I have Hashimoto's, and it has been a long time since I had a bad tachycardia episode. I am so extremely stressed right now over the US election that I got to spend a whole night this week with my damn legs up a wall in a hotel alone in order to not go to the ER and then show up for work on time. So that was cool.

This month has been worse than two decades of military service. I do crisis IR for a living. I knife fight and shoot competitively for fun. I do stress, for a living. That much in our country and global democracy is at stake, and I do not know how to get people outside Mastodon and the limited time I have to phone bank, to care.

This election is coming close to killing me.