It's been a worrying 2 days since my health screening because I've been asked to check out a bulging artery (or vein) on my neck and forehead that a lot of my clients pointed out to me before. All Google tells me is 'blood flow could be restricted... Leading to stroke...' And other serious issues that could possibly happen and I got quite worried. So basically that's the Carotid artery that sends blood to the brain. 😭😭😭 No wonder I kept forgetting things... Sighhhhh ° Life is short. And we ought to count our blessings. For each day I live and move without pain, I am thankful. Hopefully it will just be another health scare. 😭 ° I CAN DO THIS! 👍 and not giving up. (anyone knows anything about this bulging vein by the way? 🤔 SWIPE TO SEE 😂) ° #keepmoving #wannabefit

90kg Front Squat for reps Decided to do front squat for a while to give my lower back a break. Meaning that, in order to save my back, I decided to put myself at risk of blacking out due to carotid artery occlusion aka barbell pressing on the arteries of the neck and cutting blood flow to the brain. Happened once when I attempted to do 100kg. Blacked out for the whole 10-15 seconds and scared the hell out of everyone in the gym lol. Lucky my head didn’t hit anything during the fall. Gotta love living the dangerous life lol #frontsquat #training #gym #taipei

"Intricate brush strokes composed a background of the quintessential Kurdistan mountain range and horizon. Warm light from the setting sun in the west bathed the land in shades of light orange and brown. A flock of birds flying towards the twilight with their wings outstretched become the focal point of the painting. Below them stood a stag, proud with a magnificent set of antlers, and a dainty doe by his side. In the spot where the stag’s carotid artery would be, a hole the size of a human fist was gouged into the concrete. A mess of tangled cords from the split-system air conditioner in the office behind the wall spilled out from the crater in the stag’s neck before it embedded itself into the back of the air conditioner’s outdoor unit. This abrupt image somehow reminded me of a halal slaughterhouse here in Kurdistan; when the butcher exerts his blade in that same spot on the animal’s neck, fresh crimson blood flows from the stag’s carotid through a dense network of cables, and sent back with a fan, into the building where both doctors and patients smoke their cigarettes. To me, the painting serves as a vague reminder to bystanders that, in comparison with the cage that is this psychiatric hospital, even the bloodiest slaughterhouse is more compassionate, more direct, and less hesitant. Unlike the hospital, struggles in the slaughterhouse end quickly—all sensations cease to exist in the next blink of an eye..." 【Shepherds and the Slaughterhouse】 Simon Chang Solo Exhibition Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia 15 October - 30 November 2020 *sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan. #galerijafotografija #kurdistan #kurds #iraq #middleeast #張雍 #牧羊人與屠宰場 #國藝會