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Catchycan

Catchycan

@catchycan.bsky.social

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Interests: Cross stitch / embroidery / cozy games / reading books / romance books / history / writing / Jane Austen I've also got fibromyalgia / chronic pain and fatigue

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Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Aug 26

This broken column
Lies crooked abed
Sinew and muscle
Attached to its frame

It creaks, it groans
Shakily rising
Balancing, balancing
Vertical again

Nerves scream
Electric connections
Of pain and alarm
A body aflame

#fibromyalgia #chronicpain #poetry

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Aug 26

I can't even express how demoralizing it is to go to bed in pain and wake up in pain for several years in a row.

#fibromyalgia #chronicpain

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wonder if
I've overlooked the thing
The thing that would save my life
If I've settled for this chronic illness
Ran out of fight to keep seeking answers
After staring into so many doctors eyes
As they say "Your fifteen minutes is up."

#writing #poetry #fibromyalgia #chronicillness #chronicpain

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Awake at midnight again
My spine awake
Threatening, threatening
Pain upon pain
I lie and hold
The second arrow
I give it space
And wait for tomorrow

#poetry #fibromyalgia #chronicpain

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

I cling to life
On a rope of thorns
Desperate not to leave my children behind

#poetry #chronicpain #chronicillness

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

The only thing
Between me and the eternal Scream
Is a maladaptive daydream

#poetry #haiku

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

I breathe deep
Count to ten
Maybe tomorrow I will be well again

#poetry

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

The cavity of my heart is filled

And emptied

And filled again

#poetry

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

Pain shifting from place to place
Hard to communicate
Faulty nerve refusing to collaborate

#fibromyalgia #chronicpain #poetry

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

Pain lances through me
I scramble for the cliffs
I cannot escape my own body

#haiku #poetry

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

How many Tolkeins would we have
If people saw those who suffered
And brought them paper, pens and care

#poetry #writers #chronicillness #fibromyalgia #pain

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

The fear of the first poo
After giving birth
Things they never tell you

#haiku #poetry

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

Arrows pierce muscle
Pain spreads like a river
Down the nervous system

#haiku #poetry #fibromyalgia #chronicpain

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

That is some intense Wallace and Gromit level engineering

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · May 29

Trying out a new art therapy idea. Stitching out my fibromyalgia pain and then covering it with flowers.
#fibromyalgia #chronicpain

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Apr 19

Moving house and I am wrekkkkkkkkt. So grateful for family and friends doing an incredible amount of work I can no longer physically do
#chronicillness #fibromyalgia

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 23

Not the best lighting sorry, but just finished my first #everyoneiswelcomehere banned bookmark 💖
I found the words pop a bit more if you back stitch around them. The pattern is up for free on my website
laurawolfbookclub.wordpress.com/just-for-fun/
#craftivism #dei #idaho 🪡💙 #crossstitch

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 21

Everything I own
Packed into boxes again
A new page has turned

#haiku #poetry

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 21

Elon Musk mistakes
Empathy for weakness but
Mother bears are wild

#haiku #poetry

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 21

Chronic illness is
Productivity and then
Days and days of pain

#haiku #poetry
#fibromyalgia #chronicpain #chronicillness

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 18

Anyone wanting to move to New Zealand, here's our green list of jobs. There's a lot on there.
Our main job search website is seek.co.nz and teachers/educators use ed gazette:
gazette.education.govt.nz/vacancies/

www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-...

Green List roles

Search the Green List for roles in demand in New Zealand. If your role is listed, and you have the qualifications, registration or experience required, you may be able to get residence immediately or ...

www.immigration.govt.nz

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 18

Thanks 💖

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 18

Cross stitch progress 💖

#everyoneiswelcomehere #dei #equality #craftivism 🪡💙

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 18

Absolutely, share it around 🥰

Catchycan @catchycan.bsky.social · Mar 17

I read this for the first time this month.