Lindsey B.

Any or she/her. Geeky, crafty, creative, mischievous, and largely nocturnal. Can be bribed with hand dyed yarn.

[Lindsey B. @PixieThief]

@yerlocalcryptid @hankgreen Ah yea, my least favorite oncology pastime. “Is it depression, chemo brain, or a horrible mashup of both?”

[Lindsey B. @PixieThief]

@yerlocalcryptid @hankgreen Yes! This! I was terrified of the nausea, and my docs had that well under control. But the lower GI issues? Those were both unexpected and godawful.

[Mark Mak @MoringmarkMark]

#theowlhouse #toh

[Lindsey B. @PixieThief]

@hankgreen ….I wish I could tell you yes. It gets…tolerable. Lidocaine ointment helps before they need to access it. But for me, it was forever a weird, alien thing in my chest and I was more excited to get it removed than the remains of Bad Tiddy.

[Lindsey B. @PixieThief]

@_AllieNicole @hankgreen Yes! And while on The Red Devil my bestie bought me blue colored tabs for my toilet water so I could make purple. Because stupid humor helped me get through.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

If you're wondering, when cancer cells are killed by chemo, they break apart and then the actual atoms and molecules get filtered out by the kidneys.

So, cancer survivors, you peed your cancer into the fucking toilet and flushed it into the sewer. WHICH IS WHAT IT DESERVED.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

The first conversation I had with my oncologist, we were just talking about his experiences as a doctor (which...awesome, it was very good to get know him a bit) and I ended up asking if people ever decide to not follow his advice.

He said yes, and he looked very sad and then he told me that every single one of conversations are going to be with him forever.

What a very hard thing that must be...to have someone turn down your advice...to not get chemo, or exit the treatment early, only to come back and find that now the prognosis is much worse and the treatment plan much less clear.

It seemed to me that, at least in part, he felt his inability to keep them on the treatment path was a personal failure. I wish I could take that guilt away from him, because it's not his fault. We're all susceptible to simple stories that give us back a sense of control, even if it's an illusion. And sometimes people cannot be convinced...and sometimes that's deadly.

I'm very grateful that my worldview meshes well with the most effective paradigms. I didn't get that because I'm smart, I got it by the luck of my upbringing. And if ever a doctor tells you that you need chemo...there will almost certainly be people in your life who tell you that you should try alternatives instead.

You. Should. Not.

You can and should do acupuncture and restorative yoga and aromatherapy and eat less sugar and whatever other things help you. But do those things AND get the treatment recommended by your oncologist. Cancer patients have control, it's just a different kind of control than we're used to, and it can be disruptive to an identity to submit to that lack of control. But that's just...having a body, and I'm very happy that I get to have a body.

[Nikki Fried @NikkiFried]

If you feel like you're tired of fighting for what's right in Florida, meet Grace Linn.

[girly&wordly @Brieyonce]

Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week.

[Lindsey B. @PixieThief]

Today is a hard day. Time for another round of immunotherapy. I’ll get through. But damn am I tired of hard days.

[A. Z. Fell & Co. @Mr_AZ_Fell]

It’s going to be alright. Not, perhaps, in the way you want it to be, but in the way that these things so often are. A knot in the cord of your life that won’t unravel, but that will grow smaller and easier as it recedes into the past.

Hold on a little longer. I love you.

[Lindsey B. @PixieThief]

@badschnoodles My dad did this all the time when I was a kid to split apples for our horses. I had no idea it was impressive until I asked a dorm-mate in college to split an apple for me to share…and after that all the guys were nervous around dad. 😅

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

We are going to be ok, whatever number it is

[keita takahashi @KeitaTakahacy]

I have one more🎁
This is the prince's mobile phone strap that I found when I was cleaning the house. The LED on the antenna was glowing when you got a phone call, but I don't think it works anymore.

Please RT if you want it. I will pick 3⃣ persons randomly by Jan 2nd Noon PST!

[Lindsey B. @PixieThief]

@badschnoodles I’m reading those too! And you are entirely correct: staggeringly good!

[Lindsey B. @PixieThief]

@NaomiRomeroArt Always.

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

OK we're doing a giveaway, which I am calling Once Upon a (Forbidden) Tome

the prize? a special ⭐️annotated⭐️ copy of @deathbybadger's Once Upon a Tome containing Secrets and Confessions I did not include in the book

to enter 1. RT ♻️ this post 2. 🤝 follow us
(ends 2nd Nov 22)

[Leslie J. Anderson @inkhat]

I don’t want a villain era. I want an NPC era. Give me a little hut by a forest so I can give travelers home baked bread and warm them of the witch who lives by the blood red oak.