Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
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@Cupcake yay! (I initially thought you were talking about The Rock)
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@Cupcake Yay for healthy happy furbabies!
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@Cupcake said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
We were able to get the ultrasound. Rock has Cushing's Disease. His body actually produces too much testosterone, and now he's on the meds he needs to live an otherwise full life.
Thankfully, it's not Peter Cushing's Disease, which is where you die in defiance of Disney's plans, so you get CGI'd into a film post-mortem.
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Taking baby kitty to the vet for her very first visit in like 5 minutes. I am a bundle of anxiety right now. She walked into the crate and went to sleep when I put it on the floor, having never seen it before. She is NOT a bundle of anxiety right now. eeeeeeeeeee.
eta: covid means they are going to take her awaaaaaaaay and I won't get her back til they're done.
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@Sunny said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Taking baby kitty to the vet for her very first visit in like 5 minutes. I am a bundle of anxiety right now. She walked into the crate and went to sleep when I put it on the floor, having never seen it before. She is NOT a bundle of anxiety right now. eeeeeeeeeee.
eta: covid means they are going to take her awaaaaaaaay and I won't get her back til they're done.
WHAT IF SHE GETS SCARED?!It sucks. I had to do it a few times earlier this summer when my cat had her emergency surgery. She's a very people-y cat so I knew she'd probably be OK but it's still v stressfu!
But both the emergency clinic and the vet for her follow up visits were very good about keeping me up to date and making sure I knew how things were going. They Get It.
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@Sunny It'll be okay, I promise. I totally understand these feels though. My senior cat has some health problems and I'm always baseline anxiety ball that I'm going to get bad news about them. So far, though - she's a tank who seems totally unbothered by her issues and I'm just the silly fretting adult.
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@Sunny I completely understand where you are right now. I've been taking Rock to the vet so often lately and for the most part his exams get conducted while I wait in my car outside, and most of the time he absolutely will not get out of the car unless I'm the person holding his leash. Everytime he's led away my heart cracks.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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Fellow four-eyed nerds who also wear facemasks!
Do your glasses fog up when you breathe? If so have you found any ways to fix this? It bugs me, but the reviews for anti-fog sprays on Amazon show... iffy results at best.
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@Arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Fellow four-eyed nerds who also wear facemasks!
Do your glasses fog up when you breathe? If so have you found any ways to fix this? It bugs me, but the reviews for anti-fog sprays on Amazon show... iffy results at best.
I just wear masks that I can sort of nudge up beneath my glasses. So long as my glasses overlap the mask, I do OK.
It helps that I mostly wear my (prescription) sunglasses when I go out. Which...... doesn't help when I go in stores and push them up on my head and become effectively partially blind, but my old pair of glasses are practically worthless so. XD
But yeah: masks that can nudge up just under the bottom edge of the glasses lessens the tendency to fog. Doesn't negate it, but it helps.
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@Arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Fellow four-eyed nerds who also wear facemasks!
Do your glasses fog up when you breathe? If so have you found any ways to fix this? It bugs me, but the reviews for anti-fog sprays on Amazon show... iffy results at best.
The best way to avoid this, I have found, is to wear smaller, tighter fitting masks with the little metal bread-tie thing in the nose that you can use to shape and secure it. If you get one that you can keep relatively flat against the contours of your nose and upper cheeks, nothing fogs.
It's the bigger, looser, more 'comfortable' ones that cause the fogging problems. You have to be able to direct the air flow a bit better.
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Wire along the nose as part of the mask, so it form-fits to the nose and along the cheekbones. That makes the breath go down instead of up.
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I have read, not confirmed, that washing your glasses using a little dish soap and not rinsing them off works. Let them dry and the film from the soap keeps them from fogging. Google for more exact specifics.
If you try this, report back.
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@Arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Fellow four-eyed nerds who also wear facemasks!
Do your glasses fog up when you breathe?
Wearing my glasses over my mask is the best solution I've found. This has its own problems. Disposables have that metal nose piece that makes them hard to fit under my glasses' nose piece, and cloth masks that don't have them sometimes ride up until they bump against my lower eyelids, but I've just made peace that this is my life now. I figure if that's the biggest annoyance I have to deal with in a day, I'm probably coming out ahead in life.
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@Arkandel I have purchased a little 3D frame thing that you can wear under your mask to insure non-fogginess as well as making sure you feel like you can breathe freely. Once it comes in the mail, will report.
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I just do everything possible to avoid human contact. Not only because of the pandemic, but because, well, human beings are garbage.
Mask-wearing minimized. Problem solved.
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@Arkandel I find that wearing my glasses a little lower on the bridge of my nose so some airflow can get around the lenses seems to help.
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Always nice to find out the next day that actually, the urgent care does not take the specific product of your current insurance when they said that they did take it (and the insurance you have as a stopgap for this month before your new employer insurance kicks in next month's site is also similarly super confusing and of course their member service number was closedwhen you needed to head in).
So maybe I'm paying for a ER like visit including a CT scan and all that jazz out of pocket (hopefully to be reimbursed some)? At least I wasn't admitted but I still kinda want to cry.
Fuck you, American Healthcare "system".
And if the ACA detonates before December 1st im well and truly fucked for life. Won't be the only one though.
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@mietze said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
And if the ACA detonates before December 1st im well and truly fucked for life.
Listening to the oral arguments at SCOTUS, I don't think there's any real chance of that. The justices seemed rather unimpressed at the argument.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Derp i heard so but...I dunno. Not going to relax until everything is over if that makes sense.
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@Derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Listening to the oral arguments at SCOTUS, I don't think there's any real chance of that. The justices seemed rather unimpressed at the argument.
I think we all misjudged Kavanaugh a little as to his jurisprudential leanings.
Then again:
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
