//I’m sure nobody actually minds, but just in case, I just want to apologize for being slow in getting to people here. I’m really trying to use tonight to post things because I won’t be on all day tomorrow (the log-off protest), but I seem to have really been knocked back several steps in terms of my chronic illness.  I have been dealing with really severe 

• diabetic
• neurological
• and gastrointestinal

problems since the 12th (really before then, but it reached a peak that morning, and I ended up in the ER for about 6 or 7 hours dealing with, we’ll say, the worst part of the GI and neurological problems.  These problems are the product of chronic illness and will never go away.  

I have PTSD, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and both of those are tied to medical trauma from severe, dangerous chronic illness, as well as medical malpractice.  For that reason, anytime I go to the ER, I experience a PTSD trigger, and my PTSD becomes particularly severe, for several days, sometimes a week or two.  I’m in the thick of this right now, and it’s making it difficult to do much more than take sedatives, rest, and sleep.   What sucks about this is that the “perpetrator” of my “abuse” is not an outside entity, but my own body, which means I can never escape, and these cycles of poor mental health will be inevitable.  The silver lining, of course, is that they also (for the most part) pass. 

I realized I’ve never made a clear, detailed post about this in the past, and I figured I owed my followers an explanation for the periods of time during which I disappear from Tumblr and in fact from all social media.