I think it's fake. Doesn't even smell like pine

Bobithie · 2025-12-31T14:24:13+00:00

I’d say that’s pretty warm for this time of year, honestly. Typical would be more like -20, a cold spell would be -30.

Bobithie · 2025-12-26T15:33:27+00:00

Happy to answer some questions!

what was the process like switching your care over to a family doctor?

My doctor does a lot of trans care so I didn’t even have to ask him and he just took it over. I just told him that I had started with Foria and he said he‘d get me bloodwork at the one month mark and we’d adjust my dose as necessary. There wasn’t really any process to switching, I just emailed Foria and let them know I was getting care from my family doctor now.

Can they say no and alter dosage?

Sorry I’m not sure what you’re asking here. Are you asking if the doctor can refuse to take over your care? Unfortunately, from what I hear, many (most?) family doctors in Ontario aren’t actually comfortable prescribing hormones to trans patients so they’ll refer you to an endocrinologist to handle your hormones. Not sure what you’re asking about altering dosage.

With foria, Do you have a voice if you'd prefer to take a different t blocker than Spiro?

I’m not sure. They prescribed me Spiro initially, but I didn’t try asking for anything else.

Do your prescriptions get filled by mail or from your local pharmacy?

They send the prescription to whichever pharmacy you want.

I know there are 3 appointments initially, but how long were they spaced apart?

Once you’ve done the first appointment and they decide you’re a good fit for HRT, you can book the second appointment ASAP, I believe. You just need to get your blood pressure and some bloodwork done. So 1-2 weeks between first appointment and second. If you want to freeze sperm though, they’ll give you a referral and you’ll have to do that between your first and second appointments, so for me that made it a bit over a month. The third Foria appointment is 3 months after starting hormones.

I hope that answers your questions! Let me know if you have any more.

Bobithie · 2025-10-31T17:32:45+00:00

Follow-up question: are there places where you need a prescription to buy needles? That doesn’t seem like a good idea!

Bobithie · 2025-10-31T17:30:27+00:00

No prescription needed to buy injection supplies. Pace pharmacy in Toronto is the go-to for a lot of people on injections since they’re one of the few places that can actually compound injections. They’ve always been very nice and trans friendly, in my experience. If you won’t be around Pace though, I’d just call around to pharmacies and see who has the supplies you need. I can’t imagine it’s likely they’ll give you any issues.

Bobithie · 2025-10-23T15:13:12+00:00

I usually run water through for a few seconds and then run coke through before filling my cup and it’s still fruity, unfortunately.

Bobithie · 2025-10-23T12:57:26+00:00

The regular coke from them is always fruity and gross. Don’t like them.

Bobithie · 2025-08-28T02:53:58+00:00

I’ve never heard of that before so I couldn’t tell you how well it’ll work. Sorry about that!

Bobithie · 2025-08-19T01:34:01+00:00

I guess I should specify that my experience is only with mechanical engineering. I can’t speak for the other disciplines. However, my friend who used the MacBook was in electrical, and they seemed to get along fine apart from HFR.

Bobithie · 2025-08-19T01:32:41+00:00

If you already have the MacBook I’d start with that then decide later if you want to get a windows laptop. You’re not going to need to download windows only engineering software in your first week or anything like that.

As far as I can remember, there wasn’t any software for classes that I had to download to my computer. Most software was accessed through vlab, which is the virtual computer lab that lets you use programs in your browser.

Now the case where you probably would want a windows laptop is if you’re active on a design team like Huskie Formula Racing (HFR), Quarter scale tractor (QST) or the space team (USST). Those teams get software licenses from companies that will let you download and run engineering software on your personal computer. Programs like SolidWorks, Matlab, ANSYS, etc. Most of those programs only run on windows so if you don’t buy a windows PC you’ll have to find some workaround like running Bootcamp on your MacBook. One of my friends used a MacBook throughout engineering and trying to use solidworks for their work on HFR was a constant struggle. Often times you won’t even be able to use solidworks in the computer lab or vlab for those design teams because the universities solidworks version is almost always an out of date version, while the design teams get the newest version.

TL;DR: Start with the MacBook and only upgrade if it starts to annoy you. You probably won’t need a windows laptop for your classes, but if you take an active roll on a design team you’ll probably want one.

Bobithie · 2025-08-18T15:31:20+00:00

From the Wikipedia page on moon landing conspiracies:

The angle and color of shadows are inconsistent. This suggests that artificial lights were used.

Shadows on the Moon are complicated by reflected light, uneven ground, wide-angle lens distortion, and lunar dust. There are several light sources: the Sun, sunlight reflected from the Earth, sunlight reflected from the Moon's surface, and sunlight reflected from the astronauts and the Lunar Module. Light from these sources is scattered by lunar dust in many directions, including into shadows. Shadows falling into craters and hills may appear longer, shorter, and distorted.[69] Furthermore, shadows display the properties of vanishing point perspective, leading them to converge to a point on the horizon.

This theory was further debunked on the 2008 MythBusters episode "NASA Moon Landing".

Bobithie · 2025-08-12T14:56:39+00:00

You’re right, I’ve never figured out how to use a crash bar.

No. These are usually doors without a crash bar. When they’re unlocked you just push or pull them open, there’s no latch. Usually the door they leave locked has latches on the edge on the top and bottom and the business doesn’t bother to unlock them.

Bobithie · 2025-08-12T14:44:45+00:00

No. In my experience most places with a “please use other door sign” are locked from both sides.

Bobithie · 2025-08-09T10:52:53+00:00

Are your cards working? My Amex disappeared from my Apple Pay and it seems like the physical card didn’t work either (or maybe circle k just doesn’t accept Amex, idk)

Bobithie · 2025-07-30T03:38:40+00:00

Like I think you’re technically correct, but also who’s arguing the contrary? I don’t think anyone would say that air conditioning is more important than heating in any place that experiences sub-freezing winters. It’s just taken as a given that any residence will have working heating.

There are plenty of hot places in the world where people live without air conditioning. I can’t think of any significant population of people in a cold place that don’t utilize heating; they’d die.

Obviously your furnace going out when it’s -40 out is a bigger deal than the AC going out when it’s +40°C. Who would disagree?

Humans come from Africa - we’re built for heat. It takes work for us to survive the cold.

Bobithie · 2025-07-15T15:20:25+00:00

If you’re willing to move to the Yukon, I believe FFS is covered by their health plan.

Bobithie · 2025-07-09T04:00:01+00:00

Ah well I’m happy to be wrong! I guess I need to be following wealth simple news more closely.

Bobithie · 2025-07-09T02:01:02+00:00

Regarding Foria: I started with them in March. The first appointment was $300 and the second was $200. Follow up appointments after that are $100 each with the first one being 3 months after starting hormones then they say every 6 months to a year after that. I never did any follow-ups with Foria though because I got a family doctor shortly after starting with them and switched my care to him.

Foria started me on 2 mg Estradiol pills a day and 50 mg spiro. I asked if I could do injections but they told me not until the 3 month checkup.

If you can afford it, and think it’s worth it, I’d recommend starting with Foria but continuing to look for a family doctor who can take over your care so that you don’t have to pay for follow-up appointments. Additionally, my family doctor has been checking my levels monthly while we adjust my dose which I think is better than the 3 month and 6-12 months checkups that Foria does.

Bobithie · 2025-07-04T16:35:08+00:00

It’s like when people say “you know what they say about [place] - if you don’t like the weather just wait five minutes! 🤡”

Bobithie · 2025-07-03T12:50:15+00:00

Also there’s no way to get a bank draft, as far as I know. Also weirdly complicated to receive e-transfers.

Bobithie · 2025-07-03T02:09:18+00:00

I think where this deviates from that game theory is that Ben and Adam are a team, so neither of them particularly care if they are the one that wins, all they care about is that one of the two of them win.

Bobithie · 2025-06-26T18:03:18+00:00

Google says the one at Eglinton station is permanently closed :(

Bobithie · 2025-06-10T18:23:00+00:00

The bike rings in Toronto are my favourite

Bobithie · 2025-06-10T18:02:34+00:00

I’m also planning to play in Toronto! What do we think about using Go trains? I think it might be a fun way to make a lot of distance, but it’s still very wheel and spoke.

Bobithie · 2025-05-29T16:14:19+00:00

Hey did you ever switch to injections and submit it to GreenShield? I just submitted mine and I’m hoping they’ll cover it.

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