#health post

[saltylenpai]

covid exposure again and i love spending time with my sisters kids but it's very frustrating when this happens every time, I've got health issues and I literally lost my year old nephew due to complications from Covid 2 years ago.

its like nobody cares anymore and im just trying to get to the point where i can exist again

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Hi everyone,

For those who have trouble hydrating, I found an article talking about how tomatoes and cucumbers are more than 90% water! According to this article:

“Tomatoes are made up of 94% water, making them a great option if you're trying to up your hydration game. You'll have the best results when you enjoy them raw and there are dozens of ways to keep this fruit interesting.”

“Cucumbers, on the other hand, contain a whopping 96% water, leaving all other fruits and veggies in the dust. Cool, crunchy, and refreshing, cucumbers can be sliced, speared, and marinated and eaten any time of the day.”

The full article will be linked below. I hope many of you find this helpful. :)

Hydration 💧

[princerobotcat]

I’m at the urgent care with possible pneumonia. And the funniest shit rn is me telling the nurse that my primary care wouldn’t prescribe me an emergency inhaler or any kind of breathing support despite a history of asthma from childhood. I mentioned the pc wanted me to try “nasal spray” before she would review if she thought I needed an inhaler and the nurse got the iciest “I’m pissed on your behalf” look.

Like I had a really nasty attack at the urgent care that needed a nebulizer to resolve but like. Worth it for that expression.

[byler-alarmist]

Tw: health

Had some troubling blood tests and have to have a couple CT scans next week. Feeling scared, Byler Tumblr

[bisasterqueen]

Me holding all my fellow chronic migraine havers hands. It's going to be alright we'll get through this.

[nd-babblinggoblinfromthevoid]

Husband and I have been afflicted by... something??? Awful.

Both of us are in horrendous stomach/abdominal pain. We're probably going to emergency here soon.

I'd rather be having contractions during labor vs what is hitting me now.

We both took the last two hydros from my old postpartum meds. For him it did nothing and for me it only took the edge off barely for maybe an hour before coming right back and knocking me out it got so bad.

Husband is someone who sorta goes by something similar to the farmer pain scale. If he's hurting, it's severe. Last time he was actually incapacitated, it was his first ever severe case of shingles.

He went to the hospital, and was on pain medication for a month or more. Which, if you knew him, you'd go "oh shit", cuz this man simply, powers through everything else below the severe category.

My only concern whenever needing the er for pain relief is their hoops to jump through. I'm autistic-adhd and do not display my pain like they expect.

My 6-10 and upwards on the pain scale is me internalizing it, shutting down, going non-verbal. I appear calm and collected which always makes them doubt the sincerity/severity of the pain level.

Hopefully with my husband and I both going in, he's verbal, we can get some relief. (Vent - Which is really irritating with doctors because last time I went nonverbal, I was still able to write it all down and the doctor refused to even look at the paper. So we fucking sat in silence until I choked out like 3 words and she based her entire limited understanding of my issues based on that. Not. You know. The extremely detailed notecard I brought in as a communication aid.)

I really wish doctors would see someone who's nonverbal from pain, unable to even hold focus/gaze, and general inability to interact as someone who hmmm might need help vs "I'm frustrated and flabbergasted that I can't easily checkmark boxes and send you on your way easy peasy" reaction a lot of doctors give in the city closest to us.

The moment they can't cure you from their pamplet checklist and get that pat on their back for doing a doctoring, they're fed up with you and instead make it your fault for being 'difficult'. (Sorry, vent because I just hate needing to go to the doctor for pain like this.)

The pain is creeping up into my chest now so I'm going to rest. We're waiting on a friend to come over to stay with our littles so we can go.

Wish us luck. 🤞🏻

[jesusology]

here's to hoping that moving up on my lamictal dose will Work Wonders

[leam1983]

Release

Apart from a kiss from a loved one or a hug, the sweetest sensation ever has to be the exact moment your Claritin kicks in. It's like a slow bloom for a figurative Third Eye, except that Third Eye consists of your sinuses and of your general ability to inhale oxygen at a sufficient level of saturation. Pair that with the associated pseudoephedrine kick, and you get a very "Methhead Lite" effect, wherein your energy levels spike and your willingness to do your actual job goes from "Eh, whatever, it's Thursday" to "Let's find the fun in this otherwise stupid slog".

Is this something like a small fraction of what actual Meth-heads experience?

[selfconsciousfangirl]

At some point I’ll stop badly twisting my ankles when on holiday, especially considering the whole point of said holidays is walking like a fiend, enjoying the sights, visiting museums.

[ask-pinkie-polkadot-pie]

Hey guys!

Kinda an important personal update.

Things are starting to go back to normal schedule wise for me after the big end of the year holidays but I've got some other things going on that might keep me away from the blog for a while

I got a few drawings to post this week but as of right now I'm waiting on some test results from the doctor and am gonna need an investigative surgery, and probably another surgery after that depending on what they find.

Now it's nothings life threatening but I've been in a lot of pain the past coupla years and we're just trying to find out why and how to fix it.

So as of right now I'm waiting to hear back but I'll let you guys know what's up when I can.

Hey maybe I can update the blog while in recovery haha.

Thanks for reading!

[saltylenpai]

healthy update i somehow got in and out of the ER within 3 hours last night, Got me brain scanned and clean.

so its nothing scary scary, still not sure whats going on but all i can do is rest and wait to see my doctor next month.

[toriaray]

After 2 years of dodging Covid it finally got me.

[politijohn]

Source

[great-and-small]

When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.

The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.

Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.

So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.

This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.

(Source 1)

(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)

(Source 3)

[i69bea]

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."

[lesbianralzarek]

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw