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I purchased native pet omega oil as an additive for my puppies food. He is a 4 month old Alaskan Klee kai. Roughly 5 lbs. would omega oil be beneficial and or safe for him? This is my first ever puppy, so all advice is welcomed!(: not asking for * health advice *

I(24F) just need to vent. Back in march I went to the hospital (no injury prior to this) because my leg swelled up and I got a thick red line down my thigh. I couldn’t walk. It was incredibly painful. They did an ultrasound at the hospital and said they did not see blood clots and it was lymphangitis. Great! They put me on antibiotics and sent me on my way. Flash forward a week and the line goes away and swelling goes down. I think I’m in the clear. Next week. Leg swelling comes back 2 x worse. This time really affecting my ankle and calf. I go to my primary care. They put me on different antibiotics and tell me to take a probiotic as well. I do that, no change. Then the doctor recommends physical therapy and another ultrasound. She tells me it could me a plethora of things and the only way to start ruling them out is another ultrasound. I start going to physical therapy . The physical therapist tells me he believes it doesn’t have to do with my leg at all and it’s stemming from my sciatic nerve being pinched due to my scoliosis. 3 sessions in I find out my insurance is not covering it because I’m signed up for virtual physical therapy through my employer (that I don’t use and only signed up because it was pitched as a free benefit) so there goes that. Cancelled all my appointments and paid my outstanding balance of $650. I continue to do the stuff I learned at home, no help. Back to primary care, she tells me okay I see your leg is swelling worse and you have a pitting edema… wear compression socks! I buy loads of compression socks. finally I get to what I was under the impression was my ultrasound appointment with the vascular surgeon. I show up, they charge me $300 up front (with having 2 insurance) just to sit down and answer the same questions I’ve been asked a million times to which they respond “yeah I see that in your my chart, aw poor thing I can’t believe you’ve had to deal with this this long I know it’s painful and it could be so many things!” and then I get told oh we’re not doing the ultrasound today. This is a consultation. and sent me on my way within 20 minutes. didn’t touch my leg, check it out, nothing. Then they tell me oh our schedules are very booked so earliest we have is a month out, and you’ll have to come back in one more time before we do the ultrasound. They give me my estimated out of pocket cost…. $800 total. This started in MARCH and has cost me almost 2k out of pocket, and I still don’t have an answer as to what it is or how to best manage it. I’m so incredibly frustrated. My job requires me to use PTO for every medical appointment. And only provides 8 hours of “sick time” which was used when I went to the hospital. I’m running out of PTO to even deal with this and of course all appointments fall within my work hours and nobody’s opening or operating on the weekend.

I am not asking for medical advice.

Just looking for a virtual shoulder to cry on. I’m so medically anxious and my anxiety has peaked. I’m depressed, I’m stressed to my max and I’m in the process of moving on top of everything. Send me well wishes. Thank you for hearing me.

I(24F) just need to vent. Back in march I went to the hospital (no injury prior to this) because my leg swelled up and I got a thick red line down my thigh. I couldn’t walk. It was incredibly painful. They did an ultrasound at the hospital and said they did not see blood clots and it was lymphangitis. Great! They put me on antibiotics and sent me on my way. Flash forward a week and the line goes away and swelling goes down. I think I’m in the clear. Next week. Leg swelling comes back 2 x worse. This time really affecting my ankle and calf. I go to my primary care. They put me on different antibiotics and tell me to take a probiotic as well. I do that, no change. Then the doctor recommends physical therapy and another ultrasound. She tells me it could me a plethora of things and the only way to start ruling them out is another ultrasound. I start going to physical therapy . The physical therapist tells me he believes it doesn’t have to do with my leg at all and it’s stemming from my sciatic nerve being pinched due to my scoliosis. 3 sessions in I find out my insurance is not covering it because I’m signed up for virtual physical therapy through my employer (that I don’t use and only signed up because it was pitched as a free benefit) so there goes that. Cancelled all my appointments and paid my outstanding balance of $650. I continue to do the stuff I learned at home, no help. Back to primary care, she tells me okay I see your leg is swelling worse and you have a pitting edema… wear compression socks! I buy loads of compression socks. finally I get to what I was under the impression was my ultrasound appointment with the vascular surgeon. I show up, they charge me $300 up front (with having 2 insurance) just to sit down and answer the same questions I’ve been asked a million times to which they respond “yeah I see that in your my chart, aw poor thing I can’t believe you’ve had to deal with this this long I know it’s painful and it could be so many things!” and then I get told oh we’re not doing the ultrasound today. This is a consultation. and sent me on my way within 20 minutes. didn’t touch my leg, check it out, nothing. Then they tell me oh our schedules are very booked so earliest we have is a month out, and you’ll have to come back in one more time before we do the ultrasound. They give me my estimated out of pocket cost…. $800 total. This started in MARCH and has cost me almost 2k out of pocket, and I still don’t have an answer as to what it is or how to best manage it. I’m so incredibly frustrated. My job requires me to use PTO for every medical appointment. And only provides 8 hours of “sick time” which was used when I went to the hospital. I’m running out of PTO to even deal with this and of course all appointments fall within my work hours and nobody’s opening or operating on the weekend.

I am not asking for medical advice.

Just looking for a virtual shoulder to cry on. I’m so medically anxious and my anxiety has peaked. I’m depressed, I’m stressed to my max and I’m in the process of moving on top of everything. Send me well wishes. Thank you for hearing me.

All of the Alexa pops in my house have been working perfectly fine up until probably 5:00PM. They just blink like it is *thinking* of the answer but then just stops and doesn’t respond. It’s doing it to anything I ask it. Is anyone else having this problem right now? I tried unplugging it but that doesn’t work. It’s also not working on my app. No problems with WiFi. Just thinking it’s probably a software glitch