IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

get spooky

how does this appear every june

T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

JUNE 1ST 2017 AND THIS IS THE FIRST THING I SEE.

WHY IS THIS ON MY DASH IN JUNE

LET’S GET SPOOKY

This will be on most people’s dash by midnight lmao

Happy June

Just in case

I’m actually going to reblog a thing just because this is really important.

As someone who has epilepsy and used to have several grand mal seizures a day, I’d also like to add that “offer help” can range anywhere from keeping the person calm to explaining to them where they are and what they were doing to even just telling them they should sit and rest for a while longer (lack or coordination is common, and it can be hard to walk straight or see clearly).

It’s okay for them to take up to a half hour to fully regain their bearings and sort out what they were doing prior to the seizure. Just answer any questions calmly and be there for support.

If they come around and you start to panic or shake them or ask them what the heck is wrong with them they are going to freak out and panic too.

I cannot stress it enough that this is bad.

If someone has a seizure and they come out of it, please. please stay calm. They are likely disoriented and confused, even if it’s only for a minute or two, and you don’t want them panicking on top of that because they can have another seizure as a result.

IMPORTANT

IMPORTANT because last year a kid in my class had a seizure, none of us even knew he was at risk for them either so just cause you don’t think you know anyone doesn’t mean you don’t 

stay safe

I have to stress how important it is to time a seizure. If it lasts more than a few minutes, call an ambulance.

DO NOT CALL THE POLICE. I’m dead fucking serious. I had a grand mal in public once and the POLICE were called and imagine coming out of the seizure, feeling like you got smacked in the head with a sack full of bricks, confused, dazed, in desperate need of some sugar to boost low blood pressure and some DIPSHIT has called the police and I was being threatened with being ‘drunk and disorderly’. It took a phone call to my doctors office to get them to back off. The police cannot properly deal with sick people. 

Offer help can be:

Why you shouldn’t put anything in someone’s mouth: they will choke. Yes, they may bite their tongue but I can assure you it’s less traumatic than cracking your jaw on someone’s greasy wallet or choking on a spoon.

DO NOT HOLD ANYONE DOWN. Example: someone pinned my right shoulder mid-seizure a few years back and how I have a permanently displaced and clicking shoulder. Let the person flail around, those muscles are out of control and restraining them does cause more damage to the patient and you.

My brother has epilepsy so I’ve had to help him out through various types of seizures before, all of the above advice is extremely important to remember.

One thing that seems to help my brother regain awareness faster during an absent seizure is talking to him and repeating questions until he’s able to form coherent sentences and offering him something to look at that requires his attention, our dog also licks his hands and barks until he comes out of the seizure.

I’m not sure if any of that would apply to help anyone else but I wanted to share just in case someone might find it useful.

As someone who has had epilepsy nearly 50 years, I just want to add that NEVER make fun of a person having a seizure, no matter how it might look. It is embarassing enough to have a seizure in public. Besides, you can never be sure if they are aware of your presence or not. Remember, anyone can have a seizure in right conditions, so imagine how would you feel in their place.

I, for example, am unaware at the start but after awhile become aware of everything around me while still having a seizure. I hear, see, understand and remember everything that happens but cannot respond or do anything because my body is not in my control. It’s like being underanesthetized.

My dad did not believe me when I was younger so he asked what happened. I told exactly what had been said and done, by whom, who came to room and when, the noises I heard etc. My dad looked horrified.

Basic advice to help someone seizuring

I haven’t found a version of this post with an image description yet, but the only things in the image that aren’t listed in this reblog are “remove glasses” and “loosen tight clothing”

Husband: I want to see more of the Crows. Jesper and Inej are so cool, but all of them are great.

Me:

I'm sorry but this is so funny

The smashed pieces photo is a greater piece of art than anything koons ever did lol

Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

Reblog to actually save a life

To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it

as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion

Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER! I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.

“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”

me when I have a medium day: let’s spice it up with a little treat

Reblog if you deserve a little treat

Favourite/Funniest Line's from Crooked Kingdom

heye every one.

i have on important announcemen t to make.

sam.

all these celebrities joining tumblr again but

“Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I’ve landed on your page you’re most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I’m about to share could help save a black woman’s life.

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you’ve seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn’t feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there’s a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people’s kidneys, meaning we’re less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren’t getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you’ve requested, say to them the following:

I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I’ve requested, and the reason you are doing so.”

This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.

But particularly women, and especially black women.

and watch them document it, then request a copy at the end of your appointment (should be official looking: letterhead, dated, signature, ect)

then they can’t be shady about their record keeping and if they are you have an official document and not just your word

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

FINE! I'll do it myself

“Oomen’s eyeball” this, “Kaz would paint East Stave with his entrails” that. We always talk about Kaz going unhinged every time Inej is threatened or hurt, but the fact that Inej clearly is just as protective of Kaz, albeit much more subtly, is so underrated.

Like, my girl was thankful she had been the one captured and possibly tortured by Van Eck because the thought of someone finding out Kaz’s weakness and torturing him with it was too much for her to bear. She was on the brink of going on a murder spree when she watched Kaz being beat up by the Dregs and she was not about to hesitate. She found out a fraction of what Pekka did to Kaz and she literally carved the man’s chest and chased him off of Ketterdam with the promise of worse things to come if he ever showed up again.

It’s even more jarring coming from Inej because Kaz is unapologetically violent and murderous but Inej is so not the same, yet don’t you even dare touch her man because she will, and I quote, pile your the bodies to the rafters for the stadwatch to find. They are so devoted to each other. Idk I just love my two murder babies going absolutely feral if the other one is threatened.

Me right now tbh

“please describe what a notp is”

also

Hocus Pocus 2, an Original movie event, streaming September 30 on Disney+

A mood.