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  1. Still INFJ. Just discovered I'm a T. 65% Introverted (I am an introvert who craves connection!) 58% Intuitive 71% Feeling (I always thought of myself as logical and methodical, but I'm surprised at how much I go with my gut. Something may look great on the outside, but if it doesn't FEEL right, then I am uncomfortable.) 60% Judging As I read the descriptions, they are still so accurate!
  2. In my case, it was part of the employment process. But it was part of a bunch of tests to determine attitude and aptitude. It wasn't pass/fail. It is just more information about a potential hire, along with a resume, a college transcript, references, etc. This was for entry into a highly coveted training program - a 12 week investment of the company's time and money into developing their employee's skills so that they could hit the ground running no matter which department they ended up being assigned to. At that time, they didn't just hire people with computer science degrees. I majored in math in college. They wanted to see 1) if I would be worth their investment (would I be able to complete the training program) and 2) where I would be the best fit once I completed the program. As I recall the makeup of my training cohort, I don't think there was one particular personality type that they selected (not that I knew anyone's specific type- just remembering the people I trained with.) It's not like "we only take INFJ OR INTJ" or anything like that. Now this was in 1985. I don't know if places still do these kinds of tests as part of the interview process. I do know that similar tests are offered at our local community college as part of the career counseling program. One can take a class on career exploration, which includes these tests, (which are not part of your college record) or one can schedule them through the career services office and completely optional. Some technical fields have skills tests as well. My current field has scanning interviews where you scan an employee to show your that your technical ability matches what you claim.
  3. Same. I was always shamed as a kid for being who I am - introverted, sensitive, perfectionistic. (INFJ.) Seeing myself described like this was so validating ... like I do have positive traits and my "weaknesses" aren't necessarily bad traits. I took a battery of personality tests when applying for my first job out of college (computer programmer/analyst.) This was 1985. They didn't say that it was Myers Briggs, but it the questions were pretty much the same as tests I have taken later. I have stayed pretty much the same, with the percentage of expression in each category fluctuating a little based upon what my life was like.
  4. Me, too. Gotta love the Seinfeld reaction!
  5. Seriously! It really works. I drink a kale berry protein smoothie on the way to work and I always have to go as soon as I get to work. I make sure I have the poopouri in my pocket before I get out of the car. But make sure the cap is on tight. One day, it leaked all over my scrubs (which, fortunately were black.) Some people asked if I was using a new scented hand lotion. 😁 I haven't figured out how to fix the travel tummy (bowls not moving). I may need to up my magnesium intake when I travel.
  6. I'll have to check this out. When I was in college, I was among several members of a dance troupe that were asked to choreograph and perform to Young Guns at a party thrown by a local radio station. I had never heard of them before, but a week later, they were getting a lot of airplay.
  7. Wow. That is scary. My daughter has cold uticaria, but it only seems to be a problem in sub-zero temperatures. She came back in from walking the dog (who loves cold weather) and could barely get her jeans off because her thighs swelled so much. And her face had hives. She learned that she has to wear more layers on her legs in the cold and wear a balaclava. She didn't have any airway problems. That was 6 years ago and she hasn't had any issues since. They are sending us to an allergist that they think specializes in what they think Dh has. We have 2 names to see if we can get him in this week.
  8. They did increase the dose of steroids. But it took about 14 hours before the throat swelling was reduced enough for them to feel comfortable sending him home. Yes, he has taken baby aspirin since his heart attack 5 years ago. Thanks for the tip. We will look into this.
  9. I have heard of this. I think I heard one of the doctors mention this, but they ruled it out due to not responding to epinephrine. It looks like alpha-gal falls under the histamine-mediated angioedema.
  10. Since 2 doses of epinephrine did not do anything to alleviate symptoms, they don't believe it is histamine-mediated. I think it would be easier if it were. Then we could find a cause and make a plan. But they believe it is bradykinin-mediated. We are awaiting test results to see.
  11. Thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts. We don't know if it is stress related. It doesn't appear so. It has happened at work (at a job he loves) and at home. It has happened when totally relaxing or when we were trying to get stuff done. He is one of the most even-keeled people I know who doesn't get rattled and knows how to let things roll off his back. He is a calming influence on me (unless he is the reason for my stress 😄)
  12. Great news! Praying for continued recovery ... for Twin 1 and for you for all that stress.
  13. Dh has been having these sudden attacks where his eye swells shut. He gets an itchy watery sensation and then it pretty much swells shut in 30 minutes. He's had 6 of these since April. We've been to urgent care a couple of times, the ophthalmologist 2 times, and our family doctor. We can't find a cause since it happens at work and at home, when he's been inside, when he's been outside. These have been getting progressively worse. He has less than 30 minutes before he can't see. The last couple times, both eyes swelled shut. Tonight, just after we finished dinner, he went into the house to get some Benadryl since he felt the sensation coming on. Within 10 minutes, both eyes were swollen shut and his breathing became a little labored. We went to the ER and they were more concerned that his throat and tongue appeared swollen - a new symptom. After administering a steroid, Benadryl, and 2 shots of epinephrine, the swelling hadn't gone down. They've admitted him to the ICU due to concerns that if it gets worse, his airway could become compromised. They did give him another anti-inflammatory treatment and it appeared a little better. His breathing was so much better. He kicked me out and made me go home since I don't have anyone to take care of the dog. He is in good hands tonight but I am worried that this keeps happening and we don't know why. The ER doc thinks it might not actually be an allergy but this other type of angioedema that is either ideopathic (meaning they don't know why it happens) or this hereditary type, which may be progressive. If you could keep him in your prayers, I'd really appreciate it. UPDATE: We are back home. The swelling subsided enough overnight that they didn't see a need to keep him. They sent him home with a prescription for steroids, Pepcid, and to get more OTC Benadryl. We also need to call an allergist specializing in anaphylaxis, even though we can't find any evidence that it is an allergy and that it did not respond at all to the epinephrine. They said that mentioning being in the ICU should get him in within a week. If it returns, he needs to go straight to the ER. So we are devising plans for how to make that happen if he can't drive. They did run a test to see if it is this hereditary angioedema (HAE) but those results won't be available for a couple days. What makes me skeptical of it being HAE is that it comes on really suddenly - like 15-30 minutes from feeling perfectly normal to eye swollen shut.
  14. I'll join you on this rant. Anything beyond the really mild ones (smoke bombs, sparklers, party poppers.) are illegal here in Illinois. But that means absolutely nothing People just cross into Indiana to buy them by the case and set them off for at least a week. On Sunday night, neighbors were blowing off m-80s, and nearly professional grade fireworks all day. I was about to call the police after 11 pm when I had to be up for work at 5:45 am. My dog barks out the window constantly and looks at us to "do something about this noise." I was hoping that the drought and air quality issues would have been a deterrent. Nope! This weekend, a neighbor's brand new rescue dog got spooked by some fireworks and took off on her. Since the pup was unfamiliar with the neighborhood, it didn't know where it was and ended up getting picked up miles away by animal control. My neighbor was so worried because the dog needs medication daily. Ordinarily, she would not have been able to pick up the dog until today due to the holiday, but a cop in our neighborhood intervened to help her get the dog back sooner.
  15. There are flexible and part-time jobs in Diagnostic Medical Sonography. But most of those do not have benefits. And many are hospital jobs where you need to be able to work 2nd or 3rd shift, pick up a weekend or two, and take call. With PRN jobs, you can choose when you are available, but there may be a minimum of these off shifts or weekends in order to be hired. Basically, are you filling a need? If you need this with just day shift, you usually need to work your way up. There may be clinic jobs that are part-time that would likely be days, but they often want some hospital experience. I am fortunate that I am now working a clinic job where I work 4 ten hour shifts so I have a day during the week where I am off. I have one Saturday every 3 months. It's been a month and they seem to be OK with me so far.
  16. @Pawz4me I'm so sorry about your dog. @***** We usually give Rescue Remedy for Pets to our pup for the lead up and wind down fireworks (meaning the few days before and after the 4th.) Thankfully, the drought and warnings of caution seems to have discouraged as many people from buying fireworks. And the much needed rain the last day or so has helped as well. We will probably give gabapentin on the 4th.
  17. Not long after we adopted our wonder-chewer, we had been working on his counter-surfing habit. After several weeks of the "baking sheets over the edges of the counter" deterrent, we thought we were in the clear. I had some people over for a homeschooling meeting and had just been talking about how he was so much better about not sneaking food. Not 2 seconds later, I turned around to put something in the fridge and came back to an empty plate. He ate my entire sandwich in one gulp in front of everyone. 😄 Since we knew he was an opportunist when it came to food, we used baby gates precariously leaning against the cabinets to deter him. One Thanksgiving, while we were moving all the food to the table, it was unattended for maybe 10 seconds. Bear absconded with the whole loaf of my freshly baked bread. We caught him running through the house with this huge loaf hanging out of his mouth. Since we had no other bread to serve with dinner, everyone agreed we should just cut that part off. 🤣 Whenever we have people over and having a conversation that doesn't include him, he will bark at us to be included or will steal something from our guests to make sure he is the star of the show. He is our "Fatal Attraction" dog who "will not be ignored." I used to run a teen lit club out of my house. One of the kids tried to placate my Fatal Attraction dog with an empty water bottle. After that, Bear used to bark at him to finish his water so he could have the empty bottle. One meeting, this kid was absent. So Bear stole a water bottle out of another kid's backpack and proceeded to demolish it in front of everyone. Only it wasn't empty. 🌊 I had to ban disposable water bottles after that since they had trained Bear to be such a pain.
  18. We took a vacation to a small town in Colorado when the kids were little. The front page story from the local paper was about how some bears broke into the general store and got into the meat counter and the freezer case. My then 6yo daughter asked if they used shopping carts. 🤣 We could not get the image of bears with shopping carts out of our heads. @Porridge, don't forget about garbage, candy and gum. All very attractive to bears. On this vacation, we were staying in cabins in an area surrounded by mountains. The bears would come through our site at night looking for food. One evening, it was storming out so the caretaker didn't get all the garbage packed up. We could hear bears ransacking the garbage cans outside our cabin. One guy didn't heed the warning of not leaving any food in the vehicles. The bears got into his pickup truck to get the candy in his glove box. They also got into the lock box in the back of his pickup to get at some jerky.
  19. I don't believe that is what we did. We didn't intentionally shelter them from all harmful influences. While I found the content of Nickelodeon and Disney channel shows inane, I also felt that way about many PBS shows. It's that I hate advertising aimed at children, which is designed to take advantage of their underdeveloped critical thinking to manipulate the whine factor. I felt that we had a more thoughtful, curated exposure to pop culture, much less restrictive than many of my home educator peers. As the kids got older (beyond the "advertising to children" phase), they had a lot more influence on what we watched. I don't think our approach MADE our kids weird. DH and I had typical childhoods in the 70s and we are pretty nerdy. My older 2 are naturally pretty nerdy (or maybe they are because they were raised by nerdy parents.) My youngest, who felt that she was weird, is the least weird person in our family. She, being the youngest, had more more exposure to pop culture than the older two. I think simply homeschooling made her feel different. She had to learn school culture ... like raising her hand to go to the bathroom, not simply walking out of class, certain lunch room etiquette (she's a slow eater), and not to be too eager to answer the teacher's questions. She missed out on conversations comparing what teacher they had in junior high or what they did in gym class (she was going part time and was an athlete in a non-school sport so she didn't take gym.) None of these were pop culture related. I guess I did her a disservice by homeschooling her ... but she would not be an engineer right now if I hadn't because she would have been kept out of the science classes with people who also loved science due to being only average at math (we continued to homeschool math for this reason.) I think the comment about her being normal for being a homeschooler was more about the stigma of all homeschoolers being either socially awkward brainiacs or socially awkward undereducated kids. Your comment seems to diss us nerdy parents who happen to raise the stereotypical nerdy kids and then blame it on us sheltering our kids from pop culture.
  20. Not being snarky, but I'm wondering what you meant by that. Can you elaborate?
  21. When I was driving to work yesterday, I saw some people out wearing masks (N95 and K95) ... not the usual elderly people but younger people. I thought something seemed odd about it but this was before I heard about news about the air quality conditions. I know some outdoor things were cancelled, but not everything. I took my dog for a short walk last night without a mask (don't know why it didn't occur to me ... must have been the stressful work day where I didn't get a lunch) and I've had a killer headache ever since. I did wear an N95 to walk him this morning. I stepped outside around lunch time and, while I didn't smell smoke, I could taste it. It tasted like drywall dust. My chest feels heavy today.
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