Hello! I am working on a cartoony illustration in which I am conveying physical human afflictions/parts of the anatomy that could have very literal visual translations. Some examples: a frog in your throat (temporary hoarseness because of phlegm or mucus). Tennis elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis), smoker's lung, kidney stones, funny bone (humerus). [more inside]
posted by geronimo's folly on Jul 29, 2009 - 22 answers

I've got a couple cherry tomato plants on my windowsill that have been growing like gangbusters -- there's even one little tomato that's JUST starting to turn red. But -- they're also dropping stems off the main plants at an alarming rate. What's happening, and how can I stop it? [more inside]
posted by EmpressCallipygos on Jul 15, 2009 - 29 answers

What's wrong with my Russian tortoise? [more inside]
posted by semp on Jul 4, 2009 - 6 answers

Posting for a friend. A coworker is absent due to a disease which is being heard by my friend as "shelf's disease". We can't find anything even close to resembling this online. Does anyone know of a disease that sounds similar. The only symptoms we know of the disease is that she can't be around pregnant women and that her skin is broken out.
posted by sapphirebbw on Apr 14, 2008 - 7 answers