Lets talk about “incidental exercise” for a moment. Seen as good by most, because we’re all terrible horrible people for being sedentary. Although structures such as jobs requiring it, schools endorsing it is some kind of individual fault? Anyway, system vs individual isn’t the direct point of this post. This post is how […]
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Fun Activities Catalogue
A while ago, I used my EAP (employee assistance plan, euphemism for psychological support) to talk to a psychologist. My physio in particular had been encouraging me to reach out as even though I bounce back from the gazillion fucking setbacks I’ve had, that’s still a lot to deal with. I’ve never really found psychology […]
Please Actually Give Me Healthcare
There has been a common thread in my life. It’s that people don’t want to give me healthcare. I had my tonsils out in 2017. That was after about a decade of recurring infections. And lots of “but we don’t like to do this in adults”. It had turned into pretty much a permanent […]
Too Tired To Know
It probably seems weird to outsiders, but you can be too tired to know. One day, endless (four) consecutive courses into antibiotics, I was wondering why I was so hungry in the middle of the morning. I had eaten breakfast. I had even eaten more than I usually would for breakfast! Sure, I […]
Attention Spans and Grief
I don’t think people know I was quieter while dealing with grief last year. I was probably tweeting just as much but not interacting as much. So on the surface, it didn’t look different. But it was different. I was often too tired to bother sharing my opinion or giving words of support – or […]
No Life
When you wake up early from pain, there’s no life. You can’t do errands, nothing is open. The others in your house are asleep. Even real time video games are asleep and playing drowsy music, functionality turned off until a later time. When you wake up early from pain, it’s no life.
Dancing on Broken Glass
I saw this phase on Pinterest – I think it was part of a “motivational” image… you know, “shake you hair loose” type of thing. Dancing on Broken Glass I feel like this is what some medical advice goes towards. Now that I’m seen as chronic for my injury, I’m suddenly not […]
Work From Home Morning Rituals
Thanks to Covid, in 2020 I was able to spend a few months doing what I enjoy – working from home. While I like my colleagues and job, I’ve been commuting a long distance for a long time, and I cannot state my over-it-ness. It seems I’ll have to return to on site work when […]
I Really Hate You
Content Warning: Death, Trauma There’s one meme / share post that I despise seeing. It seems to do the round on Facebook more than any other platform, which for some reason makes sense, or maybe it’s just that I despise Facebook more so it mentally matches for me. Anyway, the post is about being […]
The Moisturiser I Found That Made My Week
This week has been HARD. I was physically in my day job office on Wednesday, and after I had physio I came down with a headache. It got worse rapidly. Thumping so violently. I walked past a glass-door fridge when I was in the kitchen getting water and the lights inside felt like they […]