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one-time-i-dreamt · 2 years
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Legend behavior from Belle Grace
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in-sufficientdata · 7 months
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This can be a huge source of medical trauma and it's so cruel that it's being imposed on people by the medical establishment itself. How can they help but feel anything but helpless? There's no fighting that.
I can't help but think of this from my own perspective as a fibromyalgia patient who keeps having to fight being thought of as (or even being labeled as) drug-seeking.
I am literally just trying to live life closer to the standard that 'normal' people have every day.
Why is it in any way fair that most people are mostly pain-free and capable of doing the things they want to do, but I have to suffer with pain on a daily basis that is at minimum, on a very rare, very good day, at level 5?
Why is it when I report that my pain level is at level 7, 8, 9, I only get doctors side-eyeing me and explaining my OTC options?
I have had chronic pain since I was 8. I'm very fucking aware of my OTC options, so no thank you, doc.
And when I spend 20 minutes explaining in detail that my daily pain has noticeably increased and changed in quality since around January 1st, why should I have my PCP giggle at me every time I say that I need help with managing my pain and learning ways to deal with it?
It felt incredibly invalidating and I wish he would have said, look, I don't have the expertise to help you, so here's a referral to a pain specialist.
I only found out there was a such thing by trying to research the topic after this on my own!
So yeah, it's not just the insurance companies, it's the doctors, too.
It's almost like having a profit-motivated medical establishment hurts patients.
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luthienne · 11 months
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blockgamepirate · 2 years
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I’ve seen multiple people say something along the lines of “when you die of cancer, the cancer dies too, so it was a draw”, which I understand is a way to cope with the loss, but I feel like it’s kind of a weaksauce argument and crucially: that’s ignoring something really important:
Techno was fighting that battle on two fronts.
He was fighting the cancer inside himself, sure, but he was also fighting sarcoma in general by raising money for research.
And that fight isn’t over.
If the money Techno raised ends up helping with finding a cure for sarcoma in the future? I would consider that a W.
Techno was always a team player through and through, he knew that even if he went down, his team could still take the victory for him. Don’t disrespect him by calling it a draw when we don’t have the results yet. Keep supporting his teammates:
https://www.curesarcoma.org/
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realpokemon · 9 months
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The first time i saw ur hospital pick i thought they put a ditto in ur fucking IV bag
they put a ditto in my blood to invent cancers you’ve never even fucking heard of
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apollos-boyfriend · 2 years
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attempting to visualize what 50,000 people look like. he was so loved. he still is.
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exoflash · 2 years
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Hey, so I'm not a fan of dsmp at all. But I heard the unfortunate news about technoblade, and I want to say this.
If you treat this man's death as something funny, if you make fun of him and joke about it solely because you don't like dsmp, please don't interact with me at all.
Cancer is a horrible thing that should NEVER be joked about. His family, friends, and fans are grieving. Losing a loved one to a nigh-incurable condition isn't funny. Show some respect.
Sending love to techno's friends, family, and fans. Hang in there.
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talaricula · 6 months
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I'm seeing lots of speculation in the wake of the unwanted guest about whether absorbing Loveday's soul is what made Cytherea snap and sure, I see the theory, but personally as a cancer survivor I have never ever questioned why Cytherea snapped
Cancer is an existentially terrifying, often debilitatingly painful and/or exhausting illness, that, if not cured, takes over your body bit by bit, gets into the highly essential bits which increases the suffering and/or fundamentally changes you as a person, makes you extremely vulnerable and dependent on others, and almost inevitably kills you unless you get it when you're old enough and die of old age first instead. Its treatment is often just as painful and exhausting as the illness, or even more so, and doesn't always work. When you have cancer, there are two ways out: being cured (preferable) or, when that is not an option, deciding for yourself when you have reached the point where the suffering is so bad and the outlook so non existent that you would rather die now rather than later after even more and worse suffering.
And John took both of those options away from Cytherea and from her entire line of descendants. When he had the option to cure them all all along. Idk about y'all but the revelation in Nona that John could cure cancer was the number one earth shattering realisation for me. He did this to her, and to the entire Seventh House, on purpose.
This is the first giant betrayal to me. For generation after generation, for TEN THOUSAND YEARS, this man let the heirs of the Seventh House be sick for functionally their entire lives, likely starting in childhood, go through an incalculable amount of painful and exhausting experimental treatments bc he didn't even bring modern medicine into his New Order, and die in their twenties or thirties at best, when he could have STOPPED THIS ALL ALONG with little more effort than snapping his fingers.
Second big betrayal is towards Cytherea herself, but basically the same point : he could have cured her at any time. Before she became Lyctor, possibly, since we're not sure how static Lyctor bodies are, but Mercy's powers, Harrow's lobotomy and Ianthe's arm suggest that it would have been an option afterwards too. And he didn't. He let her have cancer for TEN THOUSAND years without curing her. And he calls himself her friend. Absolutely fuck that bastard.
Third big betrayal is the same betrayal that he inflicts on all the other Lyctors, but imo worse bc of Cytherea's illness. It seems from the books that Lyctors are, if obv not functionally immortal, at least Very Difficult to kill. Consequently, John demands Cytherea's loyalty not only in the form of killing the person she loves the most in the world, but in the very same act, in the form of cutting off the One escape route she has left out of the suffering he's purposefully keeping her in. In short, he takes the one person away from her who she perhaps doesn't resent depending on and, in the same act, makes it A Lot more difficult for her to choose euthanasia. (There's meta in this about the deeply realistic and also Terrifying ableism of John "admits openly that he'll pay any price so the people he loves can't leave him" making his sick friend dependent on him by keeping her sick, taking away her (arguable) main caretaker and cutting her off from the option of leaving him by dying.)
And at the same time that the other Lyctors realise John's betrayal re: their cavaliers, Cytherea potentially realises ALL OF THIS. TEN THOUSAND years of suffering, of seeing her House suffer, on top of losing the person she cares about the most, and ALL OF IT was avoidable, and not just avoidable but EASY TO AVOID? Is it any wonder she went on a rampage to bring down John and everything he cared about and had worked towards, and that she didn't care about dying at the end (or, perhaps, was even counting on that outcome)? I had cancer (as an aware adult) for a year in the best imaginable circumstances and am still fucked up about almost a decade later. After TEN THOUSAND YEARS and learning there had been another option all along, I'd have done WAY WORSE than Cytherea. I really don't think she needed to absorb anyone's soul to get there. It is, in my opinion, a deeply understandable and realistic reaction.
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fatphobiabusters · 4 months
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Thats not how any of this works.
"Obesity is responsible" you literally cannot prove this. What the fresh hell.
The amount of stories we've seen through this blog of fat people not getting the bare minimum of cancer screenings, and told to loose weight only to have cancer, is disgusting. You cannot take these statements seriously when fatphobic doctors don't give fat people screenings they need.
Im going around in circles and just need to slap people.
-mod squirrel
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rofax · 10 months
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Since I'm "on the other side" of cancer for now, I feel like I can make jokes about it without jinxing everything.
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antlerqueer · 1 year
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Dead To Me (2019-2022). We've Reached the End.
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adiduck · 6 months
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Chapters: 1/8 Fandom: Top Gun (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky & Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Tom "Iceman" Kazansky Characters: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, "Dagger" Training Detachment Aviators (Top Gun) Additional Tags: Time Travel, Complicated Interpersonal Relationships, Mentions of Cancer, Chronic Illness, Hospitals, Established Relationship, get-together, (yes both), Tom "Iceman" Kazansky Lives, Period-Typical Homophobia, Self-Discovery, Texting, Use and Abuse of Aviation Terms, Unrepentant Fawning over the F-14 Tomcat, Reconciliation Summary:
“How do we know the pre-selected one-seaters will be able to fly the mission?”
Cyclone and Warlock look at each other. “They have been selected, as you were, Captain, for their experience in similar missions. Their situation is… unique,” Warlock explains.
“They’re black ops?” Maverick asks. “Because otherwise I don’t know that there are any active naval aviators who can fly this.” Besides me, he doesn’t say. Again.
“Not anymore,” Cyclone allows. “Are you familiar with Operation Groundhog?”
(Or: The Navy has decided to solve its problems with Time Loop technology. Certain parties decide to solve a few other problems with it, too.)
Here we are! This baby has been three months in the oven, and I'm pleased to announce it is ready for your viewing pleasure! We will be posting on Sundays, unless I am busy on Sundays, in which case we will be posting Mondays, per the poll on tumblr that I posted LOL
As always, it takes a village for a fic like this, so I want to thank the Beta Team for their amazing assistance: Asuka, Hawkey, Jordan, Henley, I would not have gotten here without you. 💜 Similarly, I want to thank Serie and Cy, who cheered for me tirelessly throughout, and all my friends on Discord who very patiently read all of my snips and did not kick me out of the server for being annoying about it. I hope everyone who has been looking forward to this novel-length fic enjoys it!
Finally, the title of this story comes from a song by Joni Mitchell called, depending on the time of recording, either Clouds or Both Sides Now. Here at the beginning, I recommend you listen to this version.
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spielzeugkaiser · 2 years
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[MASTERPOST]
They finally call Eskel! Geralt may have done the talking this time, but l they did discussed this beforehand and Vesemir had urged them to do this. And I do think, after they had this talk, that Jaskier knows it's important for Geralt to tell somebody.
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luthienne · 1 year
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life is so confusing because your mom can get diagnosed with cancer but then seven months later she’ll offer you a jar of pickles and you’ll say no it’s ok just keep it at your place because we already have some here. and then she’ll have your brother drive her over to give you some food that she picked up as a surprise from costco because you mentioned you liked it once. and then she’ll give you the jar of pickles anyway. and you’ll get slightly annoyed because you literally said not to bring the jar of pickles, which is now leaking in the bag she hands you. and now you’re feeling guilty because you remember how lucky you are that your mom is still around to bring you that jar of pickles you said you didn’t want. and now you’re crying on the couch
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blockgamepirate · 10 months
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btw this link still works
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tomiokumura · 1 year
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We aren’t about a fight, and it certainly isn’t “losing” a battle. Every living day here is a win.
THE MIDNIGHT CLUB 1.01 “The Final Chapter”
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