u/ecogoth11

My 77 year old mom fell yesterday and hurt her face - mainly her nose. She's luckily well and had to get minor stitches all across her nose and a few in her forehead, as well as is nursing a black eye. She gets her stitches out next Friday, a tiny fracture that they said did not require surgery - and they said she's able to travel by boat in a couple weeks. But they didn't mention anything about flying.

Today my 98 year old auntie (dad's side) was in the ICU for sepsis, and we're worried she might pass.

Do you think my mom would need a fit-to-fly certificate to visit my auntie before Friday? When is the soonest you've flown after stitches? Would an airline likely ask about this depending on how her face looked?

EDIT: by "next Friday" - I mean this upcoming Friday, in 6 days.

EDIT: apologies re:rule 2 - this would be Miami MIA to NYC (LGA) - exact ticket not purchased yet, domestic flight with us citizenship

My auntie has dementia and recently moved into a memory care facility; she has a storage unit filled with items she no longer needs in Miami at a large facility, where the kind manager shared with me that I could sell the unit online for her. We signed an agreement and he kept the key to unlock for the buyer, and I left to go back to the city where I live.

However, StorageTreasures told me that I could not private sell from that facility, and I don't live in Miami. Where would be the best place to auction off or sell the entire contents of the storage unit? My auntie was always quite clean and organized, so the unit seems like it'd be a good buy - there's a blender, a never used Murphy bed, lots of art from Costa Rica.

Any advice?

I went to a pelvic floor therapist for the second time today. I've been once in the past in a different city to someone who was phenomenal, but had since moved and didn't have insurance.

Mid-appointment, I asked if there was going to be internal work today, since she mentioned that last time. And I was a little shocked because the therapist told me I needed to shave my pubic hair for internal work because it needed to be 'clean' so that I wouldn't get 'infected'. I shower before my appointments and am fastidious when it comes to hygiene. I was honestly really turned off by this request and also her referring to shaved areas as "clean" which feels weird - and I doubled-down on not shaving / waxing, since that can be really personally irritating.

She said in order to work on me she'd have to get a 'special' gel if I refused to shave. She also mentioned not being able to use the electro-stimulation machine, which is obviously more understandable, because the hair gets in the way. But she was actually able to use it on the outside today, and it was fine.

Has anyone else encountered this? Am I overreacting? Is this therapist simply bad or misinformed - what's going on?