#I blithely cooked pancakes for my housemates with autoimmune encephalitis we're so fucking stupid about pain | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chicago-geniza · 2 years ago

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We're supposed to be using MyFitnessPal to log our intake etc. but also any "anomalies" including vomiting, diarrhea, what have you, and I don't think experimental protocols were designed for "post-ED dual-wielding gastroparesis/IBD-NOS patient who would take 'dignity of risk' as a family motto if they had a crest & coat of arms, but would settle for 'NOTHING CAN DO ANYTHING TO ME'"

Anyway we were meant to enter our values from the previous day and I was like "well I had two plain Shake Shack burgers on gluten-free buns with extra pickles and then I vomited 700 mL of bile and blood. Is there a tab for that" and the dietician looked like she'd been shot

#I am descended from a woman who had a heart attack then went back to bed #And a woman who wouldn't take painkillers or go to the hospital and insisted she just needed to lie down #When a broken bone was sticking out of her skin #And a man who drove himself to the hospital with a fully shattered hand & wrist while having an aneurysm #I blithely cooked pancakes for my housemates with autoimmune encephalitis we're so fucking stupid about pain #My mom tells these stories with pride I tell them like we are so stupid we are SO stupid it is only by the grace of Gd our #Line was not ended by sheer dissociative hubris

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