#it feels like more but that's probably because I reblog to genzforbettergenerations more often

[jesusonafrickinboat]

I posted 185 times in 2022

14 posts created (8%)

171 posts reblogged (92%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@heartrenderharrington

@smokeyrutilequartz

@therealpancakeo

@runaway-horses

@lo-brokeit

I tagged 161 of my posts in 2022

Only 13% of my posts had no tags

#stranger things - 32 posts

#stranger things s4 - 21 posts

#eddie munson - 19 posts

#tua - 17 posts

#steve harrington - 17 posts

#the umbrella academy - 15 posts

#steddie - 14 posts

#the sandman - 13 posts

#klaus hargreeves - 12 posts

#st4 - 12 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#but yes! he's always been a himbo that loves his family! he just needed to be deconditioned from reggie's bs & reconditioned for socializing

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

ok but I wish Eddie would have zipped up his leather jacket cause leather is harder to chew through than like, a cotton t-shirt

16 notes - Posted July 2, 2022

#4

Umbrella Academy incorrect quotes via this generator

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41 notes - Posted March 15, 2022

#3

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44 notes - Posted June 26, 2022

#2

As someone who has post-viral disabilities/conditions, it absolutely INFURIATES me that, despite a mass rise in post-viral disabilities/conditions (aka long-covid), IT’S STILL NOT BEING RESEARCHED.

I had a virus in May 2016 (end of 8th grade), the symptoms of which (plus more as time went on) never went away. I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2017, followed by POTS, fibromyalgia, CFS/ME, chronic pain, and more - none of which have a cure. (There are also several conditions that I’ve researched and am almost certain I have as a result of that virus over half a decade ago, but I’m still waiting to get appointments with those specialists.) Since being diagnosed, I have done various treatments/medications, had many appointments with specialists & physical therapists, and have done basically all I can to get better.

Now it’s 2022. It’s been 6 years since the virus and 5 years since the first diagnosis. Can I do more than I could in 2017? Absolutely! I don’t want to say that it will never get better, because it does - just slowly (and at a different pace for everyone). But I’m still NOWHERE near where I was before 2016, certainly not even close to what I might have been able to do now if the virus hadn’t happened. I had to switch to homeschool (away from my friends, though better for my physical and mental health) for 10th-12th grade. Last summer, I rode a bike for the first time since 2016, and I was still in pain afterwards. I’m finally at a place where I can start doing the things I used to be able to do or have missed out on (ex: making my own lunch, learning to drive, going to college), but it’s a very delicate balance. I’m at a place where some of these things are finally in sight (I won’t say in reach yet), and it’s frustrating to desperately want to do them and know I’m so close to being able to, but I still have to be really careful.

Because of my constellation of conditions, it has been incredibly difficult to improve my health. For example: one of the best ways to treat POTS is by exercising, but exercising also unfortunately triggers CFS/ME flare ups (due to post-exertional malaise), which in turn triggers chronic pain, etc. The worst part is that it’s nearly impossible to tell when you’ve overdone it in the moment, which means that after doing more rigorous exercise, I have to make sure I don’t schedule anything for the next 2-3 days in case of a flare up. I know I’m not the only one with complicated, contradictory, incredibly difficult co-morbidities, which is one reason why it takes so long to even start healing post-virus.

I’m upset that there are SO MANY people with long-covid that are receiving the same treatment myself and others have received in terms of our post-viral illnesses. I was hopeful that, even though the last thing I wanted was more people having to go through what I’ve been going through for 6 years, this rise in post-viral cases would have pushed more research into why it happens and how to cure (or at least better treat) the most common disabilities/conditions that it results in. 

Instead, like other post-viral illnesses, we’ve continued to see small, underfunded groups research the resulting individual conditions (CFS/ME, POTS, etc) without the funding to come together to research the co-morbidities as a whole, while the majority of the population (including medical professionals, news sources, the general population, etc) at best completely ignore and at worst utterly deny the existence of long-covid.

And I’m so tired.

300 notes - Posted June 3, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Can we talk about how the afterlife gets more and more colorful as Klaus becomes more and more in control of his powers? Cause that’s BRILLIANT filmmaking right there

11,878 notes - Posted June 25, 2022

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