u/Hanyo_Hetalia

As the title says. My husband and I and two kids will be driving through the area in October on the way to the Carolinas. The Google reviews of the hotels in the area are freaking me out. Can anyone recommend a place? I have seen some fancier bed and breakfasts, but I don't necessarily need that and I'm not sure they'll take kids anyway. I prefer somewhere with no pets due to allergies in our family.

Thank you! :)

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Thank you everyone! I appreciate all of your input!

As the title says? I'm 5'9 and 165 pounds and I CANNOT seem to find basic t-shirts that fit long torsos. I tried the tall t-shirts and Old Navy and they were not even close to long enough and they were super boxy. Options on Amazon seem to be severely lacking in any kind of quality. I've even tried Walmart and the shirts were horrible. I'm a mom with two kids and I'm walking around in old t-shirts with holes and it's embarrassing, but I can't seem to find what I need- which is crazy because it doesn't seem like it should be so hard.

Hi South Carolinians, I posted this in r/epilepsy and it was suggested that I ask r/southcarolina, but then I saw that this sub existed, so here goes!

I am at the point where I truly cannot handle the heat in Florida anymore, but I've stayed here because I have had really good neurological care. My seizures are well controlled and I need a neurologist who will be ok with monitoring my epilepsy and not try to mess with my medications.

Climate wise, I'd really like to be in upstate SC, so somewhere within an hour or so of the Greenville metro area would be great, but I'm willing to drive up to two hours if need be (I have small kids, so I can't do long treks at this stage of life).

Thanks! :)

I am at the point where I truly cannot handle the heat in Florida anymore, but I've stayed here because I have had really good neurological care. My seizures are well controlled and I need a neurologist who will be ok with monitoring my epilepsy and not try to mess with my medications.

Climate wise, I'd really like to be in upstate SC, so somewhere within an hour or so of the Greenville metro area would be great, but I'm willing to drive up to two hours if need be (I have small kids, so I can't do long treks at this stage of life).

Thanks! :)

Central Florida here--

Internet went out yesterday and came back on over night only to go out again by 9:30 this morning. We still don't have internet. My husband works from home and we cannot go without internet like this. What gives, Frontier? We keep being told there's a "data service outage".

Ok, what the heck does that mean?

Hi there!
I am looking to visit Lancaster this fall with my husband and two preschoolers. I was born in Ronks and my family moved away when I was preschool aged. I have fond memories of Lancaster, but I have not been back since I was so very young.

I want go to back and see the places I would have frequented with my parents when I was a wee tot, and my husband and I both miss the fall (husband is from NY and we are both currently in Florida- so no fall).

With that said, does anyone know of any family friendly hotels or bed and breakfasts? We want to go up during October and enjoy a real fall.

We'd appreciate any and all suggestions.

Thank you! 😄

I just want to say my family was less than supportive of me when my seizures were not controlled. It was lonely and it felt so degrading to constantly be asking people for help with basic things. I live in an area with very poor public transportation, so I biked to work for years- rain or 95 degree weather. My job prospects were poor because I couldn't drive- I was constantly underemployed.

My birth family has talked down to me and mocked me for the jobs I had (when I got out of college I worked front desk at a chiropractors office because it was a job and I could bike to it). Eventually that office closed and I was able to use by degree to teach for a while, but this required me to pay someone $20 a day to drive me to work OR to get an Uber. It was expensive, and highly inconvenient, but I needed a job to be able to pay for rent and food. I usually needed a ride to church on Sundays. My family attends the same church and I still had to ASK every Sunday if someone could pick me up. There was never an offer. No one ever said "Hey, let's make a schedule", or anything like that. I was always made to feel like an inconvenience.

At one point my youngest sister made a snide remark that if I wanted people to help me I needed to start helping them. I was dumb founded. What could I do to help? I was stuck at home with very little mobility. I was so lonely that I'd bike to the grocery store just to see other people. Talking to the lady doing samples at the grocery store was often my only social interaction outside of work or being at church for weeks at a time. Because I looked fine to people I was out of sight and out of mind. I wasn't *literally* dying.

Eventually I finally got in with a fantastic neurologist at a university an hour from me and he was able to get me on medications and my seizures are now controlled (of course, my family had little to no involvement in getting me to those appointments. An older man from church took me faithfully- every single time). I am grateful for that. I have a husband and two beautiful kids, and I can't complain about how my life is right now.

But I am bitter. One of my older brothers was diagnosed with cancer in 2021. He did treatment and was declared cancer free. I was glad for him This year his cancer came back. I hate that for him. What I can't seem to comprehend, though, is that EVERYONE is there for him. My siblings who weren't there for me AT ALL when I was living in the shadow world of uncontrolled epilepsy are there for him. They are bringing him meals and driving him to appointments and giving him the king treatment. I never had anyone offer to help me get to the grocery store or to bring me a meal so I didn't have to carry all my groceries on my bike handle bars.

Do you know who took me to 7 AM EEG appointments when I was trying to get my seizures controlled? No one. I had to bike there. I'd get up at the butt crack of dawn and bike myself to Ihop for breakfast to get myself hyped (a little treat for myself) and then I'd bike to the neurologist's office a mile or two away- in the dark. Then I'd bike to work. I'd get home and no one was there. No one would check in. No one ever asked me how I was feeling. NO ONE CARED.

And that's what this disease is. It's a disease that leaves you rotting alone in an apartment by yourself while you try to survive and no one seems to care. And then people wonder why the suicide rate is so high in the epileptic population. THIS IS WHY! Cancer is bad because it is a loud and fast killer, and chemo is horrible- I don't wish it on anyone. But let's be real. Diseases like epilepsy are silent killers because they leave many people (ESPECIALLY those who can't get treatments to work) living as if they are walking skeletons in a shadow world.

So, if that's you- if you are living in the shadow worlds where you are lonely, scared, frustrated that you can't work, or, you can work, but not to your full potential, I SEE YOU. I hear you, and you matter. If you are stuck at home and can barely leave your bedroom and you're constantly wearing a bicycle helmet because of your seizures- you matter, and your life has purpose, and even though I don't know you, I love you.