my mom is rocking her cat in her arms like a baby and waltzing with him
Add “distress” to your pain scale
Pain scale? More like pain in the booty. No two people seem to read it the same way, and chronic folks tend to downplay their pain.
So here’s an idea: when asked to rate your pain, provide a number to rate your distress levels in addition to your pain levels.
Some examples:
“I’m at a 5 on the pain scale, but my distress is basically a 1 because this is my usual.”
“I’m at a 3 on the pain scale, but my distress is a 7 because this is new pain and affects a part of my body that’s very important to my work.”
It’s a great way to consider how your pain is impacting you—and to get a doctor’s attention where it’s actually needed.
OP is a genius
“Is that a baby?” asks the vampire.
It is a baby. The alpha has it tied to eir chest with a scarf. It does not look particularity secure
“Mine now.” signs the alpha.
“Uh huh,” agrees the vampire hesitantly “[Witch]? Can you come here?”
Since he was tiny, Pounce has loved watching big cat documentaries. He’ll sit in front of the TV, riveted, watching until the show’s over. Sometimes, I put them on just for him to enjoy. Everyone has aspirations.
“What’s in your mouth?” asks the witch,
The alpha werewolf gives xir a suspicious look and starts chewing faster
Vimes’ Boot Theory says that the reason rich people get to save themselves money on boots is that they have the $200 for boots that poor people don’t. That is true, of course, as discussed above. But that’s not the whole story.
They also know where to buy $200 boots.
They also know which $200 boots to buy.
There are many things that fascinate me about social class as a social phenomenon; one of the less obvious is that, classes being cultures, class boundaries are knowledge boundaries. Even more intriguingly, they’re inadvertant – emergent – knowledge boundaries.
We’re much more used to thinking of people not having access to knowledge because of deliberate efforts to keep them from it – from medieval guilds keeping secrets of their crafts to educational institutions discriminating in admissions against those they deem unworthy for reasons of race or sex.
But modern societies are rife with knowledge boundaries that are not deliberate. I would even propose that complexity in any enterprise necessarily gives rise to inadvertant knowledge boundaries, and modern society is nothing if not complex. This is just due to the nature of knowledge: what is specialization, if not a knowledge boundary?
