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Love seeing posts that make it clear that the user has immersed themselves in a realm of online discourse that nobody else has even heard of, let alone cares about, so they’ll say things like “I’m so tired of everyone saying that it’s somehow misogynistic for trans women to own jet skis 🙄”
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
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I can clearly remember the moment I first realised my mother and I were living on completely different planes of existence. I was 7 years old and I came home from my school’s first track and field day having placed second or third in every event. the teachers had been making jokes all afternoon about how many times they had to call my name. my friends thought I was cool as shit. my enemies thought I was cool as shit too, come to think of it. I was proud as hell. so I get home with the entire front of my shirt covered in ribbons like I was a military dictator who’d awarded himself every medal, I walk into the kitchen and tell my mum all about my day, and she goes “oh, that must be disappointing not getting any firsts.” and I’m like no?? first of all the first place ribbons are red and I don’t like red. second of all look at me. there’s literally nowhere left on my body for accolades. I am fucking Jacked of All Trades. how could this possibly be a disappointment.
i was in the physics lab today and we were working with lasers, so the Lab Freaks (legal name) were being very careful to stress that we Do Not Turn Around or Look Behind Us because we’ll get extremely blinded by the power of high strength lasers
and i’m not gonna lie it was actually extremely hard to resist turning around. i misjudged orpheus it turns out this isnt extremely easy actually
okay i’ll be honest i 100% looked back at the lasers. actually multiple separate lasers multiple different times. they were pretty
and i didnt get blinded. so clearly lab safety isnt real and you should always risk it cus taking risks is awesome #gambling
but uh. my ass is NOT making it out of the underworld 🔥🔥🔥
