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My hands are a nightmare right now, but the great news is you can help!
$200 covers my treatments for the next 2-3 weeks. Medical story is in my pinned tweets if you need more info - thank you, tremendously.
$thekimansta
http://PayPal.me/thekimansta
$200 covers my treatments for the next 2-3 weeks. Medical story is in my pinned tweets if you need more info - thank you, tremendously.
$thekimansta
http://PayPal.me/thekimansta
Filmed this right after the permanganate soak. I have to chemically burn out the toxins from beneath the barrier level of my skin - which is better than dealing with the insane itching. https://twitter.com/theKimansta/status/1325553196102680576
Yeah, it's gross to look at. That's just a tweet! 
Helluva lot worse to have it on ya, and you're seeing it because I can't afford to sustain the treatments.
Anyway.
Hopefully I can get a few weeks covered before my next client pays out - I'm very grateful for the support.
Helluva lot worse to have it on ya, and you're seeing it because I can't afford to sustain the treatments.
Anyway.
Hopefully I can get a few weeks covered before my next client pays out - I'm very grateful for the support.
BTW - I routinely turn to community support because the systems that are in place to "help" have caused far more damage than is fathomable. From government agencies to supposedly high quality health care providers.
And the main reason for that is because health issues for "crack babies" is a medical frontier involving a bunch of guess work from (a lot of) morons in the medical who think they know far more than they do.
That malpractice (along with the birth conditions) is the foundation of my current situation - but the birth conditions dissolve my legal platform to stand up for my health care rights.
It's a conundrum, and the only solution is achieving gainful income... Losing about 6-8 waking hours a day, and I currently can't really use my hands.
What a puzzle.
Of course, my story itself should be the foundation of such income.
What a puzzle.
Of course, my story itself should be the foundation of such income.
It's a very personal journey that resulted in me landing on the concept that I deserve to exist - regardless of the ridiculous conditions I'm asked to survive, or how lonely that can be at times.
You're a part of that story. Without community support, I'm alone with this.
You're a part of that story. Without community support, I'm alone with this.
When I was alone with this, I didn't feel that I deserved to exist.
Once I tapped into my self-worth and what I had to offer, I stopped feeling sorry for myself.
The chronic pain, health conditions, that journey... That's likely going to keep me company until my last breath.
Once I tapped into my self-worth and what I had to offer, I stopped feeling sorry for myself.
The chronic pain, health conditions, that journey... That's likely going to keep me company until my last breath.
So instead of comparing myself to myself before things got really bad, or to other able-bodied people, I've embraced that this is my personal adventure.
As a storyteller, there's something for me to learn in this. I'll never stop growing, but I did accomplish something-
As a storyteller, there's something for me to learn in this. I'll never stop growing, but I did accomplish something-
( this is from within my lane and qualifications as a phonetician ) https://twitter.com/theKimansta/status/1318249260400324610
If this is something you've struggled with for any reason at all, please talk to me. DMs open.
If this is something you especially relate to given your own medical journey, please talk to me. We're going to have a wonderful conversation!
If this is something you especially relate to given your own medical journey, please talk to me. We're going to have a wonderful conversation!
If you're getting older, your body is breaking down, and some of these existential questions are starting to creep in your thought process - please talk to me, I'm here.
If you've experienced trauma in ways that seem inescapable, I can relate. I'm not an expert, but I relate.
If you've experienced trauma in ways that seem inescapable, I can relate. I'm not an expert, but I relate.
Everybody - you deserve to exist. Experiencing that concept in real-time is your 'xygen.'
"My hands and guts won't heal, and my brain is going to deprecate myself into feeling like I don't belong."
But... you deserve to exist. Indisputable, because you do exist. A simple proof.
"My hands and guts won't heal, and my brain is going to deprecate myself into feeling like I don't belong."
But... you deserve to exist. Indisputable, because you do exist. A simple proof.
You exist.
You deserve to exist.
You deserve to exist because you exist. If you didn't deserve to exist, you wouldn't.
Connecting with that truth, within your personal journey, is your 'xygen.'
You deserve to exist.
You deserve to exist because you exist. If you didn't deserve to exist, you wouldn't.
Connecting with that truth, within your personal journey, is your 'xygen.'
Being real - anytime literally anybody sends me even one red cent for my health issues, I feel my xygen.
Not because of the money, but because I feel the communal energy and empathy flowing in ways that are absent to me a lot of the time.
Not because of the money, but because I feel the communal energy and empathy flowing in ways that are absent to me a lot of the time.
It's an important concept that anchors my story.
The entire story - 'crack baby,' foster care (and getting kicked out at 18), isolated Blackness, international and college adventures, achieving a life-long dream of working in the NBA - it's just my life. It will help others.
The entire story - 'crack baby,' foster care (and getting kicked out at 18), isolated Blackness, international and college adventures, achieving a life-long dream of working in the NBA - it's just my life. It will help others.
And at this point, that's in motion. With health conditions like so, you have to treat the future as something preciously fragile.
As much as I'd like to get my PhD and do the whole western academic dance (on the horizons, trust), it's my lived experiences that drives my passion
As much as I'd like to get my PhD and do the whole western academic dance (on the horizons, trust), it's my lived experiences that drives my passion
and because of that, I have a paradigm on this whole thing that is very hard to explain.
I hope I did it some service in this thread.
Now - let's talk crack epidemic / disability perspective on your platforms. I'm serious, available, and not here to air grievances.
I hope I did it some service in this thread.
Now - let's talk crack epidemic / disability perspective on your platforms. I'm serious, available, and not here to air grievances.
