#I think I'm going to develop arthritis

[aweirddreadfulterror]

Wow! What a amazing Loser 💕💕💕💕 hehehehehe drew my pookie >w<

POV: you go to a new sub dimension and the lady (who is spider like) decides that you’re her favorite, and remakes you in her image.

Yeah I decided instead of giving him a face, he gets spider legs.

Yeah me personally I wouldn’t want that, but she gave him a redesign 😭😭 no pretty boy’s here 😎

Now with less entity features!! They’re retractable :3

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

when your pet's health is declining to a very worrying level but you can't go home until thursday because of schoolwork and distance :)

[starscreamingg]

*through gritted teeth* I love working in the restaurant industry I love working in the restaurant industr

[northofnothing]

vent

[nestofsalt]

Rest in Peace Ava ~2013-2024

On Thursday, 8/22, Ava passed away. She had what the vet believes was a stroke, and they said the kindest thing was to put her to sleep. Ava came into my life unexpectedly 9 years ago in need of help. Her first owners had bought her for their kids and the kids had gotten bored of her long ago. They left her in the garage for the first 2 years of her life. She'd never had hay in her life, having eaten only Kaytee, she was overweight, and had one of the worst cases of ear mites the vet had seen.

She was aggressive at first, biting at anyone who reached into her cage. I'm sure this is something she quickly learned would keep prodding hands away from her in her old home, and the pain in her ears must have been pretty awful at first. The first few days we'd leave her cage door open, but she'd be too scared to explore. I remember when she finally took her first steps out of the cage, she never wanted to go back. She was frantic, running around for hours, flopping over for a few minutes, and going right back to running, jumping, and exploring. Ava'd likely never experienced a world beyond her cage and it was like she wanted to see it all before it was taken away from her again. In one infamous incident, she scaled a baby gate and broke the tip of a nail. Once she seemed to realize she was able to do this everyday, she calmed down, and there was no longer a frantic energy to her explorations.

After her ear mites were treated, she was introduced to our Dutch rabbit, Mordecai. The two hit it off instantly and were inseparable until Mordecai's death two years ago. We had once had a rabbit rescuer tell us Mordecai had terrible rabbit manners, and I think Ava was the same, and perhaps that's why the two of them worked so well.

Ava was fearless and feisty. She had a grunt that sounded like a deep growl and wasn't afraid to bat at you when she was pissed. She would run up and down the stairs, exploring the whole house without fear, much to the distress of Mordecai who was too scared to go down the stairs. He'd wait at the top of the stairs for her, until she returned or until one of us carried him down to join her.

Two years ago, Ava got really sick with an unknown infection. She had cysts in her face and lungs. A long course of antibiotic injections cleared the infection, but unfortunately the cyst in her face was behind her eye and was pushing on the eye and it had to be removed. At that point, she was about 9 and the surgery was her only option but risky. Ava went to the vet for her surgery, and that night, Mordecai took a sharp decline. It was like he had been holding out for her and once she was gone, he let go. Mordecai was rushed to the vet and it turned out he had cancer. There was nothing that could be done except keep him comfortable.

Ava recovered from her surgery, her illness, and losing Mordecai and we were lucky to have her in our lives for 2 more years. She was slowing down, she developed arthritis and had to eventually be put on Meloxicam for life, but was still as feisty as ever. She'd been doing really well these past few weeks, but unfortunately her age and health caught up with her.

Rest in Peace Ava and Mordecai, together again.

[three--rings]

So it's time for my "alt-right dudebro gamer" Dragon Age opinions.

(Note: I'm a 45 year old womanesque queer person who mostly plays indie and Japanese games.)

(To further my cred I was super excited to meet and hear Karen and Patrick Weekes talk about this game in development at Havencon a couple years ago...it's a small queer con in Austin.)

Dragon Age is my all-time favorite game series. I adored Inquisition, though DA2 has my favorite characters overall.

My opinions about the gameplay reveal are:

The environments and background graphics and effects look awesome.

The character design still bugs me quite a bit. The faces, ESPECIALLY the female faces look Disney/anime/Overwatchy in structure. The textures looks a lot better in game than in that trailer. I miss my Not Particularly Pretty Female Characters. They have sameface now.

There's something off in the lip syncing. Mouth animations looks weird. I can't define it more than that but I noticed it with multiple characters and it through me out.

Varric's hair annoys me SO MUCH. Someone pointed out he looks like Blackwall and now I CANNOT UNSEE.

The structure of the game/quests/whatever looks fine, this reminds me of all the moments running around Haven at the beginning of Inquisition. Some of my least favorite moments, but yanno.

The combat. I'm very worried about the combat.

I am 45 years old and I have arthritis in my hands from gaming and knitting. I gave up knitting to keep gaming. I cannot play some action games. Like Hades, I tried but simply couldn't continue more than an hour because of the pain. And that's with my hands in good shape these days.

Some action games I can play, but only on easy, and sometimes only if I limit my playtime. This is simply a reality I've had to get used to, but it does kill me sometimes.

Do you know how enjoyable it was to pick up Baldur's Gate 3 and be able to put it on a higher difficulty, to be able to actually struggle through combats and have to use tricks and my brain and try and fail and do it again, all without worrying about my hands? Makes me think I need to replay Origins again.

So I'm concerned. The combat in this game is focused on attack type, dodging, parrying, countering (according to bioware)....all stuff that requires quick and frequent button mashing, which is what I can't do. So I'm looking at a game that I can probably only play on easy and maybe even not then? In my favorite game series.

The question we don't really know is how different it will be from Inquisition, and I find it hard to tell from the footage since we can't see what buttons are being pressed. But I'll say that while I love it, Inquisition was the game that first hurt my hands. It made me aware of the problem and made me have to start limiting my activity.

IDK . I just hate the idea that devs have that turn based games can't do well and are inherently not exciting.

Fucking Solas motherfucking killed Bianca! That was the first time in these reveals I've been 100% reacting as a fan. NOT BIANCA!!!! HE MUST DIE!

Oh I did like the Rook in the gameplay and his face looked good. Again I feel like it's the character design and not the engine that is the problem.

As for the plot, it's interesting that Solas has gone from Main Antagonist to Opening Antagonist and I wonder if he's actually going to transition to an ally later in the game to undo whatever the fuck has gone wrong in this clip.

I do still have some worries about the writing. "She's greatest detective ever and she has a lead on Solas." So do you think that lead is the giant glowing thing in the middle of the city spitting out demons? Did you need a great detective?

And basically nothing I've seen so far has super MOVED me, as someone with serious connections to this world and the characters, other than the fucking Bianca moment. I'm hesitantly curious about some of the new companions. And if the griffon thing had come at a moment other than me going WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS? in the trailer I may have been a lot more excited.

So yeah, call me a hater or whatever. But that trailer reveal CRUSHED me emotionally. I was so depressed the rest of the day Sunday. These are my true reactions to the gameplay footage today. I don't have an agenda, other than I want the game to be good and I want it to do well and my confidence in EA and Bioware is at a very low point.

I've tried to keep a realistic mindset this whole time, but keeping in mind HOW MANY PEOPLE have left Bioware, how few OGs are left, the constant turnover in leads, the game being scrapped and redone like twice from scratch. And the game industry as a whole at this time, I have to be somewhat skeptical in general.

I'm not a skeptic overall, I was both a Cyperpunk 2077 enjoyer (but not apologist) and a Starfield defender and frankly there was a lot less reason to be skeptical of those games before release. So am I going to say "well I've been a Bioware fan since KOTOR 1 released, so I'm gonna hype it up and not point out flaws I see?" No. I'm going to be honest.

I'm not a casual Dragon Age enjoyer. I can't react casually to this stuff.

Will I play the game? Almost definitely, but am I going to wait till the release reviews? Probably.

[that-stone-butch]

Can I ask what sort of dog Tink is? I have a mixed dog of uncertain origin who has an uncanny resemblance to her and this might be a breakthrough.

well, she's a mixed breed without any sort of documentation or registry. but the animal shelter we adopted her from suggests that she is a mixture of a pointer breed (likely english pointer) and american pit bull terrier (likely red nose). this is colloquially referred to as 'pit pointers' which is only recognized by some breeding registries. that doesn't particularly matter to me, but it can make researching them a little difficult.

she very strongly resembles a pointer in her body and coat coloring, with spots beneath a white coat, but her face is squarer and resembles the red nose variety of pit bull.

above: an english pointer (she wasn't trained at a young age to point or for birding, but will occasionally do this when she wants something)

above: tink's coat and body shape. note that her haunches are similarly shaped to a pointer but a bit thicker. that's pit bull sprinting power right there! she has pointer spots but also large splotches of classic red nose amber fur.

above: a variety of red nose pit bull. that smile is fucking adorable.

above: tink's beautiful mug. she has an asymmetrical version of the red nose eye patches, and a squarer jaw and more prominent line down the center of her noggin than you would typically see in a pointer. these are older photos, as she is getting older and the greying of her face makes the original lines of her face markings a lot more blurred.

pit pointers aren't copiously documented (and aren't recognized by the AKC) but some have been used for hog hunting due to their love of denning- going into animal dens and flushing out a hog or other burrowing game so their owner can kill it. tink hasn't been trained for this but she does show a penchant for denning; jamming her snout into armpits, blankets, sofas, jackets, just about anything she can get into. she prefers to sleep having denned and 'burrowed' under a pillow, sofa cushion, or blanket. she even does this with large stuffed animals, if available. if trained properly, pit pointers are also great for hunting fowl, though their high energy may take some patience and restraint when it comes to pursuing game.

if you think you have a pit pointer or pit pointer mix, i recommend being a little extra careful with their skin/coat, as it is an allergy breed that can be sensitive to spring (tink gets the sniffles. it's adorable) and their skin is more sensitive to irritants. as for tink, her skin reddens really easily with exertion, heat, or heavy contact, which is common among red nose pit bulls. pit pointers tend to have high energy and are great to exercise with (i take tink on my runs when she can handle it, she's starting to develop a bit of arthritis), and are very affectionate and physical dogs, often preferring curling up on the couch with their owners and lots of body contact.

they're also adorable! hope that helps! i'm not a dog expert but i love dogs and love learning about them.

[undeadboyfriendsupportgroup]

Throwing in some headcanons for the season 1 Archive gang

(As always, these are just silly goofy fun, not meant to invalidate anyone's characterization of the archive folks, we're in season 3 so if any of these contradict with canon, it's probably bc of that or memory failing us/personal preference sooooo, lesgo)

cw: alcohol (very lightly mentioned) and spiders

Jon:

-Jon tends to wander when drunk, it's a good idea to keep an eye on him. He's gotten lost in campus during his college days but always comes back unharmed (somehow).

-He thought his grandmother made up grass allergies to keep him from getting into dangerous places as a kid but his family has a genetic grass allergy, nothing fatal but recently cut grass does make him v itchy when it touches bare skin.

-He uses pen grips, i think he's developing arthritis so he owns some comfortable rubber ones. There are a few bite marks on em, but if you confront him he will gaslight you

-Jon's bones also crack very easily, when he gets up you can hear it. It gets worse throughout the seasons

-Jon uses transparent nail polish. He started doing it to avoid nail biting but started the habit of chipping it off. In college he wore colored nail polish but he ditched bc he doesn't consider it v professional on himself.

-He's a responsible sunscreen user, he applies it whenever he needs to be outside but he uses a regular drugstore one since i don't think he believes in skincare being a thing. IN THE SAME VEIN: he doesn't think that body wash works, he only believes in soap.

-He had a bowlcut as a kid.

-He gets shorter by 1 inch per season.

-Jon, even though very good with tech, prefers to do things on paper because he likes the feeling. He prefers pencils over pens, but uses pens because they are more professional

-Jon would love smash burgers, i'm not giving more context.

Sasha:

-Sash started training a couple years ago to improve her posture (she tended to go shrimp while doing deskwork) and now she could crush a lemon with a single hand. She and Tim go to the gym sometimes and she can lift way more than him

-To counteract the smash burger hc above, she would love Shake Shack.

-She's scored pretty high on IQ tests every time she has to take them but she doesn't believe in their validity.

-She used to go spelunking on internet forums a lot.

-I think she would have enjoyed well planned ARGs and things that involved solving mysteries before it became her full-time job to deal with horrors.

-Sasha owns comfy shoes she wears in the office. Wearing heels during a whole workday isn't worth it and she knows this.

-Shes a bit of a stationary fan, she would have all of the really nice highlighters and notebooks

-She chews her lips pretty often, especially when she wears nice chap sticks

-She likes furbies.

Tim:

-He hates furbies and dolls, truth be told it is more fear than hatred.

-He's been on commercials as a kid at least once. Somewhere on youtube there's a bubblegum commercial with a preteen Tim on it and Jon found it while looking for background info about nearly everyone in the archives in season 2.

-Tim has a small collection of fucked up Rubik cubes. He has a knack for solving them, the more alien-looking, the better. He finds solving puzzles stimulating but also gets fed up with them easily. Having something to do with his hands helps him think.

-He's an excellent draftsman, took an art course pre college and he indulges in it every now and then. He has no issues with people looking through his sketchbooks and all of the building facade sketches he has there. He's the kinda guy to sketch random people he sees in public and all of the archives gang has been drawn by him before

-He would love cockatiels, but he doesn't own any animals. He birdwatches quite a bit and has books/a special sketchbook just for birds/landscapes. He also purple columbine flowers, even though he is really bad with plants. He's foraged before but he ended up in emergency care bc he fucked with something he shouldn't have XD

-Tim got his tongue pierced some time ago, it suits him well.

-Will absolutely WRECK you in karaoke and then act like he isn't that good after (he was a theater kid)

-He's the most seasoned traveler among everyone in the archives. Tim's ideal vacay would be going around the world

-He would have enjoyed streaming games as a hobby (am i bringing up Mike LeBeau? probably. In a different world we would have Tim playing The Sims 2 with all of the mods on Twitch). He's also had pink hair before!!

Martin:

-He's a bit of a polyglot to me (so far The Eye makes you understand other languages but it doesn't give you proficency over them! That's all his own talent)

-Mart's worked at a blu-ray rental before the Institute. He came out of that job decently well-versed in 80's-90's movies. He's the opposite of a film snob and probably loves The Princess Bride and other bangers

-Martin's the kind of person that would cut an apple for you but he'd eat a tangerine with the rind on without hesitating. After you have a fight with him he brings you cut fruits and crackers

-He also writes prose and has finished nanowrimo during company time.

-Martin wears graphic tees under shirts under sweaters at work, but for very nerdy and obscure things

-Martin does the little dinosaur hand things often when he is walking, heh

-He's kept house spiders in glass jars with little holes and fed them bugs. Many of those spiders gave birth inside those jars. He's moved places a couple times as a kid so he's probably responsible of scaring a landlord or two by greeting them with a roomful of spider jars (and it was deserved).

-Martin owns tea pets!! He shares a cuppa with them every now n then

[ozwuv]

If I have hand pains (as artists get) what’s should I do? Do you recommend any exercises?

hmmm so i don't get hand pains necessarily, but i did damage my ulnar nerve pretty badly end of 2019-2020 from the oz fanbook grind lol. this led to a constant, dull pain in my dominant arm and persistent numbness in my hand. for a long time, i couldn't hold a pencil at all and to this day my grip is pretty weak. i remember when acnh came out in march 2020, i cried out of frustration constantly bc my grip was so lax i couldn't play.

that said, i'm speaking from experience when i say that taking advice on stretching techniques i found online made things way, way worse for me because it exacerbated the nerve damage i didn't know i had until i saw a doctor. the wrong kind of stretches can be more damaging than helpful if you're not doing them correctly, and especially if you have some kind of underlying issue that would be counterproductive for. the same thing goes for wrist braces and such -- a lot of people recommend them, but the wrong kind of brace can damage you further, and you should not be constantly wearing a brace unless a medical professional has told you to; constant usage of braces weakens your muscles over time because the brace prevents you from actually using them. if you have the means for it, i would really recommend consulting a physical therapist for preventative care.

but i didn't have access to medical care for a long time, so i get that's not feasible for everyone. if that's you, basic harm reduction guidelines are good to keep in mind. these are going to be things you've undoubtedly heard before, but they're drilled into your head for good reason:

take breaks. set a timer for every ~30-60 min and every time it goes off, get up, walk around, flex your hands and wrists, etc. ideally at least 10 minutes.

keep plenty of water within arm's reach at all times. hydration manages/prevents pain more than you might think. as soon as my grip gets too slack, i know that i need to stop drawing and drink a ton of water, but you should be drinking fluids at a semi-constant rate so you don't get to that point.

if you're in pain, stop drawing. no "i'll just wrap up the lines and then stop" -- listen to your body. if you're hurting, you've already pushed it too far and anything more is just going to make it worse.

posture posture posture -- any kind of posture advice for office workers generally applies to drawing.

^if you use a screen tablet (like cintiq or ipad) it's going to be virtually impossible to maintain good posture without buying a tablet arm or something. in cases like that, you should place even more of an emphasis on harm reduction or maybe even consider switching to an analog tablet so your monitor is at eye level. personally i'm in it for the longhaul with my ipad though lol

unfortunately advice like this kinda sucks for ppl with ADHD (meee) because pausing in the middle of something can cause you to become distracted or lose motivation. i don't really have a solution for that, but ultimately i got to the point where the nerve damage was so bad that i solidified these habits to prevent making it worse. i do get distracted and lose motivation a lot, but i did that to myself by not treating my body with the care it deserved.

if you take one thing from this response, let it be this: if you don't already experience chronic pain and/or nerve damage while drawing constantly without taking necessary precautions, it's not a matter of "if" you develop these issues, but "when". if you don't already have chronic pain from drawing, your goal right now should not be to preemptively look into things to remedy it, it should be seeking to prevent these issues altogether. work in some good habits, even if it's just taking breaks every now and then. even just one break per drawing is better than no breaks at all. i thought i was immune to these issues for over a decade & then i developed arthritis in my upper vertebrae at 20 years old lol nobody is immune i prommy<3

[chromations]

I saw ur post about people making fun on Jimmy for gaining weight in the 80s and it reminded me of this podcast I was listening to, which was reviewing the walking to clarksdale album and they were talking ab how it wasn’t as great as zeppelin and went, “isn’t this when Jimmy went on antidepressants, maybe that’s why it’s not good.” And it made me so sad. Knowing what he went through, I’m so proud of him for allegedly going to a psychiatrist and getting on meds. I hope they helped him, he deserves it

He really does deserve the help, and I didn't know he got on antidepressants. I know he quit smoking and drinking 20 ish or more years ago, which I'm proud of. And it's sad that some sort of mental suffering is attributed to quality, because it's moreso the mental block coming from the breakup of Zeppelin/John's death that prevented him from picking up or staying on top of the guitar for years, along with developing issues with his wrist (arthritis or tendonitis, I think). He still plays great, but of course a man isn't gonna play like he did in his prime when he's 50

[sirfrogsworth]

I think I am starting to develop arthritis in the knuckle joints of my left hand. What's worse is I think I caused it to develop more rapidly from my excessive use of fidget devices to control my anxiety. I am not sure what to do about it. Or if I can do anything about it. I have stopped fidgeting and have been using a heating glove. I don't even know if heat is the correct course of action.

Right now there isn't much pain, but it is much more difficult to bend my fingers into a fist. It's like my knuckles are fighting the bending motion. My knuckles just feel... stiff. My main concern going forward is my ability to type and also what the heck am I going to do to control my anxiety without fidgeting?

I also have a problem after falling asleep my hands will conform to certain positions unconsciously, and when I wake up, I feel that stiffness more intensely. I'm not sure what the best position for my hands to be in would even be. Flat, curved in a C shape, or balled into a fist. I could position my hands before I fall asleep and use objects or gloves to make sure they stay in that position. And I guess I can experiment with different hand positions to see which results in the least amount of stiffness.

I have a doctor's appointment Monday, so I guess I will get his advice. But if anyone else has a similar issue, I wouldn't mind knowing how you deal with it.

I am hoping that abstaining from fidgeting for a while might help my knuckle joints return to normal, but I am worried the damage is done.

[peaches2217]

☼ and ∇ for our main man Mario 🤝

☼ - appearance headcanon

Due to a combination of this post and personal projection, I like to imagine he starts going gray early! (Early graying runs in my family; my brother and I were only toddlers when people started mistaking our dad for our grandpa, and I've been graying since I was about 21.) It's nothing drastic, but by the time he's in his late twenties, he's got multiple gray hairs on his head and a few in his mustache. He'll probably be fully gray by the time he's forty (as was the case with my father).

Luigi managed to avoid the premature gray gene, and as it becomes more prominent in Mario, he'll affectionately press his buttons by calling him things like "Sir" and "Old Man" and "Gramps." Mario takes it in stride, because Peach thinks salt-and-pepper hair looks hot on him he considers all that gray a sign of a life well lived.

∇ - old age/aging headcanon

I'm going with the popular theory that he develops arthritis as he gets older. It's worst in his hands, which may as well be a death sentence, because he uses his hands for everything. He's initially too proud to take medications or seek any sort of assistance for the pain, so Peach, a walking fount of healing magic, eventually gives up on trying to talk sense into him and instead uses that magic to alleviate his symptoms.

Incidentally, that's what finally convinces him to get proper medical attention: she starts exhausting herself trying to keep him comfortable and he can't for the life of him convince her to take it easy. Yeah, it sucks when someone you love pushes themselves beyond their limits and won't stop no matter how you plead with them, doesn't it, Mario? 👀

[vampiremourning]

oh im gonna hsdgfjk

okay so three+ months ago i discovered I had a Fun Condition called perioral dermatitis. basically, just this Extraordinarily persistent face rash that looks like a bunch of small pustules in a circle around my mouth, but it also went around my nose and eyes. reacts to literally fucking Everything, deeply annoying to treat, even with antibiotics it takes weeks but usually months to clear. causes are ?? can be anything from inhaled steroids, face cream, toothpaste, hormones, etc. basically impossible to pinpoint. i have some guesses about what triggered it but ofc no real way to know for sure.

i go on 90 days of antibiotics. cool, whatever, condition dissipates but doesn't go away entirely. i think nothing of this bc I know even With oral antibiotics, it can still take months.

halfway through this treatment i develop arthritic symptoms. i also think nothing of this bc I have Some sort of illness undiagnosed anyway + family members have it so while I am definitely not happy w this development, I'm resigned.

i finish the pills.

less than 24 hours later, dermatitis has Returned. i know that allowing this to happen makes it worse and last longer. i cannot stress enough how bad it will be for my mental health if this happens. yes this probably sounds overly dramatic but I'm pretty sure watching my face flare up in any way is a legitimate trigger atp after dealing with cystic acne.

anyway. i book an appointment with my gp bc the pharmacist cannot refill the antibiotics. great except the appointment is at the End Of The Month, and I know this is going to be bad in a few days time. like, in the last few hours the inflammation has already accelerated, who knows how bad it'll be then, I'm assuming it'll be like I never even took the pills to start with. i am going to have a nervous breakdown.

mysteriously, the arthritis symptoms have Also started to decrease after stopping the antibiotics. that's weird, I think, that wasn't brought up in the list of side effects when I asked, but the timing is literally exactly when my face started flaring up so I know I definitely don't have those in my system anymore. i look this up, to see if there's a link.

'''acute polyarthritis''' also described as 'drug-induced lupus' are you Fucking Kidding Me

so i am now back as Square Fucking one for this shit, my skin is about to be so goddamn inflamed & I apparently can't even take the drug that was working to clear it up. because it causes inflammation in my joints.

and like i cant really express properly how mad this makes me lmfao because of Course. i spend a solid year on Accutane finally after being deterred for nearly a decade, i get maybe 4 months of enjoying my skin after I'm off of it and then This Shit. can i win?? can i Fucking win??????? no one else in my genepool seems to deal with this shit its just me and ohhh my god i am This close to walking straight into the ocean.

[riley-coyotl]

Recently, I became really worried about Maple upon noticing that lately, she's been fatiguing much faster than normal for her during exercise, and developing a decline of mobility in her back end--flexibility and strength not what they used to be.

She still wanted to run and jump and play, but something just wasn't right.

We got her a full workup including x-rays, and we found what was wrong. My good girl has "surprisingly advanced" arthritis in her hips, and hip dysplasia.

I'm devastated and heartbroken. The vet said that based on her x-rays they would expect to see a dog who has been having problems and showing lots of symptoms for a long time. We were told that is good news because it indicates that she's not been in pain (or not very much) because we have kept her in good shape and nice and active etc. But… it's Maple. She believes she's invincible, and has no sense that pain or injury should stop her from doing what she loves. So maybe she HAS been hurting and she just didn't complain until now, and I just didn't notice. I feel awful. My poor girl... I feel like I should have known.

Maple, for her part, is still her usual happy, sweet, playful self. She wants me to believe that she is perfectly ok. And watching her behavior, I start to believe her until I think about that x-ray and it makes my heart hurt.

She has been started on pain meds, we've added additional supplements, and we're going to be doing some physical therapy stuff for her. But I want to FIX her. My happy girl deserves to be able to do all the things she loves to do. She deserves the world, and I would do anything for her.

[citrus-woman]

Do you have any Fluffybird headcanons?

*inhale* oh boy do i

Some fluffybird headcannons that I have!: (i'm gonna keep these sfw unless someone else wants me to share any nsfw hcs i have for them because HOO BOY do i have some) - Red's nickname for Duck is "big guy", for ironic reasons. this, of course, boosts Duck's ego TENFOLD every time he uses it. - Duck's nicknames for Red are "Red one", "Love", "Darling", and "Rude". - Duck likes to play with Red's hair from time to time, which Red doesn't mind. Its a soothing activity for the both of them, except for when Duck finds a knot in his hair. - Duck DEMANDS that Red carries him everywhere. No matter what they're doing or where they're going, Duck HAS to be carried. It sometimes gets on Red's nerves, but he finds it adorable as well. - Duck's feathers get all floofed up if he gets embarrassed, which Red finds HILARIOUS. This, in turn, makes Duck more embarrassed and causes his feathers to floof up more. - Duck is aging and his bones crack, he's developing arthritis or smth, so Red likes to give him massages every once in a while. Duck appreciates being pampered. - Red cannot cook for the life of him, but sometimes Duck will try and give him cooking lessons. They usually don't turn out well, unless Duck is EXTREMELY specific in his instructions. - Finally, Duck is a wine mom. He gets wasted on the stuff, and drives Red crazy. Red finds the stuff that tends to slip out past Duck's filter funny, though. I hope this is good! I probably have some others that I forgot lol, if I think of them, I might add them on to this.

[jadedaceofspades]

This is just a tidbit of TMI, but I feel comfortable enough with sharing

This is in reference to the doctor post I reblogged, and like, here's the thing: I KNOW that there are doctors out there with compassion. I know. I lost mine. The other two in the practice are kind, but they are just not the same. So now... I have to look for another GP. I have to look for another GP that will not cost me an arm and a leg for a less than 10 minute visit and I have to find a GP who will not attribute everything wrong with me to my weight.

Yes, I am obese, morbidly so. Yes, I know that losing weight will solve some of my problems. But here's the catch: I have illnesses that have nothing to do with my weight.

I have psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis {both are auto-immune disorders}, so, like... I have a chronic pain condition. It sucks.

I have a gene {so, it's in my fucking DNA} for "uncontrollable asthma", meaning that whether I was fat or skinny, my lungs were fucked. Even if I got a lung transplant, if I needed it, it would be useless because my DNA is skewed.

I have the gene for celiac disease, meaning I am at risk for developing it, so... I have to watch what I eat. Most stuff I eat is naturally gluten free, so... yeah.

I also have IBS-M, so, like with the celiac gene, I watch what I eat and I basically try to eat the same thing, or at least similar foods, all the time.

I have hormonal imbalances that actively affect my psyche. I'm on the Depo shot to smooth that over. Also, I don't want children, but I'm not a candidate for the surgery BECAUSE of my weight, and also, the word surgery scares the hell out of me anyway. If I don't actually need it, I avoid it.

Going along with the surgery situation, I cannot tell you how many times I have been "recommended" for the gastric sleeve or another bariatric surgery. Just know, I am a recovering addict from pain medication. It was a mild addiction, but it was an addiction nonetheless. So, no. I'm not putting myself through that much pain to destroy my body even further.

I have moderate-severe hypochondria, so if I'm coming to you, a doctor, in a panic, you telling me that it is all in my head is not helping. I know I'm thinking too deeply; I'm paying you, the doctor, to figure out if it's real or not. This is why you get the big bucks.

It's more than just "you need to lose weight" for me. So you can just maybe empathize with me when I say "No, it's not, actually. It's more. Figure it the fuck out and HELP ME."