#sick

[feral-ballad]

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Experience”

[creekfiend]

lots/most insurances won't cover imaging for certain things until the patient completes like six weeks of physical therapy for the issue, bc PT is cheaper to finance for the insurance company. this happened to my mom when she hurt her shoulder fencing and it happened to me when I recently paid out of pocket for my upright MRI because -- IT'S INCREDIBLY CARTOONISHLY EVIL to act like physical therapy is something that can be done safely when YOU DONT KNOW WHATS GOING ON INSIDE SOMEONE'S BODY. with my mom's shoulder, she didn't know what was hurt -- bone, muscle, connective tissue -- and safe PT requires knowing this, bc what might be safe for someone with a muscle tear might make a connective tissue issue worse, or the other way around. so she actually ended up hurting her shoulder worse. I was incredibly fortunate in that 1. I had knowledge of this issue already, and 2. was able to pay for the imaging out of pocket. 99% of people in my situation probably wouldnt even know that PT could worsen an issue, and if they did know that they probably wouldn't be able to pay out of pocket for the imaging.

anyway come to find out, my neurologist said he doesn't recommend physical therapy until my CSF leaks are patched bc he said any PT of my neck could easily make the tears in the tissue around my spine worse. and the technology to properly repair these tears is not available to everyone, so it's totally plausible that someone that happened to would just... never be able to get their leaks repaired.

I am always always always thinking about the Alternate Universe Pips, to the degree that I have to make myself stop thinking about it sometimes bc I get too upset. and this is not an exception. I'm so furious about how for profit health insurance is hurting and killing people all of the time. it's literally just a social murder machine. it's a fucking meat grinder. we need to be killing more

anyway if this can help anyone else: if your insurance requires you to get PT *before* it will pay for imaging and you assume that must mean that physical therapy is safe and couldn't make whatever is wrong worse: this is not the case. I strongly advise you to try to figure out a way to get the imaging beforehand, or to Just Fucking Lie about doing the physical therapy exercises, if that is at all possible. these policies are very common and they're VERY DANGEROUS AND BAD

[astal-art]

Party at the end of the world <3

[purplebehittindifferent]

I like to think they have no idea what sickness is and thinks they’re dying

[morggo]

you treat me like i am diseased

ink and watercolor, 4x4 inches 2025

[t00-many-eyes]

when Arthur said, “it's difficult to explain, having a home,” and John said, “I can only imagine. I have a home, it just holds no sentimental value to me.” and then John built a cathedral out of the bones of the man he loved, and said, “I felt the meat of your brain pass through my fingers clenched in fists of rage, and I felt home.” and when John said “strange to be in my own body again. I’d be lying if I said it felt like home,” and then he said, “I felt more whole being your eyes than I ever have in this body.” and when Arthur said, “welcome back”, and John said, “to the house? or the home?”

[hyenabeanz]

YOU'RE NOT FUNNY, PROFESSOR.