Saw your tags on the rabies post; I think they only do preemptive vaccines for people with a higher risk of being infected, like veterinarians, or if you're travelling to a country where rabies is common and medical care is not. Otherwise... idk man, you can ask, but I think they'll refuse?
Rabies vaccines are nasty for people, there's a reason it's not part of the standard childhood vaccines. The rabies vaccine for humans is four injections into deep muscles, which will hurt like hell and makes you feel like you have the flu. Then three days after that it's another four needles, four more needles for the seven day mark, and another four at the fourteen day mark. So basically, you'll be miserable for a solid two weeks. Aaand if you got exposed to rabies after that, you would still need several rounds of booster injections just to be safe.
Basically it's expensive, painful, time consuming, and on the off chance you ever do get exposed to rabies, you'll have to got through part of the ordeal again. Just don't touch any mammals that you don't know are safe, especially stay away from bats, and you'll be alright.
that's a little disappointing ngl but thank you for telling me <3
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I had a moment with my parents over text today and i did end up meditating about things a bit in the car.
I was thinking about gaslighting. But a deeper, invisible kind that I hadn’t considered before.
When parents make a child feel unloved, but they tell the child they love them, they are teaching the child to negate their feelings in favour of technicalities. And when I say feelings I mean, the body. The knot in the stomach, the racing heart, the vague sense of unease, the intuition.
I grew up profoundly dissociated from myself in ways that I could not comprehend. And when I went out into the world and encountered people who told me they loved me but made me feel unloved, I did as I had been conditioned to do and I acted on my thoughts, not my feelings. I couldnt even feel my feelings, I was so dissociated from myself. And I didn’t even fucking realise I was doing it until today.
This year has been the year of rediscovering my body. I have had to intensively retrain my ability to sense things inside my body. Hunger, cold, needing to pee. It sounds insane but I’m not joking at all. I ignored my body for so long that each year it started screaming louder and louder until I could no longer ignore it. It took me 6 years to realise that the ever worsening heartburn that would literally wake me up at night was because I was not fucking eating enough food. It had to graduate to gallstones before I finally heard my body screaming for food. You know what you can’t do with gallstones? Not eat. Lmao. My body really got my number there.
In feb I started eating three times a day, after nearly a decade of erratic eating that primarily manifested as one meal a day, dinner specifically.
For weeks I woke up with such violent nausea that I eventually realised could only be eased by immediately putting food into me upon waking. I started keeping a banana next to my bed. It was like my body didn’t trust this new thing, that I was actually eating multiple times a day, and it was making a lot of noise about it. But after a few months the nausea eased and now I can manage a couple of hours before I start to feel ick and I have to eat. I’ve earned a little bit of trust. Also, my heartburn is greatly diminished. I needed some enzyme supplements for digestion for a bit, cuz i wasn’t used to eating normally, but I don’t need them much anymore. Maybe if I have a rich or heavy meal.
Every sphere of my life has been affected by the fact that I was conditioned out of being able to feel myself, sense myself, inside. I ignored my chronic back pain for years and years while I worked myself to death in kitchens, until in 2020 when I was off work for about 2 weeks, the longest break I’d had in years, my body seized its opportunity and fucked me so hard I couldn’t walk for months. Oh, have we stopped? Have we actually stopped now? Excuse me while I fucking fall apart real quick.
I wonder, if I’d been able to hear, feel, sense, the issues in my body earlier, would I have been able to prevent more serious injury? Would I be getting screened for ankylosing spondylitis? Would I have had a wheelchair in my house?
Would I have dated a single one of the fucks I dated as a teenager? Would I have been sexually assaulted? Would I have found myself in any of the dangerous situations I did? Would I have fallen blindly into disordered eating? Is there anything in my life that would have been the same?
Anyway. This stuff needs processing, I think. When we exist in our bodies in a state of fear and anxiety and an adult tells us this is how it feels when someone loves us, I think they set us up to be abused by others and also by ourselves.
Radical feeling is the only way out. You have to be willing to repair those connections, plug back into yourself and feel all the things you have not felt up until now. And it’s a lot, at first, it will deafen you, possibly incapacitate you, but hold the fuck on because it will ease up. Knit yourself back together. Life can be so much cosier.
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btw I’m still alive, my dumbass just forgor to put tumblr app on my new phone and twitter is lowkey faster and that’s where most of the tempuras are for holostars en vhjfkhbefkjbefnb
NO BUT SERIOUSLY, I AM OKAY. I’m just busy and I forget to check tumblr like an idiot.
y’all can keep sending me asks about floof and the others, I’ll just take some time to answer them because I mcfucking need to download tumblr eventually onto my new phone so I can AT LEAST, like browse it in my downtime while at work. :V
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Idc who this upsets, but I actually hated the whole forced mask wearing era with a burning passion. As someone with epilepsy which is aggravated by heat, it was absolute hell to have to wear that shit because (and fuck what y’all abled-bodies wanna say) it DOES impact my breathing and make me overheat. And I actually cannot just ‘go get a medical exemption’ because a) they don’t give that shit out like free candy, I had to go pay $500 to a neurologist to get that lil note, and b) I could staple that med cert to my fucking forehead and still get people losing their minds every time I went anywhere without a mask. Everyone like ‘oh disabled people are so terrified of COVID-19 so you should think of them before ragging on masks like this’ as though everyone ain’t already spent the last three decades of my life not giving a singular shit about my disability, but now suddenly want to act like they care about disabled people? Why tf should I care about giving anyone the spicy cough when no one has ever given a fuck how many seizures their actions cause me? Y’all want me to put my own health at risk by wearing this mask, so you don’t get a lil sore throat, when y’all will remain deliberately oblivious to epilepsy and other heat-related illnesses, right up until someone dies, and then you’ll still have a giggle about that too? Way more people be dying every day from heat-related illnesses than from COVID-19, so where’s my mandatory air-conditioning and icepack stations at every street corner? Fuck hand sanitizer stations, provide me a free cold drink. Additionally, mask wearing was the ONLY thing people got this fucking turnt about too. It’s not like any of y’all were social distancing (something which would have actually helped me with my disability lmao). No one was getting booted out of stores for standing on my damn heels every time I had to get in a queue. Anyway, after the first twenty times I got asked to leave a store for not wearing a mask (despite having that magical medical certificate) I made up my own mask by getting four of those ‘valves’, absolutely gutting the inside of them to allow unrestricted airflow, and then stitching them into a linen mask. Still uncomfortable, fo sure, but a lot better than having to deal with hot air on my face and under my sunglasses while already struggling not to pass out in the middle of the Australian summer.
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Cracking myself up imagining a stray black cat deciding to adopt Henry as it’s person. Like he wakes up and it’s sitting outside his window or it managed to get into the apartment building somehow.
He opens his door and it’s sitting there and he has to call Vito or Joe like:
“Come get this fuckin’ cat! And bring some holy water with you!”
“What? No I can’t just chase it off! Don’t you remember my 13th contract? I’ll fuckin’ die if I walk out that door.”
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Hello, I'm the anon from earlier. I'm not a business person by any means either, but I guess I was thrown off by the fact that a seemingly family-owned corporation like Hirahara Corp apparently had an outsider as CEO? Rand inheriting instead of Yui makes sense since there were no male heirs and this is probably a patriarchal set-up; but why didn't Koutaro, or any other Hirahara, become CEO rather than Young-chul?
I 100% think the partnership with the Kims continuing even after the past SA allegations is a "sleazy business world" thing. I doubt shareholders have any problems with it so long as it generates profit. Most likely the allegations didn't amount to anything, which is unfortunately realistic.
I can't WAIT for Yujing's article, it will no doubt send shockwaves throughout the system even if it doesn't manage to topple it just yet.
Oh absolutely, SAME! I've always felt that Yui herself resents that the company is passing down not through her, but technically through Rand, that his illegitimate child could possibly even stand an opportunity simply by being Rand's son (and thus why she has torn him down at every opportunity, so he never gets the chance to ever catch attention). Part of her whole deal with having Kousuke fast-track his way to CEO seems to be to bring the company fully back into the hands of the Hiraharas, so yes, I was DEFINITELY taken aback that someone OTHER than a Hirahara could have been a CEO.
Like... right. For what reason did it work out that way, that not even Koutarao was CEO? And if Yui doesn't want Hirahara falling into the hands of anyone else, it feels like a Choice to partner with them - although I guess it's because a partnership doesn't hold as much power?
A really half-baked thought I haven't been able to work through prior is that maybe Yui is playing some kind of long game - that by partnering with the Kims they could somehow let them fall back on their own sword (when you think about it, the Kims and Hiraharas are really poised to bring each other down, right?) but.... that seems messy and why would she do that? Then again... she likes a good hunt and chase. Tangentially a theory I have that goes dark is, perhaps, a member of the Kim family may have assaulted Yui when she was younger, but that's a topic for another post (I keep meaning to work on) but it loops back to "why would Yui partner with someone if she loathes them"? What does she seek to gain from that? She tends to see a few steps ahead of anyone else, so if she had had a plan, I wouldn't be shocked. After all.... wouldn't it be so easy to spin the story as "sob sob as it turns out, Gun Kim pressured us to make poor Nol take the fall for Sangchul; he was going around trying to drug girls at the Kim formal but he forced us to stay quiet~ you know how that family is~" which is, honestly, scary, but is it beyond the realm of the things Yui does? If anything, it feels like child's play, right?
On the one hand I'm like that's so convoluted, Yui would never, but only the other hand, this woman gets off on peoples' misery and loves to torture, so if she went through a long con to get back at the man/family who possibly did something to her when she was younger, if she played nice with them with the eventual intention to castigate them? Making them business partners gives enough reason to believe that they could "coerce" Yui and co to do anything, by trying to use the "lesser" of the Hirahara boys (barf) to take the fall. And how easy would it be to actually trace the drugs back to Yui? Oh, the accused perp is claiming she gave them to him? When there's a whole history of this happening at his school, in his family? When you look at Gun Kim and his rep? What other allegations have come from those Kim formals that never went anywhere? She could SO easily twist any of that!
But idk lmao it feels almost cartoon villain and I'm probably grasping at straws, but I let the thought live at the back of my mind, to see if it will grow into anything else and to see if we get anything else to change how I feel. Something definitely happened in Yui's past, of that I'm certain, but everything else is very loose conjecture.
But whether that has to do with the Kim Hirahara family history we're yet to see. There's so many questions I have and I really hope everything will be answered LMAOOOOO I also look forward to Yujing's expose, but ever since reading the theory that she's working on two separate pieces, I can't help but feel the real bomb will drop in s2. But even seeing what she's writing for Nol's case sounds promising, because it feels like the prelude of the much bigger piece, right?
GOD I get really excited just thinking of it, even though I feel like learning the eventual truth is gonna make me feel real nauseous. The seediness of the Kims and Hiraharas runs deep and twisted and UUGGGHHH. The angle of "the less fortunate" taking the fall for the affluent, privileged elite is suuuuch a good angle to work and I can't WAIT to see the ripples of it!!!!!
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