How EXCELLENT Is This?!

How EXCELLENT is this?!

This Mount Fuji Kleenex box makes your tissues look like the billowing clouds from an erupting volcano.

http://odditymall.com/mount-fuji-erupting-volcano-tissue-box

[Caption: Health is never a measure of human worth, written over photos of Teddy Roosevelt, RJ Mitte, Miles Davis, Helen Keller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and Lucille Ball]

Teddy Roosevelt, former president with epilepsy and asthma

R.J. Mitte, actor with cerebral palsy

Miles Davis, jazz musician with sickle cell disease

Helen Keller, writer and social activist with hearing and visual impairment

Franklin D. Roosevelt, former president with polio

Michael J. Fox, actor with Parkinson’s disease

Stephen Hawking, physicist with ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

Lucille Ball, actress with rheumatoid arthritis

When you use phrases like, “as long as you’re healthy” these are just a few of the people that your language is excluding.  No one owes you health.  Being healthy does not make you a good person, and being unhealthy does not make you a bad person.  The state of a person’s body does not reflect their soul, their mind, or their worth as a human being.

ALL fandoms in a nutshell: whenever there are new clips or pic stills.

A shaved guinea pig looks like a baby hippo. via http://ift.tt/1CEflrA putyouinabettermood.com

Is there anything cuter than severe muscle wasting plus two painfully adorable kittens?

Hi. I’m Shane Burcaw, and if you don’t know me, I’m the dude with the enormous head in the picture above. I was born with a lovely disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. It causes my muscles to waste away as I get older. I’ve been in a wheelchair my entire life. If you’re in the market for a new disease, I’d highly recommend this one.

I am on a mission to help other people with my disease, and I believe that my incredibly supportive Tumblr family can help me achieve those dreams.

I’m going to keep this super brief: Living with muscular dystrophy is fucking expensive. I need about 45,000 different pieces of specialized equipment just to stay alive and comfortable. But here’s the shitty part: There are so many people with my disease who don’t have those items they need to thrive. 

I want to change that.

I’ve developed a program called No More Nightmares that gives people with MD the stuff they need to live more awesomely. To help SIX people this year, I need to raise $40,000. Anything that you can do to donate or reblog this post will be massively helpful, and I can’t thank you enough if you choose to support my cause. 

Here is the link to donate (or you can just click that sexy picture above): http://igg.me/at/nomorenightmares/x/9161855

Hi Tumblr. My name is Shane Burcaw, and I’m the hipsterly-dressed dinosaur creature in the wheelchair above. The beautiful girl is my girlfriend Anna. We were climbing a mountain (in Tom’s and khakis, obviously). 

I need all of you to help me by reblogging this. 

As some of you know, I created a nonprofit organization called Laughing At My Nightmare, Inc. to help people living with my disease. Look at my (sexy) bod in the pic above: keeping that hunk of man meat alive is expensive as hell. From breathing machines, to feeding tubes, to the bathroom equipment that lets me poop when I need to, the cost of living with SMA is astronomical. Luckily, I have always had the items I need, but there are thousands of people in my position who don’t have those things. 

I can change that, like forreal. And I’m not going to stop until I do. 

I’ve created a program through my nonprofit called No More Nightmares. The idea is simple: We give away the vital items that people with muscular dystrophy need to thrive. If I can change one life, I’ll be happy, but my dream is to change the world.

If you’d like to help me, I am asking that everyone who reads this give $5 to my charity: laughingatmynightmare.com/donate

If you don’t have means to donate online, you can send mail-in donations to:    PO Box 3398 Bethlehem, PA 18017

For the price of a meal at Chipotle, you can help me change the fucking world. Your gift will be used to help us purchase the equipment that people need to live more badass lives. If you can’t give, a reblog will help me reach more people! 

Thank you from the bottom of my atrophied heart!