Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Decided to buy one of those space-flavoured sodas™️​ while picking up my prescription earlier and, uh...

Gotta say, real brave of the Coca-Cola Corporation to make a soda that tastes like that shitty """bubblegum-flavoured""" medicine we'd get as kids.

"It's just a massive hivemind of Katheryne!"

I did a half-assed rendering of it. I'm not good enough at this kind of art to really do it any sort of justice, but I think it gets the point across.

I had a dream "last night" that I won a foot race and as I was coming in on the last lap, while I was doing the whole "holy shit, I won" thing, I started glowing trans pride colors and breathed a plume of pride colored fire up like some kind of pride dragon. It was pretty cool

Incidentally, don't worry about me. I think the neck fuckery was just from how I slept and nothing has cropped up thus far to suggest my concerns were valid. I'm keeping an eye on it, but thus far, if it is meningitis, as I said, it's a mild viral case that'll resolve itself as viral cases tend to. But, depending on how I'm feeling tomorrow, I may be a little more forceful about seeking care. We'll see, but I should be fine.

5/5

Sometimes, nothing's wrong. That concussion turned out to not be that bad. This whole thing could just be a mild flu or something. Allergies and weather, even. But it'd be better if I could see a doctor and confirm that, instead of having to pray it's going to be fine. So, yeah. Another way expensive healthcare kills: pricing you out of catching things before they get bad.

4/EOT

This is far from the first time cost has put me off preventative diagnostics. I once had a concussion. I tried to get a walk-in with my uni's (free) clinic, but couldn't because they were closing. I was told to go to urgent care. In the end, because of cost, I basically just hoped it'd be fine. But I still remember leaving my apartment unlocked in case they came for cleaning inspections and I'd died in my sleep. 3/

If it is something worse, though, by the time we'd be able to justify those costs, I'd be in a pretty bad shape. So if it isn't something that resolves itself... this delay could kill me. 2/

Ways expensive healthcare kills people:
I currently don't feel the best. In particular, I might have the flu. But when I woke up this morning, my neck felt kinda fucky and I experience a few waves of nausea that nearly made me throw up. Yep, I was concerned about meningitis. But we can't afford an urgent care or ER visit, so, as it stands, we're basically stuck praying it's either flu or a very mild viral meningitis that goes away on its own. 1/

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Oh, shit! I always wanted a 13 inch long dick! Tell me more!

Okay, well, that's not true, but gods are these emails fun. I'm glad I'm finally getting them (again).

As a fun fact, I tried to give on Friday but they couldn't find my midline vein. Apparently, in the meantime, I was hyped up to one of the phlebotomists as being quite the challenge. I was not that much of a challenge, but my midline vein is pretty tricky.

Yep, doing this again. And you (probably) should too!