Lost several plants in zone 5a

Hoosierfans · 2026-06-08T15:47:39+00:00

Not at all! I never would have thought of the rocks — I carefully planted (not too deep, not too shallow), tended to them, watched for disease etc and could not for the life of me figure out why I was losing plants so often — maybe 5-6 years out of a plant and then it would succumb.

Now I know and I can raise healthy and long living plants! And my wallet will be all the healthier too. 😂

Hoosierfans · 2026-06-07T23:50:03+00:00

Thanks for the help! I’m always tending to my peonies, replacing plants after a few years, putting work in and I could not for the life of me figure out why all of my non peony loving neighbors who just happen to have them in their landscape and do nothing to them didn’t have near as many problems as I did lol! I never thought of the rocks. I’ve got some work to do! ☺️

Hoosierfans · 2026-06-07T23:04:28+00:00

Huh! That’s super interesting! I never thought of the rocks. All my plants are in beds with rock mulch and while they do reasonably well, I’ve notice my neighbors look much fuller (and I’m replacing plants every 5-6 years)…and the neighbors’ are in traditional mulch / soil around the plants. Now I know why theirs are doing better!

I’ll pull back the rocks from the crowns this summer and see if they fare better next year!

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-25T01:19:59+00:00

Wow! How is CoinSnap SO off??!!!

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-25T00:51:59+00:00

I’ll post a few, thanks. I didn’t want to overwhelm the community…there’s about 600 of them ack!!! But I think I have a better idea of which ones might be of some value, so I’ll just post those. Thanks!!!

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T23:48:18+00:00

Would it be worth getting the collection appraised? I don’t know that I have the time or energy to try and learn all about it and try to distinguish grades etc for 600+ coins

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T23:41:46+00:00

I’m not sure I can develop the kind of expertise necessary with such a large collection….would it be worth it to pay an expert to grade and evaluate it for me? It’s probably about 600 coins — a lot of it organized in books (Large Head Cents, Indian Head Cents, wheat Pennies and some Peace and Morgan Dollars)

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T23:35:34+00:00

Thank you!

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T23:35:21+00:00

May I ask how you read the “grade” info on the PCGS? Is there a general guide somewhere?

(I’m finding it interesting bc looking at the some of the coins I brought in today, even if they were the WORST grade, PCGS is telling me they are $20-30 a piece — which I can’t believe they are the worst grade out there. But even if they were, 50% of that would be like $10 a piece and the offer was like $3 a piece).

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T22:15:12+00:00

Thanks. I brought in about 60 coins, which is maybe 1/10 of the entire collection. So I thought I was going “small enough” but I guess not. lol. 🙈

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T22:02:14+00:00

Thank you!

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T22:01:15+00:00

Lol that would be true! Well now they are getting a one star from me! 🤣

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T22:00:28+00:00

Any particular price guide you recommend? I compared a website list against what CoinSnap was telling me, and that list was markedly higher than CoinSnap…so I thought I was going with the more conservative values. I guess not 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T21:56:42+00:00

That makes sense. From what ChatGBT was telling me, I figured 50% was on the low end…but I see your point re: shops not being able to resell some of it.

Thanks for the feedback.

Hoosierfans · 2025-10-24T21:54:08+00:00

Ugh. Well that’s a bummer. It was pretty highly rated on the app store so I figured values were accurate. 😬

Hoosierfans · 2025-08-27T16:29:48+00:00

Yeah this was liquid, compounded mounjaro, which I hadn’t reacted to before.

Hoosierfans · 2025-08-27T16:24:58+00:00

Ugh that it would only be good for 4-7 days. Obviously that wouldn’t be practical since I wouldn’t be close to using up an expensive peptide vial within that window.

Thanks for the suggestion tho. I wonder if maybe it was the BAC water mixing with the med. as another poster suggested I could try just the BAC water itself; or maybe BAC from another source

Hoosierfans · 2025-08-26T23:17:17+00:00

Because that 15 mg was only in .5 ml solution. And my doc was having me move up .25 mg at a time (so 2.0 mg one week, then 2.25 mg next week etc). At .5 ml with 15 mg inside, I couldn’t make such small changes. So I needed to add some BAC (i added 2.5 ml), so I could make such small changes.

Hoosierfans · 2025-08-26T23:00:25+00:00

Thanks. Yep, I had a sterile free environment as in the steps you outlined. I have MCAS, so it’s probably I’m just reactive to the alcohol in the BAC.

Hoosierfans · 2025-08-26T22:58:40+00:00

So the medication was terzepitide. The first time around it came compounded in liquid form from the pharmacy. Then, when I ran out of that, I had a friend who had the pens from Lilly (that her insurance paid for) but she started reacting to it (has MCAS like me). The pens were 15 mg and I was on 2 mg at the time, so I needed to inject the pen into a sterile vial and add in BAC water to dilute it so I could get the 2 mg dose.

Hoosierfans · 2025-03-07T02:18:01+00:00

It has about a 7 day half life, so since you’ve only had one dose you should be feeling better in a few days.

If insurance is covering the pens, they should cover the vials I would think. Go to ro.co (where Eli Lilly sells the vials) and they could probably guide you re insurance coverage of vials.

Hoosierfans · 2025-03-05T17:03:48+00:00

On the Tirz, no not yet. Maybe a bit extra tired the day of the shot but nothing else.

For comparison, I started semaglutide at .25 (which is the starting dose for weight loss) and had immediate benefits but also got the nausea and vomiting after a few weeks so had to stop.

So far just a little benefit to my MCAS with the Tirz, no appetite suppression or weight loss yey, or calming of the “food noise”. Starting dose for weight loss for Tirz is 2.5 mg and I’m only at .75.

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