My Old Cat Would Have Turned 20 Today..

my old cat would have turned 20 today..

i miss him..so much..and he's been dead for..eight years...

Take some spoons for the road, weary traveller 🥄🥄🥄

Remember to rest and stay hydrated and take any medication you need.

Happy exploring!

HEARTSROPPER SEASON 3 DAYYYYY

holy shit oh my god do u have any advice/tips for someone with chronic pain (in the lower body area, legs etc) that lives in a two story house?

i usually use a cane when the pain is bad, but its super impractical around the house 😔

from yours truely, an extremely sore 🪿

Aaahhhaa my my, I LIVED IN A TWO STORY HOUSE WHEN I WAS DIAGNOSED, LET'S GO

Climbing up the stairs on hands and knees was often the only way I could get up..which is probably Not what you wanted to hear lol

Relying on handrails/leaning on them

Taking your time, and not being afraid to rest

...alternatively just saying fuck it and moving up as fast as possible to minimise the amount of time spent in pain ahhah

Sometimes just using the cane up the staircase can make it easier

Cane on one side, hand rail on the other moves the pressure into your shoulders and upper arms

Taking painkillers regularly / getting medical help with the pain

If you can afford it: regular non medicinal treatment, like physio, massage, acupressure/acupuncture can help make it less painful on the regular

Arnica cream helps with bruising and can help make pain lesssen

Using a TENS machine is a safe, non medicinal way of disrupting the pain signals from reaching your brain. It feels a little weird at first (like having ants crawl over your skin), but it really, really helps (especially when moving up the stairs)

I'd strap my knees constantly to help stabilise the knee caps and the joints, same with ankles.

If you get pain in your knees, squeezing your glutes, and making sure as much of your foot is on the stairs as possible can take the pressure off them as much

There's some really good resources online if you do some digging - looking at physiotherapist's suggestions especially.

We eventually had to move houses because I became too disabled to move around the house on good days, let alone bad days.. I really, really hope it doesn't get to that point with you. Sending love, 🪿

Please

Pleaseplease

Endometriosis diagnosis time is on average 7 years... please advocate for yourself. It's not normal.

So many people who get periods are like “Ugh it sucks that having a menstrual cycle makes you almost die every month” like no that’s not normal you need to go to the doctor

Honestly, I think people in trauma spaces on tumblr (aka heavily white people dot com) really don't understand how deeply different childhood trauma and the way its experienced is when you come from a context of a heavily repressed / oppressed, heavily systemically abused culture / populace and often are one or less generations away from a relative that literally was raised in an environment / area so dangerous that survival was a chronic and systemic thing that was incredibly normal to EVERYONE in said cultural group

People really don't talk about cultural trauma, inter-generational trauma, and trauma that is passed down through society. I feel a lot of people here don't even really understanding the very basics and fundamentals of how cultural, inter-generational, and inherited trauma works, appears, and impacts an individual.

I especially feel this is so when we find people who are trying to parse what trauma is "enough to cause DID" and what not, because cultural and inter-generational trauma "didn't actually happen directly to the person" and is thus disregarded as oddly... not trauma despite literally most literature and professionals agreeing that it is ABSOLUTELY trauma and arguably an incredibly impactful one when you take into account the way it often also inherently disrupts the ability for individuals to find support and other resilience-building factors in their communities.

I'm not really saying this as a critique as much as a "dear white people, please keep this in mind when engaging with non-white peers in trauma spaces"