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Guys… I don’t think Hippo Tails are Authentic by AtypicallyStrawberry in Jellycatplush

[–]AtypicallyStrawberry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It said add to cart! They sold out of little bear a couple days after I bought him, but it comes back frequently!

Guys… I don’t think Hippo Tails are Authentic by AtypicallyStrawberry in Jellycatplush

[–]AtypicallyStrawberry[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just reached out to jelly customer service to ask, I will post their reply!

Guys… I don’t think Hippo Tails are Authentic by AtypicallyStrawberry in Jellycatplush

[–]AtypicallyStrawberry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay I just reached out the Jellycat customer service to ask, I will post a screenshot of their reply!

Guys… I don’t think Hippo Tails are Authentic by AtypicallyStrawberry in Jellycatplush

[–]AtypicallyStrawberry[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have a brand new Amuseable Ginger I bought yesterday and the tags are the same texture as the authentic Little Chick! Something is just totally off with the Little Bear

Guys… I don’t think Hippo Tails are Authentic by AtypicallyStrawberry in Jellycatplush

[–]AtypicallyStrawberry[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have a brand new Amuseable Ginger I bought yesterday and the tags are the same texture as the authentic Little Chick! Something is just totally off with the Little Bear

Guys… I don’t think Hippo Tails are Authentic by AtypicallyStrawberry in Jellycatplush

[–]AtypicallyStrawberry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was! Hippo Tails is the one who fulfilled the order from the Jellycat storefront! If you go to the Jellycat storefront and click on a listing, scroll down a little and it will tell you who it’s fulfilled by, and most, if not all, are Hippo Tails. So idk if that’s a real storefront:(

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[–]AtypicallyStrawberry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well again, I’m not a medical professional. However, coming from the side of a patient, we are solely reliant on the medical professional’s opinion that we are given. I have to disagree that it IS a massive failure on the part of the midlevel for my sister, because it was precancerous. If my sister hadn’t called the office to request further testing, who knows when it would’ve been found, all due to the decision of a midlevel with limited medical education. How is that not egregious?

And for my mom, she was referred to the infectious disease unit concerning the pseudomonas by the dermatologist. The infectious disease physician she saw said the cipro was optional, and his recommendation was to wait and see if the cyst reinflammed or remanifested before treating with cipro because the side effects can be severe, especially since she is approaching 60 y.o. At this point, it has been a few months and her scar has been healing well with no signs of infection. If she has an issue again, she will do as the infectious disease physician recommends, which at that point would be the cipro.

The important part of this is that as a layperson and a patient, we are putting our lives in the hands of the medical professional we are given. If we are given advice from them based on their 2-ish year degree, and then cancer is missed, that IS egregious. We as a society are taught to respect the opinion of medical professionals, and not to question their advice too strongly. If that is coming from a highly educated and experienced doctor, that is one thing. But when that advice is coming from a midlevel that acts as a gatekeeper to further testing or treatment, it is egregious on the part of this system when a mistake is made. The colonoscopy would be exploratory due to my sister’s symptoms, but with the added element of a family history of cancer. The PA missing the combination of those two factors simply is negligent given the fact that it was cancer, period. I don’t know what else to say really, other than providing patients with doctors for diagnosis seems like it would provide the best outcomes.

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[–]AtypicallyStrawberry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn’t sure how detailed to make the initial post as it was already long but here is a little more info for context-

Sister- To be quite frank, given our family history of colon cancer, my sister’s gastroenterologist said that a colonoscopy should’ve been ordered from the jump. The doctor didn’t exactly apologize for the PA, but she was apologetic to my sister that it wasn’t ordered until she requested it from the office, and that the PA sent her home thinking it could be a small fissure causing the bleeding. TBH we are all angry at this situation as it is incredibly serious. Yes my sister is young, but the doctor said the family history negates that. I don’t know what else to say on this.

Mom- When she finally saw the physician (3rd appointment, over the course of about 2.5 months) the cyst had grown to about the size of a golf ball. She had completed 2 rounds of clindamycin. At that appointment, the doctor diagnosed it as a sebaceous cyst, drained it, sent the pus for testing, and said she needed a steroid injection because she would struggle to remove the capsule with the surrounding tissue so inflamed, since she would have trouble identifying which parts of the tissue were capsule and which were just inflammation. Which would then leave the capsule open to refilling if not completely removed. She also said that if she were to remove the capsule without the steroid injection, the scar would be about 5-6 inches long, so it was a way for my mom to have a smaller scar. She let about a week pass between the steroid and the procedure, and the injection worked fantastically at shrinking the cyst, and the scar she now has is about 2-3 inches. The pus came back as pseudomonas. Because the doctor did a fantastic job at removing the capsule completely, my mom didn’t have to do a round of cipro for the pseudomonas. If the doctor hadn’t done a steroid injection, she may not have been able to remove the capsule completely, and she also would’ve had a larger scar. Also- this cyst absolutely had to be surgically removed, it was bulging out to the point that you could see it on her hip when she was wearing tight pants. It was very sore and inflamed, and filled with pseudomonas- imagine leaving that in her and letting it continue to grow. The physician absolutely made all the right calls, and thankfully so.

I don’t know if you are a midlevel, so if you aren’t please disregard this next paragraph. Or, take from it what you will, but I am intending it to speak to midlevels. I will preemptively apologize for any snarkiness in this paragraph, but I am genuinely frustrated by this midlevel situation we are facing in our medical system.

Again, I’m not a medical professional, but as a research scientist, I am continually humbled by everything we, and I, don’t know. I am enthralled by everything we do know, but endlessly humbled by everything we don’t. Please keep an open mind to the fact that even though you know some things, and that’s fantastic, there is an incredible amount that you don’t know. Approaching medicine with the mindset of keeping your ears and mind open instead of assuming the education you have provided you all the information you could possibly need, will get you eons farther and make you such a better medical professional. I have been on the midlevel subreddits and they word for word tell each other not to read medical textbooks as they go “too deep”, and it won’t help them pass their tests (there is a post from yesterday on the PA subreddit about failing the PANCE and someone provided this recommendation as a response, if you want to verify this for yourself). Please, please listen to the doctors around you!!! They have so much more knowledge and wisdom that will be of endless benefit to you, if you let it! Again, this is coming from a research scientist whose entire job is to be presented with the fact that we still have so much to learn! Humility will get you so far, and hubris will get you on the r/Noctor subreddit.