Tessseagull

and then LATER in one of my FAVORITE SCENES:

I honestly don't understand why it's such a hard concept to grasp. I cannot get treatment until they figure out what is wrong with me, and if the test results are normal that doesn't magically fix me!!

They get my hopes up for like 3 months telling me I probably have a very fixable benign tumour, and I begin to think this time, after 15 years, I finally have The Vitamin. My mum is convinced, because she's a pathological optimist bless her, and I try to tell her I'm not getting my hopes up this time because I've thought so many times I found The Vitamin, only to get disappointed. But I was secretly hoping I guess, because I was crushed when they told me it's actually a cyst, and not an issue at all, and doesn't explain any of my symptoms, and they won't take it out.

And, to add insult to injury, the consultant tries to tell me it's good I don't have a tumour. He also sighed when I asked him to explain what condition the cortisol tests he ordered were testing for, and what symptoms that could explain. Excuse me for wanting to know what's going on with my own body I guess 🙄

His answer wasn't even useful. I looked it up after and found it's testing for Cushing's disease, which actually would explain most of my symptoms, plus some I didn't think to tell him about. Why is Google more use than the fucking NHS? It's especially annoying because he mansplained to me what the pituitary gland was and drew a diagram, and I had to sit there being like.

I felt like his summary was pretty accurate and he didn't downplay the symptoms I reported. If anything he overstated them, saying that I would actually fall over after a shower, when all I said was I was dizzy and needed to lie down. I have to respect him for erring on the side of overstating my case, lol. He also mentioned I was very upset to hear that the pituitary cyst was normal, as I was hoping it would explain my symptoms, so apparently he did actually understand why I wasn't happy about the normal blood results. I didn't feel like he did in the appointment, but actions are more important than a reassuring bedside manner if you can't have both 😅

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

Edit: Yes, this also works on mobile!

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.