u/Far_Tourist_3659

I’ve occasionally browsed this sub over the years looking for advice and hoping to find a miracle cure.

I’m a woman who had a lot keloids on my chest and back for the past 15 years. I’m talking bad enough that one derm took photos for his textbook he was publishing 💀 I have two from a mosquito bite, one from hitting my shoulder accidentally on a shelf, many more from acne…just a very sensitive body.

I’ve seen over 7 derms and 2 plastic surgeons over the years and never had results. I’ve had some big lows (too embarrassed to wear tank tops, swimsuits, strapless dresses, I hate v neck shirts), I remember worrying about dating and meeting someone and taking my shirt off. I gave up on medical interventions and worked on self acceptance. I don’t know how else to say it but if you need to hear this, you can find love, people can see beyond your scars, and hiding away will only hurt in the long run. You deserve a happy and fulfilled life and good people won’t judge you or make comments about you beyond perhaps an initial curiosity.

Ok the real meat. I saw a new derm when the night pain got bad recently and after not seeing one for 4 years and suddenly my body starts responding to keloid injections. ALL OF MY SCARS ARE FLAT!! I told her she changed my life and I had to know what she did that was so different than everyone else. Kenalog 40, she wiggles the needle on insertion so it’s shooting around the whole scar. It worked significantly better when I went every 4 weeks, she tried pushing to six once and I didn’t see results. That’s it, it’s so crazy to me that I never had results before but no doctor was willing to see me every 4 weeks. I still have some discoloration on the ones that are just flat but some of the ones where I had some atrophy, the redness disappeared and they filled in within a month so I almost wish she would do it to the others too (but says I need to do pulse dye laser).

I don’t know I guess I just wanted to say I had gone years giving up and now they’re gone and I can’t believe it. There’s hope out there for us, really there is.

Random note: dermablend is an amazing foundation that they use to cover tattoos on movie sets and is what I had primarily used to blend my scars when they were visible

Genuinely wondering what the economics are or if there is some incentive that all the law firms want to take over all the old auto shops

I’m a CASA for a 16 year-old girl and I was asked to be educational rights holder at the beginning of her case (no parents or legal guardian, she previously had a placeholder from the district). I feel like I wasn’t prepared and had no idea what I had agreed to. It’s now been over a year and I’ve had to do so much work, including obtaining and educational rights attorney and settling with her school district. I’m mostly just feeling burnt out because it makes my youth hate me. My foster youth doesn’t want an IEP because it places her into a breakout classroom for behavior issues, but she’s at a third grade reading level when she is a sophomore in high school school so she needs one. She tell me she hates me for not removing the IEP, but I don’t feel like I can in good conscience. We’ve always had a strong relationship before this issue came to the forefront and it feels like it’s getting in between me being her advocate because she doesn’t feel like I’m listening to her.

Has anyone been able to give up educational rights or been through something like this?