#and was told 'go get an ultrasound'

[teaandinanity]

It continues to be bewildering to me that I made it to 20 thinking it was just normal to have pain so bad once a month that my body decides I’m dying and need to throw up about it and then once I realized maybe that wasn’t normal we segued directly into ‘well this is almost definitely not normal but literally no medical professional I have ever brought it up to DID jack shit about it.’

[jaffre]

doctor confirmed that 👉 this guy 👈 got pcos and i just got an implant to at the very least get my whacky periods under control and hopefully get them to stop entirely

[carnage-cathedral]

my fucking spleen ??? really ?? the fuck even is a spleen ????

[yuukei-yikes]

I also lost my cat recently. it's horrible. take care of yourself, ok? you'll be ok.

yeah dude its fucking awful... im sorry for your loss too :( i wish they could live forever with us. or at least as much as possible.... my boy wasnt even a senior, he was around 10 years old and i had had him for 8..

[zouisalmightie]

i found out my bestie is pregnant at brunch today and cried so hard i scared the fuck out of our poor waitress

[andthebluestblue]

Anyway shout out to all the eight thousand medical professionals I've had to interact with in the course of this miscarriage who have had to deal with A Man (confusing) having a Miscarriage (deeply tragic and a delicate topic) who won't stop compulsively making jokes about it (???)

I GET that as a professional they can never risk misinterpreting something as a joke and doing a polite chuckle right before the patient bursts into tears but it is unlocking something in me and unfortunately. That something is More Jokes About The Miscarriage Currently Occurring

[boxerbeans]

The high ALP I mentioned that Taylor has….is just a normal senior thing. The ultrasound vet said every one of her organs looks normal and perfect and that even if it goes into the thousands range she isn’t worried unless Taylor starts acting sick. She even said she’d recommend we not refill the denamarin and just let it run out because it doesn’t do much for the benign ALP levels.

Did I mention I also freaked out and thought Taylor had DM because she had…normal senior tremors? Specially when she’s excited/stressed/tired? My vet had to talk me down from the ledge with that too lmao

It’s just so weird having a senior dog with (knock on wood) no health issues that is just showing normal signs of aging. I’m used to either them just acting tired and no other signs of aging until they drop, OR getting chronic health issues early into senior hood. Having a senior dog that has all the energy of a four year old but has these quirks I just need to warn people are normal is weird

[thefabelmans2022]

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[matoitech]

got discharged from the er home and showered i was there umm like nine hours. my final message: fibroid warriors assemble! not for long tho (hysterectomy this yr, maybe i can get it pushed up now lmao)

[capetowncapers]

Nah i just burst out laughing seeing somewhere that tender/swollen lymph nodes in… exactly the places I have them can be a symptom of chronic fatigue syndrome. Oh besties we are filling up that bingo card I see… more tests to come but oh my fucking god…

[replicasoul]

hate that breathing issues mean that taking a shower leaves me nearly passing out keep ending up in the loop of "ok, i dont feel good/im bored, i want to go out and do something today. maybe shop for groceries. lemme shower first" and then by the time im out of the shower i feel like im about to keel over and die

[blackberryjambaby]

we think kc might be hapū (& if she is, she's barely showing & at the very end) & this causes a couple issues. one. i do not want to be looking after a newborn i am already so tired. two. she feels safest with me & would probably give birth on my bed which i, it goes without saying, really, really don't want to happen

[raeathnos]

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[princess-of-purple-prose]

[ID: A page from Dungeon Meshi. Three-year-old Laios and his father are looking at baby Falin in her cradle. The father says, "This is your little sister, Laios. She's called Falin." Laios looks at her silently, and his father looks at him, watching his lack of reaction.

Laios' father sets him down, and Laois peeks up at him. His father says "... You can go," and Laios toddles away. His mother says, "No reaction..." and his father replies, "He may not understand it yet."

Laios, meanwhile, is walking up to a cat sleeping on windowsill. He tells it, "Imma big brother now." He then tells chickens, "I got a new little sister." He lays down among sleeping dogs and says, "She's called Falin." End ID]

sobbing over this dungeon meshi page....

[teaboot]

Sometimes I think a lot about my mom's cat

My mom's cat is a common domestic shorthair we found on the side of the road as a kitten

Regular cat, not a maine coon or one of those massive breeds. His mom was smaller than a loaf of bread

But in a sort of a Clifford The Big Red Dog situation, he grew super fast, and really really big, and took a super long time to stop growing

Worried that she was overfeeding him, she eased back his portions, but he stayed a massive round baby

When he started having kidney problems, she took him to the vet.

The vet took a look at him and said, "holy fuck, what are you feeding him", checked the nutritional listings on his chow, and told her "Yeah, maybe he's reacting badly to the amount of grain in this, try a meatier diet"

So my mom wound up special-ordering this specific high-protein prescription cat food made of like. Kangaroo meat or some shit that cost like sixty bucks a bag

And, as typical act two in an episode of House, he somehow got worse on the fancy specialized stuff that was supposed to be Primo Athlete Olympic Feline Blend

Like. WAY worse. His guts were inflamed and his kidneys were shutting down and he was all sore and HE WAS STILL HUGE, just miserable and sad

So shetook him back to the vet, where they had to help him pee (he was apparently close to bursting and had some kind of blockage too) and went "Yeah no this is NOT normal and we don't know what's going on, we're gonna do some tests but in the meantime you should go back to what he was eating before, at least that wasn't actively killing him" so she did

And he still wasn't great, but he also improved

And so they take his blood and do an ultrasound and a couple g's later she gets a call back like "this is gonna sound crazy, but we want you to put him on a low-meat diet. Just the least amount of protein and iron and shit. We need you to find the grainiest, filler-iest dollar tree kibble available and give him some of that bad bad shit"

And my mother is a woman of science. So she did

And he GOT BETTER

His energy picked back up, inflammation went down, he started drinking normally again, got back to pissing like a fuckin champion

And so it turns out that out of all the random ass freeway bonus cats we possibly could have scooped out of a ditch, WE got the one-in-a-million freak of nature with a SPECIFIC genetic defect that means a paleo protein free range diet is essentially poison and he THRIVES on cheap ass garbage

Like. He medically NEEDS junk food

I dont really understand how that works, but i cant argue with results.

If we had four of him, they'd outweigh my mom. And he's FINE

Also blind, but that's unrelated

Im not using him as a symbol or a metaphor or anything. I just keep catching myself thinking about my mom's Big Fucking Cat

[signal-less]

gallbladder pain real bad. hate u doctors hate u healthcare system

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