Sam's Wife here, composing this post at her instruction!
We're putting together an Amazon wishlist (link below) for helpful items to make hospital life easier for her- pretty much all our spare money, plus some of our not-actually-spare money, is going towards getting me to and from the hospital every day (current hospital covid policy re: visitors forces me to leave between 6pm and 9am, so I can't do what I've done for all her previous admissions and sleep in her room for three nights, go home for one night to tend to the cats and my cranky joints, then repeat until she's home) because parking that is acceptable for my own disability needs is $20/day, and the 3-4 hour round trip between our rural RV site and the hospital consumes over a 3rd of a tank of gas. So getting some assistance with items that will solve some issues she's encountered and/or make her life easier would be an enormous help.
Current list is short, but we're still earlier in her recovery process, so we'll add things as we discover new needs. She'll be going to the inpatient rehab unit here at her hospital (hopefully fairly soon), so we're holding off on trying to think ahead too much bc the rehab folks will be a valuable resource regarding items that will help her take care of herself most effectively.
ohmygodfinallythankyou
Ok so I've found a way to describe what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like to neurotypicals
So you know how you can't make yourself put your hand down on a hot stovetop? There's a part of your brain that stops you from doing that? That's what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like
Even if we want to do it, there's a barrier stopping us from doing it, and it's really hard to override
And why does our brain see the task as a hot stovetop? Because when neurotypicals finish a task, they get serotonin, but we don't get that satisfaction after completing a task. A neurotypical wouldn't get serotonin from putting their hand on a hot stovetop, it would just hurt. When we can't do a task, it's because our brain knows that the task will hurt (metaphorically) and wants to avoid that.
It's not that we're choosing not to do the task, it's that our brain is physically preventing us from doing it.
Neurotypicals can and should reblog but please don't add anything
(Sorry/not sorry about the random bolding, it makes it easier for us to read)
if you live in california please vote no on prop 22 to waste the 186 million dollars uber lyft and doordash spent to keep exploiting their workers
Shortstaffing should be illegall
anyone ever thinking about how talwyn would have probably keep 'guarding' apogee space station with cronk and zephyr all her life if ratchet and clank didn't break into it in the first place? or how little time it took her to agree to help them without asking any questions? she was so fast to just drop whatever important job she had on that station and didn't even make sure it was safe while they were gone. i mean yeah it had turrets and lasers and all, but ehh. and also she straight up told ratchet to 'lock up on his way out' like im internally screaming everytime i think about it this girl must have been so fucking bored
I love how her sister is holding her knitting needles UPSDIE DOWN! How are you getting anything done, girl?
Molly’s Surprise
Newer Illustrations by Nick Backes
(When I have access to the original Molly books with the original illustrations, I’ll upload them in a separate post. Why yes, Molly did use to have different illustrations.)
(This is also in my top favorite holiday books from the AG series)
May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨
This is what Rasputin would've wanted.