Sunday, November 30, 2025
Hello! 🙋♂️✨ It's 3:30 PM on Sunday. I'm massangoto! 🧑💻
The weekly ritual of checking my X followers is back on, and I've reached 4,565 followers! Thank you to all my followers! I'm so happy! m(_ _)m
My parents borrowed my smartphone because they wanted to use Zoom. It finally came back, and I realized I hadn't written today's blog post yet, so here it is.
The month before last, I was surprised to feel the nighttime jolts over 10 times, even though I was taking Rivotril to suppress them. This time, however, the jolts only lasted for about one or two days, so I was prescribed my usual 1mg of Rivotril. But, wouldn't you know it, the very night after that doctor's appointment, the jolts came continuously... For now, I'm just noting the days I experience a jolt on my smartphone calendar. This illness is apparently called "REM sleep behavior disorder" (RBD), but I wonder, can it only be suppressed and not cured? I feel like if I didn't take the medication, I might be getting jolts every single day. Regarding my thyroid, since the total removal, I have to take the hormone replacement drug Thyradin every morning, and this, too, I must continue for life... And for the important one, Schizophrenia, not only is it not cured, but the auditory hallucinations are persistent. Still, compared to suffering an injury in a traffic accident or something, perhaps this is still better?
Also, I have a pretty high chance of getting a stomachache. When that happens, it's almost always due to either constipation or excess stomach acid, so it's not a major problem, but wow, my life is full of illnesses.
Yet, I can still live, so I have to be grateful for that.
Well, that's it for this blog post! I'll see you again next Sunday!
I hope you all have a day free of accidents, free of violations, full of family safety, and prosperous business dealings.
It was massangoto! 🙋✨️
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