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When the dental wakes up and sounds like a dying goat. So you get the pet-sling out and carry them around.

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Do you see rabbits as well?

At my current place of employment we do! We had one in just the other week. We have two vets on staff who will see them and other pocket pets.

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Couldn’t help but chuckle at the choices.

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Using the sun to finish curing the resin my my hawks themed feathers. Still not sure if I’ll keep them as earrings or not. For now keeping them as earrings helps get them air flow.

And before people get up in arms about the migratory bird protection, and the fact these are real feathers. These are not feathers from birds that fall under that protection. I would never own anything that falls under the act unless I had a permit to be working and owning them.

The two smaller ones are from a green cheek Conure and the larger one is from a guinea fowl. Neither are native to the USA and do not fall under the protection act.

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I just noticed when Jinx staples her leg cut closed, she staples over her clothing. Jinx honey that’s not how we staple wounds back together. That’s how we get infections.

Rewatching Arcane because this show has me in a god damn choke hold. Or perhaps it’s just Viktor.

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Rewatching Arcane because this show has me in a god damn choke hold. Or perhaps it’s just Viktor.

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l've been cleaning empty veterinary medicine vaccine vials, and turning them into tiny little trinket potions. They also come in keychain form. I can make almost any color.

They make great fidget toys and my entire team at work loves them.

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I had an interesting night last night

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Just finished up with my neurology appointment that my awesome cardiologist set me up with.

All I can say is what the fuck. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn’t that.

Really glad it was a one time visit because I never wanna see that neurologist again 

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l've been cleaning empty veterinary medicine vaccine vials, and turning them into tiny little trinket potions. They also come in keychain form. I can make almost any color.

They make great fidget toys and my entire team at work loves them.

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Just POTS things.

Adding the LMNT make your own to my morning smoothy so I can get to work with out feeling yuk.

Granted so far the beta blockers do seem to be helping, and that’s without the prescribed PT. That was a happy surprised. We had assumed I was going to feel awful on beta blockers as it would drop everything to low, but with my job, I think what I do helped train my blood vessels close to what PT would have.

I still plan to do the prescribed PT because it’s only going to help in the long run.

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The other day I was reading about how the colourpointing in Siamese cats is temperature based, with the darker fur being colder areas and paler being warmer. It was only a brief post so idk how accurate it is but it got me thinking because my cats are Tonkinese and one of them has a very pale spot in the middle of her forehead. She’s… not the brightest of beasts, so I like to think that little white spot is from all the heat generated by her singular brain cell working as hard as it possibly can to create one whole thought lmao

that's so special and beautiful

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Dude I really like this cardiologist.

So many good things just came from that appointment. I really like this guy.

And he signed my placard paper work. So now it’s up to the state on if they approve it or not. And he made it a life long one.

He’s got me some beta blockers that may or may not help.

If they don’t help; I need to do some PT to help my blood vessels work correctly, then once that’s done the beta blockers would help

And and he got me a SHIT ton of reading material, and is trying to get neurology to see me to see if there’s dysautonomia going on to or not

There’s a Dr who’s dedicated his life to pots patients, and apparently has a blog that has what he’s been doing and what’s been working for his patients.

So my Dr gave me that, and all the home PT I’ll need to get my blood vessels doing their jobs correctly.

So much reading.

Plus an echo, something that got over looked, it’s needed now since I have POTS and ehlers danlos hypermobility. Gotta make sure I don’t have a weak or leaky valve.

He had me do an EKG today too!

He was even talking about a patient who’s in her 60 who has it, and how she’s had it most of her life and how drs brushed her off and told her it’s in her head.

And how that’s not true. And it’s an invisible illness and it’s not in our heads. And we may look fine but really on the inside we are not, and that we need a team of drs who listen and understand. And he strives to be that Dr for his patients.

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Just vet med things.

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@dawnsiren no…sweetie no that’s not normal at all!

Try using the free version of this app for a few days, then take the data to your Dr and get them to do a NASA test.

Your poor heart.

Side note I was able to get into the cardiologist next week. 

Guess who has POTS officially on her chart today.

10 min of laying down, then a BP and heart rate taken. Heart rate was in the low 80s

Then I stood up and did the wall lean followed by BP and heart rate ever min for 10 min.

My heart rate skyrocketed. The nurse after the third one asked me if I wanted her to keep being told my heart rate. I told her no, cause I know exactly what range it’s gonna fall in, and that a heart rate of 132 is just another Tuesday for me 😂😂 the poor nurse was so shocked at what my heart rate did. She thanked me for coming in and being her guinea pig for this test as it’s not something she gets to do often and wants to learn more about it. She was also SHOCKED when I told her that 110-140 was my normal, and showed her what my heart rate does on just a nice walk around.

Since this test showed strogly of a positive POTS test it’s on my chart and my Dr. is sending email to the cardiologist for a referral to come in and get meds to help control it better. Cause oh boy is electrolyte at home not cutting it anymore.

It feels so damn good to finally have this on my chart, and to know it’s not all in my head. So so thankful I have a primary who listens.

In the end the highest my hear hit while doing the NASA 10 Minute Lean Test was 145

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Tell me you’re a potsie without telling me you’re a potsie. I’ll go first. This is my lunch for today (actual food is at work already in the freezer)