Quinn Rhodes (he/him)Mar 4
laen🪻

i can't get out of my head something i saw the other day on NHS scotland's website while researching something health related:

"It’s recommended you stay at or return to work as quickly as possible during your recovery. You don’t need to be pain and symptom-free to return to work."

i just can't stop thinking about this and all it means.

Mar 4 at 12:44pmWeb
Show threadDr. Figuring-things-autMar 4
@moonrabbit leaves a very bitter taste in my mouth 😬
Show threadMary StarbuckMar 4
@moonrabbit ðŸ˜ž 
Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4

@autoperipatetikos
i shouldn't find it surprising really, but.

 

 to you

Show threadMary StarbuckMar 4
@moonrabbit my NHS trust used to have a thing on it's chronic fatigue syndrome clinic info that said they can't accept autistic patients. I've no idea if it's been changed, but I feel like I can never trust them.
Thanks for the hugs   Cookies from me to you 
Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4

@autoperipatetikos
that's ... weird and infuriating.

cookies!  thank you 

Show threadClarissaMar 4
@moonrabbit Phew. The capitalist utopia we’re in is grim.
But worry not! Soon the bots will do all the work and we’ll… *checks notes* starve? Oh.
Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4
@clarissawam
but at least then we won't need healthcare?
so i mean that's good, right??
Show threadClarissaMar 4
@moonrabbit Once we have starved to death, we won’t, no.
Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4
@clarissawam
excellent. a bright side!
Show threadIdzieMar 4
@moonrabbit I have some very unpleasant wishes for the people who wrote that.
Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4

@idzie
i am so not vindictive, but i really do wish that the people creating these awful situations would have to live them, just for a week, so they would Understand.

then again, there seems to be a terrifying trend of people forgetting their suffering as soon as it ends and turning around to inflict the same on others.

sigh.

Show threadIdzieMar 5

@moonrabbit I definitely have a conductive streak! And not much patience for people making things actively wise for others. :(

I too wish experiencing what it's like would change people's attitudes. And for some of them, it probably would! Not all though, for sure. 😭

It's just so enraging.

Show threadBrambleBearSnoringMar 4

@moonrabbit um, fuck that stinking steaming pile of hyena shit. Spoonie Town Now!!!!

We gotta dump this dystopian global nightmare right tf now.

What is wrong with those evil monsters???

Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4

@BrambleBearSnoring
but think of the economy! (nvm that the economy will collapse when everyone's too sick to work)

BAH

Show threadBrambleBearSnoringMar 5

@moonrabbit ha! I dream of such a lovely regenerative economy-lots of small, networked economies of people doing work they enjoy, that actually helps people, when and how they want, in ways that assure ALL people get what they need. No working sick and in pain. No bullshit jobs. No shipping shit all over the globe to make stupid crap nobody needs to make rich people richer.

Abundant food, joy, Art, play.

#SimpleAbundance

Show threadlaen🪻Mar 5

@BrambleBearSnoring
apart from sculptures. sculptures can go all over the world!  
(i totally know what you mean; i'm just being silly)

but yes. some day. somehow!

Show threadsomcakMar 4
@moonrabbit That's some serious medical gaslighting. I see they've been taking tips from the USian model of healthcare.
Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4
@somcak
healthcare, politics, fascism ...
Show threadC++ Wage SlaveMar 4

@moonrabbit

It really depends on what condition the patient is suffering from. Right now, I'm recovering from #chickenpox, which is no fun in your sixties, and (at least in my case) has left me breathless and damaged my nerves in similar ways to #shingles. I can't do a normal day's work because my cognition and sleep cycle are muddled up by #pregabalin, a powerful drug prescribed to me to combat nerve pain so that I can sleep at night. But participating in work meetings and writing what code I can, when I can, is therapeutic in a way that sitting at home and concentrating on all my symptoms just wouldn't be.

Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4

@CppGuy
if people *want* to work and can do so safely, then of course they should be allowed to. but i'm fairly sure that's not what was being implied in that wording.

i hope things get easier for you and that you get the relief and recovery you need. take care.

Show threadC++ Wage SlaveMar 4

@moonrabbit

Thank you! My boss is being really understanding about it, because the same thing happened to him some years ago. And support from the NHS has been phenomenal.

Show threadlaen🪻Mar 4
@CppGuy
those are both very, very good things indeed!