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fleetsparrow · 3 months ago
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Well, I guess if I wanted solid evidence for this nerve pain flaring via stress/mood, I've got it now, huh? Feels like I'm still working at Day Job levels of pain, wow.
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fleetsparrow · 3 months ago
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One day, I imagine I'll be able to cause someone unknown to me Disappointment without feeling like history's greatest monster, but, uh
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fleetsparrow · 7 months ago
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It's my 14 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
My blog is now old enough to be in high school.
My god, man.
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fleetsparrow · 7 months ago
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fleetsparrow · 8 months ago
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Wild thought, but here goes:
Maybe you wouldn't need to beg employees to lie on job sites about how great you treat them if you didn't, in fact, treat your employees like shit???
Just a thought.
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fleetsparrow · 8 months ago
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Imagine being a company that is constantly bragging about all the awards you win for being a "great place" to work while treating your actual employees like shit so much and so often that they are physically ill just thinking about you?
Fucking christ, mate.
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fleetsparrow · 8 months ago
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Haha, not me delaying my shower to scroll Tumblr until I feel better about being told I shouldn't let myself be bothered just because my doctor's fatphobia is the only thing preventing me from top surgery because I "don't have the time" anyway, no, it's fine, it's just one more summer working at the day job I hate outside in 100+ degree weather surrounded by people who stress me to the point of physical illness, I'm sure it's fine actually
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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It's rough being the freakiest freak in Freakville.
But, I guess somebody has to do it.
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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TFW you want to talk about a realization about a situation, but the only people you can talk to about it are too involved in the situation....
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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Me: Hey, me. I just wanted to say how proud I am of us, not signing up for any exchanges this year.
Me 2: Huh, for the first time in over 5 years, we're free during Heart Attack Exchange.
Me: And I'm just so happy that we're not stressing out over due dates or—
Me 2: TIME TO DO THE SIGNING UP!
Me: ...
Me 2: Were you saying something?
Me: I'm gonna go walk us in front of a bus.
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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If you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog!
(No pressure to answer)
Ooh, I love sharing facts about myself!
I have a degree in musical theater, of all things.
I have been published in an actual print anthology.
I am an actual factual card-carrying Satanist and union member (The Satanic Temple and Industrial Workers of the World, respectively) and very proud of this fact.
Bonus fact:
I took 4 years of French classes in my last 2 years in high school, got the highest score of the 3 AP students who took the AP exam despite this, and still think in French today; I have no French ancestry at all, nor did I grow up around French speakers. I am half-Mexican, however. Guess how much Spanish I speak?
(To this day, the only way I can read Spanish is by translating it into French or approximating English enough. I can't follow a Spanish conversation to save my soul.)
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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I think I remember what it was like to have no pain, at least, no pain in that I could still get things done. No pain in which I could lie down without instantly pinched nerves. No pain in which I wasn't constantly nauseous unless severely distracted.
I should not be missing the place that gives me actual anxiety attacks, but at least when I was working daily, I wasn't in unbearable physical pain every second.
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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Someone who is good at science, please explain why my skin is currently 197 degrees through extremely thin layers, please, there's not enough cold air in my freezer to help.
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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Me: OK, this pain has lasted too long. When can I get an appointment?
Healthcare App: Have you considered exercise?
Me: Actively in pain whether I'm moving or not, but OK.
HA: Try changing your beliefs about your pain!
Me: I *believe* I'm in pain, just give me the appointment.
HA: Fine. Video appointment on Monday, we'll try to figure out what's causing your pain.
Me: No, I know what this is. I just need to know how to treat it.
HA: Try this site!
Me: Look, get me an in-person appointment.
HA: Sure. June 10th.
Me: ... are you fucking with me
HA: Soonest date in the entire region, because we won't let you ask for a different doctor.
Me:: Buddy, if I'm still in pain by mid-June, I'm gonna throw myself off the roof.
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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Since May 1, I have been dealing with a horrific fibromyalgia flare. Just full body hurt, every muscle too tense, nerves being pinched to the point of pain or limb numbness, burning skin, intense heat, chills, severe joint pain.
I can barely sleep for more than about 4 hours at a time at night, and can't nap more than an hour if I can at all. The weight of my muscles on each other or pressing into the bed is so painful, I'm constantly shifting. Old pains I haven't dealt with in years have come back. Yesterday, my entire right side of my back from my side to my spine felt like a solid block of stone.
Pain pills do just enough to keep it at bay, but no more. Opioids don't work with my fibro pain at all; I might as well take baby aspirin for all the good they do. I'm highly sensitive to light, sound, and smells (to the point that, on the first day, I thought I had a migraine without the headache).
On the 2nd, I woke up in so much less pain than the day before, that I almost overdid it just by breakfast. I was able to nap and rest and actually shower that day, and made it through my mom's belated birthday dinner. Yesterday wasn't as bad as that first day, but I was unable to write it concentrate on anything.
I woke up today after only 4 hours of sleep and I'm already in pain after about 20 minutes of being conscious.
The last time I remember being in this much pain and distress was when I was in college and had the "migraine" that triggered my fibro in the first place. That was 14 years ago.
Getting real sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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fleetsparrow · 9 months ago
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I have not had a full body fibro flare this bad in almost 12 years. Actually, I haven't had one this bad since the thing that triggered my fibro to begin with.
*screams into the sun*
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