Goodbye 2025. You were pretty awful.

This will be me. 🎆

Don't get sick between Christmas and New Year's. Your doctor will be out and so will the nurse covering them. Yay! 🥳🎆

Took migraine meds after dinner and fell asleep. Dreamt of my kitty that passed last year. That was bittersweet. 💔

A Few of My More Favorite Things in 2025 chronicallystreaming.com/2025/12/29/a...

The end of the year is always hard for me but dealing with yet another new symptom is making it even harder. Mental health is garbage.

On high pain days there’s nothing like the relief of making through dinner and knowing all you have left to do is survive until bedtime. Except I haven’t made dinner yet. So about that….

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Possibly of relevance to people with migraine, given we have no real objective diagnostic tests. (Thanks to Karrie for sharing.)

Watching the new Knives Out movie and in the scene where the monsignor targets parishioners until they walk out, one is a woman wearing a mask and I have to wonder why they did that.

I'm so bummed that a gift I bought my mom on Etsy, and paid a lot in shipping for, is not what I expected. Paying to send it back will not be worth it. 😔

Sometimes you just need a friend to sit with you while you're (both) sad.

Hey, so starting in nine days, if you were Disabled before age 46, you can have your own ABLE account (in the U.S.). And I have this thread on how to go about choosing an ABLE account.

Searched for this and found it was almost exactly a year ago I asked you all this question. Last night I stayed up way past my bedtime but felt like I had more (uncaffeinated) energy than usual today. This has happened a few times in the past couple of weeks and I’m not sure what to make of it.

If you do Wordle and haven't done today's yet, don't read on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I can't believe my brain guessed cooch before conch. But I also can't believe Wordle accepted that as a guess.

Shaping up to be a typical second half. Not that the first was much better. Too many injuries and bad penalties.

You cannot trust anyone. Just saw a FB post (not a friend) where a mom says she was up all night with a sick 🤢 kid and between cleaning up after that kid, baked cookies for the other kid's classroom. Wtf. People are rightly pleading with her not to send the cookies to school. (Or the kids.)

Telehealth is vital for people with #LongCOVID. Don’t let it disappear thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t... This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US #MEcfs

Happy solstice! Here's to more daylight, all my fellow SAD people.

Revisiting this because I so desperately wanted to nap today but my anxious, half conscious brain was stuck on something and wouldn’t let me. This is endlessly frustrating.

Feeling so fatigued today it's not even that I don't have energy to make lunch, I don't feel like I have energy to even eat lunch. 🫠

Fucking impeach RFK, Jr before he kills more kids.

Digging in to see what shenanigans Emily gets into in Rome. And hoping she puts in more effort to learn a little Italian than she did French.

I need to have a myelogram where they inject dye into my spinal canal. I am worried about my head pain as this is a lumbar puncture. Anyone with chronic migraine have any advice, ideas, or info about their experience and maybe how to deal with the pain after? Just take all rescue meds? #MigraineChat

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I am so worn down by this back pain. Fifteen months. No answers. Nothing showing on imaging. Nothing helps.

Catherine O'Hara popping up on The Last of Us is a treat.

Today my dermatologist called me at 5:30p to ask if I'd consider MCAS because "all my weird symptoms kinda fit." My dermatologist. For one, she actually called me not her staff. Two, this is so outside her scope but she always asks how I'm doing in appts. I *really* appreciated it.

FB comment: "Vaccines aren't safe. If they saved lives, they wouldn't be available." It's taking all my willpower not to ask this person to explain their brilliant logic. But not engaging is my 2025 growth.

PHARMACIST: can I help you? ME: idk what’s good here?

Pretty terrible second half by the Patriots. Bills came alive in a big way.

Clock shenanigans is an understatement. Not sure we should've been given those two seconds but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Drake Maye is going to be the leading rusher for the Patriots today.

This Patriots' drive is chaotic.

Oh, I saw my first cyber truck. In my small town even. Man, those suckers really are as ugly as you all said.

Fixed a toilet when my mom wanted to call a plumber. Please clap.

We're counting down the most popular articles on MSC published over the past year. Coming in at number 9: Our interview with vestibular #migraine (VM) expert Dr. Hamid R. Djalilian. VM a condition that is mis- and under-diagnosed -- read why on MSC today. migrainecollaborative.org/bringing-att...

Does anyone else have at least one friend's special interest that has infiltrated your socials algorithm because you send them videos as your love language? 😂

Shopping for anything is so frustrating now. Prices are up and quality is down. Reading reviews makes me want to claw my eyes out.

So frustrating that some of the best, most knowledgeable specialists seem to move to private/cash pay/incredibly expensive clinics. Healthcare is truly becoming for the privileged.

So I have an idea for the AHS Headache & Migraine Competitive Grant Program. Any headache specialists want to talk? I'm not a member and can't afford to become one, even if I were eligible to apply.

Nine minutes! An appointment survived the portal for nine minutes. I grabbed it! Now I see this provider next week at a reasonable time instead of at the end of January, some morning at 7:45a. Phew!

Any ideas for a small gift (~$25) for brother and SIL who don’t need anything and are hard to shop for? I don’t know wines but can I get a decent bottle for that price? Other ideas?

Is there any harm in screwing with a spammer who texts me? I'm bored. This guy wants to know if I'm working tomorrow. Thinking of telling him I have a double shift at the ER.

Whether or not to seek healthcare shouldn't be such a hard decision. We should have clean air and masks.

I get really annoyed by companies/organizations sending out surveys that unnecessarily ask for identifying information I can't opt out of answering.

Easy cookie recipe - palmiers. Store bought puff pastry, cinnamon, and sugar. My puff pastry was a little dried out so these came out a bit rough, but still very edible!

A really good habit to develop is not giving fucking advice unless people ask for it. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.