welcome to my old pile of hockey junk

mood after last night

five? 

FIVE????

impossible.

anyway here’s a ton of jeff skinner being ridiculous

casually moonwalking on ice

smile so much you gotta stretch out your face mid game

fell over but still scored so, gotta celly 

“the puck is precious. must protect the puck.”

the whitest white boy dance celly in existence 

when you can’t stop won’t stop pirouette roll over a player on the team yours just scored on

casually busting out a half axel mid-game to avoid tripping on a guys stick 

i… don’t even know what to call this? “jeff tries defending”?

and my favourite jeff: smiley happy jeff

I'll start... If no one shares your name just use your first initial....

“One of the [most memorable] gifts that I get, that I appreciate the most, is when my parents send me Girl Scout cookies on every one of my birthdays.” 

Happy Birthday, Brock Boeser! (Feb. 25, 1997)

doctor:

“my thyroid function was checked recently. That information should be accessible to you in my chart. If it isn’t, please let me know so that I can get you those results. In the meantime, what else might be causing my symptoms?”

“Ive explored that avenue with other physicians. what else might be causing my symptoms?”

“I’d like to test ____. Can you order that one?” [if they say no] “Please note in my records that I requested that test and you declined to order it. I’ll wait here while you do that.” [then, ask the nurse for an after-visit summary that includes the doctor’s notes to check that they did it]

One thing that seriously helps:

If you are having physical problems misconstrued as mental illness and have a good therapist or psychiatrist, ask them to vouch for you in writing.

My psychiatrist writing me a note that said, “actually my professional opinion is that this person’s anxiety is well-controlled, please take that into account and FUCKING BELIEVE HER PLEASE”, and he was listened to more than I was.

If you can get other professionals on your side it really is helpful.

Is it deeply fucked up that some doctors won’t trust that you know your own body? Yes. But in the moment, trying to find other ways to get yourself heard can be a necessary sacrifice. Do that first and lodge any complaints later — ESPECIALLY if you think you’ve been discriminated against or dismissed base on race/age/gender because that happens a ton.

And ALWAYS keep a paper trail.