#contacting-u

[kedreeva]

i'm kind

Very good!

The bilby, a small Australian marsupial, often replaces depictions of the Easter Bunny in Australia (the easter bilby) due to a push by conservationists to spread awareness of their endangered status.

[themoonmothwrites]

I just read If You Like It and it was really sweet!!

Ahhh that’s so nice of you to come here and tell me! Here, take all my hearts <3 <3 <3

[inuvember]

hi! :) are there any blogs like this one that promote peoples' fanart and writing, just year round and not as part of a specific event? i've seen this in other fandoms where ppl tag a specific post when they want to share their creations and i think it's great because i love finding new artists and writers that way!

hi!

As far as I know there is no blog exactly like that in the Inuyasha fandom… It definitely sounds like a good idea, unfortunately I am not active enough in the fandom nowadays to create one, but maybe someone will see this ask and make one :)

[belleyells]

hi! idk if you're still active (tumblr won't show me time stamps), but i saw one of your posts about lyme and that ppl could message you about it if they thought they might have it. so i thought i'd shoot you a message because idk what my problem is but it's been unsolved for years. how did you find a doctor who took you seriously and could administer a test that's actually reliable? my doctor was like "it could be lyme but i don't think testing for it will help" >.>

I had… this whole thing written out… then accidentally closed my whole window.

Hello! I’m definitely still active. Welcome to my chaotic domain, lol.

I’m gonna be honest… it’s really hard to find a good doctor who listens to you want genuinely wants to help. In my medical journey over the past… three years? Four years? I’ve only met three doctors who listened, cared about helping people, and didn’t give up on me when the problem wasn’t obvious.

Doc #1 had nothing to do with what I needed. His area of knowledge was diabetes. He was a specialty doctor. But my physical therapist mentioned me (with consent - I’d been asking for help from everyone I could) and the doc went, “Send her to me, I’ll see what I can do.” He’s the reason I got into Cooks Children’s system. (My medical journey started when I was a minor.) He got us on the path to diagnosis and recovery. I practically owe this guy my life.

Doc #2 was also a specialty doctor. His area was the thyroid. He was good at catching stuff that was hard to catch, listened, and wanted to help people. I had one appointment with him and he said with no hesitation, “You have Lyme disease.” He did labs, they came back positive, and he gave the name of a Lyme specialist who tested me again. The test came up positive again. Doc #2 I owe so much to.

Doc #3 has nothing to do with Lyme, but he worked with my for 6+ months because he wanted to help, and that’s amazing.

I’m telling you this for a reason. Good doctors - good people are out there. You’ll find them. Keep looking. In the meantime, here’s some stuff I hope will help:

A doc mentions something that might be possible? Write the name down, research the heck out of it. My family and I did this with everything. Heck, we searched for things on our own and brought up possibilities to the docs ourselves. If you find something that’s possible, research it. If it’s still possible after that, find out about testing. That doc who said Lyme is possible but testing may not help? Ask why. It’s true that there are Lyme tests that are unreliable, but one caught mine twice in a row. It’s good to ask things. In the end, you’re the patient and you’re the one paying the doctor. You decide what you want to look into and what you want testing for. If the doc doesn’t listen, find another one.

If a doctor doesn’t listen, find another one. I just said this, but it’s worth repeating. I’ve had docs brush me off. I’ve had docs that didn’t listen to me at all. I had a doctor who thought my parents were putting things in my head and wanted to do a procedure that separated me from them (I was still a minor during this time) to help me. I did not see him again, because he dismissed me and dismissed my parents and didn’t listen to us.

The doctor who’ll help you may not be the one you expect. A doctor who specializes in THYROIDS was the one who diagnosed me with Lyme. A doctor who specializes with diabetes is the reason I’m still in touch with Cook and have been diagnoses with Von Willebrand’s disease. If someone suggests someone to you, ask them about them and look into it. Maybe give it a shot. Maybe you’ll find the help you need.

USE YOUR RESOURCES. For the love of everything, use your resources. My mom is the reason I saw the thyroid doctor. My physical therapist is the reason I saw the diabetes doc. My aunt is the reason I know I have a genetic bleeding disorder and we shared information back on forth and got diagnosed together. Heck, even one of the docs I saw who gave up after he couldn’t find a problem at first glance had a phenomenal nurse practitioner, and I’m planning on calling her to ask about a psychiatrist. You have connections on some kind all around you. I have a freakish amount of medical connections because my mother is chronically ill and has already gone through a roller coaster similar to mine. I bet you have some too, even if it’s a doctor your parents saw five years ago.

If there’s something you think you might have - like Lyme disease - treat yourself like you have it and see how your body reacts. This is assuming it can’t be treated only medically. For Lyme, you change your diet, kill off the bacteria, then flush it out. For myself, I use Alka-Seltzer Gold and a sauna. If you start doing something and notice yourself feeling better, step back and dissect what you’re doing. You’ve just found a huge clue. It helps if you try one thing at a time, whether it’s a new diet or a new vitamin.

Make a timeline. Figure out when your symptoms first began and what they were, then figure out what happened before they showed up. My first symptoms were fatigue and being unable to exert myself as much as I normally could. Before that, I’d been at a week long family reunion in a place full of leeches and ticks. Starting from there, my family and I made a timeline all the way to the present, cataloging when new symptoms showed up, when something got worse and what it was, when I saw what doctor and tried some kind of treatment, etc.. Make a timeline, include everything on it.

IT’S NOT IN YOUR HEAD. I always had this little doubt in the back of my mind. What if I’m blowing this out of proportion? What if this isn’t so bad? What if? My parents told me I wasn’t. Of all of the doctors I’ve seen, none of them have said it’s in my head. (Except maybe the one who tried to separate me from my parents.) My therapist told us it’s definitely not in my head, this is real. And whatever you’re going through it real too.

That’s all I have for now. (If you’re located in the USA and think you have Lyme, feel free to message me and I can try to find the docs who helped diagnosed me? Or I can just tell you how I treated it, because there’s no medication that can rid you of it forever and you can treat it yourself at home.)

Hang in there! You’ll find someone who’ll help you. <3

[gretchenhasthefloor]

is there a new season coming up??

january 9th!

[actuallydyspraxic]

Can you talk some about ideational dyspraxia?

This is the first time I’ve heard of it, but thank you very much for bringing it to my attention! This is very interesting, and the more I know, the more I can help! With that in mind, please let me know if I make any mistakes.

I’d like to acknowledge that most internet sources actually talk about ideational apraxia, which is similar but not quite the same as dyspraxia - if I understand right, ideational apraxia can be caused by neurological damage, and it’s very common in Alzheimer’s sufferers, people who have had strokes, and those with dementia. With ideational dyspraxia, it will be developmental, and with us from birth. 

People with ideational dyspraxia will have issues with doing tasks in the right order, or with knowing exactly how to do a task, even if they’ve done it before. For instance, they might put shampoo in their hair before turning on or entering a shower. It’s not necessarily that they don’t know how to have a shower, just that the order of events gets mixed up.

Ideational dyspraxia can also cause people to use objects for the wrong tasks. When handed a toothbrush, their brain might think that is serves the same purpose as a pencil, and try to write with it because it is a similar shape.  This is just my input here, but I think ideational dyspraxia may play a hand in some of the executive dysfunction we experience! If we don’t feel like we know exactly how we’re going to take on a task, we might freeze up and avoid doing it, even though we know it needs done. 

At my new job, I’ve been writing the steps to most tasks in a notebook so that I can refer to them when I’m asked to do them. My colleagues think I’m very organised, but it’s just one big cheat-sheet!

Mod Tea

[fistful-of-fandom]

is there any canonical basis for jewish mulder? i love it either way, but just wondering. ive seen it a few times now

The short answer is it’s not entirely clear, more up to interpretation. Here are some things to consider:

In “Drive,” Crump guesses Mulder is Jewish based on his surname. Mulder neither confirms nor denies, but retorts in his characteristically sarcastic fashion.

In “Kaddish,” Bjunes insinuates that Mulder “looks like one” himself. Mulder neither confirms nor denies.

However, also in “Kaddish,” he is unable to identify a Talmudic book, and states that he does not know Hebrew. This evidence is inconclusive though because one could argue that he was never a practicing Jew.

HOWEVER, in “Conduit” we see Mulder seek comfort in a Christian or Catholic church while holding the photo of himself and Samantha.

Both he as well as his father had Christian burials with a Protestant minister.

David once alluded to Mulder being Jewish in an old interview (although I’m not sure which).

Although we don’t really see Mulder celebrate Christmas, he does hang an adorable little stocking in his apartment in “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas.” I don’t recall seeing a Menorah.

Anyway, I think you can take it however you like! I’ve personally always viewed him as Agnostic with possibly some Jewish decent on either side of his family.

[astro-vibes]

(moodboard person again) where do i find your redbubble shop?

https://www.redbubble.com/people/astro-vibes?asc=u 

right there, love :)

-Admin L