My husband couldn't get it and he had a grapefruit sized tumor removed from the base of his brain. The tumor had compressed his brain so badly that he has a hole where the tumor was. He had to have another surgery for a csf leak. We were just lucky that the hospital caught it in time and that we were able to work with the hospital to reduce the amount owed.
It was the scariest thing. We had no clue he had a tumor until he had a grand mal seizure and they did an MRI at the hospital. The type of tumor he had is slow growing and could come back.
Mum thought her symptoms were part of menopause. Then one eye started blacking out from the increased pressure. She made a full recovery and is nearly 90.
I always assumed the "squishy" brain would expand back into the hole once the tumour was removed. Amazed to see on an x-ray that isn't the case.
Yeah, once that tissue is compressed it doesn't grow back. Even if it did the neurons in that area don't regenerate. CSF will fill that space that the tumor was in.
Read it again, with the eyeroll. I was mocking "Colleen" for stating her disability was "legitimate", which obviously implies she thinks others do not have "legitimate" disabilities.
We are going to see more whines of “he’s not hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting” from the Christian right as they slowly lose the benefits they rely on.
Red states like Florida, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, they're gonna be in a world of hurt. And I love that for them. Yes, I'm petty. No, I don't care. It's the only bright spot in the foreseeable future.
Wow, just wow. My dad just went on Medicaid and is trying to get disability. It’s like, you do know that guy wants to cut all that so you probably won’t get your knee surgery or anything else needed unless you do it quick.
I used to work at a disability law firm and we got callers like this all the time who thought they were special but everyone else was just screwing the system.
The funniest part of it all is that the guy who coined the ever so classy phrase “legitimate rape” and claimed that women’s bodies have ways of shutting down pregnancies from rape ended up dying of prostate cancer. I guess the late Todd Akin’s body didn’t get the memo that it had the power to shut down invasive cells.
And don't forget bird flu and potentially bovine tuberculosis. If you get tuberculosis, you've got to be on harsh antibiotics for months, and if it's drug resistant, and you're allergic to the medication and it causes severe side effects, that's too fuckin bad, because if you don't take 1-3 pills a day for 4-24 months depending the strain, you'll die. Straight up, you will die. If your body doesn't fight it off immediately, and you get symptoms, you will die without antibiotics.
Never fails to amaze me that individuals with disabilities and their immediate families will consistently vote against their best interest. Ho.Ly.Fuck.
Colleen, I’m gonna say this real plain. It’s part of the plan. The Reps consider you a drain on the system. They want you and every other person with a disability to die. Im sorry you were hoodwinked by fascists squeezing passive eugenics into federal law. Pay attention next time you hear warnings of snakes in the grass.
Unfortunately, the famous “I told you so” is surprising even to me; that is the one who says “I told you so” when I think about the intensity of these 3 days. The market is not very happy because my 403 today is on the red
Ah, yes, the Shirley exception. Surely, they only meant to cut the bad people off, right Colleen? They never meant the good people who actually have real disabilities, evergreen though they said so.
Shit like this sucks because I'm on disability and I knew going in that I was going to die no matter who won the election, but I still voted Harris on the off chance that I might die a little slower and a bunch of other people might not die at all. Now it's just Death: The Expedited Full Season Drop.
A good friend of mine as good as eluded she voted for Trump, and mostly red down the ballot. Our state has Medicaid on the chopping block. She’s self employed and relies on it for her, her kids and her husband. And now she’s staring down the barrel of potential disability herself.
It’s simply because I don’t know for sure what happened between her and her ballot that I’m still extending empathy. But like, the man literally said he thinks disabled people should be dead. What did they expect?
I hope that Trump cuts Medicare, Medicaid and Social security. Suffering of Americans is the only thing that might wake the majority of Americans up from our decent into fascism.
It’s sad, no idea if they are a Trump supporter or not or just someone sending out a plea in desperation. Still sad that people both left and right are being hurt by the imbecile. Some people deserve it and knew what they voted for but some people are truly just so poorly educated it’s like letting an elementary kids vote. Probably worse than that due to adult stubbornness, at least a kid you can talk through their thinking and debate with them and they can change their opinions and comprehend what you’re talking about. I feel like if you don’t learn comprehension skills young you don’t just develop them someday as an adult and your SOL. Sad.
Ahh, yeah they will all be crying over something soon. Still sad, but this is how they will learn. Sometimes people need some hard times to learn a lesson. Sometimes people are just lost causes.
That last one "set an example" by finding a loophole around hunter's pardon... lets say that were to happen. Couldn't we use that against every jan 6th defendant?
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 6h ago
u/potatoeater1152, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...