#Specialized Medical Treatment

[dragonroilz]

ive been looking at the female merc concepts that valve made back in the day and it really made me think about how a lot of the more popular female mercs are just genderbends of the original mercs.

nothing wrong with that, obviously, but i think it's infinitely more fascinating to treat them as their own characters since if valve had gone through with female mercs, theyd probably exist alongside the ones in the game.

anyways, meet the medic! she's a physician from britain who practices "natural medicine". not with normal things like herbs. stuff like "you have a cold? well, they say that drinking a single drop of lava from a volcano will fix you right up! ill go ahead and write a prescription~"

she has a belief that modern medicine is wrong and wants to change it from inside of the system. not because she thinks patient care can be improved, but because crystal tonic has medicinal value guys. trust me.

in addition to that, she's got a real fascination with the spiritual and demonic. after all, who cares about how you attain immortality? you have your entire unnatural lifespan to smooth out the rough parts!

have some rough sketches for when i was searching for a design too!

[elirium]

AU in which red goes to physical therapy for once

[netbug009]

"why did techno sound so hoarse in that video" probably because chemo is a BITCH to your throat. it's a bitch to everything. It's even a bitch in a weird way that causes hiccups sometimes???? my point is everyone you've ever met on chemo, no matter how early their cancer was caught or how good their odds, is an absolute badass who went through a bunch of absolute shit because chemo is both a modern miracle and one of the worst treatments in modern medicine

[pochapal]

[sybbi]

I understand you don't want kids and the thought of pregnancy is icky and society still overwhelmingly pressures people with uteruses to become baby factories and going against that grain is opening yourself up to a litany of unwarranted criticisms and 'what ifs' and even outright hostility from people who do not have your best interest at heart and that can be tiresome and angering but listen:

You still have to be nice to both children AND pregnant people

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

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[thethingything]

we have a dentist appointment tomorrow and on the plus side we're not really anxious about the appointment itself because the dentist was so nice last time and actually took our medical trauma into account.

unfortunately though we do have to have anaesthetic which makes us feel like shit for at least the rest of the day, and no matter how considerate the dentist is, having a medical professional touch us at all does still trigger certain trauma and then I end up having a bunch of panic attacks at some point within the next few days and it's a really shit time. I really don't wanna have to deal with that and the concept of it is making me nauseous

[crimeronan]

getting taken very seriously by medical professionals continues to astound and perplex me. i haven't been the subject of this much doctor attention since my whole Autoimmune Leg Deformity thing like two years ago. even though all my ER imaging showed nothing seriously wrong, i'm like, getting cold called by my caseworker (apparently i have one of those) so she can Firmly Insist i make a doctor's appointment. then she's like "and tell them it's an ER followup so the staff get you in ASAP, otherwise they'll schedule you out til february" and i'm like wait, ER followups DON'T wait two months minimum for care??? wild. i talked to my usual friendly pharmacist about my symptoms tonight and she went "D: poor thing.... :(" like yeah okay sure that's me. pobrecito.

and like... it's all very understandable because the symptoms are centered around my lungs and chest, which docs Do Not Fuck Around With, but i'm also like. no you guys i PROMISE i'm totally fine. i just live like this it's FINE. it's all good please calm down. Chill Out,

me, like every other goddamn day on this site, for the past Several Months: i feel like i'm actually literally dying i feel so bad it's unreal. at this point i hope i do die i'm so tired i feel so bad i feel so bad did i mention i feel bad. death is not JUST the only solution but ALSO the only logical end to this story. i am withering. i am decay incarnate

doctors, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, etc: yeah something's mad wrong with you. WHY did you leave it this long?? we need to diagnose and treat this immediately???? jesus??

me, discovering impostor syndrome for the first time in my Life: oh NO. NOOO NO OH GOD. NO I'M SORRY I LIED. I MADE IT ALL UP I WASTED YOUR TIME I'M ABLE-BODIED AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. I MADE MYSELF AUDIBLY CHOKE ON THE AIR WITH MEASURABLY LOW O2 ON PURPOSE TO GET ATTENTION I'M SO SORRY IM SO IM S-

[vampireknitting]

I have to get my wisdom teeth removed here on the 4th and I really wish medical anxiety wasn’t so dismissed or laughed at.

The anxiety has been slowly ramping up since Christmas and now that I have to cut out the only thing that’s managed the fibromyalgia bs. I mean sure it’s just weed. But when my health tanked and I was throwing up half of everything I tried to eat and losing weight like it was nothing. Unfortunately it was the only thing that helped stop the vomiting.

I’ve been put on and taking off several medications over the years for being the unlucky type that doesn’t react well to different meds. All the gut pills they wanted me to take hurt or was you know making me digest my own blood.

The Fibromyalgia began creeping in when I was in high school and the doctors I had told me to eat pills and go away. I had injured my knee and it just didn’t get better. I still have issues with it. Being a childhood cancer survivor means health complaints must be cry’s for attention or drugs.

They asked me to not consume any weed because they don’t know if it’ll hurt me to be put under so they can cut out the heavily impacted teeth. Which fine, I won’t fight because they could label me as some sort of user or drug obsessed or whatever. But the only drug that I know can kill you while being put under is meth.

My sister’s dental surgeon said don’t stop smoking weed because there isn’t anything out that supports either side. Pro weed or anti-weed before surgery. He didn’t want anything to add to the stress of the surgery so he said keep doing what you’re doing.

[oysterie]

none of the cardiologists at the hospital know what's wrong w my dad pls don't call him an "enigma" 😭😭

[mrsmarymorstan]

I am so good at gas lighting myself, that I will take painkillers, only feel mild pain afterwards, and then convince myself that I was wrong for taking them to begin with because clearly things weren't that bad.

I AM STILL IN PAIN and I'm convinced I don't need painkillers 🤦

[upgradebitch]

why do i care so much. i dont want to care so much.

[lupismaris]

I'm just gonna complain in the tags tw medical stuff tbd etc

[godblooded]

wish us luck, it’s treatment time. so far things are looking pretty optimistic. let’s just hope kaykay doesn’t treat me to another present to come home to.

[onlinepiracy]

stupid ass medications still not working eerggh how many more times do i have to fucking. do this