I’m currently sick with strep! 4th time in a year, doc said maybe it’s time to get the tonsils out. I’m not sure I’m sold on the idea - outside of the last 2ish years I feel like I don’t get strep all that often. Anyone else have their tonsils out as an adult? What was your experience?
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I’m going to Tomorrowland!!!. So freaking excited.
That sounds awesome!
I got into the ticket sales after waiting almost 8 hours in virtual line. Managed to still get something close to what I originally wanted. Still pinching myself!
That’s great. My coworker had been to one, as well. I want to go to one, eventually, but my money and time are already taken up with other shenanigans. I hope you have fun and stay safe!
Thank you!
This week started off strong - forward motion with the seed library project, and I managed to get another person involved in the project. Our daughter had her four month appointment yesterday, and the doctor was thrilled with her progress and remarked at some of the developmental milestones she’s hitting months ahead of schedule. Plus they gave us a super cute tote bag full of books - we’ve done a hundred or so of the “thousand books before kindergarten” challenge.
But last night I got a text from my best friend on this whole planet that his mother, someone I call mom as well, is in the ER. She’s got pneumonia now, as though Parkinson’s and touches of dementia weren’t enough of a burden. Other tests are showing that her kidney function is falling.
Her first home was firebombed because she had the audacity to teach impoverished children of color how to read in Alabama at the beginning of desegregation. She kept doing it. After she moved north she started a program for children on the spectrum before it was as understood as it is today - my friend and I and countless other people wouldn’t have been the same without her skills and understanding. She took me in when I was kicked out of my home, treated me like her own child, and taught me not just skills to manage my own challenges but how to do right in the face of what’s wrong. I wish my daughter could meet her and know her, to have an understanding of what it means to be a true force of good in this world.
I wish my daughter could meet her and know her, to have an understanding of what it means to be a true force of good in this world.
I’ve been thinking about this more and more over the past ten years. And I don’t mean to diminish the importance this person had in your life and the life of others.
I believe most of us look up to people like her and Jimmy Carter for example. The mistake I believe most of us tend to make is we do not view ourselves as a positive force. To put it another way, we believe that we could never live up to all the good things these people have done. Basically, we beat ourselves up for not being like these people.
Generally speaking, we all can be a positive force in this world. It’s just all the little things that we can do, in an entire lifetime, that adds up to a great deal of good. For example, when I’m out at the local grocery store I smile and say hello to random people. I engage in friendly conversation with the cashier. And then I say goodbye and have a great day.
I’m sure that we all can think of hundreds of other examples that seem small. However, when you do all of these little things over a period of many years it adds up to a lot of goodness and positivity.
<3 I have a hard time believing that a conversation between us would be intended as anything but constructive.
Despite being deep in the feels of the day, I agree with you; I try my best to be that force for good as well, and live up to being the person she and other people have believed me to be capable of. There are days it’s difficult to see myself the way I view them, because of how well I can see my own faults and mistakes. That’s not to say that they didn’t have those same types of self perception, but those foibles seem larger when we’re looking at ourselves, I think.
I have high hopes of being that kind of role model, dare I say, hero to our daughter. My wife surely feels the same drive in her own way. But there’s something about having a grandmother figure who lived through desegregation and suffrage that seems, I dunno, grander (or at least more impactful) and it saddens me that she’ll only know her through memories, rather than firsthand.
I went quiet here for a long time because I was finishing my dissertation which I defended successfully!
I now don’t have to work, come home and work, anymore. I am so relieved and have been sleeping like the dead for the past few days. I’m looking for in academia jobs and excited for whatever comes, wherever I end up.
You’ll feel so much better once you get them out! My partner did last year and went from being sick half the yeat to getting sick once or twice. You have to go under full, so that was hard as they get a lot of nausea. Took a few days to heal enough to eat more than soup and ice cream. Overall, 10/10 would do again
Woah, okay yea I get sick a fair deal but now I’m wondering how much has to do with the tonsils
I had my tonsils removed when I was in my late 20’s and it was not the best experience, however I did have a strong support system in-place. I ended up needing to spend an extra day in the hospital, and my recovery was long. It needed to be done, however, my ENT said, “we had to stop surgery several times because of how bad your tonsils were. They were the worst I’ve ever seen.”
On the good side of things: It literally changed my life. I had no idea how poorly I had been sleeping, and once I did have some healing, and started getting good, consistent sleep, many of the things I struggled with just suddenly disappeared. I didn’t have the rapid mood swings. I didn’t struggle with anger. I could think more clearly, and focus on tasks. Life was truly a fundamentally different experience for me.
I still have abnormally large adenoids, and have a handful of sinus problems (a different ENT said, “you look like a 12-year old in there” because of how packed the tissue is). I do not regret or lament the problems I had healing because of how different everything was post-surgery.
On the good side of things: It literally changed my life. I had no idea how poorly I had been sleeping, and once I did have some healing, and started getting good, consistent sleep, many of the things I struggled with just suddenly disappeared. I didn’t have the rapid mood swings. I didn’t struggle with anger. I could think more clearly, and focus on tasks. Life was truly a fundamentally different experience for me.
Interesting, thank you for sharing this.
Finally back on buprenorphine after almost 2 months of heroin relapse. Feel so much better already and I am glad the withdrawal stage before they give you the medication is over. Fuck. That. Shit. So. Much, it is so painful to wait.
Damn I hope you get better soon <3 My week is going alright I have been playing minecraft and uploading medium length videos to youtube of the gameplay. At least I think its medium length I keep them just under 8 minutes because that is the minimum length for mid roll ads and I just don’t vibe very well with advertisements in the middle of videos and think others should not have to put up with them either. The longest videos are at 7:59 btw so I think that counts as somewhere on the lower end of the medium spectrum for length.
Hope you feel better. Someone needs to get me off Reddit for good lol.
Sorry you’re sick! Hopefully it blows over soon
Hello beehaw folks! First time checking in and saying hello here. My week has been a rollercoaster ride between children, work, and having too much else going on. My weekend was super busy, but I got the main things I needed to do done including removing and replacing 2 rotted fence posts, taking my youngest (3) to our first violin practice, and having a meeting with my creative team on our next steps (yeah that last one is intentionally vague, but it was a success so I am counting it). Hoping to more actively contribute here on Beehaw/Lemmy moving forward!
Rot is no good, sounds like a relief you got rid of that and a productive week overall!
Dang, I’m sorry about your tonsils! I have no useful input but I hope you feel better soon, strep sucks.
This week feels out to get me. My alarm didn’t go off on two different days, I lost my comb, and work is awful.
The forecast keeps calling for snow and customers lose their everloving minds even though it never amounts to anything. Orders are almost two hours overdue and we can’t get below 3,000 picks. The store is so crowded with all these losers shopping as slowly as possible and they won’t get out of the way for nothing, so that gets us even more behind.
I got into another argument with my friend.
I know I’m probably the drama. I left the friend group since I was getting into drama with everyone except him, now it’s just us and we’re getting into drama. I’m aware I’m the common denominator here, and I keep trying to change, but all the changes I make are wrong.
I don’t take his advice and it’s disrespectful. I take his advice and that’s too needy. I talk about my problems too much. It hurts his feelings that I stopped talking about my problems. Me saying that I have problems but refusing to elaborate is passive aggressive. (He’s right there, lol. I was hoping he’d get the hint and stop pressing.)
I asked if I could bitch about something minor and he said yes, I honestly thought it’d be two sentences and I’d move on with my day. It turned into a big argument, then that somehow turned into a separate argument where he talked about what a terrible person he is for two hours while I failed to talk him down.
He hasnt talked to me since, and I have no plans to reach out. It’s really weighing on me, we used to be best friends, I don’t know what happened. I think I’m going to make my therapy goal to be someone who is even capable of interpersonal relationships, and keep to myself in the meantime
Few months ago I lost my job (don’t pity me it is ok), decided that it doesn’t make sense to look for another, roughly planned half year trip and tomorrow I am leaving.
So I am nervous of air travel, tomorrow I leave at 3 am, I can’t sleep well and can’t eat much because of my nerves.
Yesterday I had beer with my friends that I won’t see for a long time, I said goodbye to my relatives and now I try to distract myself from thinking about it that much.
Yeah my week is going exactly as I imagined it would go when I started planning.
Half year trip sounds amazing! Where are you headed?
Madrid and then I will decide. I wanted to go to Valencia but it is still rough there after the flooding last year. Probably Gibraltar will be the rough next stop.
Ok I didn’t slept since 6am yesterday, passed all checks (maybe) and bought duty free beer. It goes better than I thought, weird how the mind tricks you.
