I wanted to write on this topic because as common as this may be there are a lot of people I come in contact with who don’t even know this ailment exist in women.
This post is near and dear to my heart. I don’t usually talk about it because to some extent it makes me emotional. Why emotional you ask? Because PCOS is considered a disease or condition that is common but in my…
Since it’s super hard to find them when you need them! Anyone is welcome to use these, but I don’t want to see “this is great for people who DON’T have chronic illnesses too” (trust us, we know).
These are to be used as a supplement in addition to professional medical care, treatment and medication, not as a sole alternative!
If anyone knows of additional witchy content for any of these that I missed, or content on a category I wasn’t able to include, feel free to send it my way and I’ll get a part two started for this post!
The Only Card in a Deck of Knives is a collection of rambling, free-verse poetry that is constantly changing and contradicting all within one poem. Written from the perspective of a twenty something year-old who has a terminal illness, she has the ability to speak on a love of life, dying to die, as well as society’s reaction to sick women and its habit of discrediting their symptoms and feelings.
One of my favorite things about this collection was the way that each poem felt like a stream of consciousness. Things followed a train of thought, like a game where each word or phrase might remind the reader of their next point, or the next thought. You could follow the ideas even as long-winded as each piece might appear. Not every poem will relate to everyone, and how could it when it’s written from a specific perspective that the rest of us can only try to empathize with, but some of the lines were absolutely profound and lyrical.
Thank you to Lauren Turner, Buckrider Books, and Edelweiss for this review copy.
Please Help My Partner Leave Her Abusive Stepfather!
My name is Snark. My partner Moonie and I have been separated since the start of the pandemic. Only physically, mind you, as we’re just as in love as ever. I originally came home to my family in Ohio to help out with one emergency, only to get stuck here. Since then a lot has happened. I’ve been hospitalized twice from anemia, told I need surgery for my hiatal hernia– the cause of my anemia– and just in general have had difficulty surviving.
This plea, however, isn’t about that. I wouldn’t be asking for help if it weren’t for Moonie’s sake.
My wife just lost her mother to cancer. It has been a battle for months, and on Halloween she passed. Since then she has been alone in the middle of a small town in Pennsylvania with her step-father. That man is an inconsiderate monster. He’s an alcoholic, he leaves her alone to fend for herself for long stretches of hours at a time, and sometimes will just feel like not wanting to take care of anything and just bounce. Only thing he ever puts effort into is making her life more inconvenient.
My wife Moonie is also disabled. Her mother was the one who has had control of her finances and was her guardian as she’s been disabled since childhood.
She is now not able to even get into her bank accounts because it was under her mother’s name. Social Security offices are full right now, pushing back dates on all appointments, not only hers. Moonie is alone, grieving from losing her support system, her mother, and is alone with a man that mistreats her.
I want to fix that and move her to my mother’s home in Ohio.
As I said before, I am also disabled. Have been since my 9 back surgeries in 2005. At 13 years old. We’re both dumb adults who know nothing about life, but love each other dearly. I have saved up a 1000 dollars, but that isn’t enough. Moonie needs to be out of there now.
This is why we need your help.
I want to raise an additional 3000 dollars so we can do the cross state trip. That is 9 hours there, then 9 hours back. We need a moving company to help with getting our things.
What your donation will be going to:
Moving Men to load our stuff and take it from PA to OH
Gas
Food
Getting an additional driver
It is a lot of money for something that, in text, seems so simple. I know, and I wouldn’t turn to you guys for help unless I didn’t think this was vital. My mother is helping with the move, she will be helping us with switching our SS information to Ohio where we can start the process of grieving and healing. But we just don’t have the finances and energy to do this alone.
Thank you all again for listening. I know not everyone can help with money, even a dollar can be hard to spare at times, but even spreading the word will be appreciated.
Please reblog and help reunite Moonie and I together again.
TLDR:Disabled Partner stuck with emotionally abusive alcoholic stepfather. Need money to move her to us before Christmas.
Snark is an old friend and a wonderful person, and I’m sure Moonie is as wonderful as Snark is. Please donate if you’re able, or share to spread the word.
