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Cake day: August 25th, 2025

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  • your MD believes you’ve healed. book says you should have years ago.

    If your doc thinks that, change doc.

    In my neck of the woods, doctors are so aware of phantom pains that I can literally walk into any doctor’s office, even one I’ve never met before, and ask for a prescription of Gabapentin or opioid of any denomination at any strength no questions asked. If I was still addicted, I would have no supply problem.


  • Well, I still have both my hands, so no 🙂

    My feet however… Well no, I don’t have phantom limbs. Never had. Not everybody gets them. And I have very little phantom limb pain - which is a different thing. When I do get it, it’s either in the form of mild electric shocks, which are easy to deal with and possibly even pleasant like a TENS session, or in the form of terrible itching I can’t scratch that can last for up to 3 days.


  • Or get amputated.

    The first times I went to the swimming pool in rehab, I remember feeling “more than 100%” naked in the changing room - if that makes any sense - because bits of me that used to be deep down inside of me were now only skin-deep. It’s a very strange feeling to feel even more naked than naked. Hard to describe.


  • As a long-time cat lover, I’ll tell you something else I witnessed: when a female cat is in heat and too many tomcats are waiting for their turn, sometimes one tomcat ends up mounting another out of frustration and overexcitement - and it usually ends up in a nasty reaction from the tomcat being mounted, but not always.

    So cats are not just polyamorous when enough hormones are flowing.