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  #3GoodThings today. 1. A treasured thing was lost, and while we haven't yet found it, I did get a LOT of tidying/putting away/binning done while we were hunting for it 🔎 2. The soothing warmth and vibration of my massage mat 🫨 3. Made some more good progress with my Christmas shopping 🎁

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  Dear Dog I am sick of people telling me what I should do. I know perfectly well what I should do; I am not well enough to do it.

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. Very grateful to get a same day ear wax cleaning appointment for my eldest 👂🏻 2. Youngest feral child deigned to bathe 🛁 3. Made a bit of progress with my Christmas shopping 🎁

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  Wtf do websites for holiday accommodation all insist on you choosing dates before letting you see their accommodation? I can't be the only person in the world who has no dates in mind, who just wants to find some suitable accommodation and _maybe_ think about dates after that?? Give me an option to see everything you have, without me having to pull random dates out of my butt! 😑

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  I didn't do #3GoodThings already did I? 1. The very precious and treasured Dawg (squishy toy) which was discovered missing at bedtime turned up after an exhaustive search 🐶 2. Clean floors in most of the house 🧹 3. Feeling less despairing than usual 🤷🏻

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. I have all the paperwork ready, tomorrow I can email kiddo's new school and formally accept a position next year 🥳 2. I had a coffee today and the pain which I thought might have been triggered by coffee before hasn't returned yet. Maybe I won't have to give up coffee! ☕ 3. There were so many little flying insects and various birds fluttering through my garden today 🪰

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  Finally!! After many walks in the hopes of seeing bandicoots (which are increasingly common in my parents' neighbourhood), my boys have seen one :)

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. Enjoying the flowers and foliage in my garden 🌼 2. Had some good ideas for Christmas presents for my kiddos 🎁 3. Read through the paperwork from kiddo's new school; super excited for him to switch next year 🎒

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. My worm farm is looking very happy, and also full of worm eggs 🪱 2. I found a comfy, convenient, POTS-friendly way to stretch some of my constantly-tense muscles 🧘🏻 3. My kiddo got a place at the very small autistic-kids-only school we applied for 🥳

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  Eldest got a place in the specialist school 🥳

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. My verge garden looks very nice and brings me much joy, in its temporary less-weedy state 🏡 2. Some Christmas decorations I ordered arrived, and they also bring me joy 🦌 3. Got one step closer to being ready to adopt rats (commissioned a part for the cage) 🐀

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  Boorloo/Perth folks, have any of you had dealings with the Autism Association of WA? Any strong feelings for or against as a potential service provider for my kiddo?

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  Yay!! I was doing some weeding out the front and discovered that the successful grevillea hasn't completely crowded out the little morning iris plant: it's still there, and actually looking quite substantial! I have pruned around it so that it can get a bit of sunshine and air flow 😍

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  My poor husband has been fasting for a blood test, and just sat waiting for an hour in the waiting room only to be told he has been fasting for too long 😭 That would have been helpful information for someone to have given him with the pathology form?? 😭

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. I got to pat a very good doggo 🐕 2. Maybe a little progress with one of the kids' medical issues 🤞🏻 3. Rest of the family enjoyed watching most of The Fellowship of the Ring, while I enjoyed having some alone time 🧙🏻

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. My household menfolk had a good time playing cricket at the park, which I'm sure was good for all of them, even if my poor husband is still exhausted 🏏 2. Only piffling little aches and pains today, no medical emergencies ⚕️ 3. A comfy bed to rest in and plenty of things to watch while I rest 🛏️

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. Perfectly timed half price offers in the grocery app 🛒 2. Only having a large hill of laundry to do, rather than a small mountain 🧺 3. Having my comfy bed to lie in when I need rest 🛏️

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  Aus POTS fam, the Australian #POTS Foundation has a webinar coming up called "Living with POTS Community Q & A". If you sign up as a member (for free), you can get a 100% discount on the webinar tickets, so that's also free. And they're going to email recordings out after the webinar, so there's no stress about missing it if you're having a bad day. https://potsfoundation.org.au/ to become a member. Hopefully you would get an email about the webinar but if not, ma...

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. Feeling pretty good! 😌 2. My eldest also felt pretty good today - compression socks to the rescue 🧦 3. Watched a fun movie I enjoyed 🎬

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  [Australian context] Sign the National Healthy Air Strategy - Centre for Safe Air https://safeair.org.au/national-healthy-air-strategy/ > Australia needs a National Healthy Air Strategy. Use this form to join the Prebudget Submission and Consensus Statement. You can sign as an individual, you don't need to have a professional interest.

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  Huh. Just came across a profile that said "if you don't like unsolicited advice please block me" and I super appreciate that, but I still don't get it. They said they don't like seeing people have a problem that they could help with, but why not offer _solicited_ advice? "Hey, I have some relevant info/experience here, are you interested?" Why does it feel better to give it as both an unsolicited interaction, and as advice (as opposed to info/experience)?

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. Finally making it to bed for the night 🛏️ 2. It's a long weekend for my husband this weekend 😎 3. A 2 week break from lunchboxes and clean uniforms!! But sadly not from alarm clocks 🍱

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  Watching a bear mama and 2 cubs grazing on grass in the sunshine on the other side of the world, in real time. The internet still has good bits 🥰

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. Bedtime, at long last 🛏️ 2. Toothpaste tablets!! I discovered in hospital that I am no longer compatible with regular toothpaste: nasty, slimy, choking stuff 🪥 3. Watching videos of rats 🐀

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. Finally having clean hair after having to wait a while to be well enough to shower 🧓🏻 2. Ordered a Christmas present for my husband that I think he will be surprised and delighted by 🎁 3. Just enjoying the relative peacefulness of being at home 🏡

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  Oh yeah I just remembered another daft thing that happened in the hospital. I had to ask a couple of times if it was okay to take the painkillers I brought with me because my period was due. I got reactions like: but you're on menopause hormonal treatment?? Why are you still having periods?? Good fucking grief Australian HCW are bad at perimenopause 😱

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  It was so bright that I couldn't see my phone screen properly so the photo isn't great, but my Australian Bluebell plant is looking incredible just now 😍 #BloomScrolling

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  An interesting thing from the hospital experience: a lot more healthcare workers seem to be familiar with POTS now. It sometimes confused them more when I said the whole thing instead of abbreviating it 😅 Brace yourself for the irony though: I'd say they know more about POTS now than they do about covid 🫠 Many baffled reactions to my respirator, had to explain a bunch of things to people who absolutely should know more about it than I do 🙃

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  #3GoodThings today. 1. Coming home from hospital, and crawling back into my bed-nest 🛏️ 2. Although it was far from utopian, I'm very grateful for the care that I did receive ⚕️ 3. There isn't too big of a backlog of chores to catch up on 😮‍💨

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  Back home 😮‍💨