I Broke Two Ribs And Didn't Know For A Few Weeks Because I Thought I Was Just Sore Or Having A Gallbladder

I broke two ribs and didn't know for a few weeks because I thought I was just sore or having a gallbladder attack. I developed costicondritis (spelling is off, chest wall swelling) that made me think I was having heart issues and the ER trip showed that I was in the process of healing two fractured ribs (3 cracks total!).

Heightened pain tolerance and being used to being sick is crazy.

An issue with a lot of whump and injury writing guides is that they also tend to assume that the characters are always able-bodied but like.

It's been proven over and over again that people with chronic pain have higher tolerances for everyday pain, including things that would leave other people crying or screaming. When you experience dizziness, body aches, chills, etc as just your baseline, those things aren't a good indicator that you're injured or bleeding. Even mild concussions are very hard to notice when you have chronic headaches/migraines (speaking from experience).

And those are just the experiences of general chronic pain, not even more severe and debilitating conditions that can completely warp someone's relationship to their body and their brain's way of processing pain.

I think the worst part about the meeting today wasn't that the school kept misgendering me, but the fact that my mom even slipped up twice before defaulting to "they".

Like, granted, my mom knew me as she/her until I was 16 and she/they until I was 23, whereas everyone else in the room has only known me with he/him pronouns, but like.... Come on... I've been fully out for about 4 1/2 years.... 🤦🏻‍♂️

Tobacco, too.

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

The love of my life died from DKA at 21. She was rationing to try to afford us moving in together.

We need affordable insulin for everyone. For Athena, because she fucking deserved it. For literally everyone with type 1 diabetes.

A country where a 21 year old can die from something so fucking preventable is a broken country and we deserve better.

This in reverse though.

I'm a grown ass man but in 2007 I was xXxAr5oNiCxXx because my dumbass thought it was edgy to mix together "arson" and "arsenic".

the relief that I made a plausibly gender neutral name back then

Trans-inclusive gender-neutral anatomy talk is funny because it makes the human body sound so casual and recreational. "If you happen to have a dick" like one would happen to have a bag of golf clubs somewhere around here. Like you have one of those for hobby purposes or something. Got an uterus because it came with the house and you haven't gotten around to hiring a professional to get that removed.