Other Highlights Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Saiyan puberty can be triggered early by environmental stressors

🫵 Everyone reblog with your favorite saiyan headcanons GO !!!!!

people have these “my dog is a democrat” stickers and I like to imagine them with increasingly unlikely animals professing more niche political opinions:

my parrot is a democratic socialist

my arctic fox is an anarchopastoralist

my catfish believes in the divine right of kings

If they're too young to choose to smoke, then they're too young to be forced to deal with someone else choosing to smoke.

ADHD and Navigating Healthcare Systems

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: navigating the US healthcare system is a Kafkaesque executive dysfunction nightmare: -2019 GYN appointment: given a referral for an ultrasound and mammogram. This was before I was taking medication for my ADHD, and I didn’t even know who to call to make an appointment, so my referral paper sat on my table until the referral literally expired. *insert feelings of shame*

-Put off scheduling my 2020 annual GYN appointment for months, because of the pandemic.

-Executive functioning struggles have prevented me from scheduling my appointment until recently, because my medication dosage needed to be increased, and I’ve been really busy.

-Given a referral for that same ultrasound, but at least I was provided additional information about who to call this time.

-Call to schedule radiology appointment as soon as I got home from appointment (higher medication dosage helps immensely with executive functioning).

-Sat on hold for 20 minutes.

-Receptionist, whose phone is crackling and I can only hear every other word she’s saying, tells me, verbatim, “your mammogram referral can’t be written this way. It has to be written differently.”

-Me: “What do you mean differently? How should it be written differently?”

-Receptionist: “It can’t be written this way. Your doctor will know how to write it.”

?????

-Call GYN back and tell them this, with what little information I have, and they tell me that they will have the doctor change it.

-And now…what? I wait? I don’t know how long until they will change it in the system so that I can call the radiologist back. My brain operates like: “now or never, and needs obvious but novel/unexpected visual cues to remember,” so there is a very short window of opportunity here to actually do this.

And people wonder why folks with ADHD struggle to take care of their health. It’s such a nightmare, every time, and any failure to navigate the system makes you feel incompetent and ashamed.

Happiness Will Come To You.

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.

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Check out my list on Amazon

May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

I'm going to scream. They really said "we broke into your apartment, killed your girlfriend and bc you shot at us in self defense, we're suing you."

Meanwhile you have old white men talking about how they'll shoot anyone who steps anywhere near their property and it's alright. It's fine if white man threatens to shoot anyone who pisses him off. But if a black person tries to use a gun in self defense, suddenly having a gun will get you in trouble?

Edit: From the GoFundMe

MAY 22, 2020, by Kenicia Walker, Organizer

We want to thank everyone again for their words, donations, and support. The charges have officially been dropped but without prejudice. The district attorney's' office has stated that if, after further review, he believes that there is sufficient evidence to go back to a grand jury, prosecutors will do so. So the fight for justice for Bre and for Tre is not over. Please continue to support by visiting standwithbre.com to sign the petition and for additional steps to take to ensure that those responsible for her death, are held responsible. Continue to pray for our families, as we are still grieving the loss of Bre, who was taken away entirely too soon. God Bless.