#like i will not get any fucking spinal fusions or joint fusions and no one will ever make me muahahahaha fuck that noise

[crippled-peeper]

this is kind of just like. a general complaint. ive had back issues for years and years. severe enough that my entire upper body is warped. but everyone just told me im "too young" to have back problems...my mom even lied and said i didn't have scoliosis, and literally just admitted to me in january that she knew about it and chose not to do anything...i could have been braced or something as a kid...but now i have severe throbbing pain, unstable joints, and possible nerve/tissue damage, and im having to pay for everything relating to it. absolute joy. and even though my problems are minor compared to yours, it is really fucking frustrating when people just blow off having a medical disability. im sick of the "too young" thing, or people saying "have you tried stretching?" i did PT for two years now and it's only gotten worse...they even said it'd take over 10 years to make any changes. but yeah yoga will fix it im sure. people are soooo normal about medical issues. ugh

you know what’s kind of wild is that even though you say your problems are “minor” compared to mine you’re actually living through the very first pages of my spinal disability story

My mom did the exact same thing where she like… pretended I did not have scoliosis (despite doctors telling her I had it many times) until it was so irreversible and bad that they had no choice but to fuse my spine as my bones had grown completely misshapen.

They sent me to PT (like you were) and they danced around it a lot but ultimately nothing really could be done. I remember she (my mom) even eventually took me to get fitted for a brace, but by then it was far too late and they told her it wouldn’t do anything.

One year later at 15 i had my spinal fusion at UNM children’s hospital. I had an extremely rough recovery and was in the ICU for days followed by months of rehab and relearning stupid shit like how to put a shirt on again and how to put socks on

due to the mechanical forces on the spine, I probably would’ve never gotten my severe herniations and spinal cord injury above my 10-level fusion if I never had the fusion in the first place, too.

So I’m often plagued by thoughts that are exactly like “what if you took it seriously? where would I be right now? Probably not here, maybe somewhere better” that are really upsetting sometimes. If only she’d gave a shit all those years ago, right? but also it’s been so long now and she’s actually dead now (from Covid of all things) so I’ve got nobody to be mad at about it anymore

Keep advocating for yourself, even if you are young, and even if your spinal disability seems “minor” because spinal disabilities have this awful tendency to escalate over one’s lifetime . Don’t be afraid to seek the opinions of multiple doctors if you ever consider/need surgery. It’s not “doctor shopping” or anything shameful . It’s the rest of your life that’s going to be affected.

[rozaceous]

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED

emerging from my tumblr soft-vanish specifically to derail this ask bc i fucking hate the ""broken back"" thing, just like i hate how p much every injury, or lack thereof is handled in dc. (an outline of the broken back plot can be found here.) he gets someone w healing powers to fix him up, fine, magic is about the only thing that's gonna get you back to normal at this point!

but my first question is--IF BRUCE HAS A SPINAL INJURY WTF IS ALFRED DOING TAKING CARE OF IT? you need an entire gd medical team for that! spinal injuries are SO serious! how did he even get transported back to the batcave? you'd need multiple ppl to move you and preserve spinal stability!

not only is breaking your back an incredibly non-specific injury, it is, regardless of that, going to be A BIG FUCKIN DEAL. some ppl take over a year to recover from a spinal fusion, and that's considered a very rote kind of back surgery! as far as i can tell, canon doesn't get into the specifics of what his injury entails, and we're just going la-di-dah abt whatever the fuck happened, and clearly he wasn't paralyzed, but i also wanna know wtf he's doing even sitting up and putting pressure on the vertebrae and--

how did he travel with this?? where is his neurologist?? where is his surgeon????? any PT in this joint????

if we're going to do the hand-wave of magic fixing it, fine, whatever, we're all reading comics and no one is pretending they have the high ground when it comes to plausibility, except we're also now in the realm of fandom meta and if i want an explanation for all this crap it's more doylist than wastonian, and i want something in-universe to explain things, SUE ME

enter in: bruce wayne is a secret meta with a subtle but profound healing/strength factor. this man has had so many concussions, should have broken so many bones, torn so many ligaments--if he's able to go out batting for YEARS at his intensity level, he either has a crack team of the world's greatest healthcare workers focused on keeping him in fighting fit and they have access to truly sublime medical tech, or he's a meta.

there's literally no other explanation for all 250+lbs of this man to be able to go out swinging one-handed on a grapple without out tearing his shoulder straight from his socket.

ooh! we're starting no man's land! i'm sorry if this question is heading spoiler territory, and you can refuse to answer, but i'm just wondering if you're going to include other vigilantes that were involved during the og storyline in your fic, such as azrael and huntress?

i'm gonna get choosy with the canon events + characters in the fic because not all things can exist without contradiction. azrael's everything makes me 😕 and he's not small enough to be some side event -> bane breaks bruce's back, then azrael takes over, then etc <- i cannot abide by this. wdym he just gets better and back to batting after getting his back broken?? batman ban yourself from gotham bc you're the real meta i don't fucking care this is a thing that kills @rozaceous dead whenever we talk about it

other vigilantes and heroes will pop in and out if relevant to the narrative. it's a rich and wild world out there and for the focus of the fanfic, we won't go into what every single character is up to all the time. that can be answered bts, but it's definitely a lesson learned that when you write a fic that explores a lot of worldbuilding, sometimes you need to step away from too much worldbuilding or 1) you'll never finish, 2) miss the main point of the fic (which is "dick's accidental chaos gremlin acquisition")

("what would a transmigrator actually look like from the outside, and can they make it?")

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my head almost melted trying to get information about these two events...but i think the chaos of it all can be leveraged. so next chapter, hang tight for...uh, tentative titles:

so what really happened in gotham?

#justgothamthings

tales from the cataclysm

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i hope that sorta answers the q or elaborates if i don't completely

[roseband]

blegh i like... scanned all the parts of my preschool and school age disability forms (well the parts about musculoskeletal mess shit) cuz im seeing a new doctor on thurs (bc my doctor had to retire just as my body decided to fall apart ;~;) and im just like..

love getting the same exact fucking pt for the same exact fucking issues i had as a 4 year old lmao