Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz i guess it's a pretty good testa-mint to your perseverance

today's truth:

let's plays are little sibling culture

don't at me you know i'm right

p.s. it's not terribly effective

i call this new #spoonie move the 'bartleby the scrivener', when the pain starts climbing up my jaw i just yell I WOULD PREFER NOT TO

@fluffy@queer.party that's very fair! i know that i'm probably saying shit you're way on top of, but i wanted to lean in the door and note that the things exist in the 5% chance it was useful LOL

@fluffy@queer.party (they are however expensive as fuck, but if the mask fitting doesn't work out, then that means you can go to duke it out with insurance as best equipped as possible to get them to pay for the fucking thing)

@fluffy@queer.party honestly i think it would help immensely - i know it has helped the minor bruxism i had (very pain + sleep = gnaw gnaw gnaw, thanks asleep me, you Asshole, you Fool, you Knave) - basically it could function like a very fancy splint (that also moves your jaw forward, preventing your throat from collapsing so you can still breathe unimpeded)

@fluffy@queer.party just tossing this out there as i drive by the timeline -

could it be a low-level anxiety thing working against you? honestly i can't tolerate CPAP/APAP at all - it just sets off some deep lizard brings AAAA SMOTHERING panic.

there is the dental appliance solution to sleep apnea too that you may want to ask about. it's basically like wearing a retainer, so there's no stuff to wear on your face. it does make the jaw sore sometimes, but is a thing worth knowing?

listen, when i said "i hope this steroid injection does something", i wanted something HELPFUL, not "have (another) acne breakout, and also, now you get 15 Minutes Crushing Anxiety about once a day"

also sad and mad about my friends having to go through bullshit, and having no way to help them, or even spoons to help them research

feeling a bit useless and upset, more or less.

at least i got ranch pasta salad?

me: boy i'm glad that the fediverse has a different culture than other parts of the internet, dominated by whatever topics 12 year old boys most like yelling at each other in middle school

fediverse: here's grossout humor but actually i faked it. it is a social experiment, and i am the most clever

fediverse: that IS the most clever, let us talk about this endlessly! and in ways that are impossible to filter!!

me: ah... i see...

idk if it's just me but holy shit it feels like the southern usa went from 'dregs of winter' to 'SUMMER.' in record FUCKING time and i am NOT coping well

honestly at this point i'm thinking i might be better off with a bag of fuckin peas lol.

#spoonie folks and others, y'all have a favourite brand of reusable coldpack that you can use for therapeutic stuff (e.g. mushing on yourself)? chattanooga colpacs keep fuckin letting me down

i'm not exactly running these things over with a steamroller or tossing them into a meatgrinder either!!! i'm laying them on my shoulder...!!!

i just want to chill my shoulder without dealing with grey smears on my chair and clothes and person 😭

uuugh i need to summon my Can I Speak To Your Manager energy because these reusable coldpacks are fucking beyond the pale

same company, same product, held up for 7 years. great, let's get some more. 2 out of the 6 or so new ones have had to be tossed out entirely. the other 3 are all patched. the heat sealing around the edge is just... not as good as it used to be, so the grey goop is constantly leaking out. i thought putting duct tape all around the edge would head off problems, but no... =_=

as a resident Legitimate Cyborg i'd like to say, on behalf of the cyberpunk future: it's pretty fucken sweet actually

i just gotta sit on a hockey puck every so often to charge the battery in my butt and i get a busted-ass nerve to shut the fuck up and not hurt