Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

i totally forgot that i had it because i just didn't have the spoons to keep up with it at the time, and now that i have rediscovered it i'm SUPER JAZZED

because being incredibly pale-skinned and dark-haired, all the electrolysis i did in middle school (yep. middle school. thanks pcos) has... well, not really stuck around much

you know, despite having bought this fancy remington ilight doodad, then wandering off and getting distracted, i have no idea how often i'm supposed to use this thing.

i guess.... just once after every shave/shower Until It Has An Effect?

at which point i'll probably notice that my pcos neckbeard is only gone in irregular patches and drive myself mad at how i am bad at estimating where to go next on me faec

@gazimoff i'm all set myself, but i'll gladly give this a boost for other people to see! 💖

also, pro #spoonie tips - #MRI s don't suck nearly as bad as they used to. most of them now have where you can listen to something while you have the MRI. podcasts are GREAT for this, because it gives you something definite to focus on that's not the beat of a song that's going to get interrupted by the WHUMPWHUMPWHUMP of the machine. the last one i had was able to queue up whatever from online so i made the tech listen to half an ep of #sawbones :D

@maple honestly they're really rad and i hope that when i'm a bit more well (hunting down Whatever Is Wrong In My Shoulder), i'd love to actually.... do my science writing planned career and spread the good word about these things, LOL

it's not a 100% shot, it depends heavily on stuff like how the implant leads scar in on healing etc etc., but it's a really cool option that i hope catches on since it's a treatment for neuropathic pain (and those are far and few between).

@maple i honestly am SO glad to have it, it was a long shot that my pain doc had to fight with my insurance to cover, but it does an amazing job of just... covering up one particular damaged nerve's screaming. so instead of pain, there's 80-95% coverage of just kinda... gentle buzzy feeling.

getting an MRI done with one was a little terrifying at the outset but thankfully, it's totally fine lol, the loss of pain relief is the biggest/only problem there.

*i really am indeed a cyborg because of the spinal cord stimulator. it means that every so often i need to charge the battery pack in my butt, lol. no, there's no port or anything, i just have to sit with a kinda hockey puck thing to the small of my back which is the other half of an electromagnetic motor that then spins up underneath my skin and charges the battery.

right, time to charge my cyborg implant* and actually play video games instead of just being a slow-moving tumbleweed of anxiety

@Jacki@radical.town all of the above. full vaporwave bedroom!

thank goodness. even though my mom will have to stay another night just in case, procedure over, it went really well.

i'm going to collapse into a relieved blob for a second and try to do something about this headache

@Azure this is one of my favourite memorial statues in the world! (and i am quite pleased to see it drift across in mention on the fediverse timeline)

(however, i'm someone who read too much redwall when in middle school and then became a bio major who is adamantly pro-medical-animal-testing, so, i might be an outlier about how i get a bit misty-eyed about such things)

@Dayglochainsaw https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D553XK3/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1 PROPER BIG PILE OF SHIBA STICKERS! also cat version too! they're like... paper-ey and not slick/glossy like normal stickers, but this means they look really cute in journals tbh. a little expensive, but prime eligible and also you get 120 good-sized individual stickers so.

also, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JM3HXC3/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 vaporwave stickers because why not.

people who can do winged eyeliner are basically witches who know deep magic.

people who can do winged eyeliner right THE FIRST TIME are probably some sort of higher celestial beings, and i fear and admire them in equal measure.

@Dayglochainsaw obviously you should buy a big pack of cute stickers and tell your therapist it's a gift, for them to give out to all patients (including you of course ;) )

(i'm only halfway joking honestly)

(also i've got links in here somewhere about the very cute set of shiba inu stickers i got off amazon for a good price as well)

ugh. odds are increasingly good my mom won't be home from the hospital for new years.

i wonder if i should finally take a shower and do my hair and makeup anyway. is it too vain to do such just for new years selfies when you aren't going anywhere, lol?

@Dayglochainsaw it's kind of intimidating to march in there like it's a fucken business meeting, but honestly, it's well worth it - or at least i always found it that way because i'm much more articulate with writing than i am with talking, lol

there are a lot of cute journaling ideas and stuff out there as well! may as well soften the blow with some #aesthetique. either that or i'm just way too easily bribed by stickers still, tbh.