Limberation - Limber Up To Live Life
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Otherwise known as @KoparaFallsKid.bsky.social
Movement As Medicine advocate. Follow my writing on Limberation.com
Rheumatoid Arthritis patient. Previously diagnosed Psoriatic Arthritis patient. Probably both. Two titantium knees.
Movement As Medicine advocate. Follow my writing on Limberation.com
Rheumatoid Arthritis patient. Previously diagnosed Psoriatic Arthritis patient. Probably both. Two titantium knees.
🧵 3. This is about ambiguous billing terminology and situations.
Watch for Ambiguous Billing Terminology
Do patients and providers all mean the same thing when we use certain words related to medical costs? Seems we don’t, necessarily.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
🧵 3. This is about ambiguous billing terminology and situations.
🧵 2. I've written a few articles about costs and Medicare. The numbers are a bit out of date now (this was 2022) but the illustrations hold.
This is about the thresholds.
This is about the thresholds.
So, About the Safety Nets Thresholds
A (hopefully) easy to understand summary of Australian MBS and PBS Safety Nets!
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November 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
🧵 2. I've written a few articles about costs and Medicare. The numbers are a bit out of date now (this was 2022) but the illustrations hold.
This is about the thresholds.
This is about the thresholds.
Hi Karen. 🫂
I have thoughts about the pain scale.
I have thoughts about the pain scale.
That Darn Pain Measurement Scale
We can quantify temperature and blood pressure. But not pain. Modern MRIs, CT scanners and ultrasounds let clinicians assess things their predecessors could only dream about imaging 100 years ago. …
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November 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Hi Karen. 🫂
I have thoughts about the pain scale.
I have thoughts about the pain scale.
Thank you. 🤗
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Thank you. 🤗
Thanks! This one surgery where I literally HATE the post-op period.
But I get there! 😂
But I get there! 😂
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Thanks! This one surgery where I literally HATE the post-op period.
But I get there! 😂
But I get there! 😂
(3/3) Sadly, this is my right ankle so I will be unable to drive for longer. Can't drive in a moonboot! 🙄
Last time I could at least drive to the gym for upper body once I was out of the cast and in the moonboot.
Oh well, at least it is the LAST one!
Last time I could at least drive to the gym for upper body once I was out of the cast and in the moonboot.
Oh well, at least it is the LAST one!
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
(3/3) Sadly, this is my right ankle so I will be unable to drive for longer. Can't drive in a moonboot! 🙄
Last time I could at least drive to the gym for upper body once I was out of the cast and in the moonboot.
Oh well, at least it is the LAST one!
Last time I could at least drive to the gym for upper body once I was out of the cast and in the moonboot.
Oh well, at least it is the LAST one!
(2/3) I think I might be the first patient to ever take my own dumbbells into the rehab hospital! 😂
I learnt a LOT about ankle surgery (subtalar fusion on my case) the first time around, so this time I'm applying what I learnt.
I say "Knees breeze, Ankles wrankle" BUT the end result is worth it!
I learnt a LOT about ankle surgery (subtalar fusion on my case) the first time around, so this time I'm applying what I learnt.
I say "Knees breeze, Ankles wrankle" BUT the end result is worth it!
Tough, But Worth It!
It was worth it, but man alive, am I glad I only have two ankles
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November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
(2/3) I think I might be the first patient to ever take my own dumbbells into the rehab hospital! 😂
I learnt a LOT about ankle surgery (subtalar fusion on my case) the first time around, so this time I'm applying what I learnt.
I say "Knees breeze, Ankles wrankle" BUT the end result is worth it!
I learnt a LOT about ankle surgery (subtalar fusion on my case) the first time around, so this time I'm applying what I learnt.
I say "Knees breeze, Ankles wrankle" BUT the end result is worth it!
🧵 2. He said my right was normal for "most people". Hmmm, I wondered. I asked, "Most people, or most people my age?" He assured me, most people. My left, apparently, is very good indeed.
I will not be happy until I have them matching! 🤣
Stubbornness is a curse!
I will not be happy until I have them matching! 🤣
Stubbornness is a curse!
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
🧵 2. He said my right was normal for "most people". Hmmm, I wondered. I asked, "Most people, or most people my age?" He assured me, most people. My left, apparently, is very good indeed.
I will not be happy until I have them matching! 🤣
Stubbornness is a curse!
I will not be happy until I have them matching! 🤣
Stubbornness is a curse!
🧵 2.
A few tips from my experience. Written 2023.
Watch out for ambiguous billing terminology!
#chronicillness #disability #health #Medicare
A few tips from my experience. Written 2023.
Watch out for ambiguous billing terminology!
#chronicillness #disability #health #Medicare
Watch for Ambiguous Billing Terminology
Do patients and providers all mean the same thing when we use certain words related to medical costs? Seems we don’t, necessarily.
limberation.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🧵 2.
A few tips from my experience. Written 2023.
Watch out for ambiguous billing terminology!
#chronicillness #disability #health #Medicare
A few tips from my experience. Written 2023.
Watch out for ambiguous billing terminology!
#chronicillness #disability #health #Medicare
🧵 Addendum. Zoe also talks about testosterone, a topic I've been investigating but have not yet written about myself, although I have raised it here on my personal account.
(2/2)
Yes, the dearth of studies/research is infuriating! What diseases/conditions have a higher prevelance in women, or are more severe? But oh, no, just link testosterone to libido. 🙄
Why do we even make testosterone if we don't "really" need it?
I could go on, but I shouldn't have to!
Yes, the dearth of studies/research is infuriating! What diseases/conditions have a higher prevelance in women, or are more severe? But oh, no, just link testosterone to libido. 🙄
Why do we even make testosterone if we don't "really" need it?
I could go on, but I shouldn't have to!
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
🧵 Addendum. Zoe also talks about testosterone, a topic I've been investigating but have not yet written about myself, although I have raised it here on my personal account.
🧵 2. While on the topic of "brain fog", here are my own thoughts about why I hate the term with a vengence! It is a serious symptom experienced by many in the chronic illness community.
We need a better term to describe it! #ChronicIllness
We need a better term to describe it! #ChronicIllness
Brain Fog? Cognitive Impairment? Which Sounds More Serious?
Do you experience cognitive impairment/brain fog? I am over the term brain fog. Let’s be honest here, it is cognitive impairment.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🧵 2. While on the topic of "brain fog", here are my own thoughts about why I hate the term with a vengence! It is a serious symptom experienced by many in the chronic illness community.
We need a better term to describe it! #ChronicIllness
We need a better term to describe it! #ChronicIllness
🧵 5 For anyone reading who doesn't know what flares are in this context, I wrote this in 2021.
Flaring
Flares are what we call the times our condition decides to remind us they exist, usually in no uncertain terms.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🧵 5 For anyone reading who doesn't know what flares are in this context, I wrote this in 2021.
🧵 4 Why have I posted this? To demonstrate that while on the whole I have my #ChronicIllness situation under pretty good control, I am still vulnerable to flares.
And that lack of movement caused this flare. Dr & myotherapist agree with that, btw.
Any of us can have flares.
And that lack of movement caused this flare. Dr & myotherapist agree with that, btw.
Any of us can have flares.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🧵 4 Why have I posted this? To demonstrate that while on the whole I have my #ChronicIllness situation under pretty good control, I am still vulnerable to flares.
And that lack of movement caused this flare. Dr & myotherapist agree with that, btw.
Any of us can have flares.
And that lack of movement caused this flare. Dr & myotherapist agree with that, btw.
Any of us can have flares.
🧵 3 It has taken me 4 hours to get the pain totally under control.
Thankfully I have a myotherapist appt tomorrow.
Back & glutes got stirred up by my lack of movement (way too much sitting) on NZ visit: today they went through the roof!
I so hope I get a decent sleep tonight!
Flares suck. 🥴
Thankfully I have a myotherapist appt tomorrow.
Back & glutes got stirred up by my lack of movement (way too much sitting) on NZ visit: today they went through the roof!
I so hope I get a decent sleep tonight!
Flares suck. 🥴
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🧵 3 It has taken me 4 hours to get the pain totally under control.
Thankfully I have a myotherapist appt tomorrow.
Back & glutes got stirred up by my lack of movement (way too much sitting) on NZ visit: today they went through the roof!
I so hope I get a decent sleep tonight!
Flares suck. 🥴
Thankfully I have a myotherapist appt tomorrow.
Back & glutes got stirred up by my lack of movement (way too much sitting) on NZ visit: today they went through the roof!
I so hope I get a decent sleep tonight!
Flares suck. 🥴