if losing "identity-building years" was hard for you i have some bad news about what chronic illness does. if lost time was actually a concern to any of you you’d mask up and fight for cleaner air but nobody wants to talk about that
everyone i know in their late 20s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 20s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 23-year-old brains in bodies approaching 30
people with long covid have every right to be loud about it bc they’re being neglected at every level. It truly is the worst and everyone seems to think it either won’t happen to them (“I’ve already had it!” ok and u can still get it) or it can’t possibly be that bad
@jzux
some people’s bad time consisted of a year (if that) of no restaurants or travel while others lost their ability to walk/think/breathe so it’s not really the same, a little perspective would help ur friend group maybe
@mindyisser
what’s “fear mongering” to you is reality to a LOT of ppl and labeling it as such is just another way of silencing a community that is fighting so hard to be heard & believed
the reality of chronic illness and how much it sucks, how much of life you have to give up is impossible for healthy ppl to grasp until it happens to them I guess
@SalvMattera
my post Covid heart issues turned out to be pulmonary arterial hypertension which can only be diagnosed via cath but there were signs on cardiac MRI. glad I finally saw a cardiologist who was diagnostically aggressive or I would have died
@catjeans
And many are still missing out on that. But this article equates social loss with “skipped years”, just because bad things happened doesn’t mean you weren’t living and I say that as someone who was hospitalized with heart failure at 32 due to post Covid autoimmune disease
crying thinking about how last year on my birthday I was too weak to walk and I had to have meals brought to me in bed and I wasn’t sure I’d make it a day/week/month & this year I got to have a perfect pool party with new and old friends
The amount you get sick when you have small kids in the winter is literally so unbelievable I don't know how to describe it to people who don't have children. They wouldn't believe me. I wouldn't have believed me.
tfw you're in 3rd grade and your crush drew casey invites you to his birthday party at camp snoopy and you ride the log chute together and then get pizza hut personal pans from the food court.......don't think i'll ever know a high like that again
one time this guy wished me a happy international women’s day after we had sex and I was like “thanks you should have made me come first” and he got real quiet
I know my problems are small in the scheme of the world but I feel like my life was stolen from me and I wish I could stop feeling bitter towards everyone whose wasn’t …need to log off for a while and find god prob
having an mri tomorrow to see if my tumor is growing and causing the neuro symptoms i've been having and if it is i'll need brain surgery so idk send your thoughts n prayers
I love checking my low sodium Facebook group bc someone will post something like this and in the replies will be an argument so heated the admins had to get involved
people i work w/ who have all had covid multiple times are always describing classic post viral symptoms and then they'll be like "i am just getting old" and it makes me want to bang my head against a wall
Hot take: People not wearing masks has nothing to do with any of their listed reasons and has everything to do with fact they stigmatized mask-wearing by equating it with 'vulnerability' and 'weakness.'
Same thing happens with resistance to using mobility aids in seniors.
thinking about the time I went on a date w a guy who said he was vegan but he ordered a burger and when I questioned him he was like “being vegan is more of a mindset”
@Bunnyaimee
I’m disabled too and still living an isolated life to avoid reinfection with the virus that disabled me. But this article is not about that lol
today at the doctor the nurse asked me if I like being called rach and I was like uh not by my doctors and then she spent several min talking about how she has a niece named samantha who she calls “sammich”
the thing about taylor swift is that she so perfectly encapsulates through her lyrics, the interior lives of women. It's why we all can't stop listening. We're all saying, "wait you felt that way? we were all feeling this way?"
do men have someone like that?
getting really sick and almost dying and not knowing if you'd ever get better and then getting better......more powerful than any drug tbh i feel like i'm floating
i know almost everyone that is not sick has stopped caring about covid but i feel like fighting the end of mask mandates in health care facilities is an area we could have collective power if y'all were willing to say the bad word again for 5 seconds
my mom said to my grandpa "i just don't think violence works" and w/o missing a beat he said "neither does nonviolence" he's 84 and he gets it and some of you guys still don't hmm
whenever people do those Instagram story sales of their own old clothes it’s like ok this is all the ugliest shit I’ve ever seen just bring it to goodwill babe
thank you all for the well wishes & prayers. results showed my pulmonary pressure has decreased from severe pulmonary hypertension when I was diagnosed in June to now mild range which is good news!!!
just thinking back on the time I had a yard sale and 2 adult men got into a fight over a life sized Elvis cutout and all I could do was watch from my balcony in horror
i love when someone gets messy on their main instagram story like close friends was literally invented for you to dissect your relationship that ended in 2018 bc you ran into your ex at yoga today and here you are doing it publicly? queen
Heavy tweeters are people who log onto Twitter 6-7 days a week and tweet 3-4 times a week (doesn't seem like a lot). These super users have been in "absolute decline" since the pandemic began, according to Twitter's research
when someone asks me what my type is I’m always like idk but then I remember I’ve banged more than 1 dude who when you google them you find out they were missing once
picture this: it’s summer 2015, you’re at hidden beach with your girls drinking a home mixed spicy margarita out of a mason jar, trap queen is playing on the bluetootj speaker,
only Annie Ernaux can be like “when 9/11 happened, I thought about this guy I fucked on 9/11, forty years before, the events will be forever linked in my mind” and you’re like yes queen
sincere post time: 2023 has been truly a wild year. probably the most difficult of my life and getting through it feels worth celebrating. there were so many moments when I truly didn’t know if I was going to make it through the night/week/month
when I suggest to ppl that they should still take Covid seriously (test when sick, mask etc) it’s out of love and care but ppl will respond as if I just said they alone are personally responsible for the entire pandemic or some shit
made a secret private twitter for my secret private tweets and i will probably only let like 5 of you follow it but fav this if you want to be considered