#messed up knee
atmospheric pressure annoys the hell out of me
sometimes the sky is HEAVY and sometimes the sky is LESS HEAVY, you wake up every godforsaken day not knowing HOW HEAVY THE SKY WILL BE because that dumb blue bitch is a fluctuating MERCURIAL HARLOT and I am SICK OF IT
the notes are a 3-way-handshake between people with pressure-related joint pain, people with pressure-related migraines, and autistic folks with pressure-related Everything Feels Like Shit Today For No Apparent Reason. you’re all valid fuck the sky
hold the fuck up.
okay which irrelevant-looking weather number should I have been paying attention to all along and how far apart are the “too high” and “too low” versions of the number?
I have no clue what numbers indicate this, nor how to read them, but I do always know when either a Clipper or Chinook is coming through the next day, because my migranes will get 5000x worse and my injured knee (and as of this year elbow, but I’m hoping that goes away or at least minimizes as it heals) will swell up like a pain balloon. I can tell the difference purely by the fact that Clippers are worse and also make my ankle act up too. Like there’s always jokes about how old people can feel the weather changing, but that is 100% true and not restricted by age, and the only reason old people are more likely to know this is because they’ve had longer to both aquire and learn to read this kind of ailment.
A piece of advice to anyone who’s been considering, avoiding thinking about, or waffling on:
Get the fucking cane.
I am very serious. Get the cane, get the assistive device (I’m going with cane here, because simplicity, but the device you’re thinking about goes here), do it. If you’re thinking “damn, if these Symptoms get much worse, I’m gonna need to get a cane”, you already need the cane. You’ve probably been in a state that would be improved by it for a while.
I get it, though. I had other disabilities, including physical ones, prior to Getting A Cane, and I heard this advice from other people and I thought “okay, but my situation is not that bad, and I’m sure I’ll know when it’s really bad” as I lay awake half the night in pain because of a short little walk that afternoon. It turns out, I am not immune to internalized ableism either, like I’m a person in an ableist society or something.
I thought “this is gonna be a hassle, and they cost money, and people will be weird about it”, and learning to use it did take a minute, thankfully mine was pretty cheap, and yeah, some people are weird but most importantly: fuck ‘em, I did in fact need the cane. I can do a lot more now, and probably could have prevented some damage if I’d gotten it earlier and it looks cool.
Stop putting it off. Stop worrying about unpleasant people being unpleasant. You don’t have to suffer at the highest pain/difficulty/etc to be allowed to get the cane, you’re allowed to get it now. If you only need it sometimes, that’s okay.
Get the fucking cane.
In this specific example, get the fancy sword cane or the one with a dragon head on the handle. Then it feels like a fashion statement even when you’re using it so you don’t otherwise fall over. I can say from experience it makes it 1000x better in all regards.
