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Baby Bub, Pokemon-spotting before the pandemic.

Even though he wasn’t an actual baby when I took this picture, this was still one of the last pictures that I got of him playing Pokemon Go with me prior to the pandemic. I’m not sure if I’ve posted it here yet but figured that it couldn’t help to post it. I haven’t really played Pokemon Go since the pandemic started, even from the comfort and safety of my own home — recent updates elongating the “white flash” that is present at some parts in the game could cause and have caused migraines and seizures in susceptible members of the population, and I felt that it was too much of a risk for me to take. Until I know for certain that it has been fixed in such a manner as to reduce the severity of either one of those things happening, I can’t in good faith pick the game back up. It’s a shame, but you do what you have to do to stay safe, even when it’s not fun…

I never actually expected that this would happen.

Bub headbutted me in the side of the face hard enough to send me to the emergency room having to get checked out for a concussion and a chipped tooth that I’m going to have to have dentistry look at. I know that it was an accident, something that he did not mean to do, and something that he could not and can not control — it was part of a meltdown, and he’s autistic. So no, I don’t blame him at all for what happened. Luckily I did not actually get a concussion (although I did get a bad migraine that began to come on hours after the incident), but I’m going to have to get the tooth that he chipped like he did crowned, I do know that much. I found out that I qualified for CareCredit after applying for it on my phone while I was waiting in the emergency room, and it must have spoken to the severity of my injuries that I did not wait that long to be called back. I mean, I waited, don’t get me wrong… but I wasn’t there all night long like I could have been!

So this month is going to be… pretty fun, and I’m going to be really busy with everything that’s scheduled.

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