BSD Chat adventures

Accidental abs?

Sushi: I'm sorry to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming, which includes Dazai getting on Kunikida's last nerve but I met the strangest person today

Ryuu: Do you need me to pick you up? How many times do I have to tell you, if they ask you to follow them to their car they are trying to kidnap you

Sushi: None, I know that! >:(

Ryuu: Sure didn't seem like it when you RAN after the guy who promised to show you his puppies

Sushi: Kidnapping would have been a small price to pay for puppies

Nakahaha: I agree 100%

Ryuu: Don't enable him!

Sushi: This isn't about me Ryuu god. Anyways I was talking to this guy at the subway who asked me for directions. It was going well until I suddenly smelled something burning. I tried looking for the source of the smell and realized that it was coming from the man. Someone had a curling iron with them and it was sticking out of their bag. It seems that they forgot to turn it off and it was making contact with this man's hand and since it had been that way for a while I think it was actually burning his skin

Ryuu: Lies, I don't care who you are but your reflexes would not allow that to happen. We are literally wired that way

Sushi: You see that's what I thought too. I was startled and let him know about his hand and he didn't even flinch, he just looked kind of like "ah shit not again". He saw that I was startled and mentioned that he has this disease that prevents him from feeling pain

YosaNo: OH! If you're still with him, tell him to definitely get testing done for that.

Sushi: Why are you so unconcerned that he burned his hand and didn't flinch?

YosaNo: If I'm correct, that man has a mutation in his sodium channels that decreases their activity. The TLDR is that, with less sodium in the neuromuscular junction you need a much stronger stimulus to actually feel anything. So essentially that man would have to get like a 2nd or 3rd degree burn to actually feel any pain

Sushi: Oh my god that is honestly so concerning

YosaNo: Yup, but hey it could be worse. If he had MORE sodium in the neuromuscular junction then literally any form of contact would make him feel excruciating pain

Sushi: How do you know all of this?

YosaNo: Trauma :,)

Sushi: are you ok?

YosaNo: I'm fine, just being dramatic

Ryuu: Wait but like that's kind of awesome you don't feel pain at all

Sushi: That's what I thought too at first but like he didn't even feel his hand getting burned and being in constant fear that you're actively being hurt and not noticing it is a whole new fear I never wish to unlock

YosaNo: You know there's this one disease that gives you a six pack without the need for exercise, but this one is a mutation in your potassium channels (specifically having too much)

Snow: How does one acquire this?

YosaNo: Trust me you don't want it. What it actually does is that it never allows your muscles to actually stop being active. So like even If you're sleeping your abdominal muscles are still moving against your will and you eventually develop like a six pack. But the downside is that it does this to a lot of other muscles in the body. It could overexert your heart and kill you :)