February 2012
16 posts
kungfuontheinternet asked: hey i just read about your asthma and all the treatment you get and i find it really brave of you to share all this. i really admire you for being so open! i also have an autoimmune disease called colitis ulcerosa and i find it really hard to talk about most of the time because i really can't stand people pitying me. it feels like people with chronic diseases don't exist on tumblr, so...
RADICAL MORNING
i broke up one old out of print comic of mine, RADICAL MORNING, into like four diff posts cause of tumblr photo uploading restrictions. x
secondgradefresh asked: I also think you're amazing. And incredibly inspiring. I'm not posting "anonymously" but I may as well be, ha.
Anonymous asked: I think you're amazing.
January 2012
19 posts
what it was like waking to find you could not...
in one of our previous letters maddy told me she suffered a ministroke at some point around new years and woke to find she could not move or speak. i sent her some questions about it and she sent me an enormous explanation dis-regarding the structure of the questions, more or less and getting deeply locked into an expression of the experience drawing comparisons to harry potter, my fair lady and...
Watchi just filmed this accapella rap, to help my feelings, but half way through i recieved an exicting call from my friend mini faguette who is coming to help me have a good day soon while i am stuck in yuck hospital stuff, so in the end i was elevated enough by this fab creature and i only did it for to make the hospital sheen more glitterish.
this is originally a brothers hand mirror song, these...
"SINCE YOU"
this is a peice of correspondence that me and my friend maddy wanted share with you all. maddy is the reason i made this blog, she is the reason i am trying so hard to re-evaluate how i live with this illness. she wrote me to tell me that my journals effected her and made her feel understood. she wrote me to tell me she believed in me. this is from our most recent letters.
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7 hours ago
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waiting for "charity"
so when i moved to the ward where people scream less and there is carpet on the floor one luxury i lost was free meds. the thing is i recieved all of my prescribed meds two minutes after i arrived on the nicer ward. though i was techinically discharged (where i am is not considered grave enough to warrant free meds even though i am as sick and it is only one floor up in the same building) i was...
today i am posting in the syle of "how ridiculous...
a post about hospital that has no photographs, no gif’s, no free music etc. but is actually just a collection of facebook status updates/comments i have made today/yesterday while i wait in line at the internal pharmacy to see if they are going to deny me the medication i need to have injected into me in the next ten minutes because my centrelink hasn’t come in yet and i have...
December 2011
11 posts
a conversation about death with a stranger over...
# anonymous
3:20 PM (6 hours ago)
to me
dear grant,
i came to your brothers hand mirror show when you played at ‘love don’t pay the rent’ a few months ago, and i liked it very much. i was looking at your new blog the other day, and i have a question for you and i was wondering if you could answer it. are you afraid of dying?
from,
anon.
# grant gronewold
8:40 PM (41...
SNEEKY DAY LEAVE SHOW!
i am sneeking out of hospital to do a cheeky show! here’s the link! bring pals! five bucks on the door i think, we start at nine!
https://www.facebook.com/events/207160509361195/
