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brainfrog is recovering👩‍🦼🫁
@brainfrog.bsky.social
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ON, canada | bi | any pronouns | disability justice/cross movement liberation | harm reduction | mad, disabled af and surviving out of spite.
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brainfrog.bsky.social
My revision spine surgery itself went well & I've otherwise been healing nicely -aside from extra pain from having to reduce my meds early. I'm back on my high dose anticoagulants & managed to avoid new clots & hemorrhage. The fluid around my spine is healing on its own. I'm just glad to be home.
An x-ray from before my revision spinal fusion showing 2 paraspinal rods & screws from t2-l3. There's another independent smaller rod fused from t11-l2. My most recent x-ray from the 3rd revision spinal fusion I had October 23rd showing two new longer paraspinal rods from t2-l5 and again, the same smaller independent rod fused from t11-l2. Some screws have been removed on the left thoracolumbar side because they were misaligned.
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
Let me take my haunted, leaky, metal body home god damn it.
A backwards mirror selfie showing a bunch of surgical bandages over my recent revision spinal fusion incision The latest version of my revision spinal fusion after surgery last week. I'm fused from t2-l5 and t11-l2 with a total of 3 rods.
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
I deserve a treat for surviving this three times.
Me sitting up in a hospital bed facing the window with my gown open in the back showing my incision from revision spinal fusion last week. It goes from my neck to my butt crack. Same as first picture but a much closer view. This time the surgical drain is out and a large gauze bandage dressing is over it.
October 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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@shitty-ally.bsky.social 💖
View outside my hospital room of some tall buildings in Toronto and one has lights in the shape of a heart so I made in between it the letters "I" and letter "U" so it says "I (heart shape) U".
October 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
brainfrog.bsky.social
Blood transfusion time!!! If it's something you're able to do; go donate blood so disabled cyborg queens like me can survive while we undergo hardware replacement and maintenance!!🦾
Selfie of Lee-Ann in a hospital bed, smiling and wearing an n95 while hooked up to a bunch of monitors, oxygen, pain pump, donor blood, and my emotional support blood drainage bag from the reopened incision on my back from revision spine surgery yesterday.
October 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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She also wanted me to post this picture of her craddling her "forbidden emotional support pomegranate juice".
Lee-Ann holding an egg shaped drainage bag from her surgery
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
Unfortunately have been in too much pain recently to go out and take pictures of the trees with my good camera, but the backyard has some pretty nice colours too. 🍂
Photo taken from the backyard of some misty green leaves from an outstretched stem on the bush with various deep orange, red, yellow, green and brown trees in the background against a cloudy sky. A more close up photo of the stem of the bush with droplets of rain on its green leaves and some out of focus red, orange and yellow foliage in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
The stress is stressing and I really wish I had my sweet cuddle bug by my side. 😢
My dog, River, snuggled up on the recliner with her head resting on the arm and a fuzzy blanket draped partially over her back and head. River is a white and brown spotted staffy pitbull mix with adorable light brown eyes. Her bottom lip is sticking out a bit so she looks like she's pouting.
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
I have successfully hunted down covid boosters for the household. The one good thing about me having respiratory failure and a blood clotting disorder is that my partner and kiddo get to have their vaccines early too😆
Me smiling and looking to the left with my head rested on my hand. My left sleeve is rolled up to show the bandaid on my arm where I received my covid booster.
October 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Post from @revalation218 Chronic pain be like meh I'm used to it meh I'm used to it meh I'm used to it meh I'm used to it I'M SO TIRED OF BEING IN PAIN ALL THE TIME LIKE THIS EVERYTHING IS AGONY PLEASE MAKE IT STOP I'M EXHAUSTED PLEASE meh I'm used to it meh I'm used to it
October 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
I love River, my sweet little cuddle bug. I don't know how I would get through what have recently been some of the hardest times of my life without her. ❤️‍🩹
River, a white and brown spotted staffy pitbull, cuddled up against my back as I sit on the couch. River again, this time under a blanket on the couch and cuddled up to my sore legs.
September 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
These parts of my spine feel like they're in a hydraulic press. My rods are being taken out & replaced with longer ones that extend to L5 (or my pelvis next month depending on damage). My neck needs to be fused as well but I'm trying to put it off as long as possible.

I'm so fucking sore & tired.
Most recent x-ray of my spine showing two long paraspinal rods fused from t1-l3 and a third, shorter rod independently fused from t11-l2. My neck is visibly unstable and leaning to the right side. My spine at my pelvis to L5 is degenerated and leaning to the right. I also have misaligned screws in my thoracolumbar region that overlap and grind together against nerves when I move.
September 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
She has that affect on us and most of our neighbours😂
Sweet River, a white and chocolate brown spotted staffy pitbull resting adorably on the recliner with her paws outstretched over the arm of the chair. She's looking sleepily straight ahead at my camera phone and her floppy little ears are slightly perked. River and I in the car last year, both of us goofily (if that's a word?) looking at something in the middle distance.
September 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Little Baby Blanket Hippo River is happy to be glued to my hip💖
River, a white and brown spotted staffy pitbull, all cozy on the bed next to me under a comforter with just her big adorable head and paws sticking out. She is looking with her big sweet brown eyes at my hand to the side of my phone.
September 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
brainfrog.bsky.social
And btw, healthcare providers are *encouraged* to suggest state administered assisted suicide to disabled patients, even unsolicitedly. Ask me how I know.
A real coloured medical bracelet on my arm that says "NO MAiD/ Medical assistance in dying"
September 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
They looked extra nice today
My cleavage in a grey camisole tank My chest in a grey camisole tank
September 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
brainfrog.bsky.social
Can anyone tell me the name of this plant? They're growing like crazy in my partner's backyard and are really popular with the bumblebees, finches and humming birds😍
Close up of a deep yellow flower with long, slender pedals and seeds in the center. Close up of the lower end of the same flower in the first image, this time revealing multiple tiny, deep yellow sprouting flowers in clumps with a bumblebee crawling on them
August 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
Sometimes I have the energy to look cute
Me smiling slightly in a mirror selfie. I have short dark brown wavy hair, brown glasses, a low cut beige crop tank, a blue blazer with skulls on it, supplemental oxygen and dark blue shorts.
August 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
brainfrog.bsky.social
New glasses who dis
A mirror selfie where I'm wearing new rectangular glasses with brown tinted, slightly translucent frames, a white crop tank top, a blue blazer with skulls on it, dark blue shorts, and supplemental oxygen.
August 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
Sweet little cookie dough head River always takes care of me. I love her so much.
River, an adorable 7 year old white and brown spotted pittie, sleeps next to me on the couch.
July 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
You feel like home. Can't wait to be with you again.
Black and white photo of my partner's hand in mine.
July 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
brainfrog.bsky.social
Been dealing with a lot of really hard, ongoing life-threatening and traumatic stuff for too long now without the time and support systems necessary to adequately process, grieve or heal from any of it. I'm completely burnt out, in a perpetual state of survival mode and precarity and really just don't have the energy to perform resiliency. I'll be taking an indefinite step back as I continue to navigate through it all. Thank you to those who've shown kindness.
July 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
brainfrog.bsky.social
I see the peripheral nerve surgeon tomorrow to try to figure out what to do about the chronic internal bleeding in my paralyzed arm over 1 month post artery rupture & compartment syndrome. Can't stop my anticoagulants due to chronic blood clotting in my lung, so wish me luck! I'll probably need it🙃
The upper part of my paralyzed arm showing a very large, firm, swollen lump over the incision scar. My paralyzed arm again, this time from an angle that shows more of the incision scar with the swelling underneath. A screenshot of an ultrasound of the upper part of my paralyzed arm revealing a 15cm long mass of blood that's unable to clot and dissolve due to a slow chronic bleed and anticoagulants that I'm unable to stop taking due to chronic pulmonary emboli.
July 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
brainfrog.bsky.social
Happy Disability Wrath month from your local crippled cyborg queen
Me lying on the couch smiling slightly. I have a floral dress, navy blue cardigan, red glasses and shoulder length curly brown hair.
July 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Floral cross stitch design that reads "I'll tell ya how I'm doin' NOT WELL BITCH"
June 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM