My post is directed at the people who aren’t wearing masks, not at you.

I’m severely immunocompromise and I’m stuck in my home 95% of the time. I empathize.

If you have had sedation for any surgery / procedure - you have been given fentanyl.

If you have experienced a medical trauma - you have been given fentanyl.

If you have had cancer care, you’ve probably been given fentanyl.

It is probably the most precise, effective medication in skilled hands.

It’s also the only one that touches my pain when I’m having a pain crisis.

Same

If you also have some type of an innate immunodeficiency, then you probably can’t get the vaccine which is my case (and also on immunosuppressants that would be dangerous for me to stop for that long). We are in an impossible situation that should never have happened.

If you are on an immunosuppressant and that is why you are severely immune compromised, it is complicated, but you can do it. You’ll have to talk to your doctor/the drug manufacturer, but likely you will have to strap your medication for any time from weeks to months both before & after the vaccine

WEAR A MASK

I'm getting my titers checked next week. Please keep your fingers crossed that I still have immunity from childhood.

If your community never makes you sit in your discomfort or if you refuse when given the invitation to - then it’s not a community or you aren’t a part of it.

The only emotional experience accorded to me by our violent, ableist society and structural oppression is strength. And when that runs out, the only emotion I am deemed as deserving is pity

I tell people that I’m grieving, but really I’m holding the concept of grief somewhere in my mind, filed away with every other feeling I am not allowed to have.

Grieve? Who can grieve when you’re Sisyphus being punished by Zeus for cheating death and have to roll the boulder of your life up a hill for eternity. That boulder is all-consuming and the last thing it takes from you is the breath you need to scream or cry.

Same same same same same