#mca leads

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What is a merchant cash advance?

A merchant cash advance (MCA) is a form of financing typically used by small businesses that need access to capital.

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It is not a loan in the traditional sense but rather an advance based on the future revenue or credit card sales of the business. Here’s how it generally works:

Advance Amount: A business receives a lump sum upfront from a merchant cash advance provider.

Repayment Method: Instead of fixed payments, the repayment is made through a percentage of daily or weekly credit card sales. This percentage is agreed upon in the advance terms and is called the holdback or retrieval rate. The actual amount paid back each day or week fluctuates with the business's sales volume.

Cost of Advance: The cost of the money provided is typically calculated using a factor rate rather than a traditional interest rate. Factor rates usually range from 1.1 to 1.5 times the advance amount. This means if a business receives an advance of $10,000 with a factor rate of 1.3, it will need to repay $13,000.

No Collateral: MCAs usually do not require collateral but rely on the business's existing cash flows as evidenced by past credit card sales.

Speed: One of the advantages of a merchant cash advance is the speed with which businesses can gain access to the capital. The process can be much quicker than that of a traditional bank loan, often within a few days.

Eligibility: The eligibility for an MCA primarily depends on the volume of a business’s credit card transactions rather than the credit score of the business or the owner, making it accessible to those who might not qualify for traditional loans.

Merchant cash advances can be a valuable source of financing for businesses that need quick access to cash and have a high volume of credit card sales. However, they can also be more expensive than traditional loans due to higher factor rates and can lead to a cycle of debt if not managed properly. It's important for businesses to consider all options and understand the terms fully before entering into a merchant cash advance agreement.

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Mortgage Loan Leads

Mortgage Loan Leads

In the competitive world of mortgage lending, acquiring quality leads is essential for sustained business growth. Mortgage loan leads are potential customers who have expressed interest in obtaining a mortgage loan, whether for purchasing a new home, refinancing an existing mortgage, or other financial needs. Here's how mortgage lenders can effectively generate and capitalize on such leads.

Firstly, leveraging digital marketing channels can significantly enhance Mortgage Loan Leads generation efforts. Creating an engaging website with informative content, optimizing it for search engines, and utilizing pay-per-click advertising can drive traffic and capture leads. Additionally, social media platforms offer valuable opportunities for targeted advertising and engaging with potential borrowers.

Mortgage Loan Leads

Secondly, establishing partnerships with real estate agents, financial advisors, and other professionals can be mutually beneficial. Referral programs and joint marketing efforts can result in a steady stream of qualified leads from trusted sources.

Thirdly, offering valuable incentives such as free consultations, educational resources, or personalized rate quotes can entice potential borrowers to provide their contact information and initiate the loan application process.

In conclusion, successful Mortgage Loan Leads generation in the mortgage lending industry requires a multifaceted approach that combines digital marketing, strategic partnerships, incentives, and data-driven insights. By implementing these strategies, lenders can attract and convert qualified leads, ultimately driving business growth and success.

[nocternalrandomness]

Blue Angel Flight Leader and Commander salutes ground crew while taxing out for a practice sortie at NAF El Centro

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Would any Shonen author dare to use a fem lead? Or would that be too unrelatable???

[kyle-readdick]

Does Your Business Need A Website To Be Successful?

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One of the first things you should do when you start your Design is to decide your marketing strategy. Do you want to do email marketing? If so, what pages do you plan to drive your website visitors to? What services are you going to promote? Another decision that should be made early is if you want search engine optimization or do you plan to use search engine marketing? Here at Synergy we will evaluate your budget and your marketing goals and then present you the best option for you and for your business.

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(SEO) is the process of establishing higher rankings in organic search results. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not the same as Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is paid advertising where you pay for each click. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a long term strategy designed to get exposure to your website. Any real Web Design Agency should offer SEO.

A search engine optimized website will include content and coding that is relevant to your keywords. SEO websites are designed to tell Google where you want to appear on search results. Search Engine Optimization takes some time to get results but is essential for an internet marketing campaign.

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Synergy Direct Solution provides paid services for Google Adwords Management — which is commonly known as pay per click advertising. The flexibility of this program is second to none and the ability to target your ideal customer is priceless. Conversely, the most well known strategy is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Kyle Readdick can use keywords, content, and images on your site for an enhanced on page SEO campaign. After you have effective on page SEO you can start working on back linking and blogging to really get the results you’re looking for. While Search Engine Optimization can be expensive and time consuming — it’s also the strategy that gives the greatest long term value.

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[thebibliosphere]

Met with a speech therapist today. She was very nice and informative but also told me straight-up that she wasn’t as well versed on EDS as she’d like but that she’d done a lot of research leading up to our appointment.

We talked for a bit about EDS and MCAS in general, before discussing how I’ve been handling my dysphagia by myself.

She told me I was already doing everything she’d tell me to do and unless I wanted to do a barium swallow study (possibly not a good idea with MCAS) there wasn’t much else she’d recommend, and it seemed like I had a good handle on it.

I appreciated that honesty and expressed thankfulness to know I was already doing all the right things.

Got home a few hours ago and saw my mychart had updated with some test results. Checked those, then on a whim checked the summary notes from the speech therapist.

Top line of the summary just says, “Patient knows more than me.”

I mean, A+ for humility, I guess 😂

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@thebibliosphere

They are getting closer to creating a blood test for hEDS/HSD.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajmg.a.63857

I mostly only skimmed it, but I read this and thought about the connection between MCAS flares and hEDS flares.

"Overall, these in vitro findings suggest a detrimental relationship between a pathological ECM [extracellular matrix] and an uncontrolled inflammatory response as a driving force behind the pathophysiology of hEDS and HSD. Specifically, an imbalanced ECM turnover involving proteases may trigger a vicious cycle where ECM degradation products and other proinflammatory mediators synergistically impair connective tissue functionality, ultimately leading to the patients' multisystemic presentations."

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adventures in QA

(previous post in this series)

My shop in Advanced Midbody - Carbon Wing (AMCW) at Large Aircraft Manufacturer (LAM) is at the very end of the composite fabrication building. Hundreds of people carefully lay up a hundred foot long slab of carbon fiber, cure it, paint it, and then we totally fuck it up with out of spec holes, scrapes, primer damage, etc. The people who write up our many defects are from the Quality Assurance (QA) department.

Every single screw and rivet on a LAM aircraft can be traced back to the mechanic who installed it. Back when even everything was done in pen and pencil, it was joked that the paper used to produce an aircraft outweighed the plane itself. Now that everything is computer-based, of course, the amount of paperwork is free to grow without limit.

(Haunting the factory is endless media coverage of an emergency exit door plug popping out of an Advanced Smallbody - Upengine (ASU) plane during a routine flight a few months ago. Unlike that airframe's notorious problems with MCAS, this was a straightforward paperwork screwup by a line worker: the bolts were supposed to be tightened, and they weren't.

As a result the higher ups have visited hideous tribulations on non-salaried workers. Endless webinars, structured trainings. Here at the Widebody plant we have received a steady flow of refugees from the Narrowbody factory, hair-raising tales of receiving one hundred percent supervision from the moment they clock in to the second they clock out from FAA inspectors who can recommend actual jail time for any lapse in judgement.)

A single hydraulic bracket Installation Plan (IP) is around four brackets. The team leads generally assign two bracket IPs per mechanic, since each bracket set is something like a foot apart, and while working on the plane is bad enough it's much worse to have another mechanic in your lap.

Let me list the order of operations:

One: Find where you're supposed to install these brackets. This is harder than you might think.

Firstly, it's a hundred foot long plank of carbon fiber composite, with longitudinal stringers bonded to it to add stiffness. The stringers are pilot drilled in the trim and drill center, a truly Brobdingnagian CNC mill that trims off the composite flash at the edges and locates and drills part holes for us. But there's a lot of holes, so you must carefully find your set.

A minor difficulty is that the engineering drawings are laid out with the leading edge pointing up, while the wing panels in our cells hang from the trailing edge. Not so bad, you just rotate the paper 180 when orienteering, then rotate it back up to read the printed labels.

A major difficulty is that the drawings are from the perspective from the outside of the panel. But we work on the inside of the wing (obviously, that's where all the parts are installed) so we also flip the drawings and squint through the back of the paper, to make things line up.

Large Aircraft Manufacturer has a market cap of US$110 billion, and we're walking around the wing jig with sheets of paper rotated 180 and flipped turnways trying to find where to put brackets.

Oh well, we're paid by the hour.

Two: Match drill the aluminum brackets to the carbon fiber composite stringer. I can devote an entire post to the subtleties of drilling carbon fiber, but I can already tell that this post is going to be a miserable slog, so I will merrily skip over this step.

Three: Vacuum up all the carbon dust and aluminum swarf created during this process. This step is not optional, as your team lead will remind you, his screaming mouth clouding your safety glasses with spittle at a distance of four inches. LAM is very serious about FOD. Every jet airliner you've ever ridden in is a wet wing design-- each interstitial space is filled with Jet A. There is no fuel bladder or liner-- the fuel washes right over plane structure and wing hardware. Any dirt we leave behind will merrily float into the fuel and be sucked right into the engines, where it can cause millions in damage. No place for metal shavings!

If you are nervous about flying, avoid considering that all the hydraulic lines and engine control cables dip into a lake of a kerosene on their way from the flight deck to the important machines they command. Especially do not consider that we're paid about as much per hour as a McDonalds fry cook to install flight-critical aviation components.

Four: Neatly lay out your brackets on your cart, fight for a position at a Shared Production Workstation (SPW) (of which we have a total of four (4) for a crew of thirty (30) mechanics) and mark your IP for QA inspection as Ready To Apply Seal.

Four: Twiddle your thumbs. Similarly, we have three QA people for thirty mechanics. This is not enough QA people, as I will make enormously clear in the following steps.

Five: Continue waiting. Remember, you must not do anything until a QA person shows up and checks the box. Skipping a QA step is a “process failure” and a disciplinary offense. From the outside, you can observe the numerous QA whistleblowers and say “golly, why would a mechanic ever cut a corner and ignore QA?” Well...

Six: QA shows up. Theoretically, they could choose to pick up the mahrmax you prepared for them and gauge every single hole you've drilled. But since we're three hours into the shift and they're already twenty jobs behind, they just flick their flashlight across the panel and say “looks good" and then sprint away. Can't imagine why our planes keep falling out of the sky.

Seven: Apply the seal to the bracket. P/S 890 is a thick dark gray goop that adheres well to aluminum, carbon fiber, fabric, hair and skin. Once cured, it is completely immune to any chemical attack short of piranha solution, so if you get any on yourself you had better notice quick, otherwise it'll be with you as long as the layer of epidermis it's bonded to. LAM employees who work with fuel tank sealant very quickly get out of the habit of running their hands through their hair.

Eight: Now you wait again. Ha ha, you dumb asshole, you thought you were done with QA? No no, now you put up the job for QA inspection of how well you put the seal on the bracket. Twiddle your thumbs, but now with some urgency. The minute you took the bottle of seal out of the freezer, you started the clock on its "squeeze-out life." For this type of seal, on this job, it's 120 minutes. If QA doesn't get to you before that time expires, you remove your ticket, wipe off the seal, take another bottle out the freezer, and apply a fresh layer.

Nine: Optimistically, QA shows up in time and signs off on the seal. Well, you're 100 minutes into your 120 minute timer. Quickly, you slap the brackets onto the stringer, air hammer the sleeve bolts into position, thread nuts onto the bolts, then torque them down. Shove through the crowd and mark your IP "ready to inspect squeeze out"

Ten: Let out a long breath and relax. All the time sensitive parts are over. The criteria here is "visible and continuous" squeeze out all along the perimeter of the bracket and the fasteners. It is hard to screw this up, just glop on a wild excess of seal before installing it. If you do fail squeezeout, though, the only remedy is to take everything off, throw away the single-use distorted thread locknuts, clean everything up and try again tomorrow.

Eleven: QA approved squeeze out? Break's over, now we're in a hurry again. By now there's probably only an hour or two left in the shift, and your job now is to clean off all that squeeze out. Here's where you curse your past self for glopping on too much seal. You want to get it off ASAP because if you leave it alone or if it's too late in the shift and your manager does feel like approving overtime it'll cure to a rock hard condition overnight and you'll go through hell chipping it off the next day. You'll go through a hundred or so qtips soaked in MPK cleaning up the bracket and every surface of the panel within three feet.

Twelve: Put it up for final inspection. Put away all your tools. (The large communal toolboxes are lined with kaizen foam precisely cut out to hold each individual tool, which makes it obvious if any tool is missing. When you take a tool out, you stick a tool chit with your name and LAMID printed on it in its place. Lose a tool? Stick your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye, pal, because the default assumption is that a lost screwdriver is lurking in a hollow "hat" stringer, waiting to float out and damage some critical component years after the airplane is delivered.)

One tool you'll leave on your cart, however, is the pin protrusion gage. There is a minimum amount of thread that must poke outside of the permanent straight shank fastener's (Hi-Lok) nut, to indicate that the nut is fully engaged. That makes sense. But there's also a maximum protrusion. Why?

Well, it's an airplane. Ounces make pounds. An extra quarter inch of stickout across a thousand fasteners across a 30 year service life means tons of additional fuel burnt. So you can't use a fastener that's too long, because it adds weight.

On aluminum parts, it's hard to mess up. But any given composite part is laid up from many layers of carbon fiber tape. The engineers seemed to have assumed that dimensional variation would be normally distributed. But, unfortunately, we buy miles of carbon fiber at a time, and the size only very gradually changes between lots. When entire batches are several microns oversize, and you're laying up parts from fifty plies and an inch thick, you can have considerable variation of thickness on any given structural component. So you had better hope you had test fit all of your fasteners ahead of time, or else you'll be real sorry!

And, if you're really lucky, QA will show up five minutes before end of shift, pronounce everything within tolerance, then fuck off.

And that's how it takes eight hours to install eight brackets.

[mca-leads-website-design]

Where can I get a merchant cash advance?

If you're considering a merchant cash advance (MCA), there are various providers you can turn to, including specialized MCA companies, online lenders, and some traditional financial institutions. Below is a list of reputable MCA providers, online platforms, and key considerations for choosing a provider.

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1. MCA Providers and Online Platforms

Specialized MCA Companies

Rapid Finance

Features: Offers MCAs with flexible repayment terms and quick funding.

Pros: Known for transparent terms and fast approval.

National Funding

Features: Provides MCAs along with equipment financing and working capital loans.

Pros: Simplified application process and rapid funding.

Forward Financing

Features: Focuses on small business financing with quick turnaround times.

Pros: Known for customer service and flexible repayment options.

CAN Capital

Features: Offers MCAs and other small business loans.

Pros: Provides educational resources and has a straightforward application process.

Reliant Funding

Features: Offers both MCAs and short-term business loans.

Pros: Flexible funding options and quick approval process.

Online Lending Platforms

Fundera

Features: Acts as a marketplace to compare multiple MCA providers.

Pros: Allows you to compare terms from various lenders in one place.

Lendio

Features: Provides access to multiple MCA offers by submitting one application.

Pros: Offers a variety of business funding options and personalized assistance.

Biz2Credit

Features: Connects businesses with lenders offering MCAs and other financing products.

Pros: Offers tools and resources to help business owners find the best financing options.

Kabbage (part of American Express)

Features: Provides working capital loans that function similarly to MCAs.

Pros: Known for a simple application process and flexible repayment options.

Fora Financial

Features: Offers MCAs and working capital loans.

Pros: Flexible terms and quick funding decisions.

2. Key Considerations When Choosing an MCA Provider

Interest Rates and Fees: Compare the factor rates, fees, and overall cost of the advance. MCAs typically have higher rates than traditional loans, so understanding the total repayment amount is crucial.

Repayment Terms: Ensure you understand the repayment structure, which is usually a percentage of daily sales. Consider how this will impact your cash flow.

Funding Speed: Some providers offer funding within 24-48 hours, while others may take longer. Choose based on how quickly you need the funds.

Qualification Requirements: Check the eligibility criteria, such as minimum monthly revenue, credit card sales volume, and business age. Some providers are more lenient than others.

Reputation and Reviews: Research the provider’s reputation by reading customer reviews and checking for any complaints with organizations like the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

Customer Support: Good customer support can be crucial, especially if you have questions or issues during the repayment process.

3. Steps to Obtain an MCA

Evaluate Your Needs: Determine how much funding you need and what you plan to use it for.

Compare Providers: Research and compare different MCA providers to find the best fit for your business’s needs.

Gather Documentation: Prepare necessary documents, typically including recent bank statements, credit card processing statements, and identification.

Apply: Submit an application online or through a sales representative. This usually involves filling out basic information about your business and providing financial documents.

Review Offer: Carefully review the advance offer, including the terms, fees, and repayment structure.

Accept and Receive Funds: If you agree to the terms, sign the contract and receive the funds, often within a few days.

Conclusion

Merchant cash advances can be a useful financing option for businesses needing quick access to funds with flexible repayment tied to sales. It’s important to compare different providers, understand the terms, and choose a reputable company that offers transparent and fair conditions. Always consider how the repayment will affect your cash flow and whether there are alternative financing options that might better suit your needs.

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[pansyfemme]

random but as a young disabled person it feels nice to see a young guy pose with his disability aid so unapologetically, like, less lonely if that makes sense ( also you're hot lol )

aw yeah im glad it could be reassuring! i’ve only been using the cane for a few weeks now. I’m living in pretty non-accessible for me housing this year at school that involves a lot of walking- and while it’s doable and better than the other options for housing i was given by far, it’s been kind of a wakeup call to start taking my disability more seriously so i don’t accidently hurt myself. (that and i am living with friends who are consistantly reminding me to take better care of myself lol) so i’ve been using it and it’s been. a weird adjustment. But people have been really empathetic and kind about it so it’s been mostly good. I have hEDS (diagnosed) and POTS (was told by a doctor that that’s likely what i have but haven’t been actually tested yet) (and probablyyyyy mcas. but. thats still pretty mild) so it’s stuff i’ve dealt with for a while. i started having chronic pain around age 12 and then it kinda just kept getting worse and new symptoms kept popping up. but i’ve been trying to just make the most of still having some mobility- but that’s lead me to dislocate and be in pain at times that. i probably could have avoided it. i’m trying to be less ashamed of it outwardsly, but even in the short time i’ve been using it i’ve noticed stares or people treating me more fragily which is. something i will have to get used to. sorry that turned into a disability explanation but yeah thank you its something im working on myself :) and thank youuuu i am indeed hot!!

[digitalsanshta]

live leads

live leads

In the dynamic landscape of sales and marketing, the live leads pursuit of high-quality leads is a perpetual challenge. Among the myriad strategies employed by businesses, live leads emerge as a potent force, offering real-time engagement and conversion opportunities.

Live leads, often generated through live chat interactions, webinars, or events, provide businesses with a direct line to potential customers actively seeking information or solutions. Unlike traditional lead generation methods, live leads enable instant communication, fostering a personalized and immediate connection between businesses and prospects.

One significant advantage of live leads is the ability to capture genuine interest and intent. When a prospect engages in a live conversation, businesses can glean valuable insights into their needs and preferences, enabling a more tailored approach to addressing their concerns. This real-time feedback loop not only enhances the customer experience but also positions businesses to adapt swiftly to changing market demands.

Moreover, the immediacy of live leads contributes to higher conversion rates. By capitalizing on the momentum of a live interaction, businesses can guide prospects through the sales funnel more efficiently, increasing the likelihood of a positive outcome.

In conclusion, the integration of live leads into a comprehensive lead generation strategy empowers businesses to connect with their audience in the moment, providing a competitive edge in a fast-paced market. By leveraging the power of real-time engagement, businesses can not only capture interest but also nurture relationships that translate into sustained growth and success.

[funnuraba]

I've been compiling a list of weird or embarrassing warning signs of ME/CFS or Long Covid. Perhaps you have noticed these in yourself, but they've seemed too minor, confusing or embarrassing to ask about or look up. In any case, I've gathered these from online posts, so you'll never know which, if any, have happened to me, which I think is a very clever move on my part. Okay I did start complaining near the end, but I added some helpful solutions you may purchase, which I had to figure out on my own.

Actually I'm gonna lead with the absolute weirdest one, because it's a sign of the initial acute Covid infection that can be hard to detect now. I've only seen a post about this once, but a bunch of people agreed with it and said it happened to them:

If the skin on the soles of your feet is suddenly super thick and dry, that is associated with the initial 'Vid infection. I don't know how long this is supposed to last, but it was vouched for by several accounts I felt were trustworthy. I had to look up "Covid feet soles" on Twitter to check for this, forgetting that Twitter search now just randomly shows you posts with only one word that you entered, and I didn't find the post I remembered but I am not going back in there.

Extremely ridged and brittle fingernails (apparently this is showing up a lot on beauty subreddits and such)

Shrinking or vanished half-moons on the fingernails (I don't know if the level of shrinking is random, or related to severity/length of time)

Thinning hair/balding: seems to follow the usual pattern of your dominant hormone, so estrogen-heavy people get thinning hair, particularly along the center of the scalp, and testosterone-heavy people get receding hairlines and bald spots. There's no single pattern that everyone with ME gets. (Although ME is much more common in AFAB people.)

Incontinence that's not associated with age or childbirth, etc. In this case it's due to nerve damage, not weakening muscles.

Pins and needles, or sharp shooting pains in your fingers and toes: this is called neuropathy and it's also a sign of nerve damage. (I got a ton of this and thought I might be pre-diabetic, because that's all that came up when I searched! I asked doctors about this and they just went "oh 😐 " so I exercised a bunch and probably made myself much sicker XD. Anyway magnesium supplements helped a lot with this! You need a magnesium complex that includes magnesium glycinate, because other types are really hard for the body to absorb.)

Sudden acid reflux and heavy gas, loss of tolerance for foods you could once eat: this is associated with aging, but if it's really really bad? Like remember a year or so ago,when suddenly everyone was posting about how their tummy hurt and they were being really brave about it, and it kind of came out of nowhere and had never been a meme before? Almost like it was sort of new for this to be so very widespread? Yeah, Covid can fuck your system up real bad, and this is a common comorbidity of ME called gastroparesis. Basically your stomach muscles are as weak and slow as your other muscles, so your food sits in there for way too long. It often comes with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, which is bad news and means a ton of new sensitivities, to food and other things. MCAS goes along with a lot of other unexplained body syndromes that doctors don't really "get" or care about.

Being super itchy in one spot for no reason: this is a histamine dump. MCAS again. I'll admit to this one too. A couple of years ago, my lower legs started getting super itchy after showers, and I would pour on the lotion, over and over, and it would do nothing. "What the heck has happened to my skin?" I would wonder. It was histamines, roaming wildly through my body from the hot water and standing up for too long!! The standard ME advice for histamine stuff is:

10mg Loratidine 2x daily (I've just discovered that this can fuck up your stomach and a bunch of other stuff though; see this Twitter thread for alternate antihistamines)

20mg Famotidine 2x

Quercetin daily (I'm doing 1000mg a day)

Some kind of Cromolyn thing. I take a NasalCrom spray a couple times a day, because my sinuses swell up when I lie down (?), which I have to do all the time now. Lol.

Anyway, your sinuses can swell up when you lie down, did you know that? At first it would just happen sometimes, and I would be like why am I suffocating? That's so crazy haha. So I got these things called nasal cones that keep your nasal passages open, and they're just a little bit too big so they slide out all the time, and it's really annoying but other than that they worked. (My brand is Max-Air, the Sinus Relief line.) Then I got reinfected this year, and now my sinuses swell up constantly when I'm lying down. Hence the Cromolyn spray so I can breathe :)

The soft tissues in your face are collapsing: I think this is also an issue for me because it's not like the cones are reaching right up into my sinuses and un-swelling them, right? Anyway other people have reported some really serious issues with eyelids and noses, etc.

Your mouth and nose no longer produce moisture: okay so I got this too, and as a result I must use Ayr brand saline nasal gel multiple times a day, or else it feels like I'm suffocating. I'm pretty sure this Sjogren's Syndrome, another common comorbidity. For me it was one of the first signs something was wrong, circa 2020. Again, I thought pre-diabetes and asked multiple doctors for input and they went "iunno 😐". For the mouth, Xylimelts are your only real choice; don't bother with anything else when it gets to this level. You keep a Xylimelt in your mouth, 24/7, stuck to your teeth, or else you experience the intense, maddening distress of a totally dry mouth. If either of those solutions wears off during the night: don't worry! You'll wake up!!! Don't worry about choking on the Xylimelt, though, it's very safe.

Skin stuff: Dark, flaky patches of skin on the torso, long dark lines around the neck, pruny fingers, skin randomly splitting like paper cuts, chilblains, nails peeling off, other weird stuff.

Swollen genitals: settle down.

[mechs-headcanons]

if were talking about disabled mech i have plenty of headcanons to share

ivys nerves dont hook up to her mechanism 100% right so she has what im sure is a whole slew of neurological issues. her cranial nerves are mechanized though. i also usually draw her with something weird kinda like cochlear implants but fully removable since she can just unplug it or plug it back in her head

i think itd be funny if nastya was chronically dying of mercury poisoning. but even funnier if she has anemia because yep. no blood there. (it would make sense tho since i cant imagine mercury is that good at carrying oxygen). and she definitely has pots and hemophilia. also raynauds. which would probably be hell actually since most people headcanon shes really cold so i imagine shed just be having flareups all the time and never have any blood in her hands or feet. anyway i also think shes got me/cfs and maybe eds. and a nonexistant heat tolerance

Jonny's got pots and pre-mechanization had a heart defect but yk she doesnt have that heart anymore. oh and costochondritis. i headcanon new texans as nocturnal so i think hes got real bad photophobia (the eyeliners to keep the light outta his eyes) and heat intolerance. & maybe even a sun allergy.

Marius i like to think has mcas but i have no idea where that idea came from. imagining him with crutches for his knees is a lovely idea as well. i dont have too many thoughts here because thinking about Marius and medical stuff just leads to me imagining their horrible doctoring

The Toy Soldier has never been in long term possession of flesh other than the Angels vocal chords and so cant be considered disabled as such but it does occasionally pretend to have joint pain, as its joints have a lot of wear and tear and need frequent repair.

Tim i feel like has arthritis. also he's got chemical burn scars from the gas attacks. mustard gas does that. i thought i had more thoughts bout him but guess not

Raphaella's got akylosing spondylitis and lupus as well as axtually sorry no im about to pass out its about 2am here so skrry you dont get the end of raph thoughts or any of my ashes and vrian thoughts sorry. og wow i just said sorry three times

also, in my human au, among other things, raph is a wheelchair user and marius has an elbow disarticulation + at least one of their knees replaced. thats far from the only phys disabilities in it but giving an exhaustive list would take way too much time

YES AGH 🙏🙏🙏🙏

now i need to write a disabled mechs fic,,,

and dude sleep is important make sure you do that

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Steve Hinton, flying in the North American P-51D Mustang “Wee Willy II,” leads Major Craig "Rocket" Baker, F-16 Viper Demo Team commander and pilot, in the General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon during the Air Force Heritage Flight at the 2016 MCAS Miramar Air Show held September 23-25, 2016.