u/throwaway_yak234

Hi! I’m stressing out… I am a beginner knitter knitting for 6 months now. I finished my first sweater a month ago and want to start the popular petite knit cloud sweater

I have been ordering yarn online for my other projects but decided I wanted to support my LYS this time. I went and they didn’t have enough skeins for my sweater of the yarns I wanted, so I let myself be persuaded into getting Cascade 220 Superwash which was the only worsted weight yarn they had in light blue with enough in stock… even though I didn’t want Superwash, I wasn’t against it so here we are…

Then I get home and I’m reading terrible things about Cascade 220 pilling like crazy and Superwash yarns in general stretching like crazy

I would be holding it with Lang Yarns silk mohair so I’m not sure if that would help at all

I see there are plenty of nice looking examples of the Cloud Sweater in 220 Superwash on Ravelry, but of course I can’t feel them.

I’m considering going back to exchange the yarn, since I can’t return except for store credit. I am considering switching potentially to Malabrigo Rios but it is more costly and I’d have to change my color scheme.

So please talk me off a ledge 😂 is it as bad as they say? Or is it worth keeping?

I am in the process of transitioning to a flip phone and my employer just got Wellhub. I just signed up for a free trial but it seems like I won’t be able to use it without a smartphone ?!

Hi, would love any insight. I am in town of Huntington. I need permitted work done on our fixer upper we just bought, and the town flagged that the sheds on our property don’t have COs. I was hoping against hope they just wouldn’t do anything about them.

They are under 100 sq ft each but less than 3 ft from property line. They’re on the back corner of 1/2 acre

The property behind mine abutting the sheds is a farm / no buildings. In case that matters

I’d love to keep the sheds but am concerned at the time / cost to do so. Any insight into getting a setback variance?

Thanks

Hi y’all… I haven’t been sure where to post this but this seems like a good place.

I honestly haven’t thought about the term hsp in years but identified as highly sensitive and recognized those qualities in myself from a young age.

Since I was a child I experienced syncope events / fainting spells. Has anyone else experienced this, or found it tied to being highly sensitive? It was more frequent as a child, and I was “diagnosed” once with low blood sugar but I still have it sometimes despite being normal weight and a healthy diet. I’m now 30 years old and the syncope started around age 7.

Times I have had syncope: moving too quickly; discussing sensitive or stressful topics; being in a crowd in heat; medical environments

The last one is the most difficult one for me. I went to the hospital many times for fainting spells as a kid, or the school nurse. I would wake up or come to in a medical setting. As a child I was really disconnected from my body. I had bad vision, undiagnosed asthma and the syncope so I spent a lot of time daydreaming and reading books… I say this because I feel like this disconnection from my body had a part to play in worsening of my syncope symptoms in a medical context

The worst came when i was in high school and we started sex ed class. Thinking, talking about, or reading about medical procedures is enough to make me go light-headed. At first anything sleuth needles. Then specifically anything about female anatomy and physiology.

When I went to college, I’d developed a full-blown medical phobia and couldn’t see a doctor without Xanax. This made me feel even worse, so I avoided the doctor for years. The only way I was able to start seeing a doctor for regular checkups in my 20s was accompanying a friend to her visits in a trauma-informed clinic actually geared to LGBTQ patients (I’m a cis heterosexual woman). It was a lovely place— no harsh white walls or overhead lights, very calm. Over time I was able to make a relationship with an NP and do pelvic exams unmedicated and relaxed.

That all went away with covid. I had to move, and now I haven’t seen a primary doctor since then and I’m too afraid. I want to have a baby, and know I need to start getting regular medical care. But every time I talk about female medical care or birth with friends, I have about 3 minutes before I need to stop to recover so I don’t faint.

BUT I’m totally fine during actual emergencies or exposure to blood/etc outside a medical environment. I was in a serious accident a couple years ago and had no problem in the hospital, getting stitches out, etc. I am calm and collected if me or anyone else cuts themselves and can administer first aid. I could easily stitch a wound if I needed to. I’ve read that the adrenaline keeps us syncope sufferers from having an episode?

Has anyone had good luck with therapies to address similar phobias/syncope symptoms?