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help me get my partner with MCAS stabilized

Hey all. The good news: I’ve found true love. The bad news: my lon… Ship D. needs your support for Help Me Get My Partner Wi

Hey all.

The good news: I’ve found True Love™️.

The bad news: my long-distance partner is disabled with worsening chronic illness and struggling to live alone in a state with very poor medical care. Most recently, a flareup of what we suspect to be MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) has worsened every other ailment and severely limited what my partner can safely eat, touch, and inhale without risk of anaphylaxis.

This is scary for both of us. I’m in the process of trying to relocate, but my partner needs more support than can wait on me to find a remote job I can take with me. This GoFundMe is to help me afford to take time away from work (I do not get paid leave of any kind) and help get my partner stabilized with frozen meals and medical travel.

What your donation will help me cover:

-travel expenses

-food for me so I can avoid draining my partner’s supply of “safe” foods

-loss of 3 weeks income as I take unpaid time away from work

-more freedom to experiment with what my partner can safely tolerate; with MCAS, the only way to learn what is safe is through trial and error, as what is tolerated by one person may not be tolerated by another

-any excess will go towards safe foods and other caretaking and accessibility needs

glumshoe

Thank you, everyone. I don’t know what to say. Your extraordinary generosity is going to allow us to get mold testing and make accessibility changes that will help my partner maintain stability while I’m not there. I’m overwhelmed by the kindness you have shown us both. This makes the kind of difference I wasn’t even allowing myself to daydream about. 💕

I’m going to keep the fundraiser open for now—anyone with or around chronic illness knows what a money sink it can be, especially while struggling to find capable providers or mitigate environmental causes.

#please help

seren-starlight

There is literally no circumstance where I support age verification to access a website. As I've said before I'm very much the "there's nuance here" person on almost everything but on this issue there's no nuance for me, it's awful and horrible in and of itself and it also sets an awful and horrible precedent

traycakes

I'm fine with "click here to confirm you're an adult" because it keeps people from finding it by accident.

I do not give a shit if the people checking the box are actually adults, and oppose any effort to confirm that they are.

I'm so tiorde... 🫩🫩🫩

deadelated

imagine coming home and your mom found your steampunk clothes and shes just there with her arms crossed

deadelated

she's holding up a ziplock bag of gears and springs asking you what they're for

deadelated

dog-journey

Dog Health/Behavior Scales

Body Condition Score (VCA) (WSAVA) (AAHA)

Faecal Score (Purina) (Royal Canin) (Waltham)

Periodontal Disease Stages (AVDC) (Greencross Vets)

Canine Acute Pain Scale (CSU)

Canine Fear and Anxiety Spectrum (FearFree)

Canine Gaits (spotsvet.com) (canine fitness and care center)

Short Form Glasgow Composite Measure Pain Scale (WSAVA)

Kendal Shepherd’s ladder of communication (PDSA)

#dogs #ref

cowboy

A girl can be a handsome fella. This is obvious

lakemojave

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

lakemojave

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

anonymusbosch

concept: clothing brand which advertises on its price tags both the retail price of the item and the amount paid to the person who sewed it

adiantum-sporophyte

concept: labeling requirement

anonymusbosch

for example:

Patagonia, which trumpets its Fair Trade and Fair Pay for Labor policies, states on its website that ~1/3 of its garment factories pay a living wage or more, 1/3 pay between 50% and 80% of a living wage, and 1/3 pay less than 50% of a living wage.

Patagonia has one supplier in Bangladesh. It acknowledges that this supplier "has made meaningful progress towards living wages". Patagonia advertises its support for raising the minimum wage in Bangladesh to 23,000 taka per month ($196 USD). The current Global Living Wage Coalition estimate for the living wage in urban Bangladesh is 27,900 taka per month ($238 USD). The current minimum wage in Bangladesh is just 12,500 taka per month ($133 USD).

A single hooded puffer jacket from Patagonia retails for $289 USD.

kaiasky

its terrible for any number of reasons, but i think if we invent immortality there should be an extreme sport called civilizational speedrunning where teams of 20 go into the wilderness somewhere and try and be the fastest build the first internal combustion engine. i bet you could get it down to like 3 years tops

biggestzam

The real trick is to eat seed heavy food before the speedrun starts so your first poops are halfway to agriculture already

kaiasky

i want you on my team holy shit

twinkhole-destroyer

they will kill you for having fun on the internet

photozoi

Shrimp tank progress

So far we have counted over 30 new shrimplets in the tank, but it is like reading a volume of Where's Waldo as all of the shrimp love disappearing into the cactus wood and Frogbit roots.