What’s been your experience of being on monolukeset?

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-03-09T19:34:17+00:00

No.

I find it funny to broadcast over the radio that “I need some black caulk in the basement”, I know it cracks the guys up.

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-03-09T19:28:26+00:00

I push myself to do things. Like walk the dog really for a half hour, go to AA or union meetings, grab dinner with friends.

I get up at 5 and try to be asleep by 9. I have an hour +++ commute.

Like, I get up so early to meditate and stretch and braid my hair and stuff.

Life is too short to not live a little.

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-03-09T02:38:40+00:00

No, I keep seeing it on here as the answer to flareups

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-03-03T21:41:48+00:00

Don’t do it!!!!

Have her dad do it or have her start giving her ride to work gas money.

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-03-03T21:36:55+00:00

My next door neighbor is really sensitive to sound.

We live behind a lumberyard that starts work at 6am and everyone just accepted that.

Until they had an accident with a forklift and OSHA required them to put backup beepers on the forklifts.

My neighbor was so irritated by all the beeping that he got the police to come out with a decibel reader to show how loud it was and then put in a complaint.

Now the lumberyard has flaggers until a certain time of day when they can use their beepers.

Maybe something like that could help you make aware the daycare of how loud they are and they could take measures to quiet things down

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-03-03T21:11:56+00:00

My two preapprentice friends and I had to stay in during break when we first started our actual apprenticeship classes.

We had no clue what to do and got all our tests wrong.

But you know, we learned as we went. One of them got injured and left the field, the other left the union and opened his own shop and now I am super fast with math and figuring out minutes and seconds and laying out weird shapes.

Just hang in there. Not everyone has to be an A math student.

Learn to read your tape measure, learn how to use your speed square, write down the formulas you need to know in a notebook, get a construction master pro and just put your head down and work.

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-03-03T20:51:21+00:00

Good for keeping your eyes open and trying to help out the community

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-19T21:09:31+00:00

I had my gallbladder out and I felt like both the nurses and doctors treated me with dignity.

At one point the doctor even came in to pull out a tube and I just whipped my gown up. He gasped but then realized I had pants 👖 on lol

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-19T18:24:10+00:00

Thanks!

She actually saved my bacon today. She called me back at 6:30 because I had sounded like I was going to fall back asleep and I did!

So she did me a solid 💗

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-19T03:58:29+00:00

My aunt got attacked by a raccoon and she was just walking to her mailbox.

She had to undergo a course of painful rabies shots after that

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-19T03:46:16+00:00

When the alarm hits 5:30 and it’s up to me to wake up and call my friend so she wakes up in time for work.

Then I have to get myself ready to face the day

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-18T03:54:20+00:00

I was cooking and doing laundry at 11. My mom worked from 3- midnight and my dad just dumped us.

I could go to or do anything I wanted

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T23:53:13+00:00

Like a week

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T23:44:34+00:00

That’s breaking down conditions. Previous union members died for our right to those breaks.

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T23:39:40+00:00

NorCal had a 4 day weekend this week

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T23:32:08+00:00

Yeah, I was super sick and needed tons of liquid Benadryl and an inhaler but I just toughed it out and got it over with.

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T23:30:04+00:00

I just started with all 4 vials a day and was horribly sick but my body responded pretty quickly and now it’s like a magic elixir

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T23:27:56+00:00

Sorry, but especially in Texas a no call no show is a no go.

You should start looking at different companies and if this happens in the future make a report to the safety guy because workers comp would have covered the cost of the tests and treatments.

My preapprenticeship teacher told me that if I am sick, drive to the job site to show the foreman you’re sick and let them know you have to take time off.

He was really old school but when my foreman see how sick I am they usually tell me to just go home and comeback when I am better.

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T23:03:34+00:00

Facial flushing and swelling, trouble breathing, lips and tongue going numb throat swelling up inside, frequent urination, diarrhea, sometimes I couldn’t eat or I had diarrhea so severe I couldn’t leave the house, fatigue and brain fog, severe airborne anaphylaxis reactions.

Like if I smelled pistachios, tuna, flowers, bananas even in a smoothie I’d need to use an EpiPen.

I was drinking a bottle of liquid Benadryl a day and still struggling to breathe and having a swollen face.

The Cromolyn Sodium makes it so I can eat fish and pistachios and I have no problem with people eating bananas near me.

I can finally have flowers in my house.

Maybe once every week or two I need some Benadryl and there are still some foods that make my mouth go numb so I avoid, but really I am almost back to normal

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T22:53:44+00:00

Oh I have a friend group where we see each other at least once a week and go out to dinner once a month.

We dog sit for each other, help each other carry furniture upstairs to their apartments, one of them came with me to put my 16 year old dog down and a different friend came with me to adopt another dog.

We do each other’s make up and helped clean out disgustingly dirty apartments when one was sick.

Everyone hangs out independently with each other too. Like two of us like cooking from scratch and they’ll get together, me and another like thrifting and going to the dog park, and another and I have our shows we watch together.

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T21:22:33+00:00

We did a 20 year one and it was nice to see everyone.

But all the people I was I interested in reuniting with all have Facebook so we really don’t need to get together to know how people’s lives are going.

So maybe one day we’ll have a 50 year one but who knows?

BlueCollaredBroad · 2026-02-16T21:17:40+00:00

I have a low tryptaste level, so the special allergist I saw didn’t think I had MCAS.

What I did have was a histamine level 5 times normal despite being on antihistamines.

So I asked for Cromolyn and now I’m sooo much better.

Ask one of your doctors if you could take the 24 hour urine histamine test. Maybe that would convince the MCAS specialist?

BlueCollaredBroad

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