u/anxiouslymute

Any reviews of this place? I’ve already looked at the ones on Google.

To start, I’m in my 20’s. I feel like I should physically be able to do anything and bounce back, but with this back problem I fear I’ll never be able to do the things I love again and may need to give up my career and business because of it.

In June, I lifted a box the wrong way and hurt my back pretty bad. It wasn’t even a heavy box. The pain lasted for about a week or two, but I was feeling better in the time range Google gave me so I didn’t see a doctor. Then, I hurt it again while working. I didn’t lift anything, but just twisted the wrong way. A couple more days of pain and eventually again, it went away. This cycle kept going until yesterday. I did make an appointment after the last time I felt pain, and just the other day I asked my partner if I should cancel it because I was feeling 100% myself. Then yesterday at work, I was squatting down doing something when I twisted and suddenly wrecked everything again, but this time was different than the other times. Yesterday, I couldn’t walk. I still had a full day of work and I was taught to push through and get shit done. I limped around the entire day and when I got home I wasn’t able to get up without sobbing the pain was unbearable.

We looked up my symptoms and my partner thinks it’s a spinal disc injury. My mother has a spinal disc injury. She is disabled because of it. My entire life it has limited her on what she can do, she can’t go on long car rides, she can’t do anything early in the morning, she can’t walk very far without pain. And now I am afraid I am destined for her fate. I will have to give up my job and pick up a minimum wage soul crushing job, I’ll have to give up camping and hiking, doing sports with my dog, traveling and seeing the world. My partner is telling me not to think worst case scenario until I see the doctor next week (though I’m going to urgent care tomorrow because I literally can’t walk and my job is 90% walking) but it’s hard for me to not imagine my life is over when I’ve seen how a disc injury ended my moms life.

Update: went to urgent care today, they think I have hip dysplasia and not a spine problem. I don’t know if that’s good news, but I will be seeing an orthopedic soon. Thank you for the comments stopping me from sobbing all morning!

Since the fi collar is put together with magnets, would you trust it connected to the leash? Worst case scenario, say the dog pulls pretty bad on leash. Will the mechanism holding it together fail?

I’ve got the next 5 days off and I wanted to take my dog somewhere to swim. The ocean is a whole trip, but I’ve got a lake real close by. I’m terrified of blue green algae though. Are there solid signs that the lake doesn’t have blue green algae? If I’m not at least 98% sure, I won’t take her.
Edit, I should also add I don’t really want to go to the ocean on the Fourth of July weekend. I’m sure it’ll be a mad house

I’ve hit the age where what I eat affects my body, where before I would eat without a care in the world. After focusing on calorie intake and realizing I’m not even hitting the recommended 2k a day, I’m realizing it may be the sugars in the food I eat affecting me. However, I think most if not all of my safe foods are high in sugar. Like 1 cup of cereal is the total grams of sugar a person should have a day, and I’d prefer to have at least two cups. Reading people online saying “just eat natural” that isn’t going to happen.

Hi! Gotta pick something up tomorrow in Jacksonville and if I can, I’d like to bring my dog for a beach trip. I’ve found dog friendly beaches but I’d love to hear from you whether if any of them are pretty dead on a Wednesday. My dog is dog reactive, but people are fine. We will be fine if we see a dog every now and then, but a bunch of dogs especially off leash would suck. We’ve been to bald head island and the beach experience is what I’m looking for, we were able to have her on a 50ft leash with no one anywhere near us. I know the beaches in Jacksonville require 10ft or shorter in some places so that’s not a problem, but it gives an idea on what I’m looking for lol. The trip is tomorrow so places that don’t allow dogs during this season or only allow them before 9am or after 5pm won’t work either.

I’m looking for a shelf for my gargoyle and leopard gecko, and I’d like to make it wide enough in case I decide to get a beardie one day. On Lowe’s I see standard sizes are 48 which to my understanding, the tank needs to be 48 wide so I’m not sure if it would fit? Anyone have their tanks on a shelf?

I recently asked another sub what my partner should do with the bonus’s he gets at his new job, if they should be included in his income or if he should just keep them. For more info there, my pay fluctuates every month so it changes but it’s based on a percentage of our income. I think he wants to keep the bonus, but I think this my percent of the bill changes that his should too if he makes more.

The other sub deleted my post and told me to come here, and some commenters said the way we’re doing it isn’t very good long term because it doesn’t make us a team. Do you actually share your income with your partner? What if one person uses the money to buy something for themselves, leaving you with less money?

What is fair?

My partner recently accepted a job offer where he gets a bonus quarterly depending on how much he works. Should that bonus be included in our bills? Right now we pay them based on percentage of how much we make. My pay fluctuates every month based on how much I work, often I pay almost equal but sometimes more or less.

So, should his bonus be his to keep or should it be included in his income for the shared bills?