Hi. The blood tests came back positive and it is very likely that my unbearable, constant, full-body pain is due to an undiagnosed autoimmune disease. Coincidentally, I just got a job in food service.

My pain is quickly exacerbated by standing more than 5 minutes and/or being upright for more than 1.5 hours. Unfortunately, these are both necessities for my job. I can't be accommodated. My health is rapidly deteriorating, but I can't quit until I know I can pay next month's rent. My legs have been giving out on me. I won't be able to work that much next month anyway because I am going to be partially hospitalized for other health reasons.

TL;DR: Job is rapidily worsening my health, but I can't quit and find a better job because I have to pay rent and am going to be partially hospitalized next month.

Please help me take care of my body for this disability pride month. Thank you so much to anyone who donates or reblogs! I'll turn reblogs off when this post is no longer needed.

$105/$1,350 USD

you know, this delightful little guy? an image from 2017?

not only is it on the static cling page, it's also on the pages for static electricity, triboelectric effect, electric field, eletrostatics and electrostatic induction (and you can also find it on this user page captioned "my fav photo", which i thought was delightful, and way down on this user's page)!

it's full description on wikimedia also reads: "Styrofoam peanuts clinging to a cat's fur due to static electricity. The triboelectric effect causes an electrostatic charge to build up on the fur due to the cat's motions. The electric field of the charge causes polarization of the molecules of the styrofoam due to electrostatic induction, resulting in a slight attraction of the light plastic pieces to the charged fur. This effect is also the cause of static cling in clothes."

except, i left out the last bit. the last bit reads: "Image cropped losslessly from File:Cat and styrofoam – electrostatic charge (235112299).jpg using cropgtk"

now, this means this isn't the full image.... so what is the full image? it's this!

now, what i find really endearing about this photo, is that, while this file was uploaded to wikimedia in 2015 (as opposed to the cropped version being done in 2017), the original picture is actually from february 2006! you can see this in the summary!

the picture itself actually originates from flickr, and it has a DELIGHTFUL little description: