u/tresslessone

Quick rant.

I probably picked up whatever is haunting us on public transport and gave it to my wife. Did a swab - not RSV, not COVID, not Influenza A or B. But holy hell this is way, way worse than your garden variety cold. Started with a sudden chesty cough and rapidly spiraled downward from there. I spent two days on the couch wishing I was dead, and am now dealing with these weird waves of what can only be described as a combination of coughing and grunting.

We're basically on a diet of chicken broth (I have virtually no appetite when I'm sick), Robitussin and paracetamol. As a freelancer I have also fallen massively behind on work, which is not ideal since we're about to go on holidays in two weeks' time. To top it all off we have a needy young puppy that doesn't understand why we're not playing with her all the time right now - she is resorting to annoying behaviour to get our attention, and it's been very hard to keep my cool.

Not looking for advice, just wanted to whine for a bit. Sympathy updoots are much appreciated.

Hi all,

Like many of you fellow unfortunate souls, I've been hobbling around with this affliction for quite some time. Coming up to two years now. At its worst I could barely get out of bed in the morning.

I tried everything. Nothing worked.

And so I resigned myself to my fate. I swapped out running for cycling and accepted the fact that walking was just going to suck. I stuck to my orthotic inserts though. And so life went on, for about a year.

I think it was last week that I for the first I realised I hadn't thought about my foot for a while! It no longer hurts to walk, and the only way to feel it now is to push hard on 'that' spot at the heel tendon insert. When it dawned on me that I may actually be getting better, I almost cried tears of joy.

So yesterday I figured I'd take a bit of risk - I went on a 15 minute treadmill run.

NO PAIN TODAY!

Since I can still feel it when I aggravate it by pushing on 'the spot', I am not yet completely out of the woods. But I think I have finally moved on from the 'suffering' stage to 'climbing my way out of the hole'. Guess for me this thing has just needed lots and lots of time, more than anything.

Happy!

Hi all,

Our five month old was doing very well lately, to the point where we were able to leave her alone for a few hours without too much drama. She stayed calm, ate, drank and did her business in the spot designated for her.

Until about a week ago.

Whilst we normally take her out for potty, we have a fake grass dog toilet in the bathroom as a backup for when we’re away or when we’re otherwise not able to. She has over the past month been dutifully using this - trekking all across the living room to do her business on there whenever she has to.

However for some reason in the past week she has started to regress. I’ve found both pees and poops in front of the toilet rather than on it, and have even found pees in the middle of the living room.

How do I get her back on track? I’m using enzyme cleaners in an effort to prevent repeat accidents, but it seems like she just goes wherever she wants to now.

Do I bring her back to basics and confine her to my room with me again?

Hi all!

Our 5 month old toy poodle pup is doing really well. She sleeps in her crate, sleeps through the night, is able to be alone for about 3 hours and knows when and where to go potty. In fact the only time we've had an accident in the last two weeks was when we had visitors and she got a little overexcited.

She's too small / fragile for us to keep in bed at night, so we have a crate set up for her to sleep in. She goes in at night without hesitation and falls asleep very quickly. No issues there.

Our routine is as follows:

• 10-11pm - bedtime
• 7-8am - take her for morning pee (she'll make herself known)
• after morning pee - cuddles / snooze in bed before we get up for the day

What I'd like to be able to do, is simply open the crate and let her walk to her toilet spot by herself to relieve herself in the morning, instead of having to carry her.

The issue is though, that as soon as I open the crate, she immediately starts to jump up to the bed instead of walking to the toilet to relieve herself. She ignores her natural needs over her desire to come onto the bed, and I'm worried that if we take her on the bed before potty she'll have an accident there (has happened before).

As such, I want her to know that she can come on to bed for morning cuddles AFTER she goes to the toilet.

How do I go about training this behaviour?

Hi all,

Am implementing the new(-ish) meta pixel template for a client and I couldn't help but notice this tickbox:

>You hereby authorize and instruct Meta to set up a Meta-enabled Conversions API integration on your behalf, and you agree that your use of the integration will be subject to Meta’s Platform Terms and Business Tools Terms.

Does anybody know what ticking this box actually does behind the scenes? Does it spin up a cAPI gateway? And if so, how is that even possible without supplying any form of DNS / CDN information? Or does it host it on a third-party domain?

Hi all,

Our 18 week old toy just had her first grooming session.

Unfortunately, it didn't go so well - the groomer got the job done, but she pooped no less than 7 times throughout the process.

We already knew that she doesn't handle the shower or dryer very well, but she was so nervous that she completely lost bowel control.

Bathing and drying are not optional and we have to power through. Are there any tips to help us fix this fear quickly? Is it a matter of showering and drying her every week to get her used to this process?