Hey, Anon, Please Try Your Best To Push Through It! I, And And A Lot Of Other People Can Tell You That

Hey, Anon, please try your best to push through it! I, and and a lot of other people can tell you that it’ll get better. I know that it might seem like the world is ending now, but please remember that there are people, even complete strangers who care about you. I’m sorry, I’m not the greatest person to talk to about this stuff, but I promise that things will get better! Please stay strong! I know you can do it! <3

imm so sorry but I'm feeling extremely suicidal and I want to know reasons why I shouldn't commit suicide I'm so close I'm so fucckcing close doing it tonight please flore please

im not the right person, im so sorry, please dont do it,, ,, im sorry i cant help im actually the worse person to ask this

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life gets better,, trust me,,

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Part two of my alt fusion AU comic/animatic thing! I can’t even properly describe to you how much I love drawing Opal and her millions of arms good grief

Feb 29th is Rare Disease Day.

Rare Diseases vary in classification, but there are over 7,000 rare diseases and more being added every year. In the United States a Disease is considered rare if it affects less than 1 in 200,000 people.

However, 30 million Americans have Rare Diseases, making that 1 in 10 Americans or 10% of Americans.

2/3rds of those with Rare diseases are Children, and 30% of Children with rare diseases don’t live to hit their 5th Birthday, and are responsible for 35%+ deaths in the first year of life.

Problems with this:

-95% of Rare illnesses have not ONE FDA approved treatment.

-Approximately ½ of all rare illnesses don’t even have an organization that is disease specific to focus on the illness or research.

It can make it really hard for patients to be diagnosed, since doctors are repeatedly told things such as “If you hear hoofbeats think horses, not zebras”. The doctor that coined that term lived in Maryland, and used it as an example to look for more common things first.

The problem with this is that it can take years to find a diagnosis and once a doctor suspects something rare sometimes they won’t treat you anymore. Many doctors don’t want to deal with rare illnesses, and many even don’t know what you’re talking about when you say your illness name.

-Many rare illnesses are snowflake illnesses which mean everyone presents differently and requires different treatments. That makes it hard because even with more prevalent rare illnesses, like EDS, it means that one person could be totally non-functional and another moderately to normally functional.

-Most patients with rare illnesses have no universal meds, treatment, or way to alleviate suffering and pain, and are often seen as drug seekers, or mentally unstable until they find a doctor that has seen the illness before.

-The lack of knowledge of the illnesses and how to treat it delays and diagnosis which can sometimes mean life or death, or huge unnecessary progression in the illness.

-Many rare diseases have inaccessible specialists. Doctors who can take months or years to get into see, only if you can travel far away and if your insurance accepts the out of network care.

-Treatment varies highly from person to person which means that a lot of time doctors end up disagreeing and fighting on what is best for a patient, causing treatment to be delayed or stopped.

Lets put this in perspective:

-1.5 Million Americans have a heart attack or stroke every year.

-In 2014 there were approximately 14-15 million cancer patients/survivors in the US (And even that number includes some rare diseases!).

-30 Million Americans are affected by a clump of rare, unconnected illnesses that are lumped together as “Rare Diseases” or “Orphan Diseases”

The Sign for Rare Diseases is Zebra Print, or Jeans (As upward of 85% of rare illnesses are genetic).

The 29th of February is always rare disease day. Sometimes we need to think Zebras and not Horses.

Zebra Strong. Alone we are few, together we are many.

- (if anyone knows who wrote this, please tell me so I can credit them)

Had to doodle me some manipulative HIM/Vanadinite in regards to Bubbles/Blue Lace Agate. :3

Because as creepy as it was, I actually really liked how Bubbles seemed to be HIM’s ‘favorite’ Puff to try & control in the cartoon, no matter how many times she ruined those particular plans in the end. They had an interesting dynamic. Like, pure evil vs pure innocence.

Vanadinite would definitely see the PPGems as more of an asset to the Authority, seeing as Chemical X only made them more unique/stronger than the average gem. For fusing, the girls would be a definite advantage to Homeworld in terms of battle. So he’d constantly try to turn them to the side of the Homeworld.

(More rambling under the cut~)

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That’s such a dick move! I’m sorry, dude. Hope you feel better

haha my friends just stood me up

that’s fine

I just wish everyone would leave me the fuck alone anyways