Wild how the halo of success causes selective situational amnesia, huh?

I’m impressed you got so close on the surgeries guess lol 🤣😭☠️

Thanks for engaging, with the implied ask. People jump straight to demands without engaging with the person. So many transactions, so little community.

My work doesn’t get much reach, so it’s really frustrating that people still ask for free labor. Algorithms don’t lift women up, we still talk about the same male designers, and folks just want to ignore the work that’s out there and ask for more? No. Engage with what’s there and THEN come back.

It’s great if folks just lurk! Much of my content is free for all. But if they’re going to come into my DMs and try and claim my extremely limited time by virtue of having been a “fan” or following my work, I expect them to have done that homework first to show they’re invested.

And while I don’t expect everyone to know everything, I can tell pretty quickly when someone is not being honest about truly following my journey over the past 5-10 years, much less putting in the work to support or engage with me. There are SO many notable things any of which would jump out.

4 and 1. Right arm reconstruction Aug 2020 (12 neurosurgical procedures), published Design Beyond Devices Dec 2020, left arm reconstruction Jan 2021 (13 procedures), emergency appendectomy Mar 21, Toupet fundoplication May 21

All of which I documented very publicly on Facebook, Medium, and TikTok 😭

“Hey artists! Come be inspired by our biggest announcement of the year!”

“Oh, yeah, we couldn’t actually be bothered to HIRE artists to support the announcement”

I believe this is located under “cringe” in the dictionary

But they also did indicate that there is a threshold for minor GERD which was nonoperable / watch and wait; but I qualified immediately based on the algorithm

My surgery was done by a thoracic surgeon, and I was referred by my hand surgeon (!) who is an EDS expert who heard me describe my sore throats when waking up and identified the risk of Barrett’s esophagus. I was tested for GERD and within a year had the surgery

I had a toupet fundoplication which is a partial wrap and it was life changing. There are options. If GERD is a big issue worth talking to a thoracic surgeon. The liquid diet was tough but I got everything back after - even sleeping flat

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we should have a support group for the non-paged