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  1. Is there enough time before your trip for you to have things sent to you?
  2. This. Our local stocking stuffing project for the food pantry does it this way, and it seems to work extremely well. It’s easy for people to donate, it’s easy for you to receive the donations, and the kids get some new items for a change.
  3. I would have liked the first graph “annual number of new cancers” to show further than 2020. It doesn’t seem the delayed diagnosis part of the equation would be likely to still be making a significant contribution for the last couple years. But I’m curious at what point the previous increasing curve resumed.
  4. Beef is one of the most common dog allergies, so could still be worth trying a protein switch.
  5. Like gardenmom I would suggest switching proteins if she’s eating chicken. Lamb is frequently one that chicken sensitive dogs switch to.
  6. Can you go straight to a dermatologist? That’s what I would do. They can take it off and send it in for testing (or sometimes they know exactly what it is and may be able to say it doesn’t need any testing).
  7. I think whats hard is you can either have it at maximal efficacy for the Fall surge or the Winter surge, but not both (if we continue to see that Fall and Winter pattern for the biggest surges each year).
  8. Would you be eligible again in the Fall, or how often can you get them? The vaccines seem to have a significant effect in the initial months, but it does fade such that I don’t think I would want to get one in Spring if I was only going to get one a year (which is what we’re currently doing). I would wait until November on the one a year plan.
  9. I’m sorry. I’ve so far managed to not see any video of it and am going to attempt to keep it that way. I’ve done the same thing with trying to figure out a bridge collapse escape plan for everyone ever since I had kids. For some reason I never worried or thought about it once before then (I’ve read this is actually common). It became more stressful to think through once I had a second, and at three kids I had to just try to put it out of my mind (though not always successful and I’ve gone through the mental scenario with as many as four kids before—once I come up with a solution, my brain can let it go. Annoying habit.) So I totally get the nightmare come true feeling. It’s hard to reconcile when an “irrational fear” actually happens to some people 😞 .
  10. How do you mean? Do you mean highest it’s been at this point in the year? It appears to have come way down from the winter peak, but does look not as far down as on this date in other years.
  11. I used online instructions for checking which side it was and it was pretty evident which side caused my vertigo when I did that, and the Epley maneuver was immensely helpful in resolving it.
  12. What on earth is wrong with people? I'm really sorry someone was so mean.
  13. Nah, I have zero particular feelings or beliefs about trusting what the palace says (I rarely even hear what they say, since the royals aren’t an interest area of mine). My comments are purely to do with the photoshop aspects and what is or isn’t likely. That’s the only thing that got me looking at any of this. And then as a side effect of reading this discussion, I became very bothered by the health privacy/treating someone like a human being aspects of the discussion. That’s all though. I expect the palace is likely full of it on a semi regular basis. Who knows, but I don’t really care about that part.
  14. Kate Middleton rumours about Vogue front cover are 'absurd', says expert (Yahoo isn’t one of my usual sources, but Eliot Higgins, the expert they talk to, literally looks at manipulated pictures for a living-usually they’re of more consequential/terrible things.) ‘Addressing another conspiracy theory doing the rounds, Bailey adds: "Would also really like everyone to engage some critical thinking skills about a theory based on them all wearing the same outfits as Nov 23, except that the outfits are all different in at least one way."’ My understanding is some of the outfit differences involve not just color changes, but changes in the pattern on a a sweater, or layering a cardigan over something else. Implausible. Particularly not in a case where there are much simpler things that resulted in misalignments in the photo. No, she referred to it as “Happy Mother’s Day”
  15. You know that the photo wasn't a face swap of her from Vogue, right? I'm not sure if you're still buying into that being what happened and why you call it fake. I didn't see any photo expert who weighed in see that as anywhere in the realm of possibilities. I have no idea what the process is for the palace to get photos from the various royal families to release, but it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility that they saw the photo Kate shared of her lovely kids on social media and decided it would be good to share it right then, so they turned around and sent it to the press. Who knows if they had any idea that Kate had retouched it beyond what new outlets allow?
  16. I feel concerned as well. Her last posts were just normal, with no indication of anything new going on. I remember she was looking for remodeling advice for the exterior of her house. Someone bumped her thread about her dd going to S Korea in February and tagged her with no response. I don't recall if anyone here knows her IRL.
  17. I fall into this category, except from somewhat the other direction in that my interest came from the Photoshop angle but then once I saw the picture, I couldn’t figure out why people were making THAT big a fuss over it. I get that there are rules about that, but I still think most people who are so shocked by the photoshopped image don’t know just how normal that is. I’m sure everyone sees similarly photoshopped images constantly on people’s walls, Facebook timelines and on mommy blogs and amateur photographer sites, without ever realizing that there have been some head swaps to get the best shot of everyone or some retouching to remove flyaway hairs or whatever. This just isn’t a shocking or nefarious thing in any other context. So I have found that whole aspect wild.
  18. I would definitely get the sensitive one. The baking soda can be really irritating.
  19. They have motorized mobility carts available to use in store if you need one. I agree it’s a hard store to navigate when walking is difficult. They make you go so very far to get where you need to go. You can study the map and make use of the short cut points as well.
  20. Sneezyone on fire with the names today 😂. I’m not good at names, but that’s a gorgeous pup 🥰.
  21. 100%. People would hyper analyze the video and whether it was really her or a body double, etc. etc.
  22. I’m not at all an expert, so I only know what I know from learning about MCAS and reading what other people do to help, but I know some big triggers are beer, other alcohol, anything fermented, citrus, tomatoes, smoked or preserved meats, leftover food. Oddly, I have read a lot of people who say a carnivore diet helps immensely when they’re in this state. I don’t know a lot about what that looks like except that it’s not the same as a keto diet; you don’t want to go into ketosis. I know it’s no processed meats, fresh grass fed meat cooked that day. I don’t recall if you eat meat though. If you do, it could be one of the safer things to start with, assuming you don’t have any concerns that this is actually a red meat allergy post tick bite or something.
  23. You might look for the ones specifically selected to be low histamine. I have found selecting a MCAS-friendly probiotic to be confusing, but there are some brands marketing ones that they claim include only low histamine strains.
  24. Be prepared for the come back that it was the wrong choice for her to make for her children and she should have done that part differently, and other people’s judgment on what the ideal timeline for handling terrible news like this in her specific situation trumps her own, and therefore they are justified.
  25. No. But I do think it’s in poor taste to continue to speculate and suggest all the different terrible things that might be going on with her. And even more so to continue to do so in a vein of discussion that she’s done something wrong by not telling the public information they want to know and so deserve to be talked about. I just think she’s been treated so badly through all of this. I’m not even a fan of hers; I don’t know her and I don’t follow her. But just having read this discussion and the way it unfolded, even before she shared that it was cancer, it just all seemed kind of awful.
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