the Koko Cave

I am Koko. I don't care anymore.

[kohakuhoshi]

1 week post op: doing okay. Pain levels okay. Managed to get milk by myself and some tacos.

On 2/28 i underwent a robotic assisted hysterectomy and salpingectomy, leaving only ovaries. I chose this because of easier recovery and less likelihood of nerve damage to my remaining pelvic organs. My reproductive system was so messed up I would likely never have had kids even if I wasn't ace, so I decided to share the details of my messed up innards for posterity and tell you why competent and accessible reproductive healthcare is so so SO important.

Tmi under cut for detailed info.

At the time I was diagnosed with a huge fibroid in the endometrium and more in the muscle and outside of the uterus I already had known PCOS, a chicken egg sized ovarian tumor removed and natbothian cysts which were bad enough. My uterus was enlarged to 12 week pregnancy size and the biggest fibroid was so big and the bleeding so heavy I was overflowing a menstrual cup at least twice a day for my heaviest days and I had to wear pads with it. My periods also went from five days to almost two weeks. It was well managed with the patch until I had a provoked DVT and had to go off it. Immediately it became much worse. An IUD did not help after it got displaced and it was removed and hysterectomy surgery booked. I suffered months while waiting.

They found adenomyosis (endometrium going in the uterine wall) a bigish cyst, dialated adnexa (vessels in parts of reproductive system which can cause pelvic pain) fibroids, endometriosis in my peritoneum and behind my cervix, endometriosis caused adhesions to my colon (no wonder I was always constipated lately) early changes in endometrium that are the precursor to precancer, and last but not least internal prolapse of the rectum that after begging I finally got repaired after 30 years. It was caused by my caregivers abusively shaming as a child over toilet clogging constipation causing me to hold it more to avoid using the toilet at home giving me more constipation and internal damage, opioids caused further damage after another surgery.

I should have had this done a decade ago. It's criminal that I had to suffer this long. Even one week post op I felt better than I have for months and I'm not even constipated anymore. I'm occasionally bleeding a little because of the vaginal and perineal stitches and very easily tired and I got sore just getting a half gallon of milk, but I actually feel like myself.

[kohakuhoshi]

Pathology came back. They found some abnormalities, including some early changes that could become precancerous, but it wasn't at that stage yet. I'm still in a lot of pain but I've been able to take in liquids and started eating a little again.

[kohakuhoshi]

I got through my hysterectomy surgery despite having such low O2 sats they had trouble bringing me out of it. My uterus was the size of a 12 week pregnancy, and I unknowingly had another big cyst and endometriosis complete with scarring and adhesions. The surgeon also repaired some prolapsing. I'm in an unbelievable amount of pain but it was worth it to end the misery. I most likely never would have been able to have kids even if I wanted them.

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

[tinsnip]

…OH.

[mazarinedrake]

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:

[salamencerobot]

Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images

Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.

[tigirl-and-co]

Hey, here’s a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex

[dappercyborg]

I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you don’t get that on the Great Lakes because it’s fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved

[chaeronaea]

[seasonallydefective]

If you’ve never stood at the edge of the lakes at night … it’s fucking unnerving as hell. It feels like standing at the edge of the world.

These are some photos I took over the summer at the edge of Lake Erie, though they only just barely do it any kind of justice.

[kohakuhoshi]

Lake Superior especially is powerful enough to wash away chunks of the shore and everything on it very much like a hurricane storm surge. I've seen it with my own eyes.

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

[tinsnip]

…OH.

[mazarinedrake]

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:

[salamencerobot]

Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images

Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.

[tigirl-and-co]

Hey, here’s a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex

[dappercyborg]

I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you don’t get that on the Great Lakes because it’s fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved

[chaeronaea]

[seasonallydefective]

If you’ve never stood at the edge of the lakes at night … it’s fucking unnerving as hell. It feels like standing at the edge of the world.

These are some photos I took over the summer at the edge of Lake Erie, though they only just barely do it any kind of justice.

[kohakuhoshi]

Lake Superior especially is powerful enough to wash away chunks of the shore and everything on it very much like a hurricane storm surge. I've seen it with my own eyes.

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

[tinsnip]

…OH.

[mazarinedrake]

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:

[salamencerobot]

Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images

Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.

[tigirl-and-co]

Hey, here’s a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex

[dappercyborg]

I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you don’t get that on the Great Lakes because it’s fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved

[chaeronaea]

[seasonallydefective]

If you’ve never stood at the edge of the lakes at night … it’s fucking unnerving as hell. It feels like standing at the edge of the world.

These are some photos I took over the summer at the edge of Lake Erie, though they only just barely do it any kind of justice.

[kohakuhoshi]

Lake Superior especially is powerful enough to wash away chunks of the shore and everything on it very much like a hurricane storm surge. I've seen it with my own eyes.

[kohakuhoshi]

It begs the question: Is it still "Fuck Around and Find Out" if they're genuinely too stupid to find out? How much self-confidence must you lack to say, "I don't care if I get screwed if someone else gets screwed worse than me"?

[kohakuhoshi]

[cybelusreverie]

there is literally no time for drawing in a day im too busy going on my phone for 9 hours and jerkin it crazystyle and eating dry cereal

[kohakuhoshi]

[maria-ruta]

Discord is officially blocked in Russia

anti-DPI programs can handle Discord here's Goodbye DPI w/ GUI here's ByeDPI, possibly nicest solution for Android other variants can be found here

regarding VPNs - Windscribe is still the real one, w/ non-standard protocols and special "hostile network" switch, one problem though - limited traffic, so you most likely have to juggle it w/ some noname VPN apps or proxy add-ons

note that it's illegal in Russia to talk about blocks circumvention, so if you don't live in Russia, please share this post, so your followers, who live there could see it and use it

[vexic929]

I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

[kohakuhoshi]

I have a new YYH Christmas headcanon:

Hiei scoffs at human yuletide traditions but LOVES KFC (because that's what they eat in Japan at Christmas) and steals some for himself. (and its totally in character for him to steal food, especially food he can't cook over an open fire out wherever he camps)

Yusuke: Mom, where's the KFC?

Atsuko: it disappeared. *shrugs and goes back to her drink and tv shows*

Yusuke: *office stare*

*cut to Hiei enjoying his Christmas KFC dinner up a tree*

[kohakuhoshi]

Doodle of the headcanon. Merry Christmas.

[kohakuhoshi]

Inked.

[kohakuhoshi]

I have a new YYH Christmas headcanon:

Hiei scoffs at human yuletide traditions but LOVES KFC (because that's what they eat in Japan at Christmas) and steals some for himself. (and its totally in character for him to steal food, especially food he can't cook over an open fire out wherever he camps)

Yusuke: Mom, where's the KFC?

Atsuko: it disappeared. *shrugs and goes back to her drink and tv shows*

Yusuke: *office stare*

*cut to Hiei enjoying his Christmas KFC dinner up a tree*

[kohakuhoshi]

Doodle of the headcanon. Merry Christmas.

[strombolicious]

[teathattast]

reblog to do this w your mutuals

[kohakuhoshi]

I had a thought after seeing a photo of a cat asleep in a wok. I thought that perhaps cats in containers were the inspiration for the enigma of the amigara fault.

Cat: this wok was made for me! PURRRRR PURRRRR PURRRRR

(Thanks to @bizarrolord for the purr purr purr part)

[safetynot9uaranteed]

American liberals can't just be not racist, you need to be a PR representative for everyone more brown than you and use their wishful thinking and mental gymnastics to reimagine how obviously bad things you hear are untrue misleading or is actually a white person's fault.

The thing about eating cats, liberals dismiss it outright because it sounds bad. They'll rather imagine everyone is racist and making up stories. Mind you if you know anything about Haiti eating cats is the most believable story imaginable, their shithole island is full of widespread starvation and dirteaters of course Haitian would eat cats.

I promise this story is going to be proven true and they will turn about and bitch about how Haiti was a colony 90 years ago so it's white peepo fault they eat cats because that's what there's programmed to do.

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Don’t we already have videos of them eating the cats?

[mornington-the-crescent]

It's also just as likely that they're sacrificing the cats.

[juju-fisher]

No, and no. There's one video of a woman being arrested for eating a cat; she was American, and she lived in Canton, Ohio, 175 miles away from Springfield. The Facebook story about the cat that was "stolen and eaten by Haitians" was a hoax based on an unsubstantiated fourth-hand account.

The only claims that could have some basis in truth are the statements made by Springfield residents during a town council meeting, and even then, they didn't have any evidence to back up their claims. (However, the Springfield police have stated that there haven't been any calls about stolen or murdered pets, so I have my doubts.)

[bizarrolord-deactivated20241123]

OP, maybe you should find something else substantiated to make your point instead of what your gullible aunt posts on Facebook. You can say "non-white people are capable of wrongdoing" without pulling an example out of your ass.

(Plus, it's Asians - specifically Chinese and Koreans-who are stereotyped as eating pets. If you're going to make shit up, at least make it sound plausible.)

[kohakuhoshi]

The woman who started the rumor, Anna Kilgore, found the cat she accused her Haitan neighbor of stealing and eating in her own damn basement. Miss Sassy is safe and will recover.