u/vanessasarah13

Hi! Planning to take a trip with a total of 5 adults and four kids this coming Saturday to old orchard beach on the Downeaster. Anyone have experience bringing strollers on this train? A double or a single? Also, how long is the walk from station to beach?
Thanks!

YALL I did the first 32 ounces of the mirilax/gatorade mix starting almost two hours ago and I haven’t gone yet….scope is tomorrow at 8!

Hello Reddit! I just came from having a transvaginal ultrasound and my Mychart informs me that the u/s showed this condition (previous ultrasounds in 2024 and 2018 did not, which is weird? Or maybe not?) I am 40, heavy periods with intense cramping but hasn’t been debilitating generally, new dx of hEDS. I do have a LOT of GI issues including a mix of constipation and diarrhea. I also have to pee frequently and have had to for as long as I can remember.
I will of course make an appt with a gynecologist but I wanted to see if there’s stuff more experienced patients feel like I should be asking….
Thank you!

Hello!

I have a very longstanding dx and my LFTs have varied considerably, anywhere from normal (rarely) to like 120s. I have had a biopsy two years ago that showed stage 1-2.
Anyway, I had labs done recently and my numbers have gone from normal to 55 and 48. All my liver doc will say is we should recheck in two months.
Here’s the thing- I’m under a lot of stress right now and kind of in a crisis, and I am having massive panic (like, crying on the playground while supervising kids panic) about this….so I was hoping someone might have something reassuring to say.
I am on Mounjaro and trying with the eating but honestly I really struggle with that part.

Help! I’ve got a carful of nanny kids who want to go after school to get the biggest cinnamon rolls we can find. School gets out at 3pm in Waltham, then I have to get them home to Arlington. Please help me be way cooler than they think I am and tell me where to take them! (We can drive, but ideally not more than 20-30 mins each way)

Hey! So for two sets of nanny kids I’m looking for books like….

Set one: kid are 4.75, 6.5
They really like books like The Wolf Suit and Bog Myrtle; The Dark; The Skull- that’s the vibe I’m looking for now. However they also love Isla of Adventure, Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol, Mia Mayhem, and like the below kids, mercy Watson and princess in black.

The other set I’m looking for anything like mercy Watson/Princess in black!

Thanks!

Asking for a four year old- does it have one? Thanks!

What do you avoid? I
Usually do stairmaster and light lifting..

For those of you that conduct neuropsych testing, how often do you consider repeating the tests for people whose symptoms (esp around memory) have not improved or may have worsened very slightly, and does more frequent testing make the results less valid?

40F, so so so much frequency…..trying Botox for the first time Thursday (followed by nueropysch testing and then work lmao). I would LOVE success stories! I’m also really worried about the pain! I know they will do lidocaine beforehand but I’m still scared. I can’t tolerate a speculum, even.

Some of the kids I nanny for would like to know where we can find the biggest (and ideally tasty) cinnamon rolls as part of our summer bucket list….we are in Arlington but we can drive a bit. Please help me satisfy these children!

Anyone use mint? I’d like to set it up for my phone and watch, and also use it as a hotspot for streaming video and zoom…..

So far this week I’ve:
-been driving my three main NKs (I work between very and somewhat PT with about 5-6 families a week) home when we saw a car hit a girl on a bike (girl is okay) and I had to call 911 and the girls mom;
The next day, back with the same kids, the dog they’re taking care of tried to bite me;
And then tonight I’m with a 3 year old when he manages to pull out the doorknob and trap us in the bathroom. Of course I don’t have my phone. I contemplated climbing out the (tiny, high) window. I took the hinges off the top of the door but couldn’t get the bottom hinges. After about a half hour I saw a passerby and yelled until I got his attention; he was able to come in the house and hand me my phone through a crack in the door I’d created by taking off the hinge. Kids mom came home with tools and rescued us. (The kid was completely fine, not bothered at all).

Childcare. Not for the weak.

Been reading about religion in gymnastics in various threads and thought you all might appreciate this quote from an SEC gymnast I interviewed in about 2010. The gymnast later told me her coach was mad and asked me to take the interview down. I’m still thinking about this lol.

Q: There are some very religious gymnasts on the team. How does that fit in with your belief systems?

 

A: Haha. Funny you should ask this question. Had you asked me this last year, I would have told you it divided the team... It did. There is a small portion of us, whom religion is not as important to us as the rest of team. Now I am in no way putting them down or anything of the sort for what their beliefs are or what they do on sunday morning. It became an issue at one point when ideas were almost being forced onto the less believing. At this point, we are more united. We still have a strong majority who are religious, but they have learned that because we are accepting of who they are, the same right is equally deserved. We still do prayer sessions a team before meets, and blessing our food before we eat it, but its open enough for the rest of us to feel not outnumbered. I guess that's the best way to describe it.

How self aware do we think these lovely ladies are? Is princess Magnolia aware that Princess Sneezewort is also the princess in blankets? These are the things I think about.

Hello, I’m looking for braces for knees that will keep mine from hyperextending in the back. I am fat so they need to come in large sizes ;) would also accept recs for ankle sleeves for bigger people.

Thanks!