I don't think it could be shingles because it's not painful at all, only itchy. And shingles doesn't typically start on the face, especially both sides of the face. When I say crusty oozy, It made tiny blisters, and then those blisters look like they kind of burst. So similar to a poison ivy rash. Not like oozing down my face or anything.

Thanks for posting this! I work in first response and this is so dangerous, people don't realize how important it is to have those monitors.

So last Saturday I had a bump on my face I thought was a bite. By Sunday it had expanded into a rashy patch. The only things I had done differently was use a different shampoo (last Tuesday and last Saturday morning) and also used a new sunscreen starting about 7-10 days prior. I ditched both of them. The last time I used the sunscreen was on Saturday am. Monday rash is expanded to my neck. Crazy itchy, crusty oozy, similar to poison ivy rash. As of this morning, I still have new spots appearing. They are more isolated and not in large patches. My question is, how long should new spots be appearing since the last time I was potentially exposed to something was Saturday morning? Since it is ON MY FACE it is not only uncomfortable, but I have to go to work like this! I have used benedryl cream on it, and also taken oral benadry. Wondering when I should visit a doc if new spots don't stop appearing.

I just cleaned out our med cabinet as well. I tossed 2 years past expiration. I really struggle with this because I have girl scout syndrome and want to have everything there. Especially after COVID. But yes most things do expire before I get to use them except Advil and Mucinex.

Does anyone use them on unpaved trials? I've been curious. Considering one for fitness like this. Our area is incredibly hilly and and I can't even get started.

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Wow, how do you manage that? I am super private about money, but no way my family could be kept in the dark about 2 weeks of travel. I talk to my elderly dad almost daily. We are trying to be frugal to prepare for retirement. DH and I both self-employed, so no pension. But, I have started planning for a trip to Italy. I'm similar to others in this thread, and would rather do without MANY other things in order to travel. We are serious about saving for retirement, but I have also seen too many people wait until they are in too poor health to do anything. We want to balance it out. We've even talked about maybe retiring in a mobile home so we could still afford to travel in an RV.

I'm in the camp that it's being a little overblown. I think this probably happens a lot more often in football and it's just not plastered all over the TV. The dynamic between the coach and Kelce during and after the interaction show that there was no real threat there. I consider it poor sportsmanship, but not a giant red flag unless it was accompanied by other issues. Does anyone remember when Serena Williams got really angry and yelled, and it was the biggest scandal. 🙄 Talk about double standards.

I love that but it's so pricey! I wish I could find a cheaper source. I sub with this sometimes... Australian Gold It's not quite as good as Elta but huge price difference.

Me, too, needle/blood fainter! Fainted the first time at 6 years old when I got my finger stuck. 🙄 It's so annoying because I love medical type things and would have liked to be an EMT or something similar. I'm sorry, I know it's embarrassing.

This is absolutely real. In 1940 SCOTUS ruled that schools had the right to expel Jehovah's Witness children (or any others) who would not say the pledge of allegiance due to religious beliefs. The ruling was overturned three years later. But after the initial ruling, violence against Jehovah's Witnesses and extreme behavior from teachers towards those school children escalated. The message was "my feelings of anger towards them are justified". It gave a veneer of acceptability to hatred. I'm sure hatred and anger continued after the ruling was reversed, but it was not given the seal of approval by society. And if someone experienced it, they knew they could get support from the legal system. So while it's easy to say "it shouldn't work like that", the truth is that it does.

Can you elaborate more on this? I could see if this was a money issue, but if the parent has money, why did it make you so angry? My dad eventually hired someone to come every two weeks and he was so much happier afterwards. (My sister who lives close is disabled, and I live out of state.) I'm super logical minded and have a hard time understanding why the suggestion made you angry.

Update to this: The person saw a GI doctor because they have been having other issues in addition to the recent stomach bugs. GI doc thinks they may have an ulcer or other upper GI problem and is scheduling an endoscopy and biopsy. They told the doc what happened, and they said absolutely that can happen, because when you have an upper GI irritation it just "stops" everything in place and doesn't let it proceed as normal through the GI system. The body doesn't know what to do with it at that point and the alcohol could have processed abnormally. WEIRD

EXACTLY! Supposedly they didn't want to take away any ELA because the state tests on that subject. Uhhh... but how far are they getting there with poor reading skills? It was never about the kids, just the testing. Too many schools are going straight up to a "test prep" model rather than true teaching.

It isn't violating any state laws here. They only test English and Math in middle school. So science and social studies were the two classes up on the chopping block. Supposedly science took the hit because the schedule happened to work better. The sad part is the kids had two weeks of "let's get ready for science!" and then suddenly bam, reading intervention. They were NOT happy. DD was given a curriculum that she is having to follow pretty closely without other options. She is by nature super-excited about science, she is struggling to generate enthusiasm for this really poor curriculum.

She has no funding or choices. Her degree is biology with secondary education. She has no experience or education for teaching reading/phonics/decoding etc. Other teachers are in the same boat. I agree they need to address it but I don't think dropping science and using unskilled teachers at the last minute is the answer.

Oh I forgot to mention, they did get a one day training, taught by a second grade teacher with the methods she uses...ON SECOND GRADERS. My daughter is approaching 11 and 12-year-olds with the book Harry the Woodchuck. (Or something similar I don't remember the exact title.) You can't tell me there aren't curriculums for older readers that are behind??

So the school my daughter teaches at just cut the middle school science classes, because the reading scores are so poor. Where there used to be science classes they are doing reading intervention classes. They just decided this over winter break and one week into the new semester. So all these kids that had one week of science then got told the second week they would be doing reading interventions and not science. They gave my daughter, a science teacher, a pile of materials and said here you go, with zero notice. I understand there's definitely a reading crisis with this group that went through elementary during COVID. But this is not the smart way to address it. The kids are miserable and angry, and the teachers have no experience with what they are being asked to teach, and being given materials at the last minute. Many of them are looking for other jobs.

DH and I have talked about writing a letter to our daughter and to ourselves, reminding us how to behave in our old age. We're dealing with difficult elderly parent issues on both sides right now. But we also talked about will it make any difference? No one THINKS they are going to be that old person, and yet..... realistically most of us are. 😔 I hope that even we don't abide by the things we say that it might at least REMIND us, and also give our daughter the surety that she is doing the right thing. The one thing I want to communicate most to her is that if I really need to be in a nursing home, it is okay to put me there. Just visit me and make sure I am getting good care. I felt horrible guilt after putting my mom in the nursing home, even though it was 100% the right thing to do. I wouldn't wish that on my daughter.

What kind of law regulates that? Are investors now a protected class? That sounds crazy.

We bought our house in 2014 and still have a mortgage. It's a 4-bed house, too big for us now. But downsizing would put us in a smaller house (which is fine) but less nice neighborhood (which I would miss) at about the same monthly payment (which makes no sense). So, we won't be moving any time soon! or ever...? We've thought about renting out a room, but the layout of the house is not designed very well for that. So we're just stuck here in a big house basically. Regarding younger couples that bought oversized houses... I knew a few couples that would have preferred a smaller house, but they just weren't building them. Existing smaller houses were sometimes in not great neighborhoods, or not great school systems. There were no new communities with small houses. It's starting to change now, we have some new build communities with townhomes and smaller (1500sf-ish) houses... but THOSE are still priced at over $350,000. So not sure they qualify as affordable.

I'm really hoping they come up with a booster that's better at preventing initial infection. Maybe next year! (Skl Sorry I don't know why your quote is appearing I can't get rid of it!)

There is some data strongly suggesting that the vaxes decrease your risk of long COVID. As a fairly healthy 57-year-old, that's what I'm most concerned about. That will keep me getting the boosters. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccination-dramatically-lowers-long-covid-risk/?fbclid=IwAR1de479LvK3WRIrM0x79sVjBN4qs_xGReOPcV1q739VfG-JPW_X7lu9AyQ DH and I got ours, no sickness. At least two work mates had covid, several people with stomach flu, several people with unidentified nasty two-week virus. I have not been masking except when flying on an airplane at which point I used an n95 and did not remove it at any point until I was out of the airport.

After FOUR HOURS though, that seems almost impossible. Could the stomach sickness have any immediate effect on that?

This person normally processes alcohol like the average person.