u/JaxBoltsGirl

Hello locals and travelers! We're planning our first family road trip and while in GA/TN I want to make a bingo card - maybe even several- as a game for the kids (okay teenager and young adults) to play on their phones as we're out and about. These are the places we are going:

Georgia Aquarium/World of Coke

Babyland General Hospital

Alcatraz East Museum

Hillbilly Golf

Horseback Riding

MagiQuest

Ober Tram

Rocky Top Mountain Coaster

The Great Smoky Mountain Wheel

River Rat Tubing

Tuckaleechee Caverns

Great Smoky Mountains Craft Community

Bigfoot’s Country Barn Selfie Park & Gift Shop

Roaring Fork Motor Trail

Grotto Falls (Trillium Gap Trailhead)

Cades Cove Loop

The Christmas Place

Smoky Mountain Cat House

Applewood Farm

Of course there's probably more places, but these are what is built into our itinerary. Any and all suggestions for bingo squares or silly pictures are welcome!

I called, and looked on the website but I'm still not sure I am getting the right information because it seems...unlikely.

Our family is going to be visiting next month. Our son (21m) has Down syndrome and really wants to do Magiquest. The other kids (18M, 16NB) really aren't interested. So the idea of paying $30 each to go through the castle is a little steep (the combo would be too much for him) When I called they said that we could just buy the $30 wand+ 90 minute package for him and then walk around with him - but that seems odd for five people to go in and only one person pay. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Also, what is the best time of day to go? We used to have Universal annual passes so he's used to crowds, but we still try to plan our days (if possible) so that crowds have the least impact.

We are going on our first family road trip vacation and although I know it won't be perfect I want it to be amazing. We asked each of our kids something they wanted to do and the responses were see a castle (21M, Down syndrome), horseback riding (18M) and Alcatraz Museum (16NB). One of those is easy, lol...love it when they are specific. The other two...not so much.

My husband is about 6'6" on a short day, he weighs anywhere from 305-310lbs. That makes finding a stable difficult. are there any stables that accommodate over 300lbs? He's not fat, just big. Not that it matters to the horse. But I do understand normal horses are not bred to carry this type of weight, so it would have to be a stable that had larger horses. Thankfully he's the type that would sit out an activity if he were the only one that couldn't participate, but I would hate that for him. But if it does come to that, any suggestions for stables that might have something else for him to do? This originally started as 18M graduation trip, so this is one activity we really don't want to pass up.

The castle is the second point. We're coming from FL via Atlanta, Biltmore wouldn't be out of the way but we've heard from friends that its just not worth it. I did see there was an aventure castle or something but there is also a huge clown as part of it and that's a no go. Any castle suggestions? Or something like a castle?

We also plan to do some hiking, I hear there are beautiful waterfalls and maybe caves so I'll take any and all suggestions there.

My experience of Gatlinburg is Ober Gatlinburg when I was a kid, two trips with sorority sisters to visit Arrowmont, and our honeymoon. Its been awhile, and its been limited, lol. I've been doing research on the internet, but there's nothing like real people experience. We'll be there July 7-14, so I know it will be crowded, but still hoping to find some gems.

I thought it was a brilliant plan to schedule my shots on Thursday evening so that I could deal with the worst of the side effects on the weekend. It didn't occur to me that the post injection side effects would be every week, not just the first dose after increase. 🙄

So now I need to move my injection day. Has anyone done this? Suggestions? My main side effects are being unable to eat, so no energy. The best Saturday I had was one I had to wake up early and travel and then eat lunch with our youth at church. I am hoping that if I can't spend every weekend like I have Victorian Wasting Disease I'll feel better.

Got deleted from the menopause sub, hoping y'all can relate.

My patch days are Friday and Tuesday, I use testosterone cream daily. I am also on a GLP-1. This is all relevant, I promise.

Last weekend we had a big event at church and the days leading up to it my brain was already fried and I just...forgot my testosterone until Monday. I had been super irritable all weekend and just chalked it up to the missed T.

But I continued to feel off...irritable, and easily saddened. Tuesday was crazy at work and I didn't have time to shower between meetings (WFH) So I just put on the new patch quickly before my next call. I was hoping that might help a little but I got worse.

My husband's birthday was Wednesday and he's one of those never wants anything, stupid hard to buy for types. Won't ever buy himself anything. He gifted me an amazing, over the top experience for my birthday so I wasn't going to let his pass. I got him a midsize Blackstone. He tried to be appreciative but I could tell he didn't like it.

I was super moody the rest of the evening and it continued to spiral. Like I didn't even want to talk to anyone.

Remember the GLP-1 part? It sucks. The only good thing about it is the weight loss, but I got put on it because I developed a cardio metabolic disorder and now am at super high risk for stroke/heart attack. Also discovered I'm Insulin Resistant and probably have been for a long time. No amount of Statins, diet, or exercise will help, and I will be on this stuff for the rest of my life. I am on one of the smallest doses and I am rarely hungry. I'm also AuDHD and food is one of my triggers. I actually am seeing an RD to help me find things and ways to eat so that I don't lose muscle. I figured maybe my blood sugar was getting consistently low and started looking into OTC continuous glucose monitoring devices. I was also not losing any weight and actually gained on a couple days.

It really sucked because the previous couple of weeks I felt better than I had in AGES. Probably because I had figured out I wasn't drinking enough water and had more than doubled my intake and was finally hydrated for the first time in my life.

Last night I started feeling better, and I was pouring over my food diaries to figure out wtf I had done differently. Nothing stood out. I figured I'd just talk to my provider at my appointment next week.

This morning (Friday) I happened to scratch both sides of my stomach at the same time - one of those waistband itches? And discovered that I had TWO estrogen patches on. I never took off the Friday patch on Tuesday. I know that I wasn't getting a double dose or anything, and that whatever I did get was very small, but combined with the lack of testosterone for three days, it was enough.

Pretty soon I started to feel more like I had in the previous couple weeks. I'm sure some of it was psychosomatic but the fact that I started feeling better last night leads me to believe that the patch had finally exhausted it's supply.

So that's how I determined that my current dose of estrogen is perfect. As long as I'm not a dumbass and forget to take the old patch off.