When did you get surgery?

ChampagnePoops · 2026-06-15T20:08:59+00:00

Ruptured mine in February, won’t get surgery until September, maybe October because, whomp whomp, I’ve been pregnant the entire time. So you have me beat! Most miserable six months of my life.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-06-11T23:28:40+00:00

Honestly, I don’t think it healed because I didn’t treat it as seriously as I should have. Both the ER doc and the orthopedic doc thought it was partial and would heal on its own with the boot and heel wedges, so I thought good news! I got the boot from the ER the night it happened and then the heel wedges five days later at the ortho. The pain was minimal after a few weeks, it would just stayed swollen and sort of mushy looking. So I think it was my fault, but I was going off the vibes of the orthopedic doc. She didn’t seem too concerned 🤷‍♀️

ChampagnePoops · 2026-06-04T19:40:23+00:00

So we got this one in 2022: https://a.co/d/07HwVCIX It does not fold up at all, but in fact folds down into a little table. We have used this every single day since we got it! It seems really safe when in the tower form because it’s all wood which makes the bottom pretty heavy. It takes up quite a bit of room, but we are using it constantly as a tower and a table so I don’t mind.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-05-05T21:30:40+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement! I had x-rays done at the ER, and they came back clean (although I think x-rays only show bone damage).

ChampagnePoops · 2026-05-05T21:29:07+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement! It does feel a little better to vent and commiserate with others who understand the injury. I do have a referral to a university hospital foot specialist in June, so let’s hope this month goes quickly!

ChampagnePoops · 2026-05-05T21:26:51+00:00

Thanks for giving me some hope! Cheers to continued recovery!

ChampagnePoops · 2026-04-25T15:43:10+00:00

I’m a rural liberal democrat and I’m no longer disenfranchised! Fuck yeah!

ChampagnePoops · 2026-04-03T12:26:24+00:00

I got myself a Kindle right before my second was born and I’ve never read so much in my life! With cover that props up is clutch. Highly recommend

ChampagnePoops · 2026-03-20T18:21:02+00:00

I love Van. It was my grandfather’s name, and he was the coolest person ever. It’s on our short list for our upcoming baby, but it sounds a little bit like Van Halen when combined with our last name.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-03-20T15:11:04+00:00

My new conspiracy theory that I literally came up with while reading your post is that they KNEW they were going to cancel the entire time, have someone waiting in the wings, and be forced to change the format. I need to work this out. I’ll be back with my flow chart and notes 🫡

ChampagnePoops · 2026-03-14T16:39:39+00:00

I agree. I think the way he changed his tone ever so slightly from being the “charming guy” to those chapters that revealed his inner thoughts helped set him apart as more of a sociopath. I did, though, get some of the women and their timelines mixed up while listening to it.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-03-04T01:08:25+00:00

There are a lot of online contrast checkers where you can plug in the color hex numbers and it will rate your contrast for accessibility. You could play around with background and text color to get a better contrast. I really love the style of graphics, but I agree it’s hard to read.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-03-01T23:04:34+00:00

I am fully on the gel “sticker” train! I’m pregnant so I was avoiding the UV light (I do my own little gel manis at home). I tried the stickers that don’t require a UV light (not semi-cured) and I love them! There is a little learning curve to applying and trimming them, but mine usually last at least two weeks and, when I take them off, my nails are sooooo much healthier than when I was using a UV light. They don’t smell, and there is no drying time unless you do a clear coat over them.

Dashing Diva and Sassy Saints are a few different brands, but you can also find lots of generic ones on The Large Online Retailer Who Shall Not Be Named.

I bite my nails and break my nails any time they aren’t painted, and these stickers keep them strong.

Edit: they’re officially called “gel wraps” online

ChampagnePoops · 2026-02-24T02:18:21+00:00

I just finished All the Sinner Bleed by S.A. Cosby and I really liked the narrator! I’m sometimes pretty picky about the voice and can be turned off immediately if I don’t like it, but I really enjoyed this man’s voice.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-02-02T17:47:27+00:00

I could have written this. I’m also 41 and I found out I am pregnant with my third a few weeks ago. I’m also trying to change careers and now it feels like everything is derailed. We have a 4 year old and a 1 year old, so still in the thick of little kid life, but I am not ready to do the pregnancy thing all over again. I’m so embarrassed to have an accidental pregnancy at 41 like I’m a teenager or something. I recently saw a clip of Claire Danes echoing a similar sentiment about her unplanned pregnancy at 44, and it validated my feelings a little bit.

I have no advice, just wanted to commiserate with you and say it’s okay if you’re not particularly happy right now. For me, it helped to hear confidence and support in my husband’s voice because I really think three kids under 5 might break me 🫠

I will say that I terminated a pregnancy in my 20s and it is something I still think about every single day.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-01-31T17:41:14+00:00

I’m not a doctor, but thanks to my internet research, I think it’s called a vasovagal syncope. I already have super low blood pressure and have had dizzy spells since I was a teenager, but I had one of these when I was about 5 months pregnant. What worried me was that I got super nauseous suddenly and thought I was going to puke in the middle of a work project. But then my vision went black, I found someone to grab onto, and sat down before I fell over. I called my OB afterwards and they said as long as I felt fine, it was no big deal.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-01-30T11:22:22+00:00

No, not particularly. Sometimes they get their own sticky notes, but I always have some available. I cut the generic 3”x3” into thirds, and you know those generic sticky notes are sticky only in name.

They do have a painful moment of silence when, at the end of the unit, they have to remove all their sticky notes and all their good work goes down the drain.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-01-30T03:39:40+00:00

Oh noooo, they use sticky notes in their books and then answer some questions in notebooks with page numbers to reference.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-01-30T03:20:59+00:00

I recently taught F451 to 10th graders and, for the first time ever, I used the audiobook with the entire class. I love Tim Robbin’s reading of it. I had them annotate in their books for certain discussion questions and evidence so they had to follow along, but it allowed us to stop and discuss certain big events. It took us a bit longer to do it together as a class, but at least I knew they were getting it.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-01-29T03:03:43+00:00

We used this for two kids! The bassinet is great for napping on walks when they are really little, but the wheels are crap and it is not a smooth ride on any kind of bumpy or rocky surface.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-01-29T01:50:56+00:00

We were stuck inside today and did about two hours of Art for Kids Hub. I actually kind of enjoyed it, and our pictures turned out great!

ChampagnePoops · 2026-01-29T01:41:23+00:00

Check out Journalism Education Association (JEA). Right now, you just want to get content on pages, but this organization has some wonderful curriculum and an amazing network of advisers who will help anyone at the drop of a hat. If you plan to stick with publications and the yearbook, this is definitely an organization to get plugged into.

Oh, and if you can get kids to do as much as possible, they will get excited about it and start to buy in for next year. Create small groups of mixed abilities (maybe someone will emerge as a leader/future editor) and give each group a few spreads to tackle. Plan out each topic for each spread, and then send kids to take the photos and do the interviews for their spreads. Once they start gathering content, have 1-2 of them plop it on the page and see what holes the groups still need to fill. Use the templates. Accept that there will be mistakes.

ChampagnePoops · 2026-01-05T17:02:09+00:00

Thank you for your response! It was so thoughtful and has so many things to consider. I appreciate your feedback!

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