KSera
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44 minutes ago, Amethyst said:
Oh my gosh, I haven't been leaving guest soap for my guests ever! I didn't know I was supposed to! Egads.
Same! I didn’t know some people consider soap that’s been used by someone else unsanitary. I mean, I guess it’s true I wouldn’t use it if it were an old bar left behind in a hotel room or some thing, but I wouldn’t think twice at my family member’s house. I give it a rinse before using and figure it’s clean after that.
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10 minutes ago, klmama said:
How old are these special needs kids? Are the hats going to be small enough? Just wondering if children's sizes would be better....
I wondered about some of each, since head sizes can vary so much. Most of my kids couldn’t wear adult size hats until nearly their teens, but perhaps it’s the older kids there who love to have the hats?
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5 minutes ago, DawnM said:
These are special needs kids and they apparently love baseball hats.
Is there enough time before your trip for you to have things sent to you?
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12 minutes ago, Annie G said:
I agree w the Amazon wishlist idea- and if you do create one, I’d love the link so I can send you something.
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.
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2 hours ago, mommyoffive said:
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.
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40 minutes ago, Brittany1116 said:
She has been on beef since January from what I am told. About 1/4 of her stools have been thin since we got her Saturday.
Beef is one of the most common dog allergies, so could still be worth trying a protein switch.
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Like gardenmom I would suggest switching proteins if she’s eating chicken. Lamb is frequently one that chicken sensitive dogs switch to.
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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).
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7 minutes ago, Laura Corin said:
Maybe I should just wait until September and start a regular vaccination schedule then.
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).
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2 hours ago, Laura Corin said:
What is the latest evidence on vaccine spacing/frequency? I last was vaccinated in autumn 22. I wasn't eligible for vaccination in spring or autumn 23. I contracted Covid in December 23.
Vaccination is now available privately here. Is it worth having a spring vaccination or should I just wait for autumn?
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.
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6 hours ago, freesia said:
I’m having a hard time with this one—I keep tearing up. I grew up in the area (in DC) and have driven through Baltimore countless times. When I was a child and we went over bridges, I’d always be making a plan for how to escape the car if the bridge collapsed. It’s literally a nightmare come true for me. Hugs to all the Baltimore folks.
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 😞 .
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On 3/22/2024 at 2:44 PM, Amoret said:
If you look at the COVID "year over year" numbers on the Biobot chart, you'll see that this spring, infection is the highest ever.
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.
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24 minutes ago, regentrude said:
Have you done a Dix Hallpike test to check for nystagmus? Once you know which side is affected, try Epley.
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.
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What on earth is wrong with people? I'm really sorry someone was so mean.
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4 minutes ago, Katy said:
I’m probably always going to be much more cynical of everything the palace says than you. And you’ll probably always be much more likely to take everything they say at face value than I do.
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.
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1 hour ago, Katy said:
Also, the clothing, minus a few color changes, was exactly what the entire family wore to an event benefiting children in November. If you search you'll see that many articles and videos analyzing why that picture is most likely from November, down to the designer of every item worn and what colors her sweater was released in.
1 hour ago, Katy said:it’s never happened before. And frankly with 3 children, what’s the likelihood that all of the exact same garments fit the same 5 or 6 months later?
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.
39 minutes ago, SKL said:Did Kate refer to it as "proof of life," or is that other people's interpretation?
No, she referred to it as “Happy Mother’s Day”
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2 minutes ago, Katy said:
And I don’t think it would’ve been mainstream here at all if the palace wasn’t putting out fake photos that needed to be retracted.
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?
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4 hours ago, EKS said:
I've been thinking about BlsdMama and have been concerned about her absence.
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.
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4 hours ago, Ausmumof3 said:
As I said when I started the thread, I’m not usually a royal watcher or speculator at all. But when major non-sensational news agencies were commenting on the photoshopped image it definitely made me think something was up. Had that never been released, I think most mainstream people would not have got into the discussion at all. I think most in this thread fit that description.
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.
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7 hours ago, Amethyst said:
Do you use the Sensitive type of Native deodorant? (I'm leaning towards the sensitive rather than regular, but I want to be sure it's effective.)
I would definitely get the sensitive one. The baking soda can be really irritating.
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10 minutes ago, SHP said:
Gopd to know about Ikea, I will try there. I have to admit that I am a bit concerned about the size of the store and trying to get through it to look at and get internal measurements of the things.
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.
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Sneezyone on fire with the names today 😂. I’m not good at names, but that’s a gorgeous pup 🥰.
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16 minutes ago, Murphy101 said:
i’m 100% that if she had had her surgery and recovery done entirely via live streaming there’d still be people saying she was hiding and lying
100%. People would hyper analyze the video and whether it was really her or a body double, etc. etc.
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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.
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Soap question
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I don’t either, and we don’t use much bar soap for largely that reason. But when we do and we have a guest coming over, I clean the soap dish so there’s no soap stuck to it.