Well I'm probably not going to college this year because insurance decided I don't need my $15k surgery 🥰

#ChronicIllness #Insurance #ChronicPain #ChronicallyIll #Healthcare #American (unfortunately)

It really worries me how little is being done about H5N1. Genuinely considering getting in the habit of wearing gloves but I don't have the money for disposable ones so does anyone have recs??

#H5N1 #BirdFlu #StillMasking

A small green parrot sits on the shoulder of a person in a grey hoodie. There's a window in the background, but the blinds are closed.

Im tired, here's a bird pic
#Bird #Parrot #GCC #Pets #GCC #GreenCheekConure #PetPic

What a cutie!

Sorry I've been gone, I got this random wave of fatigue and have been sleeping the past 3 days. Still can't go to bed at a reasonable time but I swear I only feel awake at midnight.

#hypersomnia #Disabled #Disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #SleepDisorder

As an owner of a "pineapple" gcc, I call him every fruit in the book except a pineapple. He's my lil mango and my mini avocado but definitely not a pineapple

#Birds #Parrots #GCC #GreenCheekConure #Conure #Pets #PetBird

Sjogrens is such a weird disease. Like yeah, it could decide to kill any of my organs at any given moment, but currently its going for my nerves and is hell bent on making me the coldest, most dehydrated person around.
#Sjogrens #Autoimmune #AutoimmuneDisease #ChronicIllness

Alternatively, if it's just my sjogrens giving me my bi-monthly scare, I'll also be pretty upset 😭 don't get me wrong it's better than covid but it can't keep getting away with this istg

Every single time 😭 it's not just infinite time off, and it ensures I'll always be too broke to be truly comfortable

Man, you'd think with the excessive amounts of data these big companies collect you'd think they'd at LEAST have enough to know that no amount of ads will ever make me use AI. Seriously, leave me alone 😭

#AI #AntiAI #advertising

One "positive" to my Insomnia is it gives me several extra hours in the day to guzzle water and get ahead of my sjogrens lmao. Do I feel like shit? Yes. But at least I'm ✨Hydrated✨

#Sjogrens #Insomnia #Disabled #Disability #Autoimmune #ChronicIllness #ChronicallyIll

My lungs are super weak so at least I'd get paxlovid for sure? And I've been vaccinated a lot since. Idk trying to not stress too much about it, but my lungs and body are super weak so I'm worried 😕
#CovidAware #CovidConscious #CovidCautious #WearAMask #Disabled #ChronicallyIll #ChronicIllness

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Advil
Denver Mattress
MyPillow (MyMattress)
ADT
Sling
Spectrum
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TempurPedic

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has again stated he supports a ban on masks

Disabled activists have been screaming about the dangers of mask bans since they were enacted in North Carolina.

We are still IN a pandemic. Masks are a public health tool that should never be banned.

Brief history of mask bans 🧵

I'm glad it went well!

My throats really sore, I hope to god I didn't get covid 😫 only time will tell but I made it 3 years covid free and I'll be devastated if the tests come back positive.
🤞I'm in clear

#Covid #CovidCautious #CovidConscious #MaskUp #PleaseVaccinate

Tbf it probably didn't help insurance didn't cover it...at least my pain treatment SOMETIMES gets paid for. But my sleep study showed that during insomnia episodes my quality of sleep was depressingly low so at least I got that validation 😭

Personally I've had the least success treating my (chronic) insomnia and nightmare disorder. Most the clinic told me to do was think happy thoughts and all the insomnia 101 advice they usually give lol
#Disabled #Insomnia #NightmareDisorder #ChronicallyIll #ChronicIllness #SleepDeprived

Every time a "leftist" talks about community care and how we need to prioritize our community in these trying times without wearing a mask in public, an angel loses its wings.
#CovidIsStillHere #Covid #CovidConscious #CovidCautious #CovidAware #MaskUp

I don't think that though. I've met many wonderful disabled people, and the light they brought into my life was not diminished by their illness. Disabled people are worth knowing. We are worth understanding. We are people too. And I will never not appreciate the beauty of my disabled friendships.

The worst part is being accused of being self obsessed and "making everything about me" for wanting someone to care. Says it all, really. It's human to want to be understood, unless you're disabled. Then it's selfish. B/c to know you is to be burdened by you. Least, according to society

Most of my "friends" don't even really feel like friends. Not since I got "too sick" for most people. It cracks me up whenever I encounter someone who assumes I just get showered in attention 24/7 for being sick b/c in all honesty no one cares. People care less about me now than they did before.

I also feel like there's some questions I'm just not allowed to answer honestly. No one, and I mean no one, wants to hear about my day. And that really disrupts your ability to connect with other people. It feels like I spend my whole life listening to other people and no one knows a thing about me

I go to my friends homes and their families ask me about school. Driving. Work. Things everyone else my age do but I just don't. I can't. I stand out at every event b/c I'm always the only one masked. They're so kind and they ask it so innocently and I think that makes it hurt more.

Disability can be so lonely. I try to socialize, but it becomes super apparent how different I am. How different my life is (a thread)
#personal #Disabled #Disability #Ableism #Isolation #CovidCautious #CovidConscious #HalfVent #ChronicIllness #ChronicallyIll

Having mental illness is a trip b/c I'll be convinced I'm fine and the best I've ever been, then have back to back panic attacks about some paperwork I turned in two days ago.

#Anxiety #PanicAttacks #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #NotAVent #OCD

I find that when I mention how my mental/physical health affects my ability to work or go to school, it's taken more seriously than when I mention how it impacts me personally. And I think that says a lot.
#Disability #DisabilityJustice #ChronicallyIll #ChronicIllness #CapitalismSucks

All good ideas! And yes I do have my own HEPA filter I can take, thank you