One of the main characters in this story is Mike Dudley, who along with his wife, Diana, were actually able to come hear the talk. As some of you may remember, Mike & I are blood brothers. In 2008, he received a transplant of my bone marrow in an attempt to survive acute myeloid leukemia. 🧪 - ThreadSky

bittelmethis.bsky.social • 15 hours ago

One of the main characters in this story is Mike Dudley, who along with his wife, Diana, were actually able to come hear the talk. As some of you may remember, Mike & I are blood brothers. In 2008, he received a transplant of my bone marrow in an attempt to survive acute myeloid leukemia. 🧪

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bittelmethis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

We were complete strangers at the time, connected only by a weirdly specific similarity in our human leukocyte antigens. Well, as you can see, it worked! And we've since been able to meet each other and become friends. Here's a photo from our first meeting, back in 2012. 🧪

bittelmethis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

But the idea that, for the last decade & some change, there has been a guy walking around Richmond, VA w/a whole bunch of my atoms never left me. And what's weirder is that this exchange is not actually all that uncommon. (I mean, yes, it's rare to find someone that you can share bone marrow with.)🧪

bittelmethis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

But at the atomic level, the human body is like an Amazon warehouse, parcels coming & going 24 hours of the day, 7 days of the week. With every breath, you add & expel atoms that once belonged to the people sitting next to you, but also the redwoods in California & plankton in the South Pacific. 🧪

jamesneilrox.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Maybe the atoms
Never really belonged to you in the first place

bittelmethis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Your teeth are made out of calcium forged in dying stars, and 10% of your weight is made up of hydrogen atoms that came into existence shortly after the Big Bang. 🧪

bittelmethis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I know, it feels like we are more disconnected than ever, both from nature and wildlife but also from each other, but no matter who you are, or what you believe, or who you love, or what side of some imaginary line you live on, you are bound up in this great swirling atomic potluck. 🧪

bittelmethis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

You are you, but also me, Mike Dudley, Aristotle, and Taylor Swift.

You are dinosaurs and mountains.

You are dust blown off of the Sahara Desert.

You are comets, lava, and clover. 🧪

witchqueen3975.bsky.social•15 hours ago

🤩🤩🤩✨✨💫❤️

witchqueen3975.bsky.social•15 hours ago

❤️

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