I'm going to read today!!!! Please, please body, cooperate with me. (Brain fog and pain are not the best reading buddies.) I just want to read my books. :(
If anyone has any advice on reading while dealing with high pain levels and brain fog, I'm all ears.
When I’m flaring up bad I put on an audio book. In bed where it’s quiet and theres no distractions. I have focus problems on top of hearing and audio processing issues but if you find a reader you vibe with it’s a life saver. ❤
I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"
basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.
she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.
if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.
because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.
a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.
instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.
she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.
when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍
i will never understand the insane takes against having games be more accessible
“does every game NEED to be accessible to disabled people? 🤨” yeah, actually
also the pissing and shitting over difficulty settings. just play the game on the normal difficulty dumbass it’s not for you
Same with stuff like screen shake, particle effects, flashing/lightning effects: “But the game would look terrible without them!”
Then Just.... Don’t turn them off then, dickface...
Meanwhile, *having the option to turn them off* would greatly increase the number of people able to play the game.
Feel uncomfortable going to Cheesecake Factory when it’s so under the watch of the eye of Sauron
I made this post in 2016 and it got 3 notes, suddenly people are interacting with it. What is happening how did you even find it
How doe this post have less than 1,000 notes when “The Eye Of Sauron at the Cheesecake factory” has been living rent-free in my head for almost a decade?
living in my head rent free since i first went to a cheesecake factory in 2017
people will still love you despite it all!! they will love you with some pimples on your face. they will love you if your stomach is bloated. they will love you if your legs aren’t shaved. they will love you even if you stutter or if you’re weight has fluctuated or if you aren’t the best version of yourself. they will love you despite it all.
Lol I was impressed my sudafed had worked so well, I slept with no problems for those exact 4 hours. And symptoms are still very tolerable. Yesterday i was counting the minutes down to the 4 hour mark to when i could take more…
I read the little blister pack ive been using. Ive gone through 2 small squares we have floating in our med box.
Found out this new pack is working so well because its the real shit. Sudafed HCI as opposed to my previous pack, which was PE.
Shit makes a big difference 🙃
learning that self depreciation isnt cool and just makes the people around you uncomfortable unironically improved my mental health a lot. like if you just stop saying negative shit about yourself you will genuinely like yourself more and other people wont be repulsed by your attitude and you will have more friends. it's true.
Woke up with a low
I usually drink a glass of chocolate milk, especially when it happens at ungodly hours of the night/morning and dont feel like eating.
But my symptoms are perfectly supressed right now and i didnt wanna screw that up with milk..
So I gnawed on a mango. I do not remember those being so fibrous. 🤔 It was like biting wet hair. Tasted good tho
Also, I found out my ibs does not like mango.
Which is unfortunate because salvation army gave us like 6 🙃
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I’m going to read today!!!! Please, please body, cooperate with me. (Brain fog and pain are not the best reading buddies.) I just want to read my books. :(
If anyone has any advice on reading while dealing with high pain levels and brain fog, I’m all ears.
