Michelle - Treading Water

@evidenceprof.bsky.social are you familiar with the Doomsday Mom case? She seems like she ought to be NGBI on the surface but everyone is hating her and calling her manipulative and aware. She's been declared incompetent twice, how is she doing these pro se trials? I'm confused about how we got here

Post by @chronicallytreadingwater · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Me: I only have minimal pt to do so hopefully I won't severely flare, and no more appointments this week! That should be relaxing! My partner:

#POTS #ChronicPain #Disabled #InvisibleIllness #InvisibleDisability #Dysautonomia

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Post by @chronicallytreadingwater · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · My spine md: your blood pressure's been getting lower this month. Are you noticing symptoms? Are you dizzy? Me: uhhhhhhhhh I have POTS. I always get dizzy.

#POTS #dysautonomia #disabled #invisibleillness #chronicillness

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a man wearing a black beanie and a blue hoodie is clapping ALT: a man wearing a black beanie and a blue hoodie is clapping

#DragRace is one of many shows keeping me going in these bedridden times. And on that note, #TeamOnyaNurve #teamonya!

Post by @chronicallytreadingwater | 2 images Healthy person's body after leaving the house: My body after going to the MD 2 days in a row:

I tried to go to 2 in person MD appts this week. It went like this

#POTS #mecfs #fibromyalgia #chronicillness #chronicpain

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Treading Water There are some days that I feel like giving up completely. Just not working on my health, not making appointments, not trying to decide what to try, not worrying about my disability applications. Jus…

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#chronicpain #chronicillness #pots #dysautonomia

Treading Water The death of Michelle Trachtenberg is still hitting me in ways I don't know how to explain. There is of course that she was so young, and that I grew up watching her, and she is my age. But there is…

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#MichelleTrachtenberg #Buffy #disabled #chronicillness #chronicpain

Can You Amicably Divorce a Caregiver? Wedding Day My ex-husband was also my caregiver. For the longest time, we said we were having the most amicable divorce in history. We’re still quite close and he’s helped me with insur…

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#chronicillness #chronicpain #disability #caregiver

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“The #chronicallyill don’t only fight our #illnesses. We fight through the fact that each additional layer of #stress is like a jenga piece being removed from our sanity and #coping successes": https://buff.ly/42X9TWa by @c-treadingwater.bsky.social #Chronicpain

When You’re Having a Severe Adrenaline Surge and Your MD suggests Magnesium At first you want to punch that MD in the face. Last Ketamine I don’t think I’ve ever been as overwhelmed in my life as I am this February. I’m experiencing major changes in my pe…

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Michelle - Treading Water's review of Sea of Tranquility 3/5: In reality this is probably a 2.5 for me and the most let down I've ever felt by Emily St. John Mandel by far. I like that this book's primary stories and themes parallel one another, that an u...

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Treading Water ANYA: No, you see, usually when there's an apocalypse, I skedaddle. But now I love you so much that instead I have inappropriately timed sex and try to think of ways to fight a god ... and worry terr…

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#Buffy #chronicillness #chronicpain #disability #pots #mecfs #disabledcommunity

Treading Water My general feelings on 2025 so far:

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I have no idea why a gif of #spike from #buffy is labeled graphic content either but here we are

Treading Water "I don't have that anymore. I don't understand. I don't know how to live in this world, if these are the choices... if everything just gets stripped away. I don't see the point." - Buffy And me, sti…

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#POTS #mecfs #chronicillness #chronicpain #disability

Chronically Treading Water I think about the concept of dying often. Everyone with chronic pain does. Don’t worry – I am not suicidal. But the sheer exhaustion of living … sometimes dying sounds easier. The…

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One of my few television wishes while I'm bed bound is to see more talent shows on #dragrace that aren't lip syncs.

What an insane display of wealth that the #GoldenGlobes gives out $1 million in gifts to celebs who don't need it & I can't pay my medical bills. #ChronicIllness #Healthcare

@andrewphilipwitty.bsky.social said they're just denying unsafe practices. You denied basic nsaid patches for me repeatedly which md's said were all that was keeping me off opioids. But sure. It's about unnecessary unsafe care. 🙄 #chronicillness #unitedhealthcare