#medical wishlist

[flamingo--ing]

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(its an amazon wishlist for medical stuff. due to waiting for disability im am have no money...thank you so much if you help)

[autisticlenaluthor]

Surgery Amazon Wishlist

it feels weird posting this/asking for help, but I'm going to be having surgery soon. I'll likely be in the hospital for a few days and the total recovery is estimated to take 6-8 weeks

I made a wishlist of some things that would make being in the hospital/recovery easier and more comfortable, and some things that would make my life easier living with a new medical device. i also added a few non-essential items to keep me entertained/distracted in the hospital bc the hospital sucks and I need to keep my mind busy while I'm there.

in an ideal world, i'd be able to buy all this myself. but being chronically ill is Very Expensive and I'm not able to work more than a few hours a week.

im linking the list below. purchasing any of these items would be so greatly appreciated but please don't feel pressured to buy anything! and if you'd like to help without buying an item, reshares are also very appreciated <3

[melancholicdesire]

So I have a wishlist that is just fun stuff that makes me happy, but I'm going to make a separate amazon wishlist for potential things that could help with my chronic health issues. I kind of like to be private, but I will mention a few I have.

Endometriosis, cptsd, other mental health illnesses, migraines, postural tachycardia syndrome, chronic fatigue issues, and some autoimmune health issues that really cause a lot if distress when they flare. I struggle to move around and do what I need to during the day.

So I'm going to attempt to make a wishlist with some little things like examples being water pitchers so I don't have to worry about not being able to get more water when im unable to go up and down the stairs, or extra blankets because I need to wash sheets but it takes a few hours to get them washed and dried, and I don't have extra which is difficult when I'm in pain and pre syncope and need to be lying down. I dunno. I'm just going to attempt that finally.

🌼🌼🌼Also if anyone that struggles with comfort or health issues has any recommendations for specific blankets or other things that have helped them, please send me a message or comment here. I would really appreciate that a lot. 🌼🌼🌼

My health has been worsening lately and I am barely awake. So I'm kind of past breaking point.

I will be trying to make a list soon. I'm having severe pain and fatigue so it's causing me to not be able to really look at screens much or lift my arms a lot of keep my eyes open long. Crazy to say that making lists is even difficult:(

[xbadnews-a]

ok. so, hear me out. imagine it's modern verse, okay? imagine your muse meets percy, hooks up with him, stays the night. imagine your muse tries to find the bathroom & instead finds a room in the back of his apartment with every inch of wall plastered in newspaper clippings about the briarwoods & their associates with chaotic colorful yarn connecting different things.

[defiedfate]

give me reactions to Angel ODing in the studio and having a seizure.

[bugbyte]

Starving Artist Conundrums

I need to figure out how to try and expand my income streams, which you would think would be fairly simple as an artist because there (should be) are tons of ways to sell an image, but not necessarily. I'm tired of constantly playing games with SNAP and healthcare couple of months because I have no safety net if these things fail. This month is getting really, really close to losing it all, through no fault of my own, it's just one person who won't answer their phone and keeps "losing" documents. So, somehow, I have to figure out how people do this. For everything I learned in art school, there wasn't a moment of business education, which is wild considering how many of us were like, painters or sculptors. I was neither, but, how. The irresponsibility of it.

I've had to weed out Society6 and Redbubble from my circle of shop sites because of the weird fee structure they both implemented. I don't have the energy to figure all that out. I'm starting to put things on Threadless, which I've had for a while but haven't used much. I've been investigating Inprnt which I've heard mixed things about lately. Teepublic has done good by me for the most part, but since they're part of Redbubble I don't know how long that's going to last.

I would really like to get back into streaming, because I'm theoretically like halfway or better to a Twitch payout, but I need a few things to make a setup that works for my pain situation, namely a long-ass ethernet cable so I can keep up a fast enough connection. I used to have one, but I think it got given away when we moved for bonkers reasons I cannot remember. Anyway, I have one on my wishlist now that should be the right length, I hope: https://throne.com/radiochio

I really need to knuckle down and finish Follower Volume 1, not that it'll save me financially (probably the opposite) but at least there's the hope that I can at least make, like, a little grocery money from it now and again, or pay the phone bill.

All of this is complicated by the fact that my drawing days are limited/unreliable until I can get my pain under control, which is totally at the whim of doctors' referrals ending up in the right places and/or people actually calling me back as they're supposed to. Also on the medicine working, which thus far nothing has. Let me tell you, it is deeply frustrating to go to appointment after appointment and repeat that no, even tripling the normal dose of ibuprofen doesn't touch what I have happening and I don't want to destroy my organs so I just. Don't deal with it anymore. I am begging for help and no one cares or believes me.

Anyway, life's rough when you're physically pretty limited and perpetually broke. At the very least the new meds they gave me don't make me want to sleep all day, instead they just do nothing at all. Is that a win? I'm not sure.

[pintsizeginger]

Yesterday was my birthday!

In the past I typically love celebrating my birthday! That normally involves either game nights with friends or a fun trip. Last year and now this year due to health issues those things have been difficult to do.. Last year I was fresh out of surgery and this year I'm just a few days away from a major surgery. Because I can't do much to celebrate I figured I would share my wishlist for surgery recovery items. Since I have fibromyalgia I need all the recovery help I can get! I'm so ready for the surgery but I also know that recovery is going to be rough!

The wishlist link is here

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/21DWNBKK7SDHD?ref_=wl_share

And if you don't want to use Amazon, my PayPal and Venmo are both @SelinaMariaA and CashApp is $SelinaMAngotti

The reason for the surgery is that after having reoccurring blood clots we discovered that I have Venous Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (vTOS). So to allow my veins to work properly I'm having decompression surgery, which will be removing my first rib on the problem side and possibly removing muscle, and I will probably need vein repair too. It's been hard dealing with this, my arm and shoulder has been just getting worse and worse. I'm so thankful that my hematologist recognized it for what it is!

[waywardtyrantpirate]

I hate having ocd. I can't do anything it seems like !!! I am tired of being broke an unemployed due to medical reasons.

[existentialcrisistime]

almost cried when chatting to a customer today who said they'd recently started T, and I think that's probably a sign I need to get myself on T like yesterday pls

[dccontramundum]

this is incredibly self-indulgent, but. i want threads where people who know morse discover his propensity for fainting. maybe they stumble across something horrible involving blood and he just drops, or they're somewhere very high up and morse thinks he can handle it but he gets too much of a glimpse of how high up they really are. maybe it's just he gets a nasty shock, and he's been running on fumes for a few days, and it's the last straw.

but there's no time for him to explain or make up an excuse, because one second he's standing and the next he's on the ground, and when he comes to, there's nothing he can even say to pretend that what just happened didn't happen. so he has to admit to it. and now they know that little fact about him.

( incredibly self-indulgent because i have a medical condition that results in frequent collapsing and fainting or near-fainting. not the same scenario as morse's fainting, but still. people have wildly different reactions when you faint and it would be super interesting to write against that. )

[itsnotcontagious]

Not to be such a downer with my 24/7 pity party but my birthday is in exactly 3 months and I haven’t celebrated my birthday since I was 12 and I wish I had something going on for that

[melancholicdesire]

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[joyfulmagic]

Okay but M.E.!Relta for her X.Fi.les Verse?

[ofiaso]

♣ tag dump 1/?

[godzexperiment]

Nix didn't ever stay anywhere too long- for the moment killing time at the station. Until some ship came along; that he'd offer help for an trip wherever they were headed. His wings were cramping up begging to be let out. Yet distraction came in the form of pulling somebody away from an piece of falling jagged metal. In the docks when he'd been just about to leave them for an break. "You okay?" Letting go to study the metal and give it an little kick with the tip of his boot. "Well that could have been worst."

[lifesapolyp]

Today is my birthday. Mike makes sure to make it a special day for me every year. This year is much more somber though from our recent loss of Zia.

But to help celebrate today, I hope for the NORD Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Research Fund to be fully funded by the end of this year.

To help reach that goal, you can donate directly to the fund or if you purchase any of the FAP, rare disease, chronic illness merch from Life’s a Polyp Shop, all proceeds are donated to the fund and a portion from my FAP children’s book - Life’s a Polyp with Zeke and Katie - are donated as well.

All links are at www.LifesaPolyp.com