Err, grumble, defective body making life difficult.

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And speaking of that kind of thing, I am a very happy camper at the moment.

I guess about 45 minutes to an hour ago now I walked over to Walmart to buy a little pack of tapestry needles since all I had was sharps.
While there saw Liz from creative writers group.
True, we had just seen each other this morning at group, but it is always fun to cross paths with friends while shopping.

And as an added bonus, after not having clip on sunglasses for a couple years, Walmart had a display set up and ready to sell from!
Yay!

The main part of the happy is;
As one man on the BBC once said, "And so, there you have it";
the Imperial Class 4 has joined the spiky nose club via the sacrifice of a tapestry needle and a bead.

Ended up having to shorten the needle twice.
Simple job, just score around it with a knife edge jewelers file and snap at the score.
Since main part of rocket miniature body is resin, drilling a hole in nose was easy.
Did that with a pin vise, no electricity required.

Now just wait till the slow super glue sets and then throw some paint on the thing.

That’s brilliant! The tapestry needle and bead sacrifice was definitely worth it! Good to see how it’s coming along! Lovely that you ran into Liz as well! Sounds like your day’s shaping up nicely .

Well, it was until I tried to fold yesterday's laundry ...

that quickly became a lost cause ...

"You just reach for those boxers, mate, and we'll see who wears the pants in this house."

So cute!

Kitties and laundry ... tell me about it! My two love “helping” me to fold, and don’t even get me started on making the bed with fresh sheets! That’s when the fun really starts!

X 12 on the cuteness factor ...... lovely kitty pikkies

Thanks! His name is Grumman & he is literally rescued near-roadkill.
A gal who workd at my psychologist's office rescued him and when he had healed enough gave him to me the day befor Thanksgiving 2009.

And in the very much less than happy category, just before 11pm had that thing where my back goes in to muscle spasms so bad my whole body is shivering and both arms are all tingles and pins and needles.

Yeah, just like my body can turn a pleasant time in to probably should have gone to the hospital - in the city 30 miles away.
But fortunately the muscle relaxer Rx was within reach and that plus half a hydrocodone and eventually standing in a hot shower for a bit stalled off the high priced ambulance excursion to coronavirus city.

Called a friend who is on standby in case this hits bad again.
But because of their bad health they can not climb the steps to my place.
But we did schedule check in calls.

So, like the other day I'm flat on my back on the heating pad and already heading toward half loopy on pills.
This sucks and I am sooooooo over it.
But, Hahahahahaha! what does what I want and what I do ever get me?

And here comes the other orange fellow, Georgie cat, to start kneading where the bedspread is folded over beside me.
And now both the guys, "The G men" are up here.

Their presence doesn't do squat to stop the muscle spasms but somehow the guys help make life livable.

Hmm, I wonder what ever happened to my 1980s friend in Virginia, John B, who sometimes had muscle spasms so powerful it ripped the muscle loose from his bones?

I wonder if I contributed to tonights spasm attack by going to the laundromat to catch up on laundry which got backed up during the last round of wet and freezing
befire the following arrived and the potential for the temps to fall witiout warning and bring freezing rain again?

Went to creative writers group from 10 to 12.
Several of us went to lunch and stayed there working on writing and crafts from 12 to 2.
I went back to apartments then went and did the final 2 baskets of 4 baskets of laundry which had backed up.

Se, that's the tghing ith the mess my health is, doing 1/2 a healthy person's activities is 3 times too many activities for me any more.

Sunday
A chance of rain, mainly after 5pm. Cloudy, with a high near 42. Calm wind becoming north northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday Night
Rain, mainly after midnight. Low around 35. East northeast wind 6 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Monday
Rain before 1pm, then rain, possibly mixed with snow. High near 44. East northeast wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Monday Night
A chance of rain, mixing with snow after 10pm, then gradually ending. Cloudy, with a low around 30. Northeast wind 7 to 13 mph becoming northwest in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37.
Tuesday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29.
Wednesday
A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 36. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Okay, now the muscle spasm are in my lips.

Seriously?

Are we done yet?

Are we DONE YET?

ARE WE BLOODY BLANKETY BLANK EFFING DONE YET?

Hope you survive your weather changes okay ..... sounds cold , it is here too .The weather patterns sound similiar to mine over here .....congrats on the laundry accomplishment . Am aware when your body , has a disagreeable side
How much trouble it is to. Get stuff done . Sorry on your back and body spasms . Mine are nearly not that bad .
And are only in. The back . That’s gotta be an experience having your lips spasm . Ugh ,
You are lucky to have a person to check in with by phone . Even if they have there own issues .. it is a relief to
Have regular human contact other than the internet . And you have the G men to back up your social life ?
Rough to deal with multiple complications , but it is what it is . Am familiar with the multiple issues things Hang in there .

thanks. don't ya wish we could find the magic wand to wave and 'poof!' NOBODY is in the multiple issues club any more!

Definitely .. people have enough to deal with without the physical disabilities and stuff that goes along with those
Issues . Just makes me want to growl , when my stuff gets in the way of getting daily stuff done . Sometimes
Just have to take a break and wait till situations are alittle more amenable to getting things done .

I'm going to paste in something from Tumblr;

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sickbitterandcoveredinglitter

I don’t think healthy people every really get chronic illness.

I have a friend I know from when we were both 6. She is the only person living nearby and so she saw me go from walking through limping to wheelchair on a daily basis. I keep her updated on my health even tho we rarely hang out anymore.
She was gonna come over yesterday and I had to cancel. She asked if I can’t hang out later that day. When I said i won’t feel better later, that if I feel that bad in the morning later will only get worse she got annoyed and “joked” that I’m just finding excuses. And I was surprised, she knows all about me being disabled after all? So, a bit taken aback, I told her it’s a normal thing for me.

“But you got the diagnosis now, aren’t you better?? I thought you’ll get better now”

She was honestly surprised and it made me realize a thing. They don’t get it. They don’t get that getting diagnosed only equals benefits like welfare or parking spot for us, and sometimes better pain meds but that is just like pushing luck. That it’s a forever thing. That that one day we felt good a week ago was just a bright spot and doesn’t mean we won’t need our aids anymore, cause chronic illness is not linear and will make a great comeback in next four hours, and the next good day is planned on when we’re 70.
Cause when abled people are sick, they get better. And our illness is just an excuse for them. And when we say we will never get better they think we’re being dramatic and pessimistic.
And I don’t think they’ll ever get it, cause to get it you need to live it.
And I want my friends to stay healthy and not go through hell.

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bitterlesbiangrandma

This is definitely okay to reblog and abled people are encouraged to reblog cause maybe it’ll help others understand

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bitterlesbiangrandma

Hello it’s me Lexa and this post is relevant again as I just had the
Legit Same Talk with someone and I exhausted my number of f**ks to give

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beka-tiddalik

Oh my god I literally had this conversation with my mother an hour ago.

Mum: “So yeah, I was thinking that when I come down we could do visit an art gallery or a museum or something.”

Me: “I’ll have to see if I’m up for it, I’ve been going through a rough patch. I might not have the energy.”

Mum: “But you love art galleries.”

Me: “I know. What part of ‘it hurts to walk long distances now’ is hard for you though?”

[the following is most interesting, I too have lived it >]
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thatdiabolicalfeminist

I routinely have people well aware of my disabilities/chronic illness congratulate me on how I “seem to be doing so much better these days!” on a good pain/energy day and then basically try to stage an intervention a week later on a bad one. “You seem to be on a decline lately, I’m just concerned you’re not taking care of yourself!” And then a week later on a good day again congratulate me on how I really seem to have improved and must be making a real effort to keep on top of my health, with no irony or self-awareness whatsoever.

The narrative of “getting better” is so ingrained that healthy abled people will ignore massive amounts of cognitive dissonance to apply it where it makes absolutely no sense.

birdkeeperklink

And this belief in “getting better” is actively harmful because that’s how we get sh***y things like people having their benefits “reviewed” and taken away because it’s been ten years and they’re not going to the doctor “enough.” They don’t need to get constant treatment after they know what they have, but that doesn’t mean they’re magically cured or just “not trying”! !! It means they’re ill, they’re always going to be ill, and going to the doctor every week isn’t going to change that (not to mention it’s expensive af)!

I see this in my job much more frequently than I should (we help people fight benefit denials and occasionally get back benefits after these “reviews”). Sometimes it’s justified - the person went back to work - but more often, it’s not, it’s just that some worker somewhere decided that this person or that person should be all better by now, and that’s just not how chronic illness works, so ending this idea that chronically ill people will just get better would help put a stop to s**t like that.

rosslynpaladin

They cannot comprehend that we do not control our health. In their world, when people are sick it’s because they caught it from someone else, and if you stay sick it’s your fault for not taking care of yourself. They cannot fathom a world where you can
do everything right and still be sick.

“don’t let your disability define you! Fight! INspirEd! Taking back my life from Cancer!” This narrative is everywhere in Able culture. If you JUST tried harder you’d get better. THAT is what they live and believe.

Therefore to them if we are “still” sick or “Sick Again” it’s because WE did something wrong. They can’t comprehend a world where you can’t Earn health as a reward for performing purity, kale and yoga.

Source: sickbitterandcoveredinglitter

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^^^ This is sadly the way it goes for those who seriously have no genuine idea of what it’s like. I watched my daughter have to deal with this with her so-called “friends”. She is currently in remission and has learned to keep out those who do her more harm than good in tneir expectations and lack of compassion.

Total understands these issues ! ( I hate to say ).

Auugh... gimme a break ! Please .