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The Tweedy Mutant
@thetweedy.bsky.social
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Corin • PhD at UBC Geography • dissertating on cats • literal mutant (EDS, etc.) • AuDHD • crip/queer/trans • he/him • the_tweedy on Twitter but rarely active over there
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Hi old pals from the bird app! I have been trying to follow/follow back former mutuals, but if I missed you please let me know.
When you've got ADHD, an internet connection, and a lot of downtime...
It's always nice to reconnect with folks and thank you! ❤️
Whoa! That's super wild!
Lolll at least four times 😅
Yep, I had to move the center of gravity back a bit, and the dump is a little too deep now. I am due for a new chair soon, so that one will no doubt fit better, but adapting my current chair works fine.
Anyway, it has been two weeks since surgery and I'm home and healing well ahead of schedule.
I was literally heading to an appointment with the you-have-no-legs doctor to see how having no legs is going, and my brain kept being like "but you can't just rock up without any shoes on! What would people think?!"

Are phantom social expectations a thing?
Ask me how many times I went to go put on my shoes before leaving the house for this appointment...
Excited to go home! Definitely asked for it to be tomorrow rather than today because I need more than a couple of hours to arrange things lolll
No drug they've given me in hospital has had the same disorienting thrill as some surgical resident barging in at 6 am, ripping off my dressings, and declaring "EVERYTHING LOOKS GREAT YOU'RE READY LET'S SEND YOU HOME IT COULD EVEN BE TODAY", and then swanning out of the room.
Getting to see these guys yesterday was the perfect way to conclude my first week. If all goes well, I'll be home with them in just a few days!
"Yeah, your pets can visit! I am surprised no one has told you that." -- my favourite nurse
Thank you so much 😭😭😭
Things are still going great, but if I don't do some proper convalescing, things are not going to *keep* going great, so this is it for today's update. ❤️🦵🏻🦵🏻
Omg your profile picture is amazing!
If everything continues as planned, I have three more days of mandated bed rest followed by a day or so of working on transfers, and then I should get to go home!
The nurse who replaced the bandage also remarked multiple times that she was surprised it had only been two days because the incision looked so good. Hopefully a promising sign!
The dressing on the right side, which had been threatening to slip off since shortly after surgery, fully let go while I was doing physio exercises yesterday. As surreal as it was to see the stump with zero preparation, I was delighted to note that the surgeons saved my tattoo.
I look comically compact in the "proof of life" photos that pals have taken during visits to send to the group chat.
Friends have brought me lots of snacks, though!