Sharp pain in chest post op 5 weeks after lap band
2 weeks post op, doing well.
2024.05.21 14:19 Negative-Contact5647 2 weeks post op, doing well.
Before my gallbladder surgery 2 weeks ago I was really nervous reading all the scary stories, but my husband reminded me that people tend to go looking for answers when things aren’t well, more so then people who just move on normally after surgery. So I’m here to share my life is good post.
I had my gall bladder out two weeks ago today about a week after I had been in the ER in extreme pain with acute pancreatitis and the discovery of gallstones in my gallbladder. Before that I had been having an aching pain in the center of my upper abdomen, extreme bloating and fullness for a couple months. I originally went to my primary, and she said she thought I had an ulcer, so she treated me for that. It didn’t help. I saw my gastroenterologist for a different thing, but we talked about my pain, and she said she thought I had gastroparesis and set me up for an endoscopy. The endoscopy came back pretty normal, but she said I had bile in my stomach so wanted me to go for a gastric emptying test. I never got to, 2 days later I was in the ER with the worst pain of my life.
Fast forward to the surgery. I woke up from the surgery in a lot of pain, and they gave me pain meds before I left recovery. Then I went home and slept for the rest of the day. Minor aches and pains for the first few days, and my glue bandages fell off about one week after surgery. I’m still cautious about eating too much fat, but nothing really seems to bother me. I have had some diarrhea, but nothing I’d call extreme, and I think it’s to be expected as the body adjusts to a new way of functioning. I still have some pain in my upper abdomen, and think maybe my pancreas is still inflamed? If it continues I plan to call my gastro again.
My biggest concern post surgery was that we had a trip to Italy planned 5 weeks after my surgery date, and now I have about 3 weeks to go I’m not concerned at all about my trip being affected by the gall bladder removal.
Hopefully my little tale helps someone remember that it’s not all scary stories post operation, and my heart goes out to the people who do have complications.
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I had my gall bladder out two weeks ago today about a week after I had been in the ER in extreme pain with acute pancreatitis and the discovery of gallstones in my gallbladder. Before that I had been having an aching pain in the center of my upper abdomen, extreme bloating and fullness for a couple months. I originally went to my primary, and she said she thought I had an ulcer, so she treated me for that. It didn’t help. I saw my gastroenterologist for a different thing, but we talked about my pain, and she said she thought I had gastroparesis and set me up for an endoscopy. The endoscopy came back pretty normal, but she said I had bile in my stomach so wanted me to go for a gastric emptying test. I never got to, 2 days later I was in the ER with the worst pain of my life.
Fast forward to the surgery. I woke up from the surgery in a lot of pain, and they gave me pain meds before I left recovery. Then I went home and slept for the rest of the day. Minor aches and pains for the first few days, and my glue bandages fell off about one week after surgery. I’m still cautious about eating too much fat, but nothing really seems to bother me. I have had some diarrhea, but nothing I’d call extreme, and I think it’s to be expected as the body adjusts to a new way of functioning. I still have some pain in my upper abdomen, and think maybe my pancreas is still inflamed? If it continues I plan to call my gastro again.
My biggest concern post surgery was that we had a trip to Italy planned 5 weeks after my surgery date, and now I have about 3 weeks to go I’m not concerned at all about my trip being affected by the gall bladder removal.
Hopefully my little tale helps someone remember that it’s not all scary stories post operation, and my heart goes out to the people who do have complications.
2024.05.21 14:19 retronaco Overactive bladder
On may 9th I started to have to go to the washroom more frequently I noticed that I had to go roughly every hour… I started feeling back pain on my right side more of a pressure pain. I initially thought I may be getting a kidney stone and boy was I wrong! I’m going to tell you guys my experience and how crazy this has been… here’s a little context. I am currently going through a divorce (which was my own doing), financially I am tight as I have to uphold two mortgages one being my own and other being portion of a rental property I own. However the rental property is not a positive cash flow atm due to high interest rates. A lot has happened in May. I had to buy a new dryer as my drying machine just went, also a new microwave (over stove). I work in sales and with high interest everyone is so tight with money and people aren’t spending nearly as much as they were a year ago. I could go on about more but no need. So may 9th it began, all day that day I had to constantly go to washroom almost every hour, I smoked some weed and went to bed. That night I ended up wetting myself a little overnight (this was a first) I panicked and snapped out of it however the next few days I would continue to have back pain and constantly peeing, unfortunately I started doing some google reading on this and I had pre determined myself that maybe I had a kidney stone and just needed to drink more fluids and try to get better. It went on until Wednesday may 15th at this stage my lower back pain had increased and I started noticing pain in my abdomen area also. I went to doctors and did some sampling. They found microscopic blood in my urine but weren’t sure what it could be and sent it in for further testing on top of that in Canada the long weekend was coming which typically means you won’t get lab results until mid next week (this week). Now this continued as I was freaking out about blood in my urine and more googling which made things worse… Friday May 17th comes around. At this stage I was extremely worried and was going to washroom every 30 mins until night time. Night time was horrible (I don’t wish this on my worst enemy) at night time while trying to go to sleep I started to go to washroom every 5-10mins and shortly after around 1AM Saturday I couldn’t get off toilet the back pain had increased and abdomen pain had increased. It left like my bladder was just squeezing everything out! I panicked further! I spiralled and broke down, I went to the hospital. Once I got to hospital and told them my symptoms they believed I was passing a kidney stone but they wanted to confirm and do a CT scan, blood work, and a urine sample. Few hours later my results were in… everything was fine. The doctor said he was not sure exactly what was happening but thinks I have something called “interstitial cystitis” however said I should speak to my family doctor and see a urologist. This is where I started doing more research as I couldn’t take going to washroom so much… I came across urinary frequency and one of the causes was anxiety and stress… I’ve always told my self that I have never had anxiety and never have experienced it. On google I came across a Reddit and it was someone who has experienced similar things and it turned out to be just anxiety. Currently as I am typing this I am improving quite a bit I no longer have to go every 5-10 mins. I go roughly every 2 hours. I am still in recovery as I do have moments where I need to go within 20 mins of just going to the washroom. However I have not taken any medicine I have slowly learned to accept things and get better and this has helped a lot with my anxiety. I have learned that somethings I cannot control but everything will be ok. I started to keep busy (deep clean the house, do all laundry, cooking, lawn work) and that really helped grounding me. Also one thing that helped me is start to relieving some weight. I’ve had weight on my shoulders about leaving my wife so I apologized to her last night saying that I am sorry for making her feel like her world is getting destroyed as we have a child which we will have to share custody. I also am writing this to get better. Please know guys if you are going through this it will all be ok! You have to overcome what is bothering you and accept it. The mind is very powerful, we can make ourselves sick even when we aren’t. I’m sure this isn’t my last time with this but I hope my experience helps you! And know you will be ok.
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2024.05.21 14:18 Sentient_jelly Hades 2 has a fundamental design problem, which Im not sure can be solved
Okay, I know this is gonna attract some hate, but bear with me.
First off, I want to say: Hades 1 is one of my favourite games ever. I have just under 1000 hours on it, I've done everything, and while I'm not as good as some players, I'm running 30 heat consistently without losing.
I'm also a professional games designer, and while that doesn't make my opinions valid, I think I have an okay idea of general design principles.
So I've been playing Hades 2, and so far I'm not really loving it. Obviously this is still the Alpha, and theres a lot of stuff that needs to be changed before the proper release - some stuff is minor, like boon balancing, some stuff I just find baffling as a design decision (Eris "blessing"), and some stuff I appreciate might just mean the game isn't aimed at me - and thats fine.
But the major issue I have is this - the game is slow. Painfully. It seems like one of the aims of the design team was to make the game a bit less "twitchy", which is fine if thats what you want. But theres a mechanic which is compounding this and making combat honestly tedious for me.
Mana regen.
Okay, for me to explain this properly, you need to understand a big issue that hades has - that is, that melee combat kinda sucks. I want to quote Dacookieman from this subreddit, discussing Polyphemus: "Yeah it's just impossible to capitalize on openings as melee because of how all of his attacks work. If you try to play slow then mobs build up and because the hitboxes from cyclops are often overlapping the enemies they also have the same issue of not being able to capatalize on openings without taking damage. It's not quite as bad w the mobs but together it makes melee builds very brutal."
Dacookieman hits the nail on the head precisely here. Last night, I ran a build where I fought Polyphemus with the axe and zero mana regen 5 times, and consistently got wrecked. On the 6th time I was lucky enough to actually get a mana regen boon, and I destroyed him without taking a single hit.
This is obviously a HUGE difference. So why is the mana regen so important here? Because I can just stay the hell away from him.
Polyphemus, as mentioned above, is absolutely horrible against melee because of his attack pattern and wonky hitboxes. On the other hand, if you stay away from him? He can't do squat. He's like a tortoise with a chainsaw strapped to the back - dangerous yes, but easily defeatable by just moving away.
Polyphemus is far from the only boss with this issue. Almost all bosses have this problem to some degree (except Eris and Charybdis, possibly). Chronos is especially bad.
So this means that the best strategy is - time and time again - stay at range. And that means, ideally, you want to get some mana regen and a decent ranged cast. Then you just sit back, launch your omega casts over and over, and slowly destroy your opponents. And they can't really do anything to stop you.
Of course, the omega casts will cost mana, so the answer to this is to get some sortof mana regen - ideally Demeter, Apollo, Zeus or Hestia. And mana regen takes time, so this means your gameplay pattern looks like: Cast - run away - wait/regen mana - approach - repeat.
Its a horrible gameplay mechanic. It reminds me of FPS games in the 2000s where regenerating health was a thing and the "best" tactic was, after clearing a room, to just afk for 5 minutes while you got your health back.
And, because I know theres a bunch of people who insist on posting this, no, I do not need to "git gud". Being good or bad is irrelevant to negative design patterns.
There's also a ton of grind in this game (which, seperately, I'm not a massive fan of), but I want to add in here that I shouldnt be required to grind unlocks to be allowed to have fun. I genuinely enjoy doing Hades 1 fresh file runs - theyre hard, but I never feel like I'm unfairly punished. Hades 2 seem to have this attitude of "well, you're only allowed to have fun once you've put in ~20 hours and started unlocking the necessary upgrades".
When you design, you need to reward players for the patterns you want to see in the game. Doom "fixed" the health problem by allowing "Glory kills", ENCOURAGING the player to get knee deep in demons - the best gameplay choice was to play the game in the way the developers intended. At the moment, in Hades 2, the best gameplay choice is avoiding combat as much as possible and only jumping in briefly to throw out a spell.
This is also not helped by many of the areas being considerably larger, meaning that you have much more space to run away to.
Hades 1 didnt have mana, but it did have a god gauge. The god gauge powers up by damaging enemies - the gameplay loop you want to encourage. (also taking damage, but thats still promoting engaging enemies)
As the quote goes, "given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game". The optimal way to play Hades 2 is also the least fun way. Maybe you dont want to play optimally, thats fine. And maybe you think the game is fine the way it is - if you enjoy it, power to you. But for me, coming from the high intensity action of Hades 1 into this feels like I've been wading through honey. Sure its sweet, but its slow - and ulimately exhausting.
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First off, I want to say: Hades 1 is one of my favourite games ever. I have just under 1000 hours on it, I've done everything, and while I'm not as good as some players, I'm running 30 heat consistently without losing.
I'm also a professional games designer, and while that doesn't make my opinions valid, I think I have an okay idea of general design principles.
So I've been playing Hades 2, and so far I'm not really loving it. Obviously this is still the Alpha, and theres a lot of stuff that needs to be changed before the proper release - some stuff is minor, like boon balancing, some stuff I just find baffling as a design decision (Eris "blessing"), and some stuff I appreciate might just mean the game isn't aimed at me - and thats fine.
But the major issue I have is this - the game is slow. Painfully. It seems like one of the aims of the design team was to make the game a bit less "twitchy", which is fine if thats what you want. But theres a mechanic which is compounding this and making combat honestly tedious for me.
Mana regen.
Okay, for me to explain this properly, you need to understand a big issue that hades has - that is, that melee combat kinda sucks. I want to quote Dacookieman from this subreddit, discussing Polyphemus: "Yeah it's just impossible to capitalize on openings as melee because of how all of his attacks work. If you try to play slow then mobs build up and because the hitboxes from cyclops are often overlapping the enemies they also have the same issue of not being able to capatalize on openings without taking damage. It's not quite as bad w the mobs but together it makes melee builds very brutal."
Dacookieman hits the nail on the head precisely here. Last night, I ran a build where I fought Polyphemus with the axe and zero mana regen 5 times, and consistently got wrecked. On the 6th time I was lucky enough to actually get a mana regen boon, and I destroyed him without taking a single hit.
This is obviously a HUGE difference. So why is the mana regen so important here? Because I can just stay the hell away from him.
Polyphemus, as mentioned above, is absolutely horrible against melee because of his attack pattern and wonky hitboxes. On the other hand, if you stay away from him? He can't do squat. He's like a tortoise with a chainsaw strapped to the back - dangerous yes, but easily defeatable by just moving away.
Polyphemus is far from the only boss with this issue. Almost all bosses have this problem to some degree (except Eris and Charybdis, possibly). Chronos is especially bad.
So this means that the best strategy is - time and time again - stay at range. And that means, ideally, you want to get some mana regen and a decent ranged cast. Then you just sit back, launch your omega casts over and over, and slowly destroy your opponents. And they can't really do anything to stop you.
Of course, the omega casts will cost mana, so the answer to this is to get some sortof mana regen - ideally Demeter, Apollo, Zeus or Hestia. And mana regen takes time, so this means your gameplay pattern looks like: Cast - run away - wait/regen mana - approach - repeat.
Its a horrible gameplay mechanic. It reminds me of FPS games in the 2000s where regenerating health was a thing and the "best" tactic was, after clearing a room, to just afk for 5 minutes while you got your health back.
And, because I know theres a bunch of people who insist on posting this, no, I do not need to "git gud". Being good or bad is irrelevant to negative design patterns.
There's also a ton of grind in this game (which, seperately, I'm not a massive fan of), but I want to add in here that I shouldnt be required to grind unlocks to be allowed to have fun. I genuinely enjoy doing Hades 1 fresh file runs - theyre hard, but I never feel like I'm unfairly punished. Hades 2 seem to have this attitude of "well, you're only allowed to have fun once you've put in ~20 hours and started unlocking the necessary upgrades".
When you design, you need to reward players for the patterns you want to see in the game. Doom "fixed" the health problem by allowing "Glory kills", ENCOURAGING the player to get knee deep in demons - the best gameplay choice was to play the game in the way the developers intended. At the moment, in Hades 2, the best gameplay choice is avoiding combat as much as possible and only jumping in briefly to throw out a spell.
This is also not helped by many of the areas being considerably larger, meaning that you have much more space to run away to.
Hades 1 didnt have mana, but it did have a god gauge. The god gauge powers up by damaging enemies - the gameplay loop you want to encourage. (also taking damage, but thats still promoting engaging enemies)
As the quote goes, "given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game". The optimal way to play Hades 2 is also the least fun way. Maybe you dont want to play optimally, thats fine. And maybe you think the game is fine the way it is - if you enjoy it, power to you. But for me, coming from the high intensity action of Hades 1 into this feels like I've been wading through honey. Sure its sweet, but its slow - and ulimately exhausting.
2024.05.21 14:11 TearRepresentative56 I'm a full time trader and this is everything I'm watching and analysing in premarket including full earnings summaries from PANW and more.
ANALYSIS section will be posted separately on my sub Tradingedge
DATA LEDE:
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DATA LEDE:
- RBA minutes - Australia
- Said they will try not to excessively fine tune policy
- Future changes to cash rate are difficult to rule in or out
- CPI short term variation can be easily and reasonably overlooked
- Recent data does point to slightly increased inflation risks
- NEUTRAL/HAWKISH overall
- Australia consumer confidence numbers drop 0.3% MOM
- German PPI came 0.2% MOM vs 0.2% expected, in line with last months reading.
- YOY came in at -3.3% slightly below expected value of -3.2%. Came in light which is good for German inflation picture.
- Yellen Speech - no real meaningful comments
- EU balance of trade numbers hit a new yearly high. Points to improving world demand environment.
- Fed speakers include:
- Barkin, Waller, Williams, Bostic, Barr
- BoE’s Bailey to speak too
- SPX: Maintained above 5300, now trading at 5311. Yesterday, touched 5325, before moving lower again. DJI: Trading at 39,813, just below 40k. Opened yesterday above 40k but moved lower on JPM weakness.
- Nasdaq: trading flat at 18,665. Support will now be at around 18,350.
- Ger40: Slightly lower today, at 18,600. Some slight profit taking near the highs.
- HKG50: Moving lower again for 2nd day in a row. Now at 19,240. Yesterday, was at 19,750 at one point. So down 2.7% across yesterday and today.
- Oil - hit 80 yesterday on WTI but was rejected off there. Lower today to 78, down by 1.5%. Back to range bound.
- Gold: Trading at 2418, Support at 2400.
- VIX: After getting crushed to 12 yesterday, bounced up off of there, now higher.
- DXY moving flat today and yesterday, around 104.5
- Had fallen to 100d moving average after CPI then moved higher, bouncing from there.
- EURUSD positioning still bullish, flat, slightly higher at 1.087
- GBPUSD moving higher again, trading at 1.272
- AUDUSD at 0.667,
- Has broken out of the long term downtrend.
- PANW Current Quarter:
- Revenues of 1.985B beat by 0.8%. Revenues rose 15% YOY
- Products revenue beat by 1.2%
- Subscriptions and support revenue beat by 0.3%
- EPS of 1.32 Beat expectations of 1.25 - beat by 5.6%
- Operating income was 508M, beat by 3.5%
- Operating margin was 25.6% , beat by 69 bps
- Billings came more or less in line
- Deferred revenue basically in line, slight miss.
- NEXT QUARTER GUIDANCE:
- EPS of 1.41 v slightly missed expectations of 1.42
- Revenue came in line with consensus at 2.16B
- Billings guidance beat consensus v slightly.
- FULL YEAR GUIDANCE:
- EPS of 5.56-5.58 beat estimates of 5.51
- Revenue of 8B beat estimates of 7.98B
- Billings of 10.15.5B was up 10-11% YoY
- CEO Nikesh Arora: Enthusiastic response to pjatformization and AI infused security outcomes.
- In conference call said that billings isn’t the only important measure, hence investors should overlook the slight softness in billings.
- Said cybersecurity demand will continue to grow for next several quarters, and PANW will benefit.
- Cyberattacks are scaling and aren’t going away. AI will increase these threats. So the tailwinds for PANW are very strong.
- EPS of -0.75 was much better than the -2.06 expected
- Revenue of 6.55B beat estimates of 6.19B. Up 63% YOY, but down 50% QOQ
- Vehicle margin was 5.5%, which was up from 4.1% last quarter, and up form -2.5% last year SO VEHICLE MARGIN IMPROVED
- Vehicle sales came in at 5.54B yuan, up 50% YOY but down 50% QOQ
- Gross margin was 12.9%, up from 1.7% last year and 6.2% last quarter
- SO MARGINS IMPROVED, SALES WERE WORSE THAN LAST QUARTER
- In April saw 9,393 vehicles delivered
- Partnership with Volkswagen group on E/E architecture
- Release of AI powered functions
- GROSS MARGIN IMPROVEMENT DESPITE COMPETITION AND OTHERS CUTTING PRICES WAS A KEY BENEFIT.
- Revenue 7.5-8.3B miss by 15%
- Delivered of 29-32K. Up 30% YOY
- Current quarter:
- ADJ EPS $0.27 vs. $0.56 y/y, EST $0.14. BEAT
- EPS $0.22 vs. $0.56 y/y
- Net sales $4.8B, -3.7% y/y, EST $4.81B. IN LINE
- Gross margin 39.2% vs. 40% y/y, EST 39.6%. MISS
- SG&A expense $1.9B, -2.6% y/y, EST $1.98B. MISS
- GUIDANCE:
- Raised guidance from 2.45-2.85 to 2.55-2.9.
- Raised by 4%
- Beat estimates by 4%, although is a wide guidance
- Sees Net sales at 22.3-22.9B, raising bottom end up slightly from 22.2B.
- More or less in line with guidance.
- Merchandise margins down 100bps due to additional discounting
- Merchandise inventories are well positioned for upcoming summer season
- Credit card revenues down slightly due to higher delinquency rates
- Turnaround plan showing signs of progress as they beat and raise guidance.
- Current quarter:
- EPS of 3.67 beat estimates of 2.95
- Revenue of 21.4B was down YOY by 4%, but beat estimates by 1.3%
- Comparables sales were down 4%
- Reaffirms FY guidance:
- EPS of 12-12.3 vs estimate of 12.19. So miss slightly by 0.4%
- Revenue of 84-85B, basically in line.
- EXPECTS COMPARABLE SALES TO BE DOWN 2-3% vs estimates of 2.43% down.
- MSFT yesterday, said that Copilot Plus PCs will be based on Qualcomm’s snapdragon X Elite chips, and will offer 15 hours of web browsing and 20 hours of video battery life. MSFT says it’ll outperform MacBook Air.
- On Copilot Plus, Neural processor enables new AI features such as recall for a searchable PC memory.
- MSFT estimates 50 million AI PCs will be sold over the next year. Said its rearchitectured Windows 11 is 58% faster than Apple’s MacBook Air.
- MSFT - restructures Windows 11 for better ARM hardware support and AI integration. Introduces prism emulator, launched to improve compatibility with older x86 and x64 apps. MSFT says Prism emulator is 20% faster than previous versions.
- AAPL - Files law suit to overturn $1.8B EU antitrust fine over App Store rules. AAPL is challenging a 1.8B fine.
- MSFT - OpenAI will be sued by Scarlett Johansson for basically copying her voice against her explicit instruction not to.
- TSLA - Tesla shareholder group still not happy with Elon Musk’s $56B pay package. Urged other investors to reject a $56B pay package.
- XPEV higher on their strong earnings
- MACYS higher on improving picture
- LOW - higher on earnings
- Crypto stocks higher on strong Bitcoin performance
- LRCX 10-1 stock split
- PANW lower on eanrings, seems harsh to me. Other crypto names down in sentiment.
- Chinese stocks lower as Hong Kong MARKET down 1.5% today.
- NOVA - Piper Sandler downgrades Sunnova Energy to neutral from overweight, lowered price target to 4.50 from 9. Analyst had upgraded sun nova in December on expectation of lower rates, but rates have stayed high.
- Li - postpones the launch of its all electric SUVs to the first half of 2025, citing inadequate charging stations and other constraints. CEO emphasised the need for sufficient branded charging stations and more display spots.
- DOWN 4% AGAIN TODAY ON THIS.
- BABA - Alibaba cloud slashes prices for its latest LLM model, Tongyi Qianwen, by up to 97%
- BIDU - in response to Alibaba’s move, BIDU made its ENITRE Speed and ENIRE lite models entirely free to use.
- So we are seeing price wars in AI market.
- JPM says that they will not be increasing buybacks of JPM stock at these prices. Will just continue with previously outlined buyback pace.
- Jamie Dimon also hinted at retirement in the speech, hence JPM lower yesterday
- DELL - Citi raises dell price target to 170 from 125. Optimistic they can gain market share more in AI.
- JD - announces a proposed offering of $1.5B in convertible senior notes, due 2029. Will use proceeds to repurchase shares and expand overseas business.
- PTON - plans global refinancing to address debt. Secured nearly $1.4B in new credit facilities.
- ASML and TSM said they have measures in place to remotely disable advanced EUV chip making machines if China was to invade Taiwan.
- QCOM - shares were higher yesterday after Several big companies including Dell and MSFT announced AI laptops using Qualcomm’s snapdragon X elite chip. MSFT says these devices will outperform apple MacBook Air M3.
- ARM - MSFT will announce Arm powered laptops
- WEN - launches a $3 breakfast deal, including small seasoned potatoes, choice of bacon, eggs and cheese or sausage, eggs and cheese muffin. Rivals Mcdonalds $5value meal
- DASH - expanded its partnership with ULTA beauty to offer on demand delivery in under an hour from 1350 stores across all 50 states.
- VFS - US regulators are probing a vin fast VF 8 Crash, that killed 4 in California.
- LLY - secures china approval for diabetes drug, Tirzepatide. Received approval in China for its diabetes drug.
- BA - one killed on Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 due to severe turbulence.
- DIS - Redburn upgrades to neutral from Sell. Price target 100.
- Samsung - appoints new chief for its chip business, amid competition.
- BTC higher to 72K.
- ETH popped 20% yesterday on renewed optimism for ETF, that SEC might green light spot ether ETFs ahead of first deadline later this week.
- Yardeni research sees Dow Jones DJI at 60k and SPX at 8k by 2030
- Mester’s comments yesterday:
- 3 rate cuts this year is no longer appropriate.
- April CPI was good, but too soon to say what path inflation is on. She said she doesnt think about rate cuts in terms of when. We can raise rates but its not base case. That’s bearish, but also unrealistic. I think there’s less risk now that we are too restrictive, and inflation risks are to upside.
- BEARISH COMMENTS FROM MESTER OVERALL
- Jefferson’s Comments yesterday:
- April inflation was encouraging. Labour market coming into better balance. Inflation decline isn’t as fast as we had liked. Policy is restrictive. - NEUTRAL comments, I’d say.
- Following these comments, Bank of America said that whilst the bar for rate hikes is still v high, rate cuts are still far off. Said Services inflation still running way above target.
- Bank of America believes markets got excited at the print, said markets pricing 50bps of cuts are likely to get disappointed.
- Did push back on stagflation narrative.
- SPACEX Q1 launch report shows that SpaceX is now launching 87% of all payload to orbit, a new record high.
- New Yorkers on average earned $89K last year, meaning that without spending more than 30% of annual income on rent, they can afford $2,216 on housing. That’s only enough to afford 4.4% of rentals.
- Marko Kolanovic held his bearish outlook on stocks, urging clients not to buy. So not all bears are capitulating.
- Fidelity ethereal fund says that the trust’s Ether will not be staked.
- IMF official expects next stage for BOE is to ease rates, says UK monetary policy is at inflection point. Actions by UK authorities are paying off.
- Said BoE should cut rates by 50-75bps in 2024.
- Upgraded UK growth forecast to 0.7% this year from 0.5% previously
- Dubai Airport expects record passenger traffic this year, set to top 100M by 2027.
2024.05.21 14:09 mariamxxx90 WIBTA if I just refuse to deal with this woman?
I (F37) own two businesses and I recently joined a women’s networking group. I met another woman (F58) there who is a marketing expert. I went over to speak to her at the end of one of the first events I attended and asked if she could potentially help me with my business in the future, after I had gotten into the swing of running two. Without responding to my question, this woman looked me up and down and commented upon some jewellery I was wearing. I didn’t really know what to say as she had completely ignored my request and so I just smiled and thanked her.
I left the event with an uneasy feeling about her. Fast forward to last week, I did a presentation to the group and invited them to take a test I used as part of my practice. I explained that if they emailed the results to me, we could discuss them at our next in person event. Not long after, I received a weird passive aggressive text from her asking if I was the same person who presented. I said that I was and she said ‘I did your test but I haven’t heard anything?’. I explained that my plan was to go over these in person, as explained in my presentation, but as she had been ill, I was happy to meet remotely to discuss. I explained that I would not be at the immediate next ‘in person event’ due to client meetings, but I would be at the one after.
This woman replied and said she would be happy to meet remotely and asked that I send a meeting request for a date and time to suit me this week. I did that last week - emailed the invite and also sent a text. The text went unacknowledged.
I joined the meeting this morning and - she ghosted - of course. I text to see if she was having tech difficulties and she replied an hour later to say she wasn’t feeling well and she had recently had an operation (I was already aware) and ‘if you had been at the in person event last week I would have been able to explain to you’ 🤨
Fine but - 1. I had explained in advance that I wouldn’t be at the in person, and sent the invite after.
WIBTA if I just tell her I am not prepared to deal with her?
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I left the event with an uneasy feeling about her. Fast forward to last week, I did a presentation to the group and invited them to take a test I used as part of my practice. I explained that if they emailed the results to me, we could discuss them at our next in person event. Not long after, I received a weird passive aggressive text from her asking if I was the same person who presented. I said that I was and she said ‘I did your test but I haven’t heard anything?’. I explained that my plan was to go over these in person, as explained in my presentation, but as she had been ill, I was happy to meet remotely to discuss. I explained that I would not be at the immediate next ‘in person event’ due to client meetings, but I would be at the one after.
This woman replied and said she would be happy to meet remotely and asked that I send a meeting request for a date and time to suit me this week. I did that last week - emailed the invite and also sent a text. The text went unacknowledged.
I joined the meeting this morning and - she ghosted - of course. I text to see if she was having tech difficulties and she replied an hour later to say she wasn’t feeling well and she had recently had an operation (I was already aware) and ‘if you had been at the in person event last week I would have been able to explain to you’ 🤨
Fine but - 1. I had explained in advance that I wouldn’t be at the in person, and sent the invite after.
- There were 5 days between the meeting invite being sent and the meeting, yet no effort to acknowledge it.
WIBTA if I just tell her I am not prepared to deal with her?
2024.05.21 14:07 TearRepresentative56 I'm a full time trader and this is everything I'm watching and analysing in premarket 21/05 including all the news driving the market.
ANALYSIS section will be posted separately on my sub Tradingedge
DATA LEDE:
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DATA LEDE:
- RBA minutes - Australia
- Said they will try not to excessively fine tune policy
- Future changes to cash rate are difficult to rule in or out
- CPI short term variation can be easily and reasonably overlooked
- Recent data does point to slightly increased inflation risks
- NEUTRAL/HAWKISH overall
- Australia consumer confidence numbers drop 0.3% MOM
- German PPI came 0.2% MOM vs 0.2% expected, in line with last months reading.
- YOY came in at -3.3% slightly below expected value of -3.2%. Came in light which is good for German inflation picture.
- Yellen Speech - no real meaningful comments
- EU balance of trade numbers hit a new yearly high. Points to improving world demand environment.
- Fed speakers include:
- Barkin, Waller, Williams, Bostic, Barr
- BoE’s Bailey to speak too
- SPX: Maintained above 5300, now trading at 5311. Yesterday, touched 5325, before moving lower again. DJI: Trading at 39,813, just below 40k. Opened yesterday above 40k but moved lower on JPM weakness.
- Nasdaq: trading flat at 18,665. Support will now be at around 18,350.
- Ger40: Slightly lower today, at 18,600. Some slight profit taking near the highs.
- HKG50: Moving lower again for 2nd day in a row. Now at 19,240. Yesterday, was at 19,750 at one point. So down 2.7% across yesterday and today.
- Oil - hit 80 yesterday on WTI but was rejected off there. Lower today to 78, down by 1.5%. Back to range bound.
- Gold: Trading at 2418, Support at 2400.
- VIX: After getting crushed to 12 yesterday, bounced up off of there, now higher.
- DXY moving flat today and yesterday, around 104.5
- Had fallen to 100d moving average after CPI then moved higher, bouncing from there.
- EURUSD positioning still bullish, flat, slightly higher at 1.087
- GBPUSD moving higher again, trading at 1.272
- AUDUSD at 0.667,
- Has broken out of the long term downtrend.
- PANW Current Quarter:
- Revenues of 1.985B beat by 0.8%. Revenues rose 15% YOY
- Products revenue beat by 1.2%
- Subscriptions and support revenue beat by 0.3%
- EPS of 1.32 Beat expectations of 1.25 - beat by 5.6%
- Operating income was 508M, beat by 3.5%
- Operating margin was 25.6% , beat by 69 bps
- Billings came more or less in line
- Deferred revenue basically in line, slight miss.
- NEXT QUARTER GUIDANCE:
- EPS of 1.41 v slightly missed expectations of 1.42
- Revenue came in line with consensus at 2.16B
- Billings guidance beat consensus v slightly.
- FULL YEAR GUIDANCE:
- EPS of 5.56-5.58 beat estimates of 5.51
- Revenue of 8B beat estimates of 7.98B
- Billings of 10.15.5B was up 10-11% YoY
- CEO Nikesh Arora: Enthusiastic response to pjatformization and AI infused security outcomes.
- In conference call said that billings isn’t the only important measure, hence investors should overlook the slight softness in billings.
- Said cybersecurity demand will continue to grow for next several quarters, and PANW will benefit.
- Cyberattacks are scaling and aren’t going away. AI will increase these threats. So the tailwinds for PANW are very strong.
- EPS of -0.75 was much better than the -2.06 expected
- Revenue of 6.55B beat estimates of 6.19B. Up 63% YOY, but down 50% QOQ
- Vehicle margin was 5.5%, which was up from 4.1% last quarter, and up form -2.5% last year SO VEHICLE MARGIN IMPROVED
- Vehicle sales came in at 5.54B yuan, up 50% YOY but down 50% QOQ
- Gross margin was 12.9%, up from 1.7% last year and 6.2% last quarter
- SO MARGINS IMPROVED, SALES WERE WORSE THAN LAST QUARTER
- In April saw 9,393 vehicles delivered
- Partnership with Volkswagen group on E/E architecture
- Release of AI powered functions
- GROSS MARGIN IMPROVEMENT DESPITE COMPETITION AND OTHERS CUTTING PRICES WAS A KEY BENEFIT.
- Revenue 7.5-8.3B miss by 15%
- Delivered of 29-32K. Up 30% YOY
- Current quarter:
- ADJ EPS $0.27 vs. $0.56 y/y, EST $0.14. BEAT
- EPS $0.22 vs. $0.56 y/y
- Net sales $4.8B, -3.7% y/y, EST $4.81B. IN LINE
- Gross margin 39.2% vs. 40% y/y, EST 39.6%. MISS
- SG&A expense $1.9B, -2.6% y/y, EST $1.98B. MISS
- GUIDANCE:
- Raised guidance from 2.45-2.85 to 2.55-2.9.
- Raised by 4%
- Beat estimates by 4%, although is a wide guidance
- Sees Net sales at 22.3-22.9B, raising bottom end up slightly from 22.2B.
- More or less in line with guidance.
- Merchandise margins down 100bps due to additional discounting
- Merchandise inventories are well positioned for upcoming summer season
- Credit card revenues down slightly due to higher delinquency rates
- Turnaround plan showing signs of progress as they beat and raise guidance.
- Current quarter:
- EPS of 3.67 beat estimates of 2.95
- Revenue of 21.4B was down YOY by 4%, but beat estimates by 1.3%
- Comparables sales were down 4%
- Reaffirms FY guidance:
- EPS of 12-12.3 vs estimate of 12.19. So miss slightly by 0.4%
- Revenue of 84-85B, basically in line.
- EXPECTS COMPARABLE SALES TO BE DOWN 2-3% vs estimates of 2.43% down.
- MSFT yesterday, said that Copilot Plus PCs will be based on Qualcomm’s snapdragon X Elite chips, and will offer 15 hours of web browsing and 20 hours of video battery life. MSFT says it’ll outperform MacBook Air.
- On Copilot Plus, Neural processor enables new AI features such as recall for a searchable PC memory.
- MSFT estimates 50 million AI PCs will be sold over the next year. Said its rearchitectured Windows 11 is 58% faster than Apple’s MacBook Air.
- MSFT - restructures Windows 11 for better ARM hardware support and AI integration. Introduces prism emulator, launched to improve compatibility with older x86 and x64 apps. MSFT says Prism emulator is 20% faster than previous versions.
- AAPL - Files law suit to overturn $1.8B EU antitrust fine over App Store rules. AAPL is challenging a 1.8B fine.
- MSFT - OpenAI will be sued by Scarlett Johansson for basically copying her voice against her explicit instruction not to.
- TSLA - Tesla shareholder group still not happy with Elon Musk’s $56B pay package. Urged other investors to reject a $56B pay package.
- XPEV higher on their strong earnings
- MACYS higher on improving picture
- LOW - higher on earnings
- Crypto stocks higher on strong Bitcoin performance
- LRCX 10-1 stock split
- PANW lower on eanrings, seems harsh to me. Other crypto names down in sentiment.
- Chinese stocks lower as Hong Kong MARKET down 1.5% today.
- NOVA - Piper Sandler downgrades Sunnova Energy to neutral from overweight, lowered price target to 4.50 from 9. Analyst had upgraded sun nova in December on expectation of lower rates, but rates have stayed high.
- Li - postpones the launch of its all electric SUVs to the first half of 2025, citing inadequate charging stations and other constraints. CEO emphasised the need for sufficient branded charging stations and more display spots.
- DOWN 4% AGAIN TODAY ON THIS.
- BABA - Alibaba cloud slashes prices for its latest LLM model, Tongyi Qianwen, by up to 97%
- BIDU - in response to Alibaba’s move, BIDU made its ENITRE Speed and ENIRE lite models entirely free to use.
- So we are seeing price wars in AI market.
- JPM says that they will not be increasing buybacks of JPM stock at these prices. Will just continue with previously outlined buyback pace.
- Jamie Dimon also hinted at retirement in the speech, hence JPM lower yesterday
- DELL - Citi raises dell price target to 170 from 125. Optimistic they can gain market share more in AI.
- JD - announces a proposed offering of $1.5B in convertible senior notes, due 2029. Will use proceeds to repurchase shares and expand overseas business.
- PTON - plans global refinancing to address debt. Secured nearly $1.4B in new credit facilities.
- ASML and TSM said they have measures in place to remotely disable advanced EUV chip making machines if China was to invade Taiwan.
- QCOM - shares were higher yesterday after Several big companies including Dell and MSFT announced AI laptops using Qualcomm’s snapdragon X elite chip. MSFT says these devices will outperform apple MacBook Air M3.
- ARM - MSFT will announce Arm powered laptops
- WEN - launches a $3 breakfast deal, including small seasoned potatoes, choice of bacon, eggs and cheese or sausage, eggs and cheese muffin. Rivals Mcdonalds $5value meal
- DASH - expanded its partnership with ULTA beauty to offer on demand delivery in under an hour from 1350 stores across all 50 states.
- VFS - US regulators are probing a vin fast VF 8 Crash, that killed 4 in California.
- LLY - secures china approval for diabetes drug, Tirzepatide. Received approval in China for its diabetes drug.
- BA - one killed on Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 due to severe turbulence.
- DIS - Redburn upgrades to neutral from Sell. Price target 100.
- Samsung - appoints new chief for its chip business, amid competition.
- BTC higher to 72K.
- ETH popped 20% yesterday on renewed optimism for ETF, that SEC might green light spot ether ETFs ahead of first deadline later this week.
- Yardeni research sees Dow Jones DJI at 60k and SPX at 8k by 2030
- Mester’s comments yesterday:
- 3 rate cuts this year is no longer appropriate.
- April CPI was good, but too soon to say what path inflation is on. She said she doesnt think about rate cuts in terms of when. We can raise rates but its not base case. That’s bearish, but also unrealistic. I think there’s less risk now that we are too restrictive, and inflation risks are to upside.
- BEARISH COMMENTS FROM MESTER OVERALL
- Jefferson’s Comments yesterday:
- April inflation was encouraging. Labour market coming into better balance. Inflation decline isn’t as fast as we had liked. Policy is restrictive. - NEUTRAL comments, I’d say.
- Following these comments, Bank of America said that whilst the bar for rate hikes is still v high, rate cuts are still far off. Said Services inflation still running way above target.
- Bank of America believes markets got excited at the print, said markets pricing 50bps of cuts are likely to get disappointed.
- Did push back on stagflation narrative.
- SPACEX Q1 launch report shows that SpaceX is now launching 87% of all payload to orbit, a new record high.
- New Yorkers on average earned $89K last year, meaning that without spending more than 30% of annual income on rent, they can afford $2,216 on housing. That’s only enough to afford 4.4% of rentals.
- Marko Kolanovic held his bearish outlook on stocks, urging clients not to buy. So not all bears are capitulating.
- Fidelity ethereal fund says that the trust’s Ether will not be staked.
- IMF official expects next stage for BOE is to ease rates, says UK monetary policy is at inflection point. Actions by UK authorities are paying off.
- Said BoE should cut rates by 50-75bps in 2024.
- Upgraded UK growth forecast to 0.7% this year from 0.5% previously
- Dubai Airport expects record passenger traffic this year, set to top 100M by 2027.
2024.05.21 14:06 TearRepresentative56 Everything I'm watching and analysing in premarket 21/05, including detailed earnings breakdown and all the news driving the market.
ANALYSIS section will be posted separately on my sub Tradingedge
DATA LEDE:
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DATA LEDE:
- RBA minutes - Australia
- Said they will try not to excessively fine tune policy
- Future changes to cash rate are difficult to rule in or out
- CPI short term variation can be easily and reasonably overlooked
- Recent data does point to slightly increased inflation risks
- NEUTRAL/HAWKISH overall
- Australia consumer confidence numbers drop 0.3% MOM
- German PPI came 0.2% MOM vs 0.2% expected, in line with last months reading.
- YOY came in at -3.3% slightly below expected value of -3.2%. Came in light which is good for German inflation picture.
- Yellen Speech - no real meaningful comments
- EU balance of trade numbers hit a new yearly high. Points to improving world demand environment.
- Fed speakers include:
- Barkin, Waller, Williams, Bostic, Barr
- BoE’s Bailey to speak too
- SPX: Maintained above 5300, now trading at 5311. Yesterday, touched 5325, before moving lower again. DJI: Trading at 39,813, just below 40k. Opened yesterday above 40k but moved lower on JPM weakness.
- Nasdaq: trading flat at 18,665. Support will now be at around 18,350.
- Ger40: Slightly lower today, at 18,600. Some slight profit taking near the highs.
- HKG50: Moving lower again for 2nd day in a row. Now at 19,240. Yesterday, was at 19,750 at one point. So down 2.7% across yesterday and today.
- Oil - hit 80 yesterday on WTI but was rejected off there. Lower today to 78, down by 1.5%. Back to range bound.
- Gold: Trading at 2418, Support at 2400.
- VIX: After getting crushed to 12 yesterday, bounced up off of there, now higher.
- DXY moving flat today and yesterday, around 104.5
- Had fallen to 100d moving average after CPI then moved higher, bouncing from there.
- EURUSD positioning still bullish, flat, slightly higher at 1.087
- GBPUSD moving higher again, trading at 1.272
- AUDUSD at 0.667,
- Has broken out of the long term downtrend.
- PANW Current Quarter:
- Revenues of 1.985B beat by 0.8%. Revenues rose 15% YOY
- Products revenue beat by 1.2%
- Subscriptions and support revenue beat by 0.3%
- EPS of 1.32 Beat expectations of 1.25 - beat by 5.6%
- Operating income was 508M, beat by 3.5%
- Operating margin was 25.6% , beat by 69 bps
- Billings came more or less in line
- Deferred revenue basically in line, slight miss.
- NEXT QUARTER GUIDANCE:
- EPS of 1.41 v slightly missed expectations of 1.42
- Revenue came in line with consensus at 2.16B
- Billings guidance beat consensus v slightly.
- FULL YEAR GUIDANCE:
- EPS of 5.56-5.58 beat estimates of 5.51
- Revenue of 8B beat estimates of 7.98B
- Billings of 10.15.5B was up 10-11% YoY
- CEO Nikesh Arora: Enthusiastic response to pjatformization and AI infused security outcomes.
- In conference call said that billings isn’t the only important measure, hence investors should overlook the slight softness in billings.
- Said cybersecurity demand will continue to grow for next several quarters, and PANW will benefit.
- Cyberattacks are scaling and aren’t going away. AI will increase these threats. So the tailwinds for PANW are very strong.
- EPS of -0.75 was much better than the -2.06 expected
- Revenue of 6.55B beat estimates of 6.19B. Up 63% YOY, but down 50% QOQ
- Vehicle margin was 5.5%, which was up from 4.1% last quarter, and up form -2.5% last year SO VEHICLE MARGIN IMPROVED
- Vehicle sales came in at 5.54B yuan, up 50% YOY but down 50% QOQ
- Gross margin was 12.9%, up from 1.7% last year and 6.2% last quarter
- SO MARGINS IMPROVED, SALES WERE WORSE THAN LAST QUARTER
- In April saw 9,393 vehicles delivered
- Partnership with Volkswagen group on E/E architecture
- Release of AI powered functions
- GROSS MARGIN IMPROVEMENT DESPITE COMPETITION AND OTHERS CUTTING PRICES WAS A KEY BENEFIT.
- Revenue 7.5-8.3B miss by 15%
- Delivered of 29-32K. Up 30% YOY
- Current quarter:
- ADJ EPS $0.27 vs. $0.56 y/y, EST $0.14. BEAT
- EPS $0.22 vs. $0.56 y/y
- Net sales $4.8B, -3.7% y/y, EST $4.81B. IN LINE
- Gross margin 39.2% vs. 40% y/y, EST 39.6%. MISS
- SG&A expense $1.9B, -2.6% y/y, EST $1.98B. MISS
- GUIDANCE:
- Raised guidance from 2.45-2.85 to 2.55-2.9.
- Raised by 4%
- Beat estimates by 4%, although is a wide guidance
- Sees Net sales at 22.3-22.9B, raising bottom end up slightly from 22.2B.
- More or less in line with guidance.
- Merchandise margins down 100bps due to additional discounting
- Merchandise inventories are well positioned for upcoming summer season
- Credit card revenues down slightly due to higher delinquency rates
- Turnaround plan showing signs of progress as they beat and raise guidance.
- Current quarter:
- EPS of 3.67 beat estimates of 2.95
- Revenue of 21.4B was down YOY by 4%, but beat estimates by 1.3%
- Comparables sales were down 4%
- Reaffirms FY guidance:
- EPS of 12-12.3 vs estimate of 12.19. So miss slightly by 0.4%
- Revenue of 84-85B, basically in line.
- EXPECTS COMPARABLE SALES TO BE DOWN 2-3% vs estimates of 2.43% down.
- MSFT yesterday, said that Copilot Plus PCs will be based on Qualcomm’s snapdragon X Elite chips, and will offer 15 hours of web browsing and 20 hours of video battery life. MSFT says it’ll outperform MacBook Air.
- On Copilot Plus, Neural processor enables new AI features such as recall for a searchable PC memory.
- MSFT estimates 50 million AI PCs will be sold over the next year. Said its rearchitectured Windows 11 is 58% faster than Apple’s MacBook Air.
- MSFT - restructures Windows 11 for better ARM hardware support and AI integration. Introduces prism emulator, launched to improve compatibility with older x86 and x64 apps. MSFT says Prism emulator is 20% faster than previous versions.
- AAPL - Files law suit to overturn $1.8B EU antitrust fine over App Store rules. AAPL is challenging a 1.8B fine.
- MSFT - OpenAI will be sued by Scarlett Johansson for basically copying her voice against her explicit instruction not to.
- TSLA - Tesla shareholder group still not happy with Elon Musk’s $56B pay package. Urged other investors to reject a $56B pay package.
- XPEV higher on their strong earnings
- MACYS higher on improving picture
- LOW - higher on earnings
- Crypto stocks higher on strong Bitcoin performance
- LRCX 10-1 stock split
- PANW lower on eanrings, seems harsh to me. Other crypto names down in sentiment.
- Chinese stocks lower as Hong Kong MARKET down 1.5% today.
- NOVA - Piper Sandler downgrades Sunnova Energy to neutral from overweight, lowered price target to 4.50 from 9. Analyst had upgraded sun nova in December on expectation of lower rates, but rates have stayed high.
- Li - postpones the launch of its all electric SUVs to the first half of 2025, citing inadequate charging stations and other constraints. CEO emphasised the need for sufficient branded charging stations and more display spots.
- DOWN 4% AGAIN TODAY ON THIS.
- BABA - Alibaba cloud slashes prices for its latest LLM model, Tongyi Qianwen, by up to 97%
- BIDU - in response to Alibaba’s move, BIDU made its ENITRE Speed and ENIRE lite models entirely free to use.
- So we are seeing price wars in AI market.
- JPM says that they will not be increasing buybacks of JPM stock at these prices. Will just continue with previously outlined buyback pace.
- Jamie Dimon also hinted at retirement in the speech, hence JPM lower yesterday
- DELL - Citi raises dell price target to 170 from 125. Optimistic they can gain market share more in AI.
- JD - announces a proposed offering of $1.5B in convertible senior notes, due 2029. Will use proceeds to repurchase shares and expand overseas business.
- PTON - plans global refinancing to address debt. Secured nearly $1.4B in new credit facilities.
- ASML and TSM said they have measures in place to remotely disable advanced EUV chip making machines if China was to invade Taiwan.
- QCOM - shares were higher yesterday after Several big companies including Dell and MSFT announced AI laptops using Qualcomm’s snapdragon X elite chip. MSFT says these devices will outperform apple MacBook Air M3.
- ARM - MSFT will announce Arm powered laptops
- WEN - launches a $3 breakfast deal, including small seasoned potatoes, choice of bacon, eggs and cheese or sausage, eggs and cheese muffin. Rivals Mcdonalds $5value meal
- DASH - expanded its partnership with ULTA beauty to offer on demand delivery in under an hour from 1350 stores across all 50 states.
- VFS - US regulators are probing a vin fast VF 8 Crash, that killed 4 in California.
- LLY - secures china approval for diabetes drug, Tirzepatide. Received approval in China for its diabetes drug.
- BA - one killed on Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 due to severe turbulence.
- DIS - Redburn upgrades to neutral from Sell. Price target 100.
- Samsung - appoints new chief for its chip business, amid competition.
- BTC higher to 72K.
- ETH popped 20% yesterday on renewed optimism for ETF, that SEC might green light spot ether ETFs ahead of first deadline later this week.
- Yardeni research sees Dow Jones DJI at 60k and SPX at 8k by 2030
- Mester’s comments yesterday:
- 3 rate cuts this year is no longer appropriate.
- April CPI was good, but too soon to say what path inflation is on. She said she doesnt think about rate cuts in terms of when. We can raise rates but its not base case. That’s bearish, but also unrealistic. I think there’s less risk now that we are too restrictive, and inflation risks are to upside.
- BEARISH COMMENTS FROM MESTER OVERALL
- Jefferson’s Comments yesterday:
- April inflation was encouraging. Labour market coming into better balance. Inflation decline isn’t as fast as we had liked. Policy is restrictive. - NEUTRAL comments, I’d say.
- Following these comments, Bank of America said that whilst the bar for rate hikes is still v high, rate cuts are still far off. Said Services inflation still running way above target.
- Bank of America believes markets got excited at the print, said markets pricing 50bps of cuts are likely to get disappointed.
- Did push back on stagflation narrative.
- SPACEX Q1 launch report shows that SpaceX is now launching 87% of all payload to orbit, a new record high.
- New Yorkers on average earned $89K last year, meaning that without spending more than 30% of annual income on rent, they can afford $2,216 on housing. That’s only enough to afford 4.4% of rentals.
- Marko Kolanovic held his bearish outlook on stocks, urging clients not to buy. So not all bears are capitulating.
- Fidelity ethereal fund says that the trust’s Ether will not be staked.
- IMF official expects next stage for BOE is to ease rates, says UK monetary policy is at inflection point. Actions by UK authorities are paying off.
- Said BoE should cut rates by 50-75bps in 2024.
- Upgraded UK growth forecast to 0.7% this year from 0.5% previously
- Dubai Airport expects record passenger traffic this year, set to top 100M by 2027.
2024.05.21 14:01 bojacksanchezzz U.K. Ancestry to ILR using Super Prioirty
Hi! I wanted to pay it forward after benefiting from other helpful Reddit posts by sharing our experience using the Super Priority Service for Indefinite Leave to Remain. Using Super Priority we got our decision within 4 hours after completing our biometrics.
Background
I evidenced the following:
Timeline: 17/05/2024 Friday 1.02am application submitted with Super Priority 21/05/2024 Tuesday 9.00am attended Biometric appointment )appt took approx. 30mins) 21/05/2024 Tuesday 12.52pm application accepted!!
Costs £7770 - Application with Super Priority for both of us £286 – Biometric Appointment for both of us £8056 – Total
I will say we felt like our situation was straight forward which undoubtedly helped with the timeline but hope this helps anyone applying in future!
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Background
- Moved together to the UK on a 5-year UK Ancestry visa, I was the lead applicant and my partner (unmarried) was my dependant
- Both from the same commonwealth country, both employed and have been in a relationship forever so had solid evidence of living togetheshared financials etc.
- We did this application ourselves and did not use an immigration lawyer.
- Super Priority is only available at 1.00am (12.00am when not daylight savings) and appeared when we refreshed the PAYMENT screen at 1.00am. I did a test 2 weeks prior to applying and grabbed a screenshot of what you should see.
- After you’ve paid, you receive an email for a third-party website to upload your documents and book a Biometrics appointment.
- The Biometrics appointments were £280+ (some were over £400), we couldn’t see any free options, and was a fee we were not expecting. I’m not sure if Biometric appointments are free if you don’t do Super Priority.
- A dependant does not make their own application for ILR but is added as an applicant on the leads
I evidenced the following:
- Ancestry - provided my grandmothers birth cert, grandmothers marriage cert, mothers birth cert, my own birth cert
- Ability to support myself & dependant financially - provided 3 months of payslips, employment contract, letter of employment, latest P60
- Proof of relationship with dependant - provided mortgage statement, joint bank account statement, previous rental agreement, latest council tax letter
- 3 months of payslips, letter from employer, latest P60, bank statement
Timeline: 17/05/2024 Friday 1.02am application submitted with Super Priority 21/05/2024 Tuesday 9.00am attended Biometric appointment )appt took approx. 30mins) 21/05/2024 Tuesday 12.52pm application accepted!!
Costs £7770 - Application with Super Priority for both of us £286 – Biometric Appointment for both of us £8056 – Total
I will say we felt like our situation was straight forward which undoubtedly helped with the timeline but hope this helps anyone applying in future!
2024.05.21 13:58 AlertReturn1251 2 Weeks Post Op
 | LeFort 1 Osteotomy. I’m two weeks post op and finally starting to feel like myself again. The swelling started to drastically go down, along with the uncomfortable/pressure feeling through days 5-7. I still have swelling and numbness in my upper lip, nose, and cheeks. submitted by AlertReturn1251 to jawsurgery [link] [comments] 1st pic is 1 month pre op. 2nd pic is 3 days post op. 3rd pic is 5 days post op. 4th pic is 2 months pre op. 5th pic is 12 days post op. Also, I’m a little scared to post my whole face on reddit after the other girl in here was getting serious threats. Sorry if it comprises the before and after. |
2024.05.21 13:51 jinkxymonsoon Rentnow Leasing experience
⚠️ Lengthy post incoming ⚠️
Last week I rented a car from rentnow leasing after passing my TP. I don’t see a lot of review/experience for this rental company so I thought I’d share mine here.
I actually first heard about them from carousell and after reading a lot of reviews, I decided to message them on carousell. One of their agent(?) Andy, told me to contact him on WhatsApp.
Andy’s replies were fast even when it’s late at night. Asked him a few things like what are their rates, how much is the deposit.
I was actually supposed to rent a Mazda 3 but since I’m renting for a day, I wanted to collect the car as early as possible. Andy told me Mazda 3 return time is a bit late, so he suggested Honda Fit instead for the same price.
I also told him I prefer not to make a deposit and he said they have cars that don’t require deposit so that’s a plus for me.
Breakdown of the price:
Rental duration: 1 day (24 hr)
Price (no deposit required): $85
CDW (excess $1500): $5
Total: $90
Collection of the car:
One day before the collection date, Andy whatsapped me the time that I can collect the car. I went to their office at 11am and waited for their staff to print the contract(?) for me.
The contract stated that I should take pictures (front,back,corners) of the car before I drive. And things like if I damage the tyres or have to call for tow service are under my own expense. (I’m sure those who rented cars will know these basic things?)
They will give a cashcard with zero value to exit the building. After exiting the building, I had to park the car by the roadside and return the cashcard to them before I leave so the next customer can use it. This is a slight downside for me but I’m just purely lazy lol.
About the car:
On first look, the car was of course not perfect, so I made sure to take close pictures of the areas that were already scratched to make sure I protect myself.
I think they also provide P-Plates if you don’t have one. They asked if I have my own and I told them I did.
The car felt alright, the brakes, headlights, wipers are all in good condition. There’s also a camera for when you reverse.
I could tell they sanitized the car before i collected it as the smell was very strong. My shirt even got the smell LOL. The car smelled nice too, they hung a car freshener on the mirror.
However, since I don’t know much about cars, my dad mentioned the car alignment is off. When the wheels are straight, the steering wheel is not. So that threw me off a bit bc I couldn’t practice my parking well since my parking is already bad. 😭
Returning the car:
Returning the car was also smooth. Andy was very friendly when he came out to collect the car as soon as we arrived (We didn’t meet him when we collected because he wasn’t there). He walked around the car to make sure there weren’t any dents or damage to the car.
We handed him the key and we’re off.
Overall, I would rent from them again and I also recommend to p-platers who are looking to rent a car to practice their driving or parking without having to put a deposit! The car exceeded my expectations as I thought no deposits will get me a car that’s not in a super good condition lol!
Ps: any tips on reverse parking is HIGHLY appreciated! I could not for the love of god park properly even after a good 6 hours of practice. Every time we had to park at a mall or coffee shop, my dad had to take over and park for me 🥲🥲🥲
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Last week I rented a car from rentnow leasing after passing my TP. I don’t see a lot of review/experience for this rental company so I thought I’d share mine here.
I actually first heard about them from carousell and after reading a lot of reviews, I decided to message them on carousell. One of their agent(?) Andy, told me to contact him on WhatsApp.
Andy’s replies were fast even when it’s late at night. Asked him a few things like what are their rates, how much is the deposit.
I was actually supposed to rent a Mazda 3 but since I’m renting for a day, I wanted to collect the car as early as possible. Andy told me Mazda 3 return time is a bit late, so he suggested Honda Fit instead for the same price.
I also told him I prefer not to make a deposit and he said they have cars that don’t require deposit so that’s a plus for me.
Breakdown of the price:
Rental duration: 1 day (24 hr)
Price (no deposit required): $85
CDW (excess $1500): $5
Total: $90
Collection of the car:
One day before the collection date, Andy whatsapped me the time that I can collect the car. I went to their office at 11am and waited for their staff to print the contract(?) for me.
The contract stated that I should take pictures (front,back,corners) of the car before I drive. And things like if I damage the tyres or have to call for tow service are under my own expense. (I’m sure those who rented cars will know these basic things?)
They will give a cashcard with zero value to exit the building. After exiting the building, I had to park the car by the roadside and return the cashcard to them before I leave so the next customer can use it. This is a slight downside for me but I’m just purely lazy lol.
About the car:
On first look, the car was of course not perfect, so I made sure to take close pictures of the areas that were already scratched to make sure I protect myself.
I think they also provide P-Plates if you don’t have one. They asked if I have my own and I told them I did.
The car felt alright, the brakes, headlights, wipers are all in good condition. There’s also a camera for when you reverse.
I could tell they sanitized the car before i collected it as the smell was very strong. My shirt even got the smell LOL. The car smelled nice too, they hung a car freshener on the mirror.
However, since I don’t know much about cars, my dad mentioned the car alignment is off. When the wheels are straight, the steering wheel is not. So that threw me off a bit bc I couldn’t practice my parking well since my parking is already bad. 😭
Returning the car:
Returning the car was also smooth. Andy was very friendly when he came out to collect the car as soon as we arrived (We didn’t meet him when we collected because he wasn’t there). He walked around the car to make sure there weren’t any dents or damage to the car.
We handed him the key and we’re off.
Overall, I would rent from them again and I also recommend to p-platers who are looking to rent a car to practice their driving or parking without having to put a deposit! The car exceeded my expectations as I thought no deposits will get me a car that’s not in a super good condition lol!
Ps: any tips on reverse parking is HIGHLY appreciated! I could not for the love of god park properly even after a good 6 hours of practice. Every time we had to park at a mall or coffee shop, my dad had to take over and park for me 🥲🥲🥲
2024.05.21 13:51 No_Praline2334 Was my friend (B) being passive aggressive with me in this conversation?
Messages between A and B
Context: A reaches out to B after B stopped talking to A for 2 years over a disagreement. A now wants to reconnect with B again. When discussing each other's plans, A mentions that they have been sober for 7 months and that they plan to drink again in the summer. A begins to notice a shift in B's energy towards them in text messages, and perceives this as B misinterpreting A's intentions for reaching out again. A pinpoints B's behaviour to the meme, subliminal messaging, and intentional misspelling of words.B- Sends Meme which says “Me 5 mins into Alcoholics Anonymous trying to convince everyone to come to the pub”
A- “Listen man I’ve been getting the vibe that you may think me reaching out to you again wasn’t coming from a genuine place. My therapist has been telling me I need to communicate more, so I’m gonna try be as transparent as possible here. I thought there was no point in tryna reach out to you again as you wouldn’t respond, but then you liked my post back on New Year’s Eve, so I was happy and thought maybe there’s a chance we could still reconnect again, but I still wasn’t sure if you were gonna respond so I kept putting it off until I finally messaged you at the end of March. During my meetings we constantly discuss seeking healthy friendships as a pose to my old ones and I knew it just made sense to message you again, you’ve always been the realist out of all our old friendship group, so why not do it now I’m sober…
When I told you I’d been sober since the end of September, and that I will drink in the summer again I said that not because I was looking for drinking mates but because I wanted to be honest with you and myself about my sobriety, I mention it all the time at weekly group meetings. Right now I’m at a space where I don’t really wanna drink and I’m not really as keen as I was before on drinking in the summer like I said to you but the point is, I say I will drink again, because if I do end up drinking in the summer or whenever, I won’t feel as guilty about it, as a pose to me saying I’m staying sober…. If that makes sense? Also I know I wasn’t exactly the best mate to have when drinking so I just wanted to make it clear with where I may be headed, rather than surprise you down the line. If you don’t really like the sound of that, that’s fine I get it, maybe reconnecting again isn’t the best idea. But I just wanted to be as honest and direct as possible, man. I hope you can understand.”
B- “Honestly mate I haven’t given you messaging me again too much thought other than you tryna reconnect.
When we last spoke properly I was just annoyed as I felt like you handle things in a kinda selfish way and I’m ngl I did a thing I’m good at and just ignored you other than talk to you about it. But yeah even though ignored you I haven’t said a bad thing about you to anyone cause I honestly had no bad blood for ya at all.
I can’t promise I’m gonna be available to hang out all the time or anything as I’m working a lot atm plus having the mrs it does limit my time but I was honest when I said I am definitely up for us hanging out again at some point”
A- “I’ll hold myself accountable and admit I was acting selfishly, so I understand why you reacted they way you did looking back. Yh when I spoke to **** about it I got that same impression off him, and it was likewise for me, I spoke good of you and said it was a shame how things turned out.
That’s completely understandable you being busy with work and the Mrs, I never doubted that, and I don’t wanna come across as pushy. My messages earlier came from a place of wanting to address any misunderstandings that you may have had, as I know it can lead to unnecessary resentment or conflict. But from what you’re saying I can now see it’s not the case, so I’m just glad we communicated and are on the same page man ”
B- “Yeah man we’re cool if you’re free next week at some point lmk and we can hang out”
A- “Yh I’ll be real I still get the feeling you think I’m not being genuine. What you gotta understand is me reaching out comes from a place of wanting to find connection again- healthy connection anyways, the going out drinking and all that is only a by-product of it all, and I’d be lying if I said I don’t miss going out club or pub with you, but it’s bigger than that.
Idk if ***** maybe tried to tell you a different narrative (I’ll dis-prove anything if he has), but I cut off everyone at the end of September, I reached my lowest point. Since then I’ve been working on myself I don’t meet anyone I don’t have any social interactions other than when I’m at therapy/group meetings, or talking to people in the gym, and that way I’m able to stay focused and keep my peace. I only do streaks with **** on snap, and when he asked me to meet before I told him no I can’t at the moment, as i’m focused on myself. I don’t want sympathy btw, I’m letting you know how it is, so there isn’t any confusion. When I reached out, this was me coming out of hibernation, more healthy, taking the first step towards interacting with people again- the right people anyways.
I’m happy to meet next week but I have one condition. I’ve been played with enough times to know about that game where they pretend everything’s fine then they strike when you’re least expecting it, and I’m not saying you’re gonna do that but I have trust issues and I’m drained mentally, and I won’t be a part of any unnecessary conflict. So if we’re gonna meet I’m gonna need your word before please, that you’re not gonna try to be passive agressive with me in any shape or form? If you feel a type of way about me, you still don’t believe I’m genuine, I’m more than happy to have an open respectful discussion face to face about it.”
B- “Look mate I’m happy to see you again, it’s been a while but like I said I am really busy, try not to read too much into my replies. I mean what I’m saying”
A- “Apologies for not responding sooner. I’ve been reflecting on the whole situation, trying to be as honest as I can with myself about my intentions. I stand with most of what I said before. I swear I wasn’t lying when I saw you liking my picture in January I wanted to reach out, and I genuinely did keep putting off messaging you until March in fear you wouldn’t respond. When it reached the end of March I told myself I just had to do it as I said. But looking back now, I think I wasn’t being as honest as I thought with myself in regards to my intentions towards messaging you. I definitely wanted to reconnect but I also badly wanted to have a social life and meet people again, (NOT specifically drinking, but understandably the drinking would naturally become a part of it, that’s just how things go).
I feel this other reason became more pressing for me as I became ready to go back to normal life again. But obviously I shouldn’t have had the idea of desperately wanting a social life in mind when messaging you, and actually just messaging you specifically for the sake of reconnecting, to keep the intentions fully genuine. So for that I am sorry. Now I don’t want you to mistake this as me only messaging you again for that sole purpose of having a social life because it was not just that at all, and it genuinely made a big difference not having you as a mate in my life, like I said you were the most real mate I had out of all my mates, and I knew I messed that up, so seeing there was a chance we could be mates again made me real happy.
Obviously in regards to how you perceived my intentions I’ve gathered you are pretty annoyed with me, I can’t change your opinion but I can tell you my truth which I have just said. Unfortunately reconnecting hasn’t worked out so well which I guess I am to blame for with my approach. I think this is God’s sign that it’s not meant to be. I’m sorry I haven’t been as genuine as I thought I was being. I also respect how you never spoke bad of me before even when we weren’t on the best of terms, that demonstrates how real of a mate you were. I don’t have any ill feelings towards you, even if you might do now. I honestly wish you the best on your journey and I’ll always have ratings for you B ”
B- “You what mate good luck yo ya”
2024.05.21 13:47 Human_Holiday_4758 Deathcore/Metalcore - Best One Song Encyclopedia
219 bands, 219 songs! Here's the YouTube Music Version:
Deathcore/Metalcore - Best One Song Encyclopedia
Obviously "best song" is a very subjective notion, but I got a bunch of input from the big Deathcore/Metalcore group on FB, as well as Metalcore during the brief period before the post was removed (imagine tongue-sticking-out emoji here!) Anyway, the alphabetized band list by itself is pretty cool, IMHO. Enjoy - and please feel free to make suggestions for additions or changes!
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Deathcore/Metalcore - Best One Song Encyclopedia
Obviously "best song" is a very subjective notion, but I got a bunch of input from the big Deathcore/Metalcore group on FB, as well as Metalcore during the brief period before the post was removed (imagine tongue-sticking-out emoji here!) Anyway, the alphabetized band list by itself is pretty cool, IMHO. Enjoy - and please feel free to make suggestions for additions or changes!
- Aborted - Dreadbringer
- Abbie Falls - Pitch Black
- Across the Sun – May Silence Keep You
- After The Burial - Behold The Crown
- A Hero A Fake – I Know I
- All Out War – Into the Killing Fields
- Allt – Paralyzed
- All That Remains - This Calling
- Alpha Wolf - Akudama
- alt. - BACK TO EARTH
- A Mourning Star – A World Beyond
- Angelmaker- What I Would Give
- Annalynn - Closer to the Edge
- Annisokay - Coma Blue
- Any Given Day – Savior
- Architects - These Colors Don’t Run
- As Blood Runs Black – In Dying Days
- As I Lay Daying - The Sound of Truth
- Asking Alexandria - A Single Moment of Sincerity
- Atena – Oil Rigs
- ATLVS – Comethazine
- Atreyu – Crimson
- Attack! Attack! – Killing for Sport
- Avenged Sevenfold – Unholy Confessions
- Aviana – Rage
- August Burns Red - White Washed
- AVOID - Whatever
- Bad Omens - ARTIFICIAL SUICIDE
- Before I Turn – Aglaeca
- Being as an ocean - the hardest part is forgetting those you swore you would never forget
- Bleed from Within - Alive
- Bleeding Through - Revenge I Seek
- Bloodywood - Machi Bhasad
- Bodysnatcher – Exterminate
- Botch – One Twenty Two
- Boundaries – I'd Rather Not Say
- Breakdown of Sanity – The Storm
- Bring Me the Horizon - Shadow Moses
- Bullet for my Valentine - Four Words (To Choke Upon)
- Bury Tomorrow – Choke
- Caliban – Memorial
- Carnifex - Die Without Hope
- Caskets - The Final Say
- Chamber - Replacing Every Weakness
- Chelsea Grin – Cheyne Stokes
- Chimaira – Pure Hatred
- Classic Jack – LAG
- Code Orange - Forever
- coldrain - 2020
- Conquer Divide - Afterthought.wav
- Converge – A Single Tear
- Counterparts - Whispers Of Your Death
- Crimson Eyes – Serenity
- Crown the Empire – The Fallout
- Crystal Lake - Apollo
- Currents - Better Days
- Daedric - Alchemy
- Dance Gavin Dance – Chucky vs. The Giant Tortoise
- Dark Divine - The Fear
- Darkest Hour - Goddess of War, Give Me Something to Die For
- Darko US - Pale Tongue
- Dal Av & Jackson Rose – Insanely Illegal Cage Fight
- Dead Crown – Joker
- Dealer – Crooked
- Defocus – Crooked Mind
- Demon Hunter - Cross to Bear
- Downswing – Bound to Misery (feat. AVOID)
- Dying Wish - Enemies in Red
- Earth Crisis – Forced March
- Eighteen Visions – Reality Killer
- Elwood Stray - Half Life
- Emmure - When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong
- Enterprise Earth – Reanimate // Disintegrate
- ERRA - Lunar Halo
- Esprit D’Air - Ocean’s Call
- Every Time I Die - Map Change
- Fallstar – When Justice Cracks the Sky
- Fit for a King - Backbreaker
- Fit for an Autopsy – Under a Serpent Sun
- Flames of Betrayal – The Rain Reeks of Heaven
- Foreign Hands - Separation Souvenir
- For the Fallen Dreams – Sulfate
- For today - Break the Cycle
- Get the Shot – Deathbound (feat Rob Watson)
- Ghost Iris – My Dear Rat Kings
- Gideon -- Bite Down
- God Forbid - To the Fallen Hero
- Great American Ghost – Ann Arbor (Be Safe)
- Greyhaven - Kappa (River Child)
- Guilt Trip – Eyes Wide Shut
- Hanabie - Otaku Lovely Densetsu
- Harm’s Way – Become a Machine
- Haste the Day – 68
- Hatebreed – Own Your World
- Heart of a Coward – Hollow
- Heaven Shall Fall – Hunters Will Be Hunted
- Holding Absence - Monochrome
- Humanity’s Last Breath - Labyrinthian
- Ice Nine Kills – The American Nightmare
- If I Were You – System Failure
- Imminence – Chasing Shadows
- Impending Doom - There Will be Violence
- In Heart’s Wake – Survival (The Chariot)
- I Prevail - Deadweight
- I See Stars - Running With Scissors
- InChaos - Butterfly Effect
- Ingested – I, Despoiler
- Invent Animate - False Meridian
- Jesus Piece - Fear of Failure
- Job for a Cowboy – Sun of Nihility
- Johnny Booth - The Ladder
- Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade
- Kill The Lights - Dead From The Start
- Knocked Loose - Deep in the Willow
- Kublai Khan - The Hammer
- Lamb of God - Descending
- Left to Suffer – Overwhelming Power
- LVNDMARKS - False Reality
- Light the Torch - Die Alone
- Like Moths To Flames - Dissociative Being
- Loathe - Aggressive Evolution
- Lorna Shore – Of the Abyss
- Make Them Suffer - Uncharted
- Misery Signals - Luminary
- Malevolence – On Broken Glass
- MAYFLOWER – Misery
- Maylene & the Sons of Disaster – Caution: Dangerous Curves Ahead
- MIRE – Inside
- Miss May I – Hey Mister
- Motionless in White – Disguise
- Mouth for War – Saturate Me
- Mugshot – Egodystonic
- Myka Relocate – Hide the Truth
- Norma Jean - Sword in Mouth, Fire Eyes
- Nora – I Should Have Sent Flowers
- Novelists FR - Souvenirs
- Of Mice and Men - The Depths
- Ocean Sleeper - Your Love I'll Never Need
- Opal In Sky - The Blight
- Orthodox - Cave In
- Paleface – Lights Out
- Paria - The Absurdity of Solace
- Parkway Drive – Dark Days
- Patient Sixty-Seven - Hibbertia
- Periphery - Stranger Things
- PERN – Gasping for Air
- Phinehas – I Am the Lion
- Polaris - The Remedy
- Pupil Slicer - No Temple
- Reflections - Help
- Reliqa – Tyrant
- Renesans - Labor of Hate
- Rings of Saturn - Senseless Massacre
- Sail’s End - The Sound of Silence 3: Three
- Sanction – The Prophet Who Saw Fire
- SAVE US – Distance
- Scarlet Horizon - Seed
- Sea of Treachery – Unleash the Serpents
- Serration – Simulations of Hell
- Shadow of Intent – The Prelude to Bereavement
- Shadows Fall – The Light that Blinds
- Shai Halud - Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life
- Silent Planet - Antimatter
- Signs of the Swarm – Amongst the Low and Empty
- Silverstein - Your Sword vs My Dagger
- Sion – More than Just Myself
- Slaughter to Prevail - Viking
- Sleep Token – The Summoning
- Snapcase – Harrison Bergeron
- Spite – led
- Spiritbox - The Beauty Of Suffering
- Spiritual Chaos - End
- Suicide Silence - Unanswered
- Sunami – Mind Your Business
- Sworn In – Snake Eyes
- Tenside - Come Alive Dying
- The Acacia Strain - The Impaler
- The Afterimage – Secrets
- The Amity Affliction – Pittsburgh
- The Black Dahlia Murder – What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
- The Browning - The End of Existence
- The Chariot - David De La Hoz
- The Devil Wears Prada - Danger: Wildman
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is The Killer
- The Empire Shall Fall – Voices Forming Weapons
- The Ghost Inside – Aftermath
- The Gloom in the Corner – Bleed You Out
- The Human Abstract – Vela, Together We Await the Storm
- The Ongoing Concept - Feel Again
- The Plot in You - Crows
- The Zenith Passage – Deus Deceptor
- Thornhill - Casanova
- Throwdown – This Continuum
- Thrown - on the verge
- Thy Art is Murder – Holy War
- Times of Grace – Medusa
- To the Grave – Terrorist Threat
- Trivium - Down from the Sky
- Undying – the Company of Storms
- Unearth - This Glorious Nightmare
- Upon a Burning Body – Extermination
- Varials – Anything to Numb
- VCTMS – Pull From the Hurt
- Veil of Maya - Outsider
- VEXED – X my <3 (Hope to Die)
- Vision of Disorder - D.T.O.
- Wage War - The River
- Walls of Jericho – Forever Militant
- War of Ages – Collapse
- We Are The Empty – Carcass
- We Came As Romans - What I Wished I never Had
- Whitechapel - I Will Find You
- While She Sleeps - You Are We
- Within Destruction – Void
- Within the Ruins – Gods Amongst Men
- Wolves at the Gate – Deadweight
- World of Pleasure – Carbon Copy
- Xibalba – Death Threat
- Zao - Resistance
2024.05.21 13:45 confessthestress Treatment round 3 - CURED. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Urine PCR after 2 weeks = clear. Cervical swab after 3 weeks = clear.
I also had strep, gardnerella and ecoli as coinfections. I still have ecoli, the rest is clear :)
Now here is my 4-1-1, because maybe I can help someone:
I sent my doctor the bible post + the cdc guidelines and a study on the effectiveness of dual treatment for UP/MP and he gave me the bible treatment. Do NOT be afraid to educate your doctors. This thing is a beast that's yet to be acknowledged in the way it deserves.
My symptoms were:
Finally, if it wasn't for this sub, I couldn't have done it. Thank you, THANK YOU. I never felt so much love and gratitude toward strangers on Reddit. This is the best community out there hands down and so, so important in this lonely world of STIs!
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I also had strep, gardnerella and ecoli as coinfections. I still have ecoli, the rest is clear :)
Now here is my 4-1-1, because maybe I can help someone:
Failed treatments: 7 days doxi, 10 days erithromycin... Successful treatment: 10 days doxi + 1.5g azithromycin ...I treated gardnerella with metro and strep with a vaginal antibiotic (polygynax).
I sent my doctor the bible post + the cdc guidelines and a study on the effectiveness of dual treatment for UP/MP and he gave me the bible treatment. Do NOT be afraid to educate your doctors. This thing is a beast that's yet to be acknowledged in the way it deserves.
My symptoms were:
urgency to pee... burning urethra... burning clitoral hood and vaginal opening... stinging or "icy" pain on clitoral hood and vaginal opening... itching around entire vulva and even down to the bum... swollen vagina, kind of blue-ish color... sensitivity to touch, thigh movements, sitting for a long time, pain after friction and touch...IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
My symptoms were mild before I got the ecoli UTI, then all hell broke loose. Apparently, that's also common. UP thrives on inflammation.... TREAT YOUR COINFECTIONS. I didn't get metronidazole alongside my strep and UP antibiotics cuz it would have been too much. I started doing boric acid and baking soda baths and IMMEDIATELY felt my symptoms go down by a lot! Not gone, but wayyy better. Strep, efecalis and gardnerella all cause burning, just like UP... ST John's wort suppositories and vaginal oil are like natural lidocaine. It did wonders for me!!!...AFTER TREATMENT:
My WORST day symptom-wise was the day after azi. That's also common and called a herx reaction. Then my symptoms went away for 3 days and came back for about a week. I've been symptom free for the last 10 days or so, after 3 months of agony. Azi is still in your system and does it's magic for 2-3 weeks after taking it. Expelling dead/dying bacteria after successful treatment is also painful. Trust the process.I did not have sex during treatment and I plan on giving myself rest until ecoli is also done... BUT, I did some self loving, and it wasn't painful at all ;)
Finally, if it wasn't for this sub, I couldn't have done it. Thank you, THANK YOU. I never felt so much love and gratitude toward strangers on Reddit. This is the best community out there hands down and so, so important in this lonely world of STIs!
2024.05.21 13:43 KeeraD85 1st Dose pzfier Side Effect
I received my 1st dose 9/22. Almost immediate (within 20 minutes after receiving shot) normal effects such as nasal drip, metallic taste, felt a little high and grumpy. A few days later started the arm and leg muscle weakness. Started upper chest soreness. Which I can only describe as "feeling bruised".
When I received my 1st dose I was 1 yr almost exactly to the date post covid. Had blood clot in RL lung & double pneumonia. Three weeks prior to received 1st dose I tested + for antibodies. On 9/28 while relaxing in bed without notice I suddenly started feeling like I was going to passed out. I sat at the end of my bed where it continued as my body kept feeling like I was passing out. There was no blackout or dizziness I went straight into passing out.
It wouldn't stop. I had to call ambulance. ER ruled out heart attack. Since 11/2 I have had 3 similar episodes and now as of yesterday I had a small episode. When this happens my body feels like it's draining circulation, I get warm circles all over body, lower back, arm pits, legs, groin area. After this happens my body gets extremely tired and weak. My arms get shaky. I have had extensive testing done. Seen just about every doctor including ENT. Not one has an explanation of what is happening. According to my doctors I was in perfect health at my physical in May of 2021. I'm just sharing my story in hopes that I can get answers and hopefully help someone who is struggling after getting pzfier vaccine.
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When I received my 1st dose I was 1 yr almost exactly to the date post covid. Had blood clot in RL lung & double pneumonia. Three weeks prior to received 1st dose I tested + for antibodies. On 9/28 while relaxing in bed without notice I suddenly started feeling like I was going to passed out. I sat at the end of my bed where it continued as my body kept feeling like I was passing out. There was no blackout or dizziness I went straight into passing out.
It wouldn't stop. I had to call ambulance. ER ruled out heart attack. Since 11/2 I have had 3 similar episodes and now as of yesterday I had a small episode. When this happens my body feels like it's draining circulation, I get warm circles all over body, lower back, arm pits, legs, groin area. After this happens my body gets extremely tired and weak. My arms get shaky. I have had extensive testing done. Seen just about every doctor including ENT. Not one has an explanation of what is happening. According to my doctors I was in perfect health at my physical in May of 2021. I'm just sharing my story in hopes that I can get answers and hopefully help someone who is struggling after getting pzfier vaccine.
2024.05.21 13:41 brianiceisnice I’m so mad, heartbroken, sad… I NEED to type this somewhere. IDGAF this my main Reddit account that I do EVERYTHING on… I just need to share this somewhere or my head’ll CAVE IN.. so i’m sharing this on two subreddits so i can BREATHE
TL;DR - selfish asshole of an older brother scams me and my parents out of $200.
Okay, so I’m not doing too well financially, but I live with my Mom and Pops so we try to make ends meet. A couple weeks back we were in such rough shape financially, that I had to juggle three day jobs just to cover rent and suppress the collector’s from knocking on the door regarding our collective debts. We so broke I literally can’t even afford to sleep because in the night=I can get freelance work done. “I can sleep when I’m dead,” has become my full-time motto (unfortunately). Anyways, to try to bring some income in my household I offer services as a freelance video editor.
A while back, my older brother (who’s a career criminal and has flee’d multiple countries when authorities were after him for violent offences) hit me up and asked if I’d be down to edit for him. I was hesitant at first, being as last time I heard from him was after he beat our Mum to a pulp when I was only 12. For context bro or sis, whoever you are that is reading this: if I was only three years older I wouldn’t have let that slide—I would have mobbed his ass right then and there, pinned him down and done him so fucking dirty… IDGAF if my 15 year old ass had gone to juvie for it, I would do anything for my mother, including take a life. But instead, all that’s been imprinted in my brain is how much of a bitch I was at 12–cowering under the dining table as he took multiple shots with a shoe, at our crying helpless mother on the ground.
Anyways it’s been a few years, I’m 24 now and he gave me a big sob story how he has changed. I bought it up like the good little sheeple I am… started editing for him under the guise that he’d pay me $200 per video: SCORE! That’s a lot of money!!!
I got to know his business (shady as fuck) and got to find out he now dreams of being a finance influencer (double shady) but alas, he’s my big bro and no matter what wrong-doing he’s doing, he convinced me that he was a good man. Ight, bet, I’ma edit for him and make some money for the fam! In between his ‘takes’ of videos he sends me, I piece together that his “wife” films the videos, and he’s still an extremely abusive person. He tries not to let it show on camera, but I’m really good with people, emotions and hidden trauma so I can feel the sickening ‘abuser-of-people’ energy SEEPING off of him, still, to this day. I feel sick to my stomach editing for him, but shit, he’s promised me $200 per video. Over the course of a few weeks I can see why he never told us about his wife, it seems he keeps her pent up somewhere in Georgia, Batumi, and forces her to do whatever he wants. He once referred to her as “his slave” which I originally thought was A JOKE, but now in the grand scheme of things… I don’t think it was a joke. I pray that authorities get to them before he does something to her, but idek where to begin to put a ‘concerned citizen tip’ in a foreign country.
Some context as to why I put up with all the red flags: Mom’s not working as she has to take care of the house and she’s also trying to make money online, any ways possible. She’s starting to sell her favourite clothes. It fucking breaks my heart that I can’t do shit about it… at 24 years old, with all the social media influencing and advertising, I feel like garbage that I can’t fully support my parents… at least not yet! Dad is constantly depressed because he’s almost 80 years old and can’t retire ‘cuz my parent’s are in too much debt.
Okay, anyways, three BIG videos done for him (by big, I mean I spent +8 hours on each vid) and brother’s paid me for ONE via PayPal… no worries, he keeps leading me on saying the money will come, the money will come. And PayPal says I got $200 coming my way from him! Uhh ight, bet? Mind you, I start PLANNING my life around this $200 notification because that’s a hot stack for me and my family!!! Takes PayPal about 20 days to actually let me use the money… ridiculous because we NEEDED it… but that’s okay, I work around the problems in life, much like we all have to.
Here comes the turning point: I’m a little overworked and a little coo-coo sometimes, and one night I start telling him personal shit, kinda pouring out my heart to him, venting almost. I don’t really remember about what, just life I guess, nothing negative towards him. Somehow he misconstrues it, gets upset with me, and ‘tells me off.’ I get upset with him, tell him his business is a sham and I’ma change the rules that we agreed upon. Since his fake-ass can’t pay me what was agreed upon, (maybe $200 is a lot for him, as well) so I ask him if we can do $10 per hour instead. I pitch to him that moving forward, anytime I edit more than five hours ($50), I will refuse to edit until the money gets sent. The conversation turns hostile, QUICK. He calls me a ton of bad names with an underlying message that I’m the biggest loser on earth for pursuing a dream in working in Entertainment & he ends it with a sweet “you’ll never be anything.” LOL WHAT? Completely out of pocket and out of left field, so naturally, I tell him to eat shit, I won’t be doing anymore free work and he can pay me a mere $30 (yes, thirty dollars) for the entire portfolio of audios, texts/scripts, videos, and clips I’ve taken from the internet that ‘match’ the vibe he wants in his videos.
Context: at this point I’ve completed SIX FULL VIDEOS FOR THIS DUDE and he’s only paid me the one payment of $200. Not good at maths? Me neither, lemme help you out. He owes me $1,200 from our original agreement because I’ve spent more than 48 collective hours working on his videos, and he’s only paid me $200. But I tell him: I’ll let it all slide if he pays me $30 for the portfolio of about 50 gigabytes, and then moving forward, he’d pay me the $10 per hour if he wanted more content from me. He already has the six full videos in his possession. The ‘portfolio’ is stuff I’ve found that’s free-use on the internet, stuff that I’ve compiled, and even some scripts that I’ve written out! ALL MINE that I did for HIS business. So it seems logical for me to give this portfolio as an option, just incase he wants to say nah moving forward on me editing for him, and just take the material & go our separate ways…
In response, my (35 year old) brother files a complaint on PayPal claiming he only hired me for a channel encompassing trailer that I did not provide and that I’m attempting to extort him for more money. LOL, WHAT? PayPal’s like BET and automatically attempts to deduct from MY chequing account, without even getting to the bottom of it. Obviously doesn’t work, my account (not PayPal account, my fucking bank account. these mf so overzealous that they reached right into my mf pocket!!!!) gets put in the negatives and I attempt to appeal, with no sweat on my brow ‘cuz I’m like no way PayPal finna let this slide. I then proceed to message my terrible relative multiple times, with texts, videos and audio recordings and I’m in a hysterical mess. I begin threatening him, I begin begging to him, pleading with him, saying anything under the sun just for the hope that he has some heart and would send back the $200 if PayPal does end up taking it from me. Already my chequing was fricked but I could do some damage control… I was cocky, thinking PayPal would obviously side with me once they heard the whole story, so I also told him since he’s caused such pain for me out of absolutely nothing, like completely unprovoked, then shit: I want the original $200 PLUS an extra $200 for all this trauma. He responds by blocking me on everything. It’s 4 A.M. and I’m shaking as I’m typing this…
Somehow after all the information I provided, PayPal sides with him. Wow, wait, what? PayPal has since tried to deduct my PERSONAL CHEQUING ACCOUNT multiple times in order to fish back the $200 which I ALREADY HAD TO USE!!! Idk if you ever had a payment tried to be taken out of an account which already has a negative balance, but the payment doesn’t go (it does a minus then a plus) but usually the bank is like WTF and charges you fees. Multiple times = Multiple fees…
Before, I was in the negatives on my ONE chequing account I own… now I’m in the NEGATIVE-NEGATIVES… no clue how tf I’ma get out of it, but we all persevere eventually! I’ve reached out to PayPal but I’m almost sure nothing will come of it.. I’m considering taking PayPal to small claims court to somehow try to fix all this mess, but I fear it’ll break me off more trouble than repair anything. If you want to DM me, I’ll gladly give you my brother’s socials to send a report to his accounts on Instagram or TikTok, or even leave him a not-so-nice comment if you’d like. Also let me know if you know how I can get in contact with the authorities in the country of ‘Georgia.’
I have absolutely no issues posting his socials, address, doxxxing his ass to the fullest extent, all to do whatever’s necessary: because I fear he will one day gain notoriety and scam a shit ton of people. Praying that never happens.
Let me know what y’all think!!!
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Okay, so I’m not doing too well financially, but I live with my Mom and Pops so we try to make ends meet. A couple weeks back we were in such rough shape financially, that I had to juggle three day jobs just to cover rent and suppress the collector’s from knocking on the door regarding our collective debts. We so broke I literally can’t even afford to sleep because in the night=I can get freelance work done. “I can sleep when I’m dead,” has become my full-time motto (unfortunately). Anyways, to try to bring some income in my household I offer services as a freelance video editor.
A while back, my older brother (who’s a career criminal and has flee’d multiple countries when authorities were after him for violent offences) hit me up and asked if I’d be down to edit for him. I was hesitant at first, being as last time I heard from him was after he beat our Mum to a pulp when I was only 12. For context bro or sis, whoever you are that is reading this: if I was only three years older I wouldn’t have let that slide—I would have mobbed his ass right then and there, pinned him down and done him so fucking dirty… IDGAF if my 15 year old ass had gone to juvie for it, I would do anything for my mother, including take a life. But instead, all that’s been imprinted in my brain is how much of a bitch I was at 12–cowering under the dining table as he took multiple shots with a shoe, at our crying helpless mother on the ground.
Anyways it’s been a few years, I’m 24 now and he gave me a big sob story how he has changed. I bought it up like the good little sheeple I am… started editing for him under the guise that he’d pay me $200 per video: SCORE! That’s a lot of money!!!
I got to know his business (shady as fuck) and got to find out he now dreams of being a finance influencer (double shady) but alas, he’s my big bro and no matter what wrong-doing he’s doing, he convinced me that he was a good man. Ight, bet, I’ma edit for him and make some money for the fam! In between his ‘takes’ of videos he sends me, I piece together that his “wife” films the videos, and he’s still an extremely abusive person. He tries not to let it show on camera, but I’m really good with people, emotions and hidden trauma so I can feel the sickening ‘abuser-of-people’ energy SEEPING off of him, still, to this day. I feel sick to my stomach editing for him, but shit, he’s promised me $200 per video. Over the course of a few weeks I can see why he never told us about his wife, it seems he keeps her pent up somewhere in Georgia, Batumi, and forces her to do whatever he wants. He once referred to her as “his slave” which I originally thought was A JOKE, but now in the grand scheme of things… I don’t think it was a joke. I pray that authorities get to them before he does something to her, but idek where to begin to put a ‘concerned citizen tip’ in a foreign country.
Some context as to why I put up with all the red flags: Mom’s not working as she has to take care of the house and she’s also trying to make money online, any ways possible. She’s starting to sell her favourite clothes. It fucking breaks my heart that I can’t do shit about it… at 24 years old, with all the social media influencing and advertising, I feel like garbage that I can’t fully support my parents… at least not yet! Dad is constantly depressed because he’s almost 80 years old and can’t retire ‘cuz my parent’s are in too much debt.
Okay, anyways, three BIG videos done for him (by big, I mean I spent +8 hours on each vid) and brother’s paid me for ONE via PayPal… no worries, he keeps leading me on saying the money will come, the money will come. And PayPal says I got $200 coming my way from him! Uhh ight, bet? Mind you, I start PLANNING my life around this $200 notification because that’s a hot stack for me and my family!!! Takes PayPal about 20 days to actually let me use the money… ridiculous because we NEEDED it… but that’s okay, I work around the problems in life, much like we all have to.
Here comes the turning point: I’m a little overworked and a little coo-coo sometimes, and one night I start telling him personal shit, kinda pouring out my heart to him, venting almost. I don’t really remember about what, just life I guess, nothing negative towards him. Somehow he misconstrues it, gets upset with me, and ‘tells me off.’ I get upset with him, tell him his business is a sham and I’ma change the rules that we agreed upon. Since his fake-ass can’t pay me what was agreed upon, (maybe $200 is a lot for him, as well) so I ask him if we can do $10 per hour instead. I pitch to him that moving forward, anytime I edit more than five hours ($50), I will refuse to edit until the money gets sent. The conversation turns hostile, QUICK. He calls me a ton of bad names with an underlying message that I’m the biggest loser on earth for pursuing a dream in working in Entertainment & he ends it with a sweet “you’ll never be anything.” LOL WHAT? Completely out of pocket and out of left field, so naturally, I tell him to eat shit, I won’t be doing anymore free work and he can pay me a mere $30 (yes, thirty dollars) for the entire portfolio of audios, texts/scripts, videos, and clips I’ve taken from the internet that ‘match’ the vibe he wants in his videos.
Context: at this point I’ve completed SIX FULL VIDEOS FOR THIS DUDE and he’s only paid me the one payment of $200. Not good at maths? Me neither, lemme help you out. He owes me $1,200 from our original agreement because I’ve spent more than 48 collective hours working on his videos, and he’s only paid me $200. But I tell him: I’ll let it all slide if he pays me $30 for the portfolio of about 50 gigabytes, and then moving forward, he’d pay me the $10 per hour if he wanted more content from me. He already has the six full videos in his possession. The ‘portfolio’ is stuff I’ve found that’s free-use on the internet, stuff that I’ve compiled, and even some scripts that I’ve written out! ALL MINE that I did for HIS business. So it seems logical for me to give this portfolio as an option, just incase he wants to say nah moving forward on me editing for him, and just take the material & go our separate ways…
In response, my (35 year old) brother files a complaint on PayPal claiming he only hired me for a channel encompassing trailer that I did not provide and that I’m attempting to extort him for more money. LOL, WHAT? PayPal’s like BET and automatically attempts to deduct from MY chequing account, without even getting to the bottom of it. Obviously doesn’t work, my account (not PayPal account, my fucking bank account. these mf so overzealous that they reached right into my mf pocket!!!!) gets put in the negatives and I attempt to appeal, with no sweat on my brow ‘cuz I’m like no way PayPal finna let this slide. I then proceed to message my terrible relative multiple times, with texts, videos and audio recordings and I’m in a hysterical mess. I begin threatening him, I begin begging to him, pleading with him, saying anything under the sun just for the hope that he has some heart and would send back the $200 if PayPal does end up taking it from me. Already my chequing was fricked but I could do some damage control… I was cocky, thinking PayPal would obviously side with me once they heard the whole story, so I also told him since he’s caused such pain for me out of absolutely nothing, like completely unprovoked, then shit: I want the original $200 PLUS an extra $200 for all this trauma. He responds by blocking me on everything. It’s 4 A.M. and I’m shaking as I’m typing this…
Somehow after all the information I provided, PayPal sides with him. Wow, wait, what? PayPal has since tried to deduct my PERSONAL CHEQUING ACCOUNT multiple times in order to fish back the $200 which I ALREADY HAD TO USE!!! Idk if you ever had a payment tried to be taken out of an account which already has a negative balance, but the payment doesn’t go (it does a minus then a plus) but usually the bank is like WTF and charges you fees. Multiple times = Multiple fees…
Before, I was in the negatives on my ONE chequing account I own… now I’m in the NEGATIVE-NEGATIVES… no clue how tf I’ma get out of it, but we all persevere eventually! I’ve reached out to PayPal but I’m almost sure nothing will come of it.. I’m considering taking PayPal to small claims court to somehow try to fix all this mess, but I fear it’ll break me off more trouble than repair anything. If you want to DM me, I’ll gladly give you my brother’s socials to send a report to his accounts on Instagram or TikTok, or even leave him a not-so-nice comment if you’d like. Also let me know if you know how I can get in contact with the authorities in the country of ‘Georgia.’
I have absolutely no issues posting his socials, address, doxxxing his ass to the fullest extent, all to do whatever’s necessary: because I fear he will one day gain notoriety and scam a shit ton of people. Praying that never happens.
Let me know what y’all think!!!
2024.05.21 13:39 jmmcdr99 Fear
Hello to all of u guys that are in the same situation as me and i hope y’all doing the best!
5 weeks ago i started with some tingling on my left side of the body that made me went to ER because i was in fear that could be a stroke or something. I started to take some non steroid anti inflammatory for 10 days since they thought that could be some exercise injury due i lift weights. I took this anti inflammatory and a pharmacist said to me that was a big mistake because was a strong one (i have a problem swallowing like food keeping stuck on esophagus) and she said to me that i could had some ulcer. After that i went to doctor and he told me to do some high endoscopy which im waiting for. In this weeks the tingling disappeared but i started to feel some pain in my left side of the body (like body soreness) and now it’s all of my body in pain, sometimes in back, sometimes in leg idk, all over. I started to have muscle twitches all over the body small ones that last like 1s max. I had an appointment with doctor and he told me my strength was normal between 2 sides and normal reflexes too, nothing to worry. But idk, i still feel concerned. Anyone feels the same? 😅
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5 weeks ago i started with some tingling on my left side of the body that made me went to ER because i was in fear that could be a stroke or something. I started to take some non steroid anti inflammatory for 10 days since they thought that could be some exercise injury due i lift weights. I took this anti inflammatory and a pharmacist said to me that was a big mistake because was a strong one (i have a problem swallowing like food keeping stuck on esophagus) and she said to me that i could had some ulcer. After that i went to doctor and he told me to do some high endoscopy which im waiting for. In this weeks the tingling disappeared but i started to feel some pain in my left side of the body (like body soreness) and now it’s all of my body in pain, sometimes in back, sometimes in leg idk, all over. I started to have muscle twitches all over the body small ones that last like 1s max. I had an appointment with doctor and he told me my strength was normal between 2 sides and normal reflexes too, nothing to worry. But idk, i still feel concerned. Anyone feels the same? 😅
2024.05.21 13:35 Shaffer1398 Update.....💔
An update to my post from before...
Our case unfortunately ended in the worst possible out come...
At 13 weeks, our NIPT came back flagged high risk for the 22q11.2 - DiGeorge Microdeletion, with Maternal deletion suspected. For 7 weeks we sat in limbo, holding hope that we would fall in the "false positive" category, especially with already having 2 perfectly healthy children.
20 week ultrasound, "we are concerned with the low level of amniotic fluid" we were then sent to a level 2 ultrasound a week later where the same was discovered, little to no amniotic fluid..
We were told what this would likely mean....and as we moved forward it would be discovered that due to the micro deletion (which we were later told it was not believed to be DiGeorge but a different microdeletion that slightly overlapped with the DiGeorge deletion) our baby's kidneys were not developing...
Her right kidney had not developed at all and her left was Multicystic (MCDK) - the prognosis was not good.
No kidneys - No Fluid - No lungs... No Chance.
We were faced with a decision. We could TMFR or move forward knowing what we know.
We chose to keep our baby with us, maybe hoping for a miracle, but so we could have proper closure and not regret anything.
We had transferred our care to a high risk unit, in the event a miracle would happen they would be equipped to give her what she needed.
May 7th, 32 weeks in. We had several appointments. a few of which included talking about comfort care options for when she arrived. To make sure she was as comfortable as possible and to arrange for some other things to be set up for us to be able to make some memories with her and our other children. (Clay handprints, Pictures, etc.)
We were also supposed to meet with some people to help us tell our 5 year old son what was coming as we had not yet figured out how to do that (He was so excited to be a big brother again, our 2 year old daughter still too young to understand)
None of this would matter however... the next day my wife came home from work with stomach pains that progressed into the evening (she thought it was constipation) around 9:30 Wednesday evening we went to the ER to have her checked out. (Other than the obvious, the ultrasounds the day before showed no signs of anything abnormal)
Our Daughter came at 11:30... she did not make it.. we knew what we were facing. Expecting the worst, yet it still came unexpectedly...
She never knew pain... only love. Her time here was short, but it changed us forever.
Our sweet Callie Mae 💗👼
Wanted to update and tell her story.
I hope and pray that no one else ever has to face this, as it is the most heartbreaking experience I will ever face in life.
Thank you for reading.. I will keep all of you in my thoughts. Praying no one else has to go through this
https://www.reddit.com/NIPT/comments/1abgoyu/chance_of_digeorge_syndromemicrodeletion/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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Our case unfortunately ended in the worst possible out come...
At 13 weeks, our NIPT came back flagged high risk for the 22q11.2 - DiGeorge Microdeletion, with Maternal deletion suspected. For 7 weeks we sat in limbo, holding hope that we would fall in the "false positive" category, especially with already having 2 perfectly healthy children.
20 week ultrasound, "we are concerned with the low level of amniotic fluid" we were then sent to a level 2 ultrasound a week later where the same was discovered, little to no amniotic fluid..
We were told what this would likely mean....and as we moved forward it would be discovered that due to the micro deletion (which we were later told it was not believed to be DiGeorge but a different microdeletion that slightly overlapped with the DiGeorge deletion) our baby's kidneys were not developing...
Her right kidney had not developed at all and her left was Multicystic (MCDK) - the prognosis was not good.
No kidneys - No Fluid - No lungs... No Chance.
We were faced with a decision. We could TMFR or move forward knowing what we know.
We chose to keep our baby with us, maybe hoping for a miracle, but so we could have proper closure and not regret anything.
We had transferred our care to a high risk unit, in the event a miracle would happen they would be equipped to give her what she needed.
May 7th, 32 weeks in. We had several appointments. a few of which included talking about comfort care options for when she arrived. To make sure she was as comfortable as possible and to arrange for some other things to be set up for us to be able to make some memories with her and our other children. (Clay handprints, Pictures, etc.)
We were also supposed to meet with some people to help us tell our 5 year old son what was coming as we had not yet figured out how to do that (He was so excited to be a big brother again, our 2 year old daughter still too young to understand)
None of this would matter however... the next day my wife came home from work with stomach pains that progressed into the evening (she thought it was constipation) around 9:30 Wednesday evening we went to the ER to have her checked out. (Other than the obvious, the ultrasounds the day before showed no signs of anything abnormal)
Our Daughter came at 11:30... she did not make it.. we knew what we were facing. Expecting the worst, yet it still came unexpectedly...
She never knew pain... only love. Her time here was short, but it changed us forever.
Our sweet Callie Mae 💗👼
Wanted to update and tell her story.
I hope and pray that no one else ever has to face this, as it is the most heartbreaking experience I will ever face in life.
Thank you for reading.. I will keep all of you in my thoughts. Praying no one else has to go through this
https://www.reddit.com/NIPT/comments/1abgoyu/chance_of_digeorge_syndromemicrodeletion/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
2024.05.21 13:30 brianiceisnice I’m so mad, heartbroken, sad… I NEED to type this somewhere. IDGAF this my main Reddit account that I do EVERYTHING on… I just need to share this somewhere or my head’ll CAVE IN.
TL;DR - selfish asshole of an older brother scams me and my parents out of $200.
Okay, so I’m not doing too well financially, but I live with my Mom and Pops so we try to make ends meet. A couple weeks back we were in such rough shape financially, that I had to juggle three day jobs just to cover rent and suppress the collector’s from knocking on the door regarding our collective debts. We so broke I literally can’t even afford to sleep because in the night=I can get freelance work done. “I can sleep when I’m dead,” has become my full-time motto (unfortunately). Anyways, to try to bring some income in my household I offer services as a freelance video editor.
A while back, my older brother (who’s a career criminal and has flee’d multiple countries when authorities were after him for violent offences) hit me up and asked if I’d be down to edit for him. I was hesitant at first, being as last time I heard from him was after he beat our Mum to a pulp when I was only 12. For context bro or sis, whoever you are that is reading this: if I was only three years older I wouldn’t have let that slide—I would have mobbed his ass right then and there, pinned him down and done him so fucking dirty… IDGAF if my 15 year old ass had gone to juvie for it, I would do anything for my mother, including take a life. But instead, all that’s been imprinted in my brain is how much of a bitch I was at 12–cowering under the dining table as he took multiple shots with a shoe, at our crying helpless mother on the ground.
Anyways it’s been a few years, I’m 24 now and he gave me a big sob story how he has changed. I bought it up like the good little sheeple I am… started editing for him under the guise that he’d pay me $200 per video: SCORE! That’s a lot of money!!!
I got to know his business (shady as fuck) and got to find out he now dreams of being a finance influencer (double shady) but alas, he’s my big bro and no matter what wrong-doing he’s doing, he convinced me that he was a good man. Ight, bet, I’ma edit for him and make some money for the fam! In between his ‘takes’ of videos he sends me, I piece together that his “wife” films the videos, and he’s still an extremely abusive person. He tries not to let it show on camera, but I’m really good with people, emotions and hidden trauma so I can feel the sickening ‘abuser-of-people’ energy SEEPING off of him, still, to this day. I feel sick to my stomach editing for him, but shit, he’s promised me $200 per video. Over the course of a few weeks I can see why he never told us about his wife, it seems he keeps her pent up somewhere in Georgia, Batumi, and forces her to do whatever he wants. He once referred to her as “his slave” which I originally thought was A JOKE, but now in the grand scheme of things… I don’t think it was a joke. I pray that authorities get to them before he does something to her, but idek where to begin to put a ‘concerned citizen tip’ in a foreign country.
Some context as to why I put up with all the red flags: Mom’s not working as she has to take care of the house and she’s also trying to make money online, any ways possible. She’s starting to sell her favourite clothes. It fucking breaks my heart that I can’t do shit about it… at 24 years old, with all the social media influencing and advertising, I feel like garbage that I can’t fully support my parents… at least not yet! Dad is constantly depressed because he’s almost 80 years old and can’t retire ‘cuz my parent’s are in too much debt.
Okay, anyways, three BIG videos done for him (by big, I mean I spent +8 hours on each vid) and brother’s paid me for ONE via PayPal… no worries, he keeps leading me on saying the money will come, the money will come. And PayPal says I got $200 coming my way from him! Uhh ight, bet? Mind you, I start PLANNING my life around this $200 notification because that’s a hot stack for me and my family!!! Takes PayPal about 20 days to actually let me use the money… ridiculous because we NEEDED it… but that’s okay, I work around the problems in life, much like we all have to.
Here comes the turning point: I’m a little overworked and a little coo-coo sometimes, and one night I start telling him personal shit, kinda pouring out my heart to him, venting almost. I don’t really remember about what, just life I guess, nothing negative towards him. Somehow he misconstrues it, gets upset with me, and ‘tells me off.’ I get upset with him, tell him his business is a sham and I’ma change the rules that we agreed upon. Since his fake-ass can’t pay me what was agreed upon, (maybe $200 is a lot for him, as well) so I ask him if we can do $10 per hour instead. I pitch to him that moving forward, anytime I edit more than five hours ($50), I will refuse to edit until the money gets sent. The conversation turns hostile, QUICK. He calls me a ton of bad names with an underlying message that I’m the biggest loser on earth for pursuing a dream in working in Entertainment & he ends it with a sweet “you’ll never be anything.” LOL WHAT? Completely out of pocket and out of left field, so naturally, I tell him to eat shit, I won’t be doing anymore free work and he can pay me a mere $30 (yes, thirty dollars) for the entire portfolio of audios, texts/scripts, videos, and clips I’ve taken from the internet that ‘match’ the vibe he wants in his videos.
Context: at this point I’ve completed SIX FULL VIDEOS FOR THIS DUDE and he’s only paid me the one payment of $200. Not good at maths? Me neither, lemme help you out. He owes me $1,200 from our original agreement because I’ve spent more than 48 collective hours working on his videos, and he’s only paid me $200. But I tell him: I’ll let it all slide if he pays me $30 for the portfolio of about 50 gigabytes, and then moving forward, he’d pay me the $10 per hour if he wanted more content from me. He already has the six full videos in his possession. The ‘portfolio’ is stuff I’ve found that’s free-use on the internet, stuff that I’ve compiled, and even some scripts that I’ve written out! ALL MINE that I did for HIS business. So it seems logical for me to give this portfolio as an option, just incase he wants to say nah moving forward on me editing for him, and just take the material & go our separate ways…
In response, my (35 year old) brother files a complaint on PayPal claiming he only hired me for a channel encompassing trailer that I did not provide and that I’m attempting to extort him for more money. LOL, WHAT? PayPal’s like BET and automatically attempts to deduct from MY chequing account, without even getting to the bottom of it. Obviously doesn’t work, my account (not PayPal account, my fucking bank account. these mf so overzealous that they reached right into my mf pocket!!!!) gets put in the negatives and I attempt to appeal, with no sweat on my brow ‘cuz I’m like no way PayPal finna let this slide. I then proceed to message my terrible relative multiple times, with texts, videos and audio recordings and I’m in a hysterical mess. I begin threatening him, I begin begging to him, pleading with him, saying anything under the sun just for the hope that he has some heart and would send back the $200 if PayPal does end up taking it from me. Already my chequing was fricked but I could do some damage control… I was cocky, thinking PayPal would obviously side with me once they heard the whole story, so I also told him since he’s caused such pain for me out of absolutely nothing, like completely unprovoked, then shit: I want the original $200 PLUS an extra $200 for all this trauma. He responds by blocking me on everything. It’s 4 A.M. and I’m shaking as I’m typing this…
Somehow after all the information I provided, PayPal sides with him. Wow, wait, what? PayPal has since tried to deduct my PERSONAL CHEQUING ACCOUNT multiple times in order to fish back the $200 which I ALREADY HAD TO USE!!! Idk if you ever had a payment tried to be taken out of an account which already has a negative balance, but the payment doesn’t go (it does a minus then a plus) but usually the bank is like WTF and charges you fees. Multiple times = Multiple fees…
Before, I was in the negatives on my ONE chequing account I own… now I’m in the NEGATIVE-NEGATIVES… no clue how tf I’ma get out of it, but we all persevere eventually! I’ve reached out to PayPal but I’m almost sure nothing will come of it.. I’m considering taking PayPal to small claims court to somehow try to fix all this mess, but I fear it’ll break me off more trouble than repair anything. If you want to DM me, I’ll gladly give you my brother’s socials to send a report to his accounts on Instagram or TikTok, or even leave him a not-so-nice comment if you’d like. Also let me know if you know how I can get in contact with the authorities in the country of ‘Georgia.’
I have absolutely no issues posting his socials, address, doxxxing his ass to the fullest extent, all to do whatever’s necessary: because I fear he will one day gain notoriety and scam a shit ton of people. Praying that never happens.
Let me know what y’all think!!!
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Okay, so I’m not doing too well financially, but I live with my Mom and Pops so we try to make ends meet. A couple weeks back we were in such rough shape financially, that I had to juggle three day jobs just to cover rent and suppress the collector’s from knocking on the door regarding our collective debts. We so broke I literally can’t even afford to sleep because in the night=I can get freelance work done. “I can sleep when I’m dead,” has become my full-time motto (unfortunately). Anyways, to try to bring some income in my household I offer services as a freelance video editor.
A while back, my older brother (who’s a career criminal and has flee’d multiple countries when authorities were after him for violent offences) hit me up and asked if I’d be down to edit for him. I was hesitant at first, being as last time I heard from him was after he beat our Mum to a pulp when I was only 12. For context bro or sis, whoever you are that is reading this: if I was only three years older I wouldn’t have let that slide—I would have mobbed his ass right then and there, pinned him down and done him so fucking dirty… IDGAF if my 15 year old ass had gone to juvie for it, I would do anything for my mother, including take a life. But instead, all that’s been imprinted in my brain is how much of a bitch I was at 12–cowering under the dining table as he took multiple shots with a shoe, at our crying helpless mother on the ground.
Anyways it’s been a few years, I’m 24 now and he gave me a big sob story how he has changed. I bought it up like the good little sheeple I am… started editing for him under the guise that he’d pay me $200 per video: SCORE! That’s a lot of money!!!
I got to know his business (shady as fuck) and got to find out he now dreams of being a finance influencer (double shady) but alas, he’s my big bro and no matter what wrong-doing he’s doing, he convinced me that he was a good man. Ight, bet, I’ma edit for him and make some money for the fam! In between his ‘takes’ of videos he sends me, I piece together that his “wife” films the videos, and he’s still an extremely abusive person. He tries not to let it show on camera, but I’m really good with people, emotions and hidden trauma so I can feel the sickening ‘abuser-of-people’ energy SEEPING off of him, still, to this day. I feel sick to my stomach editing for him, but shit, he’s promised me $200 per video. Over the course of a few weeks I can see why he never told us about his wife, it seems he keeps her pent up somewhere in Georgia, Batumi, and forces her to do whatever he wants. He once referred to her as “his slave” which I originally thought was A JOKE, but now in the grand scheme of things… I don’t think it was a joke. I pray that authorities get to them before he does something to her, but idek where to begin to put a ‘concerned citizen tip’ in a foreign country.
Some context as to why I put up with all the red flags: Mom’s not working as she has to take care of the house and she’s also trying to make money online, any ways possible. She’s starting to sell her favourite clothes. It fucking breaks my heart that I can’t do shit about it… at 24 years old, with all the social media influencing and advertising, I feel like garbage that I can’t fully support my parents… at least not yet! Dad is constantly depressed because he’s almost 80 years old and can’t retire ‘cuz my parent’s are in too much debt.
Okay, anyways, three BIG videos done for him (by big, I mean I spent +8 hours on each vid) and brother’s paid me for ONE via PayPal… no worries, he keeps leading me on saying the money will come, the money will come. And PayPal says I got $200 coming my way from him! Uhh ight, bet? Mind you, I start PLANNING my life around this $200 notification because that’s a hot stack for me and my family!!! Takes PayPal about 20 days to actually let me use the money… ridiculous because we NEEDED it… but that’s okay, I work around the problems in life, much like we all have to.
Here comes the turning point: I’m a little overworked and a little coo-coo sometimes, and one night I start telling him personal shit, kinda pouring out my heart to him, venting almost. I don’t really remember about what, just life I guess, nothing negative towards him. Somehow he misconstrues it, gets upset with me, and ‘tells me off.’ I get upset with him, tell him his business is a sham and I’ma change the rules that we agreed upon. Since his fake-ass can’t pay me what was agreed upon, (maybe $200 is a lot for him, as well) so I ask him if we can do $10 per hour instead. I pitch to him that moving forward, anytime I edit more than five hours ($50), I will refuse to edit until the money gets sent. The conversation turns hostile, QUICK. He calls me a ton of bad names with an underlying message that I’m the biggest loser on earth for pursuing a dream in working in Entertainment & he ends it with a sweet “you’ll never be anything.” LOL WHAT? Completely out of pocket and out of left field, so naturally, I tell him to eat shit, I won’t be doing anymore free work and he can pay me a mere $30 (yes, thirty dollars) for the entire portfolio of audios, texts/scripts, videos, and clips I’ve taken from the internet that ‘match’ the vibe he wants in his videos.
Context: at this point I’ve completed SIX FULL VIDEOS FOR THIS DUDE and he’s only paid me the one payment of $200. Not good at maths? Me neither, lemme help you out. He owes me $1,200 from our original agreement because I’ve spent more than 48 collective hours working on his videos, and he’s only paid me $200. But I tell him: I’ll let it all slide if he pays me $30 for the portfolio of about 50 gigabytes, and then moving forward, he’d pay me the $10 per hour if he wanted more content from me. He already has the six full videos in his possession. The ‘portfolio’ is stuff I’ve found that’s free-use on the internet, stuff that I’ve compiled, and even some scripts that I’ve written out! ALL MINE that I did for HIS business. So it seems logical for me to give this portfolio as an option, just incase he wants to say nah moving forward on me editing for him, and just take the material & go our separate ways…
In response, my (35 year old) brother files a complaint on PayPal claiming he only hired me for a channel encompassing trailer that I did not provide and that I’m attempting to extort him for more money. LOL, WHAT? PayPal’s like BET and automatically attempts to deduct from MY chequing account, without even getting to the bottom of it. Obviously doesn’t work, my account (not PayPal account, my fucking bank account. these mf so overzealous that they reached right into my mf pocket!!!!) gets put in the negatives and I attempt to appeal, with no sweat on my brow ‘cuz I’m like no way PayPal finna let this slide. I then proceed to message my terrible relative multiple times, with texts, videos and audio recordings and I’m in a hysterical mess. I begin threatening him, I begin begging to him, pleading with him, saying anything under the sun just for the hope that he has some heart and would send back the $200 if PayPal does end up taking it from me. Already my chequing was fricked but I could do some damage control… I was cocky, thinking PayPal would obviously side with me once they heard the whole story, so I also told him since he’s caused such pain for me out of absolutely nothing, like completely unprovoked, then shit: I want the original $200 PLUS an extra $200 for all this trauma. He responds by blocking me on everything. It’s 4 A.M. and I’m shaking as I’m typing this…
Somehow after all the information I provided, PayPal sides with him. Wow, wait, what? PayPal has since tried to deduct my PERSONAL CHEQUING ACCOUNT multiple times in order to fish back the $200 which I ALREADY HAD TO USE!!! Idk if you ever had a payment tried to be taken out of an account which already has a negative balance, but the payment doesn’t go (it does a minus then a plus) but usually the bank is like WTF and charges you fees. Multiple times = Multiple fees…
Before, I was in the negatives on my ONE chequing account I own… now I’m in the NEGATIVE-NEGATIVES… no clue how tf I’ma get out of it, but we all persevere eventually! I’ve reached out to PayPal but I’m almost sure nothing will come of it.. I’m considering taking PayPal to small claims court to somehow try to fix all this mess, but I fear it’ll break me off more trouble than repair anything. If you want to DM me, I’ll gladly give you my brother’s socials to send a report to his accounts on Instagram or TikTok, or even leave him a not-so-nice comment if you’d like. Also let me know if you know how I can get in contact with the authorities in the country of ‘Georgia.’
I have absolutely no issues posting his socials, address, doxxxing his ass to the fullest extent, all to do whatever’s necessary: because I fear he will one day gain notoriety and scam a shit ton of people. Praying that never happens.
Let me know what y’all think!!!
2024.05.21 13:24 CousinSam22 Right side of my face and neck is swollen
 | Hello Everyone! I hope you all are having a great Tuesday morning because I am not, actually since last night I had a slightly swollen neck, and this morning I woke up looking like this! submitted by CousinSam22 to TMJ [link] [comments] Will give a little background to help understanding how I got here, last week I had a very bad cold, fever, sneezing, sore throat and the hole package of cold symptoms… I am a 420 user on a daily basis, but in small portions… its been six months I stopped smoking and chose healthier ways to get high, like gummies or vaporing flower (not vape pen) the reason I chose that was because my throat and neck was getting swollen.. (since I stopped smoking my throat and neck got back to normal size) Yesterday morning I was feeling great, recovering from last week cold, my voice was coming back and I was having way less symptoms, I decided to vaporize just a little bit of flowers to give me some a better energy as I was going to meet some family members.. it did help me with my voice and throat pain which is crazy but vaping flowers is way less harsh.. At night I got some leftovers from my family member I met who ate at Carmines restaurant (their foods are amazing by the way!) and also ate some more food I cooked for me and my husband, oh I also tried a new Heinz catchup with Habanero just a tiny bit because Im not a spicy food fan.. After 30 minutes from trying it I started feeling this discomfort from my face and neck, but it wasn’t swollen yet, just could feel my heartbeat on my face… fews hours I noticed the swollen.. Im counting the minutes to get 9/10am so I can my ENT doctor to schedule an appointment and I will also run a full blood test, because on my google search the results as USUAL were catastrophic lol 😩 it went a food allergy to HIV infection… as you noticed I am gay and I am not on Prep (because I am allergic to TRUVADA and I am waiting on the list to try a different version of Prep) Based on your experience, what this could be? Right now I took a Benadryl and I am hoping for the best and hoping that its just an allergic reaction or Sinusitis… but it’s scary! I never experienced something like this… only when I had my wisdom teeth removed (I removed 4 at once so I didn’t have to deal with the pain twice) and that was expected, but now I dont have any pain, I just had my tooth cleaned last week before the cold started so teeth problem is out of question as a symptom.. Can anyone help me calm myself down? Im writing this post shaking.. I already dont see myself on the mirror as a handsome person because of bullys back in school but my therapist always told me if you have a symmetrical face or as closest as possible to that means people might find you attractive and I based myself care on that since I heard that, now this messes entirely with my symmetry and makes me looks like Shrek 😩 of course my look is the least of my problems at this moment but I want my normal face back 😞 HELP’ And Thank You for stopping by and read this post ❤️ |
2024.05.21 13:22 Livingston052822 Missing feral cat. I’m devastated.
 | I have been TNR for 5 years. I have trapped an entire litter and they’ve stayed loyal to me and my home. They never left, so my husband and I built a cat fort.. mansion actually, and a catio outside. She’s never gone longer than a day. I know, I know, cats will be cats… but this isn’t Banjis behavior. They are semi feral to me now after 3 years of building trust. I’ve tried everything.. from our scent, to food, calling her name, posted on Humane Society, and our Ring Camera community. Usually when she hears my door open, she flies home from across the street. She even chases me down the road when I leave. But she’s always, always dedicated and loyal and stays happy here. Now, with her gone, I have her 2 sisters and brother here.. that I believe know something’s up. She NEVER misses a meal. She’s always the one to direct me to her bed before bedtime. She is very demanding and she is boss. I just wanted to vent as I am heartbroken I haven’t seen her in 4 days. I’ve had her since she’s been a kitten. Could I bring her in? I wish I could, but she’s far from wanting to go inside. I’m afraid someone snatched her and she’s scared.. or hurt… not everyone is like us on this subreddit …… please post pictures of your feral babies.. it helps me to see other ferals being taking care of. I don’t know any one around my area who is concerned of kitties like we are. I’m trying my hardest and it’s becoming a crippling week. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 submitted by Livingston052822 to Feral_Cats [link] [comments] |
2024.05.21 13:21 BenightedLight Post Fever, Inflammation, Pain, and Rashes After Appendectomy
My fiancé had an emergency appendectomy about 4 weeks ago. The surgery went well, and the appendix did not burst during or before removal. Prior to the surgery, the CT also showed he had an unobstructed kidney stone and an unobstructed gallstone. The surgeon offered to remove the gallbladder too (in case there would be issues later) but he declined, as unnecessary gallbladder removal can cause a lot of complications (I myself have some of those, as does my brother. Surgeon said these complications are about 1 in 3 patients. His gallbladder has never bothered him, so why roll the dice?)
He was really sore after surgery but was doing better each day and on track for recovery. He went back to work after 2 weeks. His job is more physical and requires walking several miles, so post-pain we initially chalked up to all the walking. At about 3.5 weeks, the pain got much worse, and he was in as much pain as he had been after the end of week 1. The pain was on his left lower abdomen/side, and the pain stretched toward his belly button. They had gone in laparoscopically on that side, so figured it was his incisions bothering him.
His incisions all looked good and still do. No redness, drainage, etc. Then he spiked a fever of almost 103. We went to the ER and they saw in his chart that he had had an unobstructed gallstone. The ER team focused on that gallbladder hard and was trying to get him to have it removed before they even got any testing back. They did a blood panel (his WBC count was a little elevated, but nothing insane), an x-ray, a CT, a urine test, and an ultrasound. They lied and told him they did Murphy's Test on him and that his gallbladder had thickening walls and was inflamed. But they never did the Murphy's Test and he has and had no pain in that area. They really scared us, saying he could die etc. In the end, they called another surgeon to look at the scans and they said to cut us loose if he wasn't having pain. They gave him no antibiotics and just told him to follow up with his doctor.
He called the surgeon that had done the surgery and the surgeon said he did not see any wall thickening or inflammation in the scans. He said the gallbladder looked like it had before his surgery. He also said the CT did not show any abscesses or infections. So on top of everything else, we feel like the ER scared us for...What exactly? Money from an unnecessary surgery?
Over the weekend, his pain worsened, and he kept teetering between elevated and low-grade fever. He has been very constipated. His pain also began to stretch lower into his pelvis, and now into his balls. He seems to have some sort of lump on his pelvis - I'm not sure if its a lymph node or what it is.
He went in to see his primary care doctor yesterday who ordered more blood tests and then scheduled an ultra sound for today. His blood tests were pretty normal, except for a 13.1 mg/L high sensitivity CRP. Today, he also now has a rash developing on his arms and legs. We're just really worried and have no idea what is going on. Has anyone else experienced something like this or have any ideas?
submitted by BenightedLight to DiagnoseMe [link] [comments]
He was really sore after surgery but was doing better each day and on track for recovery. He went back to work after 2 weeks. His job is more physical and requires walking several miles, so post-pain we initially chalked up to all the walking. At about 3.5 weeks, the pain got much worse, and he was in as much pain as he had been after the end of week 1. The pain was on his left lower abdomen/side, and the pain stretched toward his belly button. They had gone in laparoscopically on that side, so figured it was his incisions bothering him.
His incisions all looked good and still do. No redness, drainage, etc. Then he spiked a fever of almost 103. We went to the ER and they saw in his chart that he had had an unobstructed gallstone. The ER team focused on that gallbladder hard and was trying to get him to have it removed before they even got any testing back. They did a blood panel (his WBC count was a little elevated, but nothing insane), an x-ray, a CT, a urine test, and an ultrasound. They lied and told him they did Murphy's Test on him and that his gallbladder had thickening walls and was inflamed. But they never did the Murphy's Test and he has and had no pain in that area. They really scared us, saying he could die etc. In the end, they called another surgeon to look at the scans and they said to cut us loose if he wasn't having pain. They gave him no antibiotics and just told him to follow up with his doctor.
He called the surgeon that had done the surgery and the surgeon said he did not see any wall thickening or inflammation in the scans. He said the gallbladder looked like it had before his surgery. He also said the CT did not show any abscesses or infections. So on top of everything else, we feel like the ER scared us for...What exactly? Money from an unnecessary surgery?
Over the weekend, his pain worsened, and he kept teetering between elevated and low-grade fever. He has been very constipated. His pain also began to stretch lower into his pelvis, and now into his balls. He seems to have some sort of lump on his pelvis - I'm not sure if its a lymph node or what it is.
He went in to see his primary care doctor yesterday who ordered more blood tests and then scheduled an ultra sound for today. His blood tests were pretty normal, except for a 13.1 mg/L high sensitivity CRP. Today, he also now has a rash developing on his arms and legs. We're just really worried and have no idea what is going on. Has anyone else experienced something like this or have any ideas?
2024.05.21 13:19 not_xtina Previously ST’ed 1 yr old slept the whole night sitting up
Comprehensive Bill, Otter65, are you out there???
I’ve been reading and posting in this sub for a year, have/read Ferber and PLS, and nothing prepared me for this. :(
LO was ST’ed around 5m using Ferber and then CIO. Started STTN fairly consistently around 7m (but still with EMWs), save for some setbacks due to illness or traveling. 2 months ago he started having a spate of illnesses back to back - cold/flu, double ear infection w 2 rounds of abx, herpangina, then another cold/flu, then another viral thing that caused a roseola rash, then another viral thing. Plus teething (molars coming in), walking, talking, 2-1 transition… just a lot happening all at once. During this time, we rocked to sleep at the beginning of the night and co slept when he woke up screaming in the night. He was napping ok up until a week ago when he started scream-fighting his nap(s).
Took him to ped yday and got a clean bill of health - no ear infections, no fever, no suspected pain or discomfort. So back to CIO.
Put him down awake at 7:30p and he crawled to the corner of his crib closest to the door and scream cried on and off. Around 10p my husband tried to lay him down, but he crawled right back to his corner and stayed there the whole night. Looks like he slept ~2 hours at a time sitting up, clutching the rails. I slept poorly also, and felt so bad when I woke up at 5:30a and saw him still sitting that I pulled him into bed so he could get at least an hour of sleep lying down.
Every post I’ve read on this says “leave him be” and “maybe practice sitting to lying transition during the day” (not sure how necessary the latter is as he’s 1 now and pretty sure he can go from sitting to lying on his own easily). But I feel terrible. :(
Advice? Success stories? Commiseration? Anything would help.
Schedule (since someone may ask — but as I said I’ve been on this sub for a year so am fairly certain it’s not a schedule issue): DWT 6:30-7a, Nap 1 11a-1p, Bedtime 7:30-8p. We typically get abt 12-13 hours total sleep in a 24-hour period.
submitted by not_xtina to sleeptrain [link] [comments]
I’ve been reading and posting in this sub for a year, have/read Ferber and PLS, and nothing prepared me for this. :(
LO was ST’ed around 5m using Ferber and then CIO. Started STTN fairly consistently around 7m (but still with EMWs), save for some setbacks due to illness or traveling. 2 months ago he started having a spate of illnesses back to back - cold/flu, double ear infection w 2 rounds of abx, herpangina, then another cold/flu, then another viral thing that caused a roseola rash, then another viral thing. Plus teething (molars coming in), walking, talking, 2-1 transition… just a lot happening all at once. During this time, we rocked to sleep at the beginning of the night and co slept when he woke up screaming in the night. He was napping ok up until a week ago when he started scream-fighting his nap(s).
Took him to ped yday and got a clean bill of health - no ear infections, no fever, no suspected pain or discomfort. So back to CIO.
Put him down awake at 7:30p and he crawled to the corner of his crib closest to the door and scream cried on and off. Around 10p my husband tried to lay him down, but he crawled right back to his corner and stayed there the whole night. Looks like he slept ~2 hours at a time sitting up, clutching the rails. I slept poorly also, and felt so bad when I woke up at 5:30a and saw him still sitting that I pulled him into bed so he could get at least an hour of sleep lying down.
Every post I’ve read on this says “leave him be” and “maybe practice sitting to lying transition during the day” (not sure how necessary the latter is as he’s 1 now and pretty sure he can go from sitting to lying on his own easily). But I feel terrible. :(
Advice? Success stories? Commiseration? Anything would help.
Schedule (since someone may ask — but as I said I’ve been on this sub for a year so am fairly certain it’s not a schedule issue): DWT 6:30-7a, Nap 1 11a-1p, Bedtime 7:30-8p. We typically get abt 12-13 hours total sleep in a 24-hour period.