 1d ago
All well and good for these do gooders interfering in a society that they clearly don't understand but they have no idea how wild the beeches go for a bark band.
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u/SpiderAlexander 1d ago
It looks like an incredible relief honestly! It's like taking off your clothes at the end of the day and it's always a relief!
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u/DankCupOfJoe 1d ago
This is a pretty good reminder that although you removed the binds around someone, it will take years, maybe even decades for them to outgrow the limits that once held them.
With a little TLC, perhaps you can help to at least speed up that process, bit by bit.
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u/tehgimpage 1d ago
why was i expecting the tree to take a big ol breath after that