We Learn To Heal Ourselves

don’t stop taking medication because you’re feeling better.

don’t stop going to therapy because you’re feeling better.

don’t stop visiting your pain doctor because you had no pain that week

A PSA 💖💜💙

I'm one week post op and stressing about having to miss 3 weeks of work. The apartment I was staying at was deemed illegal to sleep in because of a fire hazard so I'm staying with a friend and now having to pay rent in two places 😅 I'm offering emergency commissions to help support my bf and I, please leave a note of what you would like drawn in the payment comments or DM me here to discuss! I'm offering pay what you can, so any budget is alright. Donations are also welcome if anyone is so inclined.

I'm one week post op and stressing about having to miss 3 weeks of work. The apartment I was staying at was deemed illegal to sleep in because of a fire hazard so I'm staying with a friend and now having to pay rent in two places 😅 I'm offering emergency commissions to help support my bf and I, please leave a note of what you would like drawn in the payment comments or DM me here to discuss! I'm offering pay what you can, so any budget is alright. Donations are also welcome if anyone is so inclined.

One time when he was 18, he was fishing and found a baby salamander someone had tried and failed to use as bait. It had a huge gash in its side and didn’t look like it would make it. He put it in the bucket he was going to put fish in and took it home, then performed “surgery” on the little guy to mend the gash. It couldn’t move, so my dad fed it and nursed it back to health until the gash was healed. Since he’d taken it in as a baby, it wasn’t equipped to stay alive in the wild, so he kept it in a giant aquarium next to his bed. It stayed alive until my sister was born six years later.

His dad took him deer hunting once when he was in middle school. They hunted all day and never saw a single deer. At the end of the day as the sun was setting, they found one, and my dad yelled at my grandpa not to shoot it because it didn’t deserve to die. He hasn’t been deer hunting since.

Two people I used to be best friends with don’t have stable parents. My dad takes them out for lunch and out fishing regularly, and even though I am not friends with either of them anymore, he still makes time for them as if they were his own kids.

Sometimes I catch him crying at videos of dogs on the internet.

One time he was crying and I asked him what was wrong and he gave me a hug and said there isn’t always a reason. I’ve held on to that.

He told me that if (if) he dies, he wants to die by being drowned in a horde of puppies because otherwise, what’s the point?

He makes sure to say “I love you” to my mom and me every day, because he once told me he never once heard it from his parents as a kid.

Saw my mom looking at a bird, so he found out what kind of bird it was and drew a picture of it for her.

Heard me crying after a hard day and brought me a box of milk duds, because even though I’m lactose intolerant, it was an occasion on which they were needed.

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