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🧵 Last week was a very abrupt and harsh reality check.
This is me at 38 getting an EKG because PTSD symptoms have kept my nervous system in such a highly activated state for so long that I was sent to the ER to make sure I wasn't having a heart attack.
Thankfully, all the tests came back fine. No organ damage and no heart attack.
But it is abundantly clear that I cannot keep white-knuckling my way through this diagnosis without more daily support.
My world is significantly smaller than it used to be. It's frustrating. My creativity is gone, trying to work my business that I love feels almost impossible, traveling alone is completely out of the question, and my body is so incredibly exhausted.
We flew to Chicago this morning for my stellate ganglion block injection appointment.
I wasn't looking forward to having 2 injections in my neck but the doctor was really great and the discomfort was minimal.
So far....this WORKS. 😭
I developed severe flight anxiety a few years ago. I shook for the whole short flight up this morning and had a death grip on my husband's hand.
Post injection?
I didn't shake at all on the flight home. I forgot what that was like.
If Meta wants to use everyone's content to train AI, then maybe we should only post AI generated content on the platform.
Let it implode on itself.
Sure would be a shame if everyone decided to report the Corruptor in Chief and his ilk.
Make sure you don't do that, ok?
See fraud? It's time to expose it.
Report fraud, waste, and abuse to the federal government 📲 America.gov/fraud
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BREAKING: "Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble," per AFR
The Venn diagram of right wing talking heads advocating for taking women's rights away and freaking out about Sharia law in the US while refusing to acknowledge they're the same thing is a circle.
I said what I said.
If not for the state gas tax holiday, we'd be paying $4.61/gal in Indianapolis.
The "Golden Age" looks more like a turd sandwhich.
My life doesn't look the way I thought it would right now, and that comes with a profound sense of grief, but also relief in finally finding the beginning of an answer. The fact that I accomplished as much as I have with an untreated brain injury is a testament to my resiliency.
The season where I need to slow down arrived decades sooner than I could have anticipated.
Hera is my first service dog, but she won't be my last. I will more than likely require one for the rest of my life, especially if I begin to experience the early-onset of neurobiological conditions like dementia.
When I was born, I almost died. And if we're not really good friends, you probably didn't know that about me.
I was born via emergency C-section because I was being suffocated by my own umbilical cord. The cord was also being compressed, which decreased blood flow.
Numbing them for potentially months at a time opens the possibility for actual healing. It prevents my body from staying locked in survival mode and will hopefully make Cognitive Processing Therapy more effective in treating my PTSD.
You can't think your way out of having a brain injury, but you can remove a roadblock in order to treat the trauma layered on top of it.