May 2020 archive

23
May
2020

My head hurts. But when does my head not hurt?

categories: personal; word count: 280 words

Because my old neurologist moved to a new hospital in another city that was too far to commute unless I could not find another neurologist in this area that took my insurance, I had to begin seeing another neurologist. So now I have to play the game of “proving to this one that my migraines are actually as severe and long-lasting as I say that they are”. I’ve been put on another medication that is meant to reduce frequency and severity of migraines, which I’m supposed to try for two months unless we find out sooner that it is exacerbating my asthma — this type of medication has a low risk of doing that, but if it does, I discontinue it. I suppose we will be finding that out in the coming weeks since I just finished a low and brief course of prednisone (since we are in the midst of a global pandemic and I want to have some semblance of an immune system in the event that I am actually exposed to the coronavirus, although I am actually surprised that I have managed to luck out thus far and… not be, or at the very least, not catch it, but that might be due to mask wearing and more frequent handwashing as recommended due to the nature of this).

More doctors need to take patients seriously when they actually try to advocate for themselves, shit.

I’ve been in the migraine game long enough I definitely know what does not work for me at all at this point…

At this point I may just ask for a referral to the local pain management clinic and let them oversee my care.

22
May
2020

This was the highlight of my day. Seriously, it was.

categories: personal; word count: 133 words

Blaire White blocked me on Twitter because I agreed with someone that her complaint about cancel culture was hypocritical given that she literally monetizes cancel culture, especially in certain cases like making the videos that she has about “Gamestop girl” (Tiffany). She knows that those videos will bring in a lot of clicks and revenue for her, and she knows exactly what sort of reaction she will get from those when her fans and followers go to Tiffany’s public social networking sites to leave hateful and vile comments… and yet she continues to do it because that’s how she makes money and she wants to continue to make money like that.

I pointed it out nicely, but that is just what she does when she makes videos like those. Make it make sense.

21
May
2020

Since people want to bring this up (again)…

categories: personal; word count: 259 words

“Your mom did so many nice things for the kids while she was alive!”

(And in comparatively good health.)

Yes, and she spent the last six months of her life doing what I’ve written about. So now, knowing what I know about dementia and the increased likelihood that she developed it, I have to look back at pictures on TimeHop — one of which I am including in this post — and wonder how long she really harbored these thoughts about the involved, aforementioned child, and how long she was able to keep them to herself until she wasn’t able to keep them to herself “because of the brain tumor removal, her fighting cancer” (the latter of which I think is one of the most asinine excuses you can possibly give for this, but the kind of people that say things like “she did so many nice things for the kids while she was alive” trying to justify what she did to my child before she died have to be reaching at straws here) and her likely developing dementia before her death. And then I realize that she probably began thinking these things as early as his autism diagnosis at age two and a half, so she probably thought them for the majority of his life, which makes pictures like the one below even more infuriating for me to see come across my TimeHop, but uploading one here to make the point will make the point. I am 99.9% convinced that this picture was a complete and total lie on her part.

20
May
2020

Men, sometimes you actually are the problem here.

categories: personal; word count: 312 words

If you’re a white, Christian man, you can say whatever you want on Facebook and no matter how many times you get reported for actually breaking the Terms of Service (community… rules, whatever they call them), no one will actually do anything to you for it. Or if they do, they will be extremely hard-pressed to.

If you’re not, though, you will be comment and post-blocked almost ruthlessly, especially if you become a well-known advocate, and especially if you speak out against… well, men. Especially if they are white Christian men. Or conservative men. (For instance, fathers who affiliate with some of the Father’s Rights Movements pages can make various threats directed at individuals who work for family law, to include the judges, and Facebook is very hard-pressed to actually remove a lot of those comments… and then a lot of people on Facebook has the nerve to act surprised when some of these fathers actually follow through on these threats and commit acts of violence, especially to their exes and/or the minor children that they share.)

I never thought that I would actually say this given that Twitter is half as bad at getting certain inflammatory items removed, but Twitter is not quite as bad about having an awry, computerized reporting system that is incredibly easy to abuse and weaponize. I’ve only been post-blocked on Twitter one time for a full twenty-four hours if I’m not mistaken, and that took a lot of effort to actually get to happen. I was almost impressed.

It may be 2020, but men need to understand that as a whole their gender is not an actually protected class.

And not even in custody cases they are not as discriminated against as they delude themselves into thinking.

At any rate, I have nineteen days left until I can actually use Facebook again, thanks to Catholic apologists.

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