By: Revanche

Just a little (link) love: human + jaguar edition

March 24, 2016

LinkLove

Though I’m in no way religious, I appreciated this reminder of grace and compassion to oneself today:

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. (Colossians 3:12).

ILLNESS CAN GIVE US LOADS OF reasons to be disappointed in ourselves but we must consciously remember that we are struggling with deficit in our body that few have. When one is sick with the flu grace is easily given, and yet those with chronic illness are always told to fight.

I also needed to hear this today:

“I lose motivation and I think something is wrong with me.
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We already do, at the bare minimum, a ridiculous amount of work.
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This is what I’ve got. This is it. It’s either enough or it’s not.”

CAREER + MONEY THINGS

Money wishes for all our daughters

An interview with Elena Ferrante

Q. What is the best thing that you hope readers could take away from your work?

A. That even if we’re constantly tempted to lower our guard — out of love, or weariness, or sympathy or kindness — we women shouldn’t do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we have achieved.

I’ve wondered how suing your law school would play out, given the usual sentiment that: Students would have to be “wearing blinders” not to see that a “goodly number of law school graduates toil (perhaps part time) in drudgery or have less than hugely successful careers,” Justice Melvin L. Schweitzer of New York Supreme Court wrote in 2012, dismissing a lawsuit by nine former students against New York Law School.

The Link Between Income Inequality and Physical Pain – my pain started well before knowing we were poor but this still annoys me. As if being poor wasn’t painful enough.

FUN THINGS

I LOVE Yotsuba & I, in English of course, but it’s cool to know that the Japanese version is a good primer for beginning Japanese language learners.

Oscar de la Renta retrospective

INTERESTING THINGS

The experience of losing my mom in a nutshell: As terrifying as it was for me, it was even more terrifying for my family. For them it was not just the prospect of my death that was shockingly painful, but the possibility that my persona, who I was — my brain — might change so profoundly that I would, in effect, vanish before I was truly gone. Or as my daughter put it, “Mom, I thought I had already lost you.”

Being disabled doesn’t make you asexual

From Footnoting History: Evelyn Nesbit & the “crime of the century”

The panic over the so-called opioid irks me. I don’t think they have the right characterization of the problem, and they’re lumping in all kinds of drug users into a single category. For example, this description is overly simplistic: The opioid epidemic is the direct result of years of overprescribing painkillers to everyday people, who get hooked on an extremely addictive substance, then turn to heroin when they can no longer afford to sustain an expensive pill habit, Healey wrote in a piece for the Globe last month. Regular and on-label use of opioids isn’t enough to get you addicted! I was prescribed opioids for years in the past for pain and am still happiest not taking them.

This push to restrict doctors and patients, to the detriment of the patients who need help to manage pain the most, ignores the most important problem: People continue to take pain medications because they have no other way to alleviate pain. If you don’t want opioid addictions, spend the money on figuring out more effective pain medications!

Opioids have terrible side effects, often make me feel sick and useless, and yet they’re the only thing that might take the edge off my excruciating pain. So sometimes I take them when the alternative is not to be thought of. But if you gave me an option that wasn’t an opioid and actually alleviated the pain and didn’t come with any chance of euphoria? I’d sign up ten times over. Being pain-free is the goal!

Babies and bottles, together

One Response to “Just a little (link) love: human + jaguar edition”

  1. Another great round-up, thank you! 🙂

    Totally agreed about the current opioid frenzy. You know, if a person wants to enough take Rx drugs to extinguish life, possibly the person made an adult decision to do so, for a reason. And if a person wants to abuse the stuff until his or her brain turns to fried liver, that’s not a good excuse to remove a useful product from people who need it — or to make it next to impossible to get.

    This is just the latest in a long line: decongestants that work, cough medicine that works, now post-surigical & chronic illness painkillers that work…you could probably build a pretty good list if you took time to count them up.
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