For most people, getting medical tests results that say
"No abnormalities, everything is normal" is great
But when you constantly are in pain, can't eat can't lay down can't sleep or hardly do anything..its such a fuck you slap in the face. It's hard enough to get doctors to believe you in the first place to get any testing going on...then to get this result? It just feels like it ruins any and all chances you might have had and flushes them down the fucking drain.
Having a (invisible) chronic illness sucks but it's mostly because doctors don't seem to want to listen or believe you.
Help Me Get a Service Dog to Live a Better Life!!!
I have been waiting for years for and an opportunity like what I have just been given. I have been researching service dogs extensively for years, and now I have an opportunity to get a prospect for one…… but in 2 WEEKS! I need help funding the cost of the puppy as well as the flight ($2500 approx) to get across the country. While this has been on short notice please know that this has not been a rash impulse choice, this all has been in the making for sometime now, and there is already a dog picked out that is perfect for my needs. My community is ready and willing to support me through this process of training a service dog and think it could be one of the best things for my health.
Having a service dog would allow me to work a traditional job again, would allow me to have more freedom and autonomy, this is going to change my life in a very impactful way. I want to be able to leave my home without fear of passing out and falling, I want to be able to work again, I want to be able to get out and be a human being again, to finally have the ability to do things by and for myself!\ For the first time in a while I have hope for my future, hope that my quality of life can improve, hope to feel like me again.
Please if you can share and donate! This is vital to my health, my quality of life and future.
Had a dream where all the other Holocaust historians were judging me for only having my MA.
Like bro I’d love the PhD but how can you justify sacrificing ~8 years of time and potential income to train for a job that there’s like, a 2% chance of actually getting and if you do it’ll be in a state that is down to force women to give birth against their will? I have my head in the clouds 80% of the time but even I can’t justify that.
You know I definitely didn't think it was cute when it started intruding on my life. When it made doing my job dangerous. But if you want to infantilze my disability because sometimes I make "silly noises" or shake my head in a funny way, stop.
It's not cute that at for time I had I needed someone basically glued to my side to help if tic could potentially hurt me. So yeah, this list is one of many saying the same thing. But some that disrupted the course of my life is not cute.
If no one told you this today, let me be the first. Your doing a good job! The hard work you put in everyday isn’t for nothing. Though others might not applaud you, you deserve your flowers. You are so strong its remarkable 💗