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I had been in the hospital neurology dept for 3 days prior to making this cake. I wasn’t up for it but gotta make a kid happy. Sloppy fondant and everything but kid was over the moon.
My sons birthday rolled 2 days after getting back from out of country. He wanted mew ? I dunno I don’t remember my Pokémon, but this was his cake. I only rembered I wanted a pic of when we were leaving the house to go to the party picnic site.
Mew collapsed because my gumpaste/fondant mix didn’t have adequate days to dry, but I think it made it even more cute.
He loved Sophie. So I sculpted a Sophie out of gumpaste and fondant.
Maybe you’ve gotta be old to get that one.
My kiddos 4th birthday. I don’t know how to properly save my pics from Facebook, so enjoy my screen shots lol
This was the fastest cake I ever made.
Maybe you remember shopkins. My kiddo was obsessed. This was her shopkins cake.
The ant cake I made for my daughter when I convinced her that she didn’t need an enormous creepy ant cake. And still we ended up with an enormous creepy ant.
My dad had his 75th this year. My mixer broke half way through. My dads wife wanted us to have a cake decorated with things about his children. I decided to make a cake with memories we had of him and topped it with pictures of him with us as babies that I’ve edited out. It’s not the best cake I ever made. But it had the best reaction.
49f Crohn’s disease, unknown diagnoses hemifacial spasm that’s on both sides of my face and also impacting my tongue. I take Simlandi (humira)
This tooth is a problem tooth. I had a peice of calculus build up beneath the gumline, and had a lot of pain and inflammation a year ago. In March I had a deep cleaning and they freed the painful calculus finally after almost a year of troubles with this tooth. In April I had a rebound of what my dentist and I agree is trigiminal neuralgia. My neurologist won’t see me for another three months.
On Saturday night I was flossing and a piece broke off between the teeth at the edge, tiny like half the size of a small sprinkle. I don’t know why my teeth are breaking lately. This is the third tooth to do this.I floss at least 4 times a week ( it’s difficult as I have severe arthritis in my pointer fingers) I brush twice a day a day sometimes more.
Do you think this tooth can be saved? I’m so scared to get anything done and trigger an episode with the neuralgia.
Anyways. I’m going to ask to have the filling replaced if the tooth can be saved when they do the new filling. Ugh. I know you can’t diagnose, but is there even enough tooth left?
I had a panoramic X-ray 2 weeks ago. I had no signs of anything serious then.
I’m being driven crazy. in the late 1990s I won a $200 gc for a record store. I bought some cds thst I obviously don’t own anymore. one of the songs were about being rich, millions or millionaire . the cd case was primarily orange. female led maybe four band members. I don’t know if it was a Canadian band or not, but one of the songs had super short lived chart play but I don’t believe it reached #1. help Its just making me crazy for no good reason, for like 20 years.
on July 1 2023, I had an allergic reaction at work that impacted my face. Bright red rash spreading down my neck. As I was at the hospital my lip started lifting On the right side. Took two days of back and forth to the dr for them to agree something was off, and I was admittted to neurology, it wss a messed up chaotic stay, the poor nurses had too much on their hands.
I was given a diagnosis of elimination of hemifacial spasm after a three day neurology stay in the hospital. My current neurologist was not the diagnosing neurologist;
The hemifacial spasm occurred suddenly after this allergic reaction in 2023. 1 week later I saw a neurologist in the community and was referred out to several eye drs because I had a lot of heavy feeling in my brow and eyelid.
I waited 6 months to begin Botox. I was referred out of office from my neurologist to an occuplastics surgeon. From late 2023 I received Botox only around my eye area even though the spasm was also occurring around my mouth. Through 2024 the spasm spread to the left eye. During this time I had episodes of severe dental pain going through my upper teeth and into my sinuses. On three occasions this pain was severe and unbearable with episodes lasting weeks.
obviously with this level of pain I saw the dentist several times. My dentist couldn’t find any cause. My teeth are healthy, no obvious lesions, no sinus issues seen on xray.
i had an episode so severe we tried a month of oral steroids in which I gained a ton of weight and no resolution. Just one day it stopped. Off and on I’ve had this pain but always assumed it was my teeth.
in 2025 July I’d had enough of the lower facial spasm and asked to be referred to a new neurologist to look at the lower facial spasm, as my occuplastics surgeon was uncomfortable treating the lower face. I feared that the previous neurologist seemed disinterested in my care when she transferred it to occuplastics.
I began seeing the original neurologist that I saw in the community. Six months ago she began treating my lower face but decliend to treat my left eye because did not fit the hemifacial diagnosis. “Hemi means one side“ is what she always says. She only will see me every three months.
Two weeks ago she gave me a tiny shot in the outer corner of my left eye along with my right sided treatment and once again said she was doing this like as a courtesy but it doesn’t fit my diagnosis of Hemi Facial Spasm.
In frankly don’t care what the diagnosis is. I don’t want to wait months to figure it out without further investigation, I don’t want to just sit waiting and seeing. It’s been over two years of spasm on both sides. I’m not locked and loaded on having hemifacial spasm, I’m locked and loaded on not looking like I’ve had a stroke with pain shooting through my face and the rest of it being in spasm.
this past weekend I had a severe bout of the same pain on the left side of my face, it’s still ongoing. it’s bad. nothing touches it. I don’t want narcotics they aren’t going to do anything. I’ve tried them all, had my collection or everything from strong narcotics to amitriptyline.
i called my neurologist and she told me to wait it out because it’s the first episode. I explained calmly that it’s not, that I have has several and they are very distressing.
i asked her how long do we wait it out, and she said again it’s the first time, we can look at it in three months and I reiterated that it’s not, that I am at my breaking point. she states that this is new, and it doesn’t fit the hemifacial spasm diagnosis, and that my ct scan of my head from 2023 shows nothing wrong.
i dont know if im being unreasonable. maybe waiting another three months until its been three years since this all started is typical.
Am I unreasonably thinking maybe we should look at my imagery again? When say this I mean have another scan?
Should I just move to another province, country, go to emergency until they admit me into neurology again? I’m in Canada and she’s my choice, I don’t have an alternative , she’s lovely but I feel like she’s dropping the ball or thinks I’m a liar.
im not saying she isnt intelligent either. She is obviously an expert in her field. Maybe I’m expecting too much, maybe we aren’t the right match, maybe I’m a bad communicator.
please help.