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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

When you've got ADHD, an internet connection, and a lot of downtime...

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

It's always nice to reconnect with folks and thank you! ❤️

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Anyway, it has been two weeks since surgery and I'm home and healing well ahead of schedule.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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?

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Ask me how many times I went to go put on my shoes before leaving the house for this appointment...

A view looking down at a person's lap. They have no legs.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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!

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

"Yeah, your pets can visit! I am surprised no one has told you that." -- my favourite nurse

Corin lies at the foot of a hospital bed a week after bilateral above-knee amputation surgery. His cat, Bear, is curled up at his elbow. His other cat, Finn, is ensconced among the pillows at the head of the bed.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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. ❤️🦵🏻🦵🏻

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Omg your profile picture is amazing!

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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!

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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!

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I look comically compact in the "proof of life" photos that pals have taken during visits to send to the group chat.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Friends have brought me lots of snacks, though!

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hospital food is impressively bad. I lifted the lid on my breakfast yesterday to find a solitary piece of gluten-free white bread that had somehow adhered itself to the plate. So I guess it's a good thing that I haven't had much of an appetite yet?

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The sensations have changed and lessened a bit since then, and l'm not finding them all that bothersome.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I haven't had any phantom pain -- just mild surgical pain -- but I have had phantom sensations. The first night it felt ike my legs were sticking out aggressively straight, like in those viral videos of fainting goats.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Bumping up the dose went a long way towards convincing my monkey brain that the lion isn't coming back to finish the job.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I'm on an epidural for pain but no other meds. It turns out that, like all local anesthetic, epidurals don't work as well/predictably on EDSers, so while my right leg has been numb-ish, I was apparently just rawdogging the amputation of my left leg until yesterday afternoon.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I didn't get a lot of sleep the first two nights, but that's improving, and I slept almost eight hours last night.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The embodied hypervigilance after major surgery is wild, though. The ol' primate nervous system is definitely like, "You've been mauled! A lion ate your legs! Danger lurks around every corner!"

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Recovery is going really well! Pain is Iow, morale is high, and I have so much support. The nurses are super sweet,and I'm on a relatively quiet ward.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Unfortunately it's EDS plus erythromelalgia for me. They just don't play well together in my case. Anything I do for one makes the other worse and vice versa.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Thanks for the support and well wishes. ❤️

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

That's absolutely a keeper!!! ❤️❤️❤️

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Thank you! It's been incredible seeing how folks show up. I'm sorry you didn't get to fete the gall bladder so here's a little 🎉🎉🎉

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Oh my gosh this is really kind! Thank you so much for telling me! Honestly this made my day. And congratulations! I'm so excited for you! I hope everything goes so, so well!

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Hi! I've been neglecting my socials lately, but I'm doing alright. Hope you're doing well too!

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Next week, I will be having surgery to amputate both legs above the knee due to complications from EDS and erythromelalgia. My sister has kindly put together a GFM. Please share and consider donating if you are in a position to do so! www.gofundme.com/f/corins-sur...

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Donate to Corin's Surgery Recovery, organized by Mara Ervin

Our beloved Corin Parsons is having bilateral above-knee amputation surgery due to complications f… Mara Ervin needs your support for Corin's Surgery Recovery

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

There's a cat tree on the (enclosed) balcony, and she can't understand why she can't get to it through the glass.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My paraplegic cat doesn't understand windows. My old place was a basement suite and there wasn't a way for her to safely access the windows; however, my new place has full-length windows -- or what she calls The Devil's Forcefield.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Same!! I know a few other people who suddenly got curls on T so I guess this is a thing that can happen? My barber also wasn't surprised; he was like "ah yes those sweet, sweet hormones."

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Ever since he was a kitten! ❤️

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I tried to get a picture but my cat jumped into the frame absolutely serving cunt and I can't compete with that so I gave up.

Corin (a white man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt) taking a bathroom mirror selfie and laughing with a gorgeous dark brown and white longhaired tuxedo cat in his lap

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Extremely rude of my follicles to give me the hair I've always wanted right before they quit forever.

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The Tweedy Mutant @thetweedy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"The weirdest thing about testosterone is--" No but tell me why I suddenly have wavy hair??

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