#health rambles

[batsinurbelfrey]

im gonna be SUCH a good lil boy and NOT make grilled cheese for dinner again tonight even tho I REALLY want to LOLLLL

[squishescommishes]

Um. without getting too much into it, today was. a very very... uh. intense. day for me, and I think It would be best if I do things slower so I apologize if I start taking longer to finish commissions after today

[xxmolls]

Y’all I think I just passed my kidney stone!!! Celebrate with me!!

Now I just have to worry about the 4th one they saw chilling in my right kidney.. but since I’ve already passed 3 kidney stones, may as well throw a 4th in there amirite?!

This time I didn’t refuse pain meds, which made things so much more bearable … toradol, my beloved ..

Motherfuckers only offered me opiates last time, didn’t even tell me there was an alternative, so of course my dumb ass refused pain meds bc there be addiction genes in me blood arghh.

Anyway if god forbid you ever have a kidney stone or 4, you can get toradol which is just basically extra strong ibuprofen and it works wonders. You don’t have to take the hardcore stuff.

Also funny story… this was how the beginning of my visit to the urgent care went

Me: “hi I think I have a kidney stone. I have had 2 before and the pain feels very similar and it is absolutely unbearable. I have a very high pain tolerance but this pain is off the charts. I also feel like I am going to throw up.”

Doctor: “okay, on a scale of 1 - 10, how much pain are you in right now?”

Me: “9. Definitely a 9, if not 10.”

Doctor: “ma’am.. do you think maybe you just have to poop really bad?”

Like BITCH I just told you I’m at a 9 pain level … that I’ve had 2 kidney stones before (not to mention lived with chronic pain for 12 years) and this feels to me like a kidney stone. do you really think I’m just what .. constipated so I left work early, and went to urgent care doubled over in unbearable pain??? Bc I just need to poop? The fuck?

Also he had me do a urine test and bc there was no blood in my urine he was like “I don’t think it’s a kidney stone… maybe it’s like an ovarian cyst or something with your uterus”

So he sent me to the ER to get an ultrasound on my uterus and ovaries

Anyway SPOILER ALERT it was in fact a kidney stone

But now it’s finally out of me so I am going to watch some Battlestar Galactica and go to bed

god fucking bless

(also what should I name it? I am partial to old lady names especially)

[townofcrosshollow]

Shocked how many people think you can just turn on a computer and leave it on for weeks or months or years and never turn it off and it'll be fine. Computers need their sleep, and sleep mode does not count

[doctorwormcore]

i saw a physio for the first time in YEARRRRS and she immediately was like "?!?!?!? what the fuck" when she saw the range of motion in my neck, did the beighton criterua and your boy is 8/9....thats.....insane......

ive never subluxed or dislocated that i know of??? i once "wrenched" my shoulder so bad doing yoga that i couldnt really move it for days...and ive broken bones, and i always pulled muscles reaaaaally easy, but i really didnt think itd be an 8/9 i thought maybe 4/9 bc of my hands and all my smaller joints i didnt even realise it was my elbows and knees as well...

apparently my shoulders are hella bad too???

my doctor thinks thats why my sacroilliac joint had no cartilage, bc it moves to far due to bendiness, by the physio said ALL my muscles are tight and really weak. my arms and neck are apparently super weak

so now ive got these exercises and i need to move up to walking ell at least 2kms every second day...the problem is bc my heart has been insanely fast atm which is causing my sweating to get horribly worse which makes me lightheaded which makes me sweat which makes me lightheaded which....and the circle goes on. :))))

my health is really shit atm as the weather gets warmer :((( bUT we're one step closer! my doc thinks I might have POTS and possible EDS, but she thinks theres something defoconnective tissue related and defo autonomic related

[wildweirdly]

Long health ramble under the cut

Emma is a self described recovering hypochondriac so she gets bloodwork done about once a week out of worry. This time around her cholesterol was slightly higher than normal and it stressed her out to the point where she was averaging about 3 hours of sleep a night and experiencing migraine like symptoms.

She and I talked about this and her general anxiety around potential medical issues and I was once again reminded that the average person has like zero medical issues and isn't used to "bad" test results.

I think our modern US culture has reached a point where health itself is an unhealthy obsession, with many companies profiting off of offering us different products they claim are our key to "wellness." I witnessed some of the damage of that firsthand at my old job, a now closed health food and supplement store. People will pay a shockingly high amount for anything you can sell as a health necessity, even things that are actively damaging.

I think we need to stop treating health issues as if they're death sentences, yanno? Like yeah, diabetes isn't a fun time and it can kill you, but my life is so so much better having found out I have it and having received treatment for it. These days even the worst of the worst conditions have methods of treatment or at least ways to lessen the symptoms! Of course I'm not saying "disease is lovely and everyone should feel happy about having one", I'm just saying it's not so much doom and gloom as people think.

[violetsandshrikes]

this poor woman ended up in hospital because she ate cayenne + cinnamon coated orange (unpeeled) because there’s a health and wellness influencer with millions of views who recommends it for digestion - she burned her oesophagus

i always saw a few really good other additions of similar things on the comments

please be so, so careful taking advice from these people online, as many of them are not formally trained or educated, brand ambassadors, deep in pseudoscientific rabbit holes and unfortunately, there are many out there who struggle with disordered eating habits

(not mentioned here but another one worth noting: i have personally known people who have burned their oesophagus with viral apple cider vinegar shots and drinks. don’t do that. a burned oesophagus is not fun)

[reginalusus]

Just a sketch that I was too tired to finish... And since it's Father's Day I'm just gonna dump a bunch of my more silly (mostly) headcanons about their dynamic below, teehee.

General - They argue. A lot. About anything. Jason is the instigator. Harvey is almost always correct. - There has been a karaoke battle at some point. - They smoke far too much and smoke breaks are common occurrences during anti-hero outings. They are no longer mere breaks; they are rituals. - One of the only things they are comfortable openly bonding over is their alleged hatred of Bruce - and weapons. - Actually work very well together in combat. Jason's accurate, hard-hitting martial arts expertise and agility compliment Harvey's more elegant and violent approach. Gotham's scumbags are cooked. - They were both slain by Gotham, and reborn. They are now both living their second life - neither want to admit to each other that they find comfort that they're not alone in this. - They will take any opportunity to bring up each other's past interactions; the two-toned car, the two-story building fiasco, the kidnapping, anything. - Jason's biological father is the root cause of their most explosive, brutal fights. Both of them, however, are exhausted and have other shit to worry about, so they avoid this topic as best as they can.

Jason's POV - Teases Harvey about twos, duality and doubles to distract from the horrors. - When angry, will call Harvey 'Apollo' to piss him off. Sometimes it's 'Ex-District Attorney', with emphasis on the 'Ex'. - He doesn't like it very much when Harvey attempts to get close/connect with him; relationships are transactional. At least that's how Jason views them. - Hates being passenger in Harvey's car because he doesn't get any say over the radio. - He does view Harvey as a parental figure, or something like it, but he's conflicted. - Actually appreciates it when Harvey helps him through PTSD episodes. - Sadly, he isn't very good at helping Harvey through dissociation/depressive episodes yet. He sort of stands there like the man emoji. - Will randomly come out with courtroom related lines when Harvey does something bad, like: "Your honour, my client would like to plead Gemini," or "Your honour, in my client's defence, he didn't know the safety lock was off." - Makes jokes about Harvey's thugs all wanting to have 'a night' with Harvey. - Absolutely refuses to call Harvey "dad", even jokingly. He will have sightseen everything in Hell before that happens. - But at the same time he cries out for a father figure, one that is proud of him, that loves him. He secretly loves it when Harvey pats his shoulder or gives an approving nod.

Harvey's POV - Will make jokes about Jason being alive again to distract from the horrors. - When angry, calls Jason 'Robin' or 'Pup' (name of a baby bat) to piss him off. - Tries to bond with Jason - he *wants* to - but he's a big dumbass about it. - Does not understand Jason's music taste and doesn't have any desire to. - Views Jason as the child he never had the chance to have. In a sense, that makes him quite protective of Jason, but he hides this. He tries desperately not to be like his own father. - Is quite good at understanding Jason's emotions; he knows how to deal with his attacks and does, begrudgingly, use tips he learned from his previous therapists. - Doesn't wish to burden Jason with his own episodes. Unfortunately it's not always possible to hide them. - Just as Jason tortures him with puns, Harvey will do it right back. He'll come out with things like, "We only put up with you because you were the SECOND Robin," or "How would you like to die a second time?" - He will stand and stare awkwardly when Jason brings (sneaks) lovers back to the hideout. But he minds his business. - May have accidentally called Jason his son a few times. Or his "kid". But not to Jason directly, only in his talks between himself and Two-Face. - He likes seeing Jason happy. So many kids and young people are let down by Gotham's corruption and he'll be damned if Jason becomes a victim of it (again).

[your-queer-dad]

Hey you. Yes you. You have been through enough, you hear me? You. Have. Been. Through. Enough.

The world has treated you shittily, you go through enough, don't do that do yourself too. Be decent to yourself, kiddo. We've only got one of you and it's the best one we have :]

I love you, I'm proud of you, go make yourself a beverage of your choice and be a little more decent to yourself today <3

- dad x

[bluerosefox]

Drake Siblings

Have I read this prompt somewhere or was this a fever dream from my bored mind.

What if, now hear me out.

What if we bring up Dana Winters-Drake (whose confirmed to at least be alive in the DC verse but no one knows where she actually is)

What if instead of when she had a mental breakdown and getting committed to an Bludhaven clinc she wandered away before anyone noticed and by the time Tim or anyone did notice a lot of stuff started happening at once in both Gotham and Bludhaven (Steph dying, The Bludhaven crisis, etc etc)

Tim still tries to find her though but even with best resources it was like she just disappeared into the wilderness and the stress of trying to handle more and more problems get worse.

So when out of the blue, a couple of years later, he gets a call from an unknown number. On his private, only for friends and family, phone and when he answers he meet with a young girls voice on the other end.

A very young, maybe six or seven, girl who informs him about his apparently half-brother Danny Drake-Fenton. And how she loves Danny so, so, so much but knows her home is dangerous for him to be in.

Tim is stunned and before he could question her, she says Danny is Dana and Jack's baby and that her parents had adopted him years ago and put Dana's stuff that the hospital had away for him to look at when he was older but she just had to fight off their lunch from eating her brother and she knows he needs a better place to live and so she snooped around and found Dana's diary and that she had to unscramble the nonsense Dana wrote and found Tim's number with the words 'tell him about his brother Danny' hidden in it. And-

But before she could keep rambling she hears Danny screaming "JAZZY THE MILK WENT BAD AGAIN AND HISSED AT ME!"

Tim is left with silence after hearing Jazz yell to Danny to lock the fridge and step out of the kitchen as she gets the bat.

[bixels]

Now that Ghibli's new movie is coming out soon, I've been thinking about anime films and wanna talk about my favorite animated movie ever, Tokyo Godfathers.

TG is a 2003 tragicomedy by Satoshi Kon, following three unhoused people––an alcoholic, a runaway girl, an a trans woman––who find a baby in a dumpster and set off across Tokyo to reunite her with her parents.

If you like the sound of that, go watch it because the rest of this post is spoilers and I have FEELINGS about this movie.

URGHH, the fact that only two moments of true kindness, generosity, and care given to the three protagonists without any expectation of reciprocity are given by a Latin-American immigrant couple and a drag club full of queens and trans women. The fact that, despite her loud and dramatic personality, Hana is the glue that holds the team together and the heart of the whole movie. The fact that this movie pulls no punches at showing the violence and inhumanity committed by "civilized Japanese society" against the unhoused. The fact that Miyuki craves to be loved by her parents and ends up seeing Hana as her true mother. The fact that Miyuki starts off accidentally using transphobic language against Hana, but slowly begins calling her "Miss Hana" out of respect. The fact that, according to Kon, Hana's role in the story is as a mythological trickster god and "disturb the morality and order of society, but also play a role in revitalizing culture." The fact that Hana so desperately wants to be part of a true family, yet is willing to sacrifice her found family so they can be with their own, and is rewarded for her good deeds in the end by becoming a godmother. The fact that, throughout the movie, wind and light have been used to signify the presence of god's hand/influence (this movie's about nondenominational faith––faith in yourself, faith in others, faith in a higher power. Lots of religious are referenced, such as Buddhism/Hinduism, Christianity, and Shintoism), and in the climax of the film, as Hana jumps off a building to save a baby that isn't hers, a gust of wind and a shower of light save her from death. The fact that god saves a trans woman's life because she proved herself a mother, and that shit makes me CRY.

[xxmolls]

I am very, very sick again btw.

But I’ve got a bunch of people saying Mi Sheberach for me… and my Southern Baptist preacher grandfather praying for me …. So I’m sure I’ll be fine…

[kirnet]

fight went well

[thoughtsthatstayedwithme]

[dizzybizz]

"this is regrettably the best kiss of your life, you understand?"

[squicksquak]

Jason: Shit, the power went out.

Damian: Don’t worry Todd, I got this.

Damian: *stomps foot*

Jason: What the-?

Damian: *Sketchers light up*