u/ARepeatedFailing

L4-L5 herniated disc with nerve compression. Fell and triggered whatever the fuck. Decided to finish nursing school and now can't work due to not being able to stand and ambulate.

about 12 weeks ago I got a Caudal steroid injection and it worked great for 6-6.5 weeks. Had my 8 (actually 12 week) follow up today. Found out I have stenosis in several vertebrae in my back along with wear on some vertebrae and neuropathy.

Anyway, I was told that my only option aside these injections is to have the disc removed. The clinic doesn't do nerve ablations when dealing with nerve pain in the legs. I went to see an orthepedic surgeon and he didn't want to remove the disc and suggested losing weight. I can't move, sit, stand or lay without pain. I went to my car to get some water and was nearly in tears by the time I returned ot my room.

I have 10s of thousands of dollars of debt for a degree I can't use (I have no experience so I Can't travel or do WFH) and the likelihood of me being pain free again is low.

This is one of the reasons I hate/hated tiktok. It is the exact app I think of when I think of the title. Before I joined Tiktok, I'd see people talking about "recipes" that were supposed to work with ingredients that don't make sense (such as a cake recipe without an integral ingredient). Those are more harmless.

Recently, a woman went viral because she was crying about kids jumping in and out of the hot tub and annoying her while she was at a hotel. On either her video or a viral response, someone commented that she was at Great Wolf Lodge (an indoor water park) and that of course kids are there. People on tiktok ran with this, even debating people in the original woman's comment. The woman explicitly said no, she wasn't at Great Wolf Lodge (and it's obvious from her video) but people keep repeating this over and over again. She never took down her original video. Some people were ON the video. Instead of listening to user2095908, they could rewatch the video.

This happens on Reddit. The OP will post something and the top comment will be a ridiculous leap in judgment or saying the OP said something they didn't. It has 1000 upvotes and now the conversation is about something OP asked/did that they actually didn't. Anyone correcting them ends up downvoted and the comment collapsed.

With AI aggregating shit from websites, comments and widespread false information is going to get worse. I'm moreso annoyed with the gullible people who spread the information and the commenter who never comes back to clear anything up.

I came here after getting fired from my ICU job for concerns on my ability to do the job. People here were so focused on my weight when I explained my back problems were independent of that as I've been this weight for 6+ years.

I had a follow up today after a Caudal injection and the doctor basically said that working on my feet (especially 12 hours a day) will exacerbate symptoms. The injection lasts 6 weeks for me right now but I can't get it any sooner than 12 weeks from the last one. Realistically, after week 8, I can't stand/walk/lay/sit without pain.

The only option seems to be to have the herniated disc removed but we've found that I still have nerve issues that likely are lifelong issues. I'm a "new grad" so I don't have experience to work remote as a nurse. I'm starting with a home healthcare company soon but I'm wondering just how limited I will be because of this. I'm obviously working on my weight and considering the surgery but it won't fix everything.

I came here after getting fired from my ICU job for concerns on my ability to do the job. People here were so focused on my weight when I explained my back problems were independent of that as I've been this weight for 6+ years.

I had a follow up today after a Caudal injection and the doctor basically said that working on my feet (especially 12 hours a day) will exacerbate symptoms. The injection lasts 6 weeks for me right now but I can't get it any sooner than 12 weeks from the last one. Realistically, after week 8, I can't stand/walk/lay/sit without pain.

The only option seems to be to have the herniated disc removed but we've found that I still have nerve issues that likely are lifelong issues. I'm a "new grad" so I don't have experience to work remote as a nurse. I'm starting with a home healthcare company soon but I'm wondering just how limited I will be because of this. I'm obviously working on my weight and considering the surgery but it won't fix everything.

I've come here before because of an injury that made me have to resign from my job + discussions on how healthcare workers see us. I find myself so torn. Being in spaces where nurses talk absolute shit about bariatric patients while also being SMO is weighing on me. The assumptions that we're too fat to work (not true. I went through nursing school at >400lbs and many people larger than me work), we're unbearable and did this all to ourselves. I don't want sympathy but it's so weird watching nurses talk about bariatric patients while then asking for sympathy for drug/alcohol addiction.

My license expires in 12 days and I'm seeing my doctor again for a shot that gave me some of my life back from the nerve pain. I don't think I'm meant to be in healthcare. I'm too much a bleeding heart and knowing how my coworkers likely see me really makes my anxiety worse.

Only posting here because you all understand the SMO component.

Don't judge me too bad. I only know the basics. I have a 2012 Malibu that's in my garage with what I'm sure is a bad starter (we've replaced it before unfortunately). I replaced the dead battery after it sat for a year and in accessory mode, everything comes on (air, radio, etc) but clicks and cuts power when I try to turn it on.

Anyway: there isn't enough space to jack the car up in the garage. I need to pull it out to do so. But how Can I do this? Especially if I'm only one person.

I have a larger SUV (Yukon) with tow hooks and can go to harbor freight. I really want to get it running so I can sell the car I'm paying on.

Edit: It was a corroded negative terminal. Thanks guys.

I'm tired of these low play hour cheating accounts

Yes I know epic won't do anything but it's truly getting ridiculous. Just from the last few battle royale's I did, I've come across at least three accounts with low hours and a lot of kills. The most blatant one was someone with two and a half playing hours and over 200 kills.

Obviously some of these could be people who deleted their fortnite account years ago and want to play again but the uptick in these type of accounts tell me otherwise. Casuals shouldn't end up in lobbies with dreamers and people who play for 10 hours a day. Of course they can pad their stats when they're doing that.

Maybe it's because I'm "Young" (31), but there is so much inherent trauma that comes with watching parents age, caring for them, etc. I have classmates that have lost parents to cancer, heart attacks, etc. But I'm not close with them so obviously I don't know how they feel.

I spend a lot of time at night just thinking of how I dont' have the mom that raised me. That I have this new person of a mom and the old one isn't coming back. The one that used to play with my sister and I; the one who used to come to our games, our band concerts; the sarcastic humor; All of that is gone. My mom is in her late 60s.

On top of that, I watched her go through cancer treatments that required a trach. I remember them telling us it was cancer, watching her be unable to eat, be sickly thin, scared for scans, etc.

Before that, we lost my grandma to dementia. My grandma was hyper-independent. To watch her go from volunteering at the church and cooking holiday meals to not knowing her name, not knowing the date and barely being able to talk was traumatizing even if I didn't think of it that way. I was the one who watched the funeral home shroud her body and take it away.

I know losing family is traumatic but when you're in that in between period of caring for them, there is little talk about it. I don't have the life others do. There are no family get togethers anymore, no big holiday meals, no celebrations. The family I grew up with is gone both physically and figuratively and it hurts....I feel like a large piece of me is gone and people my age don't understand.

There are accounts on here that swear the only way to make money is through working through the tiers. They claim to make all this money and the handful of screenshots I've seen are very "ok" at best orders. For some reason, these same accounts think anyone that cherry picks is "sitting around" for hours at a time if they don't take everything.

Work how you want, but please don't let these shill accounts make you seem stupid for actually doing the math on orders. If your market is good, a tier system will not matter. plain and simple. These accounts forget that DoorDash already did this and it was proven time and time again not to matter.

I'm saying this as someone who has neither. I'm a 31 year old guy who has never had anyone interested in me, never dated, etc. I have no friends and know it's past my time to make any. Life sucks. Every day is like the last. I 100% understand why people have kids and get married. There's nothing to life otherwise.

No, no one cares that you go out of the country x times per year. No one cares how much money you make. No one cares that you like to do x hobby. No one past teens and early 20s people care about that. It's about whether you're married with kids. once you say no to either or both of those, you're seen as a social pariah and someone who must be socially maladapted.

I'm a 31M who has by and large avoided therapy. I'd rather not get into that but I've recently been accepting that I may have some form of anxiety. I have social anxiety for sure but no idea about other mental health problems.

I have a lot of anxiety around family when it comes to health. Not just the "Oh I don't want them to be sick" but rumination whenever something out of the ordinary pops up. A few examples:

I take care of my mom and one morning she said she woke up at 3am and hadn't slept. I asked her throughout the day (admittedly obsessively) if she'd napped. No. I became extremely anxious that this would develop into a long term sleep problem. It didn't. She slept the next night and everything has been ok I think.

My sister has a host of allergies. Whenever she tells me something that's changed with them or her health in general, I spiral. What inspired this post was her telling me that she thinks she has sleep apnea due to waking a lot during the night and fatigue during the day. It's not farfetched because she snores, has her tonsils and is obese (as am I). But now I'm just going down a rabbit hole for ways to help her. I do this whenever she mentions a possible new allergy but gets annoyed when I send her many messages about it (understandable).

I can't stop worrying about the sleep apnea thing. I have severe sleep apnea (though I had no symptoms) but I worry more about her being tired, driving and already having sleep problems due to anxiety herself.

In general I become almost obsessive when things change for my mom, sister or even I. It's not just health related but health is where it rears its head. I don't know what to do. I'm anxious. I'm catastrophizing and feel guilty for sleeping at all because she doesn't get good sleep.

I purchased the 1 year of internet for $40/month. I followed the instructions, hooked it up just like instructed yet nothing. The modem is blinking white and it can't find a connection. I already had internet set up so I don't need to have a technician come out just to say they don't know why nothing is working.

The only options I have are AT&T and Xfinity. Both are dogshit. I work from home and ATT just decides when it wants to work. I can't even get Xfinity to work in my house. Chicago is just getting shittier and shittier.

I think many here have already figured that out but I went to do a DD order while picking something up from the store. I sat there as another driver called Uber, let them know the order was stolen, gave the name and was told the order was gone. Literally minutes later, a guy came in for it. He spoke no English so he was just looking confused until the lady that cancelled it spoke to him in Spanish.

She called back and explained what happened and Uber claims they took it out of the system. Makes no sense to sit on the phone with support. Just cancel it in app. They affect you all the same.

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been in lobbies with some of the top players on this platform. I was just killed by someone that was literally and the top 1% of players for wins and top 0.7% for kills. They had almost 2,000 play hours.

On the other hand, I am not good at all. I've only recently started getting a victory Royale that wasn't simply caused by the last player getting lost in the storm. I am not nearly as good as the players that seem to pop up in my lobby sometimes. I can tell when I'm killed by someone who is a bit better than me and those that are significantly better than me. Why is this happening?

This seems to have become a thing very recently. Whenever I or others talk about having an experience, people who don't expeirence it claim we are lying. For example, I said I'm probably not renewing my nursing license because I can't find a job, have been out of school over a year and my city is flooded with new grads. Responses? "That can't be true, my cousin's sister's best friend got a $200k job out of school".

It's like people have forgotten that everyone's life isn't the same. I can show 400+ applications I've put in with "not selected". This happens on things like experiences at a restaurant. Idk why some people think their experience is the one and only one available.

I had a double stack at a single restaurants today. My car plays a message from one of the customers but I can't see it until I confirm the 1st order. The customer asks for me to tell the restaurant that they charged her too much for an order and it was a BOGO deal + she wanted me to add a piece of cake to her order. I should have cancelled it but I didn't.

It's a leave at door so I leave it and explain that she will have to go through Uber to explain the mess up and the cashiers cannot do anything about it + I cannot add to her order if she didn't order something.

I'm logging out for the night and see that I have another thumbs down. That is the only order of today where I can imagine I was thumbs down. Maybe I'm wrong but no one else had any strange requests but this one. I'm almost sure it was also a no tip order.

That's it. That's the pet peeve.

But seriously, I'm concerned with how careless parents are about putting their kid online. I dont' mean on a private page where you vet who you allow to see. Parents are milking their kids for content. The amount of "toddler models" who have IGs but their parents' IGs are locked down, no profile pic that shows the parent disturbs me. We don't need to see your kid in various stages of undress. I don't need to know you're going to buy pads/tampons for your teen daughter or for you to come to the internet to ask whether you should buy condoms for your son.

Too many parents are okay with disregarding internet safety and their child's privacy for attention, accolades or money.

It's so hard to realize that I just....have nothing to show for my life. I'm a 31 year old boring guy but my lack of desire for adventure has left me sounding like the stereotypical Redditor: No friends, never dated, no kids, never traveled, no passport, etc. My old friends from high school travel frequently, are in long term relationships.

I live at home, I can't find a job in my field, don't talk to people, don't go anywhere. I just recently realized that I'm getting to an age where I should have kids and they should be almost teenagers...yet, nothing. It's making me more depressed than I am. Anyone else in this predicament. How are you coping

Obviously not all of them but enough of them that it's a pattern. Every time there's a space where trans people can chill and have a decent conversation, the minute enough yt trans women come in, everything flips. Trans men tend to leave because of accusations of transmisogyny when someone doesn't agree with them. Trans women that used to enjoy the space leave and then it becomes an anti-masculinity/4chanesque space. This happens on Twitter. God forbid one of them disagrees with you. Your mentions are obliterated with them accusing you of unhinged shit. I hate it.