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Introduction!

Hi, welcome to my blog!✨

Fun things about me....

Studying science at university (biology & chemistry)🧬🧪

Lover of animals (including insects) and nature🦒🌱

I love reading📚

I dabble in some photography, drawing, painting and any creative medium I can get my hands on📸🎨

I love performing arts!🎷⭐

Other things...

I am chronically ill and disabled (ambulatory wheelchair user and tubie) 👩‍🦽

I am part of the LGBTQIA+ community🏳️‍🌈

Feel free to ask (respectful and SFW) questions. (It can be about anything! Science, uni, any of my interests,life generally, disability, chronic illness etc)

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Art featuring my mobility aids and my NJ & G-tubes.

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Happy feeding tube awareness week!

- Feeding tubes are nothing to be ashamed of

- It's ok to feel burnt out from your feeding tube

- It's ok to feel mixed emotions about having a feeding tube

[ratbugs]

the most ridiculous creature ever

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I love anteaters

[rocals]

hot take I know but I think that things should cost less

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[thelonely-shepherd]

i really like him

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[ OC ] Jiayi 佳怡 💚⭐️💙She has a TBI with paraplegia and strabismus ♿️✅📒

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Feeding tube appreciation post!

Shout-out to everyone living with feeding tubes!

While it can really suck to have them, I think it's amazing that they exist (modern medicine for the win) and help keep people alive & functioning.

I myself have two feeding tubes. A G-tube (which I've had for over 3 years) and an NJ (which I've had for nearly a month).

Without my feeding tubes I wouldn't be alive right now, and my NJ in particular has vastly improved my quality of life (my worsened fatigue and other symptoms from being malnourished have since gotten so much better, and I can actually get out and do things now).

I wish more appreciation (don't get me started on missing feeding tubes off my disability aid appreciation post lol) was given to feeding tubes, and that there was more representation in media of people living with them (I hardly ever see someone in a book, movie, TV show with a feeding tube).

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Happy invisible disabilities awareness week!🌻

You're reminder that not all illnesses and disabilities are visible and that all disabilities are valid whether they are visible or not.

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Underappreciated disability aids!

- Stools/chairs - I use a stool to sit down in the kitchen because I can't stand for long periods, also shower stools/chairs that allow people sit down to shower

- Grab bars & rails - Help someone stand up/sit down or keep their balance as they walk

- Glasses - Heaps of people need glasses but people forget that they are an aid

- Grab sticks - Help people pick things up off the ground if they can't bend over

- Banana/sliding boards - Help people transfer between surfaces by sliding

- Hoist systems - Help people transfer between surfaces by being lifted and moved

- Adaptive grip tools - Help people with issues gripping to grab onto various items. These include adaptive grips for utensils, cups, stationary etc.

- Compression wear - Socks, gloves, stockings etc that provide compression to reduce various things including blood pooling, lymphoedema, pain etc.

Please add on other disability aids that deserve more awareness and appreciation!

[crippled-peeper]

powerchairs

[spacexfucker]

g tubes, feeding tubes, single use feeding bags, pumps

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Thank you! I genuinely cannot believe I forgot feeding tubes since I have two myself😭

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Underappreciated disability aids!

- Stools/chairs - I use a stool to sit down in the kitchen because I can't stand for long periods, also shower stools/chairs that allow people sit down to shower

- Grab bars & rails - Help someone stand up/sit down or keep their balance as they walk

- Glasses - Heaps of people need glasses but people forget that they are an aid

- Grab sticks - Help people pick things up off the ground if they can't bend over

- Banana/sliding boards - Help people transfer between surfaces by sliding

- Hoist systems - Help people transfer between surfaces by being lifted and moved

- Adaptive grip tools - Help people with issues gripping to grab onto various items. These include adaptive grips for utensils, cups, stationary etc.

- Compression wear - Socks, gloves, stockings etc that provide compression to reduce various things including blood pooling, lymphoedema, pain etc.

Please add on other disability aids that deserve more awareness and appreciation!

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- Hearing aid

- Sound isolation aid (headphones, etc.)

- Pacemaker

- Insulin Pomp

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Ooh that reminds me! Feeding tubes as well!

I myself have two feeding tubes and I rely on them to stay alive and function! (How did I forget to add them 🥲)

Thank you so much for the additions!

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Oh for tubes, could people have tubes to breath as well ?

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Tracheostomies, supplemental oxygen, CPAP machines!

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Friendly reminder to check the feet/tips on your canes and crutches; do they need to be replaced?

Also, don't forget to check the feet of your shower chair/stool occasionally ✌️

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Underappreciated disability aids!

- Stools/chairs - I use a stool to sit down in the kitchen because I can't stand for long periods, also shower stools/chairs that allow people sit down to shower

- Grab bars & rails - Help someone stand up/sit down or keep their balance as they walk

- Glasses - Heaps of people need glasses but people forget that they are an aid

- Grab sticks - Help people pick things up off the ground if they can't bend over

- Banana/sliding boards - Help people transfer between surfaces by sliding

- Hoist systems - Help people transfer between surfaces by being lifted and moved

- Adaptive grip tools - Help people with issues gripping to grab onto various items. These include adaptive grips for utensils, cups, stationary etc.

- Compression wear - Socks, gloves, stockings etc that provide compression to reduce various things including blood pooling, lymphoedema, pain etc.

Please add on other disability aids that deserve more awareness and appreciation!

[bookdragonlibrary]

- Hearing aid

- Sound isolation aid (headphones, etc.)

- Pacemaker

- Insulin Pomp

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Ooh that reminds me! Feeding tubes as well!

I myself have two feeding tubes and I rely on them to stay alive and function! (How did I forget to add them 🥲)

Thank you so much for the additions!

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Rewatching heartstopper (don't know how many times I've rewatched it tbh) and I just need to say how much I love it!

Like the representation is amazing and while there are certainly some moments that are harder and safer (season 3 omg) it just makes me feel so happy and good.

I feel seen on so many different levels and I can relate to so many different characters for so many different reasons.

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Do you ever get compliments on your mobility aid(s)?

Yes, I have got compliments once or twice

Yes, I sometimes get compliments

Yes, I regularly get compliments

I have never got compliments on my mobility aid(s)

Nuance

show results / I don't use mobility aids

Voting ended onOct 21, 2025

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I get compliments on the snap bracelet animals I've added to my chair, and I get heaps of compliments when I decorate my chair for events!

This is when I decorated my wheelchair for a ball!