u/rgbhuman42

Two years ago I had a throat infection of some kind (nobody could provide a good diagnosis but it went away with antibiotics), which spiked my HR like a motherfunker. After I got better my resting heart rate didn't quite go all the way back down, and it only got worse after that. By December I was having issues with tingly limbs and mysterious bruises on my legs.

I go to my primary in February '25, she says it's anxiety so stop worrying. By May my resting is 107, so I go back and she says "ugh fine here's referrals for a cardiologist" and I went to a cardio. Did an EKG, ECG, two-week Zio monitor, and a slew of blood testing (just about everything except ferritin), all of which were squeaky clean so he slapped the label "inappropriate sinus tachycardia" on me, messed around with beta-blockers until I found the dosage high enough to work, and sent me on my way.

By April of '26, I started having fatigue. Really bad fatigue. And it's only gotten worse over time. I can sleep 11 hours straight on a weekend and still wake up feeling like lead. I go in for my annual cardio appointment and they go "no wonder you're feeling tired, your BP is 104/53, drink more water!!!"

Until one day, I made homemade burgers for myself. I don't usually eat burgers as I'm watching my cholesterol but it was a holiday so I went for it. Next day, all my symptoms were gone. No tingling, no muscle fatigue, slower heart rate, and I actually woke up feeling refreshed and didn't take a nap for the first time in like six months. Only lasted 12 hours, but it was the best 12 hours ever.

Anyway long story short they tested my iron last year and said it was fine but it turns out adding iron supplements fixed like EVERYTHING (except my BP and cold limbs) so maybe I just have a weird iron deficiency or smn, idk.

YAY FOR IRON

So I just played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time yesterday and in the span of two hours I experienced:

-literally Rick-rolling someone to death

-literally "Careless Whisper"-ing someone to death

-going to war for a wooden robot named Birch Reynolds

and heard such unholy things as

"THERE'S TOO MANY MISSISSIPPIS"

"I WANT MORE HEAD CONFETTI"

"I know! I'll hide that stomach knife in my mouth cavity!"

Anyway point is I feel like this game can get very unhinged very quickly so maybe do a video on D&D shenanigans? IDK.

I thought Amazon just had mid audio quality (about the same as Samsung Music on my phone for purchased MP3s.) Turns out I just had "play downloads first" enabled.

The quality gets better. SO. MUCH. BETTER.

Dolby Atmos is a complete game-changer. As a neurodivergent who's (almost literally) always listening to something, this is a huge deal for me. Can't believe it's taken me this long to realize it exists. Am now going through my entire library and listening to everything with a renewed sense of wonder.

Amazon Music, you're not as mid as I thought.

(The app still sucks though, and still has an unquantifiable number of glitches which make it super annoying. That part never changes!)

I got a harness/sleeve for my 40-oz bottle, fits great and is definitely one of the best things I ever bought. But I'm curious if you can sew (not iron, SEW) iron-on patches to the neoprene fabric? Or will that cause the material to degrade? It's looking more than a little plain and as a metalhead I'd love to give it the battlevest treatment. 🤘

Solved!

When my grandfather died of cancer back in the early 2000s, my dad took my siblings and me to the grocery store and let us buy whatever junk food we wanted, then took us back to our hotel and put on all the cartoon channels we weren't allowed to watch back home (because they "weren't educational") and let us stay up late having a "party".

I don't remember much but I recall on one of the shows all the characters looked completely different from one another, and it must have had "long" or "foster" as one of the character names because for the next month or so whenever we drove past a "Long & Foster Realty" office I would think "oh yeah like the cartoons".

Buried somewhere in my parents' basement is my old collection of LPS from I don't even know when. I kept the playsets together and the tiny pieces and anything that could be moved in one of those plastic LPS storage containers, but I know for a fact 90% of the accessories are missing.

That being said, what I KNOW I still have is:

-the "Get Better Center" and MOST of the accessories for it

-the little blue/pink/yellow bakery setup

the LPS Clubhouse (the orange/blue one that is- I've seen different colors out there)

-the Pet Daycare Center

-the Town Center with all the accessories (and the spinning merry-go-round with the baskets still works)

-three of the little tiny stackable shops that connected to the Town Center (one was yellow and I think sold hats, one was coral pink and I think sold cheese, and one was purple and IDK what that one sold)

-assorted pieces for a lemonade stand

-assorted beach accessories

-assorted hair salon accessories

-a white/black/pink bunny with a head/eyes that moved and clicked around

-a dark blue dog/wolf thingy that came with a skateboard and sunglasses

-a green gecko that had heat-sensitive spots all over it so when you held it in your hands and stroked it they went away

-an orangey-yellow cat with glitter around its eyes that got on EVERYTHING

-a brown dog with huge floppy ears and a towel on its head

-another brown dog with big fluffy ears, looked regal and fancy

-same as the brown dog but it's grayish-blue

-some kind of bird that stood on one leg

-a hamster of some variety??? i think????

-a lil green frog with eyelashes

-an orange cat licking its paw or something

-maybe a turtle???? i think????

-a blue squirrel

-a brown dog with a heart on its booty

-maybe two identical tiny rodents that might have been chinchillas in a previous life????

-a pink bunny

-a purple/white panda

-basically the same frog as before but with Lips™

-a monkey that could hold onto stuff

-a dragonfly

-some kind of horse with a raised leg

-fish that looked suspiciously like Flounder from The Little Mermaid

-a Siamese cat of some variety

-a tan bunny

I'm sure there's more. Anyway the plastic is yellowed probably and I definitely for sure used these so some of the elastic on the accessories might have snapped over the years. I was going to offload this on Craigslist but before I make the effort, is anyone actually going to want this stuff or am I better off taking it to the Goodwill? I have zero clue what's valuable now and what's not.

None of y'all will have a crazier story than this, I promise you lol.

I once had a dream that I was at my church and I heard the most beautiful music ever. So I wandered around until I found a room with a band playing a small concert. It struck me as very weird because the singer was female and I'd never seen a metal group with a female lead before. I asked the security guards outside who was playing and they told me "Nightwish". So I ran to find some decent wifi, then pulled out my laptop to look them up- and that's when I woke up with the intense urge to google Nightwish. And I was completely stunned to find that not only did I dream the band with 100% accuracy (even down to their stage outfits), but the song I heard playing was Dark Chest Of Wonders.

I live alone. No neighbors. Until that point, I hadn't so much as seen their name in a passing glance through a festival lineup. No explanation for this. But I'm glad it happened because they've been an excellent introduction to symphonic metal!

So what's your story?

I used a $3.50 digital reward on Amazon Music, intending to purchase two songs- but when I purchased my first one and downloaded it it gave me the song ABOVE the one I purchased. I thought "oops I guess I misclicked, better be more careful next time"- and the next time it did the same thing. I checked on the "confirm purchase" page and it did indeed say the correct song. But my download and my purchase confirmation emails both said the song above, even though that was NOT what I intended or attempted to purchase.

I am now stuck with the wrong Billy Joel and Beyoncé songs and I'd like to resolve the issue, but I've heard Amazon Music doesn't do refunds for digital purchases. Since this was THEIR FAULT, how am I supposed to handle this?

At the moment the groups I'm into are Beast In Black, Sabaton, Nightwish, Nanowar Of Steel, Alestorm, Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden, Majestica, The Hu, Civil War, AC/DC, Hevisaurus, Amon Amarth, Grailknights, and Hammerfall, with Sabaton, Alestorm, and Beast In Black being the top three (and yes I'm aware most of those aren't power, it's just giving a general idea of what I'm into.) My favorite songs are Electric Callboy's "Elevator Operator" and Wind Rose's "Diggy Diggy Hole".

What should I be exploring next? Suggest anything!

[But please note I'm Christian and don't like videos depicting Jesus (Feuerschwanz and Visions Of Atlantis, for example) or music about satanic things (Avantasia and Lamb Of God, for instance.) So try to keep it respectful! :)]

In a Sephora: "Why does it smell like pasta in here??? Like not even sauce, just pasta. Sauceless pasta." (it did not, in fact, smell like pasta.)

"So, like, if I wipe this makeup off, will it stay on?"

In a thrift store: "...and it smelled like tin cans of FedEx!"

In a library: "No I'm not okay, I'm in a library!"

The pasta one haunts me to this day.

As a statistician I'm curious as to what their accuracy is. I know it probably won't be as accurate as the finger stick was, but by how much? And do they tend to overestimate? Meaning if I get a reading of 14.5, does that mean it's actually 14.5 or is it more like 13.7 or something?

I forget the name of the system Red Cross is using now but I'd love some data on this!

I'm a routine donor and convinced my mother to donate with me whenever we're eligible. Worked out fine for a couple years until one day she started not being able to finish a donation because the blood would slow down so much it would take too long to finish.

It doesn't happen every time, and sometimes they can adjust the needle enough to get it going again (sometimes it takes 3-4 tries to get it finished.) At our last donation the phlebotomist said she probably just has too many platelets and that made it clot unusually fast. Now she's less eager to donate because it's a gamble as to whether she'll get enough blood out for a successful donation.

Any tips for someone like this? I'd love for her to be able to donate successfully every time.