Hello disabled comrades! I can't believe we're entering a new year... which is year six of the pandemic, hooray. I'm a firm believer that we must always have revolutionary optimism, but I can't say it hasn't been hard for the past few years as more and more leftists have abandoned COVID precautions. But as disabled people, we keep agitating, we keep organizing, and we keep going. Solidarity in the face of pandemic eugenics, always.
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Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
just whining again, chronic pain/fatigue
I am not looking forward to the eventual point when I can't stand up anymore, but it's coming someday. I can feel it, getting up even one flight of stairs is exhausting now. I used to skip the elevator at work by speedrunning all ten flights and boy do I miss that now! My sternum just hurts all the fucking time, when I do almost anything that requires even a little upper body exertion. It has NOT got much better since I vomited a week ago.
Also my wrists/thumbs are too sore from playing a lot of Dragon Quest! I asked my doc about wrist splints a while ago and he said I could buy some lmao.
commiserating, my own venting
solidarity comrade. right there with you, been reflecting on this too. I'm like, I'm deteriorating. if I don't manage to figure out and build the habit of some kinda light exercise/stretching routine that actually slows or offsets this process, I'm gonna be more or less bedridden before very long. and like, it's a coin flip whether that will even help. I'm very sedentary so i feel pushing for a bit more activity probs can't hurt in my case. but it's really fucking hard when I'm depressed and burnt out (and SORE) all the time. still feeling somewhat inspired recently to go for it this year so I'm hoping to achieve at least some change. some days it feels like such an uphill battle tho.
same
Ah fuck you remind me I've gotta be lifting again, but stretching kinda hurts at this point. Blegh...
I dunno if physical activity will help much but gotta try, I guess. It does feel like an uphill battle, shit fuckin sucks... I hope not to be bedridden...
yeah I'm hoping to start lifting again this year, used to love it when i was younger so hoping it won't be too intimidating to go back. figure it's worth a try. i get the stretching horts, i think we suffer from similar sternum pain... i wish you a less body hurting 2025 and hope you can find activities or accommodations that meaningfully help you
Wait really? This is news to me, rad. I remember you talking about costochondritis, but of the sternum! We should trade tips about how not to cause ourselves excruciating pain or smth.
Also
ur comments inspired me to do a daily lift again today, just now. It kind of sucks but I think I can build muscle mass and it'll help a bit, exercise feels good at least, runner's high kinda thing.
I hope lifting helps when you get back to it too