u/Glad-Attention744

Here’s a link to my previous post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hidradenitis/s/uhTVAzJux0

So, I had the follow up with my surgeon, he did apologize for the miscommunication. He told me that I would most likely have to get this procedure done 6-7 more times. As of right now I have 4 new HS flares that that have emerged. So on top of healing cauterized skin I have 4 active flares😭 I met my deductible this year so the surgery didn’t cost anything but it cost me 2 weeks of unpaid work🥴🥴

If I would have known it wasn’t going to take care of my sores then I wouldn’t have gotten it. He said he can refer me to a plastic surgeon for the wide excision procedure and the skin graft. I don’t want the skin graft though, I’d rather let that area heal itself like I’ve seen people get on here.

So for future reference for the people who want to the surgery, please make sure your surgeon understands what you want and doesn’t assume because they are the doctor.

Okay! So my friend is absolutely obsessed with Halloween. She has spent so much money on decorations for outside and inside, her favorite being her mini Halloween village that’s actually more of a city haha
Her birthday is in the middle of October and I thought it would be fun to get a countdown to Halloween advent calendar? But they are really hard to find. So maybe so I could make one? But I have no idea what to put in them. I don’t want like a lame $15 advent calendar, like I actually want cool stuff that isn’t just cheap plastic. Preferably around $100? Is that too unrealistic? Maybe you guys would have better Halloween gift ideas?

Yes, I know it’s quite early to start thinking about Christmas but if I don’t have an idea in my head then I’m gonna be scrambling!! Usually all of the groomers in our shop get everyone a gift but this year it’s just too expensive to get everyone a gift so we are doing secret Santa (thank goodness too, I usually spend like $300 on gifts for them all because everyone is so freaking thoughtful with their gifts). So I know I want to get my one coworker a Chris Christianson coral brush. Are there any other gifts that would be good to go with that? Or any ideas you guys have? Or gifts you would like to receive from a fellow dog groomer?

My dermatologist has pretty much cleared me for a deroofing procedure. The surgeon’s office is hopefully going to call me so I can get in and see the surgeon and discuss things.

My questions is, how was months after the surgery for you guys? Was it worth it? Did you have to be on medication long term? Did the tunneling come back? My dermatologist wants to try cosentyx but we decided to see how the surgery goes and see if I need to go down that route after the surgery. Finally after advocating for myself (I also had my dad go with me lol) because they push push medication and I kept explaining the tunnels and holes are there. Medication isn’t going to fix the deformity. So we are hoping the surgery fixes the tunneling and deformity and then if I need to be on medication I can jump on it quick before more tunnels and stuff shows up? Idk the logic makes sense to me but you guys can tell me if I’m wrong🤣

I just had to share this story with you all because I know you’d appreciate it.

Last night, at 11pm, my sister and I are on our way home from the beach, I barely get a quarter mile down the road, a fox runs across the road, then I see a cat running alongside the road. I naturally slow down because I don’t want to hit them. well the car behind me turned out to be a cop😬 then he flashes his lights and I pullover. Mind you, I’ve never gotten pulled over before, I’m shaking in my hot pink crocs. The officer is nice and asks me if I know why I got pulled over. I know it wasn’t speeding so I honestly had no idea. He told me it’s because I was driving weird and they wanted to make sure I was okay. He gets my license and registration and looks me up and then he comes back to my window. He asks if I have had anything to drink tonight. I’ve never had an alcoholic drink in my life, I don’t even know what the heck it tastes like. I told him no. He then said “well why does it smell sweet in your car?”

The horse grain
The 50 pound of horse grain in the back of my car.
The essential K.

He says it smells like a margarita and at this point I’m mortified and trying to explain that it’s the horse grain in the backseat. He goes back to look at it. He doesn’t give me a ticket and lets me go home. I couldn’t stop laughing though even though it was embarrassing🤣

Anyone else have any crazy stories to share?

I’ve been on 50mg for almost a month. I have skipped a couple days here and there because it makes my stomach hurt really bad, bad gas, diarrhea, sometimes severe dizziness. Mostly it’s the stomach stuff. I was supposed to move to 100mg at two weeks but I am already struggling with this dose.. I am taking it for my HS sores and now I seem to have even more sores and flares even in areas I didn’t get them before?? I am going to call my Dermatologist on Monday but in the meantime I wanted to see if you guys had any advice :(

So I have my heart set to quit I just don’t know when. I used to work in a school and then I left because of the way it was managed. Now that I’ve been out of it I really miss it… so I’m going to go back to school to study to be a special education teacher (I was a special education para professional for 4 years). When I quit the school I was so so excited to work at an eye doctor’s. I have always loved them as a kid. I have been an ophthalmic technician for 3 months, and honestly I don’t like it. I love the patients, the doctors, and my coworkers. So why do I want to leave? Benefits suck, I pay $50 for insurance and it’s the catastrophic plan so I pay for everything out of pocket until I hit my $6000 deductible. Yeah, that’s not great but is it worth quitting? Maybe not. But there’s more. I applied for a full time job but they don’t want more than one tech per doctor so I get two half days a week so I barely get 32 hours on a weekly basis. On the busy days we have 5 patients every 15 minutes and only 4 techs to work them up. It’s terribly chaotic and I’m so stressed all the time. On those days coworkers are snippy and you feel bad asking a question. 6 people have left in the last 3 months I have been there. I don’t feel valued, I never get a thank you from anyone except the one doctor, I don’t feel appreciated. I am not meant for the medical world, I thought I was but I’m not. I had my 90 day evaluation and it was so positive and I feel like a despicable human even thinking of leaving. But I’m going to go back to dog grooming while I go to school full time. I don’t know guys.. I just need some advice… I’m just stressed and my mental health is tanking

I’m really stressing about it… so my horse is currently at a place that’s 25 mins away from me. It’s not a horrible distance but hard when I work late and can’t get there during the week much. That place has a round pen but that’s about it. They go for trail rides once in a while but they are hours long and I don’t always have time to ride for 4+ hours on a Sunday. I have to keep all of my horse stuff in my car so that’s kind of a pain. So those are negatives, the positives are it’s $120 a month, my horse is in a pasture of 10 acres and there’s 5 other horses. My horse Johnny has his best friend Fireball and they are inseparable. It breaks my heart just to think about separating them.. ugh I know I shouldn’t put human emotions on them but man it’s hard! My friend, who owns fireball, might be selling her in the future anyway which if I was financially able I would buy her in a heartbeat but I gotta be realistic.
The other place I’m considering is $300 a month but only a 7 minute drive (with the price of gas I might break even!🤣). Theres a tack room, a round pen, and they are building an arena. It is pasture board but they are really small pastures. It would be the same size herd but obviously different horses. I don’t ride by myself unless it’s a round pen or an arena, I don’t like to trail ride by myself just because I don’t want something to happen. So an arena would be sooo nice. A bigger area to do liberty and it’s closer it feels like a no brainer.

But here is where I’m stuck, I have had so many awful experiences with other boarding places. One threw my horse into a field without any introduction with the horses and she got so beat up. The owner constantly yelled at me and my old mare was stressed out of her mind. So then I moved my mare to a different place and it was good but I wasn’t getting along with my mare and I knew she could potentially find someone else she loved more than me and then my older boarder’s daughter took her to sell her for me and then ghosted me and I never got my money. (I will never not use a contract again.) anyway that was 5 years ago. Then I got Johnny my current gelding. He’s incredible and I love him. I took him to a boarding place and he was getting horrible hay, his water trough had like an inch of algae in it, Johnny was losing weight, when I questioned things the owner screamed at me and I left and didn’t look back. So all that to say I’m very wary of moving. The new place I’m looking at now, the lady is great but she hasn’t had horses very long, she was trying to sell a horse that my friend’s friend was looking at but either the horse suddenly woke up lame or she didn’t disclose he was lame. She isn’t nearly as knowledgeable of horses like my current boarding owner is.

Ughh I hate this decision….. I don’t know what to do. Obviously you guys can’t tell me what to do but any advice is appreciated😭

Hey guys! So I have been working as an ophthalmic tech for maybe 9 weeks now? I started the 2nd of March. I really have been loving it, however there’s a lot of things that kind of raise yellow flags. I love the patients, the doctors, the staff. But as benefits go, there is really none. I do have insurance but it’s only the catastrophic plan. So nothing is covered until you hit your 6k deductible. Not ideal, but it’s whatever. But I guess it used to be better and they switched and now it’s even worse and then a lot of people left because of it. We also don’t get PTO, I mean I guess you get 1 hour for every 30 hours worked so wooo.. but the biggest thing for me is the amount of stuff I need to do before a patient even sees a doctor. A couple days a week we have 5 patients every 15 mins coming in. It’s complete chaos. We only have 4 techs. There has been not an empty seat in the lobby and people are leaving because it’s taking so long. I feel horrible but I’m barely trained and doing things on my own. We have to do so much with the complete exams with the ophthalmologist patients. It will take 20-30 mins with them before doctor.
Then I was talking to my dad and he raised a good question and I am curious. Why do techs do the refraction? My dad was like “I wouldn’t want someone who’s not a doctor making my glasses prescription. I want a doctor.” And I’m so new with refraction and I would hate to give someone a bad prescription. I mean it’s pretty straight forward now but I think you know what I mean. Some days it just feels like we are just cheap techs to do all the work so the doctor doesn’t have to do as much and can see more people. I felt more appreciated at my old job and that wasn’t much :/

Anyway, thanks for reading if you made it this far. I needed to rant. I don’t want to complain at the work place and cause drama. I have barely been there 2 months and I have known 5 people to leave/get fired so I have no idea what the heck is happening