@&*$^_! Weather.

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The cold snap laid me up so bad I had the worst "Period Flare Day" (where my chronic pain gets worse because of Shark Week) episode in eight or nine months. I still haven't gotten around to advertising, or being more active with SBAnon in general, and on the whole the last few weeks have been absolutely fucking dreadful.

I really have to get out of this mentality where I think I have certain aspects of my chronic pain "in the bag" because the only certainty in this dysfunctional flesh prison is that chronic pain is totally unpredictable.

And on top of that one of my Tumblr mutuals in Australia was diagnosed with chronic pain last month, after she spent a year and a half helping me through the onset of my issues.

So that fucking happened.

And I keep thinking that like, for all that doctors are still trying to wrap their head around "the chronic pain epidemic" very few people are looking at things like environmental pollution, when so, so many doctors are finding things like heavy metal poisoning in their patients. (I almost typed "clients" because that's what living in the US does to your outlook of the medical system.)

How else are people that live everywhere in world getting heavy metal poisoning, if not from their environment? When are we going to take the impact of pollution on people's health seriously, instead of saying "Nah, it can't be. It has to be some Medical Mystery(tm) that we have to throw obscene amounts at drug companies to figure out." The answer is right under our noses, but it takes being able and willing to admit that we are the authors of our own misery to see that.

I take that back. The Western love affair with free market capitalism is the author of our despair, and it's not until we as a culture accept how abusive that love afair is that we'll finally, finally see a way out of this.

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