The Meds Did Help. Nausea Was Relieved And Same With The Cramping. Though I Really Wish I Had Taken My

The meds did help. Nausea was relieved and same with the cramping. Though I really wish I had taken my next dose sooner. The cramping is coming back and now I have a buffer period where the pain exists and the meds haven't kicked in yet. But. Hopefully it'll bring relief again here soon.

Ruled out food poisoning. Didn't really get an answer. Just gastrointestinal upset of some kind. Like.... yea I know that 😅😬

But got some scripts for some meds that should stop the nausea and abdominal cramping/spasming so 🤞🏻🤞🏻

They did help the nausea while I was there but sadly didn't do anything for my chief complaint of abdominal pain. 🫠🫠

Old friend of mine went with me to the river walk this morning. It was nice. Refreshing from being miserable this past week. Though I am utterly exhausted. I couldn't fall asleep until 9:15am ..... and woke up for the river walk at 9:55am 🫠🫠🫠🫠

I feel most at home in the air. But I must say, I'm quite comfortable in water. It's so soothing. Whether for recreation or health. It just.... it quiets my mind/worries. I exist in a weird mental state, (good weird) and my body isnt (usually) in pain when I'm in it.

We caught up about life stuff. He talked a lot about his DND stuff (which I thoroughly enjoy listening to) and then mostly stayed quiet. Some chatter here and there. But it was nice just existing for a while with an old friend.

I've known him since.... maybe 13/14? Half my life. Good guy. Retired early from the marines due to injury? His girl he's been going steady with's birthday is the day before his, and his is the day before mine. Just a tidbit I find funny. They moved in together, big things! He's really happy. She has brought an era of peace to his life that honestly he really needed and deserves and I'm so happy he has that.

Good things good things. I feel quite content myself. Whenever we hang out (few and far between because, life) my brain speedruns from when we met fresh into middle school until present day. Just, all the life that has happened between then and now. Kind of a nostalgic and sentimental brain thing that happens with him and a select few people from my earlier years.

Love it. Good day frens.

Aaaand that friend isn't answering their phone. Awesome. So now we have two options.

Drag both of our neurospicy toddlers into the ER with us ...

Please no

... or just not go at all for now...

🫠 I feel like death..

Husband and I have been afflicted by... something??? Awful.

Both of us are in horrendous stomach/abdominal pain. We're probably going to emergency here soon.

I'd rather be having contractions during labor vs what is hitting me now.

We both took the last two hydros from my old postpartum meds. For him it did nothing and for me it only took the edge off barely for maybe an hour before coming right back and knocking me out it got so bad.

Husband is someone who sorta goes by something similar to the farmer pain scale. If he's hurting, it's severe. Last time he was actually incapacitated, it was his first ever severe case of shingles.

He went to the hospital, and was on pain medication for a month or more. Which, if you knew him, you'd go "oh shit", cuz this man simply, powers through everything else below the severe category.

My only concern whenever needing the er for pain relief is their hoops to jump through. I'm autistic-adhd and do not display my pain like they expect.

My 6-10 and upwards on the pain scale is me internalizing it, shutting down, going non-verbal. I appear calm and collected which always makes them doubt the sincerity/severity of the pain level.

Hopefully with my husband and I both going in, he's verbal, we can get some relief. (Vent - Which is really irritating with doctors because last time I went nonverbal, I was still able to write it all down and the doctor refused to even look at the paper. So we fucking sat in silence until I choked out like 3 words and she based her entire limited understanding of my issues based on that. Not. You know. The extremely detailed notecard I brought in as a communication aid.)

I really wish doctors would see someone who's nonverbal from pain, unable to even hold focus/gaze, and general inability to interact as someone who hmmm might need help vs "I'm frustrated and flabbergasted that I can't easily checkmark boxes and send you on your way easy peasy" reaction a lot of doctors give in the city closest to us.

The moment they can't cure you from their pamplet checklist and get that pat on their back for doing a doctoring, they're fed up with you and instead make it your fault for being 'difficult'. (Sorry, vent because I just hate needing to go to the doctor for pain like this.)

The pain is creeping up into my chest now so I'm going to rest. We're waiting on a friend to come over to stay with our littles so we can go.

Wish us luck. 🤞🏻

Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012…

After years of observing these caddisfly larvae, French naturalist and artist, Hubert Duprat, wondered if the caddis flies would use any materials to build their cocoon. He introduced flakes of gold, pearls and opals to the caddis flies and they did in fact use them for their cocoons. They use their own silk as the glue to hold their pupal constructions together.