#rls

A pack of their favorite gateorade flavor, great for hydration, tastes good, easy and quick. Body armor, prime, etc are also good options if they dont like gateorade

Some of their favorite powder electrolytes. Liquid IV and drip drop are some good options. There are also the generic brand electrolyte packets at Walmart, I think they taste good. There is also bouy if they like the squeezy ones, i dont but if they do bouy has an unflavored one as well as like 30 different options

Kt tape. Regular, extreme strength, cooling, heating, literally any type of kt tape. They can probably find a use for it. Most ((not all but most)) chronically ill people, at least the ones I know, suffer from some type of joint issues and kt tape is a life saver. On this vein, I would stray away from braces unless you know what joints/muscles specifically give them the most trouble, kt tape is a bit more versatile

Compression socks, there are cute ones on Amazon, Walmart, many small business sell some nice ones. I would go for a higher compression, or at least upwards of 15 mmhg, for the best chance of them being worth it

Temperature devices, im putting these in the same bullet point bc it felt unnecessary to put ice packs and heating pads in different points. Ice packs are really nice for swelling and heating pads are really good for pain. Both are a good option ALWAYS. I will say, the reusable ice packs give you a better bang for your buck than the single use crack and use ones.

Their comfort foods. A bit of an ed tw for this bullet point, but i have noticed quite a few of my fellow chronic illness sufferers deal with an ed, and while it isnt all of us, those who do probably find it a bit extra hard to eat on rough days. So comfort foods/snacks

If they have to take their blood sugar for things, lancets. They usually come in like 100 packs for really cheap, like under 5 bucks cheap. Just check to see the brand of their lancing pen before you buy them tho

Batteries, it sounds weird but stay with me. Do you know how many medical devices I have that require batteries?? MANY. My hr monitor, my glucose monitor, my blood pressure monitor- like bro, a pack of triple a batteries will mean more than you think trust

A weighted blanket/stuffie. Stuffies are cute and easy to carry around, blankets are nice when you need some extra weight

If they have a service animal, an accessory for their vest/leash/collar could be nice

One of those reacher things that grab things for you. I want one of those. When your stuck in bed, cant move, ill, in pain and suddenly drop your mother fucking phone cord off the side of your bed and now you have to MOVE and grab it- 10/10 worst experience. One of those grabby things would be amazing

A migraine cap. I got mine from target but I have seen them at Walmart, on Amazon, weirdly one on depop, some on shein, some at places like tj maxx, etc. Migraine caps are especially wonderful for those days where your shut in your room, blinds drawn, fans off, three ice packs on you in constant rotation, barely mobile and for some gods forsaken reason your blinds wont close all the way so the light keeps catching your eyes and making you want to lose your ever loving shit bc you cant move to fuck with them. And more normal experiences Im sure lmao

If your short on funds, just being there with them, listening to them, watching a movie, body doubling so they can get some help with chores, running errands with them, literally anything so they remember their a human person with human feelings that you love and care abt. Who knows, it might help you feel better too

✦ Jekyll and Hyde ✦

︶ ͡ ۫ ˓ ʚ♡ɞ ˒ ۫ ͡ ︶

𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲

𝐩𝐥𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝!

"𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍."

ᵀʰⁱˢ ⁱˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵉᵛᵉⁿ ᵃ ʳᵉᵃˡ ᴬᵁ, ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵃ ᵇᵘⁿᶜʰ ᵒᶠ ᵈʳᵃʷⁱⁿᵍˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ʷʳⁱᵗⁱⁿᵍˢ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ʰᵒʷ ᴶ&ᴴ ᶜʰᵃʳᵃᶜᵗᵉʳˢ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵃˡˡ ᵃᵈᵃᵖᵗᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿˢ ʷᵒᵘˡᵈ ⁱⁿᵗᵉʳᵃᶜᵗ

I only drew characters that will appear most in my drawings, but there are plenty of others I included! The designs were either closest to the original and accurate to the Victorian era or simply based on my vision.

These descs are pretty short and primitive, as it intended to be, my vision on characters is much deeper than that.

New website: straw.page

Old website: carrd.co

Note: This carrd looks like it was made in the 2000s or some shi but I'm still so happy I made it.

It was kinda stupid to make a website for just these silly drawings, but it's too late to regret it, + it'll be easier to navigate from where i started.

My first post, hope it's written decently. Maybe I will post these separately so it would be easier to find.

By Andy Corbley -Dec 3, 2025

South Korean scientists recently determined that patients with restless legs syndrome (RLS) showed approximately double the Parkinson’s disease incidence.

If that doesn’t sound like good news, it’s because you haven’t heard what they found next.

Researchers from Korea University Ansan Hospital and collaborators then found that among those RLS patients, those who were treated with a recently-developed dopamine agonist treatment experienced a protective buffer against Parkinson’s disease onset.

The findings were gathered from a nationwide cohort of nearly 20,000 people, involved Ansan Hospital, Pohang Stroke and Spine Hospital, and National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, and were published online in the journal JAMA Network Open on October 6th, 2025.

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common neurological sleep disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to move the legs, often worsening at night. Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is marked by tremor, rigidity, and slowed movement. Both conditions are associated with dysfunction in the brain’s dopaminergic system, but their causal relationship has remained unclear.

This retrospective cohort study, led by Professor Jong Hun Kim from the Department of Neurology, Ansan Hospital, analyzed data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service Sample Cohort (2002–2019). The researchers identified 9,919 individuals with RLS and compared them with an equal number of matched controls without the condition.

Over a median follow-up of 15 years, Parkinson’s developed in 1.6% of RLS patients compared with 1.0% of controls, confirming a heightened risk. When analyzed by treatment status, the results revealed a striking divergence.

Patients with untreated RLS showed the highest Parkinson’s incidence (2.1%) and an earlier onset of the disease, whereas patients given a dopamine agonist treatment showed a markedly lower Parkinson’s incidence (0.5%) and a delayed onset compared with controls.

“These findings indicate the existence of ‘heterogeneity within RLS’ which allows for multiple interpretations,” Professor Kim explained. “One of the interpretations is that restless legs syndrome may serve as an early clinical marker for Parkinson’s disease, particularly among untreated individuals.”

SOUTH KOREAN STORIES:

“Our results also indicate that dopamine therapy, used for symptom control, may confer protective benefits to the brain’s motor pathways.”

To strengthen the validity of their conclusions, the team employed target-trial emulation methods, an advanced analytical approach that reduces bias in observational research. This methodological rigor reinforces the biological plausibility of a link between RLS and PD rather than a mere overlap in symptoms.

PARKINSON’S

The authors propose that beyond dopamine dysfunction, other factors—such as sleep disruption, iron deficiency, and immune or metabolic pathways—may mediate this association. The protective trend observed with dopamine therapy could reflect neuroprotective mechanisms or improved identification of genuine RLS cases that are distinct from early-stage Parkinson’s.

RLS is my favourite and I want to share some of his letters, because the man is a menace and a delight and more people should know about him 🥰

Born in Edinburgh in 1850, he's most famous for his novels Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde, Kidnapped and more. He travelled a lot through his life, writing travelogues and books and many many letters.

He was witty and snarky, liberal and anti-colonial in an era when it made people give him suspicious looks. He was chronically ill for most of his life and was only 44 when he died of a suspected stroke at his home in Samoa.

But! To the letters.

This is a letter he wrote his father when he was about 15:

flag id: a flag with 5 stripes, with the third being twice the size of the rest. they are blue-black, indigo, soft blue, indigo, and blue-black. within the larger third stripe is an uneven zigzag stripe, which is dark red-orange. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

a restless leg syndrome flag, both for a request on @mogai-headcanons and for myself!

the regular stripes represent various moments of restfulness during which rls is typically experienced — when one is falling asleep/trying to sleep, lying down, sitting down to relax, etc. — and the jagged stripe in the middle represents the suddenness of restless leg! i used a zigzag stripe to represent energy (and also electricity, which i associate my rls with) and made it orange, a color that can represent energy.

tags: @radiomogai, @dragonpride17, @mad-pride