It took almost 15 years since the onset of my chronic illness to discover that I also had ADHD. It became clear that the trauma of living life on hard mode and catching something as simple as glandular fever (mononucleosis) was what caused me to become chronically ill.
I’d hoped that treating the ADHD would help with the chronic illness, but it hasn’t. I think it’s just embedded itself so deep into my brain over time that it’s just part of me now. I’m permanently disabled now and I’m trying to be okay with that.
Not to be a bummer about how long you may have to deal with your rhinitis, but I was diagnosed with chronic sinusitis after my first (suspected) COVID infection in 2020 and it’s still a problem that can’t be solved by medication or stress management.
It’s sad that it took the covid pandemic for people to be aware of how bad mono can be and how long it sticks around. Interesting about the ADHD - I have it too and was diagnosed early but I fought that diagnosis because the medications for it 20 years ago didn’t work for me, and I didn’t have the “classic look” of ADHD. I hadn’t thought about how that might have made post-viral stuff and childhood trauma harder to handle.
I am so sorry you’ve had this for so long. I have seen people in the r/nonallergicrhinitis talk about having it for ten years even after a cold. It’s hard to explain how debilitating it is because it sounds minor, but the fatigue and post-nasal stuff is horrible. I’m only on month 4/5 and I am struggling with acceptance.
I appreciate the small web in general because this has given me something to do on bedbound sick days and because, for better or worse, so many people in the website-building community are dealing with these issues so many people don’t understand at all. I’m sorry so many people here get it, but it also helps me feel less crazy waking up each day not sure if I’ll be able to get through my commitments or have to cancel things and feel guilty for not being the person I was before covid.
I’ve been thinking about upgrading my cartridge, but the rebalancing part had me a little concerned. It’s encouraging to hear it wasn’t too bad. I’m glad it made a difference!
It’s really not very hard. As long as you have the correct pressure number for the cartridge that you buy. You balance the tone arm so that it’s just level and not going up or down. And then you move this little circular gauge so that the zero lines up with a line on top of the tone arm. And then you just rotate the counterweight along with that gauge to the proper setting indicated for your cartridge. I’m a complete idiot and I managed to do it in about four minutes.
The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include some strap-on history, a look into why Switzerland has so many bunkers and a lovely visual smorgasbord of 90s poster art plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
Thanks for sharing, I can understand where you’re coming from. While i’ve never had dreams of being a YouTuber, I did very briefly start a channel and I had many of the anxieties you mention. I was very self-conscious and it doesn’t help that I don’t like hearing my voice recorded. I also found the technical side of things challenging: thinking about audio, framerate, screen recording etc.
My first video is awful: my audio doesn’t sync up with my webcam video at all, I struggled to cobble together a recording setup that would work with my macbook, and it’s over an hour of me wandering around, not sure what i’m meant to be doing.
That said, I enjoyed myself. I made cute thumbnails and got to play some fun games. I definitely realised that if I was going to do these type of videos 1) I should understand the game and the controls enough not to waste time getting stuck, and 2) I should have made shorter videos, if only for my own benefit during editing. Nobody wants to watch over an hour of my nonsense
Somehow I managed to get 8 followers and I enjoyed making my videos. I’m not in a rush to try it again, but if I did, I think i’d start a new channel and take a different approach. I’d probably create more prerecorded content, like list videos and reviews, to begin with to get comfortable. Also, I don’t necessarily even need to be on camera, though I think it helps. I’d probably do more of an intro like my favourite YouTubers do.. Nooo, you’ve got me considering it..
I can’t actually read your post since I can’t be arsed to spoof my IP address and pretend I’m not from the US. But fair enough. It’s your site and you’ve got your reasons.
