"She has to have something that will help! Or.... at least maybe she's seen these flowers before."
Zecora is unfamiliar with the Marrow Blooms but has begun researching a possible cure or at least a way to slow the flowers down long enough to find a cure. Lucky for her, Jack has no problem being her test subject.
Hopefully this elixir will do the trick. If it doesn't.... well it can't make things worse, right?
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Literally my ONLY critique of the third episode is that Percy didn’t notice the horses voice in his head and go “wtf.” Hopefully when he meets the zebra later on he mentions it and is like “yeah I could hear some of the pegasi at camp, too. Kinda weird, right?” Because actually it’s so canon that when Percy finds out he has a power, he doesn’t broadcast it. Instead, he’s just like “oh. Cool. Interesting.” and goes on with his life. Like, the other characters only find out about his powers if they see him use them, or they bring it up to him, or they hear about it from someone else.
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Ello, here is a dump of my little pony ocs
The dark blue one, Anomaly and the zebra, Starshine are redesigns of preexisting ocs, however the rest of them are new
In chronological order:
1. Blazing Comet, with and without his cloak
2. Anomaly
3. Sparkling Dawn, the brother of Blazing Comet
4. Confetti Crash
5. A draconequus and their pony form, ngl I don't have a name for them yet
6. Starshine
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Physical Therapy appointment went well. Hypermobility confirmed. I am officially a loosey-goosey monster.
Here's how that went:
First, I'd dropped into the clinic about three weeks ago to have a quick chat with the physical therapists. A coworker of mine has a daughter with EDS who is doing therapy with this place, so I knew they had specialists. I asked the desk if I could have a quick chat with their EDS therapist(s), as I had a couple questions. I got lucky and the therapists were available, and I just asked if they knew the difference between hypermobility and hyper-flexibility. They seemed a bit confused by me, but the one was able to throw out definitions, and then describe how he would check for both. I will admit it went a little over my head, but he clearly knew what to do, and that's what I was really after. So the appointment got scheduled.
Today's appointment started with the usual intake. What my concerns were, what kind of pain I was dealing with (hahaha), history of issues, etc. Primary areas of concern were identified (hips, lumbar, shoulders) and we went from there.
First up was the range of motion with pain checks. How far can you move and does it hurt? We had a clarification mid-assessment because I always stop when I feel the restriction and avoid pain; he wanted to know just how far I could go regardless. Which did require more effort on my part, because I can go further, but it takes work to overcome the muscle guarding.
Strength checks were next. These are the ones where you assume the position and the therapist applies pressure that you have to resist. I was plenty strong in all the necessary areas, except for a surprise weakness in infraspinatus on my left shoulder.
Next was passive muscle mobility. I relaxed and he manipulated the limbs to see how far things could go and what the restrictions were. There were some distinct limitations, as expected.
The last part was actually testing the joint mobility. I would relax and he would kinda gently wiggle the joint via the bone to see how much it would move. So for my hips, my knee was resting on his shoulder and he was moving my femur around to see how much wiggle room there was in the socket. And that's where we hit bingo.
Hips definitely moved too much. There was a bit of a "oh yeah, that's really mobile" with the left shoulder. Right shoulder not quite as bad, but still too much. And then he checked the lumbar spine, and it was the "oh shit" moment. Which is spot that has always been tender to the touch (which I warned him of), and he just put light pressure on the bone. Apparently that was enough that the bone just gave under his fingers and shifted away from the pressure. Which, well, your SPINE should NOT do that.
I will also add that my spine has arthritis in it, and bulging discs. Plus an autoimmune condition that causes chronic inflammation of the spine. It anything, I should have less mobility in those joints, not more.
So, anyway. That's what a PT evaluation of hypermobility versus hyper-flexibility looks like. As a point, he usually called it "hyperextensibility" instead of "hyper-flexibility." And he noted that I may even qualify as hypoextensible (as in, significantly lacking flexibility) in several muscles.
My joints don't full on dislocate (as far I know). I'm starting to think they've been subluxating (partial dislocation/misaligned in the joint) for a very long time and I've just thought things were "jammed" or "spazzed out." I usually solved the problem of the day by finding the offending muscles, releasing them, and then crunching the joint in question back into feeling better. Doing this usually also got the muscles to chill out too. I am ridiculously strong (least, no one expects me to be as strong as I am - I'm not a body builder by any means) and it tends to hide the issues with my joints. But any significant injury I get never seems to fully heal, and instead turns into a chronic issue I just learn to treat/compensate for.
Hopefully these details are helpful to other zebras.
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