Remembering that time I went to the doctor as a kid with a whole list of symptoms and she said "the more symptoms you have the more likely it's nothing."
Anyway they were all hypermobility. F you Janice.
Today it's felt like my body has had a really bad day. Things that don't normally hurt are hurting and popping and causing problems. I kinda thought since figuring out that it's hypermobility, which is constantly present in me, that would mean that, even if it's bad, it should be relatively equally bad all the time. Does anyone else have days that just seem worse? Is there any reason for some days to randomly be worse than others?
So I'm not the PA student, my fiance is. We both lived in Colorado, and he got into PA school in New York. We were told he could do rotations anywhere, and since my work made it hard to move we decided to do long distance for his didactic year and he'd do his rotations back in Colorado.
Well, now his school is saying he can't do rotations in Colorado do to some workman's comp thing in Colorado.
We're really struggling as we made major life and financial decisions based off of this, only to have the rug pulled out from under us at the last minute.
Has anyone been through something like this before? Any advice, or even sympathy?
My fiance and I are both considering changing our last names when we get married. We want to share a last name with each other and a future child, but neither of us wants the other's name and neither of us has a connection to our own. The only problem? We cannot even begin to think of what we would want.
We want it to be simple to spell, but not like a basic last name. My name ends in an "uh" sound and his ends in a "dan" sound, so something that goes with those. A is both of our favorite vowels, so he thinks it should start with A but my first name ends with A and that feels like it would get clunky.
We'd also like it to have some nice meaning.
Any ideas? Anywhere to start? Are there last name books like there's baby name books?
So I used to be super athletic. Played soccer (as a goalie, super rough on the body), swam, fenced, climbed rocks, did everything I wanted with no hesitation. Never broke anything, no chronic injuries. And then it started to feel like my body was falling apart in the second half of highschool. I developed some back pain but thought it was just a weak core. My tendons started snapping in my hips and I did a course of PT that never really fixed it.
Then in college it became more systematic. My elbows started to hurt and I started needing to brace joints. The back pain got worse. No doctors took me seriously until I collapsed from pain and could barely walk for months and the lack of answers almost lead me to ending my life.
I finally got a hypermobility diagnosis and have been doing PT for five months now. It's hypermobility specific and in some ways has felt like a lifesaver. In other ways I feel like I'm never going to be the same again. I hesitate now doing simple tasks like carrying groceries. I fall and minor injuries I once brushed off still bother me months later. I feel like I can feel every bit of damage that has ever happened to my body.
I was getting better with PT so rapidly for a while but I've plateaued recently. I just don't know what the end goal is anymore. Is it realistic to hope to run and play without pain, or is every day going to feel like this for the rest of my life, or somewhere in the middle?
In theory, I understand that it's because they are made of slightly different materials. What I think I'm really asking is what are the main mug materials, and why is anyone making mugs out of the one that burns my hands after two minutes and leaves my milk cold?
Back again with more warpriest questions!
So, I've discovered pre-prepared spell loadouts on Path Companion, which feel like a huge timesaver over scrolling through what feels like a never ending spell list. I've created a couple load outs myself based on my previous fun spells question, but I'm wondering what load outs other people like having. What are spells that always feel handy to have? Maybe 1-2 combat per loadout just in case, but most game days we don't have combat and I am leaned on as a utility/exploration caster. How would you balance types of spells per day?
I'm a fantasy author looking to hire an artist to create realistic character portraits. Would start with one piece and, of course, potential to build a relationship. I understand asking for full body portraits for this price is a lot. I'm really only looking for upper body, no hands. I would need rights to use art on my Instagram and potentially for bookmarks and other marketing materials, but not to sell.
For the sake of my sanity, please only comment on this post and do not DM me.