u/Environmental-Ad3715

i live in a rural community where 80% of people are very conservative and think me masking is weird. i've been told that i'm poisoning myself by masking. i love humanity so much but why don't they love me back? i just want someone to care about me. someone who checks in on me. i want a genuine friendship. but nobody masks and will mask to protect me and themselves. my younger sibling and my bf are the only ones in my life who mask. my younger sibling is dating someone long distance with MECFS, they are very wonderful. but right now my boyfriend is hours away for the summer and i'm stuck with myself for the summer. i am very thankful to have a job but otherwise i am sad and lonely every day.

i just want people who care. being CC is so draining.

so all of a sudden my ipod doesn't want to connect to my itunes application, so obviously i do my research and do what the apple website tells me, nothing. do what wikihow tells me. nothing. i even do what youtube tells me. nothing. i then go into my file explorer to see if it has anything to do with that. TURNS OUT I ACCIDENTALLY JUST DELETED EVERY SINGLE THING ON MY IPOD. all of my music. all of my playlists. gone.

when i plug my ipod in, now it still won't show up on itunes and so i can't even restore anything on there because itunes refuses to recognize it. am i doomed to live with a defunct ipod that won't even work for the rest of my days? i spent 200$ on this last year saving up from a summer job, and now everything i compiled is lost forever. is there ANYTHING i can do to fix this or am i doomed? ANY advice would help because i am freaking out.

this is what shows up when i plug it in now. two ipod folders having absolutely nothing on it. i'm so cooked.

i went to the dentist yesterday, obviously taking precautions and getting the earliest appointment, and my dentist told me that my gums are receding and thinning out and thus she has referred me to visit a periodontist. the waitlists for these are long and could be up to several months to a year until i'm able to go. therefore, i have no clue how covid and other respiratory viruses will be spreading.

other than the readimask hack (which to me feels so embarrassing and ridiculous, but hey, better than long covid), does anyone have any other tips for surviving the appointment without getting sick? would appreciate anything!

i woke up with a runny nose and the dryest throat known to man. i don't know if i'll be able to call off work due to my sickness but should i call in? i don't want to get anyone else sick. i always mask at work with a sip valve.

i don't know if it's my zoloft doing this to me or what, but for about a month now i've been getting chronic acid reflux so awful to the point where i'm vomiting regularly, and it doesn't matter if i eat a little or even a smidgen of food, it all comes back up eventually. my stomach basically constantly feels like it's doing somersaults (no pain, just awful feeling) and i always feel on the verge of vomiting.

this morning i had acid reflux for two hours on an empty stomach and was only able to eat something past noon. i woke up at eight. now it's past midnight and i'm trying to sleep but my stomach is telling me nooooooo

i know i most definitely have gerd, and i'm gonna make a doctor's appointment ASAP because this is hell and this needs to end. i also have ARFID on top of all this so i cannot do any major dietary changes as i eat very little. i'll just focus on eating much smaller portions and hoping i don't throw it up later that day. hoping i can get on meds and make this stop.

hey y'all!

so i volunteer at a bookstore right now and they give me a one hour break, usually i go get lunch at the restaurant up the hill and eat outside on their tables but today it is pouring and i know that it will be too risky to eat indoors. what in the hell do i do? do i eat on the wet tables with my umbrella over me? do i find somewhere with adequate protection from the rain and eat there? i am super hungry but i don't wanna expose myself because of it.