#ailments

[ybcpatrick]

fallen victim 2 the ailments . again.

[owlbelly]

i just keep thinking about every beautiful perfect showstopping mouthwatering culturally-specific variety of glutenous bread in the world & making myself sad

i can't decide if i want to try to eat as many of my favorite glutens in the next like...two weeks before i give everything up again, possibly for the rest of my life, or if eating a bunch of delicious bread knowing it's the last time i'll have it will make everything worse :')

[toacody]

Infection Rahkshi

"Take a pinch of virus and three Rahkshi... throw them in the blender and press Frappe!"

Source

Creator: Driftkirby

[curiouscatalog]

What's ailing you today?

Ewell, James. The planter's and mariner's medical companion : treating, according to the most successful practice, I. the diseases common to warm climates and on ship board, II. common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c., &c., III. the complaints peculiar to women and children : to which are subjoined, a dispensatory, shewing how to prepare and administer family medicines, and a glossary, giving an explanation of technical terms. Philadelphia : John Bioren, 1807.

RC81.E916 1807

[gramarobin]

[grandma-susan]

I just remembered that during the early Victorian Era, consuming mummies was a popular "medical treatment".

It was called "Medicinal cannibalism". Powdered skull for your headache, dearie?

A smear of "Man's Grease" for those aching joints?

[technoregression]

"Oh ouch owie I have this symptom, I best look it up on the interweb".

(the interweb):

TOP 10 CAUSES FOR SYMPTOM RANKED BY PRICE TO CURE, the last one will SHOCK you (updated 5 days ago, "no it's not electro therapy stop asking")

14 reasons you have symptom, doctors HATE her

if you have this symptom, this weird fruit could be the cause, it's-

(the dr):

you're fat. also I really hate her

[elegantdork]

5th fever of the day -_- i threw up a bit too so ( i am wrapped up in a blanket )

[novampiresremain]

Burnout has taken another thing from me, my energy levels are so non-existent anymore. Good news tho: i have insurance and ebt now! When my card gets here, we can actually afford groceries again hhahahahaha and have more food again hahahaha

[peaceloveandahardcock]

also im going to start tagging my Symptoms Syndrome posting as #ailments if you dont want to see it or alternately would like to see more of it (by searching my tags)

[poligraf]

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

— John Armstrong

[martyrized]

How to tell if my body is subconsciously getting tired: my legs start getting the wiggles.

Restless leg syndrome is fun for the whole bed.

[owlbelly]

[delcat177]

I have chronic fatigue, and I was having trouble making it to sessions of a family DnD campaign a couple-few years back. DM is a nurse, so we talked it over, and she came up with an awesome solution: My character sprung a trap that gave her slow-acting petrification. Like, *slow* slow acting. If she didn't take her tonic twice a day, the rock would make her too tired to adventure, and she'd have to sleep it off in town while the rest of the party went out. Perfectly dovetailed with my real-life needs.......BUT MAGIC!

What are some chronic illnesses that can only occur in a fantasy setting?

[pluvioseprince]

here is period cramps kabru

[ukdamo]

Ode to Aging Bodies

Jan Mandell

Aging bodies wake to blue veins that pop up and travel like river tributaries over paper thin skin pocked with freckles, tags and blotches that look like unidentified sections of abstract art

Aging bodies Rise up to the chatter and creaking sounds of thin, porous bone that feel like cheap metal pipes refitting poorly into their stubborn mates

Waking up the aging body is familiar like an attempt to turn over the frozen engine of a used car left out overnight in a below zero day in the dead of Minnesota winter

The ache and noise of an aging body is like a constant companion, a highly extroverted friend who simply won’t shut up, yet is there thru it all.

This is an ode to aging bodies who cough and spatter and wheeze like sounds of old cars, who drive thru the day anyway making poetry from pock marks, skin tags, speckled hands and remain unbothered by the constant twitch and crunch of bone grinding into thinning cartilage

Rather they hear this noise as music, a jazz riff or a smooth soul remix, a moan of an old-time blues band. Lulling the aging body back to sleep.

If blessed and favoured aging bodies wake up the next day to the twitch, crunch and chatter and of thin, porous bones To the pulse of blue veins The feel of wrinkled, sagging skin The sound of an old time blues band

Calling to every aging body to rise up And do it all again