I hope you get rid of it quickly!

Yep. Aquaphor, especially at bedtime, is my solution. I think it works best at night because you're not talking, eating/drinking, licking your lips, or otherwise doing things that remove it quickly. That's also why I don't think anything used during the day will last for hours.

I don't think any moisturizing lip balm is going to last for hours.

I think dental health is mostly a genetic thing. Consider my two (now grown) sons. They grew up having been taught the same level of dental hygiene, seeing the same dentist and orthodontist, using the same brand/type of toothpaste, brushes and floss. Oldest DS has always been prone to cavities, and (now in his mid/late 20s) has already needed a crown. He's always eaten much healthier than youngest DS (for example, he never ever drinks soda or juice and eats very few sweets/sugary foods, and youngest lives on soda and juice and eats a lot of sweets). But youngest has only ever had one cavity in his life, and that was after his braces were removed. I suspect youngest got lucky with better/stronger tooth enamel, but that's just a guess.

If he has a portal the results should be posted there as soon as they're available. DH's CT scan results typically take anywhere from 4 to 24 hours to get posted.

I don't think there is any "best." I use Colgate Sensitive. It works for me, although I'm sure most other toothpastes for sensitive teeth would work equally well. DH uses Biotene because his cancer medicine causes mouth issues, and it works best for him. DS uses . . something else. I can't remember. He has no dental issues at all so he uses whatever he likes.

I'd take Florastor while on an antibiotic and for a few days afterwards. I'd also try to eat some fermented (probiotic rich) food everyday.

Yay!!

FWIW--We're old and have excellent credit scores and high limit cards and are never anywhere close to 33 percent utilization. We've made multiple scheduled payments per month for a long time, since it became easy to do that with apps and online checking. We do it just to make life easy and to ensure that we're never hit with any interest charges. I don't know if it has helped our credit scores, but it certainly doesn't seem to have hurt.

I'm not on Reddit, but as I understand it someone posts about a scenario/situation they've been in and then asks AITAH. The implied question is "AITAH or is the other person(s) involved in this the AH?" We get similar posts here. We're just a smaller, more intimate (and probably a lot more civil) group.

I don't know anyone (of any age) who smokes cigarettes. And I live in the heart of tobacco country.

You're not crazy. You're absolutely normal. Sometimes just realizing that is comforting, at least in a small way. I have no experience with BC, but my DH has been living with stage IV cancer for almost seven years now. So I do know a bit about that. "Scanxiety" -- waiting for results of scans (or biopsies or any kind of high stakes testing, really) is an absolute beast. It's a very rare person who can handle it with equanimity. We've been through it dozens of times now, and it never really gets any easier. More familiar, but not easier. You're not crazy, you're a normal person experiencing a very high level of anxiety. Hugs.

I bought a TR-5 in November after my very well liked Maytag bit the dust much sooner than it should have and repairing it didn't make sense due to the cost. I decided to go with a SQ hoping for the raved longevity. I despise needlessly filling up landfills. I can't say that I'm "in love" with it as many people claim, but I've never felt love for any appliance. 😉 I'm happy enough with it. It certainly seems well built. The size isn't as limiting as I worried it might be. It easily handles my California king blankets. I don't think it cleans quite as well as any of the other machines I've had (certainly not as well as the Maytag). I'm using more stain pre-treatment products and adding in more stain fighting products to entire loads than I've needed to in previous machines. But it's not a huge deal, we don't have that many stains. I haven't noticed that it's rough on clothes at all, but I've just had it a few months. And I don't really know how I'd tell, honestly. The cycle times, even on the heavy duty setting, are much shorter than my other machines have been. I wonder if that's a big reason why I have to pay more attention to stains? But although cycle time has never been an issue I've cared about, it is kind of nice. Most of our loads don't involve stains, so the quicker wash times are okay for those. I went with the TR-5 because we're on a septic system and I like the sensing feature/not using more water than necessary. The sensing feature works fine, but I've never had an issue with stuff not getting clean because of lack of water in any of the machines I've had. ETA: It's fairly quiet as far as washers go, and I like that. Ours is on a slab, so I can't say how it would do upstairs. But if your current machine is upstairs and works okay I really don't see why a SQ wouldn't.

I have no idea.

Hang around on autoimmune forums for awhile. It's not uncommon at all for people with seronegative AI diagnoses who (for whatever reasons) need to change providers to have that new provider say "No, I don't think you have X disease" or "I think you never had X, I think it's Y." And the patient has no recourse (except to go doctor shopping) even if they were doing well on a treatment plan for the disease the new doc insists they no longer have. But I know (IRL) of a case where someone was diagnosed with RA years ago and now the person has a new provider saying no, I don't think you ever had that. In this case my guess is the new provider is absolutely correct. So I guess it can work both ways.

There are cabinets above our fridge, but there's a big enough gap/extra space that we have a couple of matching cloth baskets on top of the fridge. I use them for extra storage of things that aren't heavy, though--dishcloths and towels in one and water bottles in the other. I'm not so sure they'd work for heavier items like cookbooks.

I don't think of it as what convenience foods are "okay enough" or not, but what percentage of the total diet (on a weekly or monthly basis) consists of convenience or less healthy foods. If 80-90 percent of what I eat is healthy then I don't really worry about slacking off or splurging on the rest.

Yes! What @DawnM posted (happy birthday--I hope you enjoyed your drink!) sounds like a foreign language to me, and one I have no desire to learn. Not too long ago I asked oldest DS how I would go about ordering plain old coffee--not a glorified adult milkshake--at a coffee shop. He looked at me like I was nuts (a not unusual occurrence 😉 ) and said "Regular coffee. Just tell them you want a regular coffee." I had my doubts about that, and you have confirmed them.

I've only ever painted the top of a dining table. We -- Sanded, vacuumed thoroughly, and then followed up with a tacky rag Applied primer Lightly sanded again, following up with vacuuming and tacky rag Did several coats of chalk paint (something from Home Depot--maybe Behr, but I don't remember). I think we applied it with foam rollers, but my memory is fuzzy. We definitely didn't use a sprayer Applied several coats of wipe on polyurethane The finished product certainly wasn't fancy, but to me it was totally acceptable. That was in March 2019 and the table is just now beginning to need some attention again. But we're an all adult household, so while it gets used multiple times daily, it's not rough use. We do normally use placemats and trivets for hot things. We could redo it, but I'm leaning towards a new table now, mainly because I want something a little smaller.

I'm perhaps an oddity, but Tylenol Arthritis (which is acetaminophen, not a NSAID) seems to help both my RA and OA more than ibuprofen does.

If you're not bothered by motion sickness -- Maybe spend a lot of time reading (book, ebook, mindless phone scrolling), or listening to audiobooks, music or podcasts with headphones/earbuds while keeping your eyes closed? In other words, concentrate on something else and tune out his driving. I kind of feel like it's impossible to change another person's driving style. It's kind of like changing someone's diet--they have to want to do it, it can't come from someone else.

All four of us had ours removed by our regular dentist. It wasn’t a big deal for any of us, although DH had the worst experience. But he was in his mid 30’s at the time and had started having issues (the boys and I had ours removed as teens). And his experience wasn’t a big deal, just a little worse than for the rest of us. The boys and I were pretty much back to normal the next day but it took DH a couple of days to feel normal again.

Here if it falls into your yard you pay for it, except (if I understand it correctly) you've already provided written notice to the neighbor that the tree has a problem. So my understanding is one would need to send a certified/return receipt letter to the neighbor notifying them of a problem with a tree, and keep a copy of the letter and the proof that it was delivered in order to have any recourse for getting the neighbor to pay. (Note: IANAL, but that's my best understanding of how it works here.)

They have a knack for doing that. I'm sorry for your loss, and for the disagreement.

Someone from another board I'm on used to do this. He specialized in house sitting for people who had pets. He seemed to enjoy it very much, and he seemed to have his pick of jobs. Over the years he had several repeat clients.