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I'm on a half dose of my anti-psychotic right now, and I gotta say it's not as bad as it usually is. To be fair, I recently got a dose increase so my half dose is higher than what it usually is. My sleep has been okay, just feeling a bit overwhelmed by life right now.
My knee is slowly getting better, it's still pretty hard to stand or walk for extended periods of time, but at least I'm not struggling to walk anymore.
Eating my lunch. I am eating homemade mochi with peanut butter and a vegan hazelnut cream because I'm a poor fat weeb who got rice flour from the food bank.
My foot infections are getting much worse. I picked off a scab that has been on my foot for a while (because I wanted to check what was going on underneath), expecting it to bleed but instead a load of yellow infection came out. I contacted the podiatrist to explain the situation and ask if i could just get the op anyway due to the severity (also it's getting painful to wear shoes) but I'm still waiting to hear back.
my outreach person said that my appeal form was really well written yippee
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tourette's discourse 
all I'm gonna say is there is one malicious party here and it is the BBC which decided to censor stuff about Palestine but not cut out the Disability-Induced Public Humiliation Moment
yea that was my opinion on it too
the discourse is really not great, just people straight up saying disabled people shouldn't be able to be visible in polite society, or people being racist, eugh 
And you are correct about the BBC being the malicious party.
Had to wait the weekend to get a refill on my anti-psychotic medication. I got stomach aches, almost vomited, and headaches. Luckily, I got the refill yesterday and felt better the morning after.
Oof, anti-psychotic withdrawal is brutal, which one are you on if you don't mind me asking?
Olanzapine.
Oh yeah, I used to be on Olanzapine, it was brutal getting off it. I'm sorry you're struggling with that
With the recent incident of Tourettes being in people’s circles of talking, while IDK if the guy who did say the N-word apologized, but let’s say he did and has no actual hate.
It’s kind of disgusting how everyone is spreading around what would be a very embarrassing moment for someone as a smug gotcha “he said the funny word. Suck it, moralists!” like he doesn’t want to hide behind Tourettes, a tic put him in an embarrassing situation.
You’re literally acting like a south park joke.
I just saw my campus on the news....
For conditions being so bad in the labs they're being linked to cancer.
Holy shit 
5 of the lab instructors in a period of 10 years have apparently gotten cancer before the age of 35 So not great!
...how do you have this happen and not investigate this from the university's side? Like, hello, you should care the most about the workplace being safe???
How often do you have to go to this lab area?
Used to be every day! I haven't been down there for a couple of months, but we're looking at having to go there at least twice a week next month, so that sucks.
...how do you have this happen and not investigate this from the university's side? Like, hello, you should care the most about the workplace being safe???
The faculty were informed by the environmental medicine department at the local hospital in 2019.
Sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
Okay, so they absolutely don't give a shit. Maybe a lawsuit will get them off their asses, but for that, you'd need to get a bunch of people on board.
we're looking at having to go there at least twice a week next month
Did the report explain what was so hazardous? Maybe you can wear additional protection? Or simply say you refuse to go there for health reasons?
There's been no formal investigation, but the assumption is that it's formaldehyde exposure that's the main culprit, which makes sense given that the entire hallway near the labs smells of the stuff.
I think I'd need to wear a respirator to be totally safe, which I don't think is realistic. I'm gonna have to send a mail to my classmates and my instructor
Yeah, as useful as formaldehyde may be for conservation, it is also pretty fucking dangerous for the living. Has the report mentioned any type of cancer in particular?
You could go for masks (with your classmates and instructor together) but otherwise, maybe just try to get the class to some other area.
It's kind of all over the place, which is why they are able to dismiss it as not their fault. Official guidelines is that formaldehyde exposure can only give you cancer in the nose, throat and mouth, and the cancers here are hodgkins lymphoma, lung cancer (I think it was) and colorectal cancer. QED not their fault and a total coincidence.
Right, because the human body isn't an interconnected system of multiple sub-systems that all affect each other reciprocally.
I'm so sorry you have to enter that building and had to enter it before. This is so fucked up, and your classmates as well as your instructors deserve better
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When I find myself in times of trouble / un_mask_me comes to me / speaking words of widom / You are loved. / And in my hour of darkness / they are standing right in front of me / speaking words of wisdom / You are loved.
I've never posted here before, so I'm hoping I'm not breaking any rules or acting in poor etiquette. I'm epileptic and some months back I was hospitalized with severe seizures, ever since then my memory has been utterly shit. It's embarrassing, forgetting basic things at work and around the house. More importantly, I don't feel totally present in my life now. My sense of time, from months to days, is screwed up. Seriously, sitting here, I can't tell you just what month I was hospitalized. A couple months ago or more than half a year ago? I've never had such bad seizures. I feel like it is so taxing on my wife who already has so much to deal with.
I'm not really sure why I'm typing this except that I guess I could use the support or some perspective. I feel such guilt and helplessness lately. My wife, family, and friends deserve better than me being so screwy and needy. But I know if the roles were reversed I'd do anything for them. I just hate feeling so helpless and stupid.
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I feel for your struggle, friend, and I can only try to imagine how confusing your time perception has to be. Have your doctors told you if there's a chance it could normalize again?
I also want to let you know that you are neither stupid nor a burden. You have a disability that impacts you severely. And that feeling of helplessness is one many of us in this community share. While we can't make the issues go away, we can listen and give each other the space to talk about it and not feel so alone with our problems.
Thank you for sharing your story, and we're happy to have you
you're more than welcome here!
and yea those are common feelings with anyone who's disabled i think, feeling like a burden. i don't really have insight i just want you to know that you are loved
Thank you, that's very kind. I am definitely loved, I know that for sure.
I hate being lectured on how accommodations are a sign of weakness and too much for poor porky to provide, yet we spent the last 50 years bending over backwards for porky and shoving free money in his face and all of us doing everything for him. Still, none of them have been in the hiring mood since 2008 and see every applicant as a burden they need to avoid rather than just a part of doing business.
I couldn't agree more, this is exactly what it's like.
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