What biking advice do you have?
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How rusty is too rusty? Does a rusted-all-to-hell bike deter the bike thieves? Is it actually a positive?
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How do you keep your balls from jiggling around? My left nut is about double the size of a normal testicle because it was undescended as a kid and I had to get it plucked out like an in-grown tooth. In other words, I'm not a fan of jock-straps.
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Are elbow and knee pads worth the discomfort and sweat-rash?
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Do those hoards of bicyclists actually go into the woods to have big-gay orgies? I've had a family friend confirm his relative does that, mind you.
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How do you manage to not look gay riding a bicycle? I'm never wearing one of those "sponsored" tight-fitting bike uniforms. I'm not Lance Armstrong, and even if I was he's still a faggy cheater.
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I got a stream-lined backpack for emergency water. Should I bring a gun with me for "other" emergencies?
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Are scooters gay? Are skateboards still cool? Which does the least harm to your lower back?
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I always move off to the side and let cars pass. Is this safer or more dangerous? I don't wanna be a jerk and force someone to pass me when I'm the one going 5-10 miles an hour and they gotta take a shit really bad.
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Does biking help reduce belly-fat? I don't drink, but I've had a beer-belly since 8th grade. I'm not fat, I can lift a whole fridge, except I look pregnant. Will biking help me shed the midriff?
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Since sun-screen is known to be carcinogenic (likely on purpose) what's the over-under on alternatives? I have some methylene blue which is used in super-expensive sun-screens that don't have asbestos in them, but I don't wanna risk dying my skin blue.
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My head gets really itchy from the helmet. Is a shaved head better or worse? How do you manage the itching in that bastard?
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Seriously, though. Do bicyclists have gay orgies in the woods? They always creep me out because I live out in the boonies. I don't wanna wake up and find out they sniffed my bike out and are humping around it like a pack of jack rabbits in heat. Is there an anti-gay-orgy-bicyclist repellent I can spray around my shed?
When I was having seizures generally, walking was very hard in certain light conditions such as when walking past railing or foliage or when the sunlight was wrong. The body has a lot of calculations to do when walking and seeing at the same time. The field of view is wide as well so my visual cortex is overloaded. I didn't have a driving licence at the time, but paradoxically, I'd have been safer driving because I wouldn't have been working so hard to coordinate my movements and the changing field of view is reduced to the windscreen area. My conclusion was that driving is easier than walking neurologically and also that I'm brain damaged. The seizures are completely controlled now, but I'm always going to have visual stress, that is, snowy noisy vision.
Anyway, be safe fren!
I can absolutely relate. I have to wear a hat in grocery stores, otherwise I go into panic attacks trying to deconstruct how all the packaging designs were made graphically.
Overhead lights also bother the hell out of me. I can absolutely not stand a light behind a ceiling fan, producing a strobe effect. I basically turn into a zombie only able to answer yes/no questions.
I don't think you're alone in those symptoms. I trace my narcolepsy back to the 2006 Meningitis vaccine. I was out sick for 3 months afterwards, and they said I had mononucleosis. I got an Epstein-Bar test a couple years back. I never had mono, but a monospot test came back positive... Menveo was the likely culprit.
https://www.schmidtlaw.com/meningitis-vaccine-lawsuit/
You sound just like me. My seizures were mostly in shops with shelves with repeating patterns on and shiny floors, Fluorescent lighting gives me trouble, I avoid it unless the bulb drivers are high frequency electronic ones. I've gos a cool old circular fluorescent light fitting in the house, but it was like kryptonite to me until I fitted a high frequency driver.
I had similar confusion in shops to you and inability to think, but sometimes it turned to head nodding, then body shaking, then full tonic clonic seizure for a few minutes with biting of my tongue and not enough breathing. It's a bad experience and you get kidnapped by ambulances.
I think I've had this all my life, but it could have been vax damage when I was a baby. The seizures started when I was 29, apart from one isolated one when I was 20.
It sucks doesn't it! your narcolepsy and sudden cataplexy sound very hard work.
Yup. Straight hallways with the fluorescent light bulbs parallaxing in the shiny floor while I walk is one of my triggers.
During my sleep spells I lose autonomic breathing. I have to force myself to breathe. I go into a fever dream, a state between being awake and being asleep, where it's fair to say I start hallucinating.
Never had to get nabbed by an ambulance, though, so I can't say I've had it as bad as you.
It very much does. The worst part is people not believing how bad it is. In reality, since I cannot remember a time I never felt sleepy, I can't say I really know how bad it is either, considering I have no basis for comparison.
The worst of my problems are behind me now. 100 - 150 mg of lamotrigine stops my seizures. I haven't had one in years.
Knowing you can't rely on staying conscious is hard. I really do know how you feel.
It may be related to your neurology that you are very gifted at making connections with symbolism. and for that I'm sure I'm not alone in being very grateful for your contributions to GAW.