#chronic pain adventure

[prawnlegs]

I keep getting nice little reminders that people still read/think about Job Satisfaction and I just wanna say I appreciate it. It’s easy to feel like something never counted if circumstances make you step away from it for a bit and everyone else works 300x faster/more efficiently than you. Thanks for showing me that’s not true (...:

[rickyj4i-ri0]

RAAAHHHH

《haii guys :3》

[signanothername]

The road to recovery is a long one but one eventually gets there <3

[jelicoxoxo]

we need more disabled reader fics so i am making it known that i do take requests for disabled reader fics

[crazycatsiren]

Medical administration staff members need to be trained and prepared better.

The reason why my records and referral have been awaiting review for almost 3 weeks now at the rheumatology department? They got sent to a Lyme disease specialist, instead of an arthritis specialist. And the person who answered my call today caught the error.

I don't have Lyme. Nowhere in any of my paperworks is Lyme mentioned. I've never even been bitten by a tick.

All those phone calls, and nobody mentioned this to me. It took nearly 3 weeks for someone to finally catch this.

You'd think the fact that the referral was sent over by the orthopedics department would've told them something.

Jesus Chroist.

The mistake has been fixed. I'm now in the correct queue. Maybe this gets taken care of before I leave the country for a month. I can at least hope.

[tetedurfarm]

twenty minutes with the pressure washer two days ago and my ulnar nerve is sooooooooooooooo mad. forgot about that guy

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

Today was the last DND session for a three-year campaign and I am big sad :(

One of the players brought whiskey for a last toast, which was very kind of them. I had never had whiskey before. Turns out I do not like whiskey. Unsurprising.

It tastes like slightly nicer hand sanitizer.

[iplaywithstring]

I've been feeling especially awful on weekends lately. It seems every weekend I'm sure I'm coming down with something. Low grade fever. Headache. Body aches. Just not quite right.

Which, for those of you unfamiliar, is a sign of ME/CFS flaring up. The ambiguous "flu like symptoms" really do seem like you're getting the flu, but then a couple days of rest later and things are back to baseline.

This is not sustainable and could lead to a bigger crash, and I don't have time for that.

I'm hoping it's down to 2 factors

My last class was brutal and very stressful, moreso than any other class I've taken so far for this program

My kids are in the school production which opens April 4 - the last few weeks have been very hectic.

I'm only working 1 day a week (last month it was 12 hours over 2 days), so I'm going to say that's a positive change. The new class I'm in is much less stressful and material I am more familiar with.

So maybe if I get through the next two weeks things will level off again? Term ends April 21 and I get two weeks off, which will also help.

[kiricat]

Spoons like to run away and hide

[dim-sum-wolf]

Restroom? Nah man I’m fighting for my life in here, drenched in sweat

[fuckin-flip-wizard]

Been having a really bad chronic pain/fatigue day so here's a little Koko doing some stretches because I need to project onto him lmao

[mika-0730]

The concept of chronic pain and healthcare makes me officially infinitely sad tbh. Like, I probably live in the best time for Western understanding of chronic pain and I'm still treated terribly by doctors and shut out of disability.

I'm a fairly happy go lucky individual when I don't have Fibromyalgia or MCAS flare ups, but after a week of severe pain, burns, and hives (the latter two being things I don't normally handle and have less coping mechanisms with), I'm incredibly grumpy and upset at things.

I'm finding myself easier to lash out at stuff that doesn't deserve it, and it's just making me think of like, all the times people have been told to just suck it up and deal with it. That it'll "go away" if you leave it alone.

How many people have had to live absolutely miserable lives because we refuse to provide essential services to people who need them?

This is shit I have to deal with constantly, and it makes me forever sad that others have to go through it too and that we don't have systems in place to fix it

[cookinguptales]

so if you sent me any messages, please just know that when I went downstairs to get a snack, my father gave me a cup of coffee and I took a sip and I was like holy shit because he put "a little bit of alcohol" in it

so I'm not answering anything rn, I am just zoned out and watching antiques roadshow. he just told me he put 5 oz of whiskey in it. lmao

[capn-twitchery]

thank you to everyone who left nice comments on my art!! i'm glad people like my little guys

i'm still finding my footing but every message is incredibly appreciated♥︎

[chronicallyjude]

I'm so freaking sick of people acting like I should be able to do what everyone else can do, not only do I have chronic pain and multiple chronic conditions I'm also pregnant which means I'm no longer taking a lot of my medications that helped me function before. I don't care if my coworker worked up until she had her baby, I don't care if they worked in the freezer or came in at 5am, I can't do that hell I can't even walk after work because of my hips getting stiff and my joints going out but sure I'll kill myself for people who couldn't care less what happens to me.

[burninglights]

GPs really out here proving that even the bottom percentile of a graduating cohort of medical students still get called doctor