Doing the Diagnosis

everytime you say ‘you cant really hate your mom, shes your mother!’ you owe a kid whos been physically/emotionally abused or traumatically affected by their mother $50

When you’re chronically ill, you don’t take naps, naps take you.

I am really bad about choosing what to spend my spoons on...

we’re all irrespoonsible

netflix and ch(ronically)ill

This might be the most accurate thing I've ever seen.

The future is now.  …Of course the black is sold out.

i’ve seen a lot of spoonies commenting this already, but EMTs really don’t know what to do with these, and obviously in an emergency you won’t be able to explain. getting a traditional alert bracelet is a good idea, although having this with everything on it can be great for other instances–new doctors who ask for a full run-down of medications and doses, for example. 

I’m currently an EMT student, and my instructors are required to be in service in my county. Several of them are also older and out of touch with technology. Yet they ALL spoke very highly about these bracelets/necklaces. It’s almost condescending and very insulting that you state that EMTs “don’t know what to do with these”. It’s not exactly difficult to put two and two together. Amazingly, we know about these things, and specifically look for these aids. Incredible, huh?

I cannot disagree here. My brother is a paramedic and I work with an EMT and they both said that in an emergency, this isn’t going to help. But I really did find it helpful at the hospital when seeing several docs a day and I was able to just pop it into their computers and pull up a copy of my history for them.